By Charissa Lock @charissalock On a historic island in the Mediterranean Sea nestled an art residency where Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi met with Sean Gad, Ryan Rabin, and Andrew Wessen. This meeting, friendship and music collaboration were the roots to which grew into their creation of a wondrous band known as Grouplove, an EP [...]

Lots of Christmas-ing going out here. Having a ball and getting ready for 2012. matt ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com

Superdrag performs “Sucked Out” on Conan O’ Brien in 1996. Blast from the past. #greatband matt ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com

Wildy talented Lana Del Rey performs “Video Games” at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on December 7th, 2011.  Her debut album is set for release January 31st, 2012 on Interscope Records. Amazon: http://goo.gl/646sD (Only available in the UK) She’ll be on Saturday Night Live on January 14th. matt ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com

A few days ago we re-launched our website theprojectmatters.org and I’m so proud of it. The re-design was the vision of the web design and development team known as: www.imakesound.com.  They do a range of services from photography, to video production and website design.  They also make up a large part of the band Escape Directors [...]

by Charissa Lock @charissalock 12/08/2011        Why have one drummer when you can have two?  Why have just two drummers when you could have two violinists, two guitarists, two trumpeters, a percussionist, a pianist, a cellist, a bassist, a horn player, and every one of them can sing?  The Portland, Oregon-based indie band, [...]

Our friends Escape Directors, along with Mitchell Grey, have put out a free Holiday EP for your enjoyment.  Grab it here: http://bit.ly/EsDiMG Download. Love. Share. Twitter: @escapedirectors & @mitchellgrey Facebook: facebook.com/escapedirectors & facebook.com/mitchellgreymusic matt ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com

Perfume Genius – All Waters First release off upcoming album “Put your Back N 2 It” by Seattle singer-songwriter Perfume Genius titled “All Waters”. You can download the track for free here: http://tinyurl.com/PerfumeGenius-AllWaters   You can pre-order the 12 song album to be released February 21, 2012 on Matador Records here: http://store.matadorrecords.com/put-your-back-n-2-it matt ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com

We caught up with Youth Lagoon last month (aka Trevor Powers) at the Echo in Silverlake. (Los Angeles, California)  Catch this haunting live rendition of “Montana”. If you play it once, you will play it twice. Buy their latest album “The Year of Hibernation” for $8.99 on iTunes here: http://itun.es/iL92Px Support new music! matt special thanks [...]

       MTV is still very important to the music business.  While music and music videos are an integral part of their online, cable and satellite channels they remain focused on serving a younger demographic scripted and reality television programming.  What MTV solely used to be is now self-serving at YouTube, as well as [...]

We look a bit deeper into the 2011 recorded music sales revenues in today’s blog.  Most of the figures below are gracefully lifted from nielsen SoundScan reports.  They claim that these numbers are “compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports (that are) collected”.  These numbers are all year to date [...]

by Charissa Lock @charissalock 12/01/2011               New Jersey seems to be the reproductive center for many creative and fresh musicians; with a handful of great bands I keep hearing all claiming their birth in The Garden State.   This quartet (Steve Carter as lead vocalist and on guitar, Nick Wilson [...]