Alfa Matrix is set to release the first chapter of the "Absolute Grrrls Manifesto" compilation box series – the ultimate anthology of female fronted bands from the alternative / underground music scene and its various subgenres (gothic metal, new wave, industrial, pop rock, electro, synth pop, EBM, techno...).
This 4CDs collection (plus a 40-song additional soundcard) presents an unbelievable 111 (!!) bands in a deluxe carton box with an extensive 32-page booklet featuring the splendid design of Oliver Haecker with photos from all featured bands and an essay about the place of women in the music industry.
Featuring a real, "who is who" artist selection amongst the greatest female vocalists active in the scene across the world, it is clear to see why this compilation has been qualified by many as the ultimate anthology of female voices from the dark gothic / industrial / electro scene! ALL together to defend our beloved music scene and prove that the female gender from our alternative scene has much to offer in quality, emotion and diversity!
The complete tracklisting speaks for itself and features amongst others: TRISTANIA, THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE, LIV KRISTINE, AYRIA, COLLIDE, CHANDEEN, L'AME IMMORTELLE, XANDRIA, HELALYN FLOWERS, TYING TIFFANY, MARSHEAUX, I:SCINTILLA, LEAVE'S EYES, PSY'AVIAH, ISIS SIGNUM feat. SARA NOXX, THE DREAMSIDE, AAIMON, LOVELORN DOLLS, MANTUS, UNTER NULL, MELLONTA TAUTA, DARK ORANGE, GRAUSAME TÖCHTER, KARI BERG, THE LOVECRAVE, KRYSTAL SYSTEM, NUDE, ALICE IN VIDEOLAND, DAYBEHAVIOR, JUNKSISTA, GOD'S BOW, JAVELYNN, DIFFUZION, CELLULOIDE, NOBLESSE OBLIGE, GRENDEL, SOMAN, STRAY, MINA HARKER, REGENERATOR, SCHWARZBLUT, and so many, many, many more!
"Absolute Grrrls Manifesto" reminds us how proud we can all be to have so many brilliant female composers, writers, singers, poets, and artists, who all contribute so many gifts to the music scene! Sensibility, femininity, sexiness, power, wit, passion… : it's all in there!! Let these female voices shine through their diversity and rule your ears for the next 500+ minutes… Enjoy without holding back: "Power to the girls" today!
After "Fxxk The Mainstream", "Endzeit Bunkertracks" or yet "Electronic Body Matrix", Alfa Matrix is inaugurating here a new deluxe 4CD box conceptual series bound to become another "classic must-have" and most successful compilation series in the alternative music scene… A FREE 18-track Alfa Matrix label compilation "Sounds From The Matrix 013" is also included in every compilation box.
Skinner Box" is a Greek band based in Athens and is active since 2012. The group consists of Vana Rose (Vocals), Spyros Mitrokotsas (Lead/Rhythm guitars), Stefanos Manousis (Bass guitar/Keys) and George Papanastasiou (Drums/Percussion).
Their music unites several different music styles, such as indie-rock, trip-hop, dark wave and post rock. It is based on emotional contrasts and complex - modern themes are wound tightly inside dark and impressionistic lyrics. Sophisticated guitars, perfected by elaborated rhythms and the impressive vocals shape Skinner Box's very own soundscape, that drags the listener deep into another dimension, where thoughts are spelled, that most people keep for themselves, where feelings lie waste, where the true emotions are sowed.
"Life is Chemistry" is the name of their debut and Skinner Box prove, that they are the chemists in their own little world. When the truth is said without remorse, when feelings are presented completely, bringing oneself to think about his life, sharing the emotions with these songs and let the melancholy drag themselves into a world far beyond, but so close...
"Life is Chemistry" is available from 01.03.2013 on via afmusic and at every well-known store digitally as well as on CD.
Peek-A-Boo is always interested in hearing new sounds and of course sharing them with you.
This time we came accross Gemini Syndrome which is definitely recommended stuff for Combichrist-fans.
Click here for the free download.
After a year of sweating and bleeding over the record it's finally finished, so we wanted to get some music out there as soon as we could. It's about lust, it's about the chase, it's about the endless carnal game of love. It was possibly the hardest we've ever made but certainly the most satisfying.
It's ten furious songs, for me, have reclaimed from ourselves what Suede was always about; drama, melody and noise.” said the band's front-man and founding member Brett Anderson about 'Bloodsports', their first studio album release since 2002.
Better 40 years later than never: The follow-up to the first record ever to bear the Iggy and the Stooges logo--the immortal proto-punk masterpiece Raw Power--will finally be out April 30, when Fat Possum Records releases the all-new Iggy and the Stooges studio album, Ready To Die.
Ready To Die finds Iggy Pop, guitarist James Williamson and drummer Scott "Rock Action" Asheton reunited for a full album of all-new material for the first time since the legendary Raw Power sessions, with Mike Watt filling in for the late Ron Asheton on bass. The results are the closest thing to a time capsule to 1973--or at least to Iggy's subsequent efforts with Williamson, including 1977's Kill City and 1979's New Values--that rock 'n' roll is likely to proffer in this millennium. The new album's opening one-two of "Burn" and "Sex & Money" pair sublimely blunt and self-explanatory subject matter with back alley razor-blade guitars and a troglodytic rhythmic stomp as intensely single-minded as Iggy's lyrical statements of intent. Elsewhere on the album, anthems abound in the form of the most dead-on rallying cry for the lower-working-class dispossessed to date--the succinctly and aptly titled "Job"--as well as a title track that mixes a signature Iggy Pop mission statement of angry desperation with guitar pyrotechnics that recall those halcyon opening salvos of "Search & Destroy."
Just as Iggy exhumed the original Stooges name when he reunited in 2003 with the Asheton brothers, the revival of the Iggy and the Stooges moniker that first appeared on the cover of Raw Power heralded the return of guitarist James Williamson to the fold in 2009, or as Iggy put it then "although 'the Stooges' died with Ron Asheton, there is still 'Iggy and the Stooges'." As far as the decision to record and release a new Iggy and the Stooges album for the first time since 1973, Iggy recently commented: "My motivation in making any record with the group at this point is no longer personal. It's just a pig-headed fucking thing I have that a real fucking group when they're an older group they also make fucking records. They don't just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of fucking money..."
03/23/13........West Coast, Australia............. Blues’n’Roots Festival
03/25/13........Adelaide, Australia.......................Thebarton Theatre
03/27/13........ Melbourne, Australia...............................Festival Hall
03/30/13........ Byron Bay, Australia................... Byron Bay Bluesfest
04/02/13........ Sydney, Australia..............................Hordern Pavilion
06/08/13........ Long Beach, CA..............................Ink-N-Iron Festival
06/24/13........ Zagreb, Croatia..................................INmusic Festival
06/26/13........Goteborg, Sweden............. Stora Scenen pa Liseberg
06/28/13........ Borlänge, Sweden................ Peace And Love Festival
06/30/13........ Marmande, France.......................... Garorock Festival
07/04/13........ Rome, Italy...............................................Rock in Roma
07/09/13........Argelès-Sur-Mer, France.......................Parc de Valmy
07/11/13......... Milan, Italy................................................... City Sound
"My motivation in making any record with the group at this point is no longer personal. It's just a pig-headed fucking thing I have that a real fucking group when they're an older group they also make fucking records. They don't just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of fucking money..."
