Category: Music

Being the most underrated band of the 1990’s can be hard to take. For a start, nobody knows you’re underrated because you’re underrated. This, sometimes, is the affliction of the talented. Without sounding unbelievably egotistical, this is the burden of A N A T H E M A. Born, bred, raised and emblazoned with true…

Anastacia is a rare talent. She is a songwriter, a producer and a dancer. But the fact that her angelic good looks, charm and 53″ frame is capable of singing the way that she does has fascinated and delighted fans around the world during her short, relatively new career. So, it should come as no…

When film/television star, hip hop icon and successful industry entrepreneur LL Cool J was recently asked how he would describe the quartet AMYTH, four immensely talented young men whose debut THE WORLD IS OURS is set for release on September 14, he simply stated: “AMYTH is unlike any group heard before. They are the future…

“No one event shaped this record,” says Tori Amos about her new album, “to venus and back.” “I just let my observations take over. I sort of became a camera orbiting around Venus’s heart. You have to keep taking adventures and exposing yourself.” A uniquely conceived 2-CD/cassette set, the transcendent “to venus and back” is…

In 2002 an aspiring young singer exploded on the charts with a harmonious, innovative debut album entitled All I Have. Girlish, fierce, sexy and sweet, All I Have spawned the smash hit, “Why Don’t We Fall In Love” (produced by a then-under-the-radar Rich Harrison), and announced the arrival of Amerie, a 22-year-old native of Washington,…

Robert McCutcheon – Vocals Bud Carroll – Guitars Josh Gragg- Guitars Bruno – Bass Josh Knox – Drums American Minor’s debut album comes as a complete surprise, sounding like a missive from an alternate, more perfect universe where Television opened for Bad Company and the Gun Club toured with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. American…

American Hi-Fi has been called a pop band, a pop-punk band, a pop metal band, but it’s all just Rock n’ Roll to me. After making three records, I have learned to embrace our continual identity crisis. I got into music at an early age. My parents always had music on around the house and…

AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE is: Chad Hanks – bass, guitar, programming, everything Wayne Kile – guitar David Rogers – guitar Christopher Emery – drums Martin Cock – vocals, guitar, programming Aaron Zilch – noize triggering unit, audio meat grinder Justin Fouler – noize triggering unit, audio meat grinder The members of American Head Charge slam home…

Gus Baum trumpet, keyboards Higgins vocals, guitars Aaron Masonek bass, vocals Scott Georgis guitars Dan Stieg Jr. drums Portland, Oregon pop wonders THE AMERICAN GIRLS don’t actually have any girls in their lineup at all, a fact that recently caused much confusion when the band played a roughneck logging-bar in Montana. “All these loggers are…

Casey Chaos – Vocals S. Mayo – Guitar Paul Fig – Guitar Tumor, John – Bass Larkin – Drums As far as punk rock goes, AMEN might just be today’s closest thing. Their music might not be glossy, technically polished or complex, but it is an authentic expression of a lifestyle, with poetry and motion…