Festivals in May

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Alright, here we have some fun festivals for May – first one up is the Hang Out Music Festival. Its going down in Gulf Shores, US and has some dead good bands lined up.

Foo Fighters, Paul Simon, The Flaming Lips, plus Amos Lee, A Thousand Horses Bassnectar, Beats Antique, Cas Haley, Cee Lo Green, Civil Twilight, G Love & Special Sauce and so on and so forth. Sounds good? Check all details here.

This music is too soft for you? We can do harder! Rock on the Range is an annual rock festival featuring some of the most popular bands in hard rock, alternative rock, and metal today, with a classic band usually headlining the show. The festival is held at two venues; Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus and Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg, US.

This year you can expect a supreme line up. A Perfect Circle, Avenged Sevenfold, Black Label Society, Bullet For My Valentine, Danzig, Disturbed, Fu Manchu, KoRn,  Staind, Stone Sour … anything a Metal heart could wish for.

If you fancy a bit of Metal on your STREAMIUM, search for it with the Genre search. We love that function, it is super useful. In case you find some good metal stations for our ‘Station of the Week’, give us a tweet @Streamiumtweets.

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Festival Season Round-Up – April

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Time to secure your tickets for the upcoming festival season… they will sell fast! We’ll do our best to keep you updated of all festivals for each month.

• First one up is Coachella Music and Arts Festival from the 15^th of April. Sorry to break the news to you, but this one is already sold out. No surprise, the line up is awesome! Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, The Strokes and Duran Duran… oh well. Next year then!
• Next in line we have the Bamboozle Festival in East Rutherford, USA on the 29^th of April. The Gaslight Anthem, Motley Crue and Lil Wayne are the top of the pops, and the ticket situation is still manageable. Check their website for all details and on how to get tickets.
• For all Europeans amongst you: there are still tickets available for the Rockness Festival in Dores, Scotland, UK. Kasabian, Paolo Nutini and The Chemical Brothers will be headlining on Friday 10^th, Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th June. Mark Ronson will be playing one of his world famous DJ Sets as well as Erol Alkan, DJ Yoda, Optimo and Simian Mobile Disco.

For some Electronica upfront, we recommend Annie Macs Radio Show to you. You find it via BBC Radio one and its on every friday night. She surely had all of the above Djs as guests… and a fresh guest for you every friday! search for Annie Mac via your STREAMIUM on a friday night.

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New Rock Albums in April

Friday, April 1st, 2011

The music madness is about to continue… This month, all lovers of rock will get their money worth.

The Kills are about to release their new work called Blood Pressures – and already have a free track online. Just go to their website and enter your email to receive your free download. You may as well stick it on the hard drive of your STREAMIUM straight away.

Raveonettes are poppin out new material this month and its called ‘Raven In The Grave‘.

Elbow seem to have an important message to all male friends: Build A Rocket Boys! What they mean by this should be found out by yourself.

And now we’re getting to the really important stuff: the much loved Foo Fighters are back with ‘Wasting Light’ . Dave Grohl definately is one of the old school – having played the drums in legendary band Nirvana as well as side projects with Queens of the Stone Age, you may as well call him the godfather of Rock. Check their website for all upcoming gigs and festivals this summer!

TV On The Radio’s new album Nine Types Of Light is coming out in the middle of April, as well as the Meat Puppets ‘Lollipop’. We seriously don’t know where to get all the money from to purchase all of those releases. Good way to get around it is to listen to all new stuff on your STREAMIUM.

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Station of the Week: Phantom 105.2 from Dublin

Friday, February 4th, 2011

The home of Rock: Phantom Radio from Dublin, Ireland is our station of the week. This station is an independently owned and operated station broadcasting rock and independent music to Dublin and beyond via the web, 24 hours a day.

Their formula is simple – they don’t play disposable rubbish! Put this together with an emphasis on local artists, with real music fans behind the microphone and plenty of listener input and you get a fabulous station that will deliver independent music for independent minds.

So what’s in Phantom’s Hot Rotation? This week, their Top Ten are Cake, Two Door Cinema Club, R.E.M, Kings of Leon, Interpol and Coral, just to name a few. Sounds good? Then head on over and find it by searching for ‘Phantom’ with the STREAMIUM search function.

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Event Round-up: Summadayze & Big Day Out

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

You’ve had enough of snow? Then simply take a trip to the other half of the earth!

The festival season is in full bloom over in Australia and we have a few recommendations for you.

Perth’s edition of the travelling Summadayze festival was held on the 8^th of January. The cream of Australia’s dance music scene joined the world’s finest DJ talent to ensure ten hours of non-stop entertainment.

