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…

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 Brio in Polaris. Could you guys tell them your names and what you do?

TH: I’m Tanner and…

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…

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…

As the saying goes, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”.  However, who needs a new trick when you have been rocking this long?  The following is a compilation of living rock legends that you need to check out before they are finished performing.

BB King 83

Beginning his recording career in 1949, at 83 this living legend is anything but slow.   Riley B King was born in 1925 and given the nickname the…

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-…

With the deterioration of the formal record company comes the deterioration of the formal record.  Big named media distribution companies have been fighting bootlegged albums ever since the consumer was first able to transfer CD’s to cassette tapes.  In a world where either CD’s are instantly burned and circulated or transferred to MP3’s and hopping from one ipod to another, the artists have…

Adam Duritz and guitarist David Bryson started as an acoustic duo out of the San Francisco area in 1989.  Durtiz and The Counting Crows have come a long way since their debut album August and Everything After which brought the 1993 hit Mr. Jones to stereos.  Amidst the 90’s grunge hype The Counting Crows delivered a fresh organic sound reminiscent of Americana rock.

The 1996 album Recovering The Satellites del…