Bern & the Brights 'Work' CD Release Show @ Tierney's Tavern, Montclair, NJ 10-13-12

An incredible night with Bern & the Brights, Plastiq Passion and The Micks down at Tierney's Tavern. Bern & the Brights played Swing Shift Maises, Starchild and then closed the night off with their latest album, Work. If you need Work stream it here and grab it here.

10/13 Bern & the Brights CD Release & StarBeat Music 1-Year Anniversary Show in Montclair, NJ

On October 13th we will be celebrating our 1-Year Anniversary as a label with a record release show for Bern & the Brights CD EP Work. The show will happen at Tierney's in Montclair with performances by Plastiq Passion and The Micks. Work shows a strong musical maturation for the 4-piece have developed their sound into a vibrant brand of rock that weaves together folk, reggae, new wave and pop across these 7 songs. Come join in the magic for a wonderful night of music.

Bern & the Brights 'Work' Pre-Orders Available Now

We're exited to announce that Bern & the Brights new album Work is available for pre-order. We have 3 special packages for you available at starbeatmusic.storenvy.com Official release date is October 2nd. We will do our best to ship these out to ASAP.

Part-Time Work Package: Work CD, Work Sticker

Full-Time Work Package: Work CD, Work Sticker, Work Pin, Work Poster, Lyric Insert

Overtime Work Package: Work CD, Starchild 7'' Vinyl, Work Sticker, Work Pin, Work Poster, Lyric Insert


Tracklisting: 
01. Slave Driver
02. War & Games
03. I See Red
04. Sick of Seeing You
05. Irish Boys
06. As Long As I'm Alive
07. Thieves, Creeps and Automatons


Also, check out their song "War & Games" on our new digital compilation "All These Noises" at allthesenoises.bandcamp.com

Bern & the Brights to be featured on College Radio Day compilation out October 2nd

Our own Bern & the Brights have been selected to be featured on the first College Radio Day compilation. Their song "As Long As I'm Alive" from the forthcoming release Work will be on the album, alongside the likes of Umphrey's McGee, The Maine and The Front Bottoms. Hundreds of stations around the world will participate in the 2nd annual CRD on Oct. 2nd when both the compilation and B&TB Work will be released. A limited pressing of 1,500 individually numbered, double-disc CDs are now available for pre-order. Proceeds benefit The College Radio Defense Fund. From College Radio Day:

"After an extensive national search featuring a judging panel with radio broadcasting students from across the country, we are PROUD to announce our inaugural ‘College Radio Day Album’. Many bands started by being played on college radio, and college radio continues to give many artists today their first break. This album will feature familiar and new artists that play great music and also support the mission of college radio.  

My Pet Dragon CD Release Show in NYC

The soothing romantic sounds of My Pet Dragon grows further with the release of their new album, Mountains and Cities, featuring "Lover in Hiding" and "Flow." The band will play a record release show at Mercury Lounge in NYC this Friday. For more info on the band: http://www.mypetdragon.net/home.cfm

Interview: Hank and Cupcakes

Hank & Cupcakes @ The Studio at Webster Hall

Interview & Photos by Star Child

Hank and Cupcakes is a drum and bass dance pop duo from Brooklyn, NY, originally from Tel Aviv, Israel.  They have a new EP they're showcasing at a CD release show this Wednesday night at NYC's Le Poisson Rouge. The EP features four songs including the wildly catchy "Pleasure Town" and "Aint' No Love," the Joy Division cover "She's Lost Control," ballad "Roses" plus a music video. This duo has its own sound that is undeniably poppy, with a live performance that is mesmerizing. Sagit ,better know as Cupcakes, serves as both drummer and singer, where she plays standing up, even dancing around during her performance; while bassist Ariel or Hank plucks those sweet, jammy bass lines that make you dance. Though just a two-piece, Hank and Cupcakes sound is full. Read about how the band formed, their folk influences, recent tour, upcoming show, and much more.

SBM: Tell me about how the band started.

Cupcakes: We started around two years ago as a band. We were doing other musical projects together for quite a long time, 8 years but we just felt like we wanted to start something new and Ariel/ Hank suggested one day to go into the studio to see what comes out and we did that. So we started rehearsing pretty intensively and that's pretty much how it started.

SBM: Where did you start?

