One of the last interesting album of 2011 will be "Pioneer" by Arizona poprockers The Maine. It is the third full-length record by the band and will be released independently on December 6th, through the group's label, Action Theory Records, with distribution ensured by Warner Distribution.

Produced by Colby Wedgeworth (Burn Halo, Lybecker, The Seeking) and mixed by Mark Needham (The Killers, Chris Isaak, Shakira, Just Jinjer, Better Than Ezra), "Pioneer" features the already released singles "Don't Give Up On (Us)" and "Some Days". You can download the first one for free at the band's facebook page, where you can also listen to the second one.

NEEDTOBREATHE have put together a brand new music video for "Drive All Night", one of their most recent singles from the last record, "The Reckoning", released on September through Atlantic Records. It's full of fun, fire and motorcycles, so be sure to check it out clicking on the image on the left.

NEEDTOBREATHE will be performing as the musical guest on CBS' "The Late Show" with David Letterman at 11:35PM EST, Monday, November 21st. Check them out!

You may remember the american powerpop band The Crash Moderns, that has been on indefinite hiatus for almost a year now.

Well, Waking Heroes is the brand new powerpop rock group featuring Danny Roselle, Mikey Vranek, and Jimmi Kane of The Crash Moderns along with new arrival Martin Delahaye.

Go to their facebook page now and listen to their two new singles, "New York City" and "Lights On America" and, while you're there, leave a feedback to the band. They will write back for granted.

Young The Giant are an interesting american alternative rock band that formed in Irvine, California, in 2004. Formerly known as The Jakes, Young The Giant was signed by Roadrunner Records in 2009 and released their eponymous debut album, produced by Grammy-winner Joe Chicarelli (Counting Crows, Manchester Orchestra, Big Talk, U2, Jamie Cullum, Tori Amos) almost one year ago.

To help promoting their 2012 North American Headlinetour, the band is releasing through NoiseTrade an EP consisting of 8 remixes of tracks featured on the "Young The Giant" album.

The EP is FREE and you can download it by clicking on the image on the left.

It's not a mystery that Fountains Of Wayne's new album "Sky Full Of Holes", released last July, is one of my favourites of this year. After the videos for "Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart" and "The Summer Place", here is, thanks to Amazon, the new one for "A Road Song".

It's a typical road clip, for a simple, yet passionate, track. I expecially like the passage "I know it's not what you'd call necessary / And I know that I'm no Steve Perry / But even if you roll your eyes and groan/ I'm still writing you a road song / That you can call your own". Enjoy the video clicking on the image.

I already talked about these 4 danish guys in the 1.0 version of the site. They're stars in their home country, where they reached multi-platinum status. Kashmir, that named their band after the Led Zeppelin song, play melancholic pop in Coldplay, Keane, Travis and Saybia style mixed with a sort of electro-poprock similar to the one of their country fellows Carpark North, just less thunderous.

After 6 studio album, 5 EPs, a live album and many singles, it's time for the danish to release a 2-cd career spanning collection that features 32 songs, including bonus tracks of previous records, studio versions of only-live tracks (so far) and two brand new numbers called "Electrified Love" and "Evermore", the first being the official single off this compilation (preview it here).

"Katalogue 1991-2011" is already out for Columbia/Sony, so go get it now: it's a nice way to get introduced to this brilliant band.

To give you all a sample of Robert Schwartzman's brand new solo album, "Double Capricorn", California Dreamin' Records invites you to download the first single, "Second Chances" for free (click on the image to download).

To help spread the cause of "Double Capricorn", please share this post on Facebook, Twitter, etc: all profits from the sale of the album are being donated to the Tibetan Healing Fund, a not-for-profit organization that provides healthcare and education to Tibetan woman and children in rural areas.

311 is a rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, that already sold over 8.5 million records worldwide. Their most recent studio album is "Universal Pulse", released last July and produced, like its predecessor, "Uplifter", by Bob Rock (Metallica, Aerosmith, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, The Cult, Our Lady Peace).

To celebrate 11-11-11 (another kind of 311 Day), 311 is giving their fans a free download of the band's 2011 show at Red Rocks. Click on the image on the left to download it.