Slash is widely considered one of the greatest rock guitar players of
all time. He has received countless accolades and awards including a
2007 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside his idols Jimmy Page
and Jimi Hendrix. An original member of iconic rock band Guns N’ Roses,
Slash helped the band create signature sounds like the guitar riff of
#1 hit “Sweet Child o’ Mine” and “Welcome To The Jungle.” The band
dominated the 1980’s and 90’s music scene selling more than 100 million
albums worldwide and ushered in a decade of hard charging rock music.
After the band’s break-up, Slash went on to critical acclaim in his
personal project Slash’s Snakepit, and global success with supergroup
Velvet Revolver. He has been widely sought after by the biggest
musicians of all time, performing with everyone from Michael Jackson to
Stevie Wonder to Ray Charles. Slash is one of the marquee playable
characters in Guitar Hero III, has two signature Gibson guitars in his
name, and authored his own top-selling biography Slash in 2007. His
latest solo album, SLASH, will release this April and features guest
performances by Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie, Adam Levine, Iggy Pop, Kid Rock,
Dave Grohl, and many more.
After a few years of playing music as members of other bands, brothers
Stephen and John Gomez, along with longtime friend and fellow musician
Jessica Bowen, set out in the spring of 2007 with a new idea in mind,
and, with new found lead singer Brian Dales on board, they formed The
Summer Set. Read the rest of this entry →
• MySpace Streams = 45,000,000 MySpace Friends = 337,000 Twitter Followers = 8,871
• On entire Warped Tour 2010, Headling world tour in 14 countries in Feb/Mar/April/May
• Sold 135,000 albums and 300,000 singles, charted # 65 on the Billboard Top 200
• Previous tours with Chiodos, Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada, A Day To Remember
• 10 out of 10 review of The Emptiness in Outburn, cover of Substream Mag, cover of AMP, featured in Alt Press, Revolver, Kerrang!
• Covers of Geki Rock (Japan) Jan 09, and Grita Magazine (Mexico) Feb 09
• Remained in Top 100 MySpace charts for 3 years.
Alesana “The Thespian” Music Video Q&A w/Guitarist Shawn Milke
How did you come up with the concept behind this video?
SHAWN MILKE The video follows the story of our record very closely, albeit with some modern artistic license applied. Our story, The Emptiness, follows a sketch artist in a small town in England at the turn of the 20th Century. He wakes one morning to find his lover, Annabel, has been slaughtered in the bed next to him. The story follows the Artist as he struggles with madness, love, murder, and forgiveness. Our director, Stephen Penta, is a genius. He read our story and just completely saw eye to eye with us on our vision.
How does it reflect the narrative of your new album?
Although The “Thespian” is the sixth of 11 chapters on the record, the music video actually spans much more of the story than just the one chapter. We could have just focused on the one piece of the puzzle, but it felt better to get the whole story out there in the video. While it does interpret much of the story, it still leaves a lot for the viewer to discover and decipher on their own.
What was the most difficult part of making the video?
The most difficult part was building our own sets and making everything work in the four days we had to shoot. The process was very D.I.Y. but that is exactly how we wanted it done. Much of the entire process during The Emptiness was D.I.Y. and we wanted the music video to reflect that feeling. Again, I can not say enough about Stephen Penta and his patience and devotion to the project. The music video would not be what it is without his expertise.
MEET THE MEAT SLUTS: Taking the c*ck outta rock, putting p*ssy into punk, these meat muffins are four tunnels of fun from San Francisco. With members of the Womentors, Double D’s, Jaded Fucks, Lost Puppy and EX-members of Deranged Pussy, Loudmouths, McCools… THE MEAT SLUTS have cum together to ROCK BABY, ROOOOOCK and leave you hungry for more! It’s time to mess around! Time to get some action! Time to punk ‘n’ roll!
