February 8th, 2010
Music News
On Sale: Week of February 8th 2010 (updated)
It’s time for our NEW weekly feature, On Sale This Week! I’ve also added a lot more listings for shows already on sale as well. Some of the shows that are going on sale this week include: Jonsi of Sigur Ros, Ben Folds, Elvis Costello and a few others. Shows that are already on sale include The Specials, Perfect Thyroid, The Business, Carbon Leaf, Bamboozle Festival, Pilfers and more! I’m sure there will be events & pre-sale offerings that I’ll miss, so tell me in the comments section. I’ll probably update this page with more listings throughout the week so keep checking back!
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February 6th, 2010
CD Reviews
Psyched To Die – “Year One”
Record Label: Dirtnap Records
Genre: Punk
Buy on Amazon.com
Psyched To Die is a NJ punk supergroup, comprised of Mikey Erg of The Ergs! and members from For Science and Fast Times. Surprisingly, these veterans of nerdy, cutesy power-pop combined forces to affect an early 80s punk sound, tapping into that fleeting gray area between punk and hardcore.
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CD Reviews
The Treats – “Sir Unicorn”
Record Label: S/R
Band Link: www.thetreats.net
The Treats have an eclectic, off-kilter quality that reminds me of Starlight Mints. Building on the Mints’ mix of midtempo bubblegum and weirdness, The Treats add a kind of storytelling alt-folk, like Tom Waits with banjo.
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Music News
Bleeding Through announce new album and The Spring Breakdown Tour: 2010
Rise Records and Bleeding Through are pleased to announce “The Spring Breakdown Tour: 2010″. Bleeding Through is one of the most important bands to take the mixture of metal and hardcore to international prominence in the last decade, touring with Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Bullet For My Valentine, AFI, HIM, Cradle Of Filth, Ozzfest, Vans Warped Tour and MTV2’s Headbanger’s Ball: The Tour.
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February 5th, 2010
Music News
Pilfers playing Haiti benefit at Knitting Factory April 23rd
The Pilfers are playing a rare show at the Knitting Factory on April 23rd, 2010. For some people that don’t know, the Knitting Factory moved to Brooklyn so don’t show up at the old venue!
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February 4th, 2010
Music News
The Bouncing Souls going to be on Fearless Music TV Saturday Night
The Bouncing Souls will be on Fearless Music TV in NYC this Saturday night, February 6, performing “Gasoline” at 12:30am on Fox 5 in NYC. Check out the time and channel listing at the Fearless Music website to find out when and where else we air.
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Music News
Coffee Project finishes new album “Moved On”
Coffee Project have just finished tracking their self-produced new album entitled Moved On, which will be on Paper + Plastick. The album will come out in late Spring time. Coffee Project is friends Buddy Schaub (Less Than Jake) and Jake Crown (Rehasher), so you gotta get the album just because of that factor! The band tracked eleven songs at Schaub’s home studio and is currently mixing at Roger Lima (Less Than Jake/Rehasher) Moat House Studios.
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Music News
Shadows Fall to perform on FUSE’s Daily Habit tomorrow
Shadows Fall will be appearing on Fuel TV’s “The Daily Habit” tomorrow February 5th at 9:00 PM EST (6:00 PM PST). Check your local listings for Fuel TV and see what channel “The Daily Habit” airs on in your area. “The Daily Habit” is FUEL TV’s first original daily series, telecast weeknights at 9:00 pm ET (6:00 pm PT) while re-airing later in the evening at 12:00 am ET (9:00 pm PT), and the following weekday at 2:30 pm ET (11:30 am PT) and 5:30 pm ET (2:30 pm PT). “The Daily Habit” encompasses the world of the action sports enthusiast, mixing the best in pop culture with today’s top action sports personalities, cutting-edge music, product reviews, and comedy.
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Music News
Matisyahu to perform Olympic campaign anthem “One Day”
Coming off the heels of a very successful partnership with NBC Universal for their “Countdown to Vancouver” Olympic promotional campaign, Grammy nominated artist Matisyahu is set to perform his hopeful and uplifting anthem “One Day” as part of the LiveCity Vancouver! and Canada/ Whistler Village Square Stage outdoor free concert celebrations. NBC Universal has been airing the promotional Olympic spot featuring “One Day” over the past few months across all the networks on NBC Universal (NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, USA, The Weather Channel, Bravo, Oxygen, SyFy, Universal Sports, Universal HD, Chiller, and Sleuth).
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Interviews
Tony Sly
You might know Tony Sly; he’s the singer of No Use For A Name and has been doing that since the late 80s. Now he has a full-length solo album out on Fat Wreck Chords called “12 Song Program.” That album comes out February 16th, 2010! ReadJunk.com had a chance to send some questions to Tony, read on to see what he said about the solo album!
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