I’m actually amazed that the Insane Clown Posse is still releasing new material and touring! Check out 4 new streams from the bands new album Bang! Pow! Boom!:
“To Catch A Predator” audio stream
“Juggalo Island” audio stream
“Zombieslide” audio stream
“Love” audio stream
Insane Clown Posse have just released four new streams from their latest album Bang! Pow! Boom! which is in-stores now. The album, which is a return to the bands “Dark Carnival” concept, made a splash on the Billboard Top 200 chart, debuting at Number 4 by selling 50,000 copies in its first week. The tracks “To Catch A Predator”, “Juggalo Island”, “Zombieslide”, and “Love” are all featured on Bang! Pow! Boom! and are now streaming.
The band is currently on the road through The Fall.
Tour Dates:
10/10/09 @ The Firestone, Orlando, FL
10/11/09 @The Shoreline Ballroom, Hilton Head, SC
10/13/09 @ Amos’ South End, Charlotte, NC
10/15/09 @ Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA
10/16/09 @ The Norva, Norfolk, VA
10/17/09 @ Webster Theater, Hartford, CT
10/18/09 @ The Palladium, Worcester, MA
10/20/09 @ Main Street Armory, Rochester, NY
10/22/09 @ The Agora, Cleveland, OH
10/23/09 @ Expo Five, Louisville, KY
10/24/09 @ Eagles Club/The Rave, Milwaukee, WI
10/25/09 @ River Center, Davenport, IA
10/27/09 @ Congress Theatre, Chicago, IL
10/29/09 @ The LC Indoor Pavilion, Colombus, OH
10/30/09 @ Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
10/31/09 @ The Fillmore Detroit, Detroit, MI
11/07/09 @ Cotillion Ballroom, Wickita, KS
11/08/09 @ Aggie Theater, Fort Collins, CO
11/9/09 @ El Rey Events Center, Blackfoot, ID
11/11/09 @ New Oasis, Reno, NV
11/13/09 @ The Warfield, San Francisco, CA
11/14/09 @ 4th and B, San Diego, CA
11/15/09 @ Rialto Theater, Tucson, AZ
11/17/09 @ White Rabbit, San Antonio, TX
11/18/09 @ Concrete Street Amp, Corpus Christi, TX
11/20/09 @ Soul Kitchen, Mobile, AL
11/21/09 @ The New Daisy Theatre, Memphis, TN
11/22/09 @ Village Theater, Little Rock, AR
11/23/09 @ Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City, OK
11/24/09 @ Val Air Ballroom, West Des Moines, IA
11/25/09 @ Mayo Civic Center, Rochester, MN
11/27/09 @ Orbit Room, Grand Rapids, MI
11/28/09 @ Pops, Sauget, IL
11/29/09 @ Bogarts, Cincinnati, OH
12/01/09 @ Masquerade, Atlanta, GA
12/2/09 @ Hooligans, Jacksonville, NC
12/03/09 @ The National, Richmond, VA
12/4/09 @ Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ
12/5/09 @ Crocodile Rock Caf , Allentown, PA
12/6/09 @ Sonar, Baltimore, MD
12/08/09 @ Northern Lights, Clifton Park, NY
12/09/09 @ Club Zoo, Pittsburgh, PA
12/11/09 @ East Peoria Event Center, East Peoria, IL
Multi-platinum Grammy-nominated rock sensation Papa Roach has been scorching stages across the globe in support of their new release and fifth studio album Metamorphosis, which debuted at #8 on the Billboard Album Chart. Rolling Stone calls the album “hard-riffing and accessible” and Billboard lauds it as “polished and wide-ranging.” The band, which is Jacoby Shaddix (vocals), Tobin Esperance (bass), Jerry Horton (guitar) and Tony Palermo (drums), is fresh off a European run of sold out headlining and festival dates and will kick off their tour with fellow powerhouse Nickelback on July 10th at Darien Lake, NY.
In celebration of their 10 years of success, fans are treated to a decade of hit songs such as Top Ten multi-format smashes like “Last Resort,” “Forever,” “Getting Away With Murder,” “Scars” and “To Be Loved” during the electrifying live shows. Hit Parader raves, “Papa Roach’s live energy is like a pack of wild horses — unbridled and uncontainable.”
