Author Archives: Mike
Author Archives: Mike
Sh-K-Boom Records is excited to announce the release of THE LAST FIVE YEARS (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK). The album is now available at all stores where records are sold as well as iTunes and Amazon. To celebrate the release of the album, film star Anna Kendrick tweets a new song from the soundtrack, “A Summer in Ohio,” via a lyric video from her personal twitter account last night. The album has been in the top 2 of the iTunes Top Soundtracks chart since its release this past Tuesday, and is #11 on the overall album chart. The film comes out today.
Continue readingFilmmakers Scott Crawford and Jim Saah will be screening their critically acclaimed documentary Salad Days: A Decade of Punk In Washington, DC (1980-90) across the country this spring.
Continue readingMinneapolis hip-hop collective Doomtree has revealed their video for “Final Boss” from their new full-length All Hands, out now on Doomtree Records. The Maria Juranic-directed video premiered via Stereogum, who noted that “the clean, creepy treatment features Sims, Dessa, P.O.S, and Mike Mictlan sitting down to a Rocky Horror-style last supper, rattling off tight verses before getting individually snuffed out by a looming Cecil Otter. It’s a grim comment on the inevitability of death, but not without a final twist to unsettle your already-upset stomach.” The video is available to stream or embed HERE, and All Hands is available for purchase on iTunes HERE, through Doomtree’s online store HERE, and on Bandcamp HERE.
Continue readingADRIEN REJU’S “HEMOPHILIAC OF LOVE” FEATURING A.C. NEWMAN Woodstock, NY, based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Adrien Reju’s “Hemophiliac of Love” featuring vocals by New Pornographer A.C. Newman is available now at iTunes. The song, the first single from her soon-to-be-released EP, Strange Love, is a cover of an obscure gem written by the late 80s/early 90s psychedelic rock […]
Continue readingPittsburgh’s Adventures are streaming their debut LP Supersonic Home this week via Noisey. The record will be released on Run For Cover on February 17, 2015 and has already won advance praise everywhere from SPIN to Stereogum to NPR, who said of the album, “Supersonic Home culls from an emo and alt-rock era whose output feels eternal.”
Continue readingThe Beautiful Ones have announced initial details about their long awaited full length, Jaded Love, being released via 6131 Records on April 21st. In conjunction with the announcement, the band teamed with AbsolutePunk to stream their song “Exhale (Room 312)” from the album.
Continue readingLegendary US punk band, Dead Kennedys, have announced a string of UK and EU headline tour dates for June 2015.
Continue readingTranslator burst onto the music scene in 1982 with its Modern Rock radio/MTV hit “Everywhere That I’m Not.” Success continued to grow through the band’s four major label-distributed releases.
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