NOCTURNAL GRAVES Announces Two-Hour Gimme Radio Special

Australian blackened death outfit NOCTURNAL GRAVES will be guest DJing their very own radio special via Gimme Metal on Tuesday, January 11 @ 7:00 P.M. EST // January 12 @ 11:00 A.M. AEST! Main member J.R. has curated a brutalizing two-hour playlist and will be in the chat to hang out with fans! As always, it is FREE to sign up and listen HERE.

The band is supporting their brand new record, 'An Outlaw's Stand,' which was released last Friday! The record can be streamed, downloaded, and ordered HERE.

NOCTURNAL GRAVES sound the charge with their venomous new offering, ‘An Outlaw's Stand.’ Coalescing the nastiest and rawest elements of death, thrash, and black metal, the Australian outlaws’ brand of apocalyptic metal explodes like an atom bomb, leaving utter devastation in its path. The relentless onslaught of pure brutality makes one thing clear – Long live death!

NOCTURNAL GRAVES were originally formed in Victoria, Australia in 2004. Two well received demos, ‘Profanation of Innocence’ and ‘Deathstorm,’ followed in the same year. Quickly securing a deal, the band officially released the ‘Necromancer’ 7″ vinyl in 2006 before unleashing their cult debut full-length, ‘Satan’s Cross,’ the following year. The iconic album was later re-issued with the stunning cover art by renowned painter Paolo Girardi (INQUISITION, MANILLA ROAD, HIEROPHANT) in 2017.

When the Australians first hit Europe in 2009, they celebrated the event with ‘The Gravespirit Sessions’ split. Former DESTRÖYER 666 and RAZOR OF OCCAM guitarist Shrapnel, as well as drummer L.W., joined in 2012.

NOCTURNAL GRAVES widely extended their international fanbase with the release of sophomore album ‘…From the Bloodline of Cain’ (2014), which resulted in an invitation to the 2016 edition of Maryland Deathfest and more shows in the United States. The band supported the tour with a limited 7″ EP ‘Sharpen the Knives / Lead us to the Endless Fire.’

Upon a line-up change in 2018 in which L.W. departed from the band and J. took his place back behind the drums, the band saw their third album, “Titan,” released through Season of Mist. An Australian/New Zealand tour with WATAIN followed in support of the album’s release.

In 2019, NOCTURNAL GRAVES joined forces alongside DESTRÖYER 666, DEAD CONGREGATION, and INCONCESSUS LUX LUCIS and embarked upon the Sons of Rebellion tour throughout Europe.

At the onset of the world plunging headfirst into the pandemic, the band locked themselves away to write and record their fourth assault, ‘An Outlaw’s Stand.’ Upon reflection, this new offering encompasses the entire history of NOCTURNAL GRAVES, compiling eight tracks of sheer ferocity and raw, untamed black and death metal.

Style: Death Metal Savagery

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/nocturnalgraves
https://www.instagram.com/nocturnal_graves_official

Lineup:
J.R. : Drums, Rhythm Guitars, Bass, Lead Vocals
Decaylust: Lead Guitars, Vocals
Shrapnel: Lead Guitars
Prain: Vocals

Produced by: Nocturnal Graves, engineered by Jarro Raphael
Recording studio: I-HQ Recordings, Australia
Mixing: Jarro Raphael
Mastering: I-HQ Recordings, Jarro Raphael

Cover art: Simon Turner


Pre-sales: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/NocturnalGravesShop

Album formats:CD Digipak
12” Gatefold vinyl (Black)
12” Gatefold vinyl (Dracula / 250 copies)
12” Gatefold vinyl (Smokey / 400 copies)

Digital

NYC's Dope Sagittarius releases 'Sacred Places' LP on vinyl + video for 'Black Empress' feat. hip hop icon Mike Ladd

NYC-based rock-punk-funk fusion outfit Dope Sagittarius presents their 'Sacred Places' album, released on 12" vinyl via their own imprint Buddhabug Records. This collection presents a rich tapestry of funky grooves, thoughtful synths and rocking vocals, featuring contributions by such achieved artists as Ronny Drayton, Corey Glover, Mike Ladd, Marc Cary, Roy Radics, Mazz Swift and Micah Gaugh.

The record also comes with a copy of the comic book 'Dope Sagittarius In the Bumbaclout Strain', which was written by Luqman Brown with artwork by Tim Smith III.

"Tim has worked on many Marvel titles such as 'Iron Man' and 'Ms Marvel'. He also did a series called 'Black', where the only people in the world who had super powers were black. My comic is the first chapter, introducing you to three tuskegee airmen (Captain M.C. Whisler (that's myself), Sargeant Bambam (that's William Ramsey Jones) and Leftenant Spanish (that's Ernesto D' Amaso). They have been chosen by the great Bam Beyonder to fly a B-29 bomber plane through the multiverse to stop the evil D Incredible from destroying all life with mediocre music," says Luqman Brown.

The band also present the video for 'Black Empress' featuring violinist Mazz Swift (Whitney Houston, Valerie June) and Paris-based hip-hop legend/wordsmith/rap pioneer Mike Ladd ("king of the hip-hop concept" - The Guardian). This rocking hip-hop electo soundclash is a song for this Black Lives Matter age. Directed by Morgan Freeman with support from cinematographer Andrew Coury, this video was produced by Carlyle Smith with Executive Producers Luqman Brown and LaRonda Davis. Filmed at YouTube Studios New York City, it stars Angelana Jones and Anthony Bowman, along with M.C. Whistler on Vox/ Guitar, Ernest G. D'Amaso on Bass, Entrified Mcloud on Keys and Ramsey Jones on Drums.

Dope Sagittarius is the brainchild of Harlem-based Luqman Brown, whose mother is a folk-singer-turned-teacher and father a well-known playwright. The independent spirit of art in his blood got amped up early upon seeing Funkadelic at the Apollo. By high school, he had joined his third band -- punk-funk outfit FunkFace, who first opened for 24-7 Spyz and soon Fishbone, slowly rising to prominence through hundreds of shows and three studio releases.

Earlier, Dope Sagittarius revealed alt pop jazz single 'Define Love'. In their music, Dope Sagittarius present an eclectic mix of avant-garde pop-rock and funk with an occasional dip into reggae and street, their unique sound influenced by Bobby Womack, George Clinton, David Lee Roth, The Bad Brains, Fishbone and Ronny Drayton.

While 'Sacred Places' was slated to release in 2017, Luqman suffered a stroke. Everything screeched to a halt as he learned to speak and walk again, followed by heart surgery in 2019. After continual recovery, he’s back with this album, as if he's never missed a beat.

"Being able to properly put this record out into the world means that I didn’t give up in the face of death. This album was supposed to be released in 2017, but I had a stroke as a result of severe complications with my heart. In 2019, I underwent heart surgery to place an LVAD in my heart to keep it pumping. The result of these health complications left me weak and without the breath to perform," says Luqman Brown.

"At the time, I thought that myself and this album would never make it out into the world—as proud as I am of it. Nevertheless, I slowly came back and now the world will get to hear what it’s like living in NYC everyday—hard times, staying alive, and taking the time to have a good brunch along the way."

As of May 14, the 'Sacred Places' LP is out on vinyl and available on Apple Music and Spotify. It can also be ordered via Bandcamp or from Buddhabug Records.

ALBUMS CREDITS
Performed by Dope Sagittarius
Written by Luqman Brown and Brian Gosher
Produced by Brian Gosher
Recorded in Harlem, New York and North Brunswick, New Jersey, except 'LaRonda'
Mixing and Mastering by Brian Gosher.

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NYC's Loud Apartment releases 'New Future' LP, produced by and featuring iconic bassist Bill Laswell

"Much-welcome dose of sanguinity much needed... highly vibrant sonic excellence that expounds the human possibility for expansion and evolution" ~ Big Takeover Magazine

"Music with a conscience... amongst loose funk grooves, jazz infused improvisations, the soul sass and the reggae rhythms there is a whole manifesto" ~ Second Scene Magazine

"Worthy of your time and thought-space... music that will have you grooving and missing NYC's bohemian fusion scene, even if you've never experienced it first hand" ~ The Noise Journal

"Flowing funk... There’s so much soul in there, so much flow, so much “now”, so much everything and all pin-point right, so full of beauty" ~ The Organ Magazine

"Groove-filled exploration of the power of music" ~ Amplify Music Magazine

NYC-based funk art collective Loud Apartment presents their 'New Future' album, the band's third long-player, produced by legendary bassist / producer Bill Laswell at Orange Music in West Orange, New Jersey.

Laswell also brings his legendary bass to Loud Apartment, which was formed by musician and technologist Nevaris A.C. (voice, percussion, keyboards). The band's current lineup also includes turntablist DJ Logic, multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum (flute/sax), guitarist Will Bernard and drummer Lockatron.

Following up lead tracks 'Technology' and 'Rebellion', which features long-term Tricky and Sly & Robbie collaborator / alternative music-turned-dancehall icon Garrison Hawk, their unique NYC fusion of funk, soul and rock with Latin, reggae, dub and hip hop influences is inspired by growing up on the old upper west side. Influenced by such artists as Parliament-Funkadelic, Miles Davis, Santana, Gil Scott Heron, Mongo Santamaria and Ray Barretto, their sound embodies the intersection of culture that is New York City, loose enough to give room for improvisation and extended grooves.

The album looks to the future with hope but not in a naive way. There’s a lot of trouble in the world right now especially with regards to the environment and human rights. It’s an urgent plea for radical change and a different world. A new future," says Nevaris A.C.

