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0 THE RABID WHOLE Show Dates: Canadian Music Week, Hamilton Independent Music Fest + New Music Video ‘Future’

February 22, 2013
by Asher
· The Rabid Whole

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THE RABID WHOLE Show Dates: Canadian Music Week, Hamilton Independent Music Fest + New Music Video ‘Future’

From Left to Right: JJ Tartaglia: Drums | Andreas Weiss: Vocals, Guitar | Oscar Anesetti: Bass Guitar | Chalsey Noelle: Keyboards, Vocals | George Radutu: Guitar (Photo Credit: Darko – www.darkophoto.com) [ DOWNLOAD – HIGH-RES PRESS PHOTO ]

Toronto, ON’s award nominated electro / industrial rockers The Rabid Whole have announced they will be performing at this year’s Canadian Music Week on Tuesday, March 19th at The Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen St. W.) followed by a performance at the Hamilton Independent Music Festival on Saturday, March 23rd at The Underground (41 Catharine St. North) for a matinee showcase in support of their latest album ‘Refuge’. The band recently released their new music video ‘Future’, directed by Shawn Haynes of Love and Cross Bones Productions, which can be viewed below.

Music Video – ‘Future’

Video Credits: Directed by Shawn Haynes

http://www.loveandcrossbones.com/

Show Details

Canadian Music Week

Date: Tuesday March 19, 2013
Venue: Bovine Sex Club
Time: 1:00 AM

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/120294178153570/

Hamilton Independent Music Festival

Date: Saturday March 23, 2013
Venue: The Underground
Time: 4:30 PM (Matinee Showcase)

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/160965574055843/

About:

There’s something to be said for fate in the music world. One moment you’re left with the skeleton of a band, unsure when you’ll be able to follow your calling again, the next you’ve got a whole new line-up, a brand new home, a stronger, more defined sound and are recording with some of the biggest names in the industry. This is the tale of The Rabid Whole.

Disenchanted with playing in bands whose music was unchallenging and run of the mill, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Andreas Weiss set out to remedy his predicament. Purchasing an arsenal of music and noise-making gadgets, he began writing songs for his own band’s 2009 debut album, Autramaton.

Recruiting musicians along the way, the first incarnation of The Rabid Whole was solidified, releasing their first album and touring Canada, sharing the stage with the likes of The Birthday Massacre, Econoline Crush, Hinder, Apoptygma Berzerk, and 16Volt.

But that’s when things began to take a turn. Following the departure of several band members, Weiss decided to leave his hometown of Regina, SK behind, taking a leap of faith and moving to Toronto, ON along with guitarist and founding member George Radutu.

Through some lucky online ads, he discovered drummer JJ Tartaglia and bass guitarist Oscar Anesetti while a Christmas trip back home to Regina put him face-to-face with Chalsey Noelle, a friend of a friend looking for a new career path after quitting her job. Wouldn’t you know it – Noelle was a talented keyboardist and vocalist.

Now, the new and improved Rabid Whole is set to release their second album, Refuge, on May 1, 2012. A direct reflection of the emotional and external changes of Weiss’ journey, the album deals with relatable themes.

“I sold my house, quit my engineering consultant job and moved…We were starting from square one again, but with more uncertainties than ever and weren’t sure when we would even have a full band again. Part of the writing had begun randomly scattered over the past couple of years, but the majority came right after the move. I set up the studio in the basement of my house and got to work. I didn’t leave the house for two months and wrote from the moment I’d wake up until I’d fall asleep,” says Weiss.

Recorded and produced by Karl Schubach (Misery Signals, Solace), mixed by Dave Ogilvie (Jakalope, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson) and mastered by Noah Mintz (Broken Social Scene, Death From Above 1979), the finished product delivers rock and electronic elements pushed to the max, a male and female vocal showdown and, as Weiss puts it, showcases “a 21st century, high-energy, electro alternative, orgasmic-punch-in-the-face-rock band.”

Isn’t it time you fell down the rabid whole?

FREE DOWNLOAD – ‘Delusion’ – http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/the-rabid-whole-delusion-free-download

FREE DOWNLOAD – ‘Future’ – http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/the-rabid-whole-future-free-download

Full stream of album – ‘Refuge’:
http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/the-rabid-whole-refuge-album-stream-exclusive-world-premiere

“Refuge”

1. Future
2. Metro
3. Corporate
4. New System
5. Serenity Falls
6. Solution
7. Rhythmic Reflection
8. Stargazer
9. Delusion
10. Refuge

0 Prog Rockers FEN Release New Music Video ‘A Long Line Final’ + Performing Telus Ski & Snowboard Festival Kickoff

February 21, 2013
by Asher
· FEN

Label Links: Ripple-Music.com | Bandcamp | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube

