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.  …

Following the success of “Buckle In The Bible Belt”, Southern Missouri rockers Ha Ha Tonka recently released their sophomore follow up titled “Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South”.  Keeping their southern gospel harmonies and dropping stagnant power chords for memorable licks, Ha Ha Tonka successfully evolved their previous poppy melodies into a mature sound that sits with any adult c…

I wanted to draw some attention to a video we stumbled across a few days ago.  It is a neat documentary that we found that features a band by the name of Gracer. The film and footage do a tremendous job capturing the artists’ personalities and musical creativity.  It  is incredible how many different backdrops and time was spent with the musicians.  The 10 minute documentary does an incredible job of telling t…

For our second interview we sat down with Aaron Wright in his hometown of Dublin, Ohio, just outside Columbus.  Aaron was and still is currently the frontman of the talented Chandler Wright Story. The group has calmed down a bit since their lead guitarist, Bob Murnahan moved to Arizona. The band experimented with extended solos and creative arrangements.  Aaron shared the stage with a popular variety of acts like Ek…

The past week proved to be more than eventful.  We were lucky to spend an evening with John Nolan of Straylight Run and Taking Back Sunday.  The talented Nolan is working on a Fan Collaboration that we look forward to discussing in detail on the blog in the next couple of weeks.  Walker also recently finalized our second artist interview with The Chandler Wright Story.  The article and interview will be posted sometime…