Northeast mainstays I Am Alpha and Omega have announced the September 5^th release, The Roar and The Whisper, one of the most highly anticipated releases of the summer.

The record, which will be available at Revelation Generation beginning September 5^th, is one of the most highly anticipated records of this summer.

The Roar and The Whisper is a passionate work of real heart. Chronicling the band’s life over the past year, the title comes from the idea that sometimes messages and lessons in one’s life are sometimes subtlety whispered to the individual and sometimes they are roared in order to be heard and followed.

The Italy based group has created a video for their single, “Day After Day.” The single is off a four-track EP, “How Could You Turn a Village into a Town,” that includes two original songs and two remixes by Anti Anti and Stabbyoboy.

The Orbans are pleased to announce the release of their debut album When We Were Wild.  Produced by Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Yo La Tengo, Clem Snide), the album is full of catchy gems that take you on an energetic and eclectic ride of pure pop bliss.

Currently, the album is available on iTunes and other online outlets, and will be released physically later this year.

Having met Adam Lasus while mixing a previous EP, it was an easy step to enlist him to produce the indie band’s first full length album.

“It was always the ideal situation to make a record with Adam,” said singer-songwriter Peter Black,. “We just waiting for the right time to make sure we gave a collection of songs what we felt they deserved.”

Darling Waste is giving away 19-tracks for free! The songs on For the Gloomy Guses and Negative Nancies include b-sides, live and cover tracks that the band has recorded over the years.

“We have this free album, plus a new full length [album] coming up in October,” said Lance Waste, founder and lead singer of the band. “We recorded the new studio album in england and the one we are giving away is a collection of b-sides and covers.”

Disco Curtis just finished rocking the 2010 Vans Warped Tour this past weekend and the band could not be happier with the summer tour. Crowned one of J-14’s Hot Band Alert’s, fans across the country crowded the stage to see them in action.

Having previously toured with Boys Like Girls, Forever The Sickest Kids and more, the indie band was stoked to be back on the road playing the summer away at Warped Tour.

While performing every day, Tanner Howe, lead vocalist in the band was also updating us with the newest Warped Tour fashions as a guest blogger on Ragged Magazines Blog. His posts can be found here: http://bit.ly/9GEfl7

The New Heathens’ sophomore release, Hello Disaster, comes out swinging. Hello Disaster is band-leader Nate Schweber’s sophomore effort under the New Heathens banner and was produced by Americana icon Eric “Roscoe” Ambel (Ryan Adams, Yahoos, Bottle Rockets, Steve Earle).

A worthy follow-up to the well-received Heathen Like Me debut, the record is an immediate good time rife with memorable hooks, heartfelt lyrics, pleasing vocals and old-school honky-tonk guitars.

They take the listeners through an uncannily pleasant de-ja-vu on a tour from backstabbing back home in “I Thought You Were My Friend” and hometown heartbreak in “Bastard Like Me” on the American liberty lover’s anthem “Proud Highway” to the honest pop “Don’t Think I Can’t Stop,” and keep cruising. Hooks are relentless and omnipresent on the album.

The Secret Handshake (Luis Dubuc) will releasing his sixth studio album, Night & Day in on Aug. 17 on Triple Crown Records. With a week to go, you still have time to pre-order a bundle pack which includes: a Night & Day CD, download card for the ‘Night Version’ (electro mixes), poster, stickers and a tote bag.

Night & Day is an album title that truly sign posts a major sea change. It holds fast to its title’s pronouncement of seemingly polar opposites. The gripping melodies are still firmly in place, but that’s where the similarities between Dubuc’s back catalog and his latest creation end.

Music can bring a sense of community among strangers regardless of nationality, beliefs or nationality, and Telepath strives to provide to the collective language. After recently releasing The Remixes, the indie band is gearing up to release their fourth album in the fall.

Telepath’s, The Remixes, is 16-tracks of re-workings of songs from the band’s first two albums and tracks by other artists.  In addition, there’s a bonus Telepath remix of a track from electronic music group Sound Tribe Sector 9.

Formed in 2006 and hailing from Philadelphia PA via Asheville NC, Telepath is a unique new expression in the current live and electronic music scenes.

The Waylons are a catchy indie four-piece band from Brooklyn, New York that have recently released an EP, Out of Love. The seven-song EP offers mostly laid back tracks and a well-constructed ‘indie rock’ sound.

Recorded in a train depot in Rupert, VT and apartments and hallways in Brooklyn, Out of Love offers memorable guitar-driven tracks that will have you listening to the album over-and-over, again.

The indie band’s instrumentally diverse sound has been compared to The Replacements, The Shins and Pavement.

What’s unique about The Waylons?

Fresh off the success of their first collaboration, a 7″ split-single between Stone Axe and Mighty High, multi-instrumentalist and rock preservationist T. Dallas Reed has signed with Ripple Music to re-release the critically praised Stone Axe self-titled debut on both vinyl and deluxe CD packages.

Originally released in 2009, Stone Axe lit the message boards on fire with its retro – bluesy sound, bringing back the classic sound of rock that so many were craving. Now set to be gloriously re-unleashed, the vinyl edition of the album includes an extended jam of one of the original tunes and a full lyric sheet. The LP version will hit the streets on September 7th.

The Narrative released their highly anticipated debut self-titled album today via iTunes. The band will be hosting their record release party this Thursday, July 29th at theGramercy Theatre in NYC. The group’s latest effort maintains a diversity that most bands struggle to achieve while remaining harmonious with the sound they are known and loved for. With soothing male/female dueling vocals and beautiful arrangements, this album is poised to be a 2010 favorite.

The New York based indie pop rock group is a perfect example of how sometimes things just seem to fall into place. Jesse Gabriel (guitar/vocals) met Suzie Zeldin (keyboard/vocals) for a slice of mediocre New York pizza after she responded to his 3 page long Craigslist ad. They soon learned that not only did they go to high school together, they also shared identical musical interests.

Passion is what it takes for one to dream up their path in life. But discipline gives in to the course of action and for Jackson Wetherbee, these two components fuel his musical fire.

Jackson Wetherbee is a musician born and bred in the South Shore area, a sleepy beach town region just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Wetherbee has been honing his craft as an acoustic guitarist and singer/songwriter since leaving college for the coffee shops and bars of the Boston suburbs nearly four years ago.

Flight To Athena are streaming their new song “Dynamite And Lazerbeams” as an ABSOLUTExclusive today! All you have to do is go their AP.net profile to get the song. ”Dynamite And Lazerbeams” is off their new EP, Thanks For The Pep Talk.

The indie band went back to its pop roots for their newest EP as the band felt they were straying away from the music they truly loved writing.  Even though the band has seen member changes over the past couple of years, the music reflects chemistry between the guys that typically takes years to gain.

Anticipated as Flight To Athena’s best release to date, their “Thanks for the Pep Talk” EP is set to win over listeners near and far.

“This album turned out so much better than I thought it would,” said Andrew Gonzales, vocals for the band. “It was really fun to write and record.