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Rapper's Delight: Strings In Hip Hop

posted: January 22, 2011

In the late ’70s, DJ Afrika Bambaataa defined the pillars of hip hop and helped establish the term hip hop as more than just a genre of music. This weekly column will focus on the…
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Needle In The Haystack Artist Takeover: Asper Kourt

posted: January 20, 2011

Asper Kourt has been floating around the average OurStage staffer’s brain ever since the Subway “Fresh Artists” Competition with the Goo Goo Dolls. After placing in the contest’s Top 10 for their region, the band soon became…
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Get Lyrical: Scratching The Surface Of The Weakerthans' "Plea From A Cat Named Virtute"

posted: January 19, 2011

Are you a wordsmith who’s drawn in by the lyrics of a song rather than the melody? Wish there was a way to find the best of the best lyrics, all in one place? Never…
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FREE DOWNLOAD: Needle In The Haystack Asper Kourt

posted: January 19, 2011

This week’s Needle In The Haystack artist Asper Kourt has an innate skill for creating songs that seem to feel both heartfelt and heartbreaking at the same time, all while laid over melodic, jaunty harmonies.…
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Q&A With Against Me!

posted: January 18, 2011

Regardless of how you feel about bands using punctuation in their names, the hard-working, constantly-touring members of Against Me! have always been busy and energetic enough to earn that emphatic exclamation mark in their moniker. …
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Metal Monday: Rapture Cabaret's Gates of Domination

posted: January 17, 2011

Rapture Cabaret have been a part of the upper-echelon of OurStage metal elite for quite some time, joining the site in March of 2008 and finishing in the Top 10 on the Metal Channel ten times.…
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