The 'New Future' LP presents the sound of New York fusion, blending sounds that have funk as a core ingredient. Largely influenced by music from the '70s and early '80s, this sound pays respect to the music of New York. For this release, Bill Laswell created three Dub mixes from the tracks, designed as the second side of the vinyl pressing. These mixes create a sonic landscape reflecting on the themes of 'Technology', 'Rebellion' and 'Rhythm and Rhyme'.

This new release follows the band's aptly titled 'System Breakdown' LP, also produced by Bill Laswell. The band debuted in 2012 with their 'Get Up Get Down' LP, mixed by Bill Laswell and featuring Bernie Worrell (P-Funk, Talking Heads), who also appeared with them for several NYC live performances. In 2019, Nevaris approached Bill Laswell about working with him and drummer Lockatron. From the first time playing together in the studio the new project took off.

The 'New Future' LP can be ordered via Bandcamp and, as of January 7, will also be released digitally across platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music.

ALBUM CREDITS
Nevaris A.C.: voice, electric piano, hammond organ, congas, percussion
Bill Laswell: bass
DJ Logic: turntables
Lockatron: drums
Will Bernard: guitar
Peter Apfelbaum: tenor saxophone, flute, melodica
Garrison Hawk: vocals on 'Rebellion' and 'Dub Rebellion'
Produced by Bill Laswell
Created at Orange Music, West Orange, NJ
Engineered by James Dellatacoma
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at Turtletone Studio, NYC
Cover Illustration by José Ortiz
All songs written by Nevaris and Bill Laswell except 'Rebellion' and 'Dub Rebellion'
by Nevaris, Bill Laswell, and Garrison Hawk
Horn arrangements by Peter Apfelbaum.

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NYC new wave-postpunk outfit Black Rose Burning release 'The Wheel' LP

"A compelling blend of ominous Goth atmospheres, dark, but dynamic dancefloor anthems, New Wave ’80s tunefulness, and electronics-embedded tech tracks, all draped with the silky, reflective, and longing vocals of George Grant" ~ Big Takeover Magazine

"Leaning towards Ultravox and Colourbox on the new wave spectrum, they sometimes also produce vibes channelled from Phantasmagoria-era The Damned and Butterfly on a Wheel-era The Mission" ~ Amplify Music Mag

"Space might be the final frontier but Black Rose Burning are already stellar" ~ Onyx Music Reviews

​"A compelling album that smoulders from the ashes of goth-rock, whilst emerging from the dry-ice ambience of 80s nostalgia. Like a noir-new romantic, Black Rose Burning peacock preens from the underworld of art-pop, whilst intermixing its post-punk palette" ~ The Manc Review

NYC-based alternative rock outfit Black Rose Burning has released 'The Wheel', their second full-length album, following the band's debut album 'The Year of the Scorpion', released in 2020.

Running at about 50 minutes, this collection of 12 galactic offerings was inspired by love lost, love won and outer space. This sophomore album takes the band's sound to a completely new level in terms of songwriting and composition.

With a healthy set of post-punk gothic rock earworms, it should come as no surprise that this album would involve Jason Corbett of ACTORS at his Jacknife Sound Studio in Vancouver.

Black Rose Burning was formed in 2018 by instrumentalist, producer and engineer George Grant, whose soulful vocal delivery, instantly recognizable voice, unique grooves and solid instrumentation are standout features of this music.

Spanning the realms of multiple genres, Grant's influences are also multi-generational while maintaining an overall succinct flow and feel. Roughly 40 years of songwriting across many styles has helped George embellish on clever hooks, drive and the gothic-pop sensibilities of The Cult's early years.

"This release was a labor of love after the success of my first record. I was working through and adjusting to the post covid landscape and took solace in having the time to make another proper record," says George Grant.

"Over the past four years or so, quite a few relationships that I valued were destroyed in an instant - over politics or just basic unacceptable differences. Then came Covid and I lost a few more for reasons beyond their control. There was a lot of anger in my first record. This one is more melancholic than angry. I write about outer space a lot. On both records. I find it inspirational. It’s vastness. It’s the place I’d most like to go. Maybe the place I’d most like to escape to might be a better definition."

'The Wheel' was recorded in George’s own studio, PV Recording Company, which has over the years hosted such artists as Emelio Zeff China (Peter Murphy), Knox Chandler (Siouxsie And The Banshees), Chibi (The Birthday Party Massacre), Nellie McKay, Julia Marcel, Paul Bakija (Reagan Youth), Ego Likeness and Voltaire (with whom Grant also played bass for 10 years).

Grant has also assembled for live performances, including guitarist Frank Morin (World Inferno Friendship Society) and drummer Luis Infantas (Monster Zero).

Available on CD and digitally across the internet, including Spotify and Apple Music. It can also be ordered directly from the band via Bandcamp.

CREDITS
Recorded and Mixed by George Grant at PVRCo in Putnam Valley, NY and The Wolf’s Den Manhattan
Mastered By Jason Corbett (ACTORS) at Jacknife Sound Vancouver
Cover Art by Eshmoon DM Design
Live photography by Robert Braunfeld

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Revolution Above Disorder pays tribute to Television Personalities on 'Scream Quietly', produced by ACTORS' Jason Corbett

"Takes the prize for the perfect nugaze single... if White were looking for a sonic something that balanced out the familiar and innovative, something cold yet calming, something futuristic while rooted in retro electro, then he has solidly hit the nail on the head here" ~ The Spill Magazine

"Vancouver’s cityscape may very well have a subliminal (if not plainly evident) impact on the dark cold and awesome prism through which he channels the better elements of such bands as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Spiritualized, Lush and Catherine Wheel" ~ Amplify Music Magazine

“I love working with Stephen. There’s a trust and flow that spawns a real magic in the music. You can hear the adventure in the songs" ~ Jason Corbett (ACTORS, Jacknife Sound)

"Vocally it’s haunting, and instrumentally, darkly compelling" ~ PunkRockBeat

Dublin postpunk / nugaze / electro artist Revolution Above Disorder presents the single 'Scream Quietly', paying tribute to the groundbreaking band Television Personalities and the songwriting genius of Dan Treacy.

Revolution Above Disorder is the solo moniker of Vancouver-based Dubliner Stephen Nicholas White (The Orange Kyte, House of Dolls, Magic Shoppe). Revolution Above Disorder’s music is a melting pot of post-punk, psychedelic rock and electronic music. This is guitar-based rock augmented by synths, drum machines and heavily treated instrumentation with haunting reverb-soaked vocals.

"The lofi outsider-art indie-pop of Dan Treacy's Television Personalities occupies a place in my heart all of its own. Stylistically all over the map, Treacy's four decades (and counting) of off-kilter demonstrations of punk and psychedelia are held together by the emotional depth of the songwriting and the vocal delivery, which sees Treacy careering unconstrained from acerbic, to playfully whimsical, to heartbroken and vulnerable. Beautiful," says Stephen Nicholas White.

This cover originally appeared on 'Mummy, Mummy Please Look At Me: A Tribute to the Television Personalities', released via Dandy Boy Records.

Revolution Above Disorder recently debuted with 'Illuminate', a 3-track offering that was produced, mixed and mastered at Jacknife Sound by Jason Corbett of ACTORS, which also featured all other members of ACTORS' (Shannon Hemmett and Kendall Wooding on backing vocals, Adam Fink on drums) and Josiah Webb of Magic Shoppe on guitar. The video, directed and edited by Eliot Galán of Galán Films, stars Analissa Longoria and Mat Durie. Dublin-based artist Delta Omega a.k.a. Conor Paxton (House of Dolls, Buffalo Sunn, The Brothers Movement) also contributed the more dance-oriented 'Illuminate (Delta Omega Remix)'.

As of January 11, 'Scream Quietly' will be available via Apple Music, Spotify and elsewhere digitally. It can already be downloaded via Bandcamp, where the debut single 'Illuminate' is also available.

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Cathal Coughlan (The Fatima Mansions, Microdisney) releases ’Song Of Co-Aklan’ LP. Watch the 'Unrealtime' video by Locky Morris

“The lyrics are uniformly excellent…Coughlan reminds you again and again just how good he is” ~ The Irish Times

"A brilliant opus... perhaps his best record to date" ~ The Spill Magazine

"Each slice of spiky post-punk/pop is every bit as intriguing as his witty and acerbic lyrics” ~ Sunday Times

"Coughlan’s sixth solo album is a real gem” ~ Hot Press

"Definitively affirms Coughlan's place amid Ireland's poetic pantheon” ~ MOJO (4 stars)

"Song Of Co-Aklan is a more than welcome return from a puckish master of social observation and surreal manifesto” ~ The Wire

“…shows off a rich, Scott Walker-ish voice that’s aging superbly…a welcome return”~ Uncut

Cathal Coughlan, one of Ireland’s most revered and iconic songwriters, has released his acclaimed 'Song of Co-Aklan' LP, his first new music in ten years and sixth album to date. He also presents 'Unrealtime' with an accompanying video created by Locky Morris, an Irish contemporary artist and musician from Derry, Northern Ireland.

Best known as co-founder and vocalist for seminal 80s/90s bands Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions, Coughlan has been described as "the most underrated lyricist in pop today" by The Guardian newspaper. DJ John Peel was also such a fan that he stated he could "listen to Cathal Coughlan sing the phone book".

'Unrealtime' is steeped in Coughlan's Irish past and the landscape that informed it. The album’s closer, it features a guest appearance from his former Microdisney bandmate Sean O'Hagan (also High Llamas, Stereolab) and acclaimed Dublin singer-songwriter Eileen Gogan, who previously appeared with the band on their final reunion shows in 2018.

