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Graded on a Curve: Ttotals, “Spectrums of Light” 7″

Wed, April 24 2013 12:41pm - Source: The Vinyl District

The Nashville duo Ttotals is just getting started, but if they keep on their current course their profile should only increase.

TVD Recommends: Austin Psych Fest, 4/26–4/28

Tue, April 23 2013 6:37pm - Source: The Vinyl District

On Friday, this NYC reporter will be flying down to Austin early in the morning to take in the amazing sights and sounds of the 6th-annual Austin Psych Fest.

Sonic Boom Six

Mon, April 22 2013 9:53pm - Source: Music-News.com

Sonic Boom Six have spent the last ten years smashing genres together and trying to find out who they are.

The Single Life - Seven Inches of Fun; featuring The Well and Devil to Pay,

Mon, April 15 2013 7:57am - Source: The Ripple Effect

To be honest, at the Ripple, we're rarely the first site to hear a new band.

Canadian Musicfest -- Mise En Scene @ Sonic Boom and Model Citizen, Toronto (March 22, 2013)

Sat, April 06 2013 4:11am - Source: For the 'records'

What Canadian Musicfest could perhaps benefit from is alternate venues for bands to play in like instores.

Nematode Noise: An Interview With Hookworms

Tue, March 12 2013 10:38am - Source: The Quietus

Tucked away on an industrial estate in Leeds lies Suburban Home, the recording studio and nerve centre for psych-rock five-piece Hookworms.

David Schelzel of the Ocean Blue: The Popdose Interview

Tue, March 05 2013 11:24am - Source: Pop Dose

Hershey, PA's the Ocean Blue rose out of the 80′s and soundtracked much of my greater 1990′s.

The Hives 'Peaking' on Tour With Pink

Thu, February 28 2013 4:56pm - Source: Rolling Stone

Backstage at the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles, the Hives are stripping down to various stages of undress.

check out Toronto punks Greys (stream their new EP)

Mon, February 04 2013 2:43pm - Source: Brooklyn Vegan

The Drift EP sounds like the heaviest thing you've done compared to your other two releases.

Music news round up: w/e 2 Feb

Sat, February 02 2013 6:01am - Source: The Music Mix

US metallers Attack Attack! , Sonic Boom Six , Rolo Tomassi and Canterbury are among the second wave of additions to Hit The Deck Festival.

New MGMT album for June release

Wed, January 30 2013 12:00am - Source: NME

The forthcoming new MGMT album is reportedly set for a June release.

The 405 meets Yo La Tengo

Fri, January 25 2013 1:24am - Source: The Four Oh Five

"My schedule is so crazy today that in order to make time for this, I am between my home and our practice space, running different errands, and currently I'm in my parked car on East 13th Street in Manhattan, at the corner of Broadway."

Music news round up: w/e 19 Jan

Sat, January 19 2013 6:05am - Source: The Music Mix

Lonely Valentine Club will be the new EP released by TMF favourite Nerina Pallot , out on Febuary 4th ahead of a UK tour.

Manchester honours the woman behind the pioneering music of Doctor Who

Thu, January 10 2013 12:32pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

The godmother of British electronic music who helped to create one of the most recognisable TV theme tunes of all time and pioneered the genre through her work in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is to be commemorated in an inaugural one-day celebration of her work in Manchester.

CD Review: Kiss, “Monster”

Mon, December 17 2012 12:50pm - Source: Pop Dose

That's my take on things because if you look at my music collection, you'll find a lot of stuff that's dumb, childish, perhaps lacking ambition or anything remotely similar to it.

‘We take our influences from different things’: Eric Singer explains impact of the Beatles, Journey on Kiss’ Monster

Fri, December 07 2012 6:44pm - Source: Something Else!

Your average rock fans might put on Kiss' new album Monster, and specifically the track "Outta This World, and fail to hear how the Beatles and Journey impacted the band.

Peaking Lights - Lucifer in Dub

Tue, December 04 2012 12:46pm - Source: BBC Music

This six-track dub remix collection, which adapts the content of Peaking Lights' second UK-released album Lucifer , is an unconventional if not unprecedented move.

Sonic Boom Six Announce February 2013 UK Headline Tour

Fri, November 30 2012 2:17pm - Source: Stereoboard

Manchesters Sonic Boom Six can now announce a run of UK headline shows for next February 2013, with support from The LaFontaines and Under The Influence, which follows their main support slot through January with The Blackout.

"There’s no glockenspiel or accordion on this record – just your meat and two veg"- DiS meets Gene S

Tue, November 06 2012 1:53pm - Source: Drowned In Sound

There's not much left to say about KISS that hasn't already been screamed, picketed or printed by generations of militant fans, close-minded religious fanatics or gore-hungry press over the course of about four decades.

Iceland Airwaves 2012 - Thursday

Mon, November 05 2012 5:31pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

As Anglo-metropolitan muppets, our start in Iceland couldn't have been much more of a birth of fire.

Cheval Sombre - Mad Love

Tue, October 30 2012 8:04am - Source: The Four Oh Five

Christopher Porpora has been described as a poet as well as a musician, and he published two books of poetry before he ever released any music.