Hank: We started in Tel Aviv. When we started working on this band we already had iit n mind to come to New York. We had plans and it just a matter of time before we come here.

Hank and Cupcakes ("Pleasure Town" Music Video, Free NYC Show + EP Release May 12)

The delightful NYC dance duo, Hank and Cupcakes have released their first music video for the song "Pleasure Town" (see above). It was directed and shot by Matt Bockelman at Coney Island. They also have two upcoming shows. One is a free show at The Studio at Webster Hall on April 21 with Saadi, Arms and Legs, and Unsolved Mysteries. The second is their EP Release Party at (Le) Poisson Rogue on May 12. The show is only $6. Tickets are available here.

The band recently wrapped up gigs in London and Israel. They'll be back in the Big Apple to bring you a sexy, high energy, bass and drum  live performance that will make you dance. Get into it!

Yula and the Extended Family - new album (MP3), NYC CD release show w/ Gato Loco 4/23

DOWNLOAD: Yula and the Extended Family – Kriss (MP3)

Yula and the Extended Family have released their second album, Dark Side of the Bee on Woodland Records. The album was written and recorded in just 24 hours. "It's an experiment with time, simplicity and limited means that went terribly GREAT!" explains Beeri. You can download it, along with the band's first album Victor, here. 

They'll return to NYC next week after a March tour which brought them to Harvest of Hope and SXSW. Yula & Family perform at Santos Party House on Friday, April 23 for their CD release show. Also on the bill is Brooklyn based perform Vic Thrill and the Latin-infused instrumental 9-piece Gato Loco. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. Doors at 7pm. Advance tickets available here. The band will have some homemade CD copies of the new album. This is sure to be a good time.

Update: The set times are 7:30pm Gato Loco, 8:30pm Yula & The Extended Family, 9:30pm Vic Thrill. An afterparty will be held at B-Side Bar at 204 Ave B.

Thomas Frances Takes His Chances (cd release show) @ Maxwell's on Friday

 

This Friday night Thomas Frances Takes His Chances takes the stage at Maxwell's for their cd release show for Don't Give Up On Me Dad. The cd's will be available in limited quantities for 5 bux. The Invincible Gods will open the show. For 8 bux you can see the two Jersey acts rock the fuck out. So plan your night already.

Feb. 12, 2010

 Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ

1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030

@ 10pm (Late show) after the Melissa Ferrick and Mal Blum show

CD Releases: October 13

Here are StarBeat's cd picks for the week:

• A Rocket to the Moon- On Your Side (Fueled By Ramen)...pop/rock goodness
• Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse)...not your typical metal band, light and heavy parts
• Jeff the Brotherhood- Heavy Days (Infinity Cat)...groovy rock n roll two piece

A Rocket to the Moon will be at Vintage Vinyl tonight for an autograph signing and acoustic performance. More info here.

Baroness will be at WSOU for an interview today at 7PM on 89.5 FM. They play in NYC on Nov. 20 w/ Earthless, US Christmas.

Jeff the Brotherhood play 5 NJ and NY dates beginning Oct. 21 in New Brunswick, NJ. After then play dates for the CMJ Music Marathon. In November they tour with Shonen Knife before returing to NJ and NY in December.

CD Releases: Week of October 6

Here are Star Beat's picks:

Arch Enemy - The Root Of All Evil (Century Media)
Cheap Girls- My Roaring 20s (Paper & Plastick)
Daniel Johnston- Is and Always Was (Eternal Yip Eye/BMI)
The Fall Of Troy - In The Unlikely Event (Equal Vision)
HORSE the band - Desperate Living (Vagrant)
Inhale Exhale - Bury Me Alive (Solid State)
LIGHTS- The Listening (Doghouse)
Pelican- What We All Come to Need (Southern Lord)
Strike Anywhere- Iron Front (Bridge Nine)

Ben Franklin release OPTIMIST for FREE// NYC CD Release Show at Piano's Tonight

Tonight is Brooklyn rockers, Ben Franklin's cd release show at Piano's in New York City. The band will have copies of their first full-length "Optimist." The cd's are professionally mastered with screen printed covers and folded booklets. You also get free stickers. For those that can't make it to the show, you can download the album for free here. The 3-piece of Eduardo Garza, William Gray, and Sarah Tomek put the kick back in rock 'n roll with their brand of punk and gives you music to bop around to. Definitely worth the listen.

