By bandweblogs on Mar 4, 2009 in Albums, Bands, Featured, New Releases, Press Releases, Videos | Tags: Gary Wright, Island Records, Larkio Music, Shows, youtube | 0 Comments

Visionary songwriter and performer Gary Wright enters his fourth decade of musical pioneering with two new releases – the ambient music collection ‘Waiting to Catch the Light’, and an EP called ‘The Light of a Million Suns’ which, with multidimensional experiences in instrumentation and production, recall his enduring 1975 hits “Dream Weaver” and “Love is Alive” …
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By bandweblogs on Mar 7, 2008 in Bands, Music, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: Def Jam Records, Innerpartysystem, Island Records, Joel Hamilton, Mark Needham, Music, PureVolume, Shows, Spike Stent, SXSW | 0 Comments

Innerpartysystem. Type that name into Google. Go on. We’ll wait. Not much there, right? A few shout-outs, like “Innerpartysystem deftly toe a thin line between anthemic pop-rock and melodramatic electro-pop” says Spin …
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By bandweblogs on Feb 5, 2008 in Albums, Music, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: Daniel Hunter, Electronic, Island Records, Music, Musicians, PlayRadioPlay!, Pop, Texas, The Spill Canvas, Tour Dates, Yellowcard | 0 Comments

After a year of touring (with Gym Class Heroes, Fall Out Boy and Young Love, among others), Daniel Hunter and his PlayRadioPlay! outfit is ready to unleash his first full-length opus, ‘TEXAS’. Says Hunter, a die-hard Cowboys fan: “I named it for the love of the state.” …
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By bandweblogs on Dec 14, 2007 in Albums, Bands, Music, New Releases, Press Releases, Videos | Tags: Alter Bridge, Concerts, Island Records, Mark Tremonti, Music, Myles Kennedy, Record Companies, Shows, Tickets, Tour Dates, UK Singles Releases, Universal Records | 0 Comments

Alter Bridge have announced they will release the single, “Ties That Bind” through Universal/Island Records on 21st January 2008. The track is taken from their Top 40 album ‘Blackbird’ …
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By bandweblogs on Dec 14, 2007 in Music, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: American Idol, Cds, Def Jam, EPs, Fizz Superstar, Island Records, Kerli, L.A. Reid, Music, Record Companies, Singers | 12 Comments

Kerli’s life story is nothing short of a Cinderella story. Growing up in Elva, Estonia, a then Russian-occupied town of 5,000 residents, Kerli had dreams and aspirations that pushed way beyond the boundaries of her communist surroundings …
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By bandweblogs on Dec 13, 2007 in Bands, Music, New Releases, Reviews and Commentary | Tags: Bristol, Geoff Barrow, Island Records, Liam Fray, Malakai, MTV2, Music, NME, Parka, Portishead, Radio One, The Courteeners, The Ghost Frequency, The Rushes, UK Singles Releases, Zane Lowe | 2 Comments

2007 has been an exciting year for new, up and coming bands, and 2008 looks to be another great year of music (fingers crossed). We have just a handful of bands for you to peruse, here on Band Weblogs …
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