Visitors were able to enjoy ice cream, fresh fruit, food and festival stalls, as well as plenty of shaded areas and more than 70 free water drinking points to keep party-goers refreshed. The line-up included David Guetta, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan, Chromeo, Miami Horror, PVT and The Stafford Brothers.

Australia’s huge touring music festival, Big Day Out, includes New Zealand and starts its annual tour in Auckland, on the 21^st of January. The festival then moves through Australia over the following three weekends.

For 2011, the line-up includes Tool, Rammstein, Iggy and the Stooges, M.I.A., Grinderman, John Butler Trio and Wolfmother.

Established in 1992, the Big Day Out festival has grown each year to reach its present status as Australia’s biggest festival, attracting top bands from around the world, as well as the latest Antipodean talents. Tickets will sell out in an instant, so get shopping now!

Pump.FM from Karratha, Australia, is a fine station for digital dance music. All dance music fans will be able to pump up the jam via the STREAMIUM search function.

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Station of the Week: The 10Radio Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Party

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

Fed up by ‘Driving home for Christmas’ and ‘All I want for Christmas is you’? Looking for an alternative? Then 10Radio from Somerset, UK has decided to give the holidays a rockin’ twist. If you prefer Rock n Roll to soft and cheesy pop, you should tune in.

Rockin’ X-Mas tunes that come to mind straight away are ”A great big sled” by the Killers, the Smashing Pumpkins with “Christmastime” or even Blink182 – “I Won’t Be Home for Christmas”.

What are your favourite rock infused Christmas tunes? Let us know – and also make sure you check out 10Radio – simply join up for a Rockin’ Christmas Extravaganza. Guaranteed slade-free!

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EVENT OF THE WEEK: Spider-Man Musical on Broadway

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

If you could pick one Superhero, which one would it be? We totally L-O-V-E Spiderman.

Bono and The Edge of Rock Band U2 did see the potential in Marvel Superhero Spiderman aka Peter Parker and brought him to Broadway by writing the music and the lyrics.

Tickets went on sale in September and this is bound to sell out quickly.

It has been given a date for the start of preview performances – Sunday, Nov. 14 – at Broadway’s newly renamed Foxwoods Theater. The show’s producers announced that they had also set an opening night, Tuesday, Dec. 21. The musical is estimated to have a budget of $50 million – the largest in Broadway history.

So does this get you tingly? We totally adore Spiderman – he was born a geek and overcame it to turn into the righteous force that is determined to destroy all evil. What a great story!

To refresh your knowledge about comics old and new, you should try out Comic Book Radio Show over on WS Radio. This weekly worldwide show is dedicated to Comic Books and the Comic Book Industry. It can easily be found by searchin for WS Radio via the search function on your STREAMIUM.

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The Worlds Biggest Nirvana Exhibit in Seattle

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Which bands from the 90’s left a lasting impression on you?

The 90’s were a great decade in music – even if this period brought out some very trashy Euro Dance stuff, there were still many many bands that changed music forever. One of them was definitely NIRVANA!

Next April, the Experience Music Project in Seattle will launch the most extensive exhibit on Nirvana, the Northwest punk/grunge band that exploded out of Seattle in the early ’90s.

“Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses,” is scheduled to run April 16-22, 2011. The exhibit will feature rare and previously unseen items from the band and their crews and families.

The exhibit tells the public and personal story of Nirvana within the context of the independent music scene that evolved in the United States throughout the 1980s.

It all culminated with the 1991 release of Nirvana’s ten-times platinum album ‘Nevermind’.

Get on down there if you’d like to see rare and previously unseen items from the band, their crews and families and before hand, tune into KISW Rock straight outta the depths of Seattle. They play Rock, Grunge and Alternative so this will set the right mood for the Nirvana Exhibit.

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STATION OF THE WEEK: Acoustic Alternative

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Acoustic Music is a whole genre to itself, it can give a person an insight into a band and how they create and present music. Acoustic Sessions are usually quite intimate and allow singers to play with intonation and words so the song turns out a little different than the original. This effect is very charming and unpredictable so there is lots of fans of acoustic music.

Acoustic Alternative is THE premiere radio station devoted to acoustic rock and punk bands and artists. The music selected to play on Acoustic Alternative is raw, real music, from artists who love creating music. This station plays acoustic versions of songs by popular artists, e.g. Alice in Chains, Bush, Counting Crows, Marilyn Manson, The Ting Tings and Fun Lovin’ Criminals so expect a great mix and enjoy this station via STREAMIUM. It can be found by searching for ‘Acoustic’ in the search function on your device.

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