Thursday September 3rd, 9pm CD Release @ Pianos, $8 and free cd and stickers. 158 Ludlow Street, New York City. 21 and over.

Tracklisting below.


Been Franklin OPTIMIST tracklisting:

1. Tell Us How You Really Feel
2. Drink to Forget
3. Ghosts
4. Montclair
5. The Face of Proposition 8
6. Catalyst
7. Credit Default Swap Bop
8. Timmeh
9. Had it Comin'
10. You Is Me
11. Fren Banklin

Upcoming Ben Franklin Shows:
9/3 @ Pianos, NYC (cd release)
9/16 @ Public Assembly, Brooklyn, NY

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Recent Entries:

* Last Days of Empire, The Casting Out (ex-Boy Sets Fire), and Chambers @ Court Tavern on Friday

* In This Moment announce first headlining tour // NJ Concert on Nov.28

* This Saturday it's Star Child's Final Show on WSOU w/ acoustic sets by Kevin Devine, Joe Wilson, Exit She Calls, and ShiraGirl

September's CD Releases

Which ones are you excited for?

Sept. 1
Chuck Ragan- Gold Country (Side One Dummy)
Black Anvil - Time Insults The Mind (Relapse)
Ben Franklin- Optimisit (self released)
Dirge Within - Force Fed Lies (E1 Music)
Mammal - The Majority (Bieler Bros.)
The Psyke Project - Dead Storm (Lifeforce)
The Used - Artwork (Reprise)

Sept. 8
3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom (Century Media)
Andrew W.K- 55 Cadillac
Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes (Epic)
Dethklok - Dethklok: The Dethalbum II (Williams Street)
Jay-Z- The Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation)
LoveHateHero - Fight Or Flight (Ferret Music)
Monotonix- Where Were You When It Happened? (Drag City)
Polar Bear Club- Chasing Hamburg (Bridge Nine)
Ruiner - Dead Weight (Bridge 9)
Slipknot - Slipknot (CD/DVD) (reissue) (Roadrunner)
Threat Signal - Vigilance (Nuclear Blast)
Vivian Girls- Everything Goes Wrong (In The Red)
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs (Matador)

Sept. 15
The Acacia Strain - The Most Known Unknown (DVD) (Prosthetic)
After The Burial - Rareform (Special Edition) (Sumerian)
Armed For Apocalypse - Defeat (Ironclad/Metal Blade)
Asking Alexandria - Stand Up And Scream (Sumerian)
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate (Metal Blade)
Caspian- Tertia (The Mylene Sheath)
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic (Epitaph)
It Dies Today - Lividity (Trustkill)
Kittie - In The Black (E1 Music)
Megadeth - Endgame (Roadrunner)
Ministry - The Last Dubber (13th Planet Recordings)
Muse- The Resistance (Warner Bros)
Protest The Hero - Gallop Meets The Earth (CD/DVD) (Vagrant)
Salt The Wound - Ares (Rotten)
Shadows Fall - Retribution (Everblack Industries/Ferret Music/ILG)
Skinlab - The Scars Between Us (Stand And Deliver)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (Reissue) (Sub Pop)
Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2 (Reissue) (Sub Pop)
Thursday- Common Existence (deluxe edition on iTunes)
Thrice- Beggars (Vagrant)

Sept. 22
Brand New- Daisy (Interscope)
Children Of Bodom - Skeletons In The Closet (Spinefarm)
Despised Icon - Day Of Mourning (Century Media)
Five Finger Death Punch - War Is The Answer (Prospect Park Music)
Owen- New Leaves (Poly Vinyl)
Parkway Drive - Horizons/Parkway Drive: The DVD (CD/DVD) (Epitaph)
Porcupine Tree - The Incident (2xCD) (Roadrunner)
Ruiner - Hell Is Empty (Bridge Nine)
Skindred - Shark Bites And Dog Fights (Bieler Bros.)

