Twenty years since releasing their last album and following the anticipated completion of a fan-involved album production process, the new-wave band Devo has come out with “Something for Everybody”. Having emerged from the shadows of their wildly popular tune “Whip It,” the now nearly sixty-year-old performers (in addition to the considerably younger drummer, Josh Freese of Nine Inch Nails and G…

They formed in 1997 from the product of joining two local Minnesota bands. In 1998, they played their first live show. In the mid-2000’s, they released their first EP entitled Kids for America. In 2001, they received their first album review from PunkNews.com. In 2007, they were announced as having one of the most anticipated albums of the year. Now, in 2010, Motion City Soundtrack set out on a new, much needed, headlining tour starting in late March. The lineup behind them included bands such as Sing It Loud, A Rocket To The Moon and Fun.

I had a chance to interview John (JG) and Stephen Gomez (SG) from The Summer Set while they were in Columbus on May 7th for the AP Tour which is sponsored by Alternative Press Magazine. I was able to ask them about their views, their music and their past and future tour experiences.

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…

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  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.

I’m here with Disco Curtis at Brio in Polaris. Could you guys tell your names and what you do?

TH - I’m Tanner and I sing and pl…

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…