Italian cinematic rockers HC-B embark upon a European tour this weekend, in support of their amazing HSR release Soundcheck For a Missing Movie. If you’re at any of the following locations on these dates, check out this superb live band:

Sat  17 April – Centro per la Pace, Barcellona
Mon 19 April – Maj Musical Monday, Munich
Tue 20 April – Tovarna Rog,  Ljubjana
Wed 21 April – Honky Tonky,  Seregno
Thu 22 April – Ohibò Lab, Salerno
Fri 23 April – Marianello Jazz Caffé, Piano di Sorrento
Sat 24 April – Lomax, Catania

HC-B – Hot Afternoon In The Bulls Square HC-B – Hot Afternoon In The Bulls Square

Check out the latest edition of the wonderful Inside The Label show at New York’s awesome Breakthru Radio (home of the mighty DJ Mojo!). The show features an hour of tracks selected from across the Hidden Shoal catalogue. Lurvly!

A few more feathers in our cap, and rounds of applause for our artists, having made more appearances in various ‘Top Lists of 09′. First off we have Elisa Luu - Chromatic Sigh, Wes Willenbring - Close, But Not Too Close and Sleeping Me - Cradlesongs all being featured in the illustrious ‘best albums of 2009‘ picked by the editor of Italy’s Ondarock. Followed by Phantom Channel’s ’Top 50′ including our very own Sleeping Me - Cradlesongs, HC-B - Soundcheck for a Missing Movie (both making the top 10) and Stray Ghost - Each Paradise is a Lost Paradise making the top 50. The full list can be viewed here.

Elisa Luu – The Garden Elisa Luu – The Garden

Hidden Shoal artists continue to impress upon the US college radio circuit. 2010 kicks off nicely with Sleeping Me’s sublime Cradlesongs re-entering the KZSU’s (Stanford) top ten experimental/classical charts at number 5 and HC-B’s monstrous Soundcheck for a Missing Movie sitting at number 19 on Portland’s KBOO. Recent releases by Mukaizake and My Majestic Star as well as Hidden Shoal’s Western Australian music compilation A Million Square Miles have also been getting lots of airtime on a growing number of key US stations – hopefully we see some charting for these soon.

HC-B – Black  HC-B – Black