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Cortez! Cortez! is an indie band out of Philadelphia that is composed of trio Barney McKenna , Nick Bockrath and James Sauppe . This is a raw band that has not even been out for a year. And this band is just neat! They released their first collection of songs 8 for Infinity this past year. Cortez! Cortez! is a new age indie-grove-rock-dance style of music that has a way of captivating anyone with in a 50 ft radius of wherever they are being played. That's right, anyone that [...]

By trade I am a minor of jewels and gems, and for months I have been digging away in search of the next big act. And now, I have found it, and it goes by the name of Dead Confederate . Hailing from Athens, Georgia, this new age psychedelic-grunge-rock band released their album Wrecking Ball this past year and is making quite the stir in today's music, and for good reason. Wrecking Ball has a wide variety of different styles of music on just one record. Such songs as [...]

A Shoreline Dream is one of the few homemade bands out there on the music scene. They are a couple of guys living out their dreams of music. Ryan Policky (vocals, guitars, synthesizer), Erik Jeffries (guitar), Enoc Torraca (bass) and Sean Merrell (drums) combine and react in giving us this sound. Not only are these men musically gifted, but they are doing it all on their own. A Shoreline Dream decided to cut out the middle man, the record label, and created their own music and distribute their merch on their [...]

Duncan Sheik teamed up with the beautiful Holly Brook to create the album Whisper House . Having already won a Grammy for his past work, Sheik is quite the experienced song writer. This album is nothing less of those standards than we've come to expect considering his discography. In nearly all of the songs on Whisper House , Brook makes an appearance that is akin to the beauty you might find in Mother Nature's most famous works. Most notably is the first song on the album "It's Better to Be [...]

Golden Boots is duo Dimitri Manos & Ryen Eggleston and a few friends they met along the way ( Justin Champlin , Nathan Sabatino , James Grip ). All of these great musicians have created a gothic-country-electric-indie sound that can be found on their album Winter of Our Discotheque , which is to be released later this month. The sound that they have given birth to is eclectic enough to have its own genre. The entire album is a blend of different aspects from different styles of [...]

• Golden Boots - Love is in the Air

Antony and the Johnsons released their latest album, The Crying Light , on January 20th. This six piece band has ( Antony Hegarty [vocals], Julia Kent [first chair cello], Parker Kindred [drummer], Jeff Langston [bassist], Doug Wieselman [horns], Maxim Moston [violin, arrangement], Rob Moose [guitar, violin]) created a soothing sensual sound that has a way of vibrating the ribcage that holds the heart of those who listen to them. Hegarty sings as though he has had his heart broken [...]

The soul-folk singer Justin Vernon , better known as Bon Iver , is putting out a new EP this month titled Blood Bank . It is scheduled to hit stores Tuesday, January 20th. Having gone from rock bottom to this musical career, his story was featured on NPR. His new EP is nothing less then perfect. Blood Bank is a phenomenal piece of musical work. Title track "Blood Bank" is a calming and inspirational song that hits you deep. The song is about how we are all brothers and [...]

The band Timber Timbre hails from the northern border country of Canada and is releasing their new self-titled album on January 13. The front man of this band, Taylor Kirk , creates a haunting version of rockabilly blues on the album. The entire album is made up of eerie songs that are influenced very much so by early blues players. In the song "Lay Down in the Tall Grass", the combination of the choppy organ and the vocals resemble such early blues songs as "I Put a Spell on You" by [...]

Eric Hutchinson released his latest album, Sounds Like This , this past May. The album can easily be classified as a pop-rock-folk style that has been proven time and time again to please the public. In September of this year, Hutchinson was awarded the "VH1 You Oughta Know" award of 2008. Obviously, this is a clear sign of his growing fame. On Sounds Like This , all of his major influences can be heard. The most profound influence that the listener can hear in every one of his songs is [...]

Luke Jackson released his new album …And Then Some on November 6, this year. The album is filled with talented musicians that can be heard on every track. Unfortunately, I could not say the same about the singing or songwriting. After listening to the album, it was quite clear to me that Jackson is still a beginner in this industry. The first track off …And Then Some is titled "Come Tomorrow" and the lyrics seem very child-like as do the vocals. This is not the case for all of the [...]

