Check out the single - “Losin’ It”
South Florida’s Fallbrooke was originally started by Singer/Guitarist: Eric McNeely & Drummer/Singer: Kevin Schwarz in the summer of 2005. After several EP’s and small shows, they independently produced and distributed their first album (”26 Seconds”) in March 2007. Following the album’s release, the band did small tours up the East Coast of the US throughout the spring and summer. They underwent several band member changes but gained their close friend, Augusto Vega on Bass. Soon after, they were contacted by the founder of RMR Music Group; Paul Palmer (Trauma Records: Bush, No Doubt) who flew the band out immediately to Los Angeles after hearing a few songs. Fallbrooke signed with RMR in Winter 2007. With a year in the making, their upcoming album is currently being wrapped up and is planned to be released early 2009.
Check out the video for “Losin’ It”
and the band online at
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.fallbrooke.com
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus have just released their long-anticipated album, Lonely Road. Produced by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, Incubus), the collection features the single “You Better Pray” which AOL Music just bestowed with their “Video of the Day” honor. The band has also just premiered an alternate version of the video that strictly features the band in full performance. Both the new and original videos were helmed by Iranian director Tony Petrossian who has also worked with Taking Back Sunday, Rise Against, and Serj Tankian among others.
Lonely Road is available now on Virgin Records
The music video for My Chemical Romance’s “Desolation Row” has finally made its North American debut. The song, a reinterpretation of the Bob Dylan classic, was recorded specifically for the upcoming feature film Watchmen. Watchmen: Music From the Motion Picture, which contains the song, is due from Warner Sunset/Reprise Records on March 3rd, three days before the film hits theaters nationwide.
The video, which was helmed by Watchmen director Zack Snyder, transports the viewer into the world of Watchmen in an alternate 1985. My Chemical Romance is performing at a dive bar, reigning as the lords of anarchy above a moshpit. As the crowd surges back and forth, the scene recalls the glory days of the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, Iggy Pop, and The Dead Kennedys. A fight breaks out and becomes a bloody free-for-all as the band keeps playing. The mayhem spills out onto the street. The cops arrive and drag off the band members who are kicking, spitting, and punching the whole way. Director of Photography Guillermo Navarro (an Academy Award® winner for Pan’s Labyrinth), has given the proceedings a grimy, otherworldly effect.
The exclusive video premiere of “Desolation Row” takes place four days after the song debuts on iTunes on January 26th. Users can pre-order Watchmen: Music From the Motion Picture, which also features a collection of classic songs by such artists as Nat King Cole, Leonard Cohen, and Janis Joplin, beginning on January 27th. The video will premiere internationally on January 31st and go wide in the U.S. on February 3rd.
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” — which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union — moves closer to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion — a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers — Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past.
Watchmen is directed by Zack Snyder from a screenplay by David Hayter and Alex Tse, based on the graphic novel co-created by Dave Gibbons, published by DC Comics. The film is produced by Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, and Deborah Snyder. Herbert W. Gains and Thomas Tull are the executive producers, with Wes Coller serving as co-producer. The film stars Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures present, in Association with Legendary Pictures, a Lawrence Gordon/Lloyd Levin Production, a Zack Snyder Film, Watchmen. Watchmen will be released nationwide on March 6, 2009. It will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Pictures and internationally by Paramount Pictures.
Tokio Hotel are featured on the Yahoo Music homepage, in the latest installment of “Pepsi Smash: Another Side Of”. Watch as the band members candidly describe their experiences in the US during a heated game of Jenga in their LA hotel room!
For another insider look at Tokio Hotel, check out Teen.com and the 5 part video piece they put together. Each video captures another side of the German quartet that cannot be missed.
Tokio Hotel have just released a new DVD, Tokio Hotel: Caught On Camera which is available exclusively at Hot Topic, and Hot Topic on-line.
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’ new single, “You Better Pray” is now available for download through iTunes. The song comes off the band’s upcoming sophomore album which will hit stores in early 2009. The band’s debut album, Don’t You Fake It came out in 2006 and sold well over 500K copies certifying it as Gold in the U.S.
Check out the song here:
Tokio Hotel have just premiered the video for their powerful rock ballad “Monsoon.” Check out the dramatic helicopter scenes and intense special effects for the latest single off of Scream, the band’s debut album in the US. Tokio Hotel will be returning to the States for a highly anticipated tour next month.
