Updated: 2012-12-31 20:46:33
*Reprise Records' *multi-platinum Grammy®Award-winning* Green Day* today announced they would return to the road in 2013 and revealed the routing for their upcoming tour, which can be found below.
"We want to thank everyone for hanging in with us for the last few months," said the members of*...
Updated: 2012-12-31 20:39:10
Virginia Beachs *Provoke, Destroy* has released their new single, and the first with their new vocalist *Mason Ewbank*, entitled *Hourglass*. The single was recorded by *Andrew Baylis (Honour Crest, Camisado)* and may be found as a lyric video on YouTube and on sale on iTunes...
Updated: 2012-12-31 20:33:37
After a highly successful tour run in Mexico, Central America, and South America, South Carolinas Christian metal outfit *Your Chance To Die *has started work on their sophomore *Red Cord Records* release. Vocalist Missi had this to say about the forthcoming release: Most of the info on the new...
Updated: 2012-12-31 20:28:38
Texas doom-metal veterans* Las Cruces* are currently writing new material and preparing to enter the studio for their 2013 as-yet-untitled fourth full-length album. The album will be a follow up to 2010's "*Dusk*" released worldwide via *Brainticket Records*. The band will also re-release their...
Updated: 2012-12-31 18:30:12
2bQP05p8KgO0qFjFcmVpVBSo here it is, *The AltSounds Top 10 Albums of 2012* and boy what an awesome Top 10 this is!
As the new year rears it's head and everyone gets ready to partake in a great deal of partying to send out 2012 and welcome in 2013, this is *AltSounds* final statement for 2012....
Updated: 2012-12-31 15:50:43
Sami answers your questions.
Updated: 2012-12-31 02:14:18
1L3x4m0O2NdLW6uh1e8z49Philadelphia based garage indie rockers *The Eeries* bring their peculiar brand of semi surf rock to life with their debut full length *Home Alone*, but it falls short of a full rock & roll revival.
If I was a lazy journalist, I would probably describe them as a cross between...
Updated: 2012-12-30 23:49:20
The AltSounds File-O-Facts feature on: *Joe *of *Life on the Sideline*. Want to know more about this up and coming artist? Here you can find out loads of snappy facts about this new talent...
*WATCH // Life on the Sideline - 'Malone Avenue'*
Life on the Sideline - Malone Avenue - YouTube
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Updated: 2012-12-30 23:17:01
The AltSounds File-O-Facts feature on: *Marc *of *American Royalty*. Want to know more about this up and coming artist? Here you can find out loads of snappy facts about this new talent...
*LISTEN // American Royalty - 'Honey &...
Updated: 2012-12-30 21:26:33
Vermont born singer songwriter *Tyler Daniel Bean*, formerly lead singer in Burlington based screamo group *Ghosting*, opts for a raw and stripped down approach to the emotionally charged brand of music with his debut album *Longing*. It's smart, musically intriguing but sadly a few years too late...
Updated: 2012-12-29 22:19:55
Its hard to escape the clichés that are constantly being placed on bands and artists, their music, their image and what they stand for. Its a shame, but its a bit of a fact of music industry life now. However, *Seasfire *is a band thats shredding the typical platitudes that are cast upon them...
Updated: 2012-12-29 19:25:34
Sailors! Can you already smell the sea? Only one month until you're sailing to the beautiful *Turks and Caicos Islands* while you get your face melted on board *70000TONS OF METAL*, The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise. Anyone getting excited yet...?
More bands have also been added to the line...
Updated: 2012-12-29 18:31:56
*Kenelis* are hard working and intelligent band hailing from the salty aired shores of Brighton. Not intelligent in the conventional way, where you could win an ample amount of pub quizzes due to their combined IQ score (who knows, this could be the case too), but their approach to the music...
Updated: 2012-12-29 01:56:27
Brooklyn-based band *INDYNS* have been garnering a great deal of attention lately with everyone from Insound to Baeble to AOL Spinner as fans. Hitting the scene with their special brand of fast-paced rock ballads, *Indyns*' tracks are accentuated with an array of synths and unforgettable vocals....
Updated: 2012-12-29 01:48:09
A new *Ron Sexsmith* original song *She Does My Heart Good* is available as a free download from www.ronsexsmith.com (http://www.ronsexsmith.com/). The beautifully realised simple love song was one of the first to be written for Rons new *Mitchell Froom* produced album *Forever Endeavour* which...
