Jaguar Love

Blood Brothers may have betrayed their blood oath by breaking up, but the spirit of that raucous Seattle act lives on in Jaguar Love. Despite being mainly based in Seattle and Portland, the duo basically live on the road and have played live with the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age (Rob Pope of Spoon played based for JAGUAR LOVE on a recent tour), TV on the Radio and more.

‘Hologram Jams’  is the first Jaguar Love album to feature the band’s stripped down and rebuilt from the ground up two-piece line up of Johnny Whitney (Vocals, keys, drum machines) and Cody Votolato (Guitars, vocals, drum machines), both formerly of the late, lamented Blood Brothers. “Cody and I have always had a strong bond, both creatively and as friends – and working on this album together was the most productive, free flow of ideas I have ever been a part of,” said Whitney.

During their short career so far the band’s inimitable sound has inspired the folks at Matador Records, who signed one album and an EP, as well as Fat Possum, who have now signed them to a worldwide deal.

Sophomore full-length ‘Hologram Jams’ reunited Cody and Johnny with producer John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, Los Campesinos!, Death Cab For Cutie), who also produced Blood Brothers’ 100,000+ selling ‘Crimes’ and co-produced the subsequent ‘Young Machetes’ with Guy Picciotto of Fugazi fame. Goodmanson co-produced with Votolato and Whitney on this oneand the resulting sound combines soulful howls colliding with and coursing over relentless dance beats and heavy glam guitars. Hologram Jams is bursting with hooks.

The Gaslight Anthem

Since the release of their first album for SideOneDummy ‘The ’59 Sound’, New Jersey’s The Gaslight Anthem have toured the world and performed at major festivals including Coachella, Rock Am Ring, Glastonbury, Pinkpop, Lollapalooza, Reading and Leeds, Hyde Park Calling, Fuji Rock, Hurricane, Gurten and Roskilde. Legendary performances at Glastonbury and Hyde Park saw them perform on the same stage (at the same time) with none other than Bruce ‘The Boss’ Springsteen himself.

THE ’59 SOUND was named one of the best albums of the year in 2008 (and, in some cases, the decade) by NME, Kerrang!, Q Magazine, VISIONS, Rock Sound and Big Cheese, and the band won the “Best International Newcomer” award at the 2009 Kerrang! Awards as well. Both Rock Sound and Kerrang! have been tireless supporters, giving the band cover features early on in their career.

Subsource

‘Jaw-dropping power, soul and perception’ The Fly

‘This is so up my street’ Eddy Temple Morris (XFM)

‘The best cyberpunk riot since The Prodigy’ The Metro

Rising against the mainstream hype-machines, crowds of the nameless and faceless writhe and twist to undeniable unique sound of SUBSOURCE as it rages out of soundsystems in sweat drenched rooms across continents. The snarl of punk, the oscillating sub bass of dubstep, the relentless ferocity of drum’n’bass and metal get chewed up and spat out amongst electronic glitches.

This beat and bass driven live punk rock act make ravers throw shapes, rockers bang heads, and rude bois throw their hands in the air. With regular tours as far reaching as China and everywhere in between, a solid ever increasing fan base, and the completion of their most exciting recordings to date, SUBSOURCE are proving to be ones to watch in 2012.

In addition to their live reputation and award nominations for festival performances their sound has been heard across the mainstream and pirate radio waves and in synced from everything from video games to TV. This summer saw the completion of ‘SUBSOURCE – A Dubumentary’ showing the small wins and big losses of breaking an underground band on their journey across Europe and is currently touring film festivals.

Not just content with being a live act check out their impressive Resmashed series, SUBSOURCE refix classic tunes Testify (RATM), Breed (Nirvana) and Toxicity (SOAD) racking up tens of thousands of hits, smashing there way round the blogs and dancefloors alike.

Everyone is keen to have a little bit of the SUBSOURCE sound with them and supports have ranged from Skindred, Sonic Boom Six and Enter Shikari to Dizzie Rascal, Example and Dreadzone and studio sessions with Far Too Loud, Jurassic 5 and The Prodigy.

