Born in a developing new town on the west coast of Florida, Vito Genovese lived his entire life in the same county. When he turned 18, Vito moved north to Tallahassee to find an identity for himself. To help himself break free of the foreclosure induced by his somewhat-reclusive upbringing, Vito began composing music and releasing it to friends and internet peers. He began with experimental electronic and ambient music. However, this style did not prove popular and some initially wrote him off as "talentless". ...
Innovative, Fresh, Irie and Wild are just a few of the words that come to mind when mentioning Seeds-N-Stems. Homegrown in Casper, Wyoming in 2005 this band has been spreading the seed of good music and good vibes across the midwest in small bars and festivals for about six years now. They have independently released two albums Life is Poetry Music is Love 2008 and Buds like Gems 2011 and are still currently unsigned. The band consists of five members Brennan Capellas Lead Vocal/Ukulele, DfCtV mc/vocals, Rob E Love Guitar, A-Bomb Bass, and Jarrad Campos on the Drums. As far as musical style these guys are kind of hard to explain the mix reggae, rockand hip-hop to form a style all of their own. Some of there influences inclu...
Their strong sense of melody and lyrical storytelling, metal roots and international inspirations have led Oblivious Signal to where they are now: A group on the edge of just about anything.In 2010 Oblivious Signal announced securing management from the infamous John Tovar (The Mavericks, Marilyn Manson) putting them on a track of playing major events and festivals, radio airplay, and considering a 2011 South American tour.Lead guitarist and founding member Nick Orisino has surrounded himself with professional musicians to form a kind of super group including former pop vocalist Cristina T. Feliciano, whose Puerto Rican herritage allows her to sing in both English and Spanish, opening them up to broader audiences and increasing nu...
EYELESS is an American Rock group from New Jersey. The group was formed in 2001. EYELESS performs a style of hardcore hip hop mixed with Rock. Prior to being signed, the band released several EPs. They were recently signed to EM Records, who is re-releasing all of their music to the public, as well as releasing upcoming material. They are label mates with the great Two Wheel Eel, whose early works were produced and engineered by the famous Ron Johnsen.Background & NameThe group, displaying obvious Nordic backgrounds, goes by the name "EYELESS," derived from one of Mr. Scud's favorite Norse words. Coming from Old Norse, "auga," meaning "eyelike" or even literally &quo...
Jess is a Dream Rock Songstress out of Brooklyn via Richmond, Virginia. After paying her dues in the New York club scene as the frontwoman for Indie Rock band, Dead Copycats, she's recently finished recording her first solo project -- waveside -- an album of 7 indie pop/rock songs. She's presently spending time in Northern California, working on a second album, and organizing tour dates for the Spring. A true water nymph, Jess has spent about a quarter of her existence in some form of H20, swimming, surfing, and mermaiding, and finds the water to be a strong source of inspiration for her writing and general sanity.Jess Braun's voice has been compared to the sounds of Fiona Apple, Janis Joplin, Neko Case, and Joss Stone.H...
The Neologist is a musical endeavor created by James Lewis and Devin Walsh in 2009. Our mission is simple: to create and play the music we are fans of and what we want to hear for ourselves. We played in the band SeVeR for a few years, and when the band went its separate ways, we decided to create The Neologist as a musical outlet with no rules, boundaries, or limitations. As a two-man band we are able to make decisions in 2.3 seconds, have full creative control, and basically do what we want. We do everything ourselves, or with the help of a few friends, from the music, lyrics, artwork, videos, recording, etc… To sum it up: We love metal. Some of our favorite bands are In Flames, Soilwork, Disarm...
After a year of eerie, stilted silence, the sun shines and the shadows reappear. Black Moth Super Rainbow has crept from the forests and cities to make Eating Us, their dark bubblegum freakout for 2009. The first fully hi-fi BMSR record, Eating Us, adds space and dimension to the band’s sticky, off-kilter melodies. This isn’t an album about witches and woods, and this time around the band isn’t letting on to what it all might mean. Because to them, it’s just better that way.The modern musical unit known as Black Moth Super Rainbow first emerged from an obscure Pennsylvania forest glen in 2003 to relay a somewhat confounding sound with Falling Through a Field. Over the next few years, ...
