Blue October have risen through the ranks to become a platinum selling rock band with a body of work that includes modern rock hits like “Hate Me” and “Dirt Room” and the #1 VH-1 smash, “Into The Ocean.” The band’s sixth album will be released in the summer of 2011 when they will take their heart on the sleeve live show from Austin City Limits to the world....
A year after breaking out into the scene, Miss May I have returned with their sophomore effort "Monument". Delving deeper into the source of anguish that fueled "Apologies Are For the Weak" (selling well over 25,000 records in 1 year), Miss May I present an even more eclectic side to the organized chaos they have earned a reputation for. Borrowing from a wider range of genres, the new album touches upon parts of thrash merged with melody and metalcore goodness. The intensity on Monument...
Few hard rock bands are as widely respected yet criminally overlooked as King's X. The trio (bassist/vocalist Doug Pinnick, guitarist/vocalist Ty Tabor, and drummer/vocalist Jerry Gaskill) seemed destined for the big time with their irresistible blend of melodic Beatlesque harmonies, metallic riffing, and prog rock detours, yet for reasons unknown, never truly broke through to a mainstream audience. Pinnick (b. Sep...
Influential multi-platinum, Grammy® winning alternative rock band Weezer have released a new studio album entitled Hurley this September 14th on Epitaph Records. Right now, fans can order the physical album now atEpitaphStore.com or download the album on iTunes. Innovative rockers Weezer have inked a deal with leading independent label Epitaph Records signaling the next phase of their acclaimed career and the return to their indie ro...
The Aggrolites are more than a band they are a movement unto themselves. They carry a banner - one created with their own hands. This banner reads, “Dirty Reggae,” and represents their signature fusion of reggae, soul, grit and determination. For seven magnificent years, this dirty reggae bunch has rolled from city to city, across the pond and up main street USA. They rally the kids, the parents, the students, the cops, the bosses and the drifters. The people come, they...
UK band Gross Magic has signed to Fat Possum for North America. The band's debut EP,Teen Jamz is available on iTunes now and w...
You are holding in your hands the debut album by STARDEATH AND WHITE DWARFS, which is titled "THE BIRTH." Well, I guess you're holding this bio in your hands. Hopefully the CD is in the CD player and your ears are being treated to the fuzzed-out bliss of “The Sea Is On Fire.” Yes! A lot has been made of the connection between Stardeath and The Flaming Lips, so let's go ahead and get that out of the way so we can move on. Yes, they are from Oklahoma, where the waving wheat sure tastes sweet, etc. And, yes, head Dwarf, Dennis Coyne, is the nephew of head Lip, Wayne Coyne. And, yes, three of the Dwarfs (Casey, Matt and Dennis) once formed the core of The Flaming Lips' road crew.&...
Sundress is an American Psychedelic-Pop band, formed in Denton, Texas in 2010. Sundress was created by principle members Ryan McAdams, bassist Drew McCary and guitarist Kennon Talley. After several names (This Old House, ODYSSEY), due to legal matters and band member changes, keyboardist Jim Harrington and drummer Brack Cantrell were brought in and now make up the bands’ current lineup. Immediately, Sundress started to carve out their spot in the music world by receiving copious amounts of attention from the media and recognition as ‘Best New Act’ out of North Texas. Since their inception the band has played almost every...
We are true artists and musicians. We release real music that has real messages that people can relate to and understand. We are out to edify all who is willing to listen. One album at a time we will reveal one Chapter at a time, until The Book is complete. We rely only on our music, and our afforts to please you. We write these lyrics and record these songs, not because we can, but because we believe we have to. Look at the response we get when people hear our music. You just get a feeling from it. When you hear it, you know its the real deal. Not just another "playa" talkin' 'bout his hoes, or another killa countin' his bodies. We have nothing against those people, we just s...
Following closely in the footsteps of The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetpacks are yet another hugely talented young Scottish band added to the FatCat roster. The 4-piece came to our attention when listening to some of the friends on the Frightened Rabbit Myspace page. Though recent months has seen the band tour the UK with their aforementioned friends, the four preceding years have consisted of local gigs in and around Glasgow and Edinburgh, allowing WWPJ to find their sound and hone their live performance. Assembled in Edinburgh as high school friends in 2003, their first ever gig saw ...
