Artists
A Place To Bury Strangers have often been called “the loudest band in New York”. This may very well be the case, but unlike much so-called “loud” rock and roll that’s out there, APTBS is not loud simply for the sake… (Read More)
Awesome Color are a power trio from Brooklyn but their original and spiritual home is in the mid-west. The mid-west where pounding drums that sound like they are played with tree limbs, angry, whiplashed guitars and snarled, over-amped vocals rule the… (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)
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)
Spanning three decades, Blue Öyster Cult has a long and storied history. The band got its start in the late ’60s on Long Island, New York, as the Soft White Underbelly, but each member had been involved in bands previously in… (Read More)
A combustive mix of glam rock riffs, power pop melodies, and lots of punk energy, Cheap Time are the brainchild of Jeffrey Novak, a Tennessee native who began playing in punk bands in his teens. His groups include Jeffrey Novak’s One… (Read More)
Darker My Love is an indie psychedelic rock band based in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of 5 members. Tim Presley, a former member of the band The Nerve Agents and also a visual artist responsible for much of the… (Read More)
Winter storms are punishingly cold and uncomfortable, but are an important source of water for spring growth. Likewise for Dead Confederate, the series of New Jersey blizzards that besieged the recording of sophomore album Sugar (a reference to the record snowfall… (Read More)
Arguably the most sonically powerful act in the burgeoning psychedelia- dosed scene in Atlanta,GA, Dead Confederate may represent a harbinger of a new rise of psychedelic rock. The South has produced some of the most eclectic rock ‘n’ roll ever recorded… (Read More)
“There was this feeling inside me going into making this record that we’d never made an album before,” says guitarist/vocalist Scott McMicken of Dr. Dog’s Shame, Shame, their Anti- debut and the first album made outside the safe confines of their… (Read More)
Combining musical versatility, instrumental prowess, beautiful vocal harmonies and a superb rhythm section, the Easy Star All-Stars have established themselves as one of the top international reggae acts since their live debut in 2003. Thanks to their best-selling tribute album releases… (Read More)
His iconic albino looks are unforgettable. His songs are used relentlessly in films and TV commercials, video games and played in music stores everywhere. Just one bar of “Frankenstein” will get fists pumping and heads bobbing. Likewise, “Free Ride” is a… (Read More)
Restless sonic chameleons the Fiery Furnaces revolve around the brother and sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, whose prickly childhood relationship and musical family set the stage for their playful, unpredictable music. The Friedbergers’ grandmother was a musician and choir… (Read More)
Midwesterners often feel obligated to apologize for/complain about their landscape. Chicago’s Light Pollution does not. The contrasting feelings of wonderment and isolation evoked by the frozen Midwestern plains deeply pervade their sound. 23-year-old songwriter James Michael Cicero grew up in… (Read More)
Lionize started when four high school friends in Maryland got together to have fun in their parent’s basement with the goal of picking up girls by performing music. Drawing on their mutual love of reggae acts like Steel Pulse, Bob Marley… (Read More)
As long as the craft of songwriting has been in existence, there have always been young writers hoping to become the new voice for a generation. What sets Alaska-native Matt Hopper apart from the masses is that there’s actually nothing fantastical… (Read More)
As a band, Octopus Nebula seeks to create the kind of deep, multi-layered, psychedelic grooves that we, as individuals, have constantly sought but seldom found on our own musical journeys. Our writing is intended to convey the sound and emotion of… (Read More)
Born and Raised in Brooklyn, NY by West Indian Parents from the Island of Jamaica, Milton aka Ohmega Watts lived there for 8 years, then moved to Laurelton Queens, NY. He grew up around Reggae, Calypso, Soca, 80’s pop and Hiphop… (Read More)
- Fresh out of Mitch Easter’s studio (Co-producer of REM’s Murmur and Reckoning albums) and armed with an arsenal of new songs, Atlanta-based, Outformation is ready to rock. Outformation is guitarist Sam Holt (guitar tech for the late, great, Widespread Panic…
Ed Wynne has solved the mystery of time travel. As the keyboardist/guitarist/chief programmer/creative mastermind of the band Ozric Tentacles, Wynne traverses the ages through his primordial yet distinctly modern, mind-bending music. The Somerset, England, resident is a citizen of the world… (Read More)
Perry Farrell’s Satellite Party
Satellite Party emerged out of former Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros frontman Perry Farrell’s personal belief that individuals can change the world one step at a time. In keeping with the global and spiritual awareness found on his 2001 solo… (Read More)
“It’s a nod ahead of, yet not a departure from, the psychedelic rock that has helped make the Dallas-bred NYC transplants a fan and critical darling in the U.S. and Europe —not to mention favorites of U2’s The Edge (who in… (Read More)
Mixing the dusty, cinematic soundscapes of old spaghetti-western films with the mind-expanding Psych Rock of modern practitioners like The Dandy Warhols and Brian Jonestown Massacre (not to mention drone forefathers The Velvet Underground), L.A.’s Spindrift makes music that sounds like… (Read More)
“Even by the nonstop-rock standards of 2008’s SXSW festival, it was weird to see a band that seems to live on ultraviolet light, out in broad daylight, making rippling-tremolo drone on the lawn of a downtown Austin restaurant. But local tripsters… (Read More)
Anyone who has paid any attention to the Seattle music scene in the last few years has noticed a changing of the guard. The grunge beast is long since extinct and is currently wasting away in its pathetic heroin-induced grave. The… (Read More)
THE MACHINE, America’s premier Pink Floyd show, has forged a 20 year reputation of excellence, extending the legacy of Pink Floyd, while creating a legacy all their own. Over the years, The Machine has touched the hearts and souls of many… (Read More)
For a decade now, The Mutaytor has traveled the country with one of the most bombastic and unique visceral experiences in modern entertainment. Combining an eleven-piece modern analog and electronic dance orchestra, with a 15 physical performance artists, The Mutaytor creates… (Read More)
After releasing three albums and playing almost 300 shows in the last 18 months, the Washington DC/Kentucky-based psych-folk-lit-pop rockers, These United States, are rumbling steadily towards the next benchmarks in a long string of critical acclaim, including dozens of Best of… (Read More)
MARK RAY LEWIS was working as a landscaper in New Mexico when Stanford U. offered him a monthly stipend to do nothing but sit around and write fiction. Returning to Albuquerque, he fell in with a dark cabal of hopped up… (Read More)
Woodhands is dirty electronic music. We are interested in emotional, sweaty dance floors. We want to make you cry while you’re having sex, and it’ll be the best damn sex of your life. And you’ll be dancing. Woodhands started in a… (Read More)