There's a lot of artists out there doing a lot of genres and quite honestly, very little can set them a part from each other in vast technological schemes of the 21st century. Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Dallas Green, lead singer of City and Colour and Alexisonfire who is attempting to make that effort. Of the instruments you played for the recording of ...
Bass fiend Nick Suddarth has been playing electronic bass music for well over a decade, but it's been in only the past few years that his production skills have shot him to the top of the US dubstep scene as the producer known as Sluggo. In only a short time, Sluggo's carved out a unique place in the dubstep world as his signature dark and twisted sound incorporating elements from drum & bass, hip hop, hardcore, and metal have this producer murdering dancefloors across the world.Formerly part of the duo Ultrablack, Sluggo stepped out on his own over the last year as a producer, remixer, and label boss. With releases on the genre's most influential labels including Rottun, Play Me, Basshead, Subhuman, and Ultragor...
The process of creating a fine tuned Rock band can be painstaking. Even more arduous a task can be leading that band to hone in and focus their collective and creative talents into one album. This was the grueling task undertaken by singer/songwriter Ken Raftree. With the bold culmination of efforts by guitarist Paul J. Baccash, bassist Scott Jackson and drummer Vincent Livolsi, their aptly titled debut cd "The Long Way" is an indie Rock power house. ...
Skinny Bitches is a 2 piece rock outfit currently based in Toronto. Robyn Craig and Ricardo Temporao started playing together in early 2011. Robyn sings and plays drums while Ricardo sings and plays guitar. It's been described as The Strokes meets Metric. more tracks can be found at http://www.skinnybitchesmusic.com ...
On June 8th, I had the opportunity of not only seeing the great Portugal. The Man, but I was also able to sit down and ask Zach Carothers (bass/backing vocals) and Ryan Neighbors (keyboard/backing vocals)....
Secret Sirens' is an indie/pop music project created by singer/songwriter/keyboardist Narelle Frances and multi-instrumentalist and music visionary Andrew Siron. Based in Leeds, the duo write and produce their music to capture images of fantasy, mythology, love and hate in the form of what has been described as ‘Dramatic Pop'. "I never knew what genre to describe our music as, I just knew we wanted it to be dramatic, with a large soundscape, touch on people's emotions, and generally create catchy pop songs in some shape or form" explains Narelle, front woman of Secret Sirens. Narelle is Yorkshire born, but with exotic roots from her maternal grandmother who hails from...
Anywhere began as a LA/SF collaborative project started by musicians Christian Eric Beaulieu and Cedric Bixler Zavala. Fresh off years of writing and touring as co-founder of Bay Area acid punk extremists Triclops!, Christian decided to immerse himself in the resonant universe of acoustic guitar and began performing solo under the moniker Liquid Indian. In early 2010 while in Los Angeles to perform at an art opening of mutual friend artist Sonny Kay, he befriended Cedric (singer of The Mars Volta) who was a DJ for the event. The two exchanged numbers and planned to record something acoustic rooted in the open tuning, eastern raga style Christian was delving into. Months later the pair met in Los Angeles, enlist...
Cole Ford hails from Dallas-Fort Worth in Texas. An indpeendent musician, singer songwriter, he has released three EP's. All are available for free download from his website www.colefordmusic.com...
Battle Ave play jangled mangled growling indie rock and roll, calling on the dynamic ebb and flow of 1990's grunge, the cathartic yelp of Canada's Mercer and Butler, the subtle flash of Television and a consistent nod towards the words of Cohen and Joyce. At once both epic and pastoral (or rather, both titanic and hyper-personal), they play honest and emotive music -- amid college, employment, unemployment, starvation, alcohol, moustaches, car crashes, depravity, fiscal crises, boredom, tattoos, 17th birthdays, coffee, and attempts to quit smoking -- FOUR...
