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Artist Biography: Protest The Hero

Protest The Hero are making their mark on the hard rock, hardcore, heavy metal and post-whatever scenes, thanks to the progressive, metallic, and so-far-left-of-center-that-it-hangs-out-at-dangerously-close-to-the-warning-track music on their latest album, Fortress.

PTH formed seven years ago in their hometown of Whitby, Ontario, when they were just 14-years old. They spent weekends, holiday breaks and summers on the road and on the very same day they graduated from h...

Artist Biography: Anna Madorsky

Anna Madorsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and raised in Houston/Knoxville, TN. Formerly recording under the name Rouse, she is now based in LA. Classically-trained, with a variety of influences under her belt (Russian, Jewish, pop radio, working as a counselor) her dreamy blend of pop/punk/blues is quite compelling.

From a conservative family, Madorsky first became involved in music when she put out a classified ad for band members while a student at UC Riverside. While that ven...

Artist Biography: Dojo Workhorse

Out October 6th via LOAD Music, Weapons Grade Romantic is the new release from The Dojo Workhorse - the solo moniker of Dan Vacon and the emotional counterpoint to his main group - The Dudes.

Since the early rough demos, the regional and online response for Dojo has been overwhelming, prompting Vacon to perform the material live as a solo act. Home-made CDRs were flying off of local consignment shelves and word spread through the Calgary music community building the ba...

Artist Biography: Wilderness Of Manitoba

"Absolutely stunning. After listening to this album a staggering number of times since receiving it, I've come to the conclusion that Hymns of Love and Spirits is a combination of the best parts of two of last year's breakout bands, Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver. I'm thinking we might have a new front runner for Best Album of 2009." (London ON:) Burgeoning Metropolis

Something special happens when the four members of the Wilderness of Manitoba sing together, whethe...

Artist Biography: Russian Circles

Simply, Russian Circles is a three piece instrumental band from Chicago. It would be tough to imagine that a band would be able to develop its own unique presence and innovation with such solid groundwork in the instrumental genre. However, Russian Circles does bring something new to the table. Their songs feel incredibly narrative and linear. There is no angular flash or mathematical flair. These songs stream through themes and by no means build on just one repeating idea. They...

Artist Biography: The Red Chord

Guy Kozowyk - vocals Mike ‘Gunface' McKenzie - guitars Gregory Weeks - bass Brad Fickeisen - drums

"We've been in this band for over nine years," The Red Chord vocalist Guy Kozowyk said. "We're not the hot shit, of-the-moment band, nor are we the young guns. We're jaded, bitter, old men and we wrote a record that is vicious and heavy because we have a lot to be pissed off about. I am too old to understand or respect a lot of what's going on out ther...

Artist Biography: Regular John

SOME QUOTES on REGULAR JOHN:

"This perfect balance of bile-filled abandon and sandpapered psychedelia doesn't disappoint." **** Rolling Stone

"jump on board now because this band is going places." **** Sydney Morning Herald

"their debut album delivers by being one of the most exciting Australian rock debuts in recent memory." **** The Age

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Artist Biography: Fortune And Spirits

Along with The Red Season, Fortune & Spirits was formed of the ashes of indie pop/jazz sextet nothing plural.
Founded in 2007 through a partnership of producer/solo artist

Artist Biography: Zechs Marquise

While sharing The Mars Volta's penchant for expansive passages, Zechs Marquise takes a hazier, psych-laden approach to its songs, as evident on its 15-track debut album Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare to be released August 25, 2009 via Rodriguez Lopez Productions.
Zechs Marquise formed in El Paso, Texas during the spring of 2003 when brothers Marfred and Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez came together with childhood friends Matthew Wilkson and Marcos Smith. The gr...

Artist Biography: Masta Menace
Masta Menace is a RAPPER/MC from Pennsylvania. Born and raised in Norristown, Pa located 30-40 minutes from the city of Philadelphia, Pa, He has lived in the states of New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin and Georgia, but has spent the majority of his life in his home state of PA. His style has been influenced by his favorite artists as well as the many local artists that he's encountered in the different places that he's lived. Masta Menace began writing songs in 1997 to compete wit...

