Hey people I'm Mike D from Athens GR (43). I'm a sound engineer, radio producer, and certainly a music "freak." I couldn't be anything else, you see: I grew up in a musical home (my father was a composer), and wanted to be a rock-star but wasn't patient enough to study music. Instead, I studied the technical stuff and went really "nuts" when I started writing articles about the bands and artists I love. It all started back in 2002 in a printed magazine (Sound Maker - RIP) and I still do it because I really like sharing my libraries, discotheque, info, connections, knowledge, and all. I'm involved in all "waves" music (new wave/darkwave/post-punk/shoegaze), punk, industrial, EBM, alternative rock, indie, electronic, avant-garde/ experimental/ freestyle...but on the other hand I can easily throw a classical CD in the player, or a jazzy tune, or...ok you get it: Music! I'd like to read your comments on my writing because you know how it goes, and you all know the glorious song by Placebo,"Without You I'm Nothing"...Thanx and enjoy Freedom and Music, Loud!
Alternative singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jenn Vix announced the release of her Unlocked EP on October 20, preceded by the lead single Complicated Man. The Rhode Island artist is not new to the scene, having worked with …
The Dayoffs are a Manhattan duo–NYC is where they dwell, dream, and get all the inspiration they need for their music. Their self-titled 11 track LP is slated to release in November via the German boutique …
Seattle’s The Blue Hour will drop their new record Always on October 27. A magical offering of 11 tracks, it comes on the trail of their Kyoto Song single, a beautiful rendition of The Cure classic. …
Guaranteed: This is a special one and important! Pylon Reenactment Society formed from the ashes of Pylon, a band among the most influential from Athens, Georgia, where the frontrunners of the scene–The B-52’s and R.E.M.–called home. It …
UK’s London based alternative modern rockers The Horrors released their new Valbum last month. It’s their sixth 10-track LP (12 in the Japanese version) in a decade where the band succeeded to rock the continents …
Symbion Project, the personal vehicle of the electronic composer/producer Kasson Crooker, will be releasing the Bloodthirsty single on October 20 (first appeared in the Arcadian LP). Though a strange title for an indietronic song that …
This coming Friday and Saturday (22-23 September), Liverpool UK is the place to vanish in psychedelia, PZYK is the festival that will destroy you. It kicks into overdrive celebrating artists operating at the cutting edge of today’s …
Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda) just released the latest track by Dave Wesley, a veteran experimental dub techno and ambient producer and DJ from Minneapolis, who is now based out of Portugal. Laranja Swadhisthana 67_5 – EPv1 is …
On September 14, brothers Philippe and Herve Lomprez–the acknowledged and most respected French (Lille) post punk act Trisomie 21–released their new single, Alice. T 21 started their course back in the early eighties and though some people …
Summer ends in September?! Nope, and this Artist Of The Week is damn hot! Started a couple of years ago in New York, the band is like all these rock ‘n’ roll darlings who know …
Jason Herring & The Mystery Plan are releasing their new Queensland Ballroom LP tomorrow (8 September) via Ten Millimeter Omega Recordings. The ambitious album and infectious chilled atmosphere features a new lineup and dreamy female vocals …
New York singer-songwriter Courtney Farren just released the first single/video of her debut album of the same name–Nothing Like It. This six-track LP features guitar and piano songs recorded this past spring, and officially releases 6 October. New …
Discolor Blind, a new band from Montreal, relased their debut EP on September 1 via Republic of Music. Long Vivid Dream is a 5 track record of alternative music–alternative in its trip hop style, and electronic! The …
This week we decided it was about time to introduce you to Tombstones In Their Eyes. The Los Angeles psych-rock act is deeply concentrated on that certain character of everything involved in their music: The name, the …
Brooklyn indie-pop tigers My Favourite Things just released their latest video to accompany the single, Some Things Stay The Same (Stay A Little While), from their latest LP, Fly I Will, Because I Can (July 2017). We’re proud to premiere …
Philadelphia’s Tulipomania is releasing its new 2 + 1 track single next month via Sursumcorda Recordings! The three piece’s debut LP, This Gilded Age, came out last October, and this is the brand new single with …
Editor’s note: In light of this past weekend’s conservative Christian terror event in Charlottesville, NC, Noise Journal is proud to premiere American Anymen’s video for their latest single, Flag Burner. The acoustic punk track is an …
Summertime–and the heat that comes along with it–brings a spontaneous need to chill and listen to something less “aggressive,” but still rocking an alternative vibe. Enter Labyrinth Lounge! The Brooklyn-based band is set to release …
Last Friday, Nicholas Wood released his solo album under the moniker SACCADES, a self titled LP on Fuzz Club Records. The Berlin based musician is best known for making up one half of the synth/post …
A couple of years ago, John Fryer started his latest project, Black Needle Noise, having already released two LP’s and several singles. I’m not his biographer, but there’s a certain need to mention a few striking facts about …