Music by Years & Months:
Music News in December, 2005
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Sworn Enemy To release The Beginning Of The End
posted on December 30, 2005
Sworn To A Life Of Brutal Metal Core, Sworn Enemy Set The Record Straight On January 24, 2006 With Their Abacus Recordings Debut, "The Beginning Of The End" Produced by Tim Lambesis Vocalist For As I Lay Dying... AND This January, Sworn Enemy Join Fe...
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Sub-Conscious Sub-Conscious
posted on December 30, 2005
Sub-Conscious is an emcee who has been a dominant presence in the underground circuit for several years. Born and raised in New York City, the wealth of musical culture was engrained in him from birth. As he prepares to release his new album SubTalk ...
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Rover To release The World Thru My Eyes - hosted by DJ Green Lantern
posted on December 30, 2005
Balancing the authenticity of the streets, magnetism of a polished performer and entrepreneurial spirit of a seasoned businessman, Rover is at the forefront of the new generation of hip-hop artists. Combining deep and witty storytelling with an impec...
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Chris Styles Chris Styles
posted on December 30, 2005
Every time the vessels in and around the human heart pump blood, the organ beats. In turn, each and every being on the earth possesses its own rhythm already embedded within its soul. Building on this natural theory of life; artists, producers, creat...
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POD To release Testify
posted on December 28, 2005
With their fourth Atlantic Records release, San Diego multi-platinum hard rockers P.O.D. are ready to Testify. Testify to the power of rock; to the sway of perseverance and sweat; to the valor of hard work; to the might of unity; and to the importanc...
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The Muckrakers The Muckrakers
posted on December 28, 2005
Rob Carpenter wrote his first song at 11: a rousing three-chord ode to his dog. Maybe not an immediate smash-hit, but judging from subsequent responses to his work, the golden retriever was probably quite pleased. Since forming Louisville rock ...
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Morningwood To release Morningwood
posted on December 27, 2005
Riff-shredding, ass-shaking, louder-than-life Morningwood is a glorious hodgepodge of personalities, backgrounds and influences -- much like their NYC hometown -- but that’s where the pigeonholing ends. “There’s an attitude, this balls-to-the-wall...
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Randy The Band To release Randy the Band
posted on December 27, 2005
Real bands are hard to find nowadays, but Randy is definitely the real deal. When members in other bands happily avoid each other after a long tour, Randy go on vacation together. They are their own family, their own subculture that would take a soci...
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Termanology To release Out The Gate
posted on December 26, 2005
Born & raised in Lawrence MA, a city 25 miles north of Boston, Termanology, now all of 23 years young, has been consumed with Hiphop and perfecting the craft of emceeing since the age of 15. Waving the Puerto Rican flag proudly, Term has spent the b...
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Slow Runner To release No Disassemble
posted on December 26, 2005
"A mélange of lo-fi electronica and heart-on-sleeve indie rock that blips, beeps, and hums with quiet reflection and harmony, dizzying in its scope..." — Charleston City Paper Lo-fi electronica and Wurlitzer-driven rock unite on Slow Runner’s po...
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Say Anything To release ...Is A Real Boy
posted on December 26, 2005
Come February, J Records will be re-releasing the debut album ...Is A Real Boy by Los Angeles’ Say Anything. The release will come via a double disc — the first containing the 13 tracks originally released on Doghouse Records in July of 2004 and the ...
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The Gossip To release Standing in the Way of Control
posted on December 26, 2005
The first thing that strikes you is the rhythm. The Gossip have been making punks dance since they debuted 5 years ago, long before dance punk existed. Soulful and jagged, you can hear everything from Dischord to Motown in Brace’s playing. Now, with ...
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The Czars To release Goodbye
posted on December 26, 2005
Goodbye, the latest LP from the Czars marks not only a farewell to lost loves and tough times, but a new beginning for the Colorado-based quartet. Via their singing with Cocteau Twins’, Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union label and the World’s Fair Label Gr...
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Sierra Swan To release Ladyland
posted on December 23, 2005
“Beautiful, erotic, mesmerizing, captivating and suspenseful is everything that comes to mind when listening to Sierra Swan. Her voice will take you on an emotional journey.” - Linda Perry “Without my music, let’s face it, I’d probably be in an i...
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Duncan Sheik To release White Limousine
posted on December 23, 2005
White Limousine, Duncan Sheik’s new release on Zoë/Rounder, is his most realized work yet -- a set of catchy, thoughtful compositions that are pro-love and anti-war, both perfectly simple and breathtakingly vast. Though he is known to many for h...
