They are Steampunk music at its finest, and Abney Park has a new album called Under The Floor, Over The Wall which goes on sale today. The first track is Your Escape, the second is No Way Out, both from the new album.
The new track from ONE OK ROCK is called Taking Off, and it is every bit as good as you would expect. You can grab it now at Amazon, iTunes, and all the other usual places. Then because one is never enough with this band Last Dance and the live montage of Cry out.
I have enjoyed Tessa Violet’s music since she released I’ll Be Your Star Trek Girl quite a few years ago under the stage name Meekakitty. She continues to put out excellent new music under her own name these days, and I wanted to share a few of her recent tracks. The first song is Dream, posted online this September. She wrote the music and lyrics as well as edited the video, Isaac White directed the video and created all the video effects for it. The second track is Haze and was just posted yesterday, the third is Not Over You posted on October 14th and possibly my favorite of the bunch. All three of these and two other tracks are on her forthcoming EP Halloway, and if you go for the physical copy the first 1,000 of them will be signed.
Just posted online last week, Yolo is the latest track from BAND-MAID, Japans leading Kawaii Heavy Metal band. OK, that last statement is up for debate, with bands like Baby Metal and Doll$ Boxx in the running for that title. Yolo is also the name of their second single, in this case a single with four songs, which will be released in November. They are doing their Brand New MAID Release Tour right now, tonight playing in Mexico, with stops in London and Germany later this week. The second track is The Non-fiction Days from last April, the third is Before Yesterday from June. Those last two are from their third mini-album Brand New MAID, and I am sure they will be doing all eight songs from it tonight, along with a lot of others.
The new song from The Pretty Reckless is called Take Me Down, and equates signing a deal with the devil to signing a deal with a record company. What makes it particularly ironic is this is a tightly produced commercial grade tune, without the rawness of her earlier recordings. I am not sure if that is a good thing, but it is quite a tasty song. The album it is on, Who You Selling For, comes out October 21st.
From February of 2015, the band Rose Windows doing the christening of the new live studio at listener supported KEXP in Seattle. I think they broke up about 6 months after this recording, but they left three very interesting albums as their legacy.