Riding high on the power of their brand new album Circles (Mascot Label Group), P.O.D. Has shared their new video for ‘Listening Fro The Silence’. The track and accompanying video is a meditation on mental health issues, a common problem today with not enough attention focused on it. Watch the clip below. The band also booked an extensive tour of the UK and Ireland this winter with Alien Ant Farm. Continue reading
P.O.D. Is back with a new album, and pretty much continuing the arc they began on their last album The Awakening (Universal). Circles is the bands’ first album on their new label, Mascot Label Group, and we find the veteran band hanging out hard in their wheelhouse. By this point in their career, they know where they live musically and what their fans want from them. When they choose to experiment, like on the Rap Rock and Reggae heavy Circles, it’s always interesting at least. When they go to the tried and true, you get the classic P.O.D. Sound. There isn’t a lot of in between, or anything all new here, however. Continue reading
Presented by Spirit of Rock, Ramblin Man Fair 2019 is coming together with another great headliner. Indie Blues/Rock veteran Beth Hart has just been added as the Blue Stage Headliner. For 2019, the festival will move back its traditional end of July slot on the 19th, 20th and 21st July. Beth joins Classic Rock greats Foreigner on the bill. Ramblin Man celebrates the best rock, Folk, blues, and progressive rock bands every year. More bands to be announced soon. Watch a trailer announcement below. Beth Hart will release the stunning Beth Hart – Live At the Royal Albert Hall on Blu-Ray/DVD/2CD/3LP/Digital on 30th November 2018 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group. Continue reading
San Diego rockers P.O.D. have streamed the title track from their upcoming new album Circles, their first for their new label Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group. Dropping on November 16th, ‘Circles’ brings the lyrics, grooves and fire P.O.D. fans are used to. Check it out! Continue reading
Monster Truck just released their brand new album True Rockers via the Mascot Label Group on September 14th. We caught up with frontman Jon Harvey to hear about his favorite concert memory, opening for Deep Purple. Continue reading
Ayreon is preparing a 20th-anniversary re-issue of Into The Electric Castle next month. The set was remixed and remastered by Arjen Lucassen himself and will be available on 3LP, 5-disc Earbook and Limited Edition Box Set on October 26th from Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group. Continue reading
Dutch progressive metallers Vola are releasing a new album next month Applause Of A Distant Crowd, on 12th October via Mascot Records. The band has released a video for their new single “Ghosts” which you can watch now. Continue reading
Long-running rock group P.O.D. (Payable On Death) are releasing a new album this fall! The band signed with the vaunted independent Mascot Label Group and will drop Circles, on November 16th, 2018. “Rockin’ With The Best” is the anthemic opening track off the band’s new album, their tenth overall, and brings all the elements you come to expect from this energetic, uplifting act. Watch it now!Continue reading
Michael Romeo of Symphony X has released an epic album entitled War of the Worlds Pt. 1 (Music Theories/Mascot). True to the title, the disk evokes the famous 1938 radio program by H.G. Wells combined with Steven Spielberg’s sense of wonder. The ‘Introduction’ is a sweeping symphonic masterpiece that effortlessly blends traditional symphony with extreme rock guitar playing. The result is an aural masterpiece that heightens the senses and bewitches the mind.Continue reading
If you are familiar with Ayreon, you will probably know that these collaborative works of music are the brainchild of the somewhat reclusive Arjen Anthony Lucassen, and are rarely – if ever – performed live. September 2015 saw the presentation of The Theater Equation, four shows in which the album The Human Equation (Inside Out) was performed in its entirety in front of a live audience. While this was a successful endeavour, we had been assured for years that there would never be a live ‘best of’ performance of Ayreon.Continue reading