Category Archives: New Releases

A Haunting New Video from Flagship

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My favorite Charlotte band, Flagship, dropped a new music video today.  It’s definitely a little creepy – figuratively and literally dark – but damn, it’s good. Drake’s voice is, as always, huge.  I just love it. And the drums on this track are bad ass.  I expect we’ll be hearing big things from these kids.

Supposedly, Flagship is dropping a new album this spring on indie label Bright Antenna, which is also home to Middle Class Rut and The Wombats, and the former home of another vocal superstar, Jimmy Gnecco from Ours.  Keep your ears to the ground for more news on a new release from the Flagship fellas.  Until then, go pick up their Blackbush EP from last spring – it will do well for tiding you over.

More Flagship:  Facebook | Twitter | Buy Flagship’s Blackbush EP on iTunes

Next Big Thing: Sons and Lovers

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Sons and Lovers is a relatively new British band making HUGE sounds – I am loving everything they are putting out. The band is almost as mysterious as my beloved Quiet Hounds… not a whole lot of information about them floating around out there! But mysterious or no, their music has captured my attention. With a driving synth-driven rock pulse, their first single, “Set My Heart” lit up my ears the first time I heard it. Their new single, “Golden” is even better… so much promise from these fellas! Check out the new video and download the song for free on their Facebook page.

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Treason Is the Reason for A Debut Video from Flagship Romance

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Guy-gal duos are all the rage these days.  But one listen to Flagship Romance, the latest addition to this popular pairing, and you’ll know that they are a little different from the rest.

Jordyn Jackson and Shawn Fisher are both fairly successful musicians in their own right.  One a solo artist with jazzy influences, the other the lead singer of up and coming pop-rock band Son of a Bad Man, the couple started dating two years ago and their chemistry extended beyond romance.  Put them on stage or in a studio together, and they make some of the most genuine, true-to-life songs you’re going to hear.  Maybe it is that actually being in love thing that makes the music so believable…. but whatever it is, it works.

Today, the power couple released their first video for their song “Treason,” which will be on their debut EP, The Fudge Sessions, being released in January.  Check it out!

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OMG! NEW ALPHA REV!

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Some posts deserve all capital letters, really.

A little teaser from Alpha Rev on their Facebook page today promising a new album in 2013.  Alex had mentioned this to me a year ago when they were in town, and now it’s actually happening. And the news comes with a new song lyric video!  “Sing Loud.”  IT IS GORGEOUS! (Not that I’m shocked; Casey McPherson is a genius writer). I may listen to nothing else between now and the end of 2012.

More Alpha Rev:  Web | Facebook | Twitter

Chase Away the Mondays with a New Honor By August Video

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Six years ago, Alternative Addiction asked me to write a review for an album by a DC band I’d never heard of before.  Enter into my life Honor By August.  In the six years since then, I’ve come to love this band and their music.  I am lucky to call them friends, and so happy to be a contributor to the Kickstarter campaign to fund their new album, Monuments to Progress.

Today, they released a video for their song, “Somebody Real,” the first single off that new, yet-to-be released album.  It is one of my favorites of the new songs, and is a testament to the boys’ hard work for this record.  Since that very first live show I saw in 2006, I knew that this band was something special, and this video gets me so excited for what is to come for them.  I am so proud to be an Honor By August fan today.

Congrats Brian, Evan, Michael and Chris … Ya’ll deserve all the great things that I know are coming your way!

Ladies and gentlemen, “Somebody Real” by Honor By August.

More Honor By August:  Web | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Kickstarter