New efforts coming from Slighty Stoopid, Scars on Broadway, Portugal.The Man and Revolting Cocks

Slightly Stoopid
Slightly Not Stoned Enough to Eat Breakfast Yet Stoopid
July 22, 2008
Stoopid Records/Megaforce

** Don't get stuck on the band's name...Slightly Stoopid's new CD, an odds and ends collection, is the perfect summer soundtrack. There's the UB40 cover "I Would Do For You," the irresistible acoustic jive of "Train 1," and the Caribbean sounds of "On and On." Choosing to remain wholly independent and without the benefit of radio, MTV or other traditional sales methods, the band's breezy blend of everything from the Grateful Dead to Dire Straits to Joe Higgs to Delroy Wilson has sold more than a half-million CDs.

** Headlining amphitheatre tour starts August 1 (Pepper and Sly & Robbie support)

Scars on Broadway
Scars on Broadway
July 29, 2008
Produced by Daron Malakian
Interscope Records

** Long-awaited collaboration between former System of a Down-ers Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan. Aggressive, melodic and theatrical with provocative lyrics and a punk energy, more song-based than SOAD.

** North American tour planned for this fall

Portugal. The Man
Censored Colors
September 16, 2008
Produced by Phil Petersen and Kirk Huffman

** When writing about the Alaskan band Portugal The Man, media have tossed around names like the Mars Volta, Jeff Buckley, Led Zeppelin, the Zombies, the White Stripes and even the Beatles. John Baldwin Gorley writes complex, bombastic, art-rock songs that one alt/weekly said are "catchier than a floor coated with flypaper."

** North American tour this summer and again in the fall

Revolting Cocks (RevCo)
Sexo Olympico
October, 2008
13th Planet/Megaforce
Produced by Al Jourgensen

** Eccentric, unpredictable, underground industrial-dance band ... Jourgensen has said that this is the album he's wanted to make his entire career. Vocalist Josh Bradford, guitarist Sin Quirin and keyboardist/electronic specialist Clayton Woreck recorded the album at Jourgensen's El Paso compound earlier this year. It is NASTY.

** Plan to tour extensively to support this album