Suicidal Tendencies

Controversial from their outset, Suicidal Tendencies formed in Venice, CA, during the early ’80s. Vocalist Mike Muir led the group in a vicious hardcore frenzy and they built up a huge following among skateboarders and those who were involved with the burgeoning hardcore scene of the time. The underground buzz regarding Suicidal Tendencies was intense and labels took note. The band signed with indie label Frontier, issuing Suicidal Tendencies’ classic self-titled debut in 1983. The album quickly became the best-selling hardcore album up to that point. Lead track and bonafide teen angst classic ‘Institutionalized’ was one of the first hardcore punk videos to be played a lot on MTV. 1987 saw the release of Suicidal’s sophomore release, ‘Join the Army’, and more and more metal heads began to be spotted in Suicidal’s audience. Suicidal made it to the ‘bigtime’ with a major-label contract through Epic and 1988’s ‘How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Smile Today’ demonstrated a full transformation from hardcore to heavy metal. Suicidal’s first release of the new decade, 1990’s ‘Lights, Camera, Revolution,’ was another success and the group broadened their audience even further by opening a string of arena shows for prog-metallists Queensrÿche in 1991. Never ones to get stuck in a rut, 1992’s ‘The Art of Rebellion,’ proved to be one of Suicidal’s most musically experimental albums. After giving it a break for a few years, Muir formed a new version of Suicidal Tendencies in the late ’90s (with Clark being the only other familiar face), resulting in such further studio releases as 1999’s ‘Freedumb’ and 2000’s ‘Free Your Soul and Save My Mind’.

2010’s DVD release ‘Live at the Olympic Auditorium’, Suicidal Tendencies’ first-ever DVD, is 80 minutes of video footage featuring 16 tracks including ST classics ‘Institutionalized’, ‘War Inside My Head’ and ‘Possessed To Skate’ and captures the band in their most natural environment; onstage, uncensored and ready to tear you to shreds. “The band started getting emails from some crazy guy that always said, ‘I know you’ll probably think that I’m crazy but I wanna book ST for a show and I got this idea…’,” explains frontman Mike Muir.  “Well, one by one we shot down the unique ideas until one time he emailed and said the Olympic Auditorium was being bought by a Korean Church, shouldn’t it be sent off with a special last gig? The band agreed and then the work began. The promoter – Evel Dick Donato who went on to win Big Brother – tells a bit about the show, making of etc on the intro. Lots of drama, none more than the day before the show when I woke up and couldn’t walk. But the show must go on and the back surgery would have to wait until afterwards! Suicidal performed live at the Olympic Auditorium in front of 4,000 Cycos…but now you can enjoy it in the safety of your living room.” 2010 also marks a new Suicidal Tendencies studio album…

The Who

Monday 8th February 2010 – The Who release THE WHO GREATEST HITS / GREATEST HITS LIVE to coincide with their performance during the halftime show of the 2010 SUPERBOWL XLIV.

Halftime at The Super Bowl is one of the most anticipated musical events of the year and will be broadcast worldwide in more than 230 countries and territories with THE WHO being seen by one of the largest television audiences in history.

The band performed classic songs from the forthcoming GREATEST HITS / GREATEST HITS LIVE album during the halftime entertainment beginning with their first single ‘My Generation’ and concluding with a track from its most recent album ‘Endless Wire’; this spans the group’s entire recording career from 1964 to date.

The Greatest Hits CD/download also includes classics such as, ‘My Generation’, ‘I Can’t Explain’, ‘The Kids Are Alright’, ‘Pinball Wizard’, ‘I Can See For Miles’, ‘Substitute’ as well as featuring the three theme songs to the CSI series – ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’, ‘Who Are You’ and ‘Baba O’Riley’.

Disc two of the package includes a full album of rare live tracks chosen by the band, covering performances from 1965 up to 2007, with spectacular live versions of many classic hits and live favourites.

Ganglians

Sacramento’s Ganglians want an island somewhere where they can soak in the sun and prowl the canopy by night. It’s not often that they do get out, but they can get down for that. Recording sometimes as one, sometimes as four it’s a real game to figure out where the entity comes from and where it’s going. First and foremost it’s about uncertain pleasures. It’s a bit like choose your own adventure. There’s “codeine balladry”; a slightly upsetting tempo that is quickly flushed into an aural high, the next moment you’re in the toy strewn abyss of the bedroom and then out to the tribal caves of the natives. The planets align and the sun beats down, palms tingling, and you are on the island they’ve built, the scenery constantly shifting for a better view, of you.