Shaddix explains, “Playing shows every night is what we’re built for. We make a club feel like an arena and we make an arena feel like a club. We’re going to tour our guts out and bring our music to fans all over the world.”
In addition to packing arenas, Papa Roach set the airwaves ablaze with Metamorphosis’ first single, the #1 Rock radio track, “Lifeline,” with second single “I Almost Told You That I Loved You” - which People Magazine called a “raunchy highlight” - fast on its heels climbing the charts.
The video for “Lifeline” shot by director Chris Sims (Queens of the Stone Age, Jimmy Eat World) was the #1 most played on Fuse and the #1 rock video on MTV2. The clip underscores the dire state of the global economy, which the band saw coming back in February 2008 when they were writing the album.
“While we were writing Metamorphosis, the band was very aware of the grave issue of our economy’s downward spiral,” says Shaddix. “It was literally right in front of us in my hometown of Sacramento with houses foreclosing and families left out in the cold, which inspired me to write the lyrics to ‘Lifeline.’ Other tracks on the album such as ‘Change or Die,’ ‘Had Enough’ and ‘March Out Of The Darkness’ also tap into the struggles so many people are facing in these difficult economic times.”
Papa Roach has been very active in support of Sacramento-based charity Loaves And Fishes, which helps the city’s homeless get food and shelter. Shaddix explains, “Sacramento has given so much to me and my band over the years, and the time is now to take care of each other.”
Papa Roach on Tour:
7/10 Darien Lake, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
7/11 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
7/14 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
7/15 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
7/17 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium
7/18 Pittsburgh, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
7/19 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance
7/21 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
7/22 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/24 Boston, MA Comcast Center
7/25 Hartford, CT Meadows Music Theater
7/26 Oxford, ME Oxford Fairgrounds
7/28 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
7/29 Bristow, VA Nissan Pavilion
7/31 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
8/1 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
8/2 North Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues
8/8 Syracuse, NY New York State Fair
8/9 Toronto, ON Molson Amphitheatre
8/11 Clarkson, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
8/12 Clarkson, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
8/14 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
8/15 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
8/17 Birmingham, AL Verizon Wireless Music Center
8/19 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
8/21 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
8/22 Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis
8/23 LaCrosse, WI LaCrosse Center
8/25 Englewood, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
8/26 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
8/28 Ridgefield, WA Amphitheater at Clark County
8/29 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre
8/31 Marysville, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
9/1 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View
9/3 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
9/5 San Diego, CA Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
9/6 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
9/8 Glendale, AZ Jobing.com Arena
9/9 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
9/11 Corpus Christi, TX The Pavillion @ Concrete Street
9/12 Spring, TX Cynthia W. Mitchell Pavillion
Insane Clown Posse, the Detroit duo of Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, are readying their tenth full-length release Bang! Pow! Boom! Already multiple times platinum with albums The Great Milenko and The Amazing Jeckel Brothers now the underground duo is back and poised to strike again. The group’s dark visions and Barnum minds have spawned a carnival of music and mayhem often scorned by mainstream media, but embraced by an entire sub-culture of like minded-individuals.
Whether a long time fan or new to the ride, go “Behind The Hatchet” with a short video look at one of the most successful underground bands in the world. And, for a taste of Bang! Pow! Boom!, which hits stores September 1, check out the freshly unveiled audio album sampler.
U.K. juggernauts ENTER SHIKARI–known for an eclectic sound that audaciously melds hardcore punk with pulse-pumping drum’n'bass and dark, gut-churning dubstep– have just released their new album COMMON DREADS. The album is available for purchase through iTunes and Amazon as well as the band’s own store: http://gomerch.com/entershikari; limited edition bundles with the physical CD will be available at the above link.