”Unrealtime, as a song, muses back and forth on what it is to be an exile, revisiting one’s land of birth as not alone a stranger, but possibly as an observer from another dimension. And then, it begins looking on the extent of a person’s whole life from those unrelenting perspectives," says Cathal Coughlan.

"Some of my most dicey chord changes are subordinated to the simple hypnosis of a frame drum and Sean O’Hagan’s flat-wound “West German” bass guitar. The periodic crescendos of realisation are heralded by Nick Allum’s restrained brush drums and a growing plenitude of voices – my own, and those of Eileen Gogan and Sean, each probing in their own way for a reprieve from the certainties of the terse prescriptions heard in the verses. It’s more than fitting that the visuals seen here should have originated in another part of that island, in the masterful minimalism of Locky Morris."

The album also features Luke Haines (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder),Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti), Andrías Ó Grúama (Fatima Mansions), Cory Gray (The Delines) on wurlitzer piano and Coughlan's long-time collaborators from the Grand Necropolitan Quartet - namely Nick Allum (The Fatima Mansions, The Apartments), James Woodrow and Audrey Riley (notable collaborator of Lush, The Sundays, The Smiths, Nick Cave, The Cure and Coldplay).

This album represents the first time that Microdisney/High Llamas bassist Jonathan Fell unites with Nick Allum and Coughlan since the Fatima Mansions 'Against Nature' LP in 1989. Microdisney/ High Llamas alumnus John Bennett also makes an appearance.

Video director Locky Morris notes, "I try to stick to a practice of staring at things and letting myself go. The footage in the film for Unrealtime was shot on an intertidal mudflat, on the edges of a large shallow sea lough on the north coast of Ireland, close to home. Seldom can I get the idea though of the huge capped city dump lying nearby out of my mind. The weather wasn’t good, that black pipe was under the arm one minute and caught by the wind the next. Who knew that this chance happening would be used to accompany this beauty of a song by Cathal Coughlan. ‘...post glacial marine transgression...’ I pulled that line from a geological description of the area. Jesus, that could almost be one of Cathal’s arresting lyrics’.

After a 10-year hiatus as a solo artist, Cathal Coughlan’s ’Song Of Co-Aklan’ album has been widely heralded as one of his finest, drawing unprecedented national media attention in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, France, Switzerland and beyond. The singles ‘Song of Co-Aklan', 'The Knockout Artist', 'Owl In The Parlour' and 'Falling Out North Street' show the album’s diversity in tempo and sonic arrangement, corralled by Coughlan's brooding baritone, caustic wit and irresistible choruses.

The 'Song of Co-Aklan' LP is now available across online platforms, such as Apple Music and Spotify, as well as physically. It can be ordered at https://ffm.to/ songofcoaklanalbum.

Cathal Coughlan

Song of Co-Aklan

Dimple Discs

14 June 2021

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Cathal Coughlan (The Fatima Mansions, Microdisney) releases ’Song Of Co-Aklan’ LP. Watch the 'Unrealtime' video by Locky Morris

FOR FANS OF: The National, Nick Cave, John Cale, Mark Eitzel, Robert Forster & The Go-Betweens, Scott Walker
FOCUS TRACKS: Song of Co-Aklan, The Knockout Artist, Let's Flood The Fairground, Passed-Out Dog, Owl In The Parlour
FCC clean *except #4 Crow Mother
Photos by Gregory Dunn

FOR SHARING
'Unrealtime' https://youtu.be/ o9qS7RnYuSE
'Falling Out North Street' https://youtu.be/JLeGoL-w7F8
'The Knockout Artist' https://youtu.be/ lPr9f0l96pA
‘Song Of Co-Aklan’ https://youtu.be/e6YL06Za4rc
'Owl In The Parlour' https://youtu.be/ 7KKri0pTmkI
Cathal introduces his album https://youtu.be/f3MsD3NR-6M
Bandcamp https://cathalc.bandcamp.com 
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/6wc5DtBd6j4hNvXRPgVoM1
Digital Order https://orcd.co/songofcoaklan
CD / Vinyl order (USA/Canada) https://ffm.to/soca_us 
CD / Vinyl order (UK/Ireland) https://ffm.to/songofcoaklanalbum

FOR REVIEW & AIRPLAY
Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/cathal-coughlan/sets/song-of-co-aklan-assembly-11/s-PmCxio5dlzg 
Online press kit https://shamelesspromotion.haulix.com/Public/View/86359 
Download press kit & full album via Dropbox http://bit.ly/3qje08J

“The lyrics are uniformly excellent…Coughlan reminds you again and again just how good he is” ~ The Irish Times

"A brilliant opus... perhaps his best record to date" ~ The Spill Magazine

"Each slice of spiky post-punk/pop is every bit as intriguing as his witty and acerbic lyrics” ~ Sunday Times

"Coughlan’s sixth solo album is a real gem” ~ Hot Press

"Definitively affirms Coughlan's place amid Ireland's poetic pantheon” ~ MOJO (4 stars)

"Song Of Co-Aklan is a more than welcome return from a puckish master of social observation and surreal manifesto” ~ The Wire

“…shows off a rich, Scott Walker-ish voice that’s aging superbly…a welcome return”~ Uncut


Cathal Coughlan, one of Ireland’s most revered and iconic songwriters, has released his acclaimed 'Song of Co-Aklan' LP, his first new music in ten years and sixth album to date. He also presents 'Unrealtime' with an accompanying video created by Locky Morris, an Irish contemporary artist and musician from Derry, Northern Ireland.

Best known as co-founder and vocalist for seminal 80s/90s bands Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions, Coughlan has been described as "the most underrated lyricist in pop today" by The Guardian newspaper. DJ John Peel was also such a fan that he stated he could "listen to Cathal Coughlan sing the phone book".

'Unrealtime' is steeped in Coughlan's Irish past and the landscape that informed it. The album’s closer, it features a guest appearance from his former Microdisney bandmate Sean O'Hagan (also High Llamas, Stereolab) and acclaimed Dublin singer-songwriter Eileen Gogan, who previously appeared with the band on their final reunion shows in 2018.

”Unrealtime, as a song, muses back and forth on what it is to be an exile, revisiting one’s land of birth as not alone a stranger, but possibly as an observer from another dimension. And then, it begins looking on the extent of a person’s whole life from those unrelenting perspectives," says Cathal Coughlan.

"Some of my most dicey chord changes are subordinated to the simple hypnosis of a frame drum and Sean O’Hagan’s flat-wound “West German” bass guitar. The periodic crescendos of realisation are heralded by Nick Allum’s restrained brush drums and a growing plenitude of voices – my own, and those of Eileen Gogan and Sean, each probing in their own way for a reprieve from the certainties of the terse prescriptions heard in the verses. It’s more than fitting that the visuals seen here should have originated in another part of that island, in the masterful minimalism of Locky Morris."

The album also features  Luke Haines (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder),Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti), Andrías Ó Grúama (Fatima Mansions), Cory Gray (The Delines) on wurlitzer piano and Coughlan's long-time collaborators from the Grand Necropolitan Quartet - namely Nick Allum (The Fatima Mansions, The Apartments), James Woodrow and Audrey Riley (notable collaborator of Lush, The Sundays, The Smiths, Nick Cave, The Cure and Coldplay).

This album represents the first time that Microdisney/High Llamas bassist Jonathan Fell unites with Nick Allum and Coughlan since the Fatima Mansions 'Against Nature' LP in 1989. Microdisney/ High Llamas alumnus John Bennett also makes an appearance.

Video director Locky Morris notes, "I try to stick to a practice of staring at things and letting myself go. The footage in the film for Unrealtime was shot on an intertidal mudflat, on the edges of a large shallow sea lough on the north coast of Ireland, close to home. Seldom can I get the idea though of the huge capped city dump lying nearby out of my mind. The weather wasn’t good, that black pipe was under the arm one minute and caught by the wind the next. Who knew that this chance happening would be used to accompany this beauty of a song by Cathal Coughlan. ‘...post glacial marine transgression...’ I pulled that line from a geological description of the area. Jesus, that could almost be one of Cathal’s arresting lyrics’.

After a 10-year hiatus as a solo artist, Cathal Coughlan’s ’Song Of Co-Aklan’ album has been widely heralded as one of his finest, drawing unprecedented national media attention in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, France, Switzerland and beyond. The singles ‘Song of Co-Aklan', 'The Knockout Artist', 'Owl In The Parlour' and 'Falling Out North Street' show the album’s diversity in tempo and sonic arrangement, corralled by Coughlan's brooding baritone, caustic wit and irresistible choruses.

The 'Song of Co-Aklan' LP is  now available across online platforms, such as Apple Music and Spotify, as well as physically. It can be ordered at https://ffm.to/ songofcoaklanalbum.

ALBUM CREDITS
Nick Allum – drums and percussion
Audrey Riley – cello
James Woodrow – electric & acoustic guitars
Rhodri Marsden – bass guitar, bassoon
Luke Haines – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, synth
Jonathan Fell – bass guitar
Sean O’Hagan – bass guitar & vocals, synth
Eileen Gogan – vocals
Andrías Ó Grúama – frictive guitar
John Bennett – vocals & slide guitar
Cory Gray – wurlitzer piano
Cathal Coughlan – Co-Aklan
Mastered by George Shilling
Cover by Bruce Brand & Mary Tee at Arthole
Front cover painting by Cristabel Christo, based in part on photos by Gregory Dunn / Stoneybutter
Composed and deranged by Cathal Coughlan


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Jah Wobble teams up with Telefís (REM/ U2 producer Jacknife Lee & Microdisney frontman Cathal Coughlan) on 'Falun Gong Dancer'

"A shimmering piece of pop. Laced in hypnotic energy, the song is steeped in Irish history" ~ Far Out Magazine

“Blends cultural celebration, satire, the splintered identity of the Irish diaspora and historical introspection to electronic dance music” – PostPunk.com

"This is actually a dancepop monster, channelling ‘Stop Making Sense’-era Talking Heads with acute contemporary social commentary" ~ Is This Music?