Updated: 2012-12-29 01:03:04
*SERENITY & VISIONS OF ATLANTIS* have announced the one-off UK date on their March 2013 tour.
They will play Boston Arms Music Room, Tufnell Park, London on March 25th. *Souldrinker* will support. Tickets are on sale now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbUIB-anUBw
*SERENITY
+VISIONS OF...
Updated: 2012-12-29 00:57:24
Get Ready!
The new album from *The Bronx* is coming!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flv7R80LDOo
UK Tour in February! Dates are selling out VERY quickly!
*February:*
* 8th Brighton, Concorde 2
* 9th Preston, 53 Degrees
Updated: 2012-12-29 00:43:30
Hailing from Kenosha, Wisconsin, four-piece death metal act *JUNGLE ROT *will be re-issuing their newly re-mastered 1996 classic album, *Skin The Living*, coming February 19th, 2013. Pre-order packages are now available through the *Victory Records* webstore. Order now!...
Updated: 2012-12-28 22:45:53
0OWDzYzhnfmKJ8vrBy542MAfter a big success and even bigger beats, *Together Festival* is coming back to Bangkok this January 2013.
First launched in April by A.G. Productions and Bangkoks leading house music promoter, Retox Sessions, *Together Festival* is the ultimate dance party experience. As...
Updated: 2012-12-28 20:03:10
Parisian modern metallers *As They Burn* have announced that their forthcoming album will be titled *Will, Love, Life*, out February 19th, 2013. Watch the pre-order video here and listen to a new song clip.
*WATCH // As They Burn - pre-order video
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLPOy0dZvqY...
Updated: 2012-12-28 17:38:44
*Rascals *are literally the new kids on the block in the grime world. Grime has had a fab year in 2012, with thousands of fans flocking to the underground music phenomenon that's so underground it's now mainstream. Isn't it funny how one minute you're going against the rules and ending up making...
Updated: 2012-12-28 16:56:40
Pittsburghs *Paper States* released their debut record *Be Alone EP*. With blues-y guitar riffs and sweet melodies, the band shows songwriting maturity well beyond the members ages, which range from 19-21 year olds.
*Paper States* enlisted the help of Steve Soboslai (*Punchline*) and John...
Updated: 2012-12-28 16:00:40
This year, Ace excelled in producing multi-artist compilations, spotlighting labels both celebrated (the folk legend Vanguard) and forgotten (psych-pop imprint Mainstream) and continuing their excellent Songwriter series with notable entries spotlighting Allen Toussaint, Don Covay, and Boyce & Hart. But Ace was hardly the only label with great compilations to its credit. Numero dug up [...]
Updated: 2012-12-28 02:39:20
3i4lXK66wJdWKMjG30OqFRSo it's been a while since my last *Spotifried* Playlist feature and it is a New Year's Resolution of mine to do more of them this year. There is nothing more important to me than music and, in turn there is nothing more important than a great playlist that I can give to...
Updated: 2012-12-28 00:15:40
5LJcb5UswEjmMPIOXBuQMTSo the feedback thus far for Part 1 of our Top 50 Albums of 2012 (#50-26) (http://hangout.altsounds.com/features/155263-altsounds-top-50-albums-2012-part-1-a.html) has been nothing but positive. Everyone I have spoken to agrees that as a collective, AltSounds has selected some...
Updated: 2012-12-28 00:01:01
Upstart label *At Your Command Records* (https://www.facebook.com/atyourcommandrecords) is excited to announce their first official signing in Virginias *Pyro, Ohio*. *At Your Command Records* owner *Chelsea Steele* had this is say on the signing: Ever since I heard their first EP I knew these...
Updated: 2012-12-27 18:24:15
I hate it when bands I love split, but I love it when they then get together as a mightier and renewed force, this is the case of Bleach Blood an exiting pop-punk mash-up made of Jamie Jazz from The King Blues (vocals and guitar), Paul Mullen of The Automatic, Young Legionnaire,...
Updated: 2012-12-27 17:12:42
*Old Crow Medicine Show* (OCMS) reveal more details for the broadcast of their sold-out show on December 31, 2012 at the Ryman Auditorium. The show will broadcasted live by Sirius XM Outlaw Country (Channel 60) as well as WSM 650 AM Radio, home of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.
*Outlaw DJ Elizabeth...
