• YEALLOW

    Yeallow is Fred C (vocal, guitar, keyboard), Pascal C (vocal, guitar, keyboard), Fred T (guitar, chorus), Bill O (bass) and Olivier “Piment” (drums, chorus). As a group of five, Yeallow creates rich and energetic songs with mature lyrics. This alternative style with no hang-ups about its rock influences, is a New pop-rock sound — As [...]

  • Daniel Tidwell

    No genre restrictions. One man. Many Instruments — Reads, Daniel Tidwell‘s myspace bio. Daniel Tidwell is an independent musician who wears many hats; artist, producer, promoter and record label. This instrumental guitarist’s first album does faithful but inventive covers of classic video game music. Daniel’s Versus Video Games is 14 tracks of high energy and [...]

  • Blind Guardian

    BLIND GUARDIAN were founded in the mid 1980s in Krefeld, Germany as a speed/power metal band. Beginning with their third album “Tales from the Twilight World,” the band expanded their musical vocabulary and eventually created their very own style which is still rooted in speed/power metal, but is also very orchestral and epic in nature. [...]

  • POWERGLOVE

    “We are POWERGLOVE and we are here to fuck with your childhood!” proclaims the band at the beginning of its live shows. After finding success mining the brains of the A.D.D.-driven video game generation with songs like “Tetris”, POWERGLOVE has set its sights on the inner child in all of us. To this end, the [...]

  • DEWA

    Dewa Suwija is Manchester’s adopted guitar prophet, originally from Bali and raised in Manchester, UK. DEWA’s last album Time Is Master — fuses the roots of jazz, blues, rock, and ladens it with dark club beats and world reggae vibes. I talked with Dewa Suwija about his history, and DEWA’s newest album to be released [...]

James Scott Bullard

James Scott Bullard

[Translate] “With a past steeped in love, loss, death, addiction, human suffering, torrid tales of flirting with the devil, the wrath of deep south religion,
2010.06.15 | Interview
Lacrimas Profundere

Lacrimas Profundere

[Translate] Lacrimas Profundere is a gothic metal band from Germany. Their name means “to shed tears” in Latin. Originally a death doom rooted gothic metal
2010.06.01 | Interview
Living Colour

Living Colour

[Translate] Ground breaking rock, funk, metal, virtuoso band Living Colour returns to Japan for the first time in 17 years. Living Colour, winner of 2
2010.05.15 | Interview
Thornwill

Thornwill

[Translate] In 2004, two friends driven by the love of metal music, Márton Szabó and Krisztián Ágoston founded Thornwill. The goal of the founding members
2010.05.01 | Interview
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  • images: not just for pr0n anymore

    images: not just for pr0n anymore

    [Translate] The tutorial this week, is about banners, logos and graphics in general. If you are internet savvy, you have been making them since forever — posting them in forum and websites. For those that didn’t have these internet experiences,

    2010.05.15 | View Post

  • Tweet This

    Tweet This

    [Translate] Let‘s get some discussion going by me asking a question in a moment but first, some background. I run a social music website and it is a nice place. I won’t undermine it. I also won’t disrespect those other places

    2010.05.01 | View Post

  • Random Code

    Random Code

    [Translate] I like things to be easy and as an artist you have to wear a lot of hats — Even, web-designer and coder. Coders write in script and are artists in their own right, but at times you have

    2010.04.15 | View Post

  • Physical Digital

    Physical Digital

    [Translate] CDs are DEAD! Long live CDs! A paradox. A puzzle for consumers, for distributors, and especially artists. Music use to be strictly a live social gathering. But, since the invention of the radio (and to some degree printed music)…

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  • MusicBrainz part Deux

    MusicBrainz part Deux

    [Translate] What is MusicBrainz? It is a user-maintained open community that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata in the form of a relational database. If you don’t know what all that means, you should read the first

    2010.03.15 | View Post

  • MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz

    [Translate] This a two part MusicBrainz tutorial in two posts… the why first. What is MusicBrainz? It is a user-maintained open community that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata in the form of a relational database. Let

    2010.03.01 | View Post

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  • THE BASEBALLS

    THE BASEBALLS

    [Translate] Did you ever hear of “Voc’n’Roll”? No? No wonder. There has never been anything like this before. Three guys with three pompadours and six sideburns. Three singers Digger, Sam, and Basti — performing their songs in three part harmony.

