Faced with an increasingly stagnant post-hardcore landscape, Philadelphia-based five-piece 20 Days In formed in June 2010 as an effort to channel a wide range of influences toward a new, unique, and accessible direction. The result has yielded a sound that is both refreshingly diverse and comfortingly familiar in its innovative union of post-hardcore, indie, and alternative rock. 20 Days In's bold strides have been received warmly, calling to mind for many the qualities of Circa Survive, Tool, Dance Gavin Dance, and Avenged Sevenfold, among many others. With such a broad and rich array of techniques and influences to draw from, it is impossible to predict precisely how 20 Days In will sound next, but one thing i...
Velvet Ashes was conceived in 2009 when Nico Spahni had got tired of his ambient electronica act (too much knob tweaking!). He switched off his computer, grabbed an acoustic guitar and started writing songs. In early 2011 Nico was joined by Marie Alexis (vocals, percussion). The line-up was finally completed when a first jam session with Simon Mathys (accordion) proved to be harmonious....
Founding BOHREN members Thorsten Benning (drums), Robin Rodenberg (Bass), Reiner Henseleit (guitar), Morten Gass (guitar/piano) started playing music together in 1988. They were friends from school and they shared a common taste for all kinds of extreme music like Grindcore, Hardcore, Death or Doom Metal.Driven by the idea of a more unique style of music, they formed BOHREN (german word for drilling) in 1992...
First it was For Emma, Forever Ago. The soul in a refraction of icicles. A moment hanging like breath on air. And yet life - even still life - is not still. The story is not a story if it does not unravel. Your eyes you may cast backward, but the heart is locked in the chest and must beat forever forward. Bon Iver, Bon Iver is the frozen beast pressing upward from a loosening earth, one ear cocked to the echo of the ghost choir still singing, the other craving the martial call of drums tumbling, of thrum and wheeze. The desolation smoke has dissipated, cut with strips of brass. Celebration will not be denied, the cabinet cannot contain the rattle, there is meat on the bones.It's there right away, in the t...
It was only last year that The Constellations released their album debut, “Southern Gothic”: the eleven-track record, mixing rock and roll, hip-hop, and soul music and featuring none other than Cee-Lo Green and Asher Roth, has been critically acclaimed and revitalized the idea of a coherent album with a strong message. After two years spent writing and recording the album with producer Ben H. Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley), some of their hit songs such as “Felicia” or “Perfect Day” are now being featured on TV shows such as “House” and “Chuck”. That said, the band is certainly not resting on their laurels as they travel the country and conver...
Born in rural North Carolina in the late 70's, prolif kochise's background is as unique as his quasi soulful, but eclectic sound. He stood out as an "A" honor-roll student-athlete in high school while being a captain on the varsity basketball team. He went on to attend an engineering college, obtaining a BS in computer science before later picking up a Master's degree in Sports Management. His wide array of education serves as a background to the intellectual perspectives he takes on a variety of topics from the moral decay in America, to the self-degradation of today's youth, to the deterioration of the family, to political unrest, to usage of the infamous "n-word", to his strong faith in Jesus Christ. ...
Jason Ogden, the man driving the vehicle known as Penny Blacks has been restless while the 7-piece band chips away at their debut full-length album. To combat the idle hands and overactive songwriting glands, Ogden has recorded a 5-song EP to tide us over until the fall release of the full-length album. Gold Standards is Penny Blacks' second EP release, and it continues the tradition of capturing the mid-fi, bedroom-torch-song ethos that began when Ogden started posting home recordings on his MySpace several years ago; yet it does something more. The scope of these songs goes well beyond the isolation of a room, an apartment. There is a traveled maturity to songs like "Socorro" and "Chop Yourself....
Known more for blunts and beer that bullets and bling, Devin the Dude has kept a smile on Hip Hop's face while most of his peers have opted for a menacing scowl. Possessing the rare ability to inject humor, sex and substance in each of his rhymes, Devin has carved his own unique niche in rap music, becoming everybody's favorite guilty pleasure in the process. Devin, who has worked with blockbuster artists like Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Andre 3000, Dr. Dre and Raphael Saadiq, will release his fifth studio album, LANDING GEAR, in October 2008.Born in St. Petersburg, Florida and raised in Houston, Texas, Devin literally lived next door to music as a youngster. Living in a house in front of a radio station, Devin found tha...
