A rhythm section that says “Guitarists? We don’t need no steenkin’ guitarists!,” Big Business are a two-piece band that do the sludgy, low-end stoner metal thing as well as any more fully populated act. Big Business formed in Seattle in 2003… (Read More)
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Bloc Party is an autonomous unit of un-extraordinary kids reared on pop culture between the years of 1976 and the present day. Like many such kids, between them they eventually concluded that their own attempts to imitate what had informed them… (Read More)
Blonde Redhead’s noisy, dissonant guitars, alternate tunings, and quiet, stilted lyrics have often been compared to early Sonic Youth. After randomly meeting at an Italian restaurant in New York, Japanese art students Kazu Makino and Maki Takahashi and Italian twin brothers… (Read More)
Walking into the club, you look up at the stage in anticipation of the evening’s performance, curious about this band Blue Merle. But instead of the usual array of electric guitars and stacked amps, what you see are acoustic guitar, mandolin… (Read More)
Justin Furstenfeld: lead vocals/guitar CB Hudson: guitars/vocals Ryan Delahoussaye: violin/mandolin/piano/vocals Matt Noveskey: bass/vocals Jeremy Furstenfeld: drums/vocals “Hate me today/Hate me tomorrow/Hate me for all the things/I didn’t do for you” “Hate Me” (Foiled) Blue October isn’t just your average, everyday rock… (Read More)
Spanning three decades, Blue Öyster Cult has a long and storied history. The band got its start in the late ’60s on Long Island, New York, as the Soft White Underbelly, but each member had been involved in bands previously in… (Read More)
For Austin, Texas based songwriter and performer, Bob Schneider, finding a way to challenge everyone was at one point a major creative goal learned in Art School. Steeped as he was in the visual arts tradition of pushing boundaries Bob’s commitment… (Read More)
Bonfire Madigan is an avant-pop, chamber-rock experiment. A configuration of combustible collaborators orbiting the songs and spit of Madigan Shive. Madigan ignites the Bonfire with a shebeen of soul-art-string-sounds. Since her performing songwriting first appeared with Seattle’s first generation Riot Grrrl… (Read More)
Brooklyn transplant Kaz Gamble and Los Angeles native Sisely Treasure originally joined forces in 2002 to form Cooler Kids, who nailed a contract with DreamWorks Recordings and quickly landed on Billboard’s Top 10 dance charts with All Around The World (Punk… (Read More)
“I like to listen to music that makes me feel a certain way—either it reminds me of something important that happened or a certain time in my life,” says Boys Like Girls frontman Martin Johnson. "If kids are feeling that way… (Read More)
Imagine an unsigned act so good, it persuades not one, but two musicians to quit their already signed band, join forces, and start the process anew. It happened in late 2000, when guitarist Aaron Fink and bassist Mark James Klepaski bolted… (Read More)
In the past few years since the release of Bright Eyes’ fourth full-length album, Lifted or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground, the Bright Eyes tale has taken many unexpected twists and turns. Conor Oberst… (Read More)
Not to be confused with the children’s music artists of the same name, the Bumblebeez (known in the U.S. as Bumblebeez 81) hail from Braidwood, a small town in Australia’s New South Wales territory, and craft a cut’n’paste collision of noisy… (Read More)
THE BIO of….ME (from butchwalker.com) When I was growing up, it was all about metal… When I wanted to go see AC/DC with my friends, my mother (who I love dearly) said "you can’t go see AC/DC in concert! The devil… (Read More)
Striking Los Angeles with the ferocity of a 9.0 earthquake, By All Means Necessary has shaken the Hollywood music scene to its core. Aggressively challenging the carbon copy state of rock and punk, they offer a shimmering sliver of hope in… (Read More)
Sweden’s Caesars take a confident step out of the garage on their new album, Paper Tigers a lively, layered rock album informed as much by Lennon/McCartney as the 13th Floor Elevators and Stooges. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “garage aesthetes” for… (Read More)
After the disintegration of Chicago’s blues-rock innovators Red Red Meat, the band’s four remaining members struck out on their own, initiating several varied endeavors but never straying too far from their home base, or each other. Ben Massarella and Tim Rutili… (Read More)
In the 18 months since Carmine Red’s inception, these four Kansas City natives have already garnered some amazing opportunities. In June 2003, the band was named Kansas City’s “Next Big Thing” through a regional contest hosted by KRBZ (96.5 the buzz)… (Read More)
The Charlatans new album “Simpatico” will be released worldwide through Sanctuary Records on Monday April 17th (North America released 2nd May 2006). Preceded by the single “Blackened Blue Eyes” on Monday 3rd April. The album was produced by Jim Lowe and… (Read More)
Fan Club presale on sale now. General on sale 1/21 at 10am what it is Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are Alec Ounsworth, Lee Sargent, Robbie Guertin, Tyler Sargent, and Sean Greenhalgh music We have a record. These are some songs… (Read More)
Count Zero is an innovative Boston band that combines electronics,acoustic grit, strong melodies, intriguing arrangements and thoughtful lyrics into an intense, eclectic stew of musical experimentation…and it’s catchy too. It’s Future Pop for the disnenchanted. Step inside and take a listen… (Read More)
Any attempts at modern comparisons don’t quite get to the heart of David Ford. To find his actual peers you have to go back to some of the great curveball mavericks of melody, romance and inventiveness. Artists such as Tom Waits… (Read More)
Day of Fire – “Cut & Move” With music that pounds the body and soul, Day of Fire’s Cut & Move deals with cutting yourself away from the failures of yesterday, leaving behind the burdens of the past, and moving into… (Read More)
Based in Asbury Park, NJ, deSoL is a Latin rock outfit that has favored a bilingual approach. DeSoL (whose name means “of the sun” in Spanish) has never been a rock en español outfit in the strict sense; while rock en… (Read More)
Discover America is the most recent secretion of musical chameleon Chris Staples. It’s a wound that has been oozing for almost a decade now. First with sorely missed angular-rock band twothirtyeight. Later with a Neil Young-esque solo career. Now he’s back… (Read More)
Even though their bright, peppy pop recalls Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Big Country, XTC, Talking Heads, and other new wave luminaries, Fife, Scotland’s Dogs Die in Hot Cars grew up on a musical diet of Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers… (Read More)