Here is the brand new video from The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus for their song “Your Guardian Angel.” The Shane Drake (Paramore, Angels & Airwaves) directed clip is the newest single from Don’t You Fake It which has gone gold in the US selling over 500K albums.
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Contest links:
RJA Contest Website
http://www.totalassault.com/contests/yourguardianangel/
RJA YouTube Contest Website
http://www.youtube.com/group/yourguardianangel
The band’s name is Tokio Hotel and apparently they’ve sold over 6 million records around the world, but have yet to break into the American market. They’re set to give it a shot with their first english sung record Scream. But hold on… before we go any further I have to make it clear that the lead singer(3rd from left) is in fact a Male, and not Female. You won’t believe me, but its true.
Check out the video for lead single “Scream”:
BIO:
International superstars Tokio Hotel are taking the music world by storm. After scoring four number one singles, two number one albums, and selling nearly 3 million CDs and DVDs in their homeland, they’ve become the biggest act to come out of Germany in 20 years. And to think their first CD was recorded when the members were only 13 to 15-years-old. Breaking down cultural walls, the Tokio Hotel phenomenon has crossed language barriers, causing a tornado-like frenzy in Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, Russia and Israel. In Austria and Switzerland, Tokio Hotel have gone four times Platinum and in France, they’ve had a crowd of 500,000 chanting along to their songs in front of the Eiffel Tower. One by one, European territories have seen the band graduating from theaters to arenas in a matter of months. . They sold out 43 venues with more than 400,000 fans in their home country.
Teenage girls overseas cry at the mere glimpse of Bill Kaulitz, 18 (vocals), Bill’s twin brother Tom Kaulitz, 18 (guitar), Gustav Schäfer, 19, (drums) and Georg Listing, 20 (bass). Now with Tokio Hotel ready to rock America, it’s only a matter of time before the hysteria follows them stateside.
“It’s always been a dream of ours to make it in the States,” says vocalist Bill Kaulitz, who sings in English for the first time on Scream, the band’s U.S. debut. “We grew up listening to American bands like Metallica, Green Day and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. We wanted to get a chance to do what they do.”
When the band formed in Magdeburg, Germany, in 2001 (originally under the name Devilish), they say they had no idea they’d go on to win prestigious awards such as Echo and Viva Comet. “But there was never a plan B,” explains Bill, “music is all we know.”
Guitarist Tom added ”Playing live means everything to us. That’s how we started three years ago…performing our songs in small clubs and bars - sometimes with only five people in the audience. These days have changed completely. We have sold out stadiums and the biggest venues you can get. This unbelievable success is hard to grasp and every single day we are grateful for it.”
With their US debut ready for release, listeners will get a chance to hear how Tokio Hotel’s melodic brand of rock easily navigates between headbanging guitars and power-packed anthems to mid-tempo pop tracks, and softer, more introspective ballads. The one thing their diverse songs all have in common? There’s always a message.
“Don’t Jump” is an anti-suicide song, telling the listener not to give up on himself, while the guitar-heavy album-opener, “Scream,” is about “saying what you want—or better yet, shouting it—to get your point across,” explains Bill. The quiet but powerful “Rescue Me” is about the helplessness you feel when a relationship crumbles before your eyes, while the sweetly, slowed-down “Monsoon” is about being so in love that you’re willing to do anything to win over—and keep—the love of your life.
“The lyrics are very important to us,” says Bill. “They help our fans know where we’re coming from. The best part of being a musician is being onstage and seeing a sea of people sing the words you wrote—it’s a rush.” Now, for the first time, they’ll be able to hear their lyrics sung back to them in English. “It’s going to be a little crazy,” Bill admits. Though the group learned to speak English in school, they still write songs in their native German and then translate them into English.
Their first U.S. album is actually a combination of hits from their two German albums—”Schrei (Scream),” and “Zimmer 483 (Room 483),” - translated into English and re-recorded. Their first single in Germany, “Durch den Monsun” (”Through the Monsoon”), went to number one in August 2005, followed by “Schrei (Scream)”, which climbed to number five on the charts, and “Rette Mich (Rescue Me)”, which also peaked at number one.
Their first single off their second album “Zimmer 483 (Room 483),” called “Übers Ende der Welt (Ready Set Go),” was released in January 2007, and quickly reached number one as well. They can only hope to keep the streak alive in America.
“We think our music speaks for itself,” says Bill. “Of course, we want to succeed, but we don’t have anything to prove to anyone but ourselves.
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