Category: Artists

In ’99, the spore called Slipknot exploded. Now, in 2001, the infestation continues. Hailing from the ‘middle of nowhere’- Des Moines, Iowa – they are nine men in nine different masks united with one common goal: world domination. Fortified with an arsenal of blistering music saturated with screams, drums, searing riffs, sampling, scratches and melody,…

Rob Daiker – lead vocals, guitar Garth Parker – guitar Caleb Spiegel – bass Adrian Ost – drum Volume, the dynamic Epic debut from SlowRush, makes a fission statement that is as much about mass as it is amplification. While its 12 power-packed tracks demand playing at vaporization level, it’s the density and devastating beauty…

What do you get when you take equal parts youth, energy, talent, sass and style? United as one, you get a multi talented, multi-ethnic musical melting pot with a single name: The Slumber Party Girls. SPG is an unprecedented, all-new entertainment brand from Geffen Records and DIC Entertainment (DIC) for ‘tween’ and teens set to…

Smash Mouth (named after Mike Ditka’s term “smash mouth football”) was formed in San Jose, Calif., in 1994 when boyhood friends and former band compadres Steve Harwell (vocals) and Kevin Coleman (drums) recruited Greg Camp (guitar) from a local cover band. Camp then persuaded Paul De Lisle (bass), with whom he’d played in another outfit,…

Billy, James, D’arcy and a drum machine. That’s how The Smashing Pumpkins began. And on parts of Adore, their new album, that’s where they’ve ended up. So let’s go back to the beginning. I had been running Metro, a rock club in Chicago, for seven years when I first heard the music of The Smashing…

In an era where heavy music has become more than stereotypical, the Santa Clarita California trio known as Smile Empty Soul comes off as a breath of fresh air… a revelation, actually. “Just because we have heavy songs doesn’t mean they are typical headbanger songs”, says Sean Danielsen, Smile Empty Soul’s 21-year-old singer, guitarist, and…

As a DJ and producer, Christian Smith has come to define the tech-house and funky techno sound more so than any other in his field. Highly respected, Christian counts Carl Cox, Junior Sanchez, John Selway and Angel Alanis as some of his biggest allies. The result, a man very much in demand on the worldwide…

Check your comparisons at the door. They want to stand on their own merits, and rightfully so. Because for all that The Sheila Divine encompass that which is good about the best moody rock from the “80s, they also extend their sound far beyond that to create a sonic wall of melancholy fit for discerning…

“Wry, contemporary singer/songwriter (who is the sum of every scrap of music he has ever heard) manages to be reverent of his diverse influences while sounding original and contemporary and infusing his songs with subtle humor and loads of unmistakable point of view.” There, we said it! Michael Shelley’s new album “I Blame You” (Bar/None…

Founded after former Youth of Today singer Ray Cappo returned from a trip to India to immerse himself in Eastern philosophy, Shelter would found Krishnacore, mixing the Eastern quest for inner balance with typical melodic hardcore musical backing. Much more positive and introverted than typical hardcore, Shelter’s work aims to bring the stability of Indian…