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“Nobody ever paid money to see Harry Houdini escape being buried alive” says Ex- Gutter Twins / Ex-The Twilight Singers guitarist / keyboardist and My Jerusalem founder and singer Jeff Klein. “They wanted the small chance of seeing him killed by the weight of the earth on top of him”.

Behold the concept behind Preachers, the second full-length release from Austin’s My Jerusalem. From the opening piano of the haunting title track, to the unexpected pummeling guitar and drums on closer I Left My Conscience In You, Preachers leads the listener on a cinematic journey through a reckless, jagged landscape of Raymond Carver-esque stories, fueled by Klein’s persuasive baritone, ominous guitars, dream-like keyboards and a deep rhythmic pulse.

Recorded in under three weeks by Spoon d...

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Watchers reveal video for new single, Cut The Ribbon

Since touring with The Charlatans in 2011 and supporting the likes of The Vaccines, Clock Opera, Islet, and S.C.U.M. Watchers have been gaining recognition as one of the best emerging bands in the north east of England. On October 8th, they will release their debut double A-side single, Cut The Ribbon / Every Night I Look Strong, produced by Danton Supple (Morrissey, U2, Coldplay, Doves).

The band now reveals a video to accompany the track. In a band statement, Watchers said;

“We are delighted to announce the release of our debut single Cut the Ribbon. This song is juxtaposed with a second a-side Every Night I look Strong. The video invites you into our studio and our lives around the north east...

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Chris Helme, formerly the lead singer of The Seahorses, John Squire’s post-Stone Roses band has a new solo album out,’The Rookery’.

He is now about to start a tour of the UK, which takes in venues all over the country (and includes some dates with 90s legends Ocean Colour Scene and Mark Morriss of The Bluetones).

TOUR DATES
• 2nd Oct 2012, Surya, London
• 7th Oct 2012, Rock Your Mind Festival, Middlesborough
• 12th Oct 2012, Kings Hall (with Simon & Oscar of Ocean Colour Scene), Herne Bay
• 3rd Nov 2012, Venue Cymru (with Turin Brakes), Llandudno
• 4th Nov 2012, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
• 9th Nov 2012, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
• 10th Nov 2012, Tollbooth, Stirling
• 23rd Nov 2012, The Square (with Mark Morriss of The Bluetones), Harlow
• 29th Nov 2012, Compass, Chester
• ...

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Album release: Between Buildings, Toward The Sea
Release date: 16 October 2012
Label: Epitonic
Listen: http://www.autumnowls.com

Autumn Owls are pleased to announce their debut album, Between Buildings, Toward The Sea, which will be the first release from Epitonic.com’s new label, on October 16.

Autumn Owls first formed in Dublin in 2007, releasing two EPs in 2008 and touring extensively in Europe for the next few years; they also performed at key North American events such as SXSW, CMJ, Canadian Music Week and NXNE. After receiving an excellent reception to their EPs from the likes of The Irish Times, Channel 4, State.ie, AU Magazine and The Evening Herald, the band finally settled in to writing their debut full-length late last year.

To record the album, the Dublin trio headed over to th...

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Rupert Stroud – Brand New Video for Latest Single ‘Twisted Games’ & Free Download of B-Side ‘No Peace of Mind’

Rupert Stroud presents the brand new video for his latest single ‘Twisted Games’. Filmed in an old, dilapidated mill in West Yorkshire the video perfectly compliments Stroud’s haunting vocals, sombre verses and menacingly rich arrangements.

Stroud is also giving away a free download of the single’s B-Side ‘No Peace of Mind’ here:

http://bit.ly/TuCACz

Rupert Stroud started out playing the Yorkshire gig circuit as a solo acoustic artist penning his debut Rupert Road along the way. He was discovered by eminent British producer Will Jackson (The Kaiser Chiefs, Embrace, The Cribs, The Music) who adamantly brought Rupert into his studio to record...

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Meet Katie Cole originally from Melbourne , Australia , now based in Los Angeles , USA . Does she dominate with ballads? No. Does she compose songs on the piano? Rarely. What she does do then? She rocks and enjoys a loud guitar, a strong melodic hook and an up tempo pop song. Growing up on a strict diet of rock music from her Mum, she was fed Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin in one ear and Maria Callas from her Vocally classically trained, Father. After a quick detour in music to Smashing Pumpkins, Aretha Franklin and Eurythmics, Katie describes her own style of music as having flavors of Sheryl Crow, KT Tunstall and Carolina Liar.

After writing songs for established artists like Gloria Gaynor, Katie spent a good handful of years touring in Australia where she released an EP l...

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Award-winning Californian songwriter Melinda Ortner announces that her forthcoming single, Sweet Little Lies, is now available to stream online. Officially released October 8th and taken from the forthcoming EP Strangers, released on September 17th, Ortner reveals a little more about the single’s origin;

“Sweet Little Lies is an angsty, poetic statement and inner monologue that more girls than not have at one point related to…the headspin and mind game of getting led on by someone you think is fantastic…and then…nothing…And when you thought this one might be different. I’ll be fully candid here and say the subject of the story was from an online dating website. I was younger and much more stupid. Deep down, I knew the B.S...

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Jam’s final studio album and to mark the 30th anniversary of the bands startling split Universal release a super-deluxe box set of “The Gift” On November 19th 2012

“I was very proud of it – I thought it was another advance on what we’d done before”. Paul Weller – 2012

Surprisingly this was the band’s only No 1 album and marked the departure from the classic Jam sound to a more soul-influenced style, ushering in Weller’s ideas for the Style Council. “The Gift” includes the classic No 1 ‘Town Called Malice’ plus other highlights ‘Running On The Spot’ and ‘Carnation’ all still featured in Weller’s live sets today.

The Gift, released in March 1982 was The Jam’s final studio album, which Weller strove to bring as close to ...

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German thrash titans, DESTRUCTION, have revealed the tracklisting for the band’s upcoming 30th anniversary album, ’Spiritual Genocide’.
“For the anniversary album, we’ve really knuckled down big-time – we’ve never been so fast, brutal and groovy before!”, Schmier, DESTRUCTION.

Spiritual Genocide’ is set to be released November 26th, 2012 via Nuclear Blast.
Spiritual Genocide

01. Exordium
02. Cyanide
03. Spiritual Genocide
04. Renegades
05. City Of Doom
06. No Signs Of Repentance
07. To Dust You Will Decay
08. Legacy Of The Past (Guest Version feat. Gerre/TANKARD & Tom Angelripper/SODOM)
09. Carnivore
10. Riot Squad
11. Under Violent Sledge

Limited Edition Digipack Bonus Tracks:
12. Princess Of The Night
13. Carnivore (Guest Version feat...

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During a well-deserved time-out over the 2012/13 period, a testimonial of Hammerfall’s on-stage excellence is being released in DVD/2-CD and Blu-Ray/2-CD format’s on December 3rd in the UK via Nuclear Blast, entitled ’Gates Of Dalhalla’.

It contains 135 emphatic minutes of the ’15-Year Anniversary Show’, that took place on the 28th July on the historic open-air stage ’Dalhalla’, built in an old quarry near the small Swedish village of Rättvik.

’Oscar Dronjak’ comments:

”The set contained 26 tracks and lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes, by far the longest and most comprehensive gig of our entire career! We played songs from every album and then some, there were lots of guests and pyros, and we had 80 Marshall cabinets and the big shield with the HF logo carved out in the middle hanging broug...