The guys in Death Theory takes the listener to a time where groups sat around in someone’s bedroom, hitting the bong with the incense burning (and the towel stuck under the door to keep the parents from smelling the smoke). and spaced to out to some the latest stoner rock album. Their album, “Death and…
Pswingset is an Austin based band that has released their album, All Our False Starts, in July. They were kind enough to recently answer a few questions. Your bio says you hail from Austin, Texas – mecca for a lot of indie music and home of the yearly SXSW Festival. Are you all originally from…
Topshelf Records recently released Slingshot Dakota’s new record, Dark Hearts. Slingshot Dakota (Carly Comando – keyboard and vox, Tom Patterson – drums and vox) is a Bethlehem, Pa based indie band that has been touring continuously, having appeared at this year’s The Fest and playing dates with bands such as Hostage Calm, Diamond Youth as…
My brief foray into running an independent website resulted in some great interviews and a lot of album reviews, which I will be slowly trasnferring over to this site. I will eventually bring them all over, but would like to start with the ones that really stuck out for me. One such person is Jim…
I’m fairly sick and tired of reality television. Thanks to a screen writers strike a few years ago, the television and movie industry have found ways to get around paying for any meaningful material and have literally drowned us in constant stream of generic pap about people whose would be largely ignored (and some locked…
Lindsay Minton is the singer and guitarist of the Houston based emo /indie group Football, etc., as well as a very accomplished solo musician. Her first solo effort, Past is Prelude, is brilliantly reviewed on the CMJ website, as well as containing a preview of the record. Check out the review here. Stay tuned for…
Football etc. band members (at time of recording): Lindsay Minton – Guitar/Vocals Mercy Harper – Bass VI Brandon Baker – Drums Being from Houston I am pleased as punch to be able to write my first article about a local band. Football, etc. released their first record, First Down, back in 2009 (although it is…
Fierce Brosnan line-up is: Mike santostefano – vocals/guitar Jon garwacke – guitar/vocals Eric luszcz – bass Trevor reddell – drums There are bands that can put out a record over a few days while for some it takes a little longer, with Fierce Brosnan being in the latter category. And while it might have taken…
Dogbreth band members are: Tristan Jemsek – Guitar, vocals Erin Caldwell – Bass, vocals Nathan Leach – Drums Summer time is around the corner and I’m looking for “my” soundtrack of the summer – songs and bands that I can listen to in the future to remind me of the summer of 2012 (whether good…
Caseracer band members: paul blest – vocals jeff hersch – guitar/vocals john strong – bass/vocals mike haller – drums/vocals In my neverending search for music that isn’t being shoved down my throat my mainstream music sources, I came across Caseracer. The band shares the same record company, Jeremy Records, as another band I reviewed, The…
Vows band members are: Sabeel Azam – lead guitar, backup vocals Scott Soffer – bass Ryan Ward – Drums, percussion, backup vocals Jeff Pupa – Vocals, guitar James Hencken – Keyboards, synths Formed January 2011, and hail from Neshanic, New Jersey, Vows have released their first record, Winter’s Grave, on Bandcamp.com and will be releasing…
Destroy Nate Allen members are: Nate Allen – Vocals, guitar Tessa Allen – Vocals, tamborine Nate and Tessa are like that lovable “different” couple that lives down the street, the one’s that can’t help but put a smile on your face whenever you talk to them, and this persona comes through on their latest folk…
Gnarboots members are: Adam Davis-Guitar, Vox Bob Vielma-Bass, Vox Aaron Carnes-Drums, Vox They release their new album, named A.L.B.U.M., on May 29th, and it isn’t easy to describe due to their destruction of barriers between various genres of music. For instance, “Indian Summer” starts with a nice grunge rock groove with a chorus line of…
On occasion I like an all-out action extravaganza so I saw The Avengers this week – the first special effects block buster of the summer season, and it didn’t disappoint. The usual suspects are here: the shy, misunderstood scientist (Mark Ruffalo as Hulk), the true blue all American hero (Chris Evans as Captain America), the…
The Atom Age band members are: Ryan Perras – Vox, Gtr Peter Niven – Vox, Gtr Brendan Frye – Sax John Murgueitio – Drums Matt Diamant – Bass The Atom Age is a band that prides itself on straddling the lines between rockabilly, original British punk, and head on rock and roll and claims influence…
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