The debut album featuring 10 songs written by Jerry Vessel, formerly of Red House Painters and recently a touring member of Sun Kil Moon. After residing in San Francisco for a number of years, Vessel returned to California’s San Joaquin Valley to find a new home in a familiar place. Inspired by the rural surroundings [...]
Port of Morrow is the upcoming fourth studio album by The Shins, scheduled to be released on March 20, 2012. It will be the first album by the band to be released through frontman James Mercer’s new record label ‘Aural Apothecary’, as well as their first album to be distributed by Columbia Records. [The Shins [...]
By popular demand, Prosthetic Records will soon release The Collective, the critically acclaimed 2011 album by Houston progressive instrumentalists SCALE THE SUMMIT, on vinyl. The LP — limited to 500 copies on high-quality 180-gram wax, and available now for pre-order at the Prosthetic Store – will feature enhanced cover art, pictured above. Additionally, it will [...]
Mad Planet is a Los Angeles-based foursome consisting of Cooper Gillespie (vocals/bass), Greg Gordon (drums/sequences), Tony Crouse (guitars) and Monica Olive (keys). The self-titled EP, produced by Ethan Allen (The 88, Tricky, Gram Rabbit) departs slightly from the band’s trip-hop roots exposing layers of pulsating bass lines, sultry guitars and punchy drums which allow Gillispie’s [...]
Deep in the heart of Hell Paso Texas, MINISTRY’s Al Jourgensen re-opened the doors of his industrial compound studio in Fall 2011 and invited his favorite co-conspirators Mike Scaccia (Rigor Mortis), Tony Campos (Static X), Tommy Victor (Prong) and Casey Orr (Rigor Mortis/Gwar) to climb on board the Ministry pirate ship and de-construct and re-construct [...]
A Different Kind of Truth is the upcoming twelfth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, scheduled to be released on February 7, 2012 through Interscope Records. It is the band’s first album of completely new material since 1998′s Van Halen III, as well as their first album since 1984′s 1984 to feature [...]
Today’s modern day composer can work in many different areas of sound with one click of a mouse. This is the single most influential factor in Emika’s artistic development. Thrilled by the means and ways technology offers to shape song writing, she chose a software studio as her instrument throughout her musical education and beyond. [...]
The esteemed Animosity line-up records their first new album as a trio in over ten years. Produced by John Custer, Corrosion Of Conformity is expected to be one of the year’s most anticipated new albums. Formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1982, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY quickly transformed heavy music. Politically charged and socially aware, the [...]
Thunderous post-instrumental outfit PELICAN have announced the long awaited follow-up to their sprawling 2009 full length What We All Come To Need, a new four song EP Ataraxia/Taraxis to be released via Southern Lord on April 10. With members now residing in separate cities, the EP represents a new chapter in the band’s evolution with [...]
In 2011, U2 returned to Hansa Studios in Berlin to discuss the making of Achtung Baby. From The Sky Down, is a documentary film directed by Academy Award winning director Davis Guggenheim (It Might Get Loud, Waiting for Superman, An Inconvenient Truth). Screened in the UK as part of the BBC’s Imagine Series, From The [...]
