Brooklyn’s Northside Festival announces line up

Northside Festival (www.northsidefestival.com), Brooklyn’s largest annual discovery festival with over 80,000 attendees, is set to take place June 13-20, 2013 in venues throughout Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Northside Music, June 13-16, will showcase nearly 350 bands creating what’s next in music.  For the first time ever during Northside, the two McCarren Park concerts, on Saturday and [...]

Lunch signs with Mightier Than Sword Records

Brooklyn, NY’s Mightier Than Sword Records has signed Worcester, MA indie rock outfit LUNCH and will be releasing the band’s self-titled digital EP on October 11. LUNCH recorded their first song somewhere in the midst of a bender in January 2011. Ben, Bill, and Rob did their best to wake Danny up of the floor [...]

Kingsley Flood Photo Gallery from Newport, RI

Kingsley Flood concert photos from their performance at the Sunset Music Series in Newport, RI on August 11, 2011.

Artist to Watch: Totem

Formed in the mid-90′s, Totem is a 5-piece rock band hailing from Norwell, Massachusetts.  I’ve known guitarist/vocalist Gary Alex since the early 1990′s when he used to make experimental music in his shed.  The spark of exploring the possibilities of sound were always prominent in those early pre-Totem efforts.  Too many bands simply focus on [...]

Brighter Than A Thousand Suns Sign To Tragic Hero Records

Tragic Hero Records is pleased to announce the signing of New Milford, CT’s Brighter Than A Thousand Suns. The band’s label debut, Survival Machines, will be recorded in Baltimore, MD with Paul Leavitt (All Time Low, Senses Fail, Circa Survive) and will be released on September 20, 2011. Brighter Than a Thousand Suns have been [...]

Mates of State Plan September 13th Release

Connecticut-based modern pop duo Mates of State have finished recording their newest album, Mountaintops, to be released September 13 via Barsuk Records. Mountaintops is the band’s first since 2008′s acclaimed Re-Arrange Us. The new album was self-produced, written and recorded over the last year and a half in 6 different studios with multiple different engineers, [...]

Marissa Nadler Announces Select Tour Dates

Boston dream-folk artist, Marissa Nadler has announced US tour dates with Canadian band Timber Timbre, as well as an initial performance with Low in her hometown at the end of April. She will be touring behind her forthcoming fifth full-length album, the first to be released via her very own label Box of Cedar Records. [...]

Artist to Watch: Kanerko

I was first exposed to Kanerko’s music while surfing online through some local music sites, and was immediately blown away. When you listen to as much music as I do, both good and bad, both local and national, it becomes easier and easier to hear the bands with a special spark. Kanerko definitely has that [...]

Album Review: Birdsong At Morning – Annals of My Glass House

Birdsong At Morning Annals of My Glass House Release Date: February 15, 2011 Record Label: Blue Gentian Records Review: Seasoned musicians and songwriters, life has taken the members of the Massachusetts-based trio Birdsong At Morning (Alan Williams, Darleen Wilson, and Greg Porter) on life’s varied paths, but now finds them returning to their passion for [...]

Nathan Moore Album Out Today

Nathan Moore will support ALO on ten West Coast dates during their 5th annual Tour d’Amour in February. The tour will begin on February 9 in San Luis Obispo, include a headline appearance on February 16 in Arcata, CA and conclude on February 20 in Crystal Bay, NV. Moore has also left a week open [...]

Mean Creek Offer Free EP Download

Boston-based rock quartet Mean Creek is excited to announce the release of its new EP titled Hemophiliac. Recently recorded in Brooklyn, NY, and produced in conjunction with legendary producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., The Hold Steady, etc.), Hemophiliac is now available for FREE download via the band’s Bandcamp page HERE. Released on the [...]

An Interview with Ethan Isaac of Edisun

Edisun entered the studio in mid 2010 to track their self-titled debut album.  The debut CD is produced by Claude Villani, a long-time Edisun collaborator, and mixed at NRG Studios in Los Angeles by Jay Baumgardner.  Edisun not only captured the excitement of their live show and the cavalcade of emotions that come from being [...]

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