19th Beijing Music Festival Opens To Record Crowds
17 October, 2016
The Beijing Music Festival (BMF) opened its annual classical music festival last Sunday with a concert by the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Orchestra and Chorus under the baton of Maestro Lü Jia. This marked the first collaboration between BMF and NCPA. The concert, which featured symphonies and choral works by...
| Longoria Releases The Journey Album
17 October, 2016
David Longoria, trumpeter, music producer and songwriter releases The Journey, his first contemporary instrumental album in three years with an EDM (Electronic Dance Music) soundscape on Del Oro Music. Produced by Longoria and Robert Eibach, the twelve song collection follow the theme of a lifetime of milestones represented as a...
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Mit Scratch Team And Progressive Arts Alliance Bring Together Hip-Hop And Coding
17 October, 2016
The summit hopes to broaden perspectives and participation in coding from traditionally underrepresented groups by providing interest-based pathways to computing.
We see coding as a new type of literacy, a new way for everyone to express their ideas - Mitchel Resnick, Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab
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| Arso Ivanovich, Contemporary Fine Artist, Featured In New International Art Book
17 October, 2016
Contemporary master of fine arts, Arso Ivanovich, announces feature in new international art book Inspiration: International Art Book 2017. Finer Things Artists Network also presents a new online gallery bringing Arso's work to the next cyber-generation of art collectors.
My art is my world. My world is my painting. My pain...
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Dawg Yawp Release Debut, Self-Titled LP Via Old Flame Records
17 October, 2016
Tomorrow, Cincinnati's Dawg Yawp will release their debut self-titled LP via Old Flame Records. The duo of Rob Keenan and Tyler Randall has been deemed "...one of the most original and intricately considered bands in Cincinnati's musical history" by their local alt-weekly CityBeat and have been played on NPR's All Songs Consider...
| Amy Helm Announces Winter Tour Including Headlining Shows & Dates With The Tedeschi Trucks Band
17 October, 2016
Following the release of her critically acclaimed debut solo album Didn't It Rain, Amy Helm is hitting the road for a North American tour that includes a string of headlining shows as well as dates with the Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Earlier this year, Rolling Stone Country premiered a stunning live video for Helm's take on Sam ...
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Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) Grammy Honorable Lifetime Achievement Award
17 October, 2016
Legendary singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Marty Balin, best known as lead singer and founder of Jefferson Airplane and hit song maker of Jefferson Starship, has one more award to add to his career, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement / Special Merit Award from The Recording Academy.
Balin is also known f...
| Spartan Records Releasing New Limited Edition Pressing Of Mae's 'The Everglow' On November 25, 2016
17 October, 2016
On November 25, Spartan Records will release a new double LP, limited edition pressing of Mae's classic album "The Everglow," on vinyl this fall.
The new pressing will be limited to 2500 copies and includes a 28-page foiled stamped storybook.
Pre-orders will launch next Wednesday, October 19 at 12pm PST.
Fans can sign up t...
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Film Festival Gent And Silva Screen Records Present Ryuichi Sakamoto - Music For Film
17 October, 2016
Supported by the Film Fest Gent's World Soundtrack Awards, Ryuichi Sakamoto Music For Film is the third release from the series and second on Silva Screen Records. Each year an eminent film music composer is invited to present their work during the annual World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert closing event. As part of the c...
| David Nagler & Friends: "Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems" Out Now
17 October, 2016
Brooklyn singer/composer David Nagler has released his collaborative studio album Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems. A song cycle created out of 16 Carl Sandburg poems, the record features a host of guests hailing from or associated with Chicago, including Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Robbie Fulks, Jon Langford & Sally Timms of the Mekons,...
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Varese Sarabande Records To Release Abzu Original Game Soundtrack
17 October, 2016
Varèse Sarabande will release the ABZÛ - Original Game Soundtrack on CD October 21, 2016. The album features the original music composed by Austin Wintory (JOURNEY, ASSASSIN'S CREED SYNDICATE, GRACE).