    2010.09.01 | View Post

  • Black Diamond Heavies

    Black Diamond Heavies

    [Translate] The Black Diamond Heavies’ music is urgent,raw,and full of ass-shaking soul. This organ and drum duo are distinctly Southern with Van Campbell’s loose-tuned drum kit and John Wesley Myers’ unhurried, guitar-like keyboard phrasing. homepage myspace

    2010.09.01 | View Post

  • Seasick Steve

    Seasick Steve

    [Translate] Steven Gene Wold, commonly known as Seasick Steve, is an American blues musician. This guitarist and singer, prefers to be called “a song and dance man.” When asked about his nickname on British Sunday morning television show, Something for

    2010.09.01 | View Post

  • The Reign of Kindo

    The Reign of Kindo

    [Translate] Rare is it to find modern music that pinpoints the middle ground between a respect for past greats and a boldness to pave tomorrow. Citing influences from Dave Brubeck to Ben Folds to Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto to John

    2010.08.15 | View Post

  • Adebisi Shank

    Adebisi Shank

    [Translate] Adebisi Shank’s ethos lies firmly within the experimental post-hardcore tradition, as the band utilise varying degrees of dissonance and irregular rhythms to reflect a web of influences that ranges from metal, post-punk, blues and funk, producing a sound that

    2010.08.15 | View Post

  • Samsara Blues Experiment

    Samsara Blues Experiment

    [Translate] Samsara Blues Experiment are a Berlin based psychedelic-infused-sensual-mississippi-jam-spiritual rock band. Founded in the Summer of 2007, SBE features Christian Peters, (guitar, vocals), Hans Eiselt (guitar), Thomas Vedder (drummer) and Richard Behrens (bass). homepage myspace

    2010.08.15 | View Post

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  • Maps & Atlases

    Maps & Atlases

    [Translate] Dave Davison (guitar, vocals) Shiraz Dada (bass) Erin Elders (guitar) Chris Hainey (drums) Maps & Atlases is a rock group from Chicago, Illinois USA. Equally influenced by folk and experimental music they have often been labeled as a math

    2010.09.01 | View Post

  • Guitar Wolf

    Guitar Wolf

    [Translate] Guitar Wolf is a garage punk power trio founded in Nagasaki, Japan in 1987. The term Jet Rock ‘n’ Roll was coined by the band to describe their musical style; a conglomeration of punk, traditional rock, heavy distortion, feedback,

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  • Shannon Curfman

    Shannon Curfman

    [Translate] Guitarist, singer and songwriter Shannon Curfman burst upon the blues and roots rock scene in 1999, with her major-label debut for Arista Records, Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions. Her exceptionally well-produced, well-sequenced debut album won her rave reviews all over

    2010.08.15 | View Post

  • The Bulletmonks

    The Bulletmonks

    [Translate] members: Tyler Vox (Vocals, Guitars) Dangerous Dan (Guitars) Spreace Jackson (Bass Guitar) M.dogg (Drums, Percussion) When two brothers of Melbournese descent, G.I. son Spreace Jackson, and a half French drummer get together in a former pickle factory in Nuremburg,

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  • Phoenix Effect

    Phoenix Effect

    [Translate] members: Janne Kärkkäinen (Vocals, Guitar) Pyry Nikkilä (Guitar) Lauri Hämäläinen (Bass, vocals) Anton Laurila (Drums) Sometime after he parted ways with the other members of Sunrise Avenue (SA) in 2007, guitarist Janne Kärkkäinen decided to take a break to

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  • The Chronicles of Israfel

    The Chronicles of Israfel

    [Translate] Dominic Cifarelli (Guitar) Joey Bastone (Drums) Americo Antonucci (Vocals) Vincent Cifarelli (Keyboards) THE CHRONICLES OF ISRAFEL is an unadulterated musical story-telling vision that draws on violent Japanese anime to create a fantastic world of amazing music and often disturbing,

    2010.07.15 | View Post

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  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

    [Translate] Black Rebel Motorcycle Club spent the first decade of the 21st century developing a drone-heavy, New Wave-influenced guitar sound before exploring a stripped-down, roots-rock aesthetic. Surely one of the most radical sonic shifts for an up-and-coming band in recent

    2010.03.15 | View Post

  • Sahara Hotnights

    Sahara Hotnights

    [Translate] Sahara Hotnights is a rock band from Robertsfors, Sweden. Their style incorporates elements of garage rock, power pop and punk. While in Australia, drummer Josephine Forsman bet on a horse named Sahara Hotnights and brought the name back to

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  • The Bronx

    The Bronx

    [Translate] The Bronx are an American band from Southern California who began playing punk rock in 2002. Their original goal was to bring passionate, blood-and-sweat punk rock into the 21st Century. “Certainly the LA punk mob have a free-spirited approach

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  • Mushroomhead

    Mushroomhead

    [Translate] Mushroomhead is an alternative metal outfit that emerged in the 1990s. Mushroomhead’s forceful yet melodic alterna-metal incorporates elements of hip-hop, metal, alternative as well as industrial. Formed by drummer Skinny in 1993, Mushroomhead was originally a side-project for members

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  • The A.K.A.s

    The A.K.A.s

    [Translate] Since 2003, the Philadelphia five-some known also as The A.K.A.s have been bringing their Neo-Proto-Punk mission to the world. Equal parts energetic and enigmatic, the band has continued to make their mark by passionately raising awareness and raising roofs

    2010.02.15 | View Post

  • Temujin

    Temujin

    [Translate] Hailing from Melbourne, Temujin brings a uniquely Australian perspective to the Gothic Metal genre. Combining haunting vocals and driving guitars, the Temujin sound is both layered and atmospheric. Their debut album “1000 Tears” was initially released as a self-published

    2010.02.15 | View Post

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