News from March 2009
Pop-punk’s reigning champs NEW FOUND GLORY come out swinging on their hotly anticipated new album, Not Without A Fight, due for release March 9th on Epitaph Records. Defending their title against any and all contenders, the platinum-selling group’s sixth studio album delivers a one-two knockout with fist-pumping hooks and catchy sing-along choruses. Working with producer Mark Hoppus (Motion City Soundtrack, The Matches) and mixer Neil Avron (Fall Out Boy) in their corner, NFG prove that challengers don’t stand a chance.
In anticipation of the release, New Found Glory kicked off the Fight earlier this year with an online video game at www.myspace.com/newfoundglory and a video press conference. This kick-ass announcement was followed by – in true NFG fashion – hysterically funny training videos leading up to the main event: a new music video for their first single ‘Listen To Your Friends.’
New Found Glory have been slugging it out for over a decade alongside bands like Green Day and Blink 182, becoming one of the most celebrated pop-punk bands in the world. Known for their trademark humour and fun loving attitude, the band’s latest effort will bring smiles to fans’ faces once again.
The band’s ability to consistently produce pop-punk favorites, album after album, has made New Found Glory a household name worldwide and Not Without A Fight raises the bar. Comprised of everything fans have come to love about the band, from their bouncy head-bobbing riffs and gang vocals to sing-along choruses and lyrics everyone can relate to, the album delivers knockout blows with pop anthems like ‘Listen To Your Friends’ (currently streaming on their MySpace) and grooving tracks like ‘47,’ followed by the right hook ‘Truck Stop Blues,’ a song about love on the road.
New Found Glory goes twelve rounds on Not Without A Fight, pounding listeners into submission with each track and reminding fans and bands why they are the reigning champs of pop-punk.
Stay tuned, New Found Glory will be bringing the Fight to a city near you soon!
In anticipation of the release, New Found Glory kicked off the Fight earlier this year with an online video game at www.myspace.com/newfoundglory and a video press conference. This kick-ass announcement was followed by – in true NFG fashion – hysterically funny training videos leading up to the main event: a new music video for their first single ‘Listen To Your Friends.’
New Found Glory have been slugging it out for over a decade alongside bands like Green Day and Blink 182, becoming one of the most celebrated pop-punk bands in the world. Known for their trademark humour and fun loving attitude, the band’s latest effort will bring smiles to fans’ faces once again.
The band’s ability to consistently produce pop-punk favorites, album after album, has made New Found Glory a household name worldwide and Not Without A Fight raises the bar. Comprised of everything fans have come to love about the band, from their bouncy head-bobbing riffs and gang vocals to sing-along choruses and lyrics everyone can relate to, the album delivers knockout blows with pop anthems like ‘Listen To Your Friends’ (currently streaming on their MySpace) and grooving tracks like ‘47,’ followed by the right hook ‘Truck Stop Blues,’ a song about love on the road.
New Found Glory goes twelve rounds on Not Without A Fight, pounding listeners into submission with each track and reminding fans and bands why they are the reigning champs of pop-punk.
Stay tuned, New Found Glory will be bringing the Fight to a city near you soon!
16/03/2009 - 11:17PM
Posted by Pete
Flynn Productions directorial duo, Kari & Saul were enlisted by Flogging Molly to make the band’s latest music video for single ‘Float’, due for release on SideOneDummy Records on 13th April 2009. The song is the title track from the band’s 2008 full-length.
With the video for ‘Float’, Flogging Molly were determined to do something different and the concept they eventually settled on has evolved into an evocative and cinematic piece of work. Dave King of the band says “When we first started considering a video for ‘Float’, all the ideas with the band in it seemed very generic. We had concepts with the band on a boat, then going to a bar. They seemed ridiculous. Then we decided to do something that we've never done before. This idea came about. We went along with it. It's a piece of art in itself, you know. I mean, you could put it on before a movie in a theater, and it would go down really well I think.”