Prog Rockers FEN Release New Music Video ‘A Long Line Final’ + Performing Telus Ski & Snowboard Festival Kickoff

Top Left to Right = Bass: Jeff Caron | Drums: Nando Polesel

Bottom Left to Right = Lead Guitars/Backing Vocals: Sam Levin | Guitars/Vocals: Doug Harrison

Vancouver progressive rockers FEN have released their latest music video ‘A Long Line Final’ from their fifth and latest album ‘Of Losing Interest’ released last summer via indie label Ripple Music to follow up their fourth release ‘Trails Out Of Gloom’. The band will also be performing at this year’s Telus Ski & Snowboard Festival Kick Off on March 21st at the Electric Owl (926 Main St.) in Vancouver, BC. (show details below)

Their heaviest and most technical album to date, ‘Of Losing Interest’ is an album that revisits the band’s harder edged metallic past while retaining the melodic sensibilities that made ‘Trails Out of Gloom’ so alluring. Co-Produced by Mike Southworth, his fourth with the band, ‘Of Losing Interest’ is a contrast of technical virtuosity layered against warm low end organics.

To view the video, please visit the following link below.

Track Listing: Of Losing Interest

1. Riddled 03:55
2. Of Losing Interest 04:59
3. Nice For Three Days 04:04
4. A Long Line 04:43
5. The Glove 03:23
6. Drunken Relief 04:26
7. Light Up The End 03:34
8. Pilot Plant 06:03
9. Snake Path 03:17

Show Details

Show Details:

March 21, 2013 – The Electric Owl – Vancouver, BC w/ Marching Mind, Porn for the Blind (kick off show for the Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival, coming to Whistler April 12-21) put on by Powder Rocket http://powderrocket.com/about/ and Streetkore http://www.streetkore.com/about/

About:

In January of 1998, in the mountain shadows of Nelson, British Columbia, a creatorship emerged called Fen. The road has been long for this dark-leaning band, which after more than a decade of obscurity, was finally ushered into the prog and metal fan’s psyche. This occurred in 2010, when Fen signed to California label Ripple music and released their fourth album Trails Out Of Gloom. The album garnered impressive reviews from bloggers and print magazines worldwide, including mention in the UK’s Classic Rock magazine and a perfect 16/16 score from the US authority on prog: Progressions Magazine. To follow up this attention, in May of 2011, the management of UK/Israeli prog veterans Blackfield invited Fen to open for them on the Vancouver stop of their North American tour.

To date, Fen’s music has sold in more than fifteen countries, and with the help of dedicated bloggers, two AAA-radio campaigns, and a music video for the single “Miracle,” the band’s following continues to expand. In surprising contrast to the dark nature of Fen’s music, their songs have been placed on HGTV (Home and Garden Television) and Animal Planet’s, From Underdog to Wonderdog, among others. The song “Through the Night” will soon be available on the video game RockBand.

Fen has performed at clubs and festivals throughout BC, and in the summer of 2011, took part in the Forest Symphony at UBC’s Pacific Spirit Park. Fen’s fifth album, Of Losing Interest, will be available in August 2012, and is a return to the heavier aspects of the band’s sound. It is their second release under the Ripple Music label, and it brings together a band line up first assembled in 1999.

0 MONTREAL – MARCH 28 – GLEN MATLOCK (SEX PISTOLS) + TOMMY RAMONE (THE RAMONES) ‘ACOUSTIC ANARCHY’

February 21, 2013
by Asher
· Dungeon Works Productions

MONTREAL – MARCH 28 – GLEN MATLOCK (SEX PISTOLS) + TOMMY RAMONE (THE RAMONES) ‘ACOUSTIC ANARCHY’

Punk legends Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols and Tommy Ramone of The Ramones will be performing in Montreal on March 28th at Piranha Bar (680 Ste-Catherine Ouest) with their touring show ‘Acoustic Anarchy’, playing classics for beloved fans along with new solo material.

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Video – Acoustic Snippets – http://youtu.be/PgZloW0ndtY

EPK – Glen Matlock – http://offthemenuentertainment.com/wordpress/?p=1261

About:

Glen Matlock is one of the most respected, if underrated British musicians. In a career that has spanned over thirty years, Glen has made indelible contributions to music as the original bass player with The Sex Pistols, formed the underrated Rich Kids, worked with a variety of artists ranging from Iggy Pop, fellow original School of ’76 Brit Punk Rockers The Damned, through to neo-rockabilly singer Robert Gordon, whilst pursuing his own musically distinctive direction where melodic and inventive rock music thrives. To cap it all, 2010 sees Glen release a brand new album – arguably the finest to bear his name – in the shape of Born Running, as well as taking the coveted bass playing role in the reformed Faces.