For the new album, the group headed to the isolated Isle Of Wight and holed-up at Arreton Manor studio for three months with veteran producer Andy Gray (U2, Tori Amos, Korn, Gary Numan). COMMON DREADS is a 15-song soundtrack for an entire generation on a mission to define the era in which it was born: one of recession, paranoia, state control and the fallout of decades of accelerated capitalism; and on the other side, an era of hope, creativity, humanity, hedonism, irreverence and fun. “Politics are unavoidable,” explains lead vocalist ROU REYNOLDS. “We just can’t write sappy music. Our first album was cryptic and metaphor-heavy, this one is more direct. Since we gained popularity, we realized, whether we like it or not, we have the ability to influence people–and with that is a responsibility to speak our minds.” COMMON DREADS is destined to unite the tribes, divide the critics and thoroughly satisfy anyone who has witnessed the mad live spectacle that is ENTER SHIKARI.
Check out the video for “Juggernauts”:
Enter Shikari headlining U.S. tour:
7/2 New York, NY Blender Theatre at Gramercy
7/3 Poughkeepsie, NY The Loft
7/5 Providence, RI Club Hell
7/6 Albany, NY Valentines
7/7 S. Hackensack, NJ School of Rock
7/8 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock
Enter Shikari headlining U.S. tour with August Burns Red, Bless The Fall, I Wrestled A Bear Once:
7/10 Towson, MD Recher Theatre
7/11 Philadelphia, PA Starlight Ballroom
7/12 Buffalo, NY The Town Ballroom
7/13 Akron, OH Musica
7/14 Detroit, MI Magic Stick
7/15 Chicago, IL House of Blues
7/16 Madison, WI The Loft
7/18 Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium
7/21 San Francisco, CA Slim’s
7/22 Los Angeles, CA Key Club
7/23 San Diego, CA Soma
7/24 Pomona, CA The Glass House
7/25 Pomona, CA The Glass House
7/26 Scottsdale, AZ Venue of Scottsdale
7/27 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater
7/29 Dallas, TX The Max
Sister-site WatchMojo.com got the chance to interview Slipknot:
Formed in 1995, Slipknot is a Grammy-winning nine-piece heavy metal band. Since their inception, the band has gone through numerous line-up changes, been nominated for seven Grammy awards (winning once), released three DVDs and four studio albums. One of the group’s two custom percussionists is Shawn Crahan. Otherwise known as “Clown,” Crahan is one of the band’s founding members, and is also a huge part of the band’s imaging – from editing their DVDs to Slipknot’s (in)famous masks. In this video, we had the chance to speaks to Clown about their music.
Head over to www.CrackTheSkye.com and get ready to have your mind blown! The new MASTODON micro site has just launched and features animation inspired by their upcoming album Crack the Skye. Like their previous releases, the new artwork was created by Paul Romano (Trivium, Godflesh). The site also features the world premiere of the sweeping instrumental, “Oblivion” plus a 60 second snippet of the track “Divinations.”
The new album was produced by Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Stone Temple Pilots, Neil Young) at Southern Tracks Studios in Atlanta, GA. Drummer/lyricist Brann Dailor described the album as more “focused” and told TheQuietus.com, “Maybe there was a deeper heart to this record that needed more exploring. We got more involved with feeling the vibe of the record and everything feels creepier and spaced out…something special is going on.”
Crack the Skye hits stores on March 24th.
Heavy rock iconoclasts MASTODON will release their new album, Crack the Skye on March 24, 2009. However, hardcore fans will have the opportunity to pre-order a very special Deluxe Limited “Tunnel Book” Edition of Crack the Skye online only via the band’s website: www.mastodonrocks.com.
This super-deluxe version of Crack the Skye will come housed in a hard box case featuring a third dimension worm hole design that will contain exclusive and additional album art by long-time Mastodon artist, Paul Romano. The special package will include the full-length Crack the Skye album on CD, plus a DVD containing The Making of Crack the Skye with photo gallery, Track by Track band commentary and more by director Jimmy Hubbard.
All pre-orders will also receive a 14” x 14” exclusively designed lithograph unavailable anywhere else. Additionally, those who are first to pre-order will receive the lithograph autographed by the band members themselves. These extraordinary packages will be extremely limited and once they are gone, no further editions will be created so don’t delay. Cost of the Deluxe Limited “Tunnel Book” Edition will be $39.99. This may be the most beautiful and innovative album packaging you’ll see for years to come.
Shortly thereafter, Mastodon will unveil a new online destination designed to bring fans into direct focus on the upcoming new album, Crack the Skye. www.cracktheskye.org will launch the week of Feb 16, and will compliment its existing sibling location of www.mastodonrocks.com.
