Imperial Teen was formed in San Francisco in 1995 by Roddy Bottum, Lynn Perko, Jone Stebbins and Will Schwartz. A pop aesthetic of crunchy guitar riffs and classic boy/girl harmonies quickly developed, finding all four members switching off on instruments and… (Read More)
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From Atlanta, GA., the grimy underbelly of southern freak culture, comes a mind-boggling theatrical musical orgy the likes of which few could imagine. Courtesy of the brave visionaries at Radioactive Records we proudly present the Impotent Sea Snakes, a futuristic Rock… (Read More)
This metal funk crossover band was formed in Calabasas, California, USA in January 1991 by school friends Brandon Boyd (b. 15 February 1976, Van Nuys, California, USA; vocals), Mike Einziger (b. 21 June 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA; guitar), Alex Katunich… (Read More)
With their expansive sound, dark wit, and a flair for the dramatic, Interpol have gone from being one of the New York City’s most talked about new bands to becoming one of America’s most exciting and acclaimed. Fulfilling the promise shown… (Read More)
IO ECHO’S SONGS ARE PRODUCED BY LEOPOLD ROSS (KORN, ERROR.) SHE IS FROM THE EAST COAST. SHE WRITES SONGS IN A LATE HOUR LOCKED IN A BEDROOM SITUATION. SHE PLAYS THE GUITAR AND KEYBOARDS. IO ECHO IS NOW BEING PLAYED ON… (Read More)
What do you get when you take a soft-spoken archaeologist, his aloof, intellectual brother, an indie-rocker with boy band looks, a magic-fingered hip-hop kid and a charismatic front man whose presence is as electrifying as Chernobyl? If you’re Lou Pearlman you’ve… (Read More)
Discovered at an open mic when Dig Music’s owner happened to be there, singer/songwriter Jackie Greene is a captivating performer that works well in simple, sparse environments. Signing to the label almost immediately, the California native worked countless clubs and bars… (Read More)
Terrin Durfey – Vocals, Bass Chris Prescott – Guitar, Rhodes Piano, Vocals Gabe Feenberg – Rhodes Piano, Guitar Matt Lynott – Drums (Read More)
James Maddock was born in Leicester, England and grew up surrounded by music. Between listening to his grandfather on the ukulele and his father on the trombone, he quickly found that music was in his blood. This curiosity led him to… (Read More)
The Japonize Elephants from Bloomington, IN, are comprised of a ten-person group led by the Emperqq of Zerlock; the band’s eclectic sound borrows from bluegrass, folk, and jazz with plenty of ethnic influences (including Far and Middle Eastern) and silly sound… (Read More)
Following the demise of the Dead Kennedys in the wake of the financial and emotional disaster that was their 1986 obscenity trial, vocalist and free-speech icon Jello Biafra launched a solo career, devoting some of his releases to spoken-word observations on… (Read More)
Jenoah is: Zachary Blizzard: drums, percussion and vibra-tones Robbie Halbert: guitar and moog Stephen Joshua Martinez: vocals and bass Lucky Phlip Rodrigues: guitar and vocals Jenoah sprung up from the arid wastelands of California’s San Bernadino County, and with their debut… (Read More)
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter
Embraced – and sometimes frustratingly genre-labeled – by fans of so-called ‘alt-country’ music (encouraged in such labeling perhaps, by Sykes’ longtime collaboration with guitarist/songwriter Phil Wandscher, co-founder of seminal post-punk Americana band Whiskeytown) and increasingly by more experimental-indie listeners of Low… (Read More)
Like snorting a line of Pepsi & Morphine thru the middle of an old 45, JET FUEL give ya everything you know you like & everything you think you’re too kool to dig at the same time. This is straight retro… (Read More)
Consisting of ex-Jawbreaker frontman Blake Schwarzenbach, ex-Texas Is the Reason drummer Chris Daly, and ex-Handsome vocalist/guitarist Jeremy Chatelain, Jets to Brazil could be considered an amalgam of their forefathers with a slightly darker and more mature musical perspective. With the 1998… (Read More)
Southern Gothic singer/songwriter Jim White grew up in Pensacola, Florida enamored with the sounds of the white gospel music he heard on the Gospel Jubilee television series. After spending his formative years on the outskirts of a deeply Pentecostal community, he… (Read More)
Of the three angry young men that emerged in the British new wave movement of the early ’80s, Joe Jackson was perhaps the most idiosyncratic. Not content with being a pop songwriter, Jackson went to considerable lengths to prove himself as… (Read More)
Accidents do happen. Just ask Florida-based singer-songwriter John Ralston. Or better yet, listen to Needle Bed, his debut album for Vagrant Records, and a stark collection of 11 honest, deeply personal songs, that—to hear Ralston tell it—came about almost entirely by… (Read More)
Jonny Lives! lush & dirty, glossy & gritty Lower East Side sound blares with an urgency that’ll push you out of the way if you don’t move with it. “The East Village of NYC is our muse. People are up to… (Read More)
Jonezetta began as a lark. Even their name was birthed off the cuff. It was designed to combine two words that don’t go together but sound cool (like Radiohead, Coldplay, or Starsailor) but as Chisolm admits, “all of the good words… (Read More)
For The Ride Home — the moving major label debut of singer-songwriter Josh Kelley — has the homespun intimacy and freewheeling grace of a prized road trip tape. Intimate and openhearted, the album promises to be the starting point on a… (Read More)
The Juleps represent a collaboration among members of various Chicago bands that has grown into a project of far greater depth than the original “side project” label might have indicated working within a rather loose freewheeling concept of roots-rock/country and Americana-meets… (Read More)
When I first met Jeremy Greenspan in 1995, he was the personification of a pop cultural crisis. Shaped by Pop right down to the core of his being, steeped in Pop history, it seemed that there was only one thing he… (Read More)
Jupiter Sunrise are MARK HOULIHAN and BEN KARIS on guitars & vocals AARON CASE on bass guitar and CHRIS SNYKUS on drums and vocals Jupiter Sunrise was born 2 years ago as a project of Mark Houlihan’s near Albany New York… (Read More)
The Los Angeles crew Jurassic 5 consists of four MCs and two DJs. Jurassic 5 is a throwback of sorts, referencing a by-gone era in hip-hop when the only thing that mattered was the music and having fun. In sound, the… (Read More)
The Kalamath Brothers are a four piece band that play music focused on love and heartbreak, revenge and death, guilt and redemption. A former Denver Gentleman and former member of Slim Cessna’s auto club, Frank Hauser jr, heads up the band… (Read More)
Welcome to the Fantastic, Overly-Thorough Karate High School FAQ: What is Karate High School? Karate High School is a band. The members are: Paul McGuire – vocals, keyboards, additional guitars Ray Bautista – keyboards Ken Kaiser – bass Gabe Ausiello … (Read More)
The Empire single is out now in the UK in all good download and realworld stores. iTunes, Napster or MSN, for example. DVD and 10" vinyl formats will follow on August 21st, pre-order both from here. It preceeds the album of… (Read More)
Katy Rose grew up quick in Los Angeles, the daughter of session keyboardist Kim Bullard and a backup singer mother. She began to write songs in her early teens, blending traditional adolescent angst over boys and social drama with a fashionably… (Read More)
I have recently reached a quarter century old! Yippy. I found out that I keep falling in love with music time after time. I moved out here to Denver about two years ago and have been working really hard to make… (Read More)
