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Captains Of Hook
posted: April 20, 2011
These are the things you’ll need to love in order to truly appreciate Osgoods: Hooks. Big, ballsy hooks. The Los Angeles-based band purveys quirky, ambitious rock that sounds like the rebellious offspring of Barenaked Ladies,…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Clientele Crooner Explores Amor de Dias
posted: April 20, 2011
Ball games and Fourth of July picnics be damned” if you really want to feel outlandishly American, try talking to Clientele mastermind Alasdair MacLean and offering up your Yankee pronunciation of his longtime band’s moniker,…
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Metal Monday: From Russia With Metal
posted: April 18, 2011
In the world of industrial metal there isn’t a whole lot of fresh meat”the same handful of artists have reigned supreme over the genre since the early ’90s. Now, e monstrous band from Russia called Illidiance…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Crystal Stilts: Falling In Love With Oblivion
posted: April 13, 2011
When Crystal Stilts‘ first album, Alight of Night, appeared in 2008, it announced the arrival of a gang of New York City psychedelicists who owed as much to the fuzz-drenched, ˜60s-informed sounds of ˜80s bands…
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Q&A With Yellowcard
posted: April 12, 2011
Yellowcard surprised everyone in April of 2008, when vocalist Ryan Key announced that the band was planning an indefinite hiatus. Citing a need to face adulthood and figure out their personal lives, Key said that…
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Funk Soul Brother
posted: April 11, 2011
Brandon Kelley grew up the son of a preacher man in the deep South. When he became a musician, he didn’t rebel against his upbringing and dabble in the dark side, nor did he succumb…
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