Sept. 29
AFI- Crash Love (Interscope)
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (Virgin/EMI)
Austrian Death Machine - Double Brutal (Metal Blade)
Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive (Deathwish Inc.)
Evergreen Terrace - Almost Home (Metal Blade)
Hatebreed - Hatebreed (E1 Music)
Korn - The Music Of Korn (Epic/Legacy)
Melvins - Chicken Switch (Ipecac)
Paramore- Brand New Eyes (Fueled By Ramen)
The Swellers- Ups and Downsizing (Fueled by Ramen)
State Radio- Let It Go
Strung Out- Agents of the Underground
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies- Susquehanna
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies- Skaboy JFK: The Skankin¹ Hits of the Cherry Poppin¹ Daddies

Anything else?

This Week's CD Releases, streams, & downloads

Star's CD Release Picks:

Caliban - Say Hello To Tragedy (Century Media)
fun- Aim and Ignite (Nettwerk)
Korpiklaani - Karkelo (Nuclear Blast)
Mew- No More Stories... (Sony BMG)
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive (Earache)
The Casualties- We Are All We Have (Side One Dummy)

* Also, pick up Nakatomi Plaza's new album "Ghosts" here. It's pay what you look or get it for free.

* fun. is streaming its entire new album here.

CD Releases, Music News, & Bouncing Souls contest

CD Picks for this week:
As Tall As Lions- You Can't Take It With You
Broadway Calls- Good Views, Bad News
Burnt By The Sun - Heart Of Darkness (Relapse)
Emmure - Felony (Victory)
Gwar - Lust In Space (Metal Blade)
Otep - Smash The Control Machine (Victory)
Paint It Black-Surrender

* OTEP cd release show tonight at Gramercy Theatre!
* Thursday added date with Far at Bowery Ballroom on Oct. 25th
* New Brunswick's Ex-Wife (formerly You Without Teeth) are working on a new album
* Currents have posted an album teaser for their new EP on myspace.
* Also, win tickets to see Bouncing Souls, Lifetime, and None More Black this Thursday in NYC here.

SUICIDE CITY's Frenzy out Aug. 4th, NYC CD Release Aug.5th at Highline Ballroom

SUICIDE CITY will mark the release of their album, Frenzy, with a cd release show the day after its release on Aug. 5th at the Highline Ballroom. The album comes in much anticipation of the band's debut on The End Records. Made up of ex-Kittie bassist, Jennifer Arroyo, and Biohazard guitarist Billy Graziadei the band brings together a sound unlike these two bands. Joined by drummer Danny Lamagna, guitarist AJ Marchetta, and singer Karl Bernholtz Suicide City deliver an alternative brand of rock with punk roots and a dazzling performance.

Graziadei describes SUICIDE CITY’s sound as “punk rock, dirty rock ‘n roll with some big balls of metal and a touch of manic depression thrown in.”

You can join ShockHound for a free download of the band's new song "The Best Way."

So join the band on Aug. 5th for a night of fun, frenzy, and frolicking for the
Cirque du Rock: Gotham Underworld. The show is all ages. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 the day of the show. Doors open at 8pm and the concert starts at 9pm.

Cirque du Rock is back. Imagine the wildest night you’ve had in your life - go ahead, take a minute. Got it? Clear in your mind? Now multiply that into an infinite loop and you might understand a tenth of the essence of Cirque du Rock. It is night of complete extravagance, where music and visual arts are combined to leave you dizzy, spellbound, and thirsty for more. Every sort of genre of music is fused together under the umbrella of heavy rock: it IS self-willed chaos.

The bill is packed with amazing stage performers and sideshows including magicians, belly dancers, stilt walkers, jugglers, and much MUCH more. All these elements come together to create a carnival-like atmosphere, a turbulent ride for all five senses.

This is about raising questions, turning heads, and daring to blur social values.

Highline Ballroom
W. 16th St. between 9th and 10th ave.
Manhattan, NYC

9:00 PM Hate in the Box
10:00 PM Suicide City
11:00 PM PUi
12:00 AM Game Rebellion

8:30 – 11PM DJ Chris Landry will spin
11:30PM – 1:00AM (approx) DJ Michael T will spin

Sp. guests
HEATHER HOLLIDAY & SERPENTINA
from the CONEY ISLAND CIRCUS SIDESHOW

+ Sensual Dominatrix GODDESS SHEA

News CD Releases & Tour Announcements

July 14th CD Releases:

Arkaea - Years In The Darkness (E1 Music)
Arsonists Get All The Girls - Portals (Century Media)
August Burns Red - Constellations (Solid State)
Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West (Weathermaker Music)
Darkest Hour - Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation (Reissue) (CD/DVD-Vinyl) (Victory)
DevilDriver - Pray For Villians (Roadrunner)
Fooling April- Three
Project 86 - Picket Fence Cartel (Tooth & Nail)
Screaming Females- What if someone is watching their tv-re-release(Don Giovanni Records)
Suffocation - Blood Oath (Nuclear Blast)
The Dead Weather- Horehound (Third Man)
West Gate- Daylight
We Were Gentlemen - Living Hell (Century Media)
YOB - The Great Cessation (Profound Lore)

Star's hot pics: Clutch, Screaming Females, West Gate

Tour Announcements:

A Day to remember, Parkway drive, In Fear and Faith and I see stars are touring together this fall. The closest NJ/NYC area date is at the Crocodile Rock in Allentown, PA on Sept. 27.

Brand New and Glassjaw will perform at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY on Nov. 27th.

Gallows also have a show in New Brunswick, New Jersey this Monday! Message me for the address.

Lamb of God and Gwar will perform at Wellmont Theatre in Montclair on Sept. 22. Tickets are onsale this Friday.

News CD Releases & Tour Announcements

This Week's CD Releases:
Death By Stereo - Death Is My Only Friend (Serjical Strike)
Job For A Cowboy - Ruination (Metal Blade)
Kiss Kiss- The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (Eyeball)
Nebula - Heavy Psych (Tee Pee)
Poison The Well - Tropic Rot (Ferret Music)
Revolution Mother - Rollin' With Tha Mutha (Ferret Music)
Skinlab - The Scars Between Us (Stand And Deliver)

Here are some album streams:

Kiss kiss's new one here.
August Burns Red "Constellations" out 7/10 is here.

New Tour Announcements:

Skate and Surf in 2010! No details, but I'm guessing it's going to back at Convention Hall. Check out the flier here.

In Flames have announced a fall headlining tour with Between the buried, 3 Inches of Blood, and the Faceless. The tour visits The Starland Ballroom in New Jersey on October 2 and The Trocadero on October 4. Tickets are on-sale this Friday at Noon.

Alesana will headline a U.S tour this September with The Bled, Asking Alexandria and Broadway. On the first leg of the tour Enter Shikari will support and the last week Madina Lake will support. The tour comes to School of Rock on Sept 24 and Hangar 84 on Sept 28.

Strike Anywhere, Crime In Stereo, Ruiner, and Polar Bear Club will be touring together this fall. Local stops include Gramercy Theatre NYC on Oct. 3, First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia PA on Oct. 4, and Asbury Lanes, Asbury Park NJ on Oct. 6.

Kiss Kiss announce new album for February 2009+tour dates

The circus-punk outfit Kiss Kiss have announced it will release it's second first length "The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left" in Feb. 2009. The album will be released on Eyeball Records.

THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT WHAT'S LEFT
Tracklisting:
1. The Best Mistake
2. Plague 11
3. Haunted By The Beauty of an Imperfection
4. All They Draw
5. Innocent I ( the Corruption of self through the introduction of Naturally existing self Producing Chemicals )
6. Innocent II ( A drop from the Ethereal; Swimming Towards the Crescent Moon )
7. iiiiiiiiiii
8. Hate
9. Through the Day
10. If They Only Knew
11. Virus

Tour Dates:
Nov 20 2008 8:00P Voodoo Lounge - CANCELLED! Binghamton, NY
Nov 21 2008 8:00P Purchase College Student Center Purchase, NY
Nov 22 2008 3:00P Yardley Community Center Yardley, PA
Nov 23 2008 7:00P Heirloom Arts Theater Danbury, CT
Nov 28 2008 8:00P Keegan Ales w/ Three Kingston, NY
Nov 29 2008 9:00P The Khyber Philadelphia, PA

United Nations (Geoff Rickley/ Daryl Palumbo) to release album 9/9

United Nations will release its self-title album on September 9 through Eyeball Records. The grind-core project featuring Geoff Rickley of Thursday, Daryl Palumbo of GlassJaw/ Head Automatic, and members of Eyeball Records, Kiss It Goodbye and The Number Twelve Looks Like You. Its available for pre-order here.