A Small Turn of Human Kindness, Harvey Milk's seventh proper full-length release, is a tall drink of water... It's the difference between watching a movie like Irreversible vs. watching a movie like Independence Day... Both good films, however the first stimulates a foreign mixture of emotions that require you to sleep it off, whereas the latter concludes with you feeling comfortable with the fact that your a lazy, wasteful, culturally sequestered American who has sat through this fucking movie way too many times in his/her life! So, I think you get the idea, A Small Turn of Human Kindness, is as dense and as heavy temperamentally as it is musically...The seven songs so subtly bleed toget...
An 8 piece band based out of Albany, New York, the members of Aficionado proudly wear their hearts and punk roots on their sleeves while seeking to shatter the glass ceiling imposed by most post-punk drawing. Their debut No Sleep release "When It Comes to Creation" was produced and recorded by the legendary Don Fury (Quicksand, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Gorilla Biscuits), and features five highly excitable hook-filled tracks (plus one more bonus track available with digital download), offering up an unorthodox blend of post-punk and experimental rock.As the fourth track, "Naysayers," roars across the finish line, vocalists Nick Warchol and Laura Carozza urge, "I know what I wan...
JOHN MAUS lives in his birthplace of Austin, Minnesota. Whilst working towards his PhD in Political Science he also composes music that taps into melancholic fantasy and affirms that we are all truly alive. Questing synthesisers, tensely strung bass lines and chasing drum machines provide the perfect backdrop for John's deeply resonant reverb-drenched vocal....
Girl in a Coma is a rock band from San Antonio, Texas – land of puffy tacos, Lone Star Beer, and the place where Ozzy pissed on the Alamo....
Nothingilistic is a indiepopalternative songwriter from Vancouver, who after watching a program about area 51 on larry king one night, decided to explore the subculture of new age philosophy .When he found a vox guitar amp beside a charity box later that month, he began recording songs about these new age ideals in a pop alternate format, and in 10 day's he finished recording an album called 'the Home Guide to Channeling'. The songs covered topics ranging from aliens to real life vampires, spoke of government conspiracies ...
Urban electro pop phenom Theophilus London releases his debut LP Timez Are Weird These Days on Warner Bros. Records world wide on July 19th. Following a series of wildly popular independent mixtapes and the Lovers Holiday EP that landed him a performance on The Late Show with David Letterman earlier this year, Timez Are Weird These Days arrives as Theophilus’ most fully realized work to date: a wide-open album of original music, genre bending sound, mesmerizing storytelling and inspired, honest emotion. Culture vultures an...
“Breakfast is the first, most important meal of the day,” Chiddy Bang MC Chidera "Chiddy" Anamege says. “We named our new album Breakfast because this is our first proper album, and the most important moment so far in our careers. Plus a lot of significant things seem to happen for us while we’re eating breakfast foods.”Technically, Breakfast may be the first full-length disc from Chiddy, a Nigerian who grew up in Newark, NJ, and producer Noah "Xaphoon Jones" Beresin, but it isn’t the first time the world has been introduced to Chiddy Bang....
Smith Westerns consists of Cullen Omori (vocals), Max Kakacek (Guitar), and Cameron Omori (Bass). All members range in age from 19 to 20. Since forming in 2007 in Chicago, Smith Westerns have managed to tour both the United States and Europe while supporting the likes of MGMT, Florence and the Machine, Belle and Sebastian, Girls, and Passion Pit. Their self recorded “lo-fi” debut Smith Westerns released in 2009, garnered critical acclaim for their youthful and glam rock tinged approach to pop music. In 2010, Smith Westerns teamed up with Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV...
Cold War Kids means International Blues. We began in August '04 with friends, jangly guitar, hand claps, and a Harmony amp in a storage room atop Mulberry Street restaurant in downtown Fullerton, CA. For the first practices, having instruments was secondary tostomping and chanting; Clanging on heat pipes, thumping on plywood walls. Hollering into tape recorders. Slipping and swaying into alleyways and juke joints of yesteryear. Tapping in to the American dustbowl and British maritime. On the resta...