Already the first French act to score a #1 record in France with an album sung in English, The Dø are set to release A Mouthful in the US on April 6th via Six Degrees Records, complete with three bonus tracks. Running the full musical gamut, A Mouthful deftly channels the melodic and vocal stylings of Nina Persson, the sharp and bouncy guitar jangle of contemporary indie rock, a touch of folk intimacy and even some wistful hints of summer Tropicalia. The Dø are French/Finnish vocalist and guitarist Olivia Merilahti and multi instrumentalist Dan Levy. As NME states, The Dø have created “something genuinely captivating. [A Mouthful] tastes real good.” It does indeed. Bon Appetit/Hyvää Ruokahalua. Read the rest of this entry →
The Young Veins have launched a TwitTix contest, asking fans to post their favorite vacation photos for a chance to win tickets to one of the shows on their upcoming tour with Foxy Shazam and Bad Rabbits. More info on the contest can be found at http://twitpic.com/190dhd.
*Bomba Estéreo make psychedelic cumbia and are from Bogotá, Colombia.
The group, a musical project formed by Simón Mejía [w/ singer Liliana
Saumet] in 2005, represent a new sound coming from Colombia. Their
music merges folk sounds from the Colombian caribbean coast like
cumbia, bullerengue and champeta mixed with electronica, reggae and
hip-hop producing an explosive dance sound. Live shows involve 4
musicians combined with live video projections.
Discography:
¨Vol.1¨, 2006, Polen Records, Nacional Records.
¨Estalla¨, 2008, Polen Records, Nacional Records.
Downloads at iTunes, Emusic
“Energetic
and genuinely anthemic choruses, rousing hooks that amplify their
Johnny Thunders influences while adding their own sense of seedy
majesty” LA Weekly
“In
a better world, songs like “Soul Stripper” & “Everything’s Wrong”
would be blasting from radios all across the nation. Pick this up &
inject yourself with a healthy dose of rock & roll” AMP
All of this live excitement and excellence caught the eyes and ears of Acetate Records, who in the past have had the good taste to issue music by such artists as The Hangmen, Throw Rag, The Chelsea Smiles and Nine Pound Hammer. Prima Donna’s self titled Acetate debut is a ten-song collection of all-original, driving Rock n’ Roll. Song’s like “Soul Stripper” and “Dummy Luv” openly defy you to sit still, arranged to cause maximum sonic damage. Combining thick, rhythm guitars with stinging lead lines, the sound is explosive, propelled by ceaseless forward motion, yet never is melody sacrificed. Solos never noodle or shred – whether taken by Kevin on guitar or Aaron on sax or keyboards, they are as soulful and melodic as the songs they support. Up front and center, Kevin proves to be the man of the hour, singing in a strong tenor that is at once sultry and swaggering, clear and unaffected.
The group proved to be as at home in the studio as they are on the road. Co-producing the album with Messiaz (Eddie Spaghetti, Neila, Ladykillers), the band’s pure vision of what Rock n’ Roll is permeates every track. Muscular riffs, to-the-point lyrics, killer licks, songs that get themselves over with in under three minutes – it ain’t a formula if you’re living it. These guys live it, all year ’round, on the road, in the studio, in the street.
A five-man high-energy machine, Prima Donna have only been on the scene for three years, yet in that time have knocked out over 200 shows, nearly a third of which were overseas. Their live show is a whirlwind of color, energy, bravado, volume, and an avalanche of catchy, sing-along choruses. Clearly inspired by the early punk of groups such as X-Ray Specs, the Damned, and the Sex Pistols as well as ’70s glitter such as Mott the Hoople and David Bowie, the group’s sharp n’ concise songwriting sidesteps any notions of the group being “retro.” How retro can a group be if their average age is 22?
Funny, sad, and sweet, Peter Squires summons 60’s psych-folk and acoustic pop with a lo-fi, DIY sensibility to bear moving songs about love, loss, and growing up. Squires’ refreshing humor and self-awareness harken the best work of Lou Barlow, Morrissey, and Magnetic Fields, keeping things playful while he breaks your heart. Read the rest of this entry →
