The Altsounds Concentrate 8 Pints In Newsletter | Issue #65

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8 Pints In | Issue #65 The AltSounds Concentrate Want to advertise in this newsletter? With over 250k readers each week, you know you want to. Email: Jack@altsounds.com Welcome to the AltSounds Concentrate 8 Pints In. This is a round up of all the finest content posted on the site. Please have a scroll down and click away at anything that tickles your fancy. This is also the AltSounds official newsletter, so if you want it dropping in your inbox do sign up now! Here are the best reviews from AltSounds.com - anything rated above 80% by our scoring system blags the "Cream Of The Crop" title... Band/Artist: Lady Gaga Release: Yoü and I Rating: 91% Label: Interscope Records Three years to conquer the world. It’s an immeasurable achievement, you can’t deny it. Lady Gaga is already recognised as one of the most influential modern music artists, alongside the likes Band/Artist: Mount Kimbie Release: Carbonated Rating: 83% Label: Hotflush Mount Kimbie are fast become the go-to guys for any sort of intellectual ambience at short notice, offering an unprecedented mix of credibility and left-field dance. This is music for t Band/Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers Release: I'm With You Rating: 93% Label: Warner Bros. Records An album as highly anticipated as I’m With You by the Red Hot Chili Peppers has a great deal riding on it, especially after the band’s five year hiatus and the departure of guitarist John Frusciant Band/Artist: Escape the Fate Release: Liars and Monsters Rating: 94% Label: Interscope Records This past weekend at the world-renowned Sunset Strip Music Festival, Escape the Fate announced their next single to an eager audience. “Liars and Monsters” – contributed to by rock great John Band/Artist: Deftones Release: Beauty School Rating: 80% Label: Reprise Deftones are arguably one of (if not the) best alternative metal bands of a generation. They will certainly remain one of my top bands of all time. Guaran-damn-teed. Their 6th studio album Diamo Band/Artist: Every Avenue Release: Bad Habits Rating: 86% Label: Fearless Records Every Avenue is a Michigan born band whose third album Bad Habits released on August 2nd, 2011. Coincidentally a lot of bands that fall into the same genre as Every Avenue have some bad habits Band/Artist: Mr. Big Release: What If ... Rating: 90% Label: Frontiers Records That term 'supergroup' is a curse. In fact, the term ‘supergroup’ annoys me. Why should there be anything super about them, just because they have been in other bands? Bands like Hellyeah, The Damn More features than you can throw a small stick at. Here are some of the best pieces up on AltSounds.com... What feature? The Lowdown: Lucy Love Huh? Danish superstar Lucy Love is about to unleash her electronic/dubstep/dance style upon the unsuspecting British public. Also a fashion enthusiast, the singer and MC has designed the majority of h What feature? All you need to know about ... Avenged Sevenfold Huh? All you need to know about your new favourite band! Ah, we come on now to a band who are truly modern day veterans of the cruel music industry and, indeed, life itself. Since their conception in 1999, Avenged Sevenfold have already been put throu What feature? I Predict a Riot: How the London riots attacked the music industry Huh? At the beginning of August this year, London was swept by a surge of violence, destruction and chaos. Gangs came together to destroy livelihoods, demolish businesses and tearing apart communities What feature? Borrowed Beats | Issue #1 Huh? "a comically wide sonic umbrella" First off, this is an unashamedly mongrel article. I was looking for a way to talk about some of the best music I’ve encountered recently, and realised that the only thing most of it had in comm What feature? Soundtracked! Special: Top 10 In-Car Singing Moments in Film Huh? Come on now, spill the beans – I bet you’ve done it, haven’t you? In fact, I’m betting most of you have been doing it since you turned seventeen. No, not that you perverts! I am of course speaki What feature? The Lowdown: Label Love Huh? Dan Salter and Hannah Morgan answers questions for us here at AltSounds about the effect of the London Riots on the music industry It’s been 18 days since the Sony DADC warehouse was engulfed by flames during the monstrosity of the London Riots. This arson hasn’t just destroyed some material, cost Sony employees destruction a What feature? The Lowdown: Fighting Fiction Huh? 'What's the ethos of Fighting Fiction? Live to play.' At last - a new punk band from Britain with something to say. Hailing from Bristol and now based in Brighton, Fighting Fiction are relatively new on the scene but their vitriolic racket is alrea Have you seen the Facebook Fan page for Altsounds.com? Check it out here and become a fan! Altsounds.com | Facebook Got anything for next week’s Newsletter? Send your info to jack@altsounds.com.       -- Please check out our Media Kit for more information Call our USA HQ: +1 347-994-9258 Calling our UK Office: +44 7894-240751 Email: jack@altsounds.com Web: http://www.altsounds.com "Like" Us On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/altsoundsdotcom Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/altsoundsdotcom HQ Address AltSounds Ltd, 245 8th Avenue, #295 New York, NY, USA, 10011 Secondary Address AltSounds Ltd PO BOX 10003, East Leake, Loughborough, LE11 9GT

