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 rock band though their music has developed a slightly more pop-oriented style over time. Maps & [...]
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, and screamed vocals. The phrase is derived from the last name of musician Joan Jett, whom [...]
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 the U.S. and Canada. Curfman made several U.S. club tours in support of the album, garnered [...]
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, Germany to conquer the world of rock n roll, The Bulletmonks is what you get. If [...]
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 digest all that had transpired. He wanted to make sure he knew what he wanted to [...]
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, brutal and dark imagery. Formed during an uncertain and difficult time in his career, experimental progressive [...]
members: Fred C (vocal, guitar, keyboard) Pascal C (vocal, guitar, keyboard) Fred T (guitar, chorus) Bill O (bass) Olivier “Piment” (drums, chorus) The Yeallow project saw the light of day in 2006, when Fred C and Pascal decided to take pleasure in merging the cultures and musical experiences of both of them. Finding it difficult [...]
members: Corey Glover (vocals) Doug Wimbish (Bass, Vocals) Will Calhoun (Drums, Vocals) Vernon Reid (Guitar, Vocals) Not gone, and definitely not forgotten. Living Colour is a hard rock group formed in New York city in 1984. They signed to Epic Records in 1987, and released their first album Vivid in 1988. Stylistically their music is [...]
members: Kenji “KNG” Okada (guitar) Kyoko Okada (vocal) Daisuke Joe Motohashi (drums) “Hamber” Yamazaki (saxophone) Mariko Sekine (keyboards) Koji Ichikawa (bass) Influenced by Soul, R&B, Rock, Jazz and Reggae — Plastic Soul Band is rhythm and blues personified. Enhanced by the band’s vocal harmonies the sultry vocals of front woman Kyoko, Plastic Soul Band’s rockin’ [...]
members: Josh McDowell (Guitar, Vox) Matthew Tarlton (Drums) Bill Grant (Bass, Vox) Noisy and adventurous, The Dirty White rocks like few aspiring musicians dare to these days.The Florence-based trio isn’t the type to play it safe. In a rock scene littered with paint-by-numbers pop rock or “hardcore,” The Dirty White takes the road less traveled [...]
members: Sean Thornton Jon Nelson Steve Dalessandro Andrew Unferdorfer Euphobic is an alternative, experimental music collaboration. They began in 2007 when founders Jon Nelson and Sean Thornton began swapping tracks and bonding over shared goals. Because Sean is a Canton native and Jon hails from Barberton, necessity dictated that Euphobic’s first EP, Songs for Horatio, [...]
members: Marcela Bovio (Vocal, violin) Johan van Stratum (Bass, guitar) Davy Mickers (Drums) Eric Hazebroek (Guitar) Stephan Schultz (Guitar) Jeffrey Revet (Keyboards, Synths) Originally the brainchild of Arjen Lucassen’s (Ayreon, Star One…), Stream of Passion recently released their second studio album “The Flame Within.” Led by the voice and violin of Mexican-born Marcela Bovio, the [...]
Does most of today’s punk rock leave you feeling cheated? Then put your money down on Detroit’s claim to all that is black-leather-sweatin’, Marshall-blastin’, balls-out ‘n’ badass — The Dogs. Raging out of the legendary Motor City rock scene of the ’70s, which spawned such musical touchstones as the Stooges, MC5, Amboy Dukes, Up, and [...]
members: Almos Gabor (Vocals) Tamas Paroczi (Bass) Krisztian Agoston (Guitars) Marton Szabo (Guitars) Andras Balazs (Drums) In 2004, two friends driven by the love of metal music, Márton Szabó and Krisztián Ágoston founded Thornwill. The goal of the founder members was to create really hard, powerful, melodic metal music that touched people easily. First, Dániel [...]
members: Alan Wayne (guitar, vocals) Doug Boland (bass) Rob (drums) Hailing from a place known for a thriving economy equated more to rampant oil production than no-frills record production, Calgary’s Von Zippers brandish a special kind of raw-nerve, white-knuckle delivery that thrives on elements of simplicity and point-of-contact. Some eight years in existence as a [...]
THEE TRIBUTE - Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - A TRIBUTE / GALLERY EXHIBITION OF JAPAN'S GREATEST ROCKIN' BLUES BAND THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT. SEPTEMBER 4, 2010 @ THE WINDUP SPACE - BALTIMORE, MD, USA. Screening @ 7:30pm / Band(s) @ 10:00pm.
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Music Business insider Music is a BusinessSo☆Rock Updates 2010.09.01: Interview: YEALLOW. Profile: Guitar Wolf, Maps & Atlases. Recommended: Seasick Steve, Black Diamond Heavies, THE BASEBALLS.
So☆Rock Updates 2010.08.15: Interview: Daniel Tidwell. Profile: Shannon Curfman. Recommended: The Reign of Kindo, Adebisi Shank, Samsara Blues Experiment.
