Artists
With the music industry saturated with guys wearing black, covering their faces with their hair, screaming at the top of their lungs, and making ballads at the same time, you might think to yourself, “Where the good vibes at?”. The underground… (Read More)
B-52’s Biography It has been said that the B-52’s are as quintessentially American as the Beach Boys. And twenty-five years and over twenty million albums into a career that began as a low-rent lark in Athens, Georgia, the B-52’s remain the… (Read More)
B-Side Players is a septet led by frontman Karlos Paez, guitarist Giovanni Mejia, bass player Gerry Guevara, saxophonist Regan Branch, percussionists Victor Tapia and Luis Cuenca, and drummer Ryan Moran. The son of a musician, Paez spent a good deal of… (Read More)
- by Geffen His reign as King of the Blues has been as long as that of any monarch on earth. Yet B.B. King continues to wear his crown well. At age 80, he is still light on his feet, singing… (Read More)
The movie focuses on four interrelated sets of situations and characters, and many events are revealed out of sequence. The following plot summary has been simplified, and thus does not reflect the exact sequence of the events on screen. In a… (Read More)
Back Door Slam are teenagers Davy Knowles (guitars, vocal, mandolin, lap steel), Ross Doyle (drums) and Adam Jones (bass), all hailing from the small-but-perfectly-formed Isle of Man... (to find the tiny isle, go to Liverpool and look out to sea … (Read More)
Hard-house DJ Bad Boy Bill was born and raised in Chicago, and began mixing records at the age of 14. An avid fan of Chicago radio station WBMX’s Hot Mix Five mixing team, Bill landed his big break when none other… (Read More)
Who is Bang Camaro? “We are not a retro band,” insists guitarist Bryn Bennett after Bang Camaro’s third show on a short east coast tour, “we are an evolution…. (Read More)
Barrington Levy’s outstanding career as a top-class reggae vocalist began more than two and a half decades ago. Called reggae’s ‘Mellow Canary’ by virtue of his strong, pure vocal style, he’s renowned as the first original singer of the dancehall era… (Read More)
Ohio St., LSU to meet for BCS title FOXSports.com 15 days ago Just a few weeks ago, it appeared as if Ohio State and LSU had both blown their shot at playing in the BCS title game with… (Read More)
Bebel Gilberto walks – quite comfortably and confidently – in very large shoes; she is the daughter of the man who created bossa nova, Joao Gilberto. At the age of nine she sang at Carnegie Hall with her mother, Gilberto’s second… (Read More)
BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES tells the story of American music at this precarious moment. Filmmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen traveled the country, hoping to understand why mainstream music seems so packaged and repetitive, and whether corporations really had the power… (Read More)
For the BellRays, the title of their latest album, Have A Little Faith, is a command, an ultimatum even. “We need more fearlessness!” firebrand singer Lisa Kekaula declared last fall when the Southern California quartet appeared in front of the Washington… (Read More)
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
With the March 20th release of his seventh studio album, the double-disc Both Sides of the Gun, Ben Harper offers his signature mix of rock, soul, and folk music, while also venturing into new territory. “I was hoping I could come… (Read More)
Bio By Ben My name is Ben Kweller. I was born in San Francisco, CA on June 16th, 1981. I grew up in Greenville, TX. My whole life I have loved music. My dad taught me how to play the drums… (Read More)
Say you’re a gifted young artist – someone like BEN TAYLOR, for instance. You’ve written a pile of great songs. You’ve got a way with melody and a mastery of the understated lyric. You’ve got a voice that lingers in the… (Read More)
Two guys, four hands, kaleidoscopically exploding wall of sound. 15 years of history, 200 shows per annum, famous to the underground – they are Marco Benevento and Joe Russo. Well positioned to explode this year with their ropeadope debut (Read More)
Play Pause Stop, the latest disc by the Benevento/Russo Duo, is as much of an anomaly as the band that created it. Yes, it is a rock album — but there is no guitarist, no bassist, and you can sing along… (Read More)
New York buzz band Benzos take to the road in support of their recently released debut full-length album Morning Stanzas. Benzos’ music is the brainchild of four virtuoso musicians (Read More)
In today’s super-crowded rap game, it’s not too hard to forget who paved the way for the “players” of today, but in order to really “keep it real,” the truth must be told. Before the rise of the Notorious B.I.G. and… (Read More)
Todd writes simple pop songs for a three piece band, they sound like symphonies. There’s a certain ambience to Big Head Todd and the Monsters’ songs in that they just seem to fit the mood perfectly. Big Head Todd and the… (Read More)
Bionik Brown is the ultimate DIY artist. Not many others have been able to tour nationally and internationally and move thousands of cd’s without major label push. Bionik is the artist, the CEO and the street team (all in one incredibly… (Read More)
Black Moth Super Rainbow come from deep within the woods of Western Pennsylvania. An actual, 5-member band not comprised of the expected laptops and sequencers, BMSR is a psyche-pop group in early ‘70s electronic clothing. Sometimes the songs feel like pagan… (Read More)
Robert Houston II (born March 24, 1980), popularly known as Black Pegasus or by a variety of nicknames (Black – P, The Black Mexican), is a Hip-Hop artist and current President and CEO of Brass Knuckle Ent. He is the most… (Read More)
There was a time when Lazarus played the blues; a time he got Bojo’s Juke Joint shakin’ back in the day. Now he lives them. Bitter and broken from a cheating wife and a shattered marriage, Lazarus’ soul is lost in… (Read More)
Self-described “everyday brothers,” the Bay Area native Xavier Mosley (Chief Xcel) met the San Fernando Valley native Tim Parker (Gift of Gab) at John F. Kennedy High School in Sacramento, California in 1987, and immediately struck up a friendship over hip-hop… (Read More)
Whereas most up and coming alternative bands of the early ‘90s borrowed from the leaders of the pack (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, etc.), Blind Melon was an exception to the rule—their roots lay in classic rock (Lynyrd Skynyrd… (Read More)