Updated: 2012-12-27 15:35:23
*The Raveonettes* are ten years old and in spite of releasing two albums in the past two years, they seemed to have skipped the UK during their tours so, tonight's gig at the Village Underground had an enormous sense of expectation and of course 20+ songs worth of catalogue to be presented.
Right...
Updated: 2012-12-27 15:16:38
If music be the food of love then live music must truly be otherworldly; an indescribable, sense arousing combination of love, lust, excitement, sensuality and glory because there really is nothing better than live music is there?
So at *AltSounds *we thought we'd give you our 2012 in live music,...
Updated: 2012-12-27 01:35:34
Ambient blackened doom metallers *VATTNET VISKAR* will be auctioning off one of their personal vinyl copies of their self-titled EP (limited to 80) to raise money for the *NH Community Behavioral Health Association*. In regards to this auction, the band comments:
"Few times in our lives are we...
Updated: 2012-12-27 01:28:40
Chicago death metallers *BROKEN HOPE* have now issued a band and album update! Read on for the latest news, straight from the band themselves:
"We want to give you all a quick *BROKEN HOPE* update before the New Year, and we have some exciting news! First, congratulations to* BROKEN HOPE*'s own...
Updated: 2012-12-27 00:53:01
Though the Mayans failed in their end-time predictions and apocalyptic prophecies, *PTAHIL* marches on in their quest for mass suffering and world demise with the infernal fruits of *The Almighty Propagator Of Doom And Despair*.
The seven-track follow-up to last years *For His Satanic Majestys...
Updated: 2012-12-26 22:13:05
*Blacklist Royals* (http://tumblr.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=543473f84ee62f9897296088a&id=ee75889c30&e=7a2f39964a) have recorded and released a brand-new Christmas song (http://tumblr.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=543473f84ee62f9897296088a&id=9aa4a4c65b&e=7a2f39964a) for free featuring...
Updated: 2012-12-26 21:41:44
Azorean modern metallers *STAMPKASE* are pleased to announce that "*Mechanorganism*" was voted "*Best Portuguese Metal Album*" in 2012 by readers of national metal webzine *METAL IMPERIUM*.
Check the poll here:
* METAL IMPERIUM - Magazine Online de Metal e Rock: Balanço 2012 | Escolhas dos...
Updated: 2012-12-26 21:39:09
"It's been a while since we've been here Camden!" Johnny Lloyd front-man of *Tribes *said to the overly excited crowd instead of "hello."
These four Camdeneers have been busy these past months writing and recording the follow up of their début album *"Baby"* in Los Angeles. Earlier this year they...
Updated: 2012-12-26 21:28:50
San Francisco/North Bay progressive deathcore unit, *Ænimus*, have posted a new studio video update featuring *Brian *"*Deebs*" *James *and *Sean Swafford* shredding through some leads for several tracks from their forthcoming As Yet Untitled debut album. Check out the the latest round of sweeps,...
Updated: 2012-12-26 21:19:04
*The Sword *have released a special, limited-edition 180 gram audiophile black LP of their current album, *Apocryphon **BUY NOW HERE* (http://e2.ma/click/0v23f/wspkgb/slp8zc). To celebrate the post-holidays, the band is also offering fans the opportunity to purchase the vinyl (and additional band...
Updated: 2012-12-26 21:09:43
The official release date for *MUTINY WITHIN*S second album, *Synchronicity*, is quickly approaching. In line with the holiday spirit, *MUTINY WITHIN* has partnered with The New Review (http://thenewreview.net/news/exclusive-listen-to-mutiny-withins-new-track-machines) to stream a very merry...
Updated: 2012-12-26 21:01:21
*THE BLACK CROWES* will return to the road in 2013 with their *Lay Down With Number 13* world tour. The first leg will encompass dates in the U.K. March 24-30 and the U.S. April 2- May 4. Tickets for this first leg go on sale Friday, January 11 at 10:13 AM LOCAL TIME and ticket link information...
Updated: 2012-12-26 20:53:13
Its destined to be a night to remember, and its all to help out a great musician.
*Los Angeles music royalty* will come together for the *Brotherly Love: A Night for Our Brother Phil Alvin* benefit concert, *Saturday, January 26 *at *The Observatory Theatre (Santa Ana, California).* The...
