Highlights from Tame Impala’s Panorama Festival Set…. A Week Later
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5 Artists To Keep On Your Radar For High And Low
By Nicole Busch and Heather Hawke
Kina Grannis
It was in elementary school where Kina Grannis found her love for music. She composed and submitted piano compositions to district art competitions and shortly began playing the violin and by age 15, she taught herself the guitar. After graduating high school she kept the momentum going and started playing shows and by also joining the Songwriters […]
Creative Director, Mark Eshleman
This interview took place on January 16, 2014 when Mark Eshleman was in Australia on tour with Twenty One Pilots, You Me At Six, and Paramore. He along with Twenty One Pilots are shortly heading out on the road again for their headlining tour throughout Europe and then a US tour this Spring. Mark started creating videos professional in […]
Tonight Alive
While all still relatively young, the band members that make up the Australian band Tonight Alive have been playing together in their parent’s garages in the Sydney suburbs since they were just teenagers. It all started from a mutual passion for music that caused the members to gravitate towards each other through their local scene, which ultimately […]
Mansions
Released on November 12, 2013 via Clifton Motel Records ‘Doom Loop’ is the third LP from Mansions; which is made of members Christopher Browder and Robin Dove. Mansions was started as a solo project in 2007 by Christopher Browder in his hometown of Louisville, KY. That same year he released their first full-length album (‘Mansions’ LP) through Sophomore […]
Cayucas
Cayucos may be a town in California off of State Route 1, but Cayucas (pronounced the same only with different spelling) is also the name of the band made of Zach Yudin, his twin brother Ben on bass, Banah Winn on keys and Casey Wojtalewicz on drums. Live, Christian Koons joins them on guitar. Singer/ songwriter Zach […]
Founder of Stateside Presents & Owner of Crescent Ballroom, Charlie Levy
Charlie Levy moved to Arizona from New Orleans in 1988 to attend Arizona State University. During his sophomore year at ASU his roommate (who was big into student government) left a pamphlet that had student jobs and one of those jobs was for a student concert director. With no experience and just on a whim, […]
A Rocket To The Moon
In 2006, during the peak of Myspace, Nick Santino started A Rocket to the Moon in his bedroom in Braintree Massachusetts. This peak of Myspace helped Santino quickly gain fans nationally and internationally, which in turn led him to get signed to Fueled by Ramen Records, the label he still calls home. Since their debut full length album […]
Milo Greene
Milo Greene is Los Angeles based quintet with Robbie Arnett, Graham Fink, Andrew Heringer, and Marlana Sheetz sharing lead and backing vocal duties (often switching between instruments) and Curtis Marrero on percussion. Their band name comes from a fictitious booking agent they concocted to help them get gigs in the early days of playing shows. Developing […]
Simple Plan
One incredible thing about Simple Plan, a rare commodity of sorts, is that they still have the entire original band lineup. Since the bands formation, in 1999, the members always have been Pierre Bouvier (lead vocals), Jeff Stinco (lead guitar), Sébastien Lefebvre (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), David Desrosiers (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Chuck Comeau (drums […]
Allison Weiss
Brooklyn, NY-based singer-songwriter Allison Weiss first picked up the guitar at the age of 14 after being inspired by a D.I.Y pop punk ethic and the roller coaster rides of young relationships. “An Eight-Song Tribute to Feeling Bad & Feeling Better” was Allison Weiss’s first release on January 16, 2007, “& The Way She Likes It” following […]
Ace Enders
Ace Enders is multi-talented. Besides being the lead singer and guitarist of the band The Early November, and being the lead musician/ songwriter/ co-producer of his two side projects ‘I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business’ and ‘Ace Enders and a Million Different People,’ he is the owner and operator of The Living Room Recording Studios (a 2500 […]
More Amor
If you have been involved in the Southern California/ Las Vegas music scene these last 5 years there’s a good chance you have heard about the band More Amor. Tom Oakes, ex-guitarist and songwriter for The Higher, started More Amor in 2008 with Kyle Lobeck, since then they have recruited guitarist Rami Jrade as an official […]