The first time I saw them play, Carnifex was touring with Killwhitneydead and The Demonstration, supporting their 2008 release The Diseased and The Poisoned. The venue – The Mad Hatter Club – a hardcore-oriented bar venue at capacity with drunk punks, aggressive metal-heads, heaily tattooed straight-edge boys and a thick cloud of noxious cigarette smoke.  Outside, the August heat was spot-weldin…

I would say that my folk/alt country, or whatever you would like to call that genre, kick ended, for the most part, about a year or more ago. An acoustic guitar and a sad, dusty voice just didn’t do anything for me anymore. Theordore, a group from St. Louis and personal friends of mine, is a band whose music is so uniquely Midwest and impressively deep in tones and lyrical content. Their first release, “Songs…

The Brian Jonestown Massacre have released another album, “Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?” The band, which for some of the current generation has come to emobody the sound, philosophy and drive of the substance-fueled psychedelic music of the 60’s more so than the music of that generation itself, has changed up their game.

The title of the album itself, to this author, is an obvious reference to their a…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.  …