Last week, Band Of Horses let the world know that their third album “Infinite Arms” would hit record stores on May 18. And we can now report that the band has a label for “Infinite Arms”. Or, rather, the band has three labels for “Infinite Arms”: Brown Records/Fat Possum/Columbia.
As you can see on the right, the physical product won’t look too different from the previous two albums. The package will feature photography from Christopher Wilson, who has worked with the band in the past.
Before the album is released, Band Of Horses will bring their live show to venues both US and Europe. Click here for the tourdates.
Death Breath, the Swedish old-school death metal project featuring former Entombed drummer and main songwriter Nicke Andersson (most recently the frontman of rock ‘n’ roll band The Hellacopters), has completed the fourth recording session for its new album. According to the group, “pretty much everything besides vocals are finished. [We'd] have to say that we’ve recorded our fastest and heaviest stuff so far!”
A unmixed version of a brand new Death Breath track, ”Obsessed By Sodomy”, is available for streaming on the group’s MySpace page. The song will appear on Death Breath’s new CD, due later in the year via Psychout/Black Lodge.
On March 9 the Avett Brothers will play a special acoustic performance (and do a sigining) at Borders in Ann Arbor, MI. The performance will be streamed live via the Avett Brothers Facebook page, details to follow.
Borders & 107one present: Special acoustic performance & signing with the Avett Brothers.
March 9th at Borders at 12 PM EST (that’s 18.00 CET in Europe)
612 E Liberty
Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Band of Horses return with their much anticipated third album “Infinite Arms” on May 18. The label that will release the album hasn’t been announced yet.
Touring members Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds make their debut on record with“Infinite Arms”, which was produced by the band and Phil Ek, who worked on the band’s past albums. All five members contributed to the recording process, causing frontman Ben Bridwell to state, “in many ways, this is the first Band of Horses record.”
Fourteen years after his last album of original material, psych-rock legend and onetime 13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson is readying a new record called “True Love Cast Out All Evil”, out April 20 via Anti- in the USA. The UK release will come on June 7 via Chemikal Underground.
And he got some top-shelf help to bring his songs to life: fellow Austinites Okkervil River back Erickson on the whole LP, and Okkervil frontman Will Sheff produces. The team-up isn’t a surprise, since Erickson played with Okkervil River at SXSW in 2008 and 2009.
Click here to listen to ‘Goodbye Sweet Dreams’ from the new album!
‘Day And Then The Shade’, the new video from Sweden’s Katatonia, can be viewed below. We thought we’d also post this as the Petting Zoo loves Katatonia’s music. The clip was directed by Lasse Hoile, who has previously worked with Opeth and Porcupine Tree, among others. The song comes off the band’s eighth studio album, “Night Is The New Day”, which was released in Europe on November 2 and in North America on November 10 via Peaceville Records.
A mini-site for “Night Is The New Day” can be accessed at this location. It includes audio samples, downloads, album information, interviews, art gallery plus exclusive previously unseen studio diaries from the recording session.
“Night Is The New Day” is the long-awaited new studio album of transcendental, atmospheric rock and metal, exploring the darker corners of audial melancholy. It was recorded throughout July 2009 and was co-produced, engineered and mixed by David Castillo. A continuation of the heaviness, depth and atmosphere of their previous album, “Night Is The New Day” is also a more multi-dimensional effort — waltzing between prog moments, doom, folk & the classic melodic anthems that are the staple of Katatonia’s uncompromising sound, completed by the haunting tones of Jonas Renkse’s vocal journeys of urban and emotional decay. Cover art once again comes courtesy of Travis Smith (Katatonia, Opeth, Novembre) and continues the stylistic identity established so effectively since The Great Cold Distance album.
Illinois-based extreme metallers Nachtmystium have been confirmed for the Saturday Roadburn date, April 17th, 2010. This show will pan hard towards Nachtmystium’s more psychedelic inspired material taking Black Metal and the Roadburn attendees to a musical place that they’ve never gone before.
“We are pleased to announce that Nachtmystium will be making our Roadburn debut this coming year!”, says Blake Judd, “We will be performing a unique-to-Roadburn set that will focus on our more psychedelic-inspired material, along with brand new material from our next full-length record “Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II”.
“A guest appearance by Bruce Lamont of Yakuza (who played on our last full-length, “Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. I”) can be expected at Roadburn this year, along with some other surprises. We are very excited and honored to get the opportunity to be a part of this amazing festival.”
Rose Kemp will be playing live at the Summer Darkness festival this Saturday, August 8. Her show starts at 4pm, venue is Tivoli De Helling in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
The Summer Darkness festival, with bands like Front 242 and Lacuna Coil, is taking place in Utrecht, The Netherlands from August 5 – 9.
Rose Kemp is the talented daughter of Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp, from Britsih folk legends Steeleye Span. After Rose played at Glastonbury 2006 she picked up a record deal with One Little Indian (Bjork) and toured with Dave Eugene Edwards/Woven Hand troughout Europe. In 2008 her most recent album Unholy Majesty was released on One Little Indian.
Earlier this year Rose called the Roadburn festival in the Netherlands, asking if she could play at the festival. And yes, everyone who was at her show at Roadburn agreed: it was one of the highlights of the festival. In October this year Rose Kemp will be playing as special guest on Porcupine Tree’s shows in Germany and Poland.
This years Zwarte Cross festival in Lichtenvoorde (NL), on July 24 – 26, is gonna be another HUGE party! The Zwarte Cross festival features 12 stages, a campsite, a theater area, a stunt arena, a kids corner and a full-blown motocross circuit. The Zwarte Cross has grown into one of the most unique festivals in Europe over the years and welcomed over 100,000 visitors in 2008.
Some of the heavier bands that will be playing this year are Roadrunner Records artists Delain and Opeth, Indie Recordings artists Vreid and Enslaved and a whole bunch more cool bands – what about Comeback Kid, The Death Letters, Walls Of Jericho, Pestilence, Peter Pan Speedrock, Normaal, The Shavers, The Datsuns, Mothers Finest, The Seatsniffers, Legion Of The Damned and Nevermore! The Petting Zoo also recommends Le Chat Noir and Dollhouse! Visit the official Zwarte Cross website here or click the official banner below to go there. Feel free to use this banner wherever you want!
Last week, Band Of Horses let the world know that their third album “Infinite Arms” would hit record stores on May 18. And we can now report that the band has a label for “Infinite Arms”. Or, rather, the band has three labels for “Infinite Arms”: Brown Records/Fat Possum/Columbia.
Death Breath, the Swedish old-school death metal project featuring former Entombed drummer and main songwriter Nicke Andersson (most recently the frontman of rock ‘n’ roll band The Hellacopters), has completed the fourth recording session for its new album. According to the group, “pretty much everything besides vocals are finished. [We'd] have to say that we’ve recorded our fastest and heaviest stuff so far!”
On March 9 the Avett Brothers will play a special acoustic performance (and do a sigining) at Borders in Ann Arbor, MI. The performance will be streamed live via the Avett Brothers
Band of Horses return with their much anticipated third album “Infinite Arms” on May 18. The label that will release the album hasn’t been announced yet.
Fourteen years after his last album of original material, psych-rock legend and onetime 13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson is readying a new record called “True Love Cast Out All Evil”, out April 20 via 
