Have a break from everyday troubles with The Rift

How to chill out and find relaxing atmosphere in these troubled times? Music has the power to bring you down. This new video is the perfect way to combine something to relax, to sing along to it and have a creative and retro-like time out.

It is meant as a  tribute to bands such as Metallica, Tool, Deep Purple, and 80's video games.

The Rift states, “We want listeners to escape from their reality for a little while. We want them to connect on a deep level, so they have something inspiring to fall into.”


The band recently inked a deal with Zombie Shark Records and has been hard at work creating new music for an upcoming release.

Front man Aris Anagnos adds, “We wanted to make songs that hit hard, but you can sing along to at the same time. Sometimes, we go bluesy-rock and other times there are tinges of punk and metal. We explore different styles while keeping a solid, real sound.”

Check the band's homepage for all the further things going on.

Track your music on online radio stations with MI on Air

Has my band and the songs we released been aired on online radio stations? Since there are many streams out there playing music it is not impossible at all that this happens - maybe more often than you might think. It's a exciting question for all the band's out there.

It began with the tape. These days most people prefer to stream their music.

But how to find out about it? No one can listen to all the stations all the time. Happily there's a service out there that opened up some time ago. It's focussed on metal bands, free and let's you find out how many times your track(s) have been in rotation, which station aired it and how many people listened. It's called mionair (am I on air?) and can be accessed through https://mionair.com/

All you need to do is to register (goes very fast and it's free). Once that is done you can add your band to the band list. That's also done quickly. Just enter your band's name at the "Add Band" form and you're done!

You can add further details like website URL and social media links but that's not necessary. Once everything's set up the tracking starts - login after some days to see if you've been aired.

Having tried this myselves I was impressed how fast and easy this works. You can also see statistics for other bands and radio stations on the website. I hope this tool will find many users - it deserves support for sure. Just try it out.

The Dry Mouths let you listen to Cold Mind from the upcoming record

How cold and calm can you keep your mind in extreme personal situations? Test yourselves with the new song from The Dry Mouths!



The band The Dry Mouths are a Alternative Rock band from Almeria, Spain. Their music is a mixture between the rock of the 90′, stoner and the experimentation. The band has been influenced from Nirvana, Tool, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd. So far they have released 3 albums: “Lost Bow Case Eckard” 2010, “Moons True Delay Lenght Wah Foo Era” 2012 plus "And Show Us" in 2013.

(c) by The Dry Mouths, used with kind permission

At the moment the band is preparing the release of their upcoming new EP which will be entitled "2 months". To give the people out there a idea of how the new songs are going to sound like the band has released a first full song for listening, it's the track "Cold Mind".

I like the music in this song very much, the song kicks in very straight. It's hard and dry and comes to the point. It comes with very raw sound which you could imagine to come directly as the if you were going to see the band playing live or doing a rehearsal.
The refrain is a kicker which hopefully will let people scream along at the live shows. Could imagine this going down live very well. The solo makes one feeling a bit nervous I must admit. :-)

The band is going to do a show together with Demiurgo on December the 12th at the Sala Planta Baja in Spain. For more details check the event webpage. Tickets are going for only five Euros at the presale, at the doors that evening tickets will cost 7 Euros.

If you want to keep an eye on the band don't forget to like them on Facebook or visit their website for all the informations about their past and upcoming releases and tour dates.