Saturday, September 12, 2009

The Rock Dose

The Rock Dose

Band of Skulls New Acoustic Video Available

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT

Meet Band of Skulls:

The three members of Band of Skulls, Russell Marsden (guitar & vocals), Emma Richardson (bass & vocals) & Matt Hayward (drums), first met at college and quickly discovered that having two lead singers and three songwriters in a band was always going to present unlimited possibilities. With their creative process and sonic path fully intact the band quickly established themselves in the music and art community with a series of culturally inspired club nights in Southampton, London and further afield in Moscow and Tokyo.

The band, previously known as Fleeing New York, were working on new demo’s in late November 2008 at Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire when their paths crossed with an international collective based in London, Montreal and LA who are now, in a very modern way, partners with the band.

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Soon followed more studio time, which formed the basis of their debut album, “Baby Darling Doll Face Honey”. With a working relationship sealed with a handshake the album was recorded, mixed and mastered from January through to March 09 before contracts had time to be signed.

From that point on, the progression of events from Southampton to global iTunes happened at lightning speed for Band of Skulls. Their music came to the attention of iTunes staff and made such an impact they were selected for the coveted iTunes Single of the Week campaign in April with the debut single ‘I Know What I Am’. Within weeks of completing the album the band will be introduced globally to a digital audience in the USA, UK, France, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Netherlands via this free download. The album has also been speedily brought forward to be released digitally at the same time.

Music fans around the world will get the first taste of the band’s driving guitar force, heartbreaking duets and sun-kissed, Wall of Sound harmonies of not only their single but their powerful debut album released in the USA on Shangri-La Music on April 6th, available exclusively at iTunes for two weeks before being introduced to the wider world at all download stores and even on an old fashioned CD.

It has been an extraordinary and heady last few months for the band and the swift turnaround of the digital album is surely a taster of the way the modern digital world is now driving the changing landscape of an industry undergoing radical changes. It also means that an unknown band are being thrust into the limelight with very little know about them. To provide some background:

All the artwork so far has been based on paintings by bass player / vocalist Emma who recently held an exhibition called “Meat Me At The Butchers”, in a butcher’s shop where she worked at weekends. She has a record collection of over 20,000 albums and singles, swam for England and even won some medals.

Drummer Matt has played tennis with John McEnroe while his Dad was in a band who supported the Rolling Stones and had the same manager as the Troggs.

Russell’s great great grandfather was a stowaway on the Titanic, fleeing Southampton and leaving behind three wives and 16 illegitimate children.

He survived a near fatal car crash that was started by weaving to the rhythm of Ace of Spades by Motorhead. He has also fallen through a glacier, and again, obviously, he survived…

Baby Darling Doll Face Honey was produced, recorded and mixed by Ian Davenport (Supergrass, Badly Drawn Boy) and recorded at Radiohead’s Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire and mixed at the House of Blues studio in Los Angeles. [via: Band of Skulls]

Cut From A Different Fur – Band of Skulls “Fires” from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

[image: Cornerstone Promotion]

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Wolfmother: Transmissions from the Cosmic Egg Episodes 1 and 2

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:22 PM PDT

Wolfmother’s Transmissions From The Cosmic Egg: Episode 2 has just landed on the webisphere. The second video in the behind the scenes series transplants Wolfmother from their native Austrailia to a Los Angeles park where the wander through the foliage speaking on the phenomenal Cosmic Egg. Wolfmother front man Andrew Stockdale explains that the record has been, “about three years of writing on the road in the hotel room with this guitar that I bought writing at home and just writing stuff in the studio.”

The result of all the writing, recording and perfecting have resulted in Cosmig Egg, a 12 song journey through all that is right in rock ‘n roll. The new album will hit stores October 27th, and is available on iTunes now along with the single “New Moon Rising.”

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Something to Burn Interviewed by Scott Weiland

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 10:32 AM PDT

something_to_burnFor too many people in the 21st century, music has become little more than something to burn. But for the band Something to Burn, music remains everything it was ever meant to be, and more.

Something to Burn bridge the gap between rock and roll's heady past and its uncertain future on their debut album Transitions, to be released this summer on Softdrive Records, the label founded by Stone Temple Pilots front man Scott Weiland.

Recently, the band sat down with Softdrive Records founder for an interview to talk about their new album, Transitions. You can view the interview at HERE

Greg Wayne lead singer had the following to say about working with Scott:

"It’s been great working with Scott Weiland cuz he’s a fellow artist so he gets it, ya know? He gave us the means to make a record, but then allowed us the artistic freedom to make the record we really wanted to make. In the end, he loved what we did so it worked out smashingly for everyone. Plus he has swords and who doesn’t like swords? Haha!"

Scott Weiland speaks quite highly of SOMETHING TO BURN and their debut album,

"I think these guys are the best rock band out there cuz they’re not just a rock band….their music is more than just rock…it has a lot of depth and a lot of vibe to it…SOMETHING TO BURN is a band that’s very important to this label…their songs sound really true and really real…you get that feeling in your heart as well as that feeling in your ears that makes you wanna hear the song over & over."

On Transitions, SOMETHING TO BURN have crafted an epic voyage as intuitive as it is responsive, ebbing and flowing with artistic vigilance and musical relevance. It truly offers “the whole album experience.”

The music of SOMETHING TO BURN resurrects what we’ve been missing from our musical past, while forging boldly ahead into the future, and serves as the perfect soundtrack for the party that bridges the two.

Catch Something to Burn on Tour This Fall

9/11 – Hollywood, CA @ Viper Room (Sunset Strip Music Festival)

9/18 – Anchorage, AK @ Chillkoot Charlies

9/19 – Anchorage, AK @ Chillkoot Charlies

10/2 – Hollywood, CA @ The Roxy (CD Release Party)

10/26 – Santa Rosa, CA @ Last Day Saloon

11/23 – Hollywood, CA @ The Key Club w/ Steel Panther

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