"As stunning as the best of Talking Heads and LCD Soundsystem... watch them take the world by storm with this big sound and vision" ~ The Spill Magazine

The third single from the debut Telefís album 'a hAon' sees members Jacknife Lee and Cathal Coughlan collaborate with legendary post-punk bass maestro Jah Wobble (Public Image Limited, Invaders Of The Heart).

Telefís (the Irish Gaelic word for Television, pronounced Tele-feesh) unites two acclaimed Irish iconoclasts - producer Garret "Jacknife" Lee (U2, R.E.M., Modest Mouse, The Killers, Snow Patrol, Crystal Castles, Editors) and Cathal Coughlan (Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and acclaimed solo artist).

With Jacknife now based in LA and Cathal based in London, the two traded ideas and music files over lockdown, hatching plans for a satirical, mischievous examination of Irish history and pop culture in their lifetimes, which they label ..”a corrosive nostalgia”. The result is their debut 'a hAon' (Number One) album.

One of the most innovative bass players of his generation, here Jah Wobble transforms the disarmingly quiet and reflective original version, with its stark vocals and ghostly piano chords, into a deep-dub odyssey, his signature low-end bass runs anchoring crisp percussion and panoramic space-echo effects.

"Even a relatively obscure musical life such as mine can fortunately bring pinch-yourself moments of proximity to greatness, and so it is with Jah Wobble's transformative contribution to this version of 'Falun Gong Dancer'. The song was already a high-point of the first Telefís album, but in this version it goes somewhere else entirely, thanks to JW's signature contribution," says Cathal Coughlan.

Jacknife Lee elucidates: "There are few bass players as iconic as Jah Wobble. I have studied and tried to copy his style for decades but never really got close. Brian from Dimple Discs suggested we ask him to get on 'Falun Gong Dancer', but I didn’t believe it would happen. We are still shocked that he agreed to collaborate with us and are excited for it to be heard”

Jacknife Lee uses his extensive sonic palette to create an irresistible mix of cinematic instrumentals and electro-funk backdrops full of melodic, squelchy synths and thunderous bass-lines, often with a cheeky nod to electro-pop history. He has also created remixes for Radiohead, U2, Blur, Run-DMC, Pink, Future Sound of London, Christina Aguilera, TLC, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, The Raveonettes, Kraftwerk, New Order and Kasabian.

Earlier, the duo released the original version of this song with its stark arrangement and stellar video by Matt Mahurin (Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits, U2, Sting, David Byrne, Joni Mitchell), who, as well as the following up the 'Mister Imperator' EPand 'We Need' EP.

As of December 7, the Jah Wobble mix of 'Falun Gong Dancer' can be obtained on Bandcamp and elsewhere digitally at https://orcd.co/telefisfalungongdancer. The 'a hAon' album will be released by London's Dimple Discs on February 11. CD and vinyl are available for pre-order at https://ffm.to/telefisahaon and the digital album at https://orcd.co/telefisahaon.


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Miranda Lambert & Little Big Town Ride 'The Bandwagon Tour' into 2022

15-Date Outing Kicks Off May 6 in Houston, Texas
Tickets On Sale Beginning Friday, Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. Local Time

The Cadillac Three Joins as Support on All Dates

Country music superstars and multi-GRAMMY, CMA and ACM Award-winners Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town join forces to co-headline this spring’s The Bandwagon Tour, a reincarnation of 2018’s co-headlining run of the same name which earned rave reviews from Pollstar, CMT, The Tennessean and more.

The joint tour produced by Live Nation, featuring The Cadillac Three as support on all dates, visits 15 cities beginning Friday, May 6 in Houston, Texas. Tickets to The Bandwagon Tour’s opening night in Houston go on sale Friday, Jan. 21 at 10 a.m. local time, with all other dates of The Bandwagon Tour on sale Friday, Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets are available at LiveNation.com.

Citi is the official card of The Bandwagon Tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning the Tuesday ahead of each on sale date at 12 p.m. local time until Thursday at 10 p.m. local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.

Both critically acclaimed artists in their own right, together Lambert and Little Big Town tout a combined 43 ACM Awards, 23 CMA Awards and seven GRAMMYs. Lambert’s latest single, “If I Was A Cowboy,” is currently climbing the charts at Country radio while her recent collaborative project, The Marfa Tapes, is nominated for a GRAMMY at the upcoming awards ceremony and was named among 2021’s best by American Songwriter, Billboard, LA Times, Rolling Stone, TIME, Vulture and more. Little Big Town is currently back in the studio and will release their 10th studio album later this year. This record follows the No. 1 Country album Nightfall (released in 2020) which includes singles “Over Drinking,” GRAMMY-nominated “The Daughters” and “Wine, Beer, Whiskey.” It was also nominated for the GRAMMY Award for Best Country Album and received rave reviews from The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly and Paste Magazine, among others. Billboard editors describe the band as reaching “substantive emotional richness that few groups can touch” on the album.

In addition to teaming up with Little Big Town on The Bandwagon Tour, Lambert and The Cadillac Three will kick things off a week prior, closing out the month of April with stops in Tuscaloosa, Ala. as well as Johnson City and Franklin, Tenn. On sale details are listed below.

Live Nation is the national tour promoter for The Bandwagon Tour.

Dates on Sale Beginning This Friday, Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. Local Time:
Wednesday, April 27 * Tuscaloosa Amphitheater | Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Thursday, April 28 * FirstBank Amphitheater | Franklin, Tenn.
Friday, April 29 *#. William Green Football Stadium | Johnson City, Tenn.
Friday, May 6 + Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman | Houston, Texas
Saturday, May 7 Dos Equis Pavilion | Dallas, Texas
Sunday, May 8 Walmart AMP | Rogers, Ark.
Thursday, May 12 Credit One Stadium | Charleston, S.C.
Friday, May 13 MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre | Tampa, Fla.
Saturday, May 14 iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre | West Palm Beach, Fla.
Friday, May 20 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre | St. Louis, Mo.
Saturday, May 21 Ruoff Music Center | Noblesville, Ind.
Sunday, May 22 Riverbend Music Center | Cincinnati, Ohio
Thursday, June 2 Budweiser Stage | Toronto, Ont.
Friday, June 3 DTE Energy Music Theatre | Detroit, Mich.
Saturday, June 4 Blossom Music Center | Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Thursday, June 9 Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater | Wantagh, N.Y.
Friday, June 10 PNC Bank Arts Center | Holmdel, N.J.
Saturday, June 11 BB&T Pavilion | Camden, N.J.
* Miranda Lambert & The Cadillac Three only; not part of The Bandwagon Tour
+ on sale Friday, Jan 21. at 10 a.m. local time
# on sale Friday, Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. local time

About Miranda Lambert
Vanner Records/RCA Nashville superstar Miranda Lambert’s storied career has spanned seven No. 1 hit radio singles, seven consecutive No. 1 albums, more than 70 prestigious awards and honors and countless sales certifications, earning the Texan a reputation as “the most riveting country star of her generation” (NPR).

The most decorated artist in the history of the Academy of Country Music, Lambert has earned 35 ACM Awards (including a record-setting nine consecutive Female Vocalist of the Year Awards), 14 CMA Awards, three GRAMMY Awards, the Nashville Symphony Harmony Award, ACM Gene Weed Milestone Award and ACM Song of the Decade Award, plus was named 2019 RIAA’s Artist of the Year. She is the youngest artist ever to serve as the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum’s Artist in Residence, joining a legendary list of predecessors including Kris Kristofferson, Guy Clark, Tom T. Hall, Jerry Douglas, Cowboy Jack Clement, Earl Scruggs, Connie Smith, Roseanne Cash, and more. Lambert was also inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in October 2021.

The celebrated singer/songwriter released her seventh studio album, Wildcard, in 2019, which was declared one of the year’s best albums by GQ, Variety, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Slate and many more. Wildcard features GRAMMY Award-nominated single “It All Comes Out in the Wash,” plus her No. 1 smash hit “Bluebird” and Top 5 “Settling Down.” Lambert’s seventh consecutive No. 1 album, Wildcard joins her lauded discography that includes The Weight of These Wings (2016), Platinum (2014), Four The Record (2011), Revolution (2009), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007) and Kerosene (2005). In addition, she has released four albums with her trio, the Pistol Annies, including Hell Of A Holiday in 2021, as well as The Marfa Tapes, a critically acclaimed, raw and intimate recording with collaborators Jack Ingram and Jon Randall.

For more information, visit www.MirandaLambert.com.

About Little Big Town
GRAMMY, ACM, CMA and AMA Award-winning group Little Big Town – consisting of members Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman and Jimi Westbrook – first entered the music scene over 23 years ago, making them one of the longest running bands in the history of country music with all original members, no breaks and no hiatus. They have released nine studio albums throughout their career, four of which reached No. 1 on the Country Albums chart (The Reason Why, Tornado, The Breaker and Nightfall).

The superstar band has four No. 1 singles (“Pontoon,” “Tornado,” “Better Man,” “Day Drinking”) and are also known for their history-making single, “Girl Crush,” as well as “Boondocks,” “Little White Church,” “The Daughters” and latest single “Wine, Beer, Whiskey.” To date, “Wine, Beer, Whiskey” has reached global streams of over 280 million, putting Little Big Town’s career lifetime streams at over 3.8 billion.

