Kings favorite Burning Jet Black released a new video this month for the track ‘No Soul‘. Their last video for the track Magazine Girl already garnered 60,000+ YouTube streams. The band consist of members of the Los Angeles based band The Whiskey Saints and fans of The Black Keys and The Doors will fall in love with this band.
Contact: david@burningjetblack.com

Although cassette tapes are deemed useless to most people researchers at IBM are trying to keep this 60-year old technology relevant for at least the next decade and they are getting help from rising energy costs, which are forcing companies to look for cheaper alternatives to stacks of power-hungry hard drives.

Evangelos Eleftheriou and his colleagues at IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a cassette just 10 cm by 10cm by 2cm that can hold about 35 terabytes of data, the equivalent of a library with 400 kilometers of bookshelves.

“It is really the greenest storage technology,” Eleftheriou told Reuters. “Tape at rest, consumes literally zero power.” Check out the rest of the article here.

Buzz Track: Fine
We Are Voices, a Kansas City indie act, will release their second full length album, called “Tread Lightly”, on December 11th. The self released record received considerable amount of press. The band has upcoming dates in Kansas City, St Louis, and Omaha. For fans of Coldplay and Snow Patrol.
Contact: eric@wearevoices.com

Buzz Track: I Get The Feeling, We’ve Hit The Ceiling
Scatterheart who hails from Vancouver will release a song and video every 6 weeks until the release of their next album in early 2013. The band just released an awesome video for the new new single, ‘I Get The Feeling, We’ve Hit The Ceiling’ that already garnered 10,000 YouTube views. They toured Asia twice playing to 25,000 people at festivals in Korea and toured Canada twice.
Contact: mike@mikesouthworth.com

Buzz Track: O’Wasted Days
We finally got power back and after a week of sifting through press releases we stumbled upon Young Creatures. The track was recorded live at The Hobby Shop in L.A. This psychedelic rock outfit will mesmerize you if you give it a chance.  The band was featured as the Local Anesthetic on Julie Slater’s Out On A Limb show that airs on 88.5 KCSN in LA.
For fans of Cage The Elephant, The Black Keys, etc.
Contact: youngcreaturesband@gmail.com