The Revolving is one Rock n' Rolls newest bands from the heartland of Oklahoma. Known for their hard working attitudes and "wall of sound," this band's live shows have grown increasingly powerful and entertaining. Building from an artistic and positive mind-set, front man Jason Hawkins' songwriting has allowed The Revolving to generate a sound, and style, reminiscent of vintage Rock n' Roll. Add in lead guitarist Greg Bessemer's solo's, David Alston's bass lines and Eddie Mullins' incredibly hard hitting beats, its hard to overlook this band. Since its formation in late 2009, what started in a church, in the back of a run down shopping mall, has grown into an entertaining and memorable Rock n' Roll show. "Of course we want ou...
Tim Lacy left the "cushy"confines of New York City and retreated 100 miles north in Woodstock. A good portion of his career was spent working as a session guitarist and vocalist. "I worked with bands like Thief (w/ Lee Crystal of Joan Jetts Blackhearts), Man Size Habit (W/ Pete Marshall of Iggy Pop), Messenger (W/ Paul Pesco of Madonna, Steve Winwood) and with Producer Paul O'Neill (Trans Siberian Orchestra, Aerosmith) on several recordings. I was in a baby band then, we were signed to Leber-Krebs mgt. Paul was an up and coming Producer. Other than my own band,"Thief",I really didn't ha...
Alanis Morissette was one of the most unlikely stars of the mid-'90s. A former child actress turned dance-pop diva, Morissette later transformed herself into a confessional alternative singer/songwriter in the vein of Liz Phair and Tori Amos. However, she bolstered that formula with enough pop sensibility, slight hip-hop flourishes, and marketing savvy to become a superstar with her third album, Jagged Little Pill.Morissette was born in Ottawa, Canada, and began playing piano and writing songs during her childhood years. She also joined the cast of You Can't Do That on Television, a children's television program. Using money that she earned on the show, Morissette recorded an independent single, "Fate Stay with Me," wh...
THE BLACK STRING THEORY delivers arena-size, emotion-charged indie/rock/alternative with a compelling sense of urgency and a discernible dark edge, infusing piano, rhythmic guitars, drum loops and layers of synths, providing the perfect platform for their powerful and emotive vocal. THE BLACK STRING THEORY was first conceived in July 2009 inspired by what founder and multi-instrumentalist Scott van Dort views as "a quest for self-liberation". A self-titled EP was released in April 2010, mixed by Grammy Award winning engineer, Chris Testa (Jimmy Eat World, Switchfoot, Mat Kearney) and mastered by Tim Young (Editors, Massive Attack, The Clash, Bat For Lashes) at Metropolis Mastering in London, UK. The EP received glowing reviews ...
PowPow is Cate Jackson Roberts and Jason Garcia from beautiful Austin, Texas. Jason had prior musical experience with his band Household Names; Cate was a writer that had never written song lyrics. One day Jason asked Cate to write some lyrics to a tune he had written, and to their surprise, a few months later they had written a handful of songs.The duo will be releasing an EP, "The New Normal", in 2012. Featuring 6 songs, including the first single "Poison Words", the EP was recorded half with the help of (Cardigans engineer and Blondie mixer) Lars Goransson and half at home by Jason Garcia, and was mixed at Jason's home studio.We had a song report done on SoundOut.com, a market research site. Three well-know...
LUMINOTH is a four-man alternative/progressive rock band based out of Knoxville, TN. They have played the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival 2011 and also the Ernie Ball Stage in VAN'S WARPED TOUR 2011 and VAN'S WARPED TOUR 2009. LUMINOTH has shared a stage with SEVENDUST, Black Tide, Art of Dying, Hell or Highwater, DROWNING POOL and OPIATE – The Audio and Visual Experience of TOOL. As fans, radio disc jockeys, and authors can attest to they are hard to categorize into an alternative subgenre but all agree that LUMINOTH is next generation of progressive rock following in the footsteps of prog giants Dream Theatre, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, TOOL, The Mars Volta, and RUSH. They have been garnering press from Jeff...
