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September 29, 2010 Found in 2009 as a solo project by singer Mikey Trix, Poison Trixie brings a unique blend of Pop punk into the alternative radio genre. With songs of hope, inner demons, love, strength, and some in well thought story tales, this group thrives off writing anything, and everything, for the love of the game.
September 27, 2010 Shayfer James can be described pointedly as a myth in wolf’s clothing. Referred to by his rapidly growing group of followers as The Villain King of New Jersey’s underground noirpop music scene, Mr. James is devilishly captivating and deliciously unusual. From the worn bottom of his ripped black boots, to the wrinkled top of his black pinstriped hat, Shayfer James is the portrait of vagabond royalty. A man of bewitching grace, grisly humor, profound story telling, and whiskey-flavored wit. The self defined “spawn of the elephant and the empress”, Mr. James attributes his musical and lyrical abilities to his early exposure to pipe smoke, demons, and jesters” and his oddly chivalrous nature to his life-long apprenticeship to L.V.S.” (his mother’s father).
September 27, 2010 Verity, Equity, Acuity.
These are the meanings of the symbols in the Kressin family crest, and also the foundation of Neon Legion, the rock band based around German-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Philip Kurt Kressin. In a music landscape where many artists are concerned with shiny veneers over artistic content, Kressin demands that his work stand for something. With Empire, the debut Neon Legion album, he seeks to honor the values of his forefathers while crafting a sound that brings together elements of rock, electronic, and classical music, honoring his own personal tradition.
September 27, 2010 I grew up on a small farm not too far from Johannesburg, South Africa to a family railed against the horrors of Apartheid. Skipping over my school years (they weren’t really all that exciting) and the political upheaval (I was raised for freedom so it came as no shock to me) I found myself in Boston, MA in 1999. I was pretty young and utterly in love with jazz. I was desperate to be a great jazz guitarist but the problem with that is no one really cares anymore about jazz guitarists and I was never that good anyhow.
September 27, 2010 For Patty, Melissa, Scotty, and Travis, it really is a family affair. This foursome stretches their biological connections through to their creative tissue as the Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band (DFJB), an incomparable collective with a Jazz/Americana/Soul/Folk sound that, by all reasonable accounts, functions quite nicely, thank you. As the history of their marvelous and complex family relationships comes out in their music, it is clear that this is a community, a truly relational organism. The way they work, the way they live, and the way they make music is an expression of family, through and through.
September 26, 2010 “Without our songs and stories, we are nothing.” This one phrase tells you what you need to know about SJ Tucker. Multi-instrumentalist, road warrior, front woman, back office bard, songwriter and rallying point; yes, she is all of these things. More than most, though, more than anything, she is a storyteller. She is the voice of lore at the campfire and the sharp laughter of modern myth, a vanguard of the Mythpunk movement with a gypsy Celtic folk rock sound that cannot be ignored. With one hand on her art and the other held out to you, she is songs and stories, community and wit.
September 26, 2010 Todd Clouser, a graduate of the Berklee College of Music, is an accomplished guitarist, composer, producer, and writer with credits on over a dozen national releases and a number of albums as bandleader, highlighted by the organic compositions of 2006’s “Baja”, 2008’s modern groove record “Beatnik Highway”, and his newest collective, Todd Clouser’s A Love Electric, an aggressive, intuitive mash of 70’s rock, Curtis Mayfield groove, and modern jazz. Clouser’s production and playing span a number of genres, most recently settling in the modern jazz idiom after years of fronting rock acts.
September 26, 2010 Young Baltimore native John Regan has spent the past twenty-four months collaborating with musical talents Marsha Ambrosius, Joell Ortiz, Nottz, Needlz, 88-Keys and others to record his solo debut album “Sorry I’m Late”. John is looking to combine his knowledge of new media with old-school attention to quality and detail. He uses the twelve track project to discuss his often-rocky marriage, his aspirations, the close people he’s lost, and dealing with his daughter’s life-threatening seizures.
September 24, 2010 Style: Rock / Psychedelic Blues / Flamenco Punk / Haunting Ballads and Dedications
September 20, 2010 Richard Kincaid’s plaintive voice unleashed like an arrow from its bow, soars as it gathers momentum with yearning and unabashedly hits home in the heart. Longtime businessman and CEO of the largest publicly traded office real estate company in the United States, when his company sold in February 2007, Richard experienced a moment of reckoning. He faced a choice: he could step back onto the corporate treadmill or pursue projects that really mattered to him. “I didn’t want to continue on autopilot,” he says, “I wanted to make conscious decisions about my life and I needed outlets for my passion that corporate life never provided me.” Thus, Richard turned the page and began a new chapter in which he returned to his first love: music and simultaneously blazed a trail through new territory: philanthropy.