Karni & Saul are the collaborative talents of art and fashion photographer Karni & 3D director and animator Saul. Their combined practices have created a unique live action/animation crossover style where real worlds are often fantastical and animated elements beautifully tangible. Recent commercial campaigns & music videos include: Nokia’s worldwide commercial campaign, the beautifully observed animation piece for BBC DAB Radio as well as music promos for Turin Brakes and Beth Orton. Created using the duo’s trademark mix of stop-frame, 3D animation and live action, their latest music promo for Flogging Molly follows a tired and frail sticklike character with unusual walrus-like features, as he takes us on an epic journey through a variety of landscapes onwards towards the sea, collecting and adding to his body discarded and everyday objects, transforming his minimal fame into an elaborate moving montage of objects. As we follow our character dragging his heavy limbs down through the sand dunes, and across a desolate beach towards the shoreline, we see for the first time the final result of his toils - his body transformed into a beautifully orchestrated sailing vessel. In the final moments of the film we witness our character being battered by the icy incoming waves as the evening sun sets on the horizon.
When Flogging Molly first saw the video, they were taken aback - “It was really special.” says King. “It really seemed to lend itself to what the song was about. You have a character who goes through life, picking up all these things that could get him down. Hopefully at the end of the day, he can keep his head above the water. Simple as that.” King says that if they were to name the animated character they would name him ‘Baldrick’ after the Blackadder series, perhaps echoing the idea of someone who goes through many trials but manages to get through them!
Founded in Los Angeles in 1997 by expatriate Dave King, Flogging Molly got its start and its name from a local bar called Molly Malone’s where the band played and grew and laid down the blueprint for its eventual success. As every member of Flogging Molly will emphatically explain, there were no predetermined expectations for the band’s sound. Traditional Celtic instruments like violin, mandolin and accordion blended seamlessly with grinding guitars and pounding drums. Without consciously attempting it, Flogging Molly merged the music of King’s childhood in Dublin with the music of his adulthood in L.A.
Flogging Molly’s latest album, Float, recorded in King’s native Ireland, delivers still another iteration of the band’s sonic evolution. Hard charging tunes ‘Paddy’s Lament’ and ‘You Won’t Make a Fool Out of Me’ give way, as listeners have come to expect, to more sober ruminations on tracks such as forthcoming single ‘Float.’ The overall effect is a symphonic layering of sound that possesses a unique rhythmic flow from boisterous to bereaved and back again.
With the video for ‘Float’, Flogging Molly were determined to do something different and the concept they eventually settled on has evolved into an evocative and cinematic piece of work. Dave King of the band says “When we first started considering a video for ‘Float’, all the ideas with the band in it seemed very generic. We had concepts with the band on a boat, then going to a bar. They seemed ridiculous. Then we decided to do something that we've never done before. This idea came about. We went along with it. It's a piece of art in itself, you know. I mean, you could put it on before a movie in a theater, and it would go down really well I think.”
Karni & Saul are the collaborative talents of art and fashion photographer Karni & 3D director and animator Saul. Their combined practices have created a unique live action/animation crossover style where real worlds are often fantastical and animated elements beautifully tangible. Recent commercial campaigns & music videos include: Nokia’s worldwide commercial campaign, the beautifully observed animation piece for BBC DAB Radio as well as music promos for Turin Brakes and Beth Orton. Created using the duo’s trademark mix of stop-frame, 3D animation and live action, their latest music promo for Flogging Molly follows a tired and frail sticklike character with unusual walrus-like features, as he takes us on an epic journey through a variety of landscapes onwards towards the sea, collecting and adding to his body discarded and everyday objects, transforming his minimal fame into an elaborate moving montage of objects. As we follow our character dragging his heavy limbs down through the sand dunes, and across a desolate beach towards the shoreline, we see for the first time the final result of his toils - his body transformed into a beautifully orchestrated sailing vessel. In the final moments of the film we witness our character being battered by the icy incoming waves as the evening sun sets on the horizon.
When Flogging Molly first saw the video, they were taken aback - “It was really special.” says King. “It really seemed to lend itself to what the song was about. You have a character who goes through life, picking up all these things that could get him down. Hopefully at the end of the day, he can keep his head above the water. Simple as that.” King says that if they were to name the animated character they would name him ‘Baldrick’ after the Blackadder series, perhaps echoing the idea of someone who goes through many trials but manages to get through them!