Artist Information Biography Born In Lexington Kentucky Kennth(Mista) Mobley Has been in front of the camara since 4 yrs old singing and dancing including Local News studio exclusive Performances for over a decade! In 1999 Kenneth joined a RB singing group called Elite and all moved to College Park Georgia (Area-51). In Atlanta Kenneth Performed in many places including Evander Holyfields House partyThe AtriumClub Hennesy 5 points Undergroud Club112 Club Havannas Elite Went to Mtv in 2001. It was the Free Lance Talent search Held on Mtvs TRL. Ryan...
With the return of the punks in the mid-'90s came a resurgence of their slightly more commercial rivals, new wave bands. No Doubt found a niche as a new wave/ska band, on the strength of vocalist Gwen Stefani's persona -- alternately an embrace of little-girl-lost innocence and riot grrrl feminism -- exemplified on the band's break-out single, "Just a Girl."Formed in early 1987 as a ska band inspired by Madness, the lineup of No Doubt initially comprised John Spence, Gwen Stefani, and her brother Eric. While playing the party-band circuit around Anaheim, the trio picked up bassist Tony Kanal, born in India but raised in Great Britain and the U.S. Hardened by the suicide of Spence in December 1987, No Doubt nevertheless...
My music is a mix of folk, rock and acoustic original songs, generally influenced by old-time singer/songwriters such as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Odetta. I have often tried to encorporate layered harmonies into my sets and songs too, generally from influences such as Crosby Stills Nash & Young as well as The Beatles, both early and later work. Having obsessively written both stories and poems from a very young age, I have always found it easier to express a situation, feeling or event through words and specifically rhyme rather than in any other media and very nearly considered simply songwriting for other local bands; though luckily a friend overheard one song I had written and sung and told me otherwise. The majority o...
Forget the usual genre types, and often misused things like style and classification--it takes much more for a band to really make a personal connection with people. Our Vinyl Vows thrives off of this. The Petaluma, Ca. sextet have made that direct connection in each of the hundreds of shows they've played at dive bars, historic rock venues ,all-ages school events, roller derby's, suburban community centers, living rooms, backyards, and any of the other places they play over 70 nights a year. A culmination of experienced musicians, Our Vinyl Vows--Brandon Hall, 27 (lead vox); Nick Kopan, 29 (lead guitar,vox); Colin Goheen, 27 (bass,vox); Mat Fleisch, 25 (keys,sax); Eric Peters II (brass/vox) and Derek Goheen, 25 (drums)-has spent ...
Describing their sound as "Efficacious Poetic Fervor," Los Angeles’s Backnbloom flaunts a sleek mix of nostalgic, well-read indie rock with harmonious, complex sonic layers, grooving rhythms and a sprinkling of electric violin. It all started in a cramped Hollywood apartment where Lori Steele and Alberto Beka penciled ideas, programmed drums and keyboards while waiting for a break in traffic and yells from the alley to cease so that the emotionally charged vocals could be recorded. Unplugging th...
You may not have expected it, all the way from Melbourne, but the first great modernist pop album of 2011 is here. Four years after their last album, Architecture In Helsinki return with the hook-laden, magnetic and lush “Moment Bends”. It sounds like an album they’ve waited their whole lives to make, retaining the fizzing immediacy of its three predecessors and re-moulded with a more sophisticated, kaleidoscopic touch. Cameron and...
Esben and the Witch are a three piece indie rock band from Brighton, England. The band members are Rachel Davies, Daniel Copeman and Thomas Fisher. Since forming in Brighton in 2008, Esben and the Witch have had just a few releases behind them including “Lucia, at the Precipice” from February 2010 - and have had positive press support from NME, Pitchfork Media and The Guardian, plus experience o...
Following the release of Revisions and after several tours with Porcupine Tree and an epic run on the first Progressive Nation Tour with Dream Theater, Opeth and Between the Buried and Me, 3 returned home brimming with inspiration. Joey Eppard, Billy Riker, Daniel Grimsland and The Gartdrumm immediately began creating demos of ideas that would evolve into The Ghost You Gave to Me. It wasn't long before the songs took on a life of their own. The band found themselves growing out of the standard rock compositional format into something more cinematic in nature. Joey Eppard adds: "The songs told us where to go and the instrume...
