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Bray Releases New Album
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Bray's ten-track @mphibian explodes from your sound system with driving grooves, irresistible magnetism, pure primal energy, and breath-taking ballads. Bray's jagged rhythmic riffs, throbbing bass lines, and silky hook-laden melodies, as exemplified in the crashing-out-of-the-gate disc opener, "Clone Me", the scintillatingly sexy "Tie Me Up," and the anthemic "Only The Brave," combine for a "straightforward hard-rock style," with "confidence and attitude," "that works," states Nate Seltenrich of the East Bay Express.
Bray's gripping ballads, the soul-scorching "I Was Wrong," and deeply passionate and forlorn "Long Gone," resonate on the heartstrings of every listener who has ever loved and lost and who hopes to find solace for a broken heart that remains in love. Bray's ability to reach into each and every listener to convey the feelings of anguish associated with heartbreak reveals a songwriting and performance maturity on the same level of Freddie Mercury and Elton John.
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The Gin Blossoms Head up Love Hope Strength Music Lounge
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The event, which is being sponsored by the Hard Rock Cafe, Swallow Hill, 97.3 KBCO, Westword, Starz Denver Film Festival, and KWGN Channel 2, The Deuce, will help benefit global cancer care.
Hosted by Sid Pink, the "Love Hope Strength Music Lounge" features favorite local artists The Swayback, Mike Marchant of the Widowers, Kal Cahoone, Vivienne Vavoom of Burlesque As It Was, B. Sous, Achille Lauro, Andrea Ball, Jim McTurnan of Cat-A-Tac, Churchill, Aaron Collins (formerly of Machine Gun Blues), Rachel Pollard, Le Divorce featuring members of EAOD, and Andy Monley and the High Horses.
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Mayday Parade Announce Tour
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The tour will begin mere days after Mayday Parade wrap up their current role as co-headliners on Alternative Press' "The Fall Ball '09" tour, set to run through a November 15th finale at Pittsburgh's Altar Bar. As is "AP Tour" tradition, Mayday Parade are featured along with their fellow "Fall Ball" tourmates � including The Academy Is�, Set Your Goals, The Secret Handshake, and You Me At Six � on the cover of the November issue of Alternative Press.
"ANYWHERE BUT HERE" made a stunning chart debut upon its release last month, entering the Billboard 200 at #31. The album is highlighted by the first single/video, "The Silence," which is slated to impact Modern Rock radio outlets nationwide later this month. The track's companion video clip recently premiered on MTV2, mtvU, and MTV.com.
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The Return of Skold
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Growing from production duties on Marilyn Manson's cover versions of "Tainted Love" and "Personal Jesus" to songwriting and production duties on the Marilyn Manson albums "Golden Age Of Grotesque" and "Eat Me, Drink Me", Skold has returned darker, harder and heavier than ever.
The song, "I Will Not Forget" from the all new forthcoming SKOLD album, will be featured in Episode #107 of ABC's new epic drama 'FlashForward', airing November 5, 2009. Two more songs, "A Dark Star" and "Bullets Ricochet" will also be available. The full length SKOLD album release is slated for early 2010.
- Preview new songs here
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Luke Franks Or The Federalists New Album Hits Next Week
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Sounding much like an Austin band though they emerge from Northern California, they are either a blast of fresh sonic development or a reinterpretation of what made an earlier era of bands so influential.
The Way We Ran delivers a complex and deep integration of current indie sounds (M. Ward, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Fleet Foxes) and increasingly popular alt country flavors (Wilco, Ryan Adams) steeped with the vibe of esteemed bands that fill the playlists of classic rock radio stations. Nuanced, heart-wrenching, and picturesque lyrics, both provocative and evocative, are sung with a self-awareness and weariness that belie Franks' 23 years, sounding more like a middle-aged Johnny Cash than a young songwriter just past the legal drinking threshold.
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LimeWire Offer Free Ear to the Ground Compilations
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Curated by the staff of Nashville Scene, Ear to the Ground: Nashville is a sprawling 17-track compendium featuring some of Music City's best up-and-coming talent such as Cortney Tidwell, Those Darlins, The Deep Vibration, JEFF the Brotherhood, and Caitlin Rose. "When LimeWire approached us about putting together a free compilation of Nashville bands, it was probably the easiest 'yes' we've said in a while," said Steve Haruch, Music Editor of Nashville Scene. "Any time we have a chance to get the word out to a wider audience about what's going on here, we jump at it."
Likewise, Ear to the Ground: Portland, which was overseen by Willamette Week, showcases 17 of the city's indie acts on the verge including Lifesavas, Panther, YACHT, Starf**ker, and Blind Pilot. "We were so stoked to craft a virtual mixtape for the folks at LimeWire Store," said Casey Jarman, Music Editor at Willamette Week. "There's lots of talk these days about localism being dead, but these kinds of collections remind listeners that geography still has a lot to do with an artists' sounds and aesthetics. Ear to the Ground compilations are fantastic primers, and we think this is a pretty amazing primer for Portland music."
- Both free digital compilations are available exclusively here
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Alec Ounsworth and Flashy Python Announce Tour Dates
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Mo Beauty was recorded deep in the heart of musical New Orleans with an ensemble of local heavyweights including George Porter Jr. of the Meters and drummer Stanton Moore of Galactic, and was guided by veteran producer Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, Replacements).
The album is a stunning union of powerful rhythms and imaginative arrangements in the service of evocative literary songwriting.
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Skeletonwitch Added To Blackened Music Series
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The show will take place at Brooklyn's Union Pool and will also feature Relapse's Black Anvil and is part of "The Blackened Weekend," which will also feature appearances from Rwake, Krallice, Shrinebuilder and more. Previous installments in the series have featured the likes of Repulsion, Pig Destroyer, Brutal Truth, Sunn, Earth and Pelican.
'Witch guitarist Scott Hedrick commented; "We're very pleased to be a part of the Blackened Music Series. Blackened is relatively new and has already put together some great shows. And we're stoked to play with Black Anvil who we've heard great things about. See you in Brooklyn"
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