In some ways, music doesn’t get much more modest or minimalist than it is in the hands of The Civil Wars, a duo comprised of California-to-Nashville transplant Joy Williams and her Alabaman partner, John Paul White. They travel without a backup band, and on their first full-length album, Barton Hollow, the bare-bones live arrangements that fans hear on the road are fleshed out with just the barest of acoustic accoutrements. Each song is an intimate conversation, and no third wheels or dinner-party chatter are going to int...
In May of 2010, a brotherhood of five musicians decided to take music to a whole new level. That is when ARISTO was born. This is the story of how the band came to be:After previously touring and playing in a band together, Chris Glover (drums), Eric Gregory (guitar) and Graham Vogel (bass/vocals), decided they wanted to start a new project together. Unsure of the direction of the project the three musicians began writing songs together, but knew that a piece of their puzzle was missing. That is when the band came across Evan Shank (guitar/vocals). The guys stumbled across Evan after watching him perform an acoustic show at a local Coffee Shop. Impressed with his talents, Evan was offered a spot in th...
T.O. Snob: Thanks for doing this. Shakespeare...My Butt came out when I was 14 and I've been a fan ever since, so this is a thrill for me. You've got your new album, Straitjacket Love coming out next week and you play a pair of shows tonight and tomorrow at Graffitti's to kick it off. RH: And I'm touring with a new band in June and July, including a residency at The Drake. The Graffitti's shows are all acoustic. T.O. Snob: What can fans expect from the new songs? RH: I consider it a continuation of the last album I made called 10 Kinds of Lonely, which was very much more down a country road than I had ever gone. I dabbled in that genre, on all the records there has been something that was country or folk based, ...
Sometimes a story can take a long time to tell. Eric D. Johnson, who has recorded and performed as the Fruit Bats for a decade now, had a story like that, a chance encounter that had rattled around his head for years. He’s tried to write it as a short story, a play, a movie…yet until now couldn’t get it down just right. Finally he decided to make a song out of it, and the result is “Tony the Tripper.” It’s the song at the heart of his fifth album, Tripper, setting the tone for a bittersweet meditation on hitting the road, leaving the familiar behind and reinventing yourself.The story goes like this. Just after turning 20, Johnson boarded a train from Chicago to see his sister in Olympia, Wash...
Gallivanting Riot Vanz is an Indie/Alternative rock band from Adelaide, South Australia. Initially started as a solo project by Tuan Luu (Guitars, Vocals) in 2009, It was later joined by Brad Roscow(Guitars, vocals), Stephan Bogdan (Bass) and Andre Scaffidi (Drums) and hence formed into a band in 2011. The band mainly draws its roots and influences from british rock and indie music, and it also incoorporates various aspects from a variety of different genres....
Ever-evolving and perpetually defying convention, Gossip is back with their fifth studio album, A Joyful Noise, set to be released on May 22. A Joyful Noise was produced by pop genius Brian Higgins (Kylie Minogue, Pet Shop Boys, Girls Aloud). The album’s first single, "Perfect World," will be released as a digital single (see full track listing below).A blend of soul, gospel, rock, funk, disco, punk, passion and rebellion, Gossip is comprised of vocalist Beth Ditto, guitarist Nathan Howdeshell, and drummer Hannah Blilie. Originally formed in Olympia, Washington in 1999, Gossip first garnered attention in the UK with the release of their 2006 breakthrough album Standing In the Way of Control, and they have been in...
It’s been said that Stuart Newman’s music captures melancholy daydreams on quiet, rainy days. Honestly expressed, and quirkily delivered, he asks questions of the gaps between emotions, and delivers a resonant response. Newman’s self-produced first album “Single But Defective” was initially offered as a free download in order to continue to spread his music far and wide. During July/August 2010, he designed some T-Shirts, which he offered to fans around the world for free (while stocks lasted)… they went to destinations such as Finland, Russia, Sweden, Romania, Mexico, Taiwan and USA. The u...