New York City's Unsane assisted in pioneering a more aggressive, less studied version of noise rock, one that blended the scum/art industrial sturm und drang of Foetus, the Swans, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Sonic Youth with the decidedly more straightforward hardcore idiom favored by acts like Sick of It All. While developing the blueprint for noise-metal bands to follow, Unsane cut a remarkable swath through underground music, inspiring a devoted, cult-like following around the globe. As a power trio, Unsane relied upon a hammering, power-press rhythm section, a searing Telecaste...
Neur is an Experimental/Post-Punk group from New Brunswick NJ. Their sound is hard to categorize do to the fact that they draw influences from a wide variety of artists. Their intense and unpredictable live shows are quickly making them one of the most sought after bands in the New Brunswick basement scene. Hear their most recent music @ www.neur.bandcamp.com...
THE GREATEST BAND ON EARTH (as told by Tenacious D) the D: Jack Black n Kyle Gass make up the Greatest Band in History: Tenacious D. They started playing together in Kyle's studio apt on Cochran Ave in Los Angeles. No one could have ever dreamed of where their genius would take them but take them it did...Tenacious D played their first gig at Al's bar in downtown LA in 94; they were armed with only one song at the time. "Tribute" a tribute to the greatest song in the world that when once played... The small crowds brains collectively exploded! "Who are these two guys?" "Why are they so...." "So..." ...
A lifelong drummer, Mark Ayling has now branched out into the world of acoustic music, playing his own brand of raw acoustic guitar combined with direct and uncompromising lyrics.Discarding the usual Folk/Acoustic influences such as Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, Mark finds his inspiration from bands as diverse as The Jam, The Specials, New Model Army, The Clash, Motorhead and Joy Division, creating a sound that has the energy of Punk whilst retaining the melodic elements of the acoustic guitar....
Born the youngest of ten children, raised in Southwest Detroit and a resident of Nashville since 2005, Jack White is one of the most prolific and renowned artists of the past fifteen years. When the White Stripes started in 1997 no one, least of all Jack, ever expected that a red-and-white two-piece band would take hold in the mainstream world. With the release of 2001’s White Blood Cells the band was thrust on magazine covers and captivating audiences through worldwide touring. “Fell in Love With a Girl” served as the band’s breakthrough hit and its accompanying Michel Gondry Lego clip was chosen by Pitchfork Media as the #1 music video of the 2000’s....
In the ever turbulent world of punk rock music, New York City claims the Ramones and Los Angeles proudly boasts PENNYWISE, the most significant hardcore band to emerge from SoCal punk’s second wave. A thriving, ground-breaking punk rock band for over 20 years, the Hermosa Beach group has seen members come and go but it’s relentless, in-your-face, middle finger in the air, anthem-chanting sound has never wavered one iota. The genesis of PENNYWISE can be traced back to the South Bay 1988 when punk couldn’t be less popular and metal ruled the roost. The four original members of PENNYWISE immediately crafted a style all its own—a tidal wave of Californi...
Love him or hate him, the self-proclaimed "Antichrist Superstar" -- Marilyn Manson -- was indisputably among the most notorious and controversial entertainers of the 1990s. Celebrated by supporters as a crusader for free speech and denounced by detractors as little more than a poor man's Alice Cooper, Manson was the latest in a long line of shock rockers, rising to the top of the charts on a platform of sex, drugs, and Satanism. Though widely dismissed by critics, his brand of metal nevertheless struck a major chord with the youth market, and he became a mainstream anti-hero on the strength of a masterfully orchestrated marketing campaign, much to the chagrin of conservative politicians and concerned parents. Such attention pushed...
In 1982, a bunch of teenage kids started recording music cassette tape to cassette tape, in Diamond Bar, CA. and making recordings of music which they played for each other. That project was called The Hippie Punk Connection. Many of those kids started their own bands. One of those kids wanted to revisit that concept with all the new recording technology available today, this project is called THE FOOL FUNNEL...
