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…

After high school graduation, most teens tend to have an abundance of thoughts floating through their head.  They face long internal battles over questions of what they might want to major in, how it’s going to feel to be away from home or if they are even considering going to college.  Breaking away from this stereotypical mold, 18-year-old Garet Camella had other things going across his mind.  Of course he was conce…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

Meiko has come a long way since being a cocktail waitress just over a year ago. Releasing her self-titled debut album on myspace in September of 2007, Meiko has catapulted herself from serving martini’s to LA’s finest to appearing on some LA’s finest television shows. This mellow singer-songwriter combines her talents of songwriting with her smooth as silk voice to create an immediate coffee-…