With the exception of five or six bands, the world of radio-ready rock and roll has been incredibly underwhelming in recent years. Most bands seem to have no problem finding a way to reach large audiences, but very few have mastered the art of developing a career that can be sustained – if not built […]
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UTG Premiere: Adage – ‘Defined’ EP
August 13th, 2014 
James Shotwell 
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Tags: adage, album premiere, album stream, defined ep, pavement music, rock band, unsigned 
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UTG Track-By-Track: Lionfight
February 4th, 2014 James Shotwell We love helping up and coming bands get a little extra time in the spotlight, and today we’re thrilled to share with you the official track-by-track for the new EP from Chicago hard rock outfit Lionfight. Available as a free download starting this week, the debut release from Lionfight showcases a band with passion and […]
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Tool Announce West Coast Tour Dates
January 21st, 2014 James Shotwell While the world grows increasingly impatient waiting on new music, the members of Tool have decided to spend at least a portion of spring on the road. Tool have announced a string of West Coast tour dates for Spring 2014. The outing marks their first series of performances since summer 2012, which likely means a […]
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December 28th, 2010 James Shotwell It seems the inevitable death of music based games such as Rock Band may be in the near future. It was confirmed Thursday that Viacom has officially sold Rock Band creators Harmonix Music Systems for an undisclosed amount (rumored to be well under 100 million). Read more about the selloff here. How could anyone ever think something so gimmicky would save the industry?
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June 25th, 2010 Grant Trimboli Century Media Records is proud to announce the following songs for all Rockband X-Box 360 users. Music from current genre leaders SUICIDE SILENCE, WINDS OF PLAGUE and IN THIS MOMENT are on the setlist.
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January 12th, 2010 Grant Trimboli Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that a five pack of songs from Alice In Chains will be added this week (Xbox 360 and Wii on 1/12, PS3 on 1/14) to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system […]
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August 20th, 2009 James Shotwell Saraph, the up and coming unsigned rock band whose EP review made it into our top 5 all time articles on the site, are back for a multi-day feature on UTG. This time around we’re brining 4, yes 4 EXCLUSIVE videos with this hot young band. Today we have an acoustic performance of “Hell To […]
Posted in Features, Live, News, Streams, Unsigned, UTG TV Tags: hell to pay, new talent, rock band, saraph, the business, under the gun review, unsigned, up and coming, utg, UTG Raw, utg tv 8 Comments »Rock Band Warped Tour Pack Announced!
June 19th, 2009 James Shotwell Press Release: Cambridge, Mass.– June 19, 2009 – Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that five tracks from artists performing on this year’s international Warped Tour will be added to the Rock Band® Music Store of downloadable content next week for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment […]
Rock Band: The Beatles – Opening Cinematic REVEALED!
June 12th, 2009 James Shotwell The opening cinematic for the highly anticipated Rock Band: The Beatles has been unveiled. The game arrives 9:9:09, but after watching this, that may seem like an eternity. We’d like to applaud the people at Passion Pictures for their never dull work. This is mind blowing.
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