The Syndicate

On August 16, 2011, French electronic band M83 debuted the track “Midnight City” online to critical acclaim. That same day, The Syndicate began the radio push in setting up for the release of Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, the band’s sixth studio album on Mute Records. Having worked with the band in the past, we knew [...]

Back in 1999, The Syndicate was hired to promote the debut album Showbiz by Muse on Maverick Records. Leading off the campaign with the Muscle Museum EP, our job was to introduce the then-unknown UK band to North American college radio. The album received a strong early reaction from the college radio community and, even [...]

Team Spirit has announced their US Spring tour dates with Peace! This tour will be in support of their new, self-titled EP, out now on Vice Records. Started by former Passion Pit member and Black Bell Records founder, Ayad Al Adhamy, Team Spirit will be telling the story of the EP through video releases for [...]

Fresh off of signing to Sumerian Records for its upcoming album One of Us is the Killer, the avant-garde mathcore machine known as The Dillinger Escape Plan will hit the road towards the end of the month with progressive death metal magicians The Faceless as direct support.  It’s a major event for the New Jersey-based band, [...]

Philadelphia rockers Restorations have announced summer tour dates with The Menzingers! The announcement came on the release date of their new album, and first on Side One Dummy Records, appropriately titled LP2. The tour will kick off on May24th in the band’s hometown of Philadelphia at First Unitarian Church. If you’re at a radio station, contact your [...]

As we move on from another week of college radio reports, The Syndicate’s metal radio side has never looked more capable of doing big things for independent clients.  That’s because we have two self-released albums at the top of the CMJ Loud Rock charts this week: Clutch’s Earth Rocker is #1 overall and #15 at Billboard after [...]

Clutch’s hotly anticipated new album Earth Rocker is set to release March 19th, and the famed road warriors are ready to tour extensively behind it with stoner metal monsters Orange Goblin as direct support. The Earth Rocker World Tour starts today in Cincinnati and includes two rare appearances by the band at SXSW; once the May leg of the tour hits, [...]

Last night, our college radio team got a chance to listen to several tracks from the upcoming album from Portugal. The Man. (Spoiler alert: What we heard? Was absolutely fantastic). Evil Friends, the band’s seventh album (and second release on Atlantic Records), was produced by Danger Mouse and will feature 12 new tracks from these intense Alaskan rockers. The first [...]