Thursday first got together in 1998 in New Brunswick NJ. Embodying the crew were five longtime friends: Geoff Rickly (vocals), Tom Keeley (guitar), Steve Pedulla (guitar), Tim Payne (bass), and drummer Tucker Rule. Creating compelling and strong emotional themes driven on… (Read More)
Gothic Theatre
Artists
we will sing pretty songs about love / and we will fight if that’s what it takes and we won’t back down / no we won’t shut our eyes and go to sleep and we will write all over your walls… (Read More)
Doug McCombs bass, 6 string bass, lap steel From Eleventh Dream Day, member of the briefly-re-formed Slint and has also appeared in the For Carnation. Doug has now released stuff as Brokeback with guests from Isotope, Stereolab and Chicago Underground as… (Read More)
Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee
Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee comes from the seeds of The Lord high Fixers. "Our purpose is to celebrate our time here together… to show that anyone can and should particicipate in self expression !! all sound / movent … (Read More)
The Trailer Park Playboys came onto the scene in early 2002 raising a ruckus and dragging their fans kicking and screaming along with them. They have blazed their way directly onto stage, screen and TV, playing with passion and a blatant… (Read More)
Daniel Smyers – Lead Vocals Steven Biringer – Guitar, Vocals Matthew Colussy – Guitar, Vocals James Joseph Caligiuri – Drums Harrison Wargo – Bass Easily to be voted Pittsburgh ’s most appropriately named band, the 5 guys of Transition could likely… (Read More)
Scottish indie-pop stalwarts the Trash Can Sinatras were founded outside of Glasgow in 1987 by singer/guitarist Frank Reader (the brother of ex-Fairground Attraction singer Eddi Reader), guitarists John Douglas and Paul Livingston, bassist George McDaid and drummer Stephen Douglas. Initially formed… (Read More)
Bands get named in a variety of interesting and unique ways. With Treaty of Paris it was an accident of fate, timing, and necessity; the band needed a fake name for a secret show in their hometown of Chicago. As a… (Read More)
Trevor Dunn is a bassist out of the San Francisco Bay Area, where he works with the best of the locale’s creative improvisers and musicians such as Rova Saxophone Quartet, Mr. Bungle, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, and more. He has performed a… (Read More)
Since emerging on the California club scene just a few short years ago, Tristan Prettyman has been acclaimed as one of today’s most remarkable new artists. The 23 year old singer / songwriter’s Virgin Records debut — dubbed appropriately, "t… (Read More)
Tub Ring is the unwilling, led by the unknowing… Doing the impossible for the ungrateful. In fact, they have been doing so much, for so long, with so little, they are now qualified to do anything with nothing. True postmodernists, Tub… (Read More)
Turin Brakes is a modern folk pop duo that hails from Britain. Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian were friends in elementary school and decided to try out for the cathedral choir because it would perform in front of the Queen of… (Read More)
The Brooklyn-based group TV on the Radio mixes post-punk, electronic and other atmoshperic elements in such a creative way that it only makes sense that its core duo, vocalist Tunde Adebimpe and multi-instrumentalist/producer David Andrew Sitek, are both visual artists as… (Read More)
What do a wizard, a tumble weed and a pair of floaties have in common? Nothing. The genesis of UTIOG was created with three young ex calibers: Aaron Dick Bruno, Jamin John Wilcox and Drew (middle name confidential) Stewart. They all… (Read More)
Ian O’Dougherty—vocals, guitar, bass, piano. Whit Sibley—bass, vocals, guitar. Ian William Marshall Cooke—vocals, cello, piano, percussion. Justin Ferreira—drums. Ten years after their first recordings, Uphollow is still reshaping and perfecting their view of pop music. With their new album, Jackets For… (Read More)
Vega4 is four individuals with wildly different backgrounds. They are Irishman Johnny McDaid (Vocals, Guitar), Canadian Bryan McLellan (drums), New Zealander Bruce Gainsford (guitar) and Englishman Simon Walker (bass). Brought together whilst living in London through mutual friends, they built a… (Read More)
Nashville, TN might not be the first place for a dream-pop band to come together, but the birthplace of American music was a nice fit for Venus Hum. Comprised of vocalist Annette Strean and multi-instrumentalists Kip Kubin and Tony Miracle, the… (Read More)
Wearing their animosity on their sleeve, Birmingham, AL-based Verbena bear more than a slight resemblance to Nirvana with their gritty, aggressive rock and singer/guitarist Scott Bondy’s soul-bearing vocals. Bondy began playing with Les Nuby (drums) and Daniel Johnston (bassist) when the… (Read More)
As one of Chicago’s breakthrough bands of the early 90’s post — Nirvana alternative rock scene, Veruca Salt quickly became a word of mouth sensation, and one of the most harshly criticized bands of the era. Led by Louise Post and… (Read More)
Walking Bicycles prove there might still be some life in the whole post-punk/new wave thing after all. They are stuttering and jagged and raw, but with a deeply-ingrained melodicism that sets them apart from their similarly-influenced peers. – chromewaves, Canada Jocelyn… (Read More)
Walking Concert: A name that invokes a kid cruising the streets. He’s wearing stereo headphones and he’s lost in quadraphonic dreams. When Walter Schreifels was only 16, he founded Gorilla Biscuits. Gorilla Biscuits released the seminal hardcore album, Start Today on… (Read More)
Indeed, it’s been a long strange trip for Warlocks leader Bobby Hecksher since his band played their first gig on July 4th, 1998. Hecksher, who moved to California from Florida in the late ’80s, formed his first group shortly after arriving… (Read More)
here was no reason to expect Warren Zanes’ remarkable debut, Memory Girls. Seventeen years old in the mid-1980s when he joined his brother Dan Zanes’ acclaimed Boston band the Del Fuegos, Warren was the kid who stole your drink off the… (Read More)
Every so often, people have the tendency to want to inflict bodily harm on another person, something that can be accomplished in many malicious ways. An extreme example would be to shoot someone at point blank range, but if you want… (Read More)
At a Glance We Are Scientists, a.k.a. “the We Are Scientists”, a.k.a. “W.A.S”., sometimes written “tW.A.S.”, Comprises Keith Murray, guitar and lead vocals; Chris Cain, bass guitar and backing vocals; Michael Tapper, drums and backing vocals Generating rock music of the… (Read More)
“Unhinged vocals and rampaging distortion run amok on this scorcher, a stand-out from Ohio’s We Are the Fury. Think Guns N’ Roses meets Bowie meets reckless abandon.” (Read More)
A gang of three, four including rock. We are Wolves imposes a music that’s both free and honest, like the celestial lightning on the mystic mountain. It’s a post-punk landscape filled with analogue trees. It’s like rock after the post-modern explosion… (Read More)
We Ragazzi
A few years ago, WE RAGAZZI were the darlings of the Chicago non-angular music scene. Their debut album “Suicide Sound System” (My Pal God Records) was a fuzzy little gem in a city filled with too many bands armed with, to… (Read More)
Warren Swan » Vocals Frank Giokas » Guitar Jarett Quintana » Guitar Joe Sudano » Bass Joe Pedulla » Drums We.re All Broken Beginning in the fall of 1996, and formerly known as Unsound, we took shape as a band in… (Read More)