The new site will be a flash-based, interactive experience threading fans through an extremely visual, user-controlled cyber journey into the inner sanctum of Crack the Skye. Content will be thematically based on the album’s concepts, artwork, images, lyrics, videos, and its unique packaging through engaging visuals and music from Crack the Skye intended to accompany and enhance the experience of listening to the album in its entirety.
As previously announced, Mastodon will tour Europe with Metallica this summer. In addition, they have been invited to perform as part of the Sonisphere Touring Rock Festival this summer in Europe and the UK with Metallica, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Lamb of God and more. Go to http://www.sonispherefestivals.com/ for details, dates, etc.
Here’s your chance to hear the first studio recording from Metallica’s new Death Magnetic album. The song is called “The Day That Never Comes” and its pretty good. Some familiar clean verse guitar lines contrasted with heavy choruses and extended solo sections. At times it sounds like some of their other songs, and its not a new formula, but dammit, its a great formula and its good to hear them ripping again, especially the last 2 minutes of the song. Stream it HERE
Or buy it from iTunes
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2008 is shaping up to be a very successful year for Pop Evil which has steadily built a grassroots following since forming in November of 2001. Leigh Kakaty (lead vocals), Dave Grahs (Guitar), and Dylan Allison formed the early stages of the band in Grand Rapids, Michigan that has recently signed to upstart record Label Pazzo Music and are set to release their brand new single called “Hero“.
More info on the band:
After continually playing shows throughout the Midwest Pop Evil decided to go into the studio with Al Sutton (Kid Rock) to record. In 2005 the band released their first EP entitled “Ready or Not.” Already having sold over 12,000 copies throughout the Mid West the band is finally ready to release their upcoming debut album. Leigh claims that “It is amazing to see the level of support that we now receive in areas other than our home town (Grand Rapids). Everywhere we go fans know the words to our songs. It feels really good to see people relating to and embracing the music that we have created.”
In 2007, the band recruited Muskegon natives Tony Greve (Guitar) and Matt DiRito to help compliment the bands sound and stage show. Soon after the band teamed up with both Al Sutton, Marlon Young (Kid Rock), and Dave Cox to help record and finish their new album.
While the word is getting out due to a tireless touring schedule that sees the band playing well over 100 shows a year, the members know they owe it all to the local people that supported the music from the beginning. In the fall of 2006 their song “Somebody Like You” hit the radio waves and currently has over 1200 total media base spins on the most popular rock station in the area, 97.9 WGRD, and is currently the #1 most requested song in the city of Grand Rapids. Dave Gracia recently indicated, “From the beginning it meant a lot to see our friends embrace what we were doing, but it didn’t really set in just how much our local market stood behind us until I was driving down the road and heard our single (Somebody Like You).
Pop Evil perform new single “Hero” live:
Due to that demand more Pop Evil music is poised to soon start playing on rock radio stations around the country. Their music video for the track ‘Somebody Like You’ was shot by Jason Honeycutt and features Rossi Morreale and Britt Koth of MTV’s show 8th and Ocean. Soon after it was picked up by MTV Latin America, the video was a mainstay in the top 10. MTV has been increasing its support of the band, recently featuring the music on the hit show MADE. More support is sure to come in the near future.
Pop Evil’s self titled studio album produced by Al Sutton who has worked with Kid Rock for 10 years hits stores later this year. With so much momentum heading into 2008, the band is excited about touring throughout Michigan and is looking to booking dates throughout the United States.
Off the up and coming 20/20 EP Manhattan lyricist Fokis aligned himself with his namesake and Aftermath production genius Focus who produced the project in its entirety. With features from a who is who on the West coast, Fokis drops another classic joint on fans and music lovers with Do What It Do. This single from the highly anticipated EP which will be available on various websites and media platforms very soon sees Fokis call on Mistah F.A.B and Young Dre to accompany him on this Summer hit.
Fokis will also be performing at the AZ Mixtape Release Party this coming Thursday at the Knitting Factory in NYC.
Check out the new track here:
DO WHAT IT DO feat Mistah Fab and Young Dre Produced by Focus
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