Glen Matlock was one born on August 27^th 1956, in Kensal Green, North West London. Growing up in London through the 1960s and early 70s, Matlock fell under the musical influence of the likes of The Kinks, The Who, The Faces andDavid Bowie. In 1974, whilst employed as an assistant in the King’s Road, Chelsea clothing emporium Let It Rock(owned by Malcolm McLaren and his then-wife Vivienne Westwood) joined up with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook (alongside guitarist Wally Nightingale) in a combo that would become The Sex Pistols. The band line-up was completed by the recruitment of John Lydon (soon to become Johnny Rotten) as their vocalist. The Sex Pistols line-up eventually settled around Rotten, Jones and Cook, with Matlock playing bass and singing backing vocals. However, Matlock made the most crucial musical contributions to the Pistols, his innate grasp of melody and song structure essential to knocking the band song ideas into a workable shape.

After Matlock’s departure from The Sex Pistols, he hooked up with old pal, guitarist Steve New, alongside drummer Rusty Egan and guitarist / singer-songwriter Midge Ure, formerly of Scottish pop band Slik, to form The Rich Kids, who signed to EMI and were quickly ushered into a studio to cut the album Ghosts of Princes In Towers with one of Matlock’s heroes, Spiders From Mars guitarist Mick Ronson. The Rich Kids failed to live up to their promise, however and after they split, Matlock worked with Iggy Pop on his Soldier album and subsequent tour, and then formed The Spectres with former Tom Robinson Band guitarist Danny Kustow.

Matlock’s autobiography, I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol, was published to great critical acclaim in 1990, and updated and reprinted in 1996 with insights and updates following the reformed Sex Pistols ‘Filthy Lucre’ tour, which revealed that Matlock was also a fine raconteur and witty writer.

Despite John Lydon’s talent for quotable sound bites, it is actually Glen Matlock who is the most articulate and thoughtful of the Sex Pistols. When the Pistols former manager Malcolm McLaren died in April 2010, it was Matlock who provided the world’s press and media with their main point of contact to the Sex Pistols, and provided a distinct, considered overview of Malcolm McLaren’s contribution to contemporary culture and his legacy.

In April, 2010, Matlock toured Australia with US rockabilly singer Robert Gordon, along with Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats and guitarist Chris Spedding. Spedding produced some demo recordings for The Sex Pistols in 1976, one of the few old school musicians who acknowledged the worth of the band, and Matlock returned that favour three and a half decades later!

In the spring of 2010, it was announced that three members of The Faces – Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones – were to reform, with Mick Hucknall on vocals, and with Glen taking the coveted role as Ronnie Lane’sreplacement on bass, a huge accolade and confirmation of Glen’s high standing amongst his musical peers, and a massive personal achievement for a lifelong fan of the band.

Glen’s latest album, Born Running, offers up twelve more punchy and direct examples of Matlock’s innate ability to craft timeless, melodic rock songs. It has an added poignancy insofar as it features the last recordings of guitarist Steve New,one of Matlock’s oldest friends and fellow founder-member of The Rich Kids, who died in 2010. Also in the band’s line up is drummer Javier Weyler, the current drumming incumbent with The Stereophonics, as well as guitarist James Stevenson, who, like Matlock, is a musical survivor from the original School of ’76 British Punk Rock. The album was produced by Jim Lowe, who has produced numerous hugely successful albums for The Stereophonics. Born Running is the latest salvo from a musician and songwriter who is never satisfied with resting on his considerable musical achievements; there is much more to come from this hugely gifted individual.

Tommy Ramone Web

Tommy Ramone – I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (Live) – http://youtu.be/R0VOiNxC2Ao

EPK – Tommy Ramone – http://offthemenuentertainment.com/wordpress/?p=1803

About: Tommy Ramone began his musical career as Tom Erdelyi an engineer at New York’s Record Plant recording studios. While there he worked with artists Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin and Herbie Hancock.

Several years later he, along with the great Johnny, Joey and Dee Dee Ramone, formed the rock group Ramones and participated in the birth of New Wave, Punk Rock, and Alternative music. As manager, producer and drummer for the band, Tommy Ramone helped create the sound, style and ideology for what was to become modern rock.

As an independent record producer Ramone has worked on recordings that include the single, Love Goes to A Building On Fire by TALKING HEADS, and the albums, Neurotica by REDD KROSS, Too Tough To Die by the RAMONES, and Tim by THE REPLACEMENTS, the later voted one of the best albums of the year by the writers of Rolling Stone, Record, The Village Voice, and The LA Times.

Presently Tommy Ramone has an indie acoustic duo with partner Claudia Tienan called UNCLE MONK, in which he sings and plays mandolin and banjo. They are currently recording their second album. He is also working as a solo performer.

