Signal The Escape performed last night at Arlenes Grocery in NYC attracting a big industry turn out. Check them out in our July feature. Contact: eric@systemrecordings.com

Gabe Saporta, the lead singer of Cobra Starship, didn’t receive the kindest of words after their performance on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. In response to the comments, Gabe blogged about his voice.

Here’s the thing: I’ve never been a great singer, and I’ll never be a great singer. I was just a kid who loved music and had to figure it out. I wasn’t lucky to be born with talent and great pipes. But I was lucky to be born with something that I value more than natural ability: I’ve got heart, willpower, and an intuition that if I put my mind to something, I can accomplish anything. And guess what? I did.

I wanted to sing. Not because I could, but because I loved making music. Listen to the first Midtown record. My voice was HORRENDOUS. I really had no clue what I was doing. But along the way, it got better. I had to figure it out. And through the years I got better at it. Never great, but enough to get by. Because my point in being a singer was never to be a “singer,” but it was to be able to have a way to express my ideas and my emotions (oftentimes shouting them at the top of my lungs). My voice is just a vehicle. A vehicle that just needs to get me from point A to point B. Some people are lucky to have BMWs to get them to point B. I have a Volkswagen. It’s not pretty, but it does what I need it to do.

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This is a perfect press release as it fends off critics while admitting shortcomings. ….

Cobra Starship is expected to sell 40-45k copies within the first week. The single ‘Good Girls Go Bad’ is sitting on the top 10 of the iTunes singles chart.

The Working Title who hails from Charleston, South Carolina have released a new album titled “Bone Island”.They released the critically acclaimed EP Everyone Here is Wrong in 2003, followed by their first full length album About Face in 2006. Joel Hamilton recently released his first self-titled solo EP in 2008 whilst contemplating suicide and then decided instead on making a record of the best songs the world has ever known and calling it “Bone Island”. Currently seeking a label to distribute album. Contact: BCMcLane@aol.com

Check out The Constant, a power pop group from NYC, lead by singer/songwriter/guitarist Steven Baggs, who’s a voice right out of the late ’90’s. The band will be performing at Webster Hall on August 27th. Check out the track All We Are.