musicians
Upcoming New Found Glory Album on Amazon
Mar 3rd
Been waiting patiently for a sneek peek at the new NFG album?
A sneek peek is here. Now you can preview all 12 tracks from “Not Without a Fight” at Amazon.com. This will be New Found Glory’s 8th Major release, which is definitely a landmark for this band because most bands in the same Genre break up after their second or third album. So, which song is going to be the first single?
Q&A: James Hetfield on Rolling Stone
Nov 11th
Recently Rolling Stone sat down with James Hetfield to talk about the new album and touring. Here is part of the interview:
You guys have been gigging all year. What new songs have been the most fun to play?
Over the summer we did “Cyanide” and “The Day That Never Comes.” On this tour, we’ll be rotating in four or five new ones every night. We want to give them a chance to become evergreens, like “Fade to Black” or “Seek and Destroy.” They didn’t become evergreens by being a good song on a record, but because we played it, and the crowd learned that they have their own parts to sing.Where did you write the lyrics for Death Magnetic?
Mostly at home. There was one song called “Shine” — it’s not on the record but will come out sometime — that I wrote at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in 2006, when we inducted Black Sabbath. I just got inspired, and I wrote it like poetry.Most likely, Metallica will be inducted into the Hall of Fame next April. Who will be onstage with you?
Everyone that played on a record should be there. You’re considered for the Hall 25 years after your first recording, not after you formed.That would omit Dave Mustaine.0
He wasn’t on a record. Jason Newsted should be up there — he was in the band for 14 years and played on quite a few records — and so should Robert Trujillo.Will it be weird to be there with Jason?
There’s no reason for it to be weird. We don’t want to be part of the soap opera of the Hall of Fame. Everybody wants to see a train wreck, like with Blondie onstage arguing over crap [at the 2006 ceremony]. That really cheapens the moment.Have you listened to the leaked tracks from Chinese Democracy?
Musicians Who Shouldn’t Act
Nov 10th
This is good stuff, Yahoo just came out with a list of 10 musicians who shouldn’t be acting. The list seems dead on. It Includes musicians Jessica Simpson, Vanilla Ice, Eminem, and others.
The All American Rejects New Album out on Dec. 16th
Nov 5th
The All American Rejects are hitting radio airwaves again with their new song “Gives You Hell”. The track comes off their new album “When the World Comes Down,” which comes out on December 16th. The new single is kind of upbeat pop / “told you so” vocals. If you don’t understand what that means watch the music video below!
Twin Souls of Sulfur – We bet you haven’t heard anything this sexy
Jul 21st
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Sending ambient sound waves out of Columbus, Ohio, Twin Souls of Sulfur really will take your imagination for a trip. We’ve featured some unique bands on this blog, but when you listen to this music you may find your self saying either WTF? or maybe where has this been my whole life? Twin Souls of Sulfur consists of Allison DeWitt and Forest Christenson, a duo that really kicks some major butt. Allison Does the singing and plays Kazoo, while Forest produces the tracks, plays the violin, mandolin, drums, and synthesizers.
To find out more about them visit them on MySpace.
A Overview of “The OverUnder”
Jun 11th
Who out there happens to be from New York? We’ll if you’re one of the ones from Long Island New York then you may get the chance to see “The Overunder” live. This band came together last April and already have collected a rather impressive fan base. “With a boatload of determination, energetic live shows and songs that will most likely be stuck in your head for days, “The OverUnder” is showing no signs of going away anytime soon.” These five guys have some very great songs make sure to check out “Circles and Squares” or visit them on myspace.
Have you heard of “Self-Titled Debut”?
May 21st
“Self-Titled Debut” is a group of five. If you’re from Queens New York you might have got the chance to see them live. This group consists of some major talent, Sal is the vocals, they got Gian working the drums, Mike and Tom control guitars and they saved Kris for the bass. They put their strengths in the right spots because all I hear is some amazing music. This band wants to play at warp tour and they are more than qualified so vote for them at here. If you want to here some more of their songs check them out on myspace.
