The Music Box (quickly becoming one of my fave venues) was aflutter last night, everyone waiting eagerly in anticipation for the grade A list lineup to get started. Whereas most L.A. kids show up fashionably late to shows, intentionally choosing to forego the opening acts and get there right in time for the main attraction,
The gentlemen of Bethpage Black know the drama that comes with being in a heavy rock band. Just glancing at the emo aesthetics of My Chemical Romance or The Used, you will soon pick up on the themes of exorbitance, emotiveness, and melodrama (and often the use of the colors white, black and red) in
Sometimes living in the world renowned city of Los Angeles seems amazing. You’d think living in a city with an unrivaled amount of culture and music could hold no bad characteristics. Then it takes you an hour and fifteen minutes to get to the Key Club and suddenly that city with a population of two
Van Go Lion, an exciting electropop duo from Portland, are in the process of recording their first full length album. Amy Paige and Josh Loerzel met a couple years back when Amy put an ad on Craigslist looking for a band to sing with. Pure pop perfection was born when Amy and Josh met, and
Over the past few years, the Los Angeles indie rock scene has fortunately began to replace itself in the hearts and minds of music fans who once thought of the city solely as a Mecca for hair metal bands. With the emergence of groups like Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, The Airborne Toxic Event
Outside of 19th century historians, Prussia may be a name that many people aren’t familiar with. However, by the end of 2011, the band Prussia could be on the radar of every music listener. The group formed on the first day of 2007, practicing in the A. C. Rich, a DIY venue in Pontiac, Michigan.
If you can count on anything when at a music fest, you can count on one week of zero sleep, a little insanity, and a whole lot of chaos. You’re assaulted for five long days with various CD’s, millions of artists your inner musical masochist couldn’t be happier. After surviving a music fest North of
Boy & Bear is an indie folk band band from Sydney, Australia. I first got wind of them when they were tapped to support everyone’s favorite Grammy-nominated English folk band—Mumford & Sons—on tour, and their hit “Mexican Mavis” from their With Antartica America EP began to generate some buzz. But back in 2009, Boy &
There are several signs indicating whether a show will be stellar or not. From the lack of parking anywhere in the same zipcode as the Bootleg Theater, I knew I was in for a little musical insanity. After travelling from the entirely different country I’d left my car in, I made my way to the
In this special BONUS episode of BackStory, Brooklyn’s Black Taxi tells us the story behind their song “Shoeshine.” Here’s a note from their team: Black Taxi is one of the best new bands to come out of The Big Apple. Their music was recently featured on NBC’s The Chase and they finished their first national tour in fall 2010.