Review Revue: Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription

Thu, October 18 2012 8:02pm - Source: KEXP 90.3 Blog

Spacemen 3, formed thirty years ago and disbanded over twenty years ago, is one of those hallowed bands of the indie rock pantheon whose catalog can be somewhat intimidating to approach if you never got around to it at the time.

Album Review: KISS – Monster

Tue, October 16 2012 12:26pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

It's hard to say how people will remember the 2010s when it comes to music.

Q&A: Kiss' Paul Stanley on New Album 'Monster' and Defining Rock & Roll

Tue, October 09 2012 3:28pm - Source: Rolling Stone

Nearly four decades on, Kiss remain an ongoing and unlikely rock & roll success story, standing high on platform heels and painted in kabuki black-and-white, unloading fireballs and grinding hard-rock hooks around the world.

New Music: KISS – “Long Way Down” and “All For The Love Of Rock & Roll”

Wed, October 03 2012 3:04pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

KISS will unleash Monster , their 20th studio album to date, on October 9th via Universal Music.

Kristina ‘Teeny’ Lieberson talks to Best Fit about quitting her old band and forming TEEN

Wed, October 03 2012 2:25pm - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

It might be the easy option to stay in the background of a band, take a cut of the paycheck and stay quiet when the singer or preening guitarist has their latest in a long line of hissy fits, rather than step out in the spotlight and face the possibility of ridicule and failure when it all goes wrong.

Book Notes - J. Robert Lennon "Familiar"

Tue, October 02 2012 4:01pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

Weekly Dose #4

Wed, September 26 2012 1:00pm - Source: Music Like Dirt

Another week, another dozen or so musical highlights from a blog so bleedin' edge that one selection was on Pitchfork two months ago, while another was tracked down via the musical behemoth that is the Andrew Marr show.

The Head and the Heart Headlined the Paramount

Wed, September 19 2012 3:41pm - Source: Sound on the Sound

We've written about hundreds of tiny bands we felt were great and musicians who we thought deserved a wider audience, but none have felt quite like the ride the Head and the Heart's taken us on.

Kiss prepare to unleash their new album

Tue, September 11 2012 4:46pm - Source: The Music Mix

Rock legends KISS return with Monster , the 20th studio album in their historic career, set for release on 8th October through Universal Music Enterprises.

‘Completely self contained’: Paul Stanley on why Kiss will never use outside writers again

Sun, September 02 2012 7:56pm - Source: Something Else!

There was a time in which outside writers made huge contributions to the music of Kiss, but Paul Stanley says that time is done — and the band's forthcoming album Monster is more cohesive for it.

Kerrang! Magazine 29/08/12

Tue, August 28 2012 12:38pm - Source: Kerrang! - UK

"Welcome to Reading's worst-kept secret!"

KISS' Paul Stanley on Their $4,000 Photo Book: 'This Is a Celebration and a Victory Lap'

Wed, August 22 2012 7:04pm - Source: Rolling Stone

Kiss is a band that appreciates dramatics – but even for them, things can get out of hand.

Paul Stanley works to recapture early Kiss music’s glorious ‘lack of restriction’

Tue, August 14 2012 6:57pm - Source: Something Else!

Paul Stanley has learned, over the years, much about the craft of songwriting.

Best of July 2012: Reader picks include John Frusciante, Mike Keneally, the Beach Boys and Beatles

Wed, August 01 2012 11:38am - Source: Something Else!

Offbeat new music from John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Pepper's fame and a new collaboration between Frank Zappa alum Mike Keneally and XTC's Andy Partridge ranked among the month's big draws.

2000 Trees Festival - Upcote Farm, Withington - 12th/13th/14th July 2012 (Live Review)

Tue, July 17 2012 10:39am - Source: Stereoboard

When it comes to the second weekend of July there is NOWHERE in the world Id rather be than at 2000trees Festival.

Something Else! sneak peek: Kiss, “Hell or Hallelujah” (2012)

Mon, June 25 2012 7:45pm - Source: Something Else!

Tracking down the audio clip previewing Kiss' "Hello or Hallelujah," set for release next week, wasn't easy.

Phoning Home From The Edge : Best Fit speaks to Dinowalrus

Fri, June 22 2012 12:26pm - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Peter Feigenbaum, Liam Andrew and Max Tucker are the constituent parts that make up the brilliantly-named New Yorkers Dinowalrus , a band that despite that name don't play stoner metal (well, anymore) but ply a strange and heady brew of psychedelia, Krautrock, Gang Gang Dance-style electro experimentation and, perhaps most strangely of all, a take on late 80s British indie-dance.

Fuxa - Electric Sound Of Summer

Thu, June 21 2012 8:14am - Source: Drowned In Sound

Randall Nieman has been making music for the best part of twenty years, having cut his teeth with ambient shoegazers Windy & Carl before forming Füxa in 1994.

NXNE Picks (June 16-17, 2012)

Sat, June 16 2012 3:43pm - Source: For the 'records'

Although, I'd mentioned in my previous post NXNE was a washout because of going to the Radiohead show at Downsview Park tonight, the opportunity has risen that I may check out some of the afternoon NXNE events and depending on the time that me and my brother get out from the Radiohead show, perhaps I'll check out a later night NXNE set.

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