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The Altsounds Concentrate 8 Pints In Newsletter | Issue #64

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8 Pints In | Issue #64 The AltSounds Concentrate Want to advertise in this newsletter? With over 250k readers each week, you know you want to. Email: Jack@altsounds.com Welcome to the AltSounds Concentrate 8 Pints In. This is a round up of all the finest content posted on the site. Please have a scroll down and click away at anything that tickles your fancy. This is also the AltSounds official newsletter, so if you want it dropping in your inbox do sign up now! Here are the best reviews from AltSounds.com - anything rated above 80% by our scoring system blags the "Cream Of The Crop" title... Band/Artist: Mark Ronson and The Business Intl Release: Record Collection 2012 Rating: 83% Label: Kitsune If you have not yet heard of Mark Ronson then it is high time you climbed out of your rock and took notice for he is perhaps one of the biggest pop stars of a generation. Not only has he produc Band/Artist:Three Trapt Tigers Release: Noise Trade Rating: 83% Label: Blood & Biscuitss I recently had the fortune of stumbling across experimental noiseniks Three Trapped Tigers at Liverpool Sound City, and was mesmerized by the intensity of their highly complex performance. Th Band/Artist: The Black Dahlia Murder Release: Ritual Rating: 86% Label: Metal Blade Records It had to be something morbid, didn’t it? The unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short who was found sliced in half at the waist in 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Or more commonly known as the Bla Band/Artist: Heartsounds Release: Drifter Rating: 80% Label: Epitaph Punk rock. Just those two words alone can stir emotions like no other; the history, passion, energy and unquestionably, the camaraderie within it. And it was an obsession for said genre that creat Band/Artist: Frank Turner Release: If Ever I Stray Rating: 84% Label: Xtra Mile Recordings, Epitaph There are many elements of Frank Turner's songwriting that, on paper, should not work. These are made evermore obvious in new single 'If Ever I Stray', the second release from fourth studio alb More features than you can throw a small stick at. Here are some of the best pieces up on AltSounds.com... What feature? The Remixes | Issue 01 Huh? Editor's pick of some awesome remixes Remixes are sometimes better than the original no? You hear the odd track here and there, they sometimes spark your love back into the track, or a section of the song that sticks in your head. Havi What feature? Soundtracked! Issue #15: Rise of the Planet of the Apes Huh? Music From The Motion Picture “You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!” Who’d have thought a simple line of dialogue from a 1968 American sci-fi movie would be so significant to the people of Brita What feature? Gametracked! Dead Island Huh? Music From the Award Winning Game Trailer Ah, zombies eh? Those slow, rotting bastards seem to be everywhere nowadays. I blame George A. Romero. Thanks to him our cinema screens continue to burst with an endless wave of those decomposi What feature? Diary of a Festival Addict. Issue #8: Kendal Calling Huh? Lowther Deer Park - The Lake District. 29-31 July 2011 Kendal Calling has its work cut out if it wants to impress me this weekend. After all, this year’s eclectic line-up is not what I’d consider to be my favourite festival cup of tea. Fr What feature? Soundtracked! Issue #14: Cars 2 Huh? Music From The Motion Picture Is there anyone reading this who can say, with sincerity, that they don’t like Pixar? If you’re reading this right now and nodding like a Buzz bobble-head, let me reiterate what everyone around y What feature? Soundtracked! Special: Batman Live – World Arena Tour Huh? Music From The Stage Show Spectacular at Manchester MEN Arena Live Can’t wait until the Dark Knight rises? Me neither! After all, Batman is the most badass and brilliant comic book character ever concocted. Forget your friendly neighbourhood spider-wimp and yo Have you seen the Facebook Fan page for Altsounds.com? Check it out here and become a fan! Altsounds.com | Facebook Got anything for next week’s Newsletter? Send your info to jack@altsounds.com.       -- Please check out our Media Kit for more information Call our USA HQ: +1 347-994-9258 Calling our UK Office: +44 7894-240751 Email: jack@altsounds.com Web: http://www.altsounds.com "Like" Us On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/altsoundsdotcom Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/altsoundsdotcom HQ Address AltSounds Ltd, 245 8th Avenue, #295 New York, NY, USA, 10011 Secondary Address AltSounds Ltd PO BOX 10003, East Leake, Loughborough, LE11 9GT

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