High Voltage is no stranger to South by Southwest Music Festival (aka SXSW), this will be our 9th year. But this year we’re doing something extra special – we’ve made our own SXSW pocket guide and printed thousands of copies to be distributed around Austin starting Monday, March 12th. Find us in Austin to grab a copy for yourself. Our […]
Scene of the Crime: the Satellite, January 23, 2012 There’s something to be said for earnest ambition when it comes to creating dramatic rhythm and beauty in song. It’s the stuff of epic love songs and moments of exaltation that tend to lift the heart and hands Heavenward at stadiums. Enter the youth and talent of four UK gentlemen from […]
The National Association of Music Merchants (aka NAMM) is the mother-load of music trade shows which calls more than 90,000 exhibitors, buyers and visitors out to play, party, and display at the Anaheim Convention Center. Being High Voltage Magazine’s virgin NAMM Show voyage it was a bit overwhelming. Chelsea & Trina represented to the best of their ability within “the […]
It’s been a while…since 2009’s Octahedron to be exact, but the Mars Volta– masters of things prog/funk/experimental- have a new project to share: their sixth studio album that’s due out on Warner Bros. Noctourniquet. March 27th. Mark your calendars. The 13-track album written by the usual suspects (Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala) is said to explore “musical territories previously uncharted in […]
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on, Built To Spill? Apparently it is now. Let’s just work under the assumption that there’s new BTS material on the way/in the works since 2009’s There Is No Enemy as the guys are stepping out on a little bit of a tour. No news on any forthcoming new tunes yet, but keep an ear out. In […]
So I may rarely leave Philadelphia but, trust me, I get around… well, musically speaking. Although I only left Center City four times this year, I did make it out to more than 80 concerts. The ten best ran the gamut from Piano Pop to Noise Pop to Post-Hardcore and Digital Hardcore. And the settings ran the gamut from an […]
Another year almost at an end and there’s been a lot of music to dig into. Doing our High Voltage due diligence, Chelsea pointed out 5 of her favorite albums that may have escaped your notice in her 5 Albums You May Have Missed in 2011; check it out. Here are 5 more albums that rocked my ears that I […]
