Category: Artists

1993 – What starts out as an underground buzz, born out of a handful of low key singles on Junior Boy’s Own and the band’s involvement with ultra cutting edge design company Tomato, ends up with momentum like a snowball down a hillside. Underworld play a series of low key gigs at clubs around the […]

CHRIS SHINN – VOCALS, GUITAR CHRISTOPHER THORN – GUITAR, SLIDE GUITAR BRAD SMITH – BASS, BACKING VOCALS DAVE KRUSEN – DRUMS From the expansive, dreamy notes of “Cessna,” to the alt-aggro groove of “California,” to the Middle Eastern mellowness of “Passive,” to the lovely, lilting and surreal “Keep On,” UNIFIED THEORY have created a sound […]

WHAT HAVE THESE ARTISTS GOT IN COMMON? MO WAX FOUNDER JAMES LAVELLE, DJ SHADOW, THOM YORKE, RICHARD ASHCROFT, MIKE D, AND UP AND COMING ARTISTS BADLY DRAWN BOY AND ALICE TEMPLE? THEY ALL FEATURE ON WHAT IS DESTINED TO BE THE YEAR’S MOST SIGNIFICANT AND EAGERLY- ANTICIPATED RELEASE, THIS SUMMER’S UNKLE ALBUM PROJECT, RELEASED ON […]

joey duenas – vocals brian arthur – guitars victor escareno – bass peter navarrete – drums On paper, Ünloco’s story reads like a script straight out of Hollywood. It began this past summer when the band’s guitarist, Brian Arthur, went to see one of his favorite acts-Goldfinger-play a local club in Austin, Texas. He brought […]

Unwritten Law inhabits the upper echelon of successful punk bands, bands whose substance and longevity overshadow the countless hordes of imitation, fly-by-night pop-punk operations riding a one-way train to anonymity. In a musical climate where audiences write off and forget hundreds of bands who lack a smidgen of ingenuity, Unwritten Law repeatedly proves that its […]

UPO’s Epic debut album, No Pleasantries, is “a heavy, emotional, thought-provoking, inspirational, exciting, and dynamic,” says UPO guitarist Chris Weber. “It evokes a wide spectrum of emotions and moods, and we’re definitely proud of it.” This L.A.-based band bursts forth with a massive, crushing, roaring, guitar-based sound that is classic, very contemporary, and easily capable […]

Blasting out of Newport Beach, CA with a melodic roar, U.S. Crush hopes to make it’s mark with a familiar yet original rock sound. On their self-titled Immortal debut, the Orange County five piece band mixes larger than life rock riffs with in your face punk sensibilities and a strong sense of melody and harmony. […]

Over 75 million albums and twenty years since their formation at Dublin’s Mount Temple High School in 1978 – at the instigation of Larry Mullen who pinned an ad to the bulletin board – there’s little denying that U2 have cemented their reputation as a classic rock ‘n’ roll band. Moreover, by learning to roll […]

UB40’s fortunes changed at the beginning of 1980. Having spent the previous years working live, and rapidly developing an instant “buzz” among the movers & shakers, they were asked to join The Pretenders’ triumphant national tour. The Pretenders were then at the top of the charts, and very hot indeed. They could have hardly have […]

Bill McShane – guitar, vocals Eric Melin – drums Nick Colby – bass If rock and roll is dead, somebody forgot to tell Ultimate Fakebook. Not rap-metal or dance-pop or alt-country, but rock and roll: that unique musical vehicle for the uniquely American sense of freedom; that now middle-aged but still transcendent form with the […]