Wednesday
Nov052008

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Rathbone
"Tell Tale Signs"

Every song matters to the New England folk-pop act Rathbone. They consider their music to be a continuum of personal mantras that reverberate themes of loneliness, lost love, and alienation within the bubble of a pop song structure. Enjoy!

 

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Tuesday
Nov042008

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Ocean Is Theory
"Oh Broken Son"

Atlanta's Ocean Is Theory marries the most palatable elements of post-hardcore, pop and emo to make sweet and soaring music. "Oh Broken Son" comes from their 5-song EP "In the Mouths of Lions". Enjoy!

 

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Monday
Nov032008

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Perfuma
"Learn to Run"

Little Falls, NJ's own Perfuma are a developing band with a good sense of melody and what makes their fans bob their heads. Having shared the stage with Sonic Youth and rocked the Bamboozle Festival, Perfuma's 2008 will culminate with the release of "Save Yourself". "Learn to Run" is a track from that upcoming release. 5 others are available for download on their Purevolume site. Enjoy!

 

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Monday
Nov032008

Scilter: [2 Nov 2008] Benefit Concert Update!

     What a great day it was yesterday! Even with the rain we still managed to raise over $600 for the World Hunger Relief Fund! If you didn't come out, you missed a great show! Holes and Hearts opened the show and killed it, always enjoy watching them. Go check them out if you get a chance. Next up was WMP. I'm pretty sure they made lots of new fans yesterday. They sounded so good. We cant wait to play with those guys again! Next was Spin-Lok, and even with some power problems and rain, they still managed to put on a bad ass set. I'm so glad we put them on the show. Go check them out. They play all over the Tampa area. Good stuff. Down JR was up next. We have played with them a ton of times but yesterday was by far the best show I have seen them play. They are recording their CD, so be on the look out for it. Sobriety was next. If you have not seen them: GO DO IT! I'm so glad I got to see them. Such a great band. Pick up their new CD "VOL 1" it's really good. The song "Crawl Inside" is my new favorite! We [Scilter] closed out the show to a lot of cold rain, but thank you to the people that stuck around. We had a blast! I just want to thank: Holes and Hearts, WMP, Spin-Lok, Down JR, and Sobriety for all being a part of this. As well as all the people from Pizza Hut for comming out. It was a great time!!

Brad
-Scilter

Sunday
Nov022008

SPECIAL ELECTION EDITION

NOTE FROM [FEN] ENTERTAINMENT:

THE FOLLOWING IS A LETTER WRITTEN BY ONE OF OUR FAVORITE ARTISTS/PERFORMERS. WE NEITHER ENDORSE NOR CONDEMN THE FOLLOWING POLITICAL STATEMENT. WE SIMPLY AGREE WITH EXERCISING YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THE FOLLOWING ENTRY ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THIS COMPANY, ITS MEMBERS, ARTISTS, OR TALENT. NO JOKE.

 

Dear History,

For too long have I pondered your meaning, memorized dates of battles, years of servitude, decades of injustice, named eras after movements, mourned the extinction of species, cursed founding fathers, worn vintage suits and cloaked myself with references of your hold on me.

 

I have walked through museums wondering how it is that greatness had lived and died all before my time. Parts of me feared becoming great because it seemed to include a price of death and a postmortem glory that my memory could never resurrect. I've stared at paintings dying to catch glimpses of the painter, closed my eyes to listen to songs that drunken ghosts dance to, and all the while I've fought to FREE the present to BECOME.

In 1995, I stood with poets in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge, barking metaphors at the new moon of the summer solstice wedging words into it's craters, sewing seeds through nightly wind.

In 1996, I forced the ocean back with words, fathered planets, climbed pyramids, and began to decipher the sirens song to conjure the dream-filled Children of the Night.