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The Liars To release Drums Not Dead
posted on December 21, 2005
LIARS release a brand new album, Drum’s Not Dead, on March 21, 2006. The album is preceded by a single, “It Fit When I Was A Kid,” out on December 13, 2006. A North American tour is scheduled for late spring. Drum’s Not Dead, the band’s third alb...
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William Orbit To release Hello Waveforms
posted on December 21, 2005
Well known for his contributions to modern music, William Orbit is undoubtedly one of the world’s most accomplished talents and continues to be internationally recognized as a premier artist, writer, producer and composer. Hello Waveforms, his upcomi...
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Bad Wizard To release Sky High
posted on December 20, 2005
Formed in NYC in 2000, and named after a garbled wording of everyone's favorite red and white American beer, Bad Wizard cranks out a brand of hard-swigging rock and roll that can knock you to the floor, then make you get up and yell for more.
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Beth Orton To release Comfort of Strangers
posted on December 20, 2005
The new Beth Orton album, 'Comfort of Strangers', is in stores on February 7th, 2006. The 14-track album was recorded at New York's Sear Sound studio in the spring of 2005, with the much-acclaimed musician and composer Jim O'Rourke as producer. O'...
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Higgins To release Dear Higgins
posted on December 20, 2005
Meet Kevin and Brian, or as they like to call themselves, Higgins. They've been playing music most of their lives and they're ready to share it with the world. In the pre-Higgins days of old (the late nineties), Brian and Kevin both lived in Long ...
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Jel To release Soft Money
posted on December 19, 2005
The head architect of Anticon’s aural acropolis at long last offers up his true album-length debut: Soft Money. Jeffrey “Jel” Logan’s long-awaited magnum opus is sly dog of a disc born of ad-inspired paranoia, well-placed suspicion, and outright obse...
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Prince To release 31:21
posted on December 19, 2005
Announcing his new musical home, musical superstar Prince has signed an exclusive recording agreement with Universal Records, it was announced today by Doug Morris, chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group, Mel Lewinter, chairman of Universal Motown R...
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Rosanne Cash To release Black Cadillac
posted on December 16, 2005
Rosanne Cash’s Black Cadillac, to be released January 24 by Capitol Records, is perhaps the most compelling release of her distinguished career. She wrote the twelve-song musical memoir over roughly two years in which she lost her father Johnny Cash,...
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Code Red To release All Aboard
posted on December 16, 2005
Formed from the deep indie talent pool of Louisville, Kentucky, Code Red has been the crew to contend with since 1998. With the musical motto “Not Confined, Not Defined,” Code Red bridges the hip hop generation gap with healthy reverence for old sch...
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Wolf and Cub To release Steal Their Gold/Thousand Cuts
posted on December 16, 2005
Wolf & Cub hail from a very distant place - Adelaide, Australia to be precise. Yet word about their adrenalised take on darkly psychedelic, danceable noise is spreading far afield. The band released their debut self-titled EP through the Melbourne...
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The Ark To release State of the Ark
posted on December 16, 2005
With their third album, State Of The Ark, one of Sweden's most eccentric rock bands takes a surprising step in a new direction. The result is an album jam-packed with the kind of irresistible riffs, melodic hooks and energetic grooves most bands only...
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a-ha To release Analogue
posted on December 15, 2005
After a three-and-a-half year break, Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy are back. With their eighth studio album and a European tour, A-HA continue their remarkable career.
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Plumb To release Chaotic Resolve
posted on December 15, 2005
“I make records that are honest, about the high and low points in my life and experiences that I think are worth noting in a song. But I also want to tackle the difficult subjects in life, because I want people to know that the hard times, just like ...
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Savage Garden Savage Garden
posted on December 14, 2005
SAVAGE GARDEN ARE * One of the most successful duos in pop music history * Among the most successful Australian recording artists of all time * In the Guinness Book of World Records for winning an unprecedented number (10) of Austral...
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Paul Anka To release Rock Swings -Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival
posted on December 14, 2005
Paul Anka’s “Rock Swings Live at the Montréal Jazz Festival” DVD, which features performances from his wildly popular “Rock Swings” album, will be released Tuesday, December 6th by Verve. The DVD was recorded on July 8 at Montreal’s famous Wilfrid P...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd To release Family
posted on December 14, 2005
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced today that Lynyrd Skynyrd will be among its 2006 inductees. Regarding the nomination, Gary Rossington said, “I’m thankful to everyone involved. It’s a great thing and a great day for all of us. I’m glad those ...
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Revelation Theory Revelation Theory
posted on December 14, 2005
There is an art to mixing power with chords, and the guys from Revelation Theory are masters of their medium. Offering a potent blend of hard and heavy guitar rock, forceful and impassioned vocals, and a muscular and melodic rhythm section, this four...