Little Big Town has earned more than 45 award show nominations and has taken home over 20 awards, including four GRAMMYs, nine CMA Awards, eight ACM Awards, an AMA, a People’s Choice Award and an Emmy Award. The band was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2014, received a star on the Nashville Walk of Fame in 2017, and in 2018 was featured at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in a yearlong exhibit entitled Little Big Town: The Power of Four.

The band will open for The Eagles this summer in Europe.

For more information, visit www.LittleBigTown.com.

About The Cadillac Three
Leaving a lasting impression on fans across the globe with their instinctive sonic tendencies, The Cadillac Three prove they are Nashville's most versatile band – spending their formative years playing music together in garages before graduating to sold-out venues and being added to major festival lineups. Singer-guitarist Jaren Johnston, drummer Neil Mason and lap-steel player Kelby Ray have been performing together for over a decade and adding to their following of both Country and Rock loyalists. TC3 boasts chart-topping tracks and album cuts for Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Miranda Lambert and Steven Tyler, to name a few. Mason wrote “Payback” alongside Aaron Eshuis and Ryan Hurd, whose single version featured TC3 and followed Rascal Flatts’ previous release of the track. Both collectively and individually, they have been nominated for GRAMMY and ACM Awards.

TC3 remained resolute in their creativity in 2020, releasing two albums – February’s Country Fuzz and October’s surprise Tabasco & Sweet Tea – hosting Country Fuzz Radio and serving the music community. “The Cadillac Three’s contribution to a year like no other can be measured in albums released, songs released (28), live-streamed shows recorded, donations collected, venues supported, mouths fed and positive messages sent. Landing a spot on the revered list [ACM Awards], among their friends, collaborators, and peers, feels like a victory for the trio who has never stopped putting in the work,” observes American Songwriter. With “Long After Last Call” Rolling Stone noted TC3 “Sound the Alarm for Clubs in Crisis” while their “Bridges” music video shoot teamed up with Music Venue Alliance Nashville.

TC3’s freewheeling vibe finds fans from all sides of the world relishing in their unpredictable sets, touring on their own and with A-listers Eric Church, Dierks Bentley and Luke Bryan, plus iconic rockers Metallica and Slayer. As a popular international act, TC3 was named Best New Band at the 2014 UK Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards and received a 2019 CMA International Award nomination for International Artist Achievement.

Visit thecadillacthree.com for TC3’s latest happenings, 10th Anniversary Tour dates, 2022 Hillbilly Hypnotized Tourdetails and tune in to Country Fuzz Radio each week.

New release from High On Fire's Matt Pike - Pike Vs The Automaton

From rewriting the hard rock rulebook with his Grammy award-winning trio High on Fire, to reverse engineering doom metal with his genre-defining trio Sleep, Matt Pike has channeled his natural talents and chiseled a steely path straight to the heart of modern-day metal’s molten core.

On February 18, 2022 Pike will release his debut solo LP, ‘Pike vs. the Automaton’, via MNRK Heavy. Pre-orders are live at PikeVstheAutomaton.com.

Eli Young Band Ring in the New Year with New Single: "Love Talking" Available Now

Multi-Platinum hitmakers Eli Young Band kick off the new year with a brand new single that offers a fresh take on the early stages of a relationship with the romantic offering. Available everywhere now via The Valory Music Co., listen to “Love Talking” below.

Written by lead singer Mike Eli together with Jeffrey East and Eric Arjes, who also produced the song alongside Jimmy Robbins, the track chronicles the morning-after emotions of a vulnerable love-drunk conversation:

When I let it slip that I
Wanted you for my whole life
And you and me turned into us
That was just the love talking

The GRAMMY-nominated group’s latest single builds upon recent release “Lucky For Me,” with both songs offering a preview of their forthcoming project planned for later this year.

Since the band’s formation as college classmates 20 years ago, the Associated Press has celebrated EYB as “a smart, relevant antidote” to overdone clichés in Country music. The band has amassed 14 Billboard charting singles, including four No. 1 hits via 3x Platinum “Crazy Girl” and 2x Platinum “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” plus Platinum “Love Ain’t” and “Drunk Last Night,” while also earning an ACM Award for Song of the Year as well as multiple GRAMMY, CMA, CMT, ACA and Teen Choice Award nominations.

The musical band of brothers – Mike Eli, James Young, Jon Jones and Chris Thompson – play their own instruments, write their own songs and cling fast to their Texas roots. While selling out venues from coast-to-coast as strong headliners, EYB has also shared the stage with Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Toby Keith, Chris Young, Darius Rucker and Dave Matthews Band.

For more information on new music and upcoming tour dates, visit www.eliyoungband.com and follow on social media @EliYoungBand.

“Love Talking” Lyrics & Credits Available HERE

Upcoming Shows:
Friday, Jan. 14 Joe’s on Weed St. | Chicago, Ill.
Saturday, Jan. 15 Joe’s Live | Rosemont, Ill.
Thursday, Jan. 20 The Paramount | Huntington, N.Y.
Friday, Jan. 21 Brooklyn Bowl | Philadelphia, Pa.
Saturday, Jan. 22 Brooklyn Bowl | Brooklyn, N.Y.
Saturday, Feb. 5 Silver Saloon | Terrell, Texas
Thursday, Feb. 10 The Hub | Monroe, La.
Friday, Feb. 11 The Hall | Little Rock, Ark.
Saturday, Feb. 12 Georges Majestic Lounge | Fayetteville, Ark.
Thursday, Feb. 17 Fox Theatre | Hays, Kan.
Friday, Feb. 18 The Liberty | Roswell, N.M.
Saturday, Feb. 19 Potosi Live | Abilene, Texas
Friday, March 4 Hurricane Harry’s | College Station, Texas
Saturday, March 5 The Railhouse | Kyle, Texas
Tuesday, March 8 Gallo Center for the Ars | Modesto, Calif.
Thursday, March 10 Rialto Theatre | Tucson, Ariz.
Thursday, March 24 Georgia Theatre | Athens, Ga.
Friday, March 25 The National | Richmond, Va.
Friday, April 1 Wildcatter Saloon | Katy, Texas
Wednesday, April 13 Bogart’s | Cincinnati, Ohio
Thursday, April 14 The Bluestone | Columbus, Ohio
Friday, April 15 Bluebird Nightclub | Bloomington, Ill.
Thursday, April 21 The Hangout | Gulf Shores, Ala.
Friday, April 22 Dallas Bull | Tampa, Fla.
Saturday, April 23 The Ranch | Fort Myers, Fla.
Thursday, April 28 Wally’s Pub | Hampton Beach, N.H.
Friday, April 29 The Pub | Manchester, N.H.
Saturday, April 30 Aura | Portland, Maine
Friday, May 20 Floore’s Country Store | Helotes, Texas
Saturday, May 21 Big Texan Starlight Ranch | Amarillo, Texas
Friday, June 17 Whitewater Amphitheater | New Braunfels, Texas

Walker Hayes Releases New Track "Drinking Songs" Today from Forthcoming COUNTRY STUFF THE ALBUM (Out 1/21/22)

After announcing the upcoming release of his highly-anticipated Country Stuff The Album (available 1/21) and simultaneously dropping his latest, rising single “AA,” GRAMMY-nominated Walker Hayes continues to deliver new music with his latest track, “Drinking Songs” on Monument Records.

Joining prior releases including his current single “AA,” “U Gurl” and his first No. 1 song “Fancy Like,” “Drinking Songs” features Hayes’ signature witty lyrics, sticky melodies and autobiographical storylines. Written by Hayes along with Jordan Gray and produced by “Fancy Like” collaborator Joe Thibodeau and Multi-GRAMMY Award Winner Shane McAnally, the new track finds Hayes paradoxically declaring his love of drinking songs while proudly six years sober – he may have quit drinking, yet he can’t quite surrender Country music’s longstanding devotion to songs about them.

“‘Drinking Songs’ is one of my favorites off the new album,” shares Hayes. “I don’t drink anymore but I still connect with how a song can get you through, just like a drink can for some people. We’ve all been in a bar full of people singing together, arms around each other. Plus, the lyrics and the beat just have a relatable quality to them that feels so country to me.”

With a tribute to the traditions the great Hank Williams Jr. has long sang about, “Drinking Songs” calls to Bocephus for guidance:

SO GIVE ME THAT BOURBON AND BOCEPHUS
I CAN’T HELP ME SO HELP ME JESUS
SHE AIN’T COMING BACK LIKE YOU SHE GONE
SO WHAT I NEED IS IN WILLIAM’S VOICE RIGHT NOW
HANK AND EVAN DON’T LET ME DOWN
BRING THEM FAMILY TRADITIONS ON
I’MMA JUST KEEP SITTIN AND SIPPIN’ AND SINGING ALONG
THANK GOD FOR DRINKING AND DRINKING SONGS

Listen to “Drinking Songs” below.

Pre-Order / Pre-Add Country Stuff The Album HERE. Country Stuff The Album was produced by Hayes with Joe Thibodeau and Multi-GRAMMY Award winner Shane McAnally.

Hayes will kick off his headlining tour, The Fancy Like Tour, in Grand Rapids, MI on January 27, 2022.

About Walker Hayes
Monument Records recording artist, Walker Hayes, is a GRAMMY Nominated singer/songwriter originally from Mobile, Alabama. His forthcoming album County Stuff The Album features new single “AA” and smash hit “Fancy Like.” “Fancy Like” has topped every sales and streaming chart since its release, spent over four months at the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs, was featured in a national Applebee’s ad campaign, and hit the top 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Songs.