Updated: 2012-12-26 18:39:20
The debut, self titled album by the Edinburgh four piece *Django Django* was released what now seems like decades ago in January of 2012, but with its assertive, world infused beats it is an album that is impossible to forget about.
Django Django - Default (Official Video) - YouTube
Much of this...
Updated: 2012-12-26 16:00:52
Merriam-Webster defines folk as “the great proportion of the members of a people that determines the group character and that tends to preserve its characteristic form of civilization and its customs, arts and crafts, legends, traditions, and superstitions from generation to generation.” By that notion, the label could really be applied to any style of [...]
Updated: 2012-12-25 16:00:12
It was a great year for new releases by long-standing blues artists such as Robert Cray, whose Nothin But Love session was his first release in three years; Magic Slim & the Teardrops, who returned with Bad Boy; Chicago guitarist Lurrie Bell, who mixed gospel with blues on The Devil Ain’t Got No Music; and [...]
Updated: 2012-12-25 00:05:03
*Thieves* (http://tumblr.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=543473f84ee62f9897296088a&id=f3ed4b0f02&e=7a2f39964a) is offering its latest album, *Achiever*, for free download via Bandcamp (http://tumblr.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=543473f84ee62f9897296088a&id=295959efda&e=7a2f39964a) from now...
Updated: 2012-12-24 23:58:38
Beginning on Thursday (Dec 27), Gainesville, FL's *DIKEMBE* (http://www.facebook.com/dikembefl) will embark on a two-week Winter Tour (http://www.facebook.com/events/574087442618489/) in support of its debut LP, *Broad Shoulders* (http://tinyengines.limitedrun.com/products/15889). Joining the...
Updated: 2012-12-24 23:55:29
*Quentin Tarantino*, *The Weinstein Company* and *Loma Vista Recordings *announced today that *Quentin Tarantino*'s track-by-track introduction of the *DJANGO UNCHAINED ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK* is now available for streaming through January 2nd at UnchainedSoundtrack.Com...
Updated: 2012-12-24 16:00:11
From Christian Scott’s ambitious double-album Christian aTunde Adjuah to Vijay Iyer Trio’s triumphant Accelerando, there were plenty of landmark jazz releases to choose from in 2012. However, setting aside any academic or conceptual arguments, if there is one theme that links all of our choices on this list, it is pure listenability. Jazz shouldn’t have [...]
Updated: 2012-12-24 11:35:14
1L97LmFqTZYazbJbNokZdASo it's that time of year again. Time to enjoy our families and friends and see out the year, make resolutions about what we might (or might fail to) do to change ourselves, look back on what we did (and didn't) achieve and all of that fun stuff. For us at *AltSounds* though,...
Updated: 2012-12-23 22:53:12
For many of us, the news about San Francisco's band *Girls*' splitting up made us feel disappointed and sad, but for front-man and songwriter *Christopher Owens* "quitting" the band was a liberating experience and, while remaining in great terms with the rest of the members including co-founder JR...
Updated: 2012-12-21 16:00:49
It was a banner year for pop music, with strong returns from veteran divas like Kylie, P!nk, and Christina Aguilera, and a memorable debut from Carly Rae Jepsen. Pop was also remarkably quirky and diverse this year: the charts made room for Passion Pit and Fun.s mini-anthems alongside songs by the aforementioned artists, while Adam [...]
Updated: 2012-12-20 16:00:15
In 2012, while the mainstream power hitters were busy doing guest spots, the underground rose to the top. Former Internet mixtape artists Kendrick Lamar, MellowHype, and Death Grips released highly ambitious debuts for the majors. Hip left-field labels like Stones Throw (Quakers, Oh No, Homeboy Sandman, Karriem Riggins) and Rhymesayers (Brother Ali, Aesop Rock, P.O.S) [...]
Updated: 2012-12-19 16:00:21
In 2012, several bands that have seen their work repackaged many times over were reissued once again, often in satisfying new editions (EMI’s Beach Boys series springs to mind, as do the deluxe Small Faces reissues). But some of the truly noteworthy 2012 reissues were from artists who have not seen their catalog repackaged before, [...]
Updated: 2012-12-18 16:00:22
Trying to define indie rock or indie pop or indie anything is getting harder and harder to do every day. When Beyoncé’s sister has a dude from Grizzly Bear on speed dial and Yeasayer songs are sung by kiddie choirs at school concerts, the meaning of indie tends to be fuzzy at best, irrelevant at [...]
