Category: Artists

The first thing you need to know about Jason Mraz is that he hails from Mechanicsville, Virginia. The bucolic hamlet (the town directory points out it’s ‘only 9 miles form the state capital – ‘as the crow flies’), got its name in the early 1800’s from its blacksmithing prowess. Maybe it’s a stretch – but…

Mr. Cheeks knows no fear. He switches lanes with his music like a road-hugging Ferrari weaving in and out of bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic. While hip hop contenders putt along in the lemon of the month, Mr. Cheeks is miles ahead, combing new territory, leaving laggers to eat his dust. In the 10 years he’s…

It’s been said before and it’ll be said again: Dynamite is blowin’ up! When ‘Booo!’ catapulted Ms Dynamite into the spotlight last May, entering the charts at Number 12 following the year-long white label rotation on the underground, it marked the beginning of an extraordinary 12 months for this nascent star.‘Booo!’ produced by garage don…

MUDVAYNE Ryknow bass Gurrg guitar sPaG drums Kud vocals “Im afraid, Dave” –HAL the computer, 2001: A Space Odyssey Theres reason to be afraid. Theres very good reason indeed, if youre someone who likes their music unchallenging, simple, and easy to define and digest. But if you want something dark, mysterious, savage, and unsettling, something…

Success hasn’t changed Shawn Mullins, it certainly hasn’t changed the way he creates his music. Oh, sure the Atlanta native gets a tad freaked out when female fans come up to him with “Shimmer”–his international hit from the Songs From Dawson’s Creek soundtrack album–tattooed across their chests. After all, the singer-songwriter has become a bit…

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. That’s Murphy’s Law as we’ve come to know it. But it’s not quite the way Murphy Lee looks at life. Or at music. With his standout verses on Nelly’s Batter Up, Rock the Mic remix with Beanie Sigel and Freeway and Air Force Ones, the St. Lunatics…

The Muse that drove out of Glastonbury 2004 was a very different one from the Muse that had arrived. Following seven years of near solid touring, buzzing with nervous anticipation; their escalation from being the biggest band in Teignmouth in 1997 to one of the biggest bands in Europe by 2004 had been a rocket…

How does one bend tradition without making it break? How can you travel through space without leaving home? How can a multi-platinum artist, after only two albums, turn his third into an exploration of futuristic funk without forgetting his roots in homegrown soul and old school hip hop? Singer/songwriter Musiq has the answers to those…

The beauty of Must lies in their understanding that life’s treasures can be found in the journey and not necessarily in the results. A mélange of nationalities and influences, the members of Must joined forces to create a unique rock band whose final touches were added by the London music scene that brought them together.…

Mike Herrera (vocals,bass) Tom Wisniewski (guitar) Yuri Ruley (drums) “We’re portrayed as good guys and we are good guys,” admits Mike Herrera. “We don’t swear at the audience or tell girls to get naked on stage. At the same time, we’re not perfect and we do get pissed off. But we’re just real with people.”…