Killing Time Return!

The new record holds true to the Killing Time formula of hard-hitting, riff-heavy guitars and intelligent lyrics, backed by the pure passion that is synonymous with each Killing Time release. - more on this story

Suicide Silence Announce NAMM Signing, Deftones Benefit Performance and New Digital Single

America's premiere, genre-defying metal band, Suicide Silence, continue their New Year celebration by bringing the party to the NAMM convention in Anaheim. The group will be signing autographs at the Affliction Clothing Booth (located at 4130 on the main floor) Friday, Jan. 15th at 1PM.

The next night, Saturday, Jan 16th Suicide Silence are extremely proud to be performing at a very special benefit show for Deftones bassist Chi Cheng, who remains in a coma following an automobile accident. This massive all-star benefit also features members of Deftones, Korn, P.O.D., Dream Theater, Papa Roach, Chevelle, Pennywise, among many others. This event will be held at The Slidebar in Fullerton, which is located at 122 East Commonwealth Ave. The show is free, all ages and starts at 6PM.

SUICIDE SILENCE also recently released the "Wake Up" digital EP, which is only available via all digital download platforms. - more on this story

Fanfarlo Announce U.S. Tour

Acclaimed U.K. five-piece Fanfarlo have announced more U.S. headlining dates kicking off February 20th at Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre. (See below for list of U.S tour dates).

The band's most recent U.S. headline tour culminated with a special show at NYC's Webster Hall on December 18th. Before heading back to the States, Fanfarlo will do a string of January European headline shows.

Following the February U.S. shows the band will head back to the UK for a run of dates with Mumford and Sons. - more on this story

The Knife Opera

The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, are to release the studio version of the opera 'Tomorrow, In A Year', will be in stores March 9, 2010. The album will be released on digital download sites February 2, 2010.

Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based on Charles Darwin and his book 'On the Origin of the Species', The Knife decided to make this a collaborative process, working with artists Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for the first time, to capture the huge width of the Darwin and evolution theme. They extensively researched Darwin related literature and articles, with Olof attending a field recording workshop in the Amazon to find inspiration and to record sounds.

'Tomorrow, In A Year' is a unique musical project. Richard Dawkins' gene trees have formed the basis of some of the musical composition, artificial sounds have been mixed with field recordings, with the music inspired by everything from the different stages of a bird learning its melody, to a song based on Darwin's loving letters about his daughter Anne. These are compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera music. - more on this story

A Storm Of Light Hitting The Road

Brooklyn, NY's doom experimentalists A Storm Of Light, who made it a point to end the year with a crushing performance in their home borough at Club Europa opening for Coalesce, are in the process of booking a string of tour dates for the new year.

The band will hit Richmond, Athens, Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Phoenix, Chicago, Cleveland and NYC as well as a handful of west coast dates with the mighty Shrinebuilder.

A Storm Of Light's 2010 touring lineup will be: Josh Graham (Battle Of Mice, Blood And Time, Neurosis): guitar, vocals -- Domenic Seita (ex Tombs): bass, backing vocals -- Geoff Summers (Batillus): drums -- Zohra Atash (Religious To Damn): vocals - more on this story

Jon Troast Previews Living Room

After recently completing his aggressive and unique 100 Concerts In 100 Days Tour - where from March 20th to June 27th of this year he performed 100 living room concerts throughout the nation in 100 consecutive days - singer/songwriter Jon Troast has also worked in enough time to head back into the studio to record his latest full-length album aptly titled Living Room.

To jump start the January 19th release of Jon's new album director Matt Mason has produced a new video for Jon's "Living Room Tour" song, which playfully recreates the fun, honest, down-home vibe of his recent 100 Concerts In 100 Days Tour. The video can be viewed more

The majority of Living Room was directly inspired by Jon's many experiences from his 100 Concerts in 100 Days Tour. As Jon states, "Some of it is personal reflection from being on the road, and some of it was inspired by the people I met. It was such a privilege to see little snapshots of people's lives all across the country." - more on this story

Atrocity Solution Releasing New EP

Carrying the torch for melodic ska/punk, Wisconsin band Atrocity Solution will issue their new EP, "Tomorrow's Too Late", on Tent City Records through Interpunk on January 19th. The Interpunk pre-release will feature a bonus offer of a free exclusive t-shirt and poster.

Formed in 2005 from members of two different Wasau bands, Lower Class Citizens and The Insanity, Atrocity Solution have maintained the ska/punk focus on melody while still keeping their unique heavy sound. Their lyrics comment on politics, religion, friends, and both good times and dark times.

Plans to embark on their 4th U.S. tour in April/May are in the works to support the release.
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April Smith & The Great Picture Show Join Langhorne Slim Tour

April Smith & The Great Picture Show will support Langhorne Slim's January 2010 U.S. tour, kicking off in Hoboken, New Jersey, on January 21. The 17-date run includes dates in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Denver and other markets before concluding in Columbus, Ohio, on February 13 -- just ten days before the release of Smith's new album, "Songs For A Sinking Ship". See below for a list of tour dates.

April Smith & The Great Picture Show will self-release their new album "Songs For A Sinking Ship" on February 23. Smith and her band are riding a wave of critical acclaim, including the RollingStone.com proclamation, "It's possible you haven't heard much about April Smith, but all that is about to change." The 11-track album was produced by Dan Romer (Ingrid Michaelson, Jenny Owen Youngs).

April Smith & The Great Picture Show play sassy pop music informed by the '30s and '40s, juke joints and cabaret, the Andrews Sisters and Tom Waits. Smith supported a national tour by singer and Eagles/Linda Ronstadt songwriter J.D. Souther in 2008 and played Lollapalooza 2009, in addition to appearing on an episode of the syndicated TV show Fearless Music and recording sessions for New York radio stations WRXP-FM and WFUV-FM -- all as an unsigned artist with (at the time) no current album. In the summer of 2009, Smith sought to raise $10,000 to record and release "Songs For A Sinking Ship" from her fans via Kickstarter.com, a fundraising site for artists and creators. In the two months allotted for the campaign, Smith exceeded her goal, eventually earning more than $13,000 in pledges. - more on this story

. Passport: Insingizi- Kailash Kher & Kailasa- Susana Baca

antiMusics traveling scribe Kevin Wierzbicki takes a sonic journey around the world with new releases from Insingizi (Zimbabwe), Kailash Kher & Kailasa (India) and Susana Baca (Peru). - Read the full Insingizi- Kailash Kher & Kailasa- Susana Baca review

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