By condensing a palate of swirling and innovative guitar voyages and a sweat-soaked baroque punk ethos that loses itself in carpet-crawling majesty, Gringo Star has emerged as Atlanta’s favorite rock and roll sons. Brothers Nick and Pete Furgiuele, along with Pete DeLorenzo and Matt McCalvin have continually built momentum, crisscrossing the country and honing their chops on rock and roll’s frontline. Crafting an art-damaged and intense presence, the group’s sound falls somewhere between The Animals, Motown and The Kinks.

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Equal Vision Records is proud to announce the latest addition to their roster: Boston, MA’s THEREFORE I AM. The five-piece is set to record their debut full length later this year at Strangeways Recording studio in Providence, RI with producer and ex-Hot Rod Circuit drummer Michael Poorman (Piebald, Tsunami Bomb, Paulson) for a Spring 2009 release. Poorman also produced the band’s 2007 EP, Escape.

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New York-based rockers, ISM, outraged by the apathy of modern society rail against it, making an album (URGENCY) rife with polemical commentary and displayed in the most extreme examples in their video for the first single, “Sacred Cows”.

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JARS OF CLAY / MUSIC BUILDS TOUR starts this Thursday 8/21 - FREE CLOSER MP3

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Baltimore royales Ponytail are heading out across North America once again in support of their acclaimed release, Ice Cream Spiritual (We Are Free). After touring across the US with Joan of Arc, the band are teaming up with Don Caballero to visit our neighbors to the North (and Midwest), before heading overseas for a European tour. More amazing tours in store through the end of ‘08 and into ‘09 as well! Dates below for this round…

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Denver, CO’s FEAR BEFORE THE MARCH OF FLAMES have just announced a headlining run, kicking off September 5th in the band’s hometown and wrapping up October 28th in Salt Lake City, UT. Support for the tour will include I AM THE OCEAN and label-mates, DAMIERA.

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CLIFTON, NJ – New Jersey rock band INFERNOPHONIC has been thrust into the midst of the latest wave of “Star Wars Mania” with the arrival of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It’s no accident that “Eye of the Jedi,” the classic hard rockers’ richly melodic and spiritually topical Star Wars tribute, now has become the most popular track on its acclaimed new debut album, SPARK IT UP.

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2007 was the year for The Mint Chicks self-produced Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! in New Zealand.

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The Verve have given us three fantastic albums – including Urban Hymns, the fifth fastest selling British album ever on release, reaching platinum status in the States, and one of the landmark releases of the Nineties. They play “music of the spheres,” which strives to break out of the stratosphere and yet is laced with a brutally down-to-earth, gritty realism that understands the hopes and fears of their world-wide audience but challenges them to accompany the band on a quest for something greater. When the words of Bitter Sweet Symphony power out across a venue, the words “It’s a bitter sweet symphony, this life, you’re a slave for money, then you die”

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It may seem like a gimmick, but zerobridge are self-releasing a single every month for the remainder of 2008 because there is no other alternative. Din explains, “We’ve been STRICTLY independent for as long as we’ve been together and maybe even more than we would like to be. We’ve accumulated a catalog of songs that no one’s heard outside our regional fan base and have not recorded until now. It seems that in this digital age for music, the single is the format of choice by the fans – and what better way for a band like us to establish ourselves and get our music heard than to use the internet as our distribution company. It’s still a challenge. Creating music still takes time and money, but it’s on our terms and while I still think they are necessary, we don’t have to deal with labels - just directly with music fans.”

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