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Slaughter By the Water Festival Announces 2012 Lineup
The third edition of the Slaughter By The Water Festival will be taking place on August 25, 2012, on the USS Hornet air flight carrier in Alameda, California. Exodus and Philm, featuring Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, former Civil Defiance...
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Announces New Album Meat and Bone + Fall 2012 Tour Dates
Veteran alternative rock art The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are releasing Meat and Bone, their first new album since 2004 on September 18th on Boombox/Mom + Pop.“Black Mold”, the opening track on the new album is available as a free download...
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Listen: New Yeasayer Song "Longevity" Released
New York experimental rockers Yeasayer debuted “Longevity”, a new song off their new album “Fragrant World”. The first single features album vignettes by artist Yoshi Sodeoka, creating a different experience both visually and...
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Watch: New Beirut Video for "The Rip Tide"
Beirut debuted their newest video for the song “The Rip Tide”, from their 2011 album of the same name. Band visionary Zach Condon commented on the video: "I always felt that 'The Rip Tide' wasn't fully able to project its own...
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Proximal Records Releases Beat Stew Vol. 4 Mixtape
Los Angeles based Proximal Records has a new electronic compilation available as a free download. Started by Carl Madison Burgin (Sahy Uhns) and musician Jeff Elmassian, the label was created to give a voice to the LA electronic music scene. Beat...
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The Cory Smoot Experiment - When Worlds Collide
Behind The Mask The metal community was stunned in November 2011 when Cory Smoot, better known as guitarist Flattus Maximus of GWAR, was found dead on the band’s tour bus. Smoot had been recording material for a side project during the previous...
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Starring - ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ
Bizarre, Reckless and Endearing To be perfectly blunt, this is a refreshing album. Sure, you have a group of young, inspired and skilled musicians. That's a good enough start. However, for anyone who has ever been in a band, or seen a band play...
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The Cinematic Orchestra Presents: In Motion #1
Plodding and Lofty, but Rewarding Quiet in your seats, everyone. To begin: Much like at the cinema, a solid narrative has a way of cohering the chaos, allaying apprehensive minds to some degree. Though there are many influences swirling around in...
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