The Bound Stems are a Chicago-based band that bum-rushed internet outlets through a variety of contemporary grassroots promotional methods, which ultimately served to support the band through non-traditional means. Without completely excluding mainstream outlets …

This is an absolutely stunning video that somehow translates the already beautiful song into a completely different light. It also features Teitur, one of Brun’s many collaborators as seen in both her Duets and …

Had you told me that R.E.M. was an established band when I first heard them I wouldn’t have really known what to make of them. They had just released the reverb-strong, grungy knock-off Monster …

When approaching a show to see, not the headliner, but the undercard, so to speak, it gives you a lot of freedom to get into the music really fast.

There are multiple levels in which I am attracted to the Vice: Guide to Travel DVD, and each clip I’ve seen piles on the frustration of not personally being apart of something so dramatically inspiring. …

The Rapture have taken the reigns as model leaders for whatever term you might apply to their scene; but whatever you do, be sure that you don’t call it dance punk. The band has …

Skateboarding has seemingly always gone hand in hand with good music but recently things have become slightly ill in terms of the commercialization of the whole deal. Today’s youth have readily available pay-for-punk pushed …

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New Dark Age Parade sees original members Brian Goble, Mike Graham and Gerry Hannah with drummer Jon Card (ex-Personality Crisis/SNFU/DOA/Stretch Marks) in what marks itself as one of the most crucially outspoken anti-apathetic exertions that recalls sincere punk ethics and aesthetics…

This year has had mixed results in terms of reemerging classic rock idols. With that, Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band are tossing their collective hat in the ring further questioning aging rock …

Mere weeks after its release Mastodon’s Blood Mountain is being hailed as an epic return to metal’s roots by one of the genre’s modern day pioneers. Not only accepted by the entire gamut of …

All things considered, the last two weeks were fairly big for the Scissor Sisters. The band released its latest album, “Ta-Dah!,” and found itself performing on both Dancing With The Stars and Late Night …