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FEBRUARY titles include:
Cannibal Corpse – Tomb
Vomitory – Opus Mortis VIII
Pentagram – Last Rites
Nasty Savage – Nasty Savage
God Dethroned – Under The Sign Of The Iron Cross
Gwar – Carnival Of Chaos
King Of Asgard – Fi’mbulvntr
Amon Amarth – Once Sent From The Golden Hall
Armored Saint – Symbol Of Salvation
Aeternam – Deciples Of The Unseen
Riot – Fire Down Under
The Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine
The Crown – Hell Is Here
Valkyrja – The Invocation Of Demise
In Extremo – Verehrt Und Ang
Job For A Cowbow Boy – Ruination
Neaera – Omnicide Creation
Bolt Thrower – Honour-Valour-Pride
Believer – Gabriel
Beyond The Embrace – Against The Elements
Six Feet Under – Death Rituals
As I Lay Dying – Frail Words Collapse
Falconer – Among Beggars And Thieves
Cattle Decapitation – Humanure
One Way Mirror – One Way Mirror
Brainstorm – Liquid Monster
Hail Of Bullets – Of Frost And War
The Ocean – Aeolian

-M.E. staff

As promised on his twitter account yesterday, Yelawolf sidekick and emerging hip-hop artist Rittz dropped a brand new song today. According to the site that premiered this, “it is the 1st official leak off of Rittz’ latest project White Jesus: Revival which will be available online March 8th, which also marks the 1 year anniversary of White Jesus.” Here is “Paradise“, produced by DJ Burn One and also features Nikkya. You can stream or download it here.

via http://bootlegkev.com/

1. Steve Aoki with Kid Cudi “Cudi The Kid”

2. Paper Diamond “Imagine The Possibilities”

3. Skrillex “Right In”

4. Porter Robinson “The State”

5. Koan Sound “Funk Blaster”

6. 12th Planet “Bass Ships”

7. Zedd “Shave It”

1. Foxy Shazam “I Like It”
2. Curren$y “Plot Talk”
3. School Of Seven Bells “Lafaye”
4. Sleigh Bells “Comeback Kid”
5. Mind Spiders “Wait For Us”
6. Band Of Skulls “Sweet Sour”

1. Miike Snow with Lykke Li “Black Tin Box”

2. The XX “Open Eyes”

3. Lana Del Rey “Born To Die”

4. Wiz Khalifa “Oh Gee La”

5. Cloud Nothings “Fall In”

6. Every Time I Die “Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space”

Lykke Li is giving fans an early holiday gift this year! The Lost Sessions Vol 1 (does this mean there will be more!?) contains 3 free tracks.

1. I Follow Rivers
2. Jerome
3. Youth Knows No Pain

Download The Lost Seassions Vol 1 here! Watch “Sadness is a Blessing”, her latest video off Wounded Rhymes below:

We’re currently working on M.E. exclusive youtube videos for these songs …In the meantime… indulge yourself in the podcast at the bottom of the page.

1. Yes Nice – “Horses” – Vancouver B.C.

2. Rege Lark – “Have Caution” – Boston, MA

3. The Cadillac Saints – “I’m Giving Up” – Chattanooga, TN

4. Ian James – “Worth”

5. Madly In Dub – “Danger Dub”

6. Camacho – “Empire”

7. Becoming Machines – “Helpless”

8. Statue Of Liberty – “Thick Of It All”

9. Crystal Yates – “No More Sighin”

10. The Rising Sun All Stars – “Lucky Monday (clean version)”

11. The Quartet Of Woah! – “Could This Man?” -Lisboa, Portugal

12. The Moth & The Flame – “How We Woke Up” -Provo, UT

13. Until Dawn – “Richard Master”

The Comparison Chart is obviously very subjective to personal opinion, please don’t hate …

Honorable mentions:

—–The Curses – “The Whistling Man”
—–Calcaska – “Enough”
—–Nikki Lorenzo – “Selfish”
——San Telmo Lounge – “Tristezas de Monoblock (feat. Juan Subira and Adrian Abonizio)”
——Terry Fancher – “The Dance”
——MaG – “Paper Airplanes”

Thank you to all my friends for introductions and bands for their co-operation. Be sure to join us next month for the best Unsigned and Wound Up bands of the year. Don’t forget the top vote-getter receives an album review from one of our staff writers.
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Washington based The Lonely Forest recently got a chance to tour with Seattle’s Minus The Bear. They have also toured with Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s, and of course there’s that infamous connection with Death Cab For Cutie. The 4 piece are from Anacortes, not Aberdeen, but have still been influenced by Nirvana. The first act signed to Chris Walla’s new label, Trans, we caught up with singer John Van Deusen, and guitarist Tony Ruland, right before they were opening for Minus The Bear.

White Arrows are a 5 piece self-described psycho tropic band from Los Angeles.   Ok, that’s kinda a joke, but I’m not kidding about how rad this new band is!  You may not have heard of them yet, despite their already having played Sasquatch music festival. They have also toured this year with Cults, White Denim, and currently with The Naked and Famous. If you have heard of them before, then you may already know they started as the brain child project of singer and guitar player Mickey Schiff. Born blind, he spent his childhood sharpening his auditory senses and teaching himself music. Suddenly, at age 11, he amazingly gained sight, and his world came alive. He then studied ritualistic shamanism at NYU before returning to L.A. to start White Arrows with his brother and friends, releasing their first self-titled EP last year.

I caught up with them before The Naked and Famous show, and we discussed their music, their journey, and their philosophy. We talk sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, burning man fest, and even get to play a quick round of Urban Dictionary quiz.

Insert obligatory parental advisory warning: this is a Rated R interview below, enjoy!