The Raveonettes - "Excuses" + Upcoming Album

 Photo Credit: Amber and Ashlie Chavez

Check out "Excuses" from The Raveonettes below. The track is the third release in their Rave-Sound-Of-The-Month playlist. The playlist can be found HERE.

The Raveonettes have a Pledge Music Campaign you can pre-order their upcoming album on CD or vinyl.  Check out the details HERE.

Sune Rose Wagner said of "EXCUSES", "I love piecing things together, It’s so inspiring working on bits and pieces and make them happen together in a beautiful way. EXCUSES is a great example of that, helps my ADD. Furthermore, being surrounded by creative, inspiring, mad people is so crucial to anything in life really but when you encounter the opposite it’s so sad and a major drag to say the least, EXCUSES is kinda about that."

Upcoming: Low Cut Connie At The Bowery Ballroom, 4/9

Low Cut Connie will be taking the stage at The Bowery Ballroom on April 9. See below for more details.

Low Cut Connie released Hi Honey, April 2015. You can pick it up HERE. Check out the clip for the track "Shake It Little Tina" from the album below.

Low Cut Connie

Dirty Fences / Jeremy and The Harlequines

Saturday, April 9

The Bowery Ballroom

6 Delancey Street

New York, NY

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM

Tickets: $15 adv / $18 dos

18+

Movies: Miles Ahead Opening Tomorrow, 4/1

Miles Ahead
(Sony Pictures Classic)

Don Cheadle as Miles Davis

Photo by Brian Douglas, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

Don Cheadle stars as the late trumpeter Miles Davis in this bio-pic he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman. In his directorial debut, Cheadle explores a tumultuous period of Davis' life during the late 70s where he had pretty much disappeared from the public eye. The film co-stars Ewan McGregor as a music reporter who ends up on an adventure with the caustic Davis.

MILES AHEAD is a wildly entertaining and moving exploration of one of 20th century music's creative geniuses, Miles Davis, featuring a career defining performance by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle in the title role. Working from a script he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Cheadle's bravura directorial debut is not a conventional bio-pic but rather a unique, no-holds barred portrait of a singular artist in crisis. 

In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis (Cheadle) virtually disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and pain medications, his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past.

Trixie Whitley Releases Video For "Closer"

Photo credit: Renata Raksha

Check out the newest video from Trixie Whitley. The clip is for the track "Closer" and was directed by  Anders Malmberg.

Trixie Whitley released her latest album Porta Bohemica, February 2016. You can pick it up HERE.

Garbage To Release New Album In June

Photo credit: Joseph Cultice

Garbage (Shirley Manson, Steve Marker, Duke Erikson and Butch Vig) will release their sixth studio album, the self-produced Strange Little Birds. The album is scheduled to arrive on June 10 via the bands own label Stunvolume.

Working initially in Vig's basement and then at Red Razor Sounds in Los Angeles, Garbage drew on a variety of sources, from their recent fan letters back to the albums they loved growing up.  "The guiding principle was keeping it fresh, and relying on instinct both lyrically and musically", said frontwoman Shirley Manson.  Strange Little Birds is "less fussed over" than anything Garbage has ever made. "We fell in love with immediacy," adds Vig.

Track Listing

• Sometimes
• Empty
• Blackout
• If I Lost You
• Night Drive Loneliness
• Even Though Our Love Is Doomed
• Magnetized
• We Never Tell
• So We Can Stay Alive
• Teaching Little Fingers To Play
• Amends

Television: Empire Returns Tomorrow, 3/30

L-R: Jussie Smollett, Taraji P. Henson and Trai Byers in the "Death Will Have His Way" spring premiere episode of Empire. ©2016 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Chuck Hodes/FOX

The spring premiere of Empire is upon us.

Lyon patriarch Lucious (Terrence Howard) has lost control of his company. Not being one to go down without a fight, he's going to do anything to get it back. Feeling the sting of Hakeem (Bryshere "Yazz" Gray) siding with his lady love Camilla (Naomi Campbell), family matriarch Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) will do things her way to get the empire back. How will Andre (Trai Byers) and the rest of the family handle the cliff-hanger tragedy that befell his wife Rhonda (Kaitlin Doubleday)? We shall see.

It was announced in January that FOX renewed Empire for its third season.

Empire airs Wednesdays on FOX, 9:00 PM ET.

Television: Pagent Brewster Returns To Criminal Minds Tomorrow, 3/30

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After lasts weeks departure of fan favorite of Derek Morgan (portrayed by Shemar Moore), Criminal Minds is bringing back a familiar face. Paget Brewster returns as Emily Prentiss to guest-star in this weeks episode, "Tribute". 

Interpol agent Prentiss reunites with her BAU family to catch a serial killer she's been tracking.

Criminal Minds airs Wednesdays on CBS, 9:00 PM ET.

Chris Watts Releases Video For "Let Go"

Check out the video for "Let Go" from Chris Watts.  It's insanely catchy. You can buy the single HERE.

Clairity Releases New Song, "Broken Things"

Musician Clairity released her new single "Broken Things", this past Friday, March 25.  You can check out the track below and pick it up HERE.

Clairity released her debut EP, Alienation, July 2015.

Upcoming: Lola Marsh To Play 2 NY Shows

Indie-pop duo, Lola Marsh will be making a couple of stops in New York. They will be at Mercury Lounge on May 25 and at Rough Trade NYC on May 28. See below for more details.

Lola Marsh released their You're Mine EP, January 2016. You can pick up a copy HERE.

Lola Marsh

Wednesday, May 25

Mercury Lounge

217 E Houston Street

New York, NY

Doors: 6:30 / Show: 7:30PM

Tickets: $15

21+

and

Lola Marsh

Saturday, May 28

Rough Trade NYC

64 N 9th Street

Brooklyn, NY

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM

Tickets: $15

21+