Founded in Los Angeles in 1997 by expatriate Dave King, Flogging Molly got its start and its name from a local bar called Molly Malone’s where the band played and grew and laid down the blueprint for its eventual success. As every member of Flogging Molly will emphatically explain, there were no predetermined expectations for the band’s sound. Traditional Celtic instruments like violin, mandolin and accordion blended seamlessly with grinding guitars and pounding drums. Without consciously attempting it, Flogging Molly merged the music of King’s childhood in Dublin with the music of his adulthood in L.A.
Flogging Molly’s latest album, Float, recorded in King’s native Ireland, delivers still another iteration of the band’s sonic evolution. Hard charging tunes ‘Paddy’s Lament’ and ‘You Won’t Make a Fool Out of Me’ give way, as listeners have come to expect, to more sober ruminations on tracks such as forthcoming single ‘Float.’ The overall effect is a symphonic layering of sound that possesses a unique rhythmic flow from boisterous to bereaved and back again.
16/03/2009 - 10:41PM
Posted by Pete
In This Moment’s single ‘Forever’ will be released on 6th April, followed by the Kevin Churko produced (Britney Spears, Ozzy Osbourne) album ‘The Dream’ on 13th April. This new edition of ‘The Dream’ will feature three brand new bonus tracks including a cover of Blondie’s ‘Call Me’.
In This Moment will also be appearing at this year’s prestigious ‘Give It A Name’ Festival in London & Manchester in April as well as performing on a Kerrang! sponsored ‘Give It A Name Introducing’ tour. Currently on tour in the US with Mudvayne, we can expect appearances by the band at further UK festivals over the summer and they will play all 46 dates on the Vans Warped Tour 09 alongside Gallows, Anti – Flag, Black Tide and Madina Lake.
In This Moment is fronted by the dazzling Maria Brink who is already one of the most photographed women in rock music with numerous US covers under her belt including Revolver & Metal Edge. UK press kicked off with coverage in Front magazine and the cover of Total Tattoo magazine ahead of any music press.
Theband’s previous album ‘Beautiful Tragedy’ took the band on the road with the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Rob Zombie and Lacuna Coil (and to festivals such as Download and Germany’s Rock Am Ring/Rock Am Park). This new album ‘The Dream’ is a big step up for the band and promises to attract the attention of a whole new fanbase. With over 6.5 million Myspace plays to date and a growing army of fans, 2009 will be the year when In This Moment join the likes of Paramore in crossing over from critical success in the rock world, to the consciousness of the mainstream.
For more details visit www.myspace.com/inthismoment
In This Moment will also be appearing at this year’s prestigious ‘Give It A Name’ Festival in London & Manchester in April as well as performing on a Kerrang! sponsored ‘Give It A Name Introducing’ tour. Currently on tour in the US with Mudvayne, we can expect appearances by the band at further UK festivals over the summer and they will play all 46 dates on the Vans Warped Tour 09 alongside Gallows, Anti – Flag, Black Tide and Madina Lake.
In This Moment is fronted by the dazzling Maria Brink who is already one of the most photographed women in rock music with numerous US covers under her belt including Revolver & Metal Edge. UK press kicked off with coverage in Front magazine and the cover of Total Tattoo magazine ahead of any music press.
Theband’s previous album ‘Beautiful Tragedy’ took the band on the road with the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Rob Zombie and Lacuna Coil (and to festivals such as Download and Germany’s Rock Am Ring/Rock Am Park). This new album ‘The Dream’ is a big step up for the band and promises to attract the attention of a whole new fanbase. With over 6.5 million Myspace plays to date and a growing army of fans, 2009 will be the year when In This Moment join the likes of Paramore in crossing over from critical success in the rock world, to the consciousness of the mainstream.
For more details visit www.myspace.com/inthismoment
16/03/2009 - 10:37PM
Posted by Pete