The proud father of six has performed his music, including the Double-Platinum RIAA certified hit “You Broke Up With Me,” to national audiences on Good Morning America, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and the TODAY Show, and was profiled for CBS Sunday Morning. He will kick off his headlining The Fancy Like Tour in 2022.

INFECTED RAIN Reveals Standout Fourth Single "Longing" + Official Music Video

New Album, Ecdysis, out Today via Napalm Records

Order HERE

Moldovan progressive modern metal unit INFECTED RAIN will finally reveal the highly anticipated next chapter of their metamorphosis – their otherworldly fifth album, Ecdysis – today via Napalm Records!

Garnering more media buzz than ever before, today, the band wraps up their onslaught of new singles with the release of standout track "Longing" and its eerie, thrilling new music video. The track ransacks with instant angst while showcasing some of the most varying guitar work on the album, fluxing between churning grooves, towering leads, technical effects and ominous chords.

Frontwoman Lena Scissorhands says about “Longing”:

"Never happy, never content! We spend our lives craving and longing for things that someone else has or for things that we think will make us happy.

'A picture immaculate, perfectly designed.

A story in which you’re always desired.'

What is happiness really?"

Watch the official music video for “Longing”

INFECTED RAIN have become one of the most exciting new acts in the heavy music world, with charismatic, multi-talented frontwoman Lena Scissorhands emerging as one of the fastest-rising leading ladies of the genre. Now, the band arises from the dark depths once again. Produced once again by Valentin Voluta, Ecdysis successfully demonstrates ultramodern brutality without sacrificing emotion and melody – showcasing a new layer of INFECTED RAIN that longtime followers and new fans alike will embrace.

Frontwoman Lena Scissorhands adds about Ecdysis:

"While the whole world was in a deep depression, Ecdysis was slowly but surely maturing. The time in isolation away from all our plans and goals, away from loved ones and the stage, brought out something so new and different in us. A new chapter starts with this album, a chapter of raw emotions and complete commitment."

First single “Postmortem Pt. 1” dispenses the patented INFECTED RAIN formula instantly, with eerie synth-laden soundscapes seamlessly cascading into countless layers of otherworldly atmosphere backed by thick, grooving riffs, barreling drums and skyscraper growls. Tracks like “Fighter” bring out the ruthlessness of the band in full force with hardcore levels of aggression, inciting a tornado of rhythms and provoking lyricism beckoning the listener to stay focused in the here-and-now and fight! Featuring tough-as-nails Butcher Babies vocalist Heidi Shepherd, sonically slaughtering single “The Realm Of Chaos” pummels and bends as it decimates with a mosh-attack unlike any other on Ecdysis. Noteworthy standouts like “Longing” and “These Walls” ransack with instant angst, while selections such as “Everlasting Lethargy”, “November” and “Never The Same” boast some of Lena Scissorhands’ most eclectic vocal performances amid ripping pit-worthy metalcore and dazzling electronic passages. Examples of stunning, dynamic songwriting manifest with honest offerings like the impressive “Goodbye”, haunting “Showers” and threatening album closer “Postmortem Pt. 2” (shortly advanced by sneaking electro-interlude “Nine, Ten”). The finisher encapsulates the album’s ethereal, immense quality while connecting back to its start like a sonic ouroboros. Produced once again by Voluta Valentin, Ecdysis successfully demonstrates ultramodern brutality without sacrificing emotion and melody – showcasing a new layer of INFECTED RAIN that longtime followers and new fans alike will embrace.

Order Ecdysis HERE:

Ecdysis is available in the following formats:

-CD Digipak

-1 LP Gatefold Black

-CD Digipak + Shirt (Napalm RoW Mailorder only)

-Digital Album

INFECTED RAIN is:

Lena Scissorhands - Vocals

Vadim Ojog "Vidick" - Guitar

Sergey Babici - Guitar

Vladimir Babici - Bass

Eugene Voluta – Drums

ETERNAL FREQUENCY Release Cinematic, Sci-Fi Official Music Video for “Step Up”!

Harrisburg, PA based Heavy Rock band ETERNAL FREQUENCY has released a dark, cinematic, sci-fi imbued official music video for their newest single, "Step Up." Produced by Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland of Atrium Audio, the music video for "Step Up" was directed and edited by Tom Flynn.

"’Step Up’ is our hardest hitting, heaviest material to date and sure to be a game changer. The song screams female empowerment and refusing to be pigeonholed in the industry. The video concept was created from the minds of Emelle (Lead Vox) and Justin (Lead Guitar) and inspired by Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal, Blade Runner, and CyberPunk. Emelle and the other members of Eternal Frequency are prisoners of conscience on the run from a yet unknown organization trying to pick them off one by one. The reasons on why they are wanted fugitives is a mystery until the story begins to unfold throughout the video. ‘Step Up’ is Chapter 1 of a fictional three part series that the band envisioned as a short film while the songs were being written. Emelle and the band must find out who is hunting them and why. Or maybe...just maybe...are the hunted actually the hunters?” - ETERNAL FREQUENCY

Established in the early spring of 2018, Eternal Frequency is a five piece female fronted all original hard rock band hailing from Central Pennsylvania (alongside hometown heroes Poison, From Ashes to New, Fuel, LIVE, August Burns Red). They follow in the footsteps of acts such as Spriritbox, Halestorm, Evanescence, and others. Blending influences of Metalcore, Hard rock, and Active Rock, Eternal Frequency brings a new energy that is also dominated by vocalist, songwriter, and frontwoman Emelle. In just under three years as a band they have released several studio singles as well as music videos including "Temptations", "Parasite", "What Are We Waiting For", "Head Like A Hole", and their very popular cover of Queen "The Show Must Go On" (all proceeds going to NIVA - National Independent Venue Association) to the masses and have been reaping nothing but positive energy and reviews from their supporters. They have accrued a massively strong following in the Pennsylvania area and have garnered attention in multiple regional markets.

They currently record with multi Grammy nominated producers Grant McFarland and Carson Slovak of Atrium Audio atriumaudio.com (From Ashes to New, August Burns Red, Erra, LIVE, Galactic Empire, Polaris) and established videographers SquareUp Studios (Lorna Shore, ATTILA) and Tom Flynn (All That Remains, Lamb of God, 10 Years, Fire From The Gods, Metal Allegiance)

As far as accomplishments go, they've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with established artists such as Of Mice & Men, Adelitas Way, FUEL, Smile Empty Soul, Vixen, and Sponge, For the Fallen Dreams, Awake At Last, Eyes Set to Kill (to name a few). They also took home the award for Best New Artist at the 2019 Central Pennsylvania Music Awards and had the pleasure to honor Halestorm (Inductees) with their rendition of "Familiar Taste of Poison" at the 2020 CPMA's. In addition, EF was nominated for Best Hard Rock Band and Song of the Year.

JACK FROST’S BROTHERS IN ARMS RELEASE LATEST SINGLE AND VIDEO FOR “MAKE YOU MINE”, FEATURING KEITH ST JOHN

JACK FROST’S BROTHERS IN ARMS RELEASE LATEST SINGLE AND VIDEO FOR “MAKE YOU MINE”, FEATURING KEITH ST JOHN (MONTROSE, KINGDOME COME, BURNING RAIN) ON VOCALS. THE DEBUT ALBUM ‘SUNSET AND CLARK’ WAS RELEASED LAST YEAR THROUGH DEKO ENTERTAINMENT.

Brothers In Arms is the brainchild of guitarist/composer Jack Frost (Savatage, Seven Witches, Lizzy Borden, etc…), who along with several recruited iconic rock brothers, has made it his mission to prove rock music will never die. The guys unified to take a stand against the doubters and cynics who have claimed that it's simply not possible to resurrect this celebrated music in which so many lasting and fond memories were built around. Banding together, Jack & the Brothers forged ahead with one main goal: To make quality music that would both represent and immortalize the days of the sold-out legendary rock venues, to show the world that rock is not just a thing of the past.

The Brothers are back with their latest single and video for the track “Make You Mine”. The song was written by Keith St John and Angel keyboardist Charlie Calv, and also features a guest solo by Dave Amato of REO Speedwagon, Keith had this to say about it “Twas a thrill having playboy playmate Katie play the long lost homebound flame in the new Brothers in Arms video for "Make You Mine! At a time when COVID restrictions were at an all time high I think we got lucky and hopefully portrayed the essence of "spouse on the rock n roll road" while happenstance gave us accidental guest stars like Andrew Freeman, Britt Lightning, and many others! The biggest challenge was having only myself on set and Katie for just an hour while shooting on location and trying to keep it feeling fresh! Charlie Calv's keyboard riff performance as well as Dave Amato’s blazing axe were both shot remotely to helping build the stage for this iconic beauty! Pat Benatar’s bassist Mic Mahan 100% slays as the fortress for us all...and I hail Jack Frost for masterminding this song, this record, and including me as part of an amazing new refreshing collection of real deal killer rock music that digs way down!” Charlie continues, “Jack had asked me to contribute some songs to the album and I just happened to have this musical idea I was working on so I sent over a demo of it and was really thrilled with the way it came out, the guys did a great job and Keith really just nailed the vibe and wrote some great melodies and lyrics to it”.

