Category: Artists

If you ask Hesta Prynn, of the three-woman wrecking crew Northern State, what she thinks people should take away from the hip-hop trio’s music, she breaks it down to a few simple principles: “The one thing that is consistent in our lives and perhaps in the lives of our listeners is this band. We’ve all…

We’re in it, so lets acknowledge it – Pop Culture, the record biz, society as a whole …all at a crossroads. A landscape so filled with cowardly leaders, Pamela Anderson pornos, vague dismissals of real issues. All amidst an arsenal of soulless fake punk, wannabe icons, who tug at the pant leg of mainstream consciousness.…

Peter Furler — lead vocals, guitar, drums Jody Davis — guitar, vocals, bass Phil Joel — bass, vocals, guitar Jeff Frankenstein — keyboards, vocals Duncan Phillips — drums, percussion, vocals Throughout the group’s ten-year existence, Newsboys has gracefully bridged the realms of faith and rock ‘n’ roll. And as their sound has evolved and flourished,…

It comes on strong,, relatively unknown and refreshing, like an undiscovered region many light years away. Venturing where only a precious few have dared before, each of our three co-pilots have honed their abilities to soothe, groove, entice and touch us with their simultaneously contemporary, down-to-earth and unique world. Call it a “close encounter of…

Sheila blocks out most of her childhood. She grew up in Colchester, Essex, England, a town fifty two miles east north east of London where her two brothers still live and her mum runs a pub. She’s been writing songs since she was 14 but didn’t really talk about it till she was 24 when…

“My music often unfolds like the book of my life,” declares legendary rock poet Stevie Nicks. And that’s precisely the way she wants it to be. “I believe in telling the truth… actually, it’s the only way that I can exist as a writer.” It’s to that end that Nicks created the sterling, often confessional…

Released in March of 2000, Nickelback’s The State was a firecracker of a debut, with both “Breathe” and “Leader of Men” going top ten on the Mainstream Rock charts and “Old Enough” hitting Top 20 at the format. “It was fantastic,” enthuses guitarist Ryan Peake. “The snowball effect of the album was phenomenal. We started…

As the first artist to be released on Missy Elliott’s new The Gold Mind, Inc./Eastwest, label, you might think Nicole Wray is beginning to feel a little pressure. Not so says the just-turned 18 year old singer/rapper. “I grew up around Missy,” she says. She’s been working with me for a couple of years now.…

From the depths of Manchester comes one of the most exciting bands of 2006: Nine Black Alps. Their name might sound familiar; the British foursome released a stellar self-titled EP in the summer of ‘05, wowing American audiences with a nearly lethal dose of rock ‘n’ roll wizardry, eschewing the dancefloor and the post-punk revivalism…

Songwriters John Hampson and Brian Desveaux–who’d played in different local bands for years, and in the same one for a few more–had a modus, a method and a single, purposeful idea when they formed Nine Days during the grunge-saturated mid-Nineties: writing great songs. Fresh and original, the new band sought to put their own stamp…