2003 is the year BETA appears on scene. Four friends and musicians with the idea of making both interesting and intense music. BETA grew under the underground movement and so did their fans, which gave them the push to enter a recording studio for the first time in 2005, to récord what would become their first album "Revolver". While it was still on production, the popularity of the band grew strong due to their constant appearance in shows. BETA has had the opportunity of sharing stage with various well-known national and international bands such as Molotov, La Maldita Vecindad, Austin Tv, Nortec, among others. January 2007 their first album is released (Revolver), which is sold...
Stockholm, Sweden-based melodic death metallers DEGRADEAD are set to release their third album "A World Destroyer". The album will be released June 28th in North America on Metalville Records. The albumwas recorded at Peter Tägtgren's (HYPOCRISY, PAIN) Abyss Studios in Pärlby, outside Ludvika, Sweden, produced by DEGRADEAD and Jonas Kjellgren (SCAR SYMMETRY, CENTINEX, WORLD BELOW).In the beginning of 2005, using the band name "Septima" a demo was recorded. Entitled "Rest in Pieces" which included the songs: Day of the Dead, Resemblance of The Past, The Bloodchain, and Burned. In 2006 Septima recorded their second demo "Death Row" with six tracks incl...
Defying any definitions of age, Ephrata, P.A.'s Texas in July have already toured the country and back, sharing stages with everyone from The Devil Wears Prada and Every Time I Die to August Burns Red and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - all before the entire band had graduated from high school.With the two youngest members walking across the graduation stage this year, Texas in July are about to charge headfirst into living out their dreams full-time. Vocalist Alex Good explains, "Now that we've finished high school, we plan to tour as much as humanly possible. We are so stoked on seeing the world and meeting new people everywhere we go."The band is comprised of Good, Chris Davis (guitar), Ben ...
So many decisions in life and in the music we love can come down to a critical tug between the logic in our heads and the hot red blood beating through our hearts. Seattle's The Head and the Heart live authentically in that crux, finding joy and beauty wedged there. Their music pulses effervescently-both explosively danceable and intuitively intelligent. With Americana roots and strong vocal harmonics that swell like a river, this band finds its anchor in solid songwriting that has even the jaded humming along by the second listen.Leaving a variety of day jobs and academic pursuits, The Head and the Heart came together in the summer of 2009, during frequent visits to the open mic night at Conor Byrne in Seattle's ...
Have you been sitting at that computer all day? You're overdue for a break. The new Vetiver album, The Errant Charm, is a superb soundtrack for an afternoon idyll. Take a moment to load the record on your mp3 player. Hell, if you still have a Walkman, the whole thing fits neatly on one side of a C-90 cassette tape. Select your favorite pair of headphones, and go for a stroll.This album was made for walking. Vetiver bandleader Andy Cabic spent hours wandering the streets around San Francisco's Richmond District, listening to rough mixes, tinkering with lyrics and arrangements. You can hear his strides in the tempo of "Hard To Break," which captures the brisk gait one might adopt while passing thr...
Every so often, Chad VanGaalen emerges from his bunker in Calgary with a batch of songs, giving us a window into the private world of this reclusive and enigmatic songwriter. With Diaper Island, VanGaalen distills his approach, producing his most sonically cohesive album to date, and the closest thing he has done to a rock album.While VanGaalen's three previous records were made in a cramped basement studio, a move to a larger recording room offered space to develop and refine his sound. Fresh from producing the critically-lauded Public Strain album by Women, VanGaalen decided to avoid the comfort of working on previous ground, and apply some of the recording techniques and sonic ideas that emerged from those sess...
Southern California's UNWRITTEN LAW has become synonymous with the sounds of summer by releasing some of the most celebrated rock records of recent memory, touring the world to play for sold out crowds, holding the #1 slot on the Billboard Modern Rock charts and becoming a staple of the summer's biggest festival, Vans Warped Tour. Not only have they become rock idols but also they have overcome pitfalls that would end the careers of most bands in order to remain relevant as others from the scene fade away. Now UNWRITTEN LAW are set to return with SWAN, their sixth studio album due out March 29 on Breaksilence Recordings/Suburban Noize Records.Marred by drugs, alcohol and personal struggles, UNWRITTEN LAW ...