View video below.
Brothers In Arms also features Karl Wilcox (Diamond Head), Alex Jansen (Hardline), Andrew Freeman (Last In Line, Lynch Mob), Paul Shortino (Rough Cutt, Quiet Riot), Steve Overland (FM, Overland), Nick Walsh (Moxy, Slik Toxik), Jesse Damon (Silent Rage), Todd Poole (Roxy Blue, Saliva), plus special guest Mick Mahan (Pat Benatar).
You can order the album now and there are still a few limited edition bundles available, which can be ordered via: https://bit.ly/3jDgH36

UK/European orders: https://bit.ly/3iwNaZ2

Product Includes:

• (1) Brothers In Arms - "Sunset and Clark" CD

• (1) Brothers In Arms - Rock Is Not Dead T-Shirt

• (1) Brothers In Arms - Sticker

• FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT:
  
  https://www.dekoentertainment.com/brothers-in-arms
  
  www.dekoentertainment.com

BATTLE BEAST RELEASE MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE "WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO FLY"

BATTLE BEAST RELEASE MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE "WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO FLY" AS TRIBUTE TO THE BUILDERS OF A BETTER WORLD!

NEW ALBUM, "CIRCUS OF DOOM," OUT JAN 21ST; PRE-ORDER NOW!

After re-signing to Nuclear Blast in early 2021, the Finnish heavy metal sextet BATTLE BEAST are once again getting ready to unleash their force upon the world in the shape of their brand new masterpiece "Circus of Doom." The album is set to be released on January 21st 2022 via Nuclear Blast and in true BATTLE BEAST fashion, the 10 tracks blend true heavy metal with pop and rock-vibes, paired with Noora Louhimo’s unique voice.

Today, the band release their inspiring and powerful third single "Where Angels Fear to Fly," that also comes with a music video.

Watch the clip below.
Get the single digitally, here: https://battlebeast.bfan.link/where-angels-fear-to-fly

Janne Björkroth comments: "'Where Angels Fear to Fly' was born of gratitude to those who have had the courage to change the world. With the song we want to show our respect for those who have been cracking unequal structures for generations. It was inspired by our grandparents and other brave pioneers who have worked hard for a more equal society.

'Where Angels Fear to Fly' is dedicated to everyone who has encountered discrimination, unfair obstacles, or prejudices in their lives. It is written as an empowerment song for those who have to struggle to be heard and to gain the appreciation that every single one of us deserves."

"Circus of Doom" was recorded at JKB Studios in Helsinki, Finland and produced and mixed by keyboardist Janne Björkroth, while the stunning artwork was created by Jan Yrlund.

Pre-order "Circus of Doom" in the format of you choice here: https://bfan.link/circusofdoom

Recently, BATTLE BEAST also announced their Circus of Doom North American Tour with DRAGONFORCE that will begin March 20th in Denver, CO through April 23rd in Berkeley, CA. Tickets are on sale now at https://battlebeast.fi/tour.

Commenting on the tour, vocal powerhouse Noora Louhimo states:

”Battle Beast is coming to you sounding and looking better than ever before! We are very excited to unite our forces with Dragonforce for a North America tour. I think this will be an epic combination of heavy metal energy and our fans will be getting 300% of explosive entertainment with our new album ”Circus of Doom” let loose on stage. Get ready to be mesmerized with high screams, new horns and new Battle Beast.”

BATTLE BEAST "CIRCUS OF DOOM NORTH AMERICAN TOUR" DATES:
Mar 20 - Denver, CO - Oriental Theater
Mar 22 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theater
Mar 23 - St. Louis, MO - Red Flag
Mar 24 - Milwaukee, WI - Rave II
Mar 25 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
Mar 26 - Chicago, IL - Metro
Mar 27 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall
Mar 29 - Ft. Wayne, IN - Piere's
Mar 30 - Toronto,ON - Opera House
Mar 31 - Montreal, QC - Corona Theatre
Apr 1 - Quebec City, QC - Imperial Bell
Apr 2 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
Apr 3 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
Apr 5 - Reading, PA - Reverb
Apr 6 - Cleveland, OH - Agora Theater
Apr 7 - Baltimore, MD - Sounstage
Apr 8 - Pittsburgh, PA - Roxian Theater
Apr 9 - Greensboro, NC - Arizona Petes
Apr 10 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
Apr 12 - Tampa, FL - Orpheum
Apr 13 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
Apr 15 - Dallas, TX - Amplified Live
Apr 16 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
Apr 17 - Austin, TX - Come and Take It Live
Apr 19 - Mesa, AZ - Nile Theater
Apr 20 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
Apr 22 - Los Angeles, CA - Belasco Theater
Apr 23 - Berkeley, CA - UC Theater

Since their 2011's debut album "Steel," BATTLE BEAST have achieved over 200 million digital streams. Alongside the huge #1 success of their last three albums in the album charts of their home country, Finland, their last album "No More Hollywood Endings" (2019) reached a remarkable #11 in German album charts.

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Order their previous album "No More Hollywood Endings" now: http://nblast.de/BattleBeastNMHE

More on "No More Hollywood Endings":
'The Golden Horde' OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndSXNhF9g7E
'Endless Summer' OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dud63tz5JPU
'Eden' OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hzssKb9940
'No More Hollywood Endings' OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZzhUPe-Bck

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BATTLE BEAST is:
Noora Louhimo | vocals
Eero Sipilä | bass
Joona Björkroth | guitars
Juuso Soinio | guitars
Janne Björkroth | keyboards
Pyry Vikki | drums

Bad Omens Drops New Music Video For "ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE" From Upcoming Album 'The Death Of Peace Of Mind' Out February 2

Taken From Their Upcoming Album

'THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND'

Out Friday, February 25 via Sumerian Records

Pre-Order Here

Los Angeles-based rock sensation Bad Omens have unleashed the official music video for their crushing track "ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE". The song is taken from the band's upcoming new album, 'THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND', out on Friday, February 25, 2022, via Sumerian Records. Prior to today's release, Bad Omens have shared the music video for album title track "THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND" which has totaled a staggering 1.2 million views and countingon YouTube as well as the "What do you want from me?" and "ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE" double single. Watch the music video for "ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE" below and pre-order 'THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND' here.

Bad Omens slither through boundaries, only to ultimately choke convention in the process. The quartet—Noah Sebastian (vocals), Joakim “Jolly” Karlsson (guitar), Nick Ruffilo (bass), and Nick Folio (drums)—materialize with ghostly atmospherics, striking hooks, and the tingles of sensual high-register harmonies uplifted by cinematic production. Racking up over 250M worldwide streams to date and earning acclaim, the band presents an uncompromising and undeniable vision on their third full-length album, 'THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND' (Sumerian Records).

“Making the record changed us as songwriters and musicians. In many ways, I feel like it set me free as an artist because every decision made in the writing process was for myself, with no fear for anyone else’s expectations of what our third album should sound like. Be it our fans or our record label.”

They’ve always wielded this level of magic though…

The group’s 2016 self-titled debut, 'Bad Omens', yielded fan favorites such as “Glass Houses” and “The Worst In Me” which eclipsed 21.9 million Spotify streams. On its heels, 2019’s 'Finding God Before God Finds Me' spawned “Dethrone” (10.6 million Spotify streams) and “Careful What You Wish For” (9.5 million Spotify streams). Along the way, they toured with numerous marquee acts and received tastemaker praise.

After their first headline tour was canceled mid-way at the top of the global pandemic, the band found themselves at home in Los Angeles with plenty of time. Where they absorbed and imparted a different palette of unexpected inspirations. Channeling what the frontman describes at times as a “cursive sound” they embraced newfound confidence and boundlessly loose creativity. Anything went in the studio, and all “rules” were broken. Noah and Jolly wrote, produced, and engineered the music themselves while GRAMMY® Award-nominated producer and songwriter Zakk Cervini (Halsey, Grimes, Poppy, blink-182) lent his talents with the mix and master. Challenging himself, Noah decided to “make a track sampling items around the house, none of which were musical instruments”.

This ultimately became the framework for the first single “THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND”. Claps puncture the icy soundscape as his voice stretches from a breathy moan into an evocative and entrancing hook, breaking from a whisper into the seductive chant, “It wasn’t hard to realize. Love’s the death of peace of mind.” It culminates on a climactic scream uplifted by a distorted crunch.

“The whole record really details the loss of peace of mind,” he explains. “The lyrics in the title track are a little more specific in terms of the conflict at the heart of something more intimate and personal.”

By speaking it aloud, Bad Omens offer a level of comfort and empathy, with a sinister shroud. At the same time, they also give rock music a sexy new shape on 'THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND'.

“Sonically, we want to do something you can’t arrive late or early too,” he leaves off. “You can’t cheat your way to the final act. You have to get on the ride and process it until the end. The songs are meant to be heard from start to finish. We want you to take the whole trip with us.”

Find Bad Omens Online

badomensofficial.com

AMARANTHE – Start The Party With "PvP (Remix)"

Seven days into the new year, the party isn't over yet: Today, the Swedish metal heroes AMARANTHE release a remix of their new single "PvP" - a catchy, energetic piece built to break the dancefloors all over the world!

Check out this fresh anthem for the club season 2022 here: https://amaranthe.bfan.link/pvp-remix

Olof Mörck comments: "Let's start this year with a bang! If you're still horizontal from the holiday's indulgences, here's what we ordinate to get you picked up in style: a danceable yet crushing remix of 'PvP', that works as well with your gaming session as it does in the club! Remixed by Elias Holmlid, who has previously lent his talents to 'Amaranthine' and 'Crystalline', this interpretation will hit harder than any new year fireworks!"

"PvP" was the official anthem for the Swedish team at the international e-sports world championship. The video was directed by Poland's Grupa13, who previously worked with the band on 'Archangel' or 'Boom!'.

