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)
Gothic Theatre
Artists
Nate Bott: Vocals/Guitar Frank Staniszewski: Keyboards/Vocals Tim Resudek: Bass Kaumyar: Drums Andy Barr: Guitar/Vocals With their buoyant brand of energetic, anthemic pop, Big City Rock has made a name for themselves as one of the West Coast’s most dynamic new bands… (Read More)
“Big Paddy as a band started its road in 1999. I began singing in 2001, and it turned into Jon and I as a duo. It’s been all about the fun and wild times from there! Every Monday night we’d play… (Read More)
“Morning Kills the Dark” pretty much tells the story of the last year or so of our lives. Kala’s and mine, that is. It’s the two of us and our best friend Richard that are the heart of Biirdie. Together and… (Read More)
ONE of the wildest vocalists in all of popular music, Björk Gudmundsdottir (known popularly simply as Björk) has spent most of her life creating artful, experimental music that defies classification. Those who know her only by her solo career may be… (Read More)
Members: Brady Vocals Travis Guitar Omar Bass Dan Drums This is what happens when punk rock grows up. “hands in the estuary, torso in the lake” is Black Cat Music‚s third release to date. Their unique brand of rock and roll… (Read More)
Baby 81 is an ambitious, powerful, guitar-driven rock’n’roll record that’s guaranteed to get people jumping and thinking. Sonically it’s a far cry from 2005’s rootsy, acoustic Howl, Baby 81 was born only minutes after the final track on Howl was completed… (Read More)
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)
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)
Initially spat out from the Manchester retro-funk “baggy” scene, Blur rose through the ranks of the British pop world with the force of an ascending comet. Led by Damon Albarn’s clever lyrics and melodies and Graham Coxon’s inventive guitar work, this… (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)
Bobby Collins Death Metal Armada
One of Denver’s most entertaining bands. The DMA works hard to put on a memorable live show. This lighthearted pop-rock trio consists of Bobby Collins (keyboards, guitar, theremin and vocoder), Stefan Englund (bass) and Jed Kopp (drums). The DMA has played… (Read More)
The once self-proclaimed antichrist Bobby Conn is in a league all his own when it comes to performing live as well as creating his tongue-in-cheek chameleon-like pop that genre-hops with a decadent flair. Conn got his start playing guitar in the… (Read More)
Bonnie ’Prince’Billy is the band of Will Oldham, the man behind Palace Brothers, Palace Music and Palace Songs. Oldham started to make music in the early 90’s. His first album with the Palace Brothers is ’There’s no one what will take… (Read More)
Anthony, a nice enough sort, is fresh out of the hospital after a mental breakdown. His crazy friend Dignan cooks up a robbery scheme that includes Anthony and their sorry neighbor Bob, under the guidance of Dignan’s former boss, the supposedly… (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)
In the 1990’s musical landscape, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois’ Braid carved a place for themselves that continues to resonate. Armed with a much deserved reputation as a touring band, their dual guitar and vocal assault coupled with a math-rockesque rhythm section earned them… (Read More)
Having already exceeded the shelf-life of the average indie rock band by a few years, a series of tours, and a handful of albums, Brandtson could have used the departure of original bassist John Sayre as their moment to shake hands… (Read More)
Two dramatic years in the making, Breech’s long-awaited fifth release, Tarnish and Undress, will hit the streets on October 8th, 2007. While in the throes of recording the CD, lead singer/songwriter Missy Gibson popped out a kid, enduring long months of… (Read More)
Brendan Benson and the Wellfed Boys
Brendan Benson is an artist whose name evokes vague recognition among some, but drooling, obsessive enthusiasm from those who truly know his work. “One Mississippi”, his 1996 debut, is a semi-secret treasure, the sort of record that’s bound to get lavish… (Read More)
Brightblack is Rachel on the Rhodes, Nathan on the Archtop & Noah on the thunderdrum. The last Rainywood show was Brightblack’s first show. These friends have gathered for song in different place for sometime. Nathan and Rachael began tunesmithing in the… (Read More)
Birmingham’s Broadcast transmit radiophonic psychedelia with a sinister, spy movie swing. The edgy atmospheres generated by quartet of Trish Kennan, Roj Stevens, Tim Felton and James Cargill is the sound of a group out of time, out on a limb. ³When… (Read More)
Brokeback is the name of Tortoise bassist Douglas McCombs’ side project. In 1999, he released the project’s first recording, Field Recordings From the Cook County Water Table, which revealed a slightly less constricted version of the post-rock sound Tortoise had made… (Read More)
Built to Spill were one of the most popular indie rock acts of the ’90s, finding the middle ground between postmodern, Pavement-style pop and the loose, spacious jamming of Neil Young. From the outset, the band was a vehicle for singer/songwriter/guitarist… (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 brainchild of Vaden Todd Lewis and longtime friend Taz Bentley, The Burden Brothers have evolved from an indie experiment born Of major-label frustration to a full-blown rock band with a soaring hit single “Beautiful Night” and a debut album, BURIED… (Read More)
Starring Catherine D’Lish, Miss Kitty Crimson, Empire Burlesque Follies, Oracle Dance. With MC Kitten on the Keys, & music by Devotchka (Read More)