Purling Hiss’ Mike Polizze has put in much time in the fried Philly blooze overdrive of the group Birds of Maya, but in his own vehicle he’s expanded his grotty guitar wailing into the further cosmos, still shredding speakers aplenty. With new releases out on Richie and Woodsist Records, and a previous LP on Permanent, Purling Hiss became a full-fledged touring unit in 2010. Revealing themselves as not only purveyors of Rallizes Denudes/Vermonster-style guitar jams, they also embrace a serious 90’s grunge/pop ethic not too far removed from bits of Bleach-era Nirvana. Lots of ooh-oohs to coincide with the growls, severe hooks to get lodged in your ...
All due respect to Doctor Brooks, but if Torche were JUST a rock band, Daddy would be at the bar right now knocking back a couple of stiff ones instead of typing up all these words you're about to ignore.The thing with Torche is that when you put one of their records on, it's like you just swallowed a magical happy pill that also plays killer riffs and sings super-triumphant feel-good jams about... well, our man won't actually tell us that. "The lyrics are stream-of-consciousness," Brooks says. "It's like you're in a dream and nothing makes sense. That's why I don't print the lyrics, actually. I don't want anyone overanalyzing every little stupid thing I say."Fair enough. But what about ...
Gifts From Enola have created an album that finally and perfectly captures the intensity of their live show and expands upon all of their past ideas ten-fold. Or maybe they've simply taken past ideas to their logical extremes, destroyed them, and birthed brand new ideas from their ashes. Either way, the band continues to evolve at an astonishing rate and further pushes their sonic spectrum into an unclassifiable area that is all at once hard to explain, but impossibly easy to listen to. And we don't mean that in the "easy-listening" genre of music sense either. If anything, the band has become more technical and heavier than even the heaviest parts of "From Fathoms" (their critically acclaimed 2009 re...
There's a lot to be said about any band that reaches it's ten year anniversary, but for The River City Rebels the list of accomplishments goes far beyond the simple passage of time. The fact that the band has remained consistently productive, without a significant idle stretch, since the year 2000 is just part of what makes their story noteworthy, if not a testament to perseverance.The Rebels, founded by singer/songwriter Dan O'Day in White River Junction, VT, have to date recorded and released six full length albums and have played over 1,000 live shows across North America and Europe to support them. The signature ‘love' and ‘love lost' themes of the band are nothing new to rock music but, like all g...
Sebastien Grainger and Josh Reichmann have been playing music together for a while. Recording and making work for the public and for the private. They became friends a few summers ago while talking about lucid dreaming and how to make there lives better and stranger. Bad Tits as a band, was born during a garbage workers strike in Toronto Canada. Both men come from a background of experimentation and a love of pop. They both love to record and try to create quickly and also to labour until they bleed. Bad Tits is about contradiction and confluence, attitude over aesthetic and freedom over form. They recorded their proggy/krouty/synthy/garage storm compositions while they wrote them. The songs were run through once or twic...
Gar Francis, born Gary T Venittelli was born and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey. Gar's earliest remembrance of his love of music came as a child making the rounds with his father every Sunday morning visiting his Aunt and Uncle's (to get out of the house and give Mom a break) and listening to the Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, on the William B. Williams WNEW radio show. Uncle Joe and his two cousins would play instrumentals on their guitars and sing Everly Brothers songs. They would play (on a turntable) all the early Sun recordings of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and guitar boogie songs. In the 1960's Gar started his first band Romeo, Red, Ripper, and Rufus which played instrume...
Gar Francis, born Gary T Venittelli was born and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey. Gar's earliest remembrance of his love of music came as a child making the rounds with his father every Sunday morning visiting his Aunt and Uncle's (to get out of the house and give Mom a break) and listening to the Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, on the William B. Williams WNEW radio show. Uncle Joe and his two cousins would play instrumentals on their guitars and sing Everly Brothers songs. They would play (on a turntable) all the early Sun recordings of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and guitar boogie songs. In the 1960's Gar started his first band Romeo, Red, Ripper, and Rufus which played instrume...
JW Mitchell, Frederik Kire, and Asher Kirkman are humans that enjoy creating musical data!...