Check out the official video for "PvP" below.
Stream or download the song: https://amaranthe.bfan.link/pvp

AMARANTHE have spent the last decade establishing themselves as a formidable, positive, and fervently melodic force for metallic good. From their explosive self-titled debut in 2011 to the more sophisticated, streamlined likes of 2014’s "Massive Addictive" and its immaculate follow-up "Maximalism" (2016), AMARANTHE has masterfully blurred the lines between melodic metal, crushing brutality, cinematic sweep, and futuristic sparkle. Led by the endlessly ingenious songwriting of guitarist Olof Mörck and powerhouse vocalist Elize Ryd, their rise to prominence has been a joy to behold.

Widely acclaimed as a dazzling live act, the Swedes reached a new peak of creativity on 2018’s hugely successful "Helix": an album that pushed the band’s vision to new heights, breadths, and depths, while showcasing the brilliance of Elize and her co-vocalists, Henrik Englund Wilhelmsson and recent recruit Nils Molin.

Not just a glorious return but a wholesale upgrade for their exuberant sound, "Manifest" is simply the most daring, dynamic, and unforgettable album that AMARANTHE has released to date. The perfect antidote to the nagging anxieties plaguing us all in these troubled times, it’s a Technicolor celebration of metal’s ageless power, blazing with all of life’s colors and chaos, but delivered with utmost artistry and skill.

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AMARANTHE is:
Elize Ryd | vocals
Olof Mörck | guitars, keyboards
Henrik "GG6" Englund Wilhelmsson | vocals
Johan Andreassen | bass
Morten Løwe Sørensen | drums
Nils Molin | vocals

Order "Manifest" here: http://nblast.de/Amaranthe-Manifest

DIAMANTE Releases New Single "Difícil De Amar", Spanish Version Of "Unlovable"

Undeniable rock chanteuse DIAMANTE has today dropped her latest single "Difícil De Amar" (out via Anti-Heroine). The track is the Spanish version of her heartbreaking single "Unlovable" which has already clocked up a staggering 763,000 views and counting on YouTube. Speaking on today's release, DIAMANTE shares:

"'Difícil De Amar' is the Spanish version of my latest single "Unlovable". Not only was this version the most requested version I have ever received for a song, but it was also important for me to do this because I am proud of my Mexican heritage, and I wanted to give this gift to all my Latin American fans!"

Fans also have their chance to see DIAMANTE hit the stage on her headlining American Dream Tour across the US starting on Monday, January 31, in San Diego, CA, as well as on The Revolution's Live Tour with Shinedown and The Pretty Reckless later this spring. Watch the visual stream for "Difícil De Amar" here or at the link below, click here for American Dream Tourtickets, and click here for more info on The Revolution's Live Tour.

American Dream Tour Dates

January 31 - San Diego, CA - Casbah

February 1 - Las Vegas, NV - The Space

February 2 - Tucson, AZ - 191 Toole

February 3 - Phoenix, AZ - The Rebel Lounge

February 4 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad

February 7 - Colorado Springs, CO - Black Sheep

February 8 - Denver, CO - Marquis Theater

February 10 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court

February 12 - Seattle, WA - Clock-Out Lounge

February 13 - East Portland, OR - Mano Oculta

February 15 - Sacramento, CA - The Starlet Room

February 16 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel

February 17 - West Hollywood, CA - The Viper Room

February 18 - Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction

Welcome To Rockville Festival

May 20 - Daytona Beach, FL - Daytona International Speedway

The Revolution's Live Tour Dates

April 1 - Spokane, WA - Spokane Arena

April 2 - Boise, ID - Extramile Arena

April 4 - Billings, MT - First Interstate Arena

April 6 - Fargo, ND - Fargodome

April 8 - Green Bay, WI - Resch Center

April 9 - Peoria, IL - Peoria Civic Center

April 11 - Sioux Falls, SD - Denny Sanford Premier Center

April 12 - Des Moines, IA - Wells Fargo Arena

April 14 - Toledo, OH - Huntington Center

April 15 - Hershey, PA - Giant Center

April 16 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun

April 18 - Portland, ME - Cross Insurance Arena

April 20 - Baltimore, MD - Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena

April 22 - Charleston, WV - Charleston Coliseum

April 23 - Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center

April 24 - Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena

April 26 - Evansville, IN - Ford Center

April 28 - Wichita, KS - Intrust Bank Arena

April 29 - Little Rock, AR - Simmons Banks Arena

April 30 - Birmingham, AL - Legacy Arena

May 3 - Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum

May 4 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena

May 6 - Greenville, SC - Bon Secours Wellness Arena

May 7 - Knoxville, TN - Thompson-Boling Arena

With a show-stopping voice, runway-ready fashion swagger, and an empowering message, the Boston-raised and Los Angeles-based Mexican-Italian-American siren brings new fire to rock and alternative music.

Diamante spent her teenage years cutting her teeth at local gigs on the Sunset Strip to become the powerhouse performer she is today. A disciple of both P!nk and Guns N’ Roses who doesn’t fall into rockstar excess or even sport tattoos, she devoted every waking minute to honing a signature “hard rock sound with a modern alternative edge.” This unique and undeniable approach caught the attention of Better Noise Music who signed her in 2015. She hit the studio with super producer Howard Benson [My Chemical Romance, Halestorm, Kelly Clarkson] to record what would become her full-length debut, 'Coming In Hot'.

Now three years later, and after extensive touring with bands like Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Chevelle, and Shinedown… Diamante is in full force shining brighter than ever before. In 2019, Diamante reunited with Howard Benson along with Neil Sanderson of Judge & Jury as an independent artist to make her sophomore album, 'American Dream'. Diamante capitalized on her newfound ultimate creative freedom and independence by being her own CEO throughout every facet of the album process. On working with Benson and Sanderson, Diamante praises that they were instrumental in “bringing my stories to life and pushing me to embrace my vulnerabilities”. With her most recent music video for "Unlovable", she has also previously shared smash hits such as fan-favorites "Ghost Myself", "Serves You Right", the beautiful reimagination of Goo Goo Dolls classic "Iris" (featuring Breaking Benjamin), and "I Love Myself For Hating You".

'American Dream' shows exponential growth from 'Coming In Hot' sonically and in its raw authenticity, proving now more than ever that Diamante’s fearlessness to bare her soul in her music is what truly sets her apart.

Find DIAMANTE Online

thisisdiamante.com

XTC's Colin Moulding releases 'The Hardest Battle' CD via Burning Shed.

Music legend and XTC co-frontman Colin Moulding is back with new music, this time as a solo artist, presenting his new single 'The Hardest Battle', released as a CD single in 4-panel digisleeve via Burning Shed.

Containing two songs - 'The Hardest Battle', 'Say It (original version)', and an exploratory demo of the title track, The Hardest Battle represents XTC founding member Colin Moulding's first-ever fully solo release.

In celebration of this release, Colin Moulding also presents the video for the title track, directed and filmed by Henry Meredith at St Mary’s Uffington (interior) and Salisbury Cathedral (exterior). Featuring Tomas Silberberg as George IV, the costume was provided courtesy of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

This mini-EP offers a tantalizing glimpse into the creative process of one of the UK's finest songwriters, showcasing Colin’s English pop vision with XTC's trademark qualities of melody, rhythm, variety, and idiosyncratic subject matter, mixed in with nostalgia and a degree of pensiveness.

Following two releases with original XTC drummer Terry Chambers under the TC&Imoniker - the 'Great Aspirations' EP and the album 'Naked Flames: Live at Swindon Arts Centre', 'The Hardest Battle' is the first new material from Moulding in many years.

“To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight”... I saw these lines in a book I picked up in a secondhand bookshop and thought…maybe there’s a song there …I think it’s by the poet EE Cummins," says Colin Moulding.

"And there it was. All I had to do was come up with some music to marry to this notion. I do think most people aren’t themselves really, or become themselves eventually. And that struggle isn’t easy. I recorded this pretty much in isolation as most people have been this past year or so. One crazy year for all of us. Perhaps ‘The Hardest Battle’ we humans have faced externally, as well as the one we fight internally everyday,"

Founded in 1972, XTC only had their first UK charting single in 1979. Moulding wrote the first three charting singles ('Life Begins at the Hop', 'Making Plans for Nigel' and 'Generals and Majors'). Moulding continued with frontman Andy Partridge through the group's dissolution in 2006. In 1984, they also, along with XTC bandmate Dave Gregory and Ian Gregory, formed The Dukes of Stratosphear, anticipating and celebrated by retro-minded movements such as the Paisley Underground.

"About 'Say It', I just felt this track deserved a better fate than it got really. I wrote it for the XTC album that never was . But it ended up on a promo disk amongst XTC’s ‘Last Days of Rome’ This version feels much more akin to my original song mindset compared to the expedient I agreed to at the time," says Colin Moulding.

Regarding 'The Hardest Battle (First Exploratory Demo)', Moulding adds, "I think demos are much more of a demonstration to ones self than for other people. You have to find out what works and what doesn’t. Therefore, you shoot from the hip and just fire it out, and see what sticks. Larkin always said that he didn’t know what his poems were about initially until he got some way into them ;- that’s what this is;- I’m just ‘Larkin' around until it presents itself. Then the crossword puzzle can begin."

Released on July 2, 'The Hardest Battle' is available on CD single exclusively via Burning Shed at https://burningshed.com/store/ colin-moulding_store/colin- moulding_the-hardest-battle_cd

CREDITS
Produced by Colin Moulding and Stuart Rowe
Mixed by Stuart Rowe
All instrumentation by Colin Moulding except on ‘Say It’, where Jon Buckett plays piano
All songs written by Colin Moulding
Mastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering
Manufactured by Noisebox Digital
Media Artwork by Andrew Swainson from a concept by Colin Moulding
Recorded within the Sound of Christ Church Bells
Released by Burning Shed. Cat No: CMCD001

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