Josiah Leming from Tennessee was in the top fifty contestants to win the seventh season of "American Idol". Although he did not make it to the finals, he did sign a contract with Warner Brothers and has released his newest EP, Angels Undercover, this past October. It is quite clear the judges and people watching the show (the voters) over looked this gem in the bunch. The album is filled with his articulate piano melodies and singing that echoes in your head, bouncing off the walls because your brain does [...]

Fun Fun Fun Fest (FFFun Fest) is a festival in Austin, Texas that is a blend between both Austin City Limits (ACL) and South By Southwest (SXSW). FFFun Fest is a quad-fecta of punk rock music, dance music, indie music, and standup comedy on four different stages located at Waterloo park in downtown Austin. This year, FFFun Fest brought in a few bigger named bands that might appear at ACL, as well as some other smaller ones that you might find in the lineup of [...]

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan released their newest album titled Sunday at Devil Dirt on the 18th of November. Lanegan, having played with the Screaming Trees , Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins , brings his raspy haunting voice to the mixture of music. Campbell, coming from Belle & Sebastian and a solo career, united with Lanegan to form this mystical duo. Both of their past works and experiences from them have been perfected and used in their new album. In the song [...]

The power-pop-rock band The Radio Knights released their newest EP titled Happen this past month. The two knights of the band are Nicholai Baxter on guitar and vocals and Matt Dahan on piano and lead vocals. This EP contains the uplifting and inspirational music that puts listeners at ease. On their album Happen , such songs as "Running From the World Like Horses" and "Redemption" (Not a Bob Marley cover) seem to flow from the speakers into the ears of the listener like a [...]

The progressive-jazz-rock band Monika H. Band from Brooklyn, New York will be putting out their second, and latest record Disguised As Umbrellas, We Slept on October 28. This unique band is composed of five members, Monika H. on voice, Jason Lindner on the keys, Grey McMurry on guitar, Rob Jost on bass, and Jason Nazary on the drums. The music that they play can only be compared to Björk as both singers have similar vocal stylings. The major difference [...]

On October 25, 2008, We Are Scientists ( W.A.S. ) opened with The Stills for Kings Of Leon . The band is made up of two key players, Keith Murray on guitar and lead vocals and Chris Cain on bass guitar and backing vocals. Their hour long set was filled with non-stop music that rocked the crowd in their wild science experiment. After hearing their recorded music and now hearing their live music, their live performance out weighs their recorded. W.A.S. put on an outstanding, enthusiastic, [...]

Jóhann Jóhannsson is releasing his new album, Fordlandia , on November 4, 2008. The scores he has written for this masterpiece of an album are brilliantly beautiful and warm the heart and soul of the listener. One can tell when a symphony is going to be aesthetically pleasing when, after listening, you feel as though it has taken you to someplace you have never been before. The composer, who hails from Iceland, does just that in his new album. Jóhannsson takes you to the place in his head when the music [...]

This punk-pop rock band known as Hey Monday resembles the style that you can find in all of the music that Avril Lavigne and Paramore produce. All of them seem to have similar high pitched vocal styles and punk rock guitar riffs. Hey Monday has that "umpf" potential that we all know and crave for, to become the next teen craze. The music found on their new album Hold On Tight can be considered inspirational music to young teens that are in high school and the situations that [...]

The Supervillains played at the White Rabbit on October 16 in San Antonio to promote their new album Massive . They were the second opening band for Hawaiian surfer band Pepper ; the first opening band was Pacifier . Since the creation of LAW records by headliners Pepper, this was Law Records first sponsored tour. All three bands that played that night were under their label. The band is made up of five members, two of which make up a small enthusiastic brass section who contributed countless solos that captured the [...]

While there are pop artists that are bringing sexy back, Jay Reatard may quite possibly be the man to bring punk back from the dead to the ears of the living. Jay Reatard is a punk-garage band from Memphis, Tennessee with a new album that came out October 7. The music on this album, which is titled Matador Singles '08 , is short, but most defiantly not sweet. This is true, because punk is calcified as anything but sweet, and in most cases it is sour. This album's sound is a very [...]