Category: news
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Gumshen :: What You Make It
artist: Gumshen genre: alternative, indie-pop, rock label: unsigned listen now: Not Every One Of Us I Know You Girl I first heard of Gumshen while working with “another network,” as they say, and was so impressed that I felt compelled to include select tracks from their previous album, Super Buffet, as part of our global broadcast here…
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A Week With No Music
We can learn a lot about ourselves in the face of tragedy. And forgive me for using this as a platform to disseminate my own personal feelings. Last Wednesday tornadoes ripped through my community. And we were not alone. Dozens and dozens of communities, towns, cities and counties got hit hard. A few hundred dead,…
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Reminder: Vetoes EP Now Available
artist: Vetoes | genre: alternative, indie-rock | label: SpaceRay Music EP: Ritalin/Ritalout [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sonic-turge/id425160671?uo=4″ title=”Vetoes – Ritalin/Ritalout”] A few weeks ago we wrote a review (read it here) about a new EP coming out from Vetoes called Ritalin/Ritalout. In case you forgot, it hit stores yesterday and is now available to download via iTunes. [itunes…
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This Just In: Treading Lemmings Return to the Studio
DC’s Treading Lemmings are off to a fine start here in 2011. Winners of (2) Froglix Music Awards and nominated for (4) Washington Area Music Awards, Quinn and the crew are riding the wave of good fortune right back into the studio to begin work on their next project. It’s a rather fluid situation at…
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This Just In :: Damn Vandals Set Release Date for New Single
artist: Damn Vandals | genre: alternative, rock | label: unsigned The UK’s Damn Vandals are soon to be back in the mix with a new single. “Bayonet” is scheduled to be released next month (April 25th to be exact) but you can check out a preview via the video above. For those of you new…
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Jump Back :: The Week in Review
Patrons of Punk re-embraced a re-post of an article written a few weeks back…before the meltdown…about a band from Phoenix called Moovalya. I felt a bit bad as it was our technical difficulties that caused the article to disappear for a bit. More post-hardcore punk followed on Tuesday with Thurdeen’s review of Sleep City’s debut…
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The Exits Re-Enter
artist: The Exits | genre: electronic, alt-rock | label: Criminal Records Many moons ago, our friends at Criminal Records contacted us about this band from Portsmouth, England that we just had to hear. Had to hear? Well, to be frank, I’ve heard that before and, on more than one occasion, have been duly unimpressed with…
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The Joy Formidable's Spring Tour
Froglix News. The Joy Formidable is hitting the road in the US this Spring.
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Jump Back…The Week in Review
This week kicked off with some cool news about The Kut being considered for the video game Rock Band, pimped a video from Amsterdam’s Go Back to the Zoo for their song “I’m the Night (See You Later)” and followed up with a the latest single from Attention Thieves. “Let It All Out” rocks out loud…
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Reminiscing about Elkland and Discovering The Drums
artist: The Drums | genre: indie pop | label: unsigned | [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-drums/id313290516?uo=4″ title=”The Drums”] I just had a bit of a “where are they now” moment. Back in 2005 I went to see Erasure at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. A band called Elkland opened the show and it turned out to be…