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Cypress Hill To release Greatest Hits From The Bong
posted on December 13, 2005
Cypress Hill, whose pioneering Latino hip-hop/rock fusion continues to cast its radical shadow over the rap/pop landscape, will celebrate the group's extraordinary longevity with the long-awaited Greatest Hits From The Bong, in stores Tuesday, Decemb...
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Urban Mystic Urban Mystic
posted on December 13, 2005
A dynamic young man from Florida with an unusual stage name and powerful, cutting edge vocals caught the attention of several knowledgeable fans and the music world in 2004 and 2005, with his debut CD, the SoBe Entertainment/Warner Brothers Records r...
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The Adam Crossley Band To release The Adam Crossley Band EP
posted on December 12, 2005
Meet Adam Crossley, lead vocalist, pianist and songwriter for the impressive rock band known as The Adam Crossley Band. Raised in a musical family, New Jersey bred Crossley began playing piano and writing songs by the age of seven. Comparisons have b...
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Two Gallants Two Gallants
posted on December 12, 2005
Bringing an infusion of bloody-knuckled punk energy to storytelling epics and tear-in-your-beer honky-tonk, the two musicians of Two Gallants had the balls to name themselves after a short story by James Joyce, and they back up their hubris by crafti...
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No Trigger To release Canyoneer
posted on December 12, 2005
In the later half of the year 2000, a young three-piece aggressive punk band from Massachusetts changed their name to No Trigger. After a short tour to Chicago as well as recording a demo CD while in town, their show schedule slowed and the band seem...
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Evans Blue To release The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume
posted on December 12, 2005
The connection exists somewhere between the melody and the energetic nature of volume. When seen at this level, you can see how the shapes deviate from the original sources, and you will soon see five as one. In the corner of this room, there exist...
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Qwel and Jackson Jones To release Dark Day
posted on December 12, 2005
In Qwel's highly awaited fourth solo release, “Dark Day”, Qwel explores the notion that he who does not know his history is condemned to repeat it. Jackson Jones sets the melancholy charcoal canvases as Qwel exposes the blueprint for the modern day T...
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Super Numeri To release The Welcome Table
posted on December 11, 2005
In a world where a succession of shitty, manufactured pop bands hog the number one spot, Liverpool collective Super Numeri don’t so much seem from another era as from another dimension altogether. It’s one where the experimentalism of the sixties nev...
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The Wood Brothers To release Ways Not To Lose
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Clear Static Clear Static
posted on December 9, 2005
The Maverick self-titled debut from Hollywood sensations Clear Static, evokes images of mascara, frilly shirts, flamboyance, and hedonism. Yet today their gigs draw throngs of eye-lined, glammed-out kids into places like the Viper Room and Key Club a...
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Billie Holiday To release Complete Verve Studio Master Takes
posted on December 9, 2005
Verve Records has just released Billie Holiday: The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes, a six-CD boxed set celebrating the essential music of the legendary Billie Holiday. The set features music Holiday recorded for the historic Verve label from 195...
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Phish To release Live at Madison Square Garden New Year's Eve 1995 [LIVE]
posted on December 8, 2005
Widely regarded as one of Phish's finest live performances and called one of the "Greatest Concerts of the '90s" by Rolling Stone, their 1995 New Year's Eve show at Madison Square Garden is an amazing collection of the band's finest songs. Just in ti...
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Latrice Barnett To release Illuminate
posted on December 8, 2005
Equally prolific as both singer and songwriter, Latrice Barnett offers up honest, R&B-inspired, soulful house music on her debut album Illuminate, due out February 7, 2006 on Ultra Records. Co-produced by leaders in the genre Jay-J and Kaskade and w...
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Groove Coverage Groove Coverage
posted on December 7, 2005
Formed in 2001, Groove Coverage is the multi-platinum Euro Dance brainchild of DJ Novus and vocalist Mell. Having sold more than 800,000 singles / albums worldwide, the album contains three Top 20 chart hits – “She,” “Runaway” and Top 10 single “The...
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Sevendust To release Best Of (Chapter One 1997-2004)
posted on December 7, 2005
From their humble beginnings on the Atlanta club circuit to playing Woodstock, becoming hard rock torchbearers and selling over two million copies the world over, Sevendust were perhaps the only band to break out of the late-90’s nu-metal explosion t...
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Sergio Mendes To release Timeless
posted on December 7, 2005
Sergio Mendes is the most internationally successful Brazilian artist of all time. From the mid 1960s to the late ‘70s, Mendes established his legend by taking numerous albums and singles, such as “Brasil 66,” “Mas Que Nada,” and “The Look of Love,” ...