Moneybagzz was introduced to the hip-hop world under Gimmie Gwap Entertainment. His love for music, and different music styles, and types lead him to wanting to become a local rapper known as MONEYBAGZZ. The name moneybagzz comes from his love for money and getting it by all means neccesary. While living on the West-Side of Pittsburgh, Pa Moneybagzz grew up around gang violence, and natural neighborhood trouble while growing up with colleagues. His strive for greatness and passion for music lead the local rapper into wanting to further his rap career father. After years past from rapping on trash mics and going back on forth on different tracks and...
The Drizzle is an Alternative Rock Band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2007. The band consists of Sotiris Agelidis,Kostas Oikonomou, Antonis Kavidas,Vaggelis Gatzias and Spiros Stefanis. In a public school of Athens, five classmates decided to create an indie rock band to wreak their passion for music and express their point of view of life through their songs. The Drizzle began their live appearances in clubs like ‘An Club’, ‘Underworld’, ‘Texas’, and ‘On Stage’, and municipal exhibitions like ‘Ionikes Meres exhibition’ where they made the opening act for the Greek band ‘Kitrina Podilata’. Their sound is a result of their different music...
Mojoceratops is a funky dance-rock band based in Philadelphia, PA in 2010. Their first single “Partybot-9000” was release in July 2011 and have a full-length album titled “Dino Dance Party” was released via itunes on September 8th 2011. Mojoceratops signed with booking agent/management team K&B music in September 2011 and will tour in support of their album. The lineup consists of Jerome D’Agostino, Robert Felsted jr, Schuyler Schweers, and Brent Penman. ...
Ellie Goulding is a successful English singer-songwriter from London. Studying at the University of Kent, she became exposed to electronic music and eventually took time off from school to pursue singing. Polydor Record signed her in 2009 and released an EP as an introduction to her music. Starsmith, whom she met at the University, helped produce her album debut album Lights, which was released in 2010. After debuted at #1 on the UK Album Charts, Goulding won the Critics' Choice Award at the BRIT Awards. After heavily touring in the UK, Goulding released an American edition of Lights...
Rhode Island are three men who meet up at various locales across the North of England, whereupon they make pop music: the kind they don't think they get to hear enough of elsewhere. They try to make it strange and conventional in equal measures. They make it as an end in itself. A lot of it is free, so, y'know....
The Last Flight Out are a fresh voice in Colorado's original music scene featuring the amazing vocals of Julia Bryan. In just the first few months of launching their professional career in 2009, they would go from coffee houses and small clubs to the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheater, and her music would be played across international airwaves. The Last Flight Out distinguishes themselves from the pack by successfully merging Blues, Country, Classic Rock, and Modern Pop-Rock styles resulting in multi-generational appeal... a unique mix that spans the acoustic intimacy of Sarah McLachlin, the sassiness of Bonnie Raitt, and the rock explosiveness of Pat Benetar. They are regularly invited to perform ...
Ethos is an American progressive rock band from Rome, Georgia. Formed in 2010, the band consists of Austen Earp (lead vocals, piano, guitar, synthesizer), Matthew Palopoli (lead guitar), Nick Riggs (bass, vocals), and Tribb Robison (drums, percussion). Known for their fusion of classical piano, heavy rock riffs, and syncopated rhythms, the group exhibits a technically rich yet accessible rock sound that unlocks a brand new spectrum of musical color. Their debut album, Vessels, was independently released July 10th, 2012, featuring high energy, emotive music by integrating the classical, progressive, and alternative genres.The record was written and recorded during the greater part of 2011-2012 in their home studio. It was ...
A native of Hawaii now living in Portland, Oregon, Max Ribner is one of those gifted individuals who can turn his hand to just about anything. Modelling, acting and performance, he is primarily a flugelhorn player. With his new combo and a debut album, Ribner is a talent to watch out for....
theendisthebeginning is an atmospheric modern rock band hailing from various locales within Southern California. The band’s distinctive and shimmering sound makes it readily apparent that the group finds inspiration in a wide array of musical and cultural influences. Musically speaking, the quintet evokes elements of 90s era guitar rock and electronica, big 80s new wave and alternative, the expa...nsiveness of 70s era album rock, the kitchen sink approach of modern-day indie, and even hints at the youthful optimism and freshness inherent in the Woodstock era climate. Consisting of guitarist, Curtis Clint Kaminska; vocalist, Joe Nichy; drumme...
