Article Archive for November 2009
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…
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…