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Holly Stell To release Holly Stell
posted on December 6, 2005
Opera is rarely the primary musical choice for a young girl. Even more uncommon is Holly Stell, a thirteen-year-old beauty with an exceptional gift for singing opera. Holly first surprised her mother when she was drawn to operatic performances on te...
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Meatbeat Manifesto Exclusive Interview
posted on December 5, 2005MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO (JACK DANGERS) Interview by Todd E. Jones aka New Jeru Poet
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Stroke 9 To release Cafe Cuts
posted on December 5, 2005
Marin County is a sunny, green, and mellow collection of towns just north of San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge. It is this area where refugee hippies migrated following the hazy, drug-filled days of Haight-Ashbury. Eventually, those hippie...
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Tori Amos To release The Original Bootlegs
posted on December 5, 2005
After years of paying top dollar for low quality bootlegs, Tori Amos diehards now have an alternative. The first album features songs captured during Amos' April 15th, 2005 concert at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. Among the set's many highlights...
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Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
posted on December 5, 2005
Some time around the end of 2001, Bob was sitting in Alex's kitchen. Alex had just been given a bass by his friend Mick, on the condition that he did 'something useful' with it. "Do you want to learn to play the bass then, Bob?" "No, I'm an ar...
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Headlights Headlights
posted on December 5, 2005
Having gone through numerous name changes, losing a founding member, funding a self-booked national tour on CD-R demo burns(and managing to make enough money to pay their rent), Headlights now find themselves with a new label to call home.
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Denizen Kane Denizen Kane
posted on December 4, 2005
Recorded over a year and a half span, Denizen Kane presents his brand new work “Tree City Legends: Vol. II”. This album is the sound of an on-the-run poet throwing pages over his shoulder. Subtitled “My Bootleg Life”, this long-awaited second install...
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Saosin Saosin
posted on December 4, 2005
The most commonly-seen live line up didn't come together until about July 2003. The EP was recorded with a different lineup back in March 2003, with Anthony Green on vocals, Zach Kennedy on bass and Pat Mcgrath on drums. For their first show (June 19...
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Black Wire To release Black Wire
posted on December 4, 2005
“We write distorted pop songs in the hope that you will sing and dance along. We're not trying to be like any other bands out there, we're just writing songs that we love in the hope that you will too. We want people to either love or hate us.” -Bla...
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Ray Davies To release Other People's Lives
posted on December 4, 2005
V2 Records is proud to announce the upcoming release of British songwriting icon Ray Davies' "THANKSGIVING DAY." The five-song EP has arrived in stores on November 22nd. THANKSGIVING DAY" precedes the eagerly anticipated release of the ex-Kinks great...
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LeToya To release LeToya
posted on December 2, 2005
Like many of our modern epic voices, Letoya’s phenomenal musical journey began in the humble surroundings of the church choir. It didn’t take long for her immense talent to catch the eye of Matthew Knowles, founder and manager of the group then titl...
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Dilated Peoples To release 20/20
posted on December 2, 2005
As hip-hop culture (DJing, MCing, b-boying, graffiti art and beatboxing) evolved in the late 1970s and early 1980s, two things were hallmarks of the movement: DJing and lyrical excellence. In the last several years, no rap group has done more to ch...
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Mogwai To release Mr. Beast
posted on December 2, 2005
These days - when membership of the rock army can be symbolised by the simple purchase of a Ramones T-shirt - dedication has become a debased currency, subject to the hyper-inflationary dictates of fashion. Raw recruits sign up for the short term, so...
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The Lashes To release Get It
posted on December 2, 2005
Of the many archetypes available to young musicians on their way up, from manufactured idols to dinosaur supergroups and everything in-between, one model remains by far the most romantic, the most inspirational, the most rock: the gang. Your typical ...
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Bo Bice Bo Bice
posted on December 1, 2005
Bo Bice doesn’t remember life without music. “My father played guitar, banjo and mandolin. My mother and her three cousins were in a group called the Singing Jays, and my mom sang at the Grand Ole Opry. I guess that’s why I always took music for gran...
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Look What I Did Look What I Did
posted on December 1, 2005
COMBAT Records, the immortal label that is now a joint venture between KOCH Records (the fastest growing independent label in the U.S.) and Entertainment Services Unlimited, has released Minuteman For The Moment, the new full length CD by the band ...
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Malkovich To release Skeletons
posted on December 1, 2005
Skeletons, the debut solo album from Los Angeles emcee and Gershwin BLX/Halifax All-Stars co-founder Malkovich, will finally be hitting stores worldwide throughout winter on Genoa Imports/BLX with distribution through LA-based distributor KSD Music (...