In 1997, I stood with prisoners in our nations capitol bending bars with the power of thought as wordsmiths served sentences and Hip Hop diddy-dandified itself: stealing golden calves from the Old Testament to smuggle into the lavish crib of Pontius Pilate for it's birthday party

In 1998, I swallowed fear and sun-danced on film reels, projecting a me that had not been into a me that ever shall be.

And HERE I stand, ten years the difference and witness to changing hands.

Dear History,
I beat you. I stand a generator of generations bearing witness to a world that we are holding accountable for past actions. Me and my friends, we're changing our diets, re-inventing marriage, check-mating capitalism, re-defining ethics, replacing cruelty with compassion, and have sworn not to re-elect the sins of the father.

We are casting our votes for so much more than a lesser of evils, but for change, and greater insight, for wisdom out of the mouths of babes, for races that bleed into ONE.

Dear History,
You are behind us and we are no longer looking back. We are standing on the threshold of new times, new days, new worlds, and charging forward without battle cry or trumpet, while cynicism, apathy, and cowardice take their place beside you, behind us.

Dear History,
We no longer believe in you. We have invested our our thoughts and dreams into the present moment and opportunity to shift our reality into one that does not resemble your dog-eared books.

We stand on the shoulders of those who have dared to dream and on the necks of those who have wasted their time and ours proclaiming a past past its prime.

Dear History,
Blitz! It's my turn now. You can have your mounds of flesh, leather boots, cannons and sabers, nooses and guillotines, warships and fighter planes, trails of tears and blood, genocides, dungeons and dragons, ghost stories and fairy tales...

Come on guys! Help me out! ~ Saul Williams

 

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Friday
Oct312008

Halloween Edition: FREE Song of the Day! Enjoy. Share.

 Ice Nine Kills
"The Greatest Story Ever Told"

If Brand New, As I Lay Dying, and Les Miserables joined forces, Ice Nine Kills would be the shining result. With epic choruses, Jazz like interludes, and an unmatched sense for brutality, INK's new CD "The Burning," (OUT NOW) is set to raise the bar in the current post hardcore scene. Catch them on tour this fall with Love Hate Hero, Eyes Set to Kill, and Before their Eyes! We thought the album cover was appropriate for today's special occasion! Enjoy!

 

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Thursday
Oct302008

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Offshore Riot
"Wanton Soup"

With their reggae inspired blend of modern pop, Offshore Riot seem to have that special ingredient often missing in today's over-produced, sample based music scene. Catchy, hook-laden originals take the focus here. Deep funk and dub rhythms, basslines dropping low as physically tolerable, shimmering guitar lines and erratic vocal stylings make up an undeniable force comparable to the hurricanes often looming on Florida's coastlines. Enjoy!

 

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Wednesday
Oct292008

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Apartment 44
"Circles"


Ireland's Apartment 44 are gearing up to release their eagerly awaited debut single "Circles", recorded with renowned record producers Chris O'Brien and Graham Murphy. The band shares, "Circles is a song which probes our own inhibitions and tries to encourage us to learn from our mistakes."

All sales from the song have generously been donated to the charity "Preda" in a bid to raise awareness about child slavery and human trafficking into the sex trade in the Philippines. As a result the song has received glowing praises from singer/songwriter Damien Dempsey, and Hollywood actor and human rights activist Martin Sheen. Enjoy and support!

 

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Tuesday
Oct282008

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The Shoreline
"Caroline"

Today, FEN and MB bring you Orlando's own The Shoreline, with a song entitled "Caroline". The Shoreline's debut EP 'Out of Nowhere', recorded by producer Daryl Phenegar (The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus), delivers an exciting, pulse-pounding rush of pop rock. The album has the same texture, and energy as the likes of Taking Back Sunday and Paramore. Enjoy!

 

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Tuesday
Oct282008

Bond @ Protocol [24 Oct 2008] Gallery

Shout outs to Prophet, Big $paid, The Duchess, and BradLeeRay for a great night. Special thanks to Qumulus and Flaco for the tune! Click play. Enjoy. Share.