Show Details:

Les Productions Dungeon Works et Piranha Bar présentent:

https://www.facebook.com/events/516050498445986/

ACOUSTIC ANARCHY:

GLEN MATLOCK (Sex Pistols)
http://offthemenuentertainment.com/wordpress/?p=1261

TOMMY RAMONE (Ramones)
http://offthemenuentertainment.com/wordpress/?p=1803

HOBO OUTLAWS
www.facebook.com/pages/Hobo-Outlaws/126300597410834

THE HEROIN HAYRIDE
http://www.facebook.com/TheHeroinHayride?ref=ts&fref=ts

March 28th, 2013
le 28 mars, 2013
8:30PM / 20H30
@ Piranha Bar – 680 Ste-Catherine Ouest
18+

15$ – 20$ portes

billets disponibles:
tickets available at:

http://www.admission.com/event/glen-matlock–tommy-ramone-billets/708107

et bientôt à:

Boutique X20
Piranha Bar
Sound Central

commandité par:
sponsored by:

Revolutionary Longboards
Absolute Underground

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0 Melodic Death Thrashers CHARIOTS OF THE GODS Announce Tour Dates + New Video ‘Tides of War’

February 21, 2013
by Asher
· Chariots of The Gods

CHARIOTS OF THE GODS PROMOS CAN BE REQUESTED HERE

Purchase Links: Bandcamp | iTunes

Melodic Death Thrashers CHARIOTS OF THE GODS Announce Tour Dates + New Video ‘Tides of War’

L-R : Mathieu St-Amour (guitar) | Rich O’Neil (drums) | Renaud Jobin (vocals) | Payam Doryani (bass) | Dimitri Gervais (guitar) – Photo credit : Alexandru Petrosan [Download – High Res Press Photo]

Ottawa, ON’s melodic death thrashers Chariots of The Gods are proud to announce they will performing the following Quebec and Ontario tour dates in support of their recently released full length album ‘Tides of War’.

Produced by award winning producer/engineer/mixer Glen Robinson who has worked with names such as The Ramones, AC/DC, GWAR, Annihilator and Voivod, COTG’s new album delivers 14 epic, crushing tracks to follow up their well received 2010 debut EP ‘Reverence,’ which the band aggressively toured in Quebec and Ontario, sharing the stage with names such as Misfits, Voivod, Despised Icon, Kataklysm, Blind Witness, Misery Index, Martyr, Fuck the Facts, Blackguard, Neuraxis, The Agonist, Reanimator and Insurrection.

The metallers have released two singles off the album ‘Unbound’ featuring guest vocals by Aleksi Sihvonen of Norther and a FREE DOWNLOAD of the title track, both can be heard and purchased with the album at the following locations on bandcamp and iTunes.

Music Video – Tides of War

Track Listing – Tides of War

1. Overture
2. Seventh Weapon
3. Blind Assassin
4. Ambrosian Wings
5. Tides of War [Free Download – http://chariotsofthegods.bandcamp.com/track/tides-of-war]
6. Revillusion (1905)
7. Snow Falls On The White River (1914)
8. Severing The Bloodline (1917)
9. Collapse of An Empire
10. Red Skies
11. Nebula
12. Starborn
13. Unbound (feat. Aleksi Sihvonen)
14. Annihilation of The Gods

Tour Dates:

March 8, 2013 – Le Petit Chicago – Gatineau, QC

March 15, 2013 – The Doors Pub – Hamilton, ON

March 16, 2013 – D.C. Music Theatre – Etobicoke, ON (Toronto) METAL FEST w/ Adversary Number 7, Livid and Blood Thirsty, War and Hate, All Else Failed and more – Buy Tickets

March 23, 2013 – Woodstock Bar – Sherbrooke, QC w/ Made Up A Reason, Black Absinthe

March 29, 2013 – Carleton University – Ottawa, ON

For more info on Chariots of The Gods please follow them at these links:

www.chariotsofthegods.net | http://www.facebook.com/chariotsofthegods | Twitter: @chariotsotgods

About:

Riding out of Canada’s capital, Chariots of the Gods has one sole mission – to deliver straight up, balls-to-the-walls, in-your-face heavy metal. On the road since 2008, spreading its music to the masses, Chariots of the Gods has become known for blistering solos, gripping melodies, rioting vocals and drums that just won’t quit because, after all, that’s what it’s all about.

Having played with bands such as Misfits, Voivod, Despised Icon, Kataklysm, Blind Witness, Misery Index, Martyr, Fuck the Facts, Blackguard, Neuraxis, The Agonist, Reanimator and Insurrection and released a debut EP, Reverence, in 2010, Chariots of the Gods is now ready to unveil its latest masterpiece – Tides of War.

Produced by musical legend Glen Robinson (Queensryche, Gwar, Annihilator), the band’s debut full-length is set to storm the metal scene until there is nothing left, except Pure. Heavy. Fuckin’. Metal.