Artist Biography: Frequency Theater
Some people possess a perpetual desire to create. For Nate Butler, the desire is a flame that sears through in rhythm and notes. In his teens, his passion to communicate through music drove him to late-night jam sessions and through long-haul practices in his parents' basement. In and out of bands and back-up drummer for countless musician friends, nothing gives Nate more energy than playing music and that same energy rolls off the stage in waves.

A gifted musician and producer, Nate ...

Artist Biography: Evergreen Terrace

"The last couple of years were the most challenging for us as a band." Evergreen Terrace's guitarist Joshua James spoke on their recent hardships. "We lost a long time member, gas prices we're eating us alive and record sales were down across the board, all due to the hurting economy. The future didn't look bright. When Craig, Kyle and I got into the practice space to start writing the new album, we didn't know what to expect but it just flowed out of us. All o...

Artist Biography: Behemoth
"'Evangelion' is a Greek term meaning ‘Good News' and usually refers to the biblical stories of God saving humanity and Jesus and his substitutionary death on the cross and resurrection from the dead." So explains Behemoth vocalist/guitarist Nergal and his co-lyricist Krzysztof Azarewicz in the manifest for the Polish death squad's ninth and latest full-length, Evangelion.
As anyone familiar with the band might imagine, Behemoth's own version of "...

Artist Biography: Rain Machine

In the early part of the 20th century, the magic of "rainmaking" was a favorite trick of traveling showman journeying westward through new territories. That lasted until The Great Dust Bowl Drought hit the mid-west in the 1930s and people saw these slick-talking hucksters as the snake-oil salesmen that they really were. A decade later, Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich created his own rain machine, a contraption he called a "cloudbuster" that was made only of metal pipe...

Artist Biography: Deftones

Chino Moreno - Vocals Stephen Carpenter - Guitar Frank Delgado - Samples, Keys Abe Cunningham - Drums Chi Cheng - Bass
Textural, haunting and evocative, the long-awaited follow-up to 2003's Deftones is deceptively tuneful and alarmingly heavy, see-sawing between melancholy reflection and jaw-clenching frustration like a manic depressive refusing his meds. "We really wanted to test ourselves with this record," explains drummer Abe Cunningham. "It's an albu...

Arist Interview: Dropkick Murphys
Celt-punk veterans Dropkick Murphys are set to begin their North American tour in November. The shows will include a November 19th stop at the Sound Academy in Toronto.
I'm ecstatic to have been able to do a Q&A with Dropkick Murphys drummer Matt Kelly in advance of their tour.
Here's our conversation:
T.O. Snob: Matt, thanks for agreeing to do this.
Matt Kelly: Hey, no problem Peter; it's my pleasure!
T.O. Snob: You are coming into Toronto to play the Sound Academ...

Arist Interview: Royksopp

'All we ever wanted was to be touched by the gentle fingertips of Vangelis,' the men of Royksopp take a moment to spill their collective thoughts, '...but that is still to come.'

They have, however, sold over one million copies of their 2001 debut "Melody AM", won an MTV Europe Award for Best Video (for Remind Me), and toured the world. They've chased the success of their second album "The Understanding" (2005) with the l...

Artist Biography: A Fine Frenzy

"I think some people may be surprised," says Alison Sudol. "They think that I'm all fragile and ethereal--and that's lovely, it's flattering. It's all I've really let anyone see, up to this point. But I have a wild side too. I like to bang on things and cause a ruckus every now and then. I'm a quiet person with a loud streak. I like both. This record is a testament to that."

Sudol, age 24, is the leader of A Fine Frenzy...

Artist Biography: Flood Of Red

Flood Of Red formed in Airdrie, a satellite town twelve miles east of Glasgow in 2004. Starting out as a trio who met via school and the local skate scene, they soon expanded to a sextet.
Sitting in the heart of post-industrial Lanarkshire, Airdrie provided an early inspiration of sorts: inspiration to strive for more. Inspiration to get out. "It's known as a bit of hooligan town," says drummer Graham Griffith. "It was also voted the crappest town in Bri...

Artist Biography: Low Anthem

The Low Anthem began in Providence in 2006 as a collaboration between Ben Knox Miller, a folk musician and painter from New York's Hudson Valley and Jeff Prystowsky, a jazz bassist and baseball scholar from New Jersey. The duo met at Brown University as on-air personalities for the college's commercial alternative formatted station WBRU.
Having played together since 2002 in various ensembles ranging from rock, to electronica, to classical, their mutual interest in Ameri...