Tag: biography
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Laura Warshauer – biography
Pop singer-songwriter Laura Warshauer is a storyteller first and foremost. Through her music, she examines loss, love and life. The 24-year-old New Jersey native crafts sonic gems, through combining massive pop melodies and flourishes of folk. Her lyrical sensibility hearkens back to songsmiths like Joni Mitchell and Fiona Apple, while the music possesses a pop…
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Kristy Lee Cook to release first album
Looking ahead to the September 16 release of her 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville album, Why Wait, season seven American Idol finalist Kristy Lee Cook is discovering the little adventures of life on the road as she continues on tour with the American Idols Live! Tour 2008. One of her most peculiar moments of late occurred when…
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The Verve – biography
The Verve have given us three fantastic albums – including Urban Hymns, the fifth fastest selling British album ever on release, reaching platinum status in the States, and one of the landmark releases of the Nineties. They play “music of the spheres,” which strives to break out of the stratosphere and yet is laced with…
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Jonas Brothers – biography
For Jonas Brothers, the last year has been all whirlwind, all the time. Yet somehow, on the road to becoming a pop culture phenomenon, the trio never broke a sweat – other than on the stage, giving their all, and living their dream.
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Rehab – biography
Georgia based group Rehab has emerged on Universal Republic records with a bristling Mash-UP album, Grafitti The World, that deftly fuses frontman/ founder Danny Boone’s stone cold hip hop acumen – including spirited new tracks such as “Let ‘Em Know,” “1980,” and “Lawn Chair High,” – with southern rock flavorings that have caused even chart…
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Trapt – biography
Chris Taylor Brown (Vocals/Guitar) Peter Charell (Bass) Aaron “Monty” Montgomery (Drums) Robb Torres (Guitar) On their third studio album platinum rockers Trapt have not only returned to form but shattered expectations of what a rock disc can be. With Only Through The Pain, the Northern California-reared, L.A. based band returned to Co-Producer Gggarth Richardson’s Vancouver…
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Kessler – biography
When you write great songs it doesn’t take long for the world to find out. Formed in 2005 (although a few of the members have known each other since high school), Kessler was just another Dallas band trying to get their songs noticed until an opportunity arose to record a track for a local CD…
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Brendan James – biography
With his warm, rich tenor and emotionally powerful songs, Brendan James announces himself as an artist-to-watch on his dazzling debut album The Day is Brave. Rooted in the classic singer/songwriter tradition, the album is 11 tracks of stunning songcraft: elegant, earthy, and displaying a total lack of artifice that is rare in the pop world…
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Jet Black Stare – biography
Rod Black: Singer/songwriter Shane Hayes: Bassist Dan Swinimer: Drummer Flip: Guitarist Dave Muselman: Guitarist “A good song is a good song man, simple as that!” That’s the mercurial and confident, but oh so endearing songwriter and vocalist Rod Black. Black knows his way around a well-written tune. He’s recently finished co-writing a slew of them…
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Spensha Baker – biography
It’s rare these days to find a young artist whose music conveys a deep, passionate message that is energizing, shying away from the typical cliché songs. The universal message in Spensha Baker’s debut, CD, OUTLOUD!, puts a new spin on contemporary music. “I named my album Outloud!, because that is the way I live my…