Inspired by the lurching riffs of Helmet and the soft/loud vocal dynamics of Tool, the Chicago-based trio Chevelle formed in 1995 with an aggressive, heavy sound. Comprised of brothers Sam (drums), Pete (vocals, guitar), and Joe Loeffler (bass), the band began playing parties and outdoor events, which quickly led to bookings at Chicago clubs when youngest member Joe was just 14 years old. In 1999, Chevelle released their Steve Albini-produced debut album, Point 1, on Squint Entertainment. Three years later -- and following tours with bands like Filter, Sevendust, Powerman 5000, and Machine Head -- the band had inked a deal with Epic and issued Wonder What's Next, released in August 2002. The album went platinum by the following summer, prop...
The Entertainment music collective who've been banging out beats and grooves in London for three years now. They're sound is a unique combination of Rock riffs, Funky grooves and Rap. On top of that they're a live band with brass and DJ scratching. As the sound engineer at one of their latest gigs said: "I don't know the f**k it is you do but it's f**king great!".Formed out of the ashes of The Insects a previous recording project, of David the guitarists. One of Londons foremost 'Surf' Guitarists. Regulrly seen on the London Underground 'busking' scheme. He and Achilleas met by chance playing with a friends band. Rapper Blee answered an advert that no-one remembers putting in Loot.Paul came on board after w...
Emilia has been writing and performing since 2001 and has been compared to Tracy Bonham, Ingrid Michaelson and Bebel Gilberto.While spanning indie-rock, folk, jazz and pop genres, the music of Nehedar has continued to deliver her blend of deeply personal yet quirky lyrics, beautiful vocal harmonies, a variety of instrumentation, and momentary departures from strict chord progressions that set her music apart. She has recorded her music at the Little Pioneer Cider House in Brooklyn, NY with producer Craig Levy (littlepion...
Top Dawg EnT has introduced a new rapper named Ab-Soul, and he’s from Carson, California. He’s signed to Jay Rock’s Top Dawg Entertainment and with him, Kendrick Lamar & ScHoolBoy Q is member of Black Hippy group. ...
Damian Marley was only two when his father died, but the youngest of the Marley sons must have learned something. At the age of 13, he formed his first band, the Shepherds, which also included the son of Third World's Cat Coore and the daughter of Freddie McGregor; the group even opened up the 1992 Reggae Sunsplash festival. By 1994, Damian was working on his own solo project, and with the help of his father's label, Tuff Gong, he recorded Mr. Marley. Also lending a familial air to the sessions was the presence of Stephen Marley, who produced and co-wrote several songs for the LP. Halfway Tree from 2001 earned a Grammy nomination, but the public generally overlooked the ambitious album. Not so for the reggae-meets-hip-hop single &...
The radiant meadow glistens with history, pocked with crystals. The color wheel, your hands, shapes of infinite cosmic accelerating. Your spirit has formed. Gradient paths simmer in the mist; a momentary vision and your spare eye catches a yellow one, an oiled foot moves through oceans of Mediterranean space and there is an instant of rush and the birds descend upon your clothes. The eyes close and you cry “Yes!” With a whoosh and swoop a thousand tiny birds gently lift your body from the ground. You arrive lost and aged, across the valleys, the dark canyons, having traveled a fortnight instantly, and lived half as long. You arrive with a plum pit in your stomach and an icicle dagger in your teeth. You have been transp...
David Philips is a singer,songwriter and guitarist from the UK. His debut solo album "Heal yourself alone" was written, performed, produced, recorded, engineered and released by himself, featuring friends Caspar St Charles on drums/flute and Abel Boquera on keyboards.The majority of the album was recorded in a spare room in a flat in Barcelona, Spain and only the mastering was handed over to someone else. Just 2 weeks after it's release, "Heal Yourself Alone" was chosen as Album of the Week by Robert Elms on BBC Radio London.It was after a self funded tour of northern Europe that David caught the attention of Dutch label Black and Tan Records and signed to release his second and latest album "The Rooftop Recordin...