For the six men in UNDEROATH, whose members have evolved and thrived during a decade-long progression that has elevated them into one of heavy music's biggest successes, change has been ubiquitous. 2010 has been no exception for the Tampa-based sextet, who underwent and overcame what many consider their most significant line-up alteration yet. Yet in doing so, UNDEROATH experienced an artistic rebirth in the form of Ø (DISAMBIGUATION), its triumphant fifth album for Solid State/Tooth & Nail.Transformed by the arrival of new drummer DANIEL DAVISON, formerly of Norma Jean, UNDEROATH--which also counts TIM MCTAGUE, SPENCER CHAMBERLAIN, GRANT BRANDELL, CHRIS DUDLEY and JAMES SMITH--has delivered an...
The horizon. Where things end, where things begin, and the point where possibilities are limitless.Inspired decision, then, that Juno Award-winning trio Bedouin Soundclash should choose to dub their latest collection of west-friendly, world-pop Light the Horizon. Inspired. And fitting. "This record is really looking forward," says vocalist Jay Malinowski. "It's from the point where we don't have any baggage from the past. We're just genuinely in the moment with this record, for the first time in a long time." Soundclash co-founder and bassist Eon Sinclair agrees. "It's a really optimistic and hopeful record," he says. "That's been said about some of the stuff we've do...
PTEC Dojo derives unique sounds brought as a culmination of Paul and Eric's vision, passion, experience, as well as cross-cultural and multi-genre influences. In 2008, Paul Timmerman and Eric Caver partnered forming PTEC Dojo to bring their vision, and talents to a changing multimedia industry through collaboration and experimentation. PTEC Dojo has collaborated with an impressive list of notable artist such as Information Society, Collide, as well as Grammy Award winners Paula Abdul and Taj Mahal. PTEC Dojo continues to work with top media companies including video game behemoth Activision, Clear Channel Communications/Premiere Radio Networks and promotions and marketing powerhouse Marketing Factory Inc., to name a fe...
What do passion, MTV and Craigslist all have in common? These factors all led to the formation and growth of NYC indie rock band, The Assembly Line. Brought together by an ad on Craigslist and a passion for making music, the band has seen success in recent years with placements on MTV, rave reviews in the press and are ready to take on 2012 with their new video and song “Full Impartial.”In 2009, singer Thor Nguyen was stuck in his daily routine doing pharmaceutical research when he decided to pursue his passion for music. He recorded and released a 6 song EP and posted an ad on Craigslist to recruit musicians to join him and play it out live. He received responses from several local musicians including guitarist Chri...
JUDY M. NUGENT PRODUCTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH REJUVENATION MUSIC PRESENT JOE "JACE" CENTO...
Jaloes is a composer of instrumental minimalist music. His songs, made with piano and computers, are described as relaxing, melodic, rhythmic and repetitive. Some of his major contemporary musical influences are Wim Mertens, Philip Glass and Yann Tiersen.http://www.jaloes.com ...
Ben is a songwriter and composer who works in Berlin (Germany) and London (UK). He has released twenty-eight full-length albums' worth of Pop, Folk, Rock, Neoclassical music and anything in between. He also releases instrumental music under the pseudonym Jasmine Brunch. Ben's music has been used in several hundred TV productions worldwide. Among others, Ben has composed music for The Gate Films (BBC, Sony, McDonalds, Kellogs, Unilever, Hoover, Barclays), Tsunami Music (Audi, Coca Cola, Warner Bros, Saatchi & Saatchi, Honda, Sky), The Sound Works (Siemens, BT, Goodyear, Canon, Sainsbury's, MTV), Cosmo Wallace (Panasonic, Simply Be, SPCA, Jacamo, Ubisoft), the Photolink Creative Group, Sweet Thunder Productions, Karmaloop ...