Inside with “Pillar of Autumn”
May 14th
As I said before “Pillar of Autumn” is a unbelievable band, this guys are kicken ass all over Detroit. They’ve taken off with some out standing songs like “Asthma” which took #1 Detroit City.com Also make sure to check out “Miles Away” and “Carpe Diem” on myspace. We had the chance to talk these guys and learn a little more about them and there history. Check it out.
“Pillar of Autumn” is an awesome name, does is stand for anything?
The name came from the name of a spaceship in the video game Halo. We decided to use the name because of the influence the game has had on the creative process of the band. When we find ourselves stuck in a song, playing each other in first person shooters is something that helps us clear our heads. Except for when Rob cheats. He always knows where to hide and find the good weapons. Alright, maybe he’s just really good… but we’ll still call it cheating.
Spencer: “Rob Wishes he was as good at me at Halo.”
Rob (replying to Spencer): “Spencer wishes he was as good as me at anything.”
Know how your working on a six song ep, when can we look forward to its release?
We are currently in pre-production and are finalizing dates to get back in the studio to record the final tracks. So we’re shooting for late summer but we haven’t settled on the year yet.
You guys come up with some amazing lyrics, what’s the writing process like?
Our writing process is quite crazy. We usually begin by jamming out melodies or rhythms that the band members have written that have caught our attention. Rob brings most of the musical elements to the table in the beginning, then we try to take the mess of parts and make it better. We repeat that until we find something that inspires us. Once we find that inspiration the song takes off. If we get lost, we look to each other to help out. Every member in the band can play all of the instruments we play enough to help with any part; it’s a team effort to the fullest. Then when Frankie says it sucks, we try it all over again.
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Meet Good Luck Varsity
Apr 9th
Adam already told you all about Good Luck Varsity. Now I’m here to get up close and personal with them. Enjoy the interview and be sure to check out Good Luck Varsity!
First off i just want to say thanks for doing the interview and best of luck with everything in the future.
Thank you for asking us! I think your website is a really awesome idea!
How’d you all meet?
The origin of Good Luck Varsity is a really long and twisting story but I’ll try to keep it short. Essentially my brother Evan and I both played in a band called The Rising Tide. When all was said and done at the end of TRT we we’re actually pretty relieved to be done with it because it had strayed so far from what we really wanted to be doing. At first we recorded a couple demos in our basement and put them online and then we eventually recorded our EP Head High Heavy Hearted. We used the EP to get potential band mates interested in joining us and put an application up online. Richie and Tim we’re already our good friends and they we’re an easy choice.
Drew and Dan both responded to our search online and after hearing both of them play we canceled all of our other auditions because we knew that this was going to be our line up
Jordan, those are some rad YouTube videos! Anything out there that people MUST see if they haven’t yet?
Haha thank you! I guess besides music editing and directing videos has always been something I’ve loved to do.
Everybody should definitely check out “No, Frankenstein” I did the editing on that video and actually won an award for it
7 Members, wow, thats pretty amazing. What’s your writing process like?
Well we actually only play with 6 members live. Our good friend Jeriah is filling in on Guitar and vocals while Tim is away taking care of some things.
We’ve just recently started to write new music for a new EP that we’re planning to record and release sometime this year. Generally somebody brings the shell of a song to practice and we all work together to fill it out.We just recorded our first real song as a full band on Sunday and we’ll be posting it sometime soon More >
“Pillar of Autumn” stands above the crowd
Apr 9th
When most people think of Michigan they think of a broke, lazy, and very cold state. What they don’t see is the enormous amount of talent in the mist. We know of a group that stands above the crowd. A band like this is a true diamond in the ruff. You’d expect to see these guys in New York, or maybe California. We found them in good old Detroit, Michigan. The band “Pillar of Autumn” has some serious kick ass songs and got more on the way. Make sure you listen to “Carpe Diem”. Click Here to check them out.
