5 Bands/Artists You Should Be Following (#13)

This is the Alabama edition! We have a lot of talent in my home state and I wanted to share it with the rest of you!

1. Common Rarity

Self-proclaimed “alternative odd rock.” I discovered these guys when I added bassist JD Smalley on Facebook. (I always check out my FB friends’ bands.) For fans of The Cure, The Clash, The Smashing Pumpkins, etc. Common Rarity is currently working on their second album and booking shows to spread their brand of rock.

Facebook – Instagram – Spotify – Official Site

2. By All Means

Rock/Alternative/Heavy Metal. For fans of Sevendust, Shinedown, Tremonti, etc. By All Means have released the Buried EP, which you can hear on their official site or Soundcloud.

Official Site – Twitter – Facebook

3. Burn the Harlot

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal. For fans of Skindred, Avenged Sevenfold, Alice in Chains, etc. Burn the Harlot’s album Calm Before the Storm is now available!

Facebook — Instagram — Twitter

4. All or Nothing

Alternative/Metal. For fans of Escape the Fate, Black Veil Brides, Rise Against, etc. All or Nothing just released their self-titled EP, available on Spotify and iTunes. Listen to “Napalm” and “Mauled By Jackalopes” here:

Facebook – Instagram

5. Who Shot Lizzy?

Southern Rock/Country. I am familiar with Who Shot Lizzy? because of Roger Jones, who is an extremely talented musician that spans multiple genres. For fans of Zac Brown Band, David Allan Coe, Eric Church, etc. Who Shot Lizzy? is playing in Lyons, Georgia, at Kerrigan’s Lounge, July 5th — 7th.

Facebook — YouTube

Album of the Week: Crashdïet’s Generation Wild

I stumbled across Crashdïet when I was researching Tobias Forge (Ghost). The first songs I listened to were from Generation Wild, so I’ve chosen it as album of the week.

The Still Hungry Tour: Adelita’s Way, Dead Girls Academy, & More

Get ready for a rock show! Adelita’s Way is setting off on the Still Hungry Tour, and they’re bringing along some friends: Dead Girls Academy, Zero Theorem, and Small Town Titans.

The tour kicks off July 11th in Windsor, Ontario (with special guests Disturbed) and ends July 29th in Reno, Nevada.

New Music (6/25 — 7/1)

Threefold Maze ft. Caitlin Smith: “If I”

Trophy Eyes: “More Like You”

Satan: “The Doomsday Clock”

Paramore: “Caught in the Middle”

Alice in Chains: “So Far Under”

Threefold Maze: “Beyond the Grey”

Impending Doom: “Paved With Bones”

The Night Flight Orchestra: “Turn To Miami”

Crosson: “Hero”

The Edge of Reason: “Loved a Liar”

Coheed & Cambria: “Unheavenly Creatures”

Primal Fear: “King of Madness”

Sinful Lilly: “Wait Your Turn”

Fnkhouser: “Everywhere I Go”

July 2018 Album Releases (Week One)

Okay, I’m breaking the album releases up by week instead of doing an entire month at once. I figure that will be easier, for me and my readers.

–July 1st–

-Devil in Disguise: Welcome to Hell

–July 2nd–

-Snoopy Mane: Should’ve, Could’ve, Would’ve

-APINK: One & Six

–July 4th–

-Red Velvet: Cookie Jar

-Golden Child: Goldenness

-7 Stone Riot: Scratching the Surface

–July 5th–

-Every Hour Kills: Fragile Machine

–July 6th–

-Bodega: Endless Scroll

-Atrocity: Okkult II

-Lié: Hounds

-Odette: To a Stranger

-Goldfrapp: Silver Eye

-RP Boo: I’ll Tell You What!

-Apollo Brown & Locksmith: No Question

-The Innocence Mission: Sun on the Square

-Years & Years: Palo Santo

-77:78: Jellies

-Culture Club: Tribes

-67: The 6

-Bongripper: Terminal

-Iggy Azalea: STS (Surviving the Summer) EP

-Martin Smith: Love Song for a City

-Nasty C: Strings & Bling

-Tom Grennan: Lighting Matches

-The Bamboos: Night Time People

-Bjørn Torske: Byen

-Cam Maclean: Wait For Love

-Con Brio: Explorer

-DevilDriver: Outlaws ‘Til the End

-Guts Club: Trench Foot

-Guy Pearce: The Nomad

-Lucifer: Lucifer II

-Yungblud: 21st Century Liability

-Secret Cutter: Quantum Eraser

-Immortal: Northern Chaos Gods

-We the Kings: Six

–July 8th–

-Jaden Smith: SYRE The Electric Album