"Matt Nava showed me some concept art he'd been making for a new game he was dreaming up: gorgeous underwater landscapes t...
| Wearing Thin Premieres Special Acoustic Video
17 October, 2016
Longtime friends and now label mates Tylor Blackburn of Wearing Thin and Kyle Allen of Keyes are excited to show fans their new acoustic video for "Follow Through". Allen was able to meet up with Blackburn while filling in on tour for My Iron Lung to shoot the video, "I was fortunate enough to find time when touring through Utah...
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Reckless Kelly Extend US Tour - New Album Sunset Motel Out Now, #7 On The Americana Radio Chart
17 October, 2016
Last month, Reckless Kelly celebrated their 20th anniversary as a band with the release of Sunset Motel, their first album with Thirty Tigers and follow up to their Grammy Award winning (Best Recording Package) 2013 release, Long Night Moon.
Sunset Motel debuted at #8 on the Billboard Americana/Folk Albums Chart and #12 on ...
| Sparrows' Sophomore LP 'Let The Silence Stay Where It Was' Out Now On New Damage Records
17 October, 2016
Toronto-based, spaced-out, post-punk/hardcore outfit Sparrows have just released their sophomore full-length, 'Let the Silence Stay Where it Was,' via New Damage Records.
On the new LP, the band re-teams with longtime collaborator, engineer/producer Kenny Bridges, front man of seminal Canadian melodic punk outfit Moneen.
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Texas Bluesman Reverend Km Williams Proves That He's The Real Deal On A Brand New Album!
17 October, 2016
The Reverend KM Williams is a true blues genius and a fast rising star in old school Texas Boogie Blues, carrying on the traditions of the great Texas bluesmen such as Lightnin' Hopkins and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Raised in Red River county of East TX, Williams played his very first guitar licks as a mere toddler sitting in the l...
| Allison Crowe And Band: "Introducing / Heirs+Grievances" Tour Delights
17 October, 2016
Band's debut "will delight fans and new converts of Allison Crowe's artistic genius" says Celtic Music Fan - and now the music comes live to North America.
What's bound to be among the most legendary, and fun, musical tours ever is launched this month in Canada.
Prepare for joy and fun, gravitas and levity, beauty and ha...
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Alex Dezen To Release New Album; Announces End Of The Damnwells
17 October, 2016
It's official. The Damnwells are done. "It was an amazing run," says Alex Dezen of the band for which he was the lead singer. "But it's time to move on." 16 years, 5 albums, and countless miles later, Dezen is finally stepping out on his own with his second solo album in two years. Truth be told, the tenuous formation which has ...
| Kamikaze Girls Reveal 'Hexes' Video + Further US/UK Tour Dates
17 October, 2016
Currently half way through a huge run of US tour dates, Leeds/London duo Kamikaze Girls have revealed the new video for 'Hexes', the latest track to be taken from their new EP Sad, which is out now through Bearded Punk Records (UK/EU) and Wiretap Records (US).
The band have also revealed further live dates throughout the US...
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Cold Raven To Tour Europe With Possessed, Belphegor And Absu!
17 October, 2016
Just recently the melodic obscure black metallers COLD RAVEN pre-announced their upcoming European Tour, and today the band unveils the details, being confirmed as support for the most extreme tour of the year: "The Evil Over Europe" double-headliner tour featuring POSSESSED, the godfathers of the death metal genre, and BELPHEGO...
| Psycholies: To Release Debut Album "Inner Labyrinth" In November Via Trisol Music Group!
17 October, 2016
Industrial dark glam metallers PSYCHOLIES are to release their debut album "Inner Labyrinth" worldwide on November 25th. The band has also signed a record deal with Germany's Trisol Music Group.
The band stated:
"On this Album we have the special featuring by VICTOR LOVE from DOPE STARS INC. who played and arranged all th...
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