Autofonic is a solo electronica music project based in Plymouth, UK. The musical style is a mix of oldschool electronica with the harder acidic bleeping melodies and rhythms of electro house, funky beats and basslines. Elements of rock, soul, funk and other genres are also frequently incorporated into the overall sound.Main electronica influences: Kraftwerk, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Lemon Jelly, The Prodigy, Orbital, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Bomb the Bass, Underworld etc....
"Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" soundtrack.*WINNER of LA Music Awards Rock Single of the Year for "Take A Little While"! Also nominated for Rock Album of the Year. *GRAMMY winning mixing engineer - Jeff Juliano (Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Lifehouse, Rachael Yamagata, OAR) *CD drums played by Ed Toth (Vertical Horizon, Doobie Brothers) *CD keys played by Kris Pooley (Gwen Stefani, Jane's Addiction) ...
The Dreadful Melodies is singer/songwriter Daniel P. Rible, but you would not know it from listening to his latest release, "Strange Commodity". Daniel's eclectic influences result in each song sounding like a different performer with a new group of musicians at each turn. Rible is best known as the front man of the now defunct reggae, rock band Mahatma Peak. He has shared the stage with acts such as Derek Trucks(Allman Brothers), John Brown's Body, Kottonmouth Kings, God Street Wine, and Deep Banana Blackout during his tenure in the Asbury Park, NJ music scene. Daniel's recording obsession started when he was 7 years old with a fisher price tape recorder. He would make up countless songs and tell ghost stories through ...
Luke Pritchard (vocals/guitar), Hugh Harris (guitar), Max Rafferty (bass), and Paul Garred (drums) generate the rubbishy garage rock sounds of the Kooks. Named after the song on David Bowie's Hunky Dory, the Kooks met while attending Brighton Music College in the mid-2000s. Each shared a liking for the Police, the Strokes, the Everly Brothers, and Funkadelic, and the bandmates began funneling such influences into their own sweet and precocious sound in 2005. Before the year's end, the British foursome was releasing singles for Virgin UK. "Eddie's Gun" and "Sofa Song" did moderately well on the U.K. singles chart; however, the romantic playfulness of "You Don't Love Me" eventually gave the band its firs...
Accidental Tribe is ragtag outfit of misfits and miscreants that found themselves at shady late night bars listening to everything from Agnostic Front to Sun Ra, to Nirvana, to Hendrix, and loving every second. Those influences are evident in their music.In 1990, Accidental Tribe released a 7” of punk rock blues fury titled, “AURUM” on Noiseville Records. The Line-up was:Beat A.Tribe Arevalo - Vocals/BassPeter Harrison McWhinney – GuitarDino Sex – Drums (Drummer for GG Allin & The Murder Junkies)Shortly after the release of Aurum, childhood friend Moe Cash joins the band and takes over on bass, while Beat joins Pet...
Rebecca Sullivan was born in Wellington New Zealand. She moved around a lot as a child, and lived in 4 different states and 3 different countries. She was always the new girl growing up, and felt like an outsider much of the time. Rebecca has always been passionate about music, but was very shy as a child and teen. She was never the girl who got solos in the choir, and always felt a little bit awkward in social situations. When she was 16, she picked up the guitar for the first time, and fell in love with the process of playing guitar and singing - when she did this, she felt peace.She put the guitar down for a few years, but felt empty without music in her life. Reb...
Few bands have as much potential as the indie-pop duo Fancy Me Yet. With a combination of impatient guitar riffs, and vocals that resonate through stereotypes, the band is making quite a buzz in the music scene. Natasha, formerly known as JD Natasha, had much success early on in her music career. Having had a record deal with EMI and 3 Latin Grammy nominations, she definitely made an impact in the Latin / bilingual community. But despite a notable three year run, Natasha decided to pursue a different direction in her career and then came Fancy Me Yet.Natasha Jeanne (vocals), Alex Darren...
