FROM NORTH IRELAND COME JAPANESE POPSTARS / VIDEOS / MP3
The Japanese Popstars ‘We Just Are’ coming February 24, 2009. Native to Northern Ireland, The Japanese Popstars are not really Japanese Popstars (any fetishists expecting cute Japanese girls can leave now).
JOSH PYKE HAS A VIDEO HIT WITH “MAKE YOU HAPPY”
Australian singer-songwriter, Josh Pyke’s music video for ‘Make You Happy’ has gone gangbusters on YouTube reaching 100,000 views with 80,000+ views in the last 36 hours!
THE SECRET MACHINES GO PSYCHEDELIC ON NEW VIDEO
A word of warning: the video for “Atomic Heels,” the first single off the Secret Machines’ 2008 self-titled record, is not for the faint-hearted.
GINGER REPORTS FROM THE FUN FUN FUN FESTIVAL 08
Well rested and sober as a baby, it seems I have made a full recuperation from my 2nd year at the 3rd annual Fun Fun Fun Fest, held in the beautiful Waterloo Park, Austin Texas. Fun X3 Fest is one of many music festivals that happen year around in these parts, but this festival has truly done things the right way. What is the right way, you ask?
EMERGENZA SEEKS BANDS TO PLAY BOSTON, MA
The new rock season is approaching! You might be interested in knowing that we have 25/30 minute slots available at The Paradise rock and the opportunity to play at the Avalon.
Reviews
The Bloodsugars are bringing that fun and loose side back to...
First, I want to say that this is how albums should be made—no...
On the Brooklyn rockers’ debut, Paper and Sand live up to their...
Hannah is a palindrome, a word that is spelled the same backwards...
Aptly titled Traces, Ping Trace’s debut EP certainly has slivers...
We All Need A Reason To Believe, the major label debut from Philadelphia...
News
SNOW PATROL TOPS CHARTS WORLDWIDEIn its first week of release, Snow Patrol’s A Hundred Million Suns landed in the top ten in the United States, number two in the...
ERYKAH BADU AND MOS DEF TO STAR IN INDIE FILMAccording to BlackVoices.com, neo-soul artists Erykah Badu and Mos Def will star in a new indie film called Bobby Zero. Produced by...
COLDPLAY COVER THE FLAMING LIPSTurns out Coldplay are huge fans of the Flaming Lips. The British band recently played the Lips hometown of Oklahoma and things got...
BLINK 182 GUYS TALKING AGAINIs a Blink 182 reunion in the works? A blog post from Mark Hoppus indicates maybe so. On his site, Mark says that he, Tom Delonge and...
GET A SIGNED HINDER GUITARIn celebration of the release of their sophomore album, Take It to the Limit, all the guys from Hinder have signed a Spector bass guitar...
ANDY HULL PRESENTS RIGHT AWAY, GREAT CAPTAIN / AUDIOAndy Hull knows the fears that accumulate with miles, having spent the last two years on the road as the front-man for Manchester Orchestra. It...
GREEN RIVER ORDINANCE DEBUT SET FOR FEBRUARY 2009In the mundane world of local law, a Green River Ordinance prohibits door-to-door sales without a homeowner’s prior permission....
MARY J. BLIGE PERFUME LINEFollowing in the footsteps of stars like Jennifer Lopez and Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige is preparing a fragrance line. According to...
M.I.A. ON A MIXTAPEPregnancy seems to be giving M.I.A. a whole lot of energy. Just last month, she came out of retirement for a show, released a new EP...
CAN SOULJA BOY GO PLATINUM IN A WEEK?Soulja Boy Tell’Em posted a new video blog last week, where he announced his “Let’s Go Platinum in a Week” campaign for his...
NOVEMBER 2008 SONICBIDS “ARTISTS 2 WATCH”
This month’s SonicBids Artists to Watch are a motely crew (pun fully intended!). More than half are international performers and the rest are from the US. There are four performers who pump out variations of rock that is strong on lyrics, three acoustic acts, and a hip-hop artist. All are very lyric-driven, except for one.
Contests
Here at Skope we LOVE giveaways and try to do as many as possible....
Ariel Aparicio Presents: Ariel’s inspiration behind his new...
