For our third interview we were lucky to have the opportunity to sit down with John Nolan. With over 10 years of experience in the music industry John has played and performed with some of the biggest acts in the indie music scene. At an early age in his music career, John saw a tremendous amount of success as the lead guitarist of Taking Back Sunday. TBS’s album Tell All Your Friends hit big with punk audiences in 2002. T…
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2009 was a great year. It brought us many great albums. Here are my picks for the best albums of 09.
1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
While I had dabbled into Phoenix’s previous material, it took them this album to finally win me over. From beginning to end, these songs shine brighter, and dig deeper into the soul than anything else I listened to this year. This is an indie album at heart, yet it is easily a…
In today’s modern music age, what is it that one expects to see from some of the bands they listen too? Trends that I have noticed are as follows:
1. Clothing so attention grabbing that if the colors were any brighter they would be blinding.
2. Wild hair that seems unkempt, but in all honesty it took hours to style that way.
3. Crazy techno party beats are so infectious they stay in your head for days on end.
So what is it…
Bands nowadays are scratching and clawing their way to the top, doing anything they can to get their name out there. Whether it be posting a link to some of their music on a mainstream band’s website or sending mass friend requests to randoms in hopes that they can get their music heard, many bands are in this position. I’m not going to lie and say that a lot of them deserve to make the big time, because let’s face it, not eve…
Most aspiring artists find the foundations for their art close to home, but Dan Price has done it by traveling and immersing himself in other cultures. Within Price’s young life of 23 years, he has lived in Ghana, India and the Marshall Islands. During his junior year of college he lived in the Osu district of Accra, Ghana for six months. He lived in a dorm with Ghanaian students and bought his meals, “ba…
After a 3 year hiatus from releasing a studio album, John Mayer returns with his 4th major label release Battle Studies in hand and does not disappoint his eagerly awaiting fanbase. A self described CD that “you put on before you go to sleep”, Battle Studies is a sampler plate pulling references from some of classic rock’s biggest names. Heartbreak Warefare opens the album with the mid temp feel…
If there is any music group who has made a complete transformation from the recording of their first EP to the release of their first studio album it is A Rocket To The Moon. The group, consisting of members Nick Santino, Justin Richards, Andrew Cook and Eric Halvorsen, completed their musical metamorphosis with the recording of their new record titled On Your Side, which was released October 13, 2009 with Fueled By Ra…
Cartel is one of those bands that fell under the radar for an extended time but never completely disappeared. After releasing their long awaited third album entitled Cycles on October 20th, they are now headlining a tour with The Bigger Lights, The Summer Set, This Providence and more. The tour made a stop at a local venue in Columbus, OH called The Basement and I decided I would attend.
In all honesty, the only reason I w…
In the midst of starting on tour on AP Magazine’s Fall Ball along with acts such as The Academy Is… and Set Your Goals, Mayday Parade released their third, much anticipated, studio album. Compared to their previous albums Tales Told By Dead Friends and A Lesson In Romantics it is obvious that the band took a new approach to making music in Anywhere But Here. Members Derek Sanders, Jeremy Lenzo, Alex Garc…
In these tough economic times, it’s hard to find a silver lining. Local arts especially have taken a hit, and that includes venues and performers alike. The reality is that bands everywhere are struggling to find ways to convince their fans that it is well worth it to spend a few bucks on an evening of live music.
Enter The Chicago Roots Collective.
The Chicago roots Collective (CRC) is a group of ten highly moti…
For only being together two years, The Maine has done something that many would have thought impossible or improbable in such a short amount of time. Members John O’Callaghan, Kennedy Brock, Jared Monaco, Patrick Kirch and Garrett Nickelsen started making music together right after high school. Using Myspace, the pop-punk group from Tempe, Arizona released their first self-produced EP entitled Stay U…
A while ago, I (BW) had a chance to do an interview with upcoming pop rock band, Disco Curtis before they played an acoustic in-store. Members Tanner Howe (TH), A.J. Novak (AN), Garrett Perales (GP) and Brendan Barone (BB) took some time to sit down with me and discuss them, their music and their futures.
BW: I’m here with Disco Curtis at Br…
The one apparent trend in my musical tastes over the years, has been: Chill out and simplify. Over the past few years, rather than adding music of the same old rock and acoustic formula into my library, I’ve been chilling out and finding more instrumental music; music that illustrates a feeling rather than translating through lyrics, music that wanders off and sometimes never comes back, music that reaches a very si…
The new logo is finally official and you can expect to see some major changes to the blog in the next few week. The new layout will be implemented next week the 21st of this month. We feel the logo is a much better representation of our company but, we would love to hear your thoughts and opinions. We are looking into Trademarking the logo this time due to the unexpected launch of Myspace Music’s logo last year. …
A while ago, I (BW) had a chance to do an interview with upcoming pop rock band, Disco Curtis before they played an acoustic in-store. Members Tanner Howe (TH), A.J. Novak (AN), Garrett Perales (GP) and Brendan Barone (BB) took some time to sit down with me and discuss them, their music and their futures.
BW: I’m here with Disco Curtis at Br…
Cartel is one of those bands that fell under the radar for an extended time but never completely disappeared. After releasing their long awaited third album entitled Cycles on October 20th, they are now headlining a tour with The Bigger Lights, The Summer Set, This Providence and more. The tour made a stop at a local venue in Columbus, OH called The Basement and I decided I would attend.
In all honesty, the only reason I w…
For our third interview we were lucky to have the opportunity to sit down with John Nolan. With over 10 years of experience in the music industry John has played and performed with some of the biggest acts in the indie music scene. At an early age in his music career, John saw a tremendous amount of success as the lead guitarist of Taking Back Sunday. TBS’s album Tell All Your Friends hit big with punk audiences in 2002. T…
After a 3 year hiatus from releasing a studio album, John Mayer returns with his 4th major label release Battle Studies in hand and does not disappoint his eagerly awaiting fanbase. A self described CD that “you put on before you go to sleep”, Battle Studies is a sampler plate pulling references from some of classic rock’s biggest names. Heartbreak Warefare opens the album with the mid temp feel…
