Quietdrive are pleased to announce the release of the music video "Until The End". This is an alternate acoustic version of the song you can find on their self titled cd released one year ago.   The video features starting center of the Dallas Cowboys, Phil Costa, The Grandnationals and Colin Kassekert; all iTunes proceeds will go to the Dean Randazzo Cancer Foundation. 

As recently reported, the guys from Minneapolis have just released the cool cover album "Your Record / Our Spin": see the news here.

Remember Big Wreck? They were formed by Ian Thornley in 1994 and disbanded in 2002. Ian went on to a successful solo career with his own band Thornley.

Now Big Wreck are back and will release their third studio album "Albatross" on March 6th via Anthem Records - Warner Music Canada. The 11-song outing was produced by Thornley, alongside executive producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Rush) and Eric Ratz (Billy Talent, Cancer Bats).

Watch the video for the very good pearljamish first single and title-track "Albatross" clicking on the image. 

Son Of A Bad Man released their debut full length album last Saturday. It's titled "Here's To The Falling In…" and is the follow-up to the band's self-titled EP that was released in 2010 through Universal Republic Records. Since then they got dropped from the label and launched a Kickstarter campaign to get some help for the making of the album.

This is what band leader Shawn Fisher had to say to AlternativeAddiction.com about the sound of the band: "I feel like "southern pop" fits, because southern rock… all of these mainstream rock radio bands have kind of taken their own spin on southern rock. That’s just hard rock and we’re not a hard rock band. But we’re not a pop rock band either. So I feel like adding a southern twang with a Matchbox Twenty type sound, that’s the best way to describe us.”

From the bio of the band: "The Violet Lights are a rock duo based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California. Recording their debut EP, "Sex & Sound", at the legendary Hollywood studio Sunset Sound, they emerged with what is being described as a "Velvet Underground descendant collection of songs more befitting of the garage label than, say, The Strokes" and a sound labeled "a mash-up of Britpop, NYC garage rock and West Coast guitar musings."

Well, I'll just call this quality, radio-friendly pop rock with traces of what mentioned in the bio. However, judge by yourself by listening to The Violet Lights' 5-track debut EP "Sex & Sound" at their webpage. And while you're at it, subscribe to their mailing list and a get a song for free!

The Black Lab guys are psyched to present their new video for the awesome song "Something You Don't Know", from the last studio album "Two Strangers". The video was directed, shot and cut by Scott Chestnut.

Black Lab released a couple of months ago "Unplugged", their first acoustic album, featuring unplugged versions of 13 favorites as well as 3 new songs. Expect Paul Durham & Co. to put out a clip for a song from this album in the near future. Meanwhile, enjoy the video for "Something You Don't Know" clicking on the image here on the side.

I talked about video director Robert Hales in the previous post about Jane's Addiction. Well, for coincidence, the just released video for Red Hot Chili Peppers' new single "Look Around" had Mr. Hales at the shooting helm. The clip features the band rocking and doing stupid things in adjoining rooms.   "I can say that the band were great to work with -real gentlemen- and it was a genuinely collaborative process," director Hales told Spinner.com site. "They were all extremely involved creatively. Each room loosely represented the band members' personalities, so almost all the props and artwork in the rooms came from their personal collections." Enjoy the video clicking on the frame on the left.

Alternative rock pioneers Jane's Addiction have released today a brand new video for the song "Underground", off the band's latest album "The Great Escape Artist".
The video was directed by Robert Hales (Stone Temple Pilots, Nine Inch Nails, Kid Rock) in Los Angeles at the club Fais Do-Do, originally a speakeasy from the 1920s with a New Orleans ambience. Watch the clip now clicking on the image.

An explicit version of the video will debut at Playboy.com this Friday, January 27 at 10:00 a.m. EST.

Today is a big day for veteran American alternative pop rockers Nada Surf: to celebrate the release of their brand new album, "The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy", the newyorkers are having a special show tonight at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC, and YouTube will be streaming the performance live at 10 PM EST on the band's channel.

TSAITA is Nada Surf's seventh studio album and was produced by Chris Shaw (Wilco, Cheap Trick, Soul Asylum, Public Enemy). You can stream the full record this week on Spinner.com.

The band's latest track, "Waiting For Something" is available as a free download here, while you can download another song from the new album, "When I Was Young", for free at Nada Surf's website.