By bandweblogs on Feb 8, 2010 in Bands, Featured, Music News, New Releases, Singles, Videos | Tags: Ice Black Birds, youtube | 0 Comments
Proud to be different, Brighton's purveyors of indie-dance-blues Ice Black Birds announce the release of their debut single "Ears To the Ground" along with a string of UK tour dates.

Coming from Brighton, you'd expect a rather different sound to emerge from young band Ice Black Birds which features guitarist/lead vocalist Sam Denniston, lead guitarist George Grinling, bassist Harry Bohay-Nowell and drummer Pierre McFarlane.
However, this band are looking to set themselves apart from the pack with their unique (actually nearly incomparable) mixture of organic blues/rock, modern danceable indie and slight hints of mathy elements (in certain songs) to create something that could potentially be appreciated by fans of Robert Johnson, Led Zeppelin, White Denim, The Entrance Band, Foals and Tom Vek.
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By bandweblogs on Feb 8, 2010 in Albums, Music News, New Releases, Videos | Tags: Martin Scorsese, Movies, Robbie Robertson, Shutter Island, Soundtracks, Track Listings, youtube | 0 Comments
Paramount Pictures presents Shutter Island, the latest film from Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese.

Premiering February 19, 2010 in theatres nationwide, the suspense thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Williams. Laeta Kalogridis wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Dennis Lehane.
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By bandweblogs on Feb 8, 2010 in Albums, Bands, Music News | Tags: Auctions, Depeche Mode, Royal Albert Hall, The Horrors | 0 Comments
Depeche Mode and Hublot launch the auction of the most exclusive collector's pieces in the history of Rock and Roll with all proceeds donated to the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Bidding begins February 8th and terminates February 24, 2010.
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By bandweblogs on Feb 8, 2010 in Music News, New Releases, Singles, Videos | Tags: Access Hollywood, Agnes, American Idol, Sweden, youtube | 0 Comments
International superstar Agnes was the youngest winner of Sweden's American Idol at 17 years old, and now only four years later, she's poised to take the US pop music scene by storm.

The rising star is currently featured on Access Hollywood's "On The Download" where she is deemed an artist to watch in 2010!
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By bandweblogs on Feb 8, 2010 in Albums, Music News, New Releases, Videos | Tags: Bands on Twitter, Easton Corbin, youtube | 0 Comments
Easton Corbin's self-titled full-length debut album is slated for release March 2, 2010 on Mercury Nashville.

Recognized for his unapologetically country sound and baritone drawl, he already has a Top 10 hit to his name with introductory single "A Little More Country Than That" which debuted in August.
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By bandweblogs on Feb 8, 2010 in Bands, Music News, New Releases, Singles | Tags: American Bang, Bands on Twitter | 0 Comments
American Bang is comprised of a wildly talented gang of young rock 'n rollers who've been playing together in assorted combinations all their lives.

After many incarnations of local bands, all four members - Johnston, lead guitarist Ben Brown, bassist Kelby Ray, and drummer Neil Mason - came of age musically as students of rock 'n roll in the heart of Music City, which has paid off in the group's confident sense of song craft.
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By bandweblogs on Feb 8, 2010 in Albums, Music News, New Releases | Tags: Albert Hammond Jr., Reno Bo, SXSW, The Mooney Suzuki, Tour Dates, Track Listings | 0 Comments
Reno Bo, former member of NYC garage rockers, The Mooney Suzuki, & Albert Hammond Jr's band (of The Strokes), will be releasing his solo debut, Happenings And Other Things on February 9, 2010 on Electric Western Records.

Happenings And Other Things is the 1st solo record for Reno Bo and establishes him as a songwriter in his own right.
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By bandweblogs on Feb 5, 2010 in Music News, New Releases, Videos | Tags: Corinne Bailey Rae, Erykah Badu, SoulCulture, youtube | 0 Comments

Speaking to SoulCulture this week, Corinne Bailey Rae describes her experience of attending Erykah Badu's recent album listening party held in New York, what she thinks of the album and explains why the figurehead of Neo Soul is one of her key modern inspirations, alongside Bjork.
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By bandweblogs on Feb 5, 2010 in Bands, Music News | Tags: Festivals, Liverpool, Liverpool Sound City, Paloma Faith, Seymour Stein, Speech Debelle, Wave Machines | 0 Comments
Liverpool Sound City have announced the first two headline acts to play in this year's music festival.

The girls lead the way with stunning vocalist Paloma Faith and Mercury Prize winner Speech Debelle visiting the city.
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By bandweblogs on Feb 5, 2010 in Albums, Music News, New Releases | Tags: Loudon Wainwright III, Lucy Wainwright-Roche, Suzzy Roche, The Indigo Girls, Tour Dates | 0 Comments
Having literally followed in her illustrious families footsteps, her father Loudon Wainwright III, her mother Suzzy Roche (The Roches), not to mention her brother and sister Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche is establishing a name all by herself and stamping her very own indelible mark on the music scene.

Lucy heads out on a 16-date tour of UK and Ireland fully equipped with her sumptuous debut album 'Lucy' (released March 1st) acoustic guitar and majestic voice.
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