THEO KATZMAN
https://youtu.be/kd-8yZ1hhko “Modern Johnny is a feeling,” says Theo Katzman in regards to his third LP, Modern Johnny Sings: Songs in the Age of Vibe. “He’s an archetypal character who represents the plight of the singer songwriter trying to make it in today’s music world.” Modern Johnny is not an alter-ego, per se, but he and […]
THE TOASTERS
After 4 decades, The Toasters are hitting the gas, not the brakes. With an international all-star line-up their whirlwind global tour continues unabated across the continents. Performances are scheduled in South America, Asia and Russia on top of regular touring in the USA, Europe and Canada. Formed on the Lower East Side of NYC the […]
BROOKS NIELSEN
Uncompromising, enigmatic, and wildly ambitious, Brooks Nielsen (lead singer of Southern California surf-psych icons The Growlers) is proud to announce his first full-length solo album One Match Left: a double-vinyl, twenty-song journey into the heart of darkness, and toward the light that eventually remains. “There’s happiness in there,” says Nielsen, speaking from his Los […]
COLD
Jacksonville, Florida-based alternative metal outfit Cold started out by sharing the aesthetic of another Florida band, Limp Bizkit. Both groups favored technically complex, bleak, and brutal metal that merged elements of Jane’s Addiction, Metallica, and Tool, but Cold also embraced elements of shoegaze and soaring, Snow Patrol-esque alternative rock. Bizkit frontman Fred Durst actually discovered […]
DADDY’S BEEMER
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS CELEBRATE FLOODWith 50+ sold-out shows so far in this US tour and by overwhelming demand, They Might Be Giants is extending this most popular “Evening with” performance of their breakthrough album Flood in its entirety. How will Flood be presented? Hard to say, as the show evolves every night, but needless to say, this is a once-in-a-lifetime tour. […]
POWERMAN 5000
POWERMAN 5000 began soon after founder and frontman Spider One dropped out of the prestigious School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Massachusetts. “I loved painting” Spider recalls, “but I figured I could do that when I was 80. I was spending all my time in the clubs of Boston, like the Rat […]
MUSTARD PLUG
Mustard Plug started out in 1991 in the punk clubs, basements, and dive bars of the Midwest, playing punk-influenced ska music before most people in the U.S. had ever heard of ska. They embraced a DIY work ethic that had been ingrained in them growing up in the 1980s hardcore punk scene, and applied it […]
STEVE HOFSTETTER
Author, columnist, and comedian Steve Hofstetter is often called the hardest working man in show-business. With all due respect to the late James Brown. Hofstetter’s national TV debut came on ESPN’s Quite Frankly, where Stephen A. Smith yelled at him for three minutes. Hofstetter has also appeared on CBS’ “Late Late Show With Craig […]
DISCOVERIES
Discoveries is a 5 piece metalcore/deathcore collective from the North Carolina Triangle