September 20, 2010 8-year-old Doug Rausch was faithful to the piano. One day as he was leaving for a lesson, his father slipped him a white unmarked envelope to hand the teacher. After arriving at her studio and following Dad’s instructions, he eagerly climbed onto the bench and tossed his book open, ready to play. The practice week had been less than perfect, but he didn’t feel that should hold him back in any way. Today he would learn the Key of G!
“It says you’re quitting,” she blurted out…
RAUSCH did not quit; he has been studying, writing, practicing, performing, and otherwise living music relentlessly ever since the day his parents all but wrote him off. This obsession recently landed him a degree from the prestigious Ithaca College School of Music in New York, where he won recognition as concerto competition finalist with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. A diverse following began to build as his tireless vision of resuscitating rock and roll collided headfirst with his obligations to “serious music.” For the encore of an ambitious recital on the eve of his 21st birthday, his 13-piece band joined him in tribute to Guns N Roses. November Rain took a classical music school to tears.
September 20, 2010 Grammy nominated Sylvia Bennett, the timeless smooth jazz and pop vocalist sings of love with a warmth, clarity and spirit that is enveloping and tender, showcasing the depth of her skill, talent and experience. She’s sung with Lionel Hampton and she’s sung for presidents - all with a singular style and intimacy that is hers and hers alone.
September 20, 2010 Honed in the creative fires that only a Scots/Irish heritage can provide, American singer, songwriter, harpist, pianist and record label mogul Jillian LaDage (pronounced la-Day-ge) is an artist firmly rooted in her muses. Equal parts Loreena McKennitt and Sara McLachlan, Jillian has long since stepped out from anyone’s shadow to forge a singular World music voice. Having studied Celtic harp under the tutelage of renowned harpist Kim Robertson, Jillian has performed to enthusiastic crowds all over the world. She also studied modern vocal technique with Chicago’s premiere vocal coach Randy Buescher, of Your True Voice Studio. For over ten years she wrote and recorded original compositions for various professional projects.
September 20, 2010 A storm gathers as elements combine and music gently falls, distantly thunders or pours forth for the members of Ironwood Rain: Scotte Burns (lead vocals, bass, live sound mixing,) Mike Kloepfer (guitar, vocals,) JJ Maestas (guitar, lead vocals, harmonica) and Gary Saint Germain (drums, percussion, vocals.) Described by a Colorado promoter as “the bastard yet comely lovechild of Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Eagles and Jethro Tull,” this acoustic guitar/vocals driven AAA rock band writes and performs music born of their extensive life experience and musical ventures through progressive rock, blues, jazz and hard rock.
September 16, 2010 Ambient new age piece now ranked in the top artist (ambient genre) Last.FM Japan. Heavily influenced by pioneer German electronic music artists (such as Klaus Schulze) and film music icons Thomas Newman, Alexandre Desplat, and many others, this artist’s compositions reflect a close relationship to the visual arts, while the structures of his works suggest very calm and peaceful soundscapes.
Ambient, ambient, experimental, new age September 14, 2010 Visit www.CarltonZeus.com for a sneak peak at the new record.
Urban Alternative, alternative rap, hip hop, pop, rap, urban September 13, 2010 Javi Beltran released in August 2010 his new album. It can be downloaded for free from his webpage www.javibeltran.com.
This single “Little Dog” is one of the singles of the album.
Little dog
September 12, 2010 Chicago’s The Band Split has just released its debut album, Unimpressive. But this assertive, hands-on, four-piece band is anything but unimpressive when it comes to making great music. Ryan Gatenby (vocalist/guitarist) produced the album at home and mastered it on his Mac Book in order to release this melodic rock gem on Transistor Sound, a label started by drummer Andy Miles. Alternative rock bands so often wear their indie credentials the same way gangsta rappers brag of hard time served. And in this regard, The Band Split has earned the music business equivalent to a Purple Heart. “It’s the indiest of indie labels,” Gatenby enthuses, “we couldn’t be more underground.”
September 9, 2010 Live the life you’re meant to live.
That’s the overarching sentiment of Mike Grutka’s fifth album, February Sessions. “After my mom died [in 2004], the last two records have been more hopeful,” says Grutka. “She was really young when she died. And there’s something in me that’s like, ‘You’ve got to do this now. No one else is going to do it for you.
September 9, 2010 Sitting across from Leslie DiNicola, you get the feeling that you’re sipping coffee with Sandra Bullock or Jennifer Aniston- the sexy “girl next door.” But when she opens her mouth on stage, she unleashes the soulful blues diva that will rock your world. Not many artists today can dazzle 38,000 people at Citi Field and then, moments later, take the stage at an intimate club like Googie’s Lounge and captivate the audience with merely a whisper into the microphone. But Leslie DiNicola can. And has.