Artist Biography: Black Market

Teaming up with Sean Slade (Radiohead, Dinosaur Jr., Hole) and Matthew Ellard (Morphine, Weezer, Elliott Smith), the month-long recording process features songs that have been in the works for years. Inspired by The Beatles, Elliott Smith and David Bowie and drawing upon personal experiences, Blackmarket brings a refreshing sound to the music industry.

“It was great working with Sean and Matthew,” Daryl says, “the contrast between Sean&rsqu...

Artist Biography: Mar

Mar’s Debut Album, ‘The Silence’, featured Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf and Black Heart Procession and Samuli Kosminen of MúM. ‘The Silence’ was recorded in Iceland when Sigur Ros opened their studio to Mar in Mosfellsbær. Due to a longer than expected mixing session for their last album ’Takk...’ Mar moved...

Artist Biography: Rush

By Kevin Sellers

Once, there were two. Childhood friends with passions for the hard rock sounds beginning to bubble up from the ooze of blues and rock'n'roll, Geddy Lee (or Gary Lee Weinrib; "Geddy" comes from his mother's pronunciation) and Alex Lifeson (or Alexandar Zivojinovich, "Lifeson" is simply a semi-literal translation of his last name) were prevalent in their local Toronto music scene before ending up as 2/3rds of Rush. At first, the member...

Artist Biography: Meg And Dia

Meg & Dia Frampton are sisters from Utah. Meg writes, sings, plays the guitar and occasionally the piano/keyboards. Dia co-writes, and sings on lead vocals. They self-released their debut album, Our Home Is Gone, in 2005, which featured a mostly acoustic style of music, and toured extensively in support of it, sharing stages with such national acts as Limbeck, The Format, Melee, An Angle, Koufax, and Steel Train.

In the fall of 2005 they signed to Doghouse Records, and in Janua...

Artist Biography: The Toadies

The Fort Worth, TX, alternative rock four-piece called the Toadies formed in 1990 and trudged throughout the grunge-punk revival of the early '90s playing shows and issuing homemade tapes. Three years later Pleather was picked up by Grass/Interscope, but it wasn't until 1995 when the band scored big with their single "Possum Kingdom" from their mainstream breakthrough Rubberneck. Frontman Todd Lewis' angry ...

Artist Biography: Znowhite

The story starts years ago in Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1982 was the year, that this band started. The band consisted of Ian Tafoya-guitar, his brother Sparks Tafoya on bass and his cousin Nicky Tafoya on drums. They play a wild form of speed metal. After some thinking, they decide to call their band SNOWHITE. Nothing special you might say. But it becomes a rather special name, when you know these three wild animals have a black skin. A rather ironic name for a band with three black gu...

Artist Biography: Amateur Radio Operator

Somewhere between memory and echo lie the stories and sounds of Amateur Radio Operator, living in the silence between the big parts - the reverb after sharp, tense sound… the propagation of entropy. They chase the ghost stories of work, old dogs, broken radios, industrial rivers, rust, and death, by knocking on the tops old guitars and decaying snare drums or forcibly colliding walls of overdrive with the upper temporal-limits of delay.
With a faraway voic...

Artist Biography: Fjord Rowboat

Fjord Rowboat formed in the autumn of 2004, and began healing the world with reverb in December of that year. Making their debut at Toronto's legendary El Mocambo, the band comprises Justin Grant and Matt Collum on guitar, Craig Gloster on vocals and keyboard, and brothers Kevin and Ian McKay on drums and bass, respectively. During the ensuing years Fjord Rowboat has built a reputation for powerful live performances, creating a swirling and dynamic wash of sound overlaid with soaring guitar a...

Artist Biography: Uglysuit

Tabloid life surrounds us. Artifice has replaced art, style trumps substance. Sincerity and honesty got lost along the way. Once in a while though, something breaks through. It can crack the shell of bitterness and send a memo reminding us that it’s entirely possible we haven’t become too jaded, at least not yet. That’s where The Uglysuit and their self-titled record come in.

Made up...

Arist Interview: Supergrass

Supergrass sit round a table in an Oxford pub, drinking lunchtime lager and coffee. Six albums in and barely out of their twenties, the four guys who made Diamond Hoo Ha are raring to go. They're back, not limping but sprinting.

It's fitting that, a dozen years after Supergrass (Gaz Coombes-Vocals & Guitar, Mick Quinn-Bass & Voca...

Artist Biography: Shai Hulud
“We never broke up,” exclaims Shai Hulud guitarist and founding member Matt Fox. “[Bassist] Matt Fletcher and I never said we were hanging this up.” Instead of making new Shai Hulud music 24/7, Fox and Fletcher were working on the Zombie Apocalypse side project, touring overseas, parting ways with vocalist Geert Van Der Velde, and searching for members to fill out vacant slots; all while writing and demoing Misanthropy Pure, their Metal Blade Records...

Artist Biography: Amplexus

Indie in content, metal by index, Amplexus inhabits a musical space unchallenged by genre, and inspired by a unique exploration in storytelling. Assembling in Kent, Ohio, in the fall of 2005, the six-piece take a fresh path into the untold and limitless story of the imagination through a post-hardcore blend. Alongside aggressive, hardcore tendencies, they reveal prominent harmonies and impassioned hooks; the songs off the...

Artist Biography: Ed Harcourt

Do *you* know who Ed Harcourt is?

The boy in the beaten-up velvet jacket picks up his cup. "He's 30, newly and happily married, the son-in-law of an ocarina maker and the great-nephew of Elizabeth David ... he's an agnostic brought up Protestant with a Buddha necklace... a nervous ball of energy, a little black sheep." The boy takes a sip. "And he's a solo artist, a collaborator, a sess...

Artist Biography: Albert Hammond Jr.

Como Te Llama? is the new album from Albert Hammond, Jr. and cohorts Matt Romano, Marc Philippe Eskenazi and Josh Lattanzi, and will be released July 8th.
Following his feted 2007 solo debut Yours To Keep, Albert Hammond, Jr. and his merry men return with a new album Como Te Llama? (or “What’s Your Name?” if your Spanish is a little rus...

Arist Interview: Fall Of Troy

6/1/08
Daniel Thompson and John Berry recently got the opportunity to sit down with some hardcore gods: Andrew and Frank from the Fall of Troy. Wondering how Frank got into the band? What's the deal with Manipulator? Will the Ghostship demos ever be released? All of those questions and more are answered right here:

Artist Biography: Fleet Foxes
The first time I heard “Boots of Spanish Leather,” it was as if all of the oxygen had been drained from the room, suddenly replaced with the wavering golden longing of this one song. Only it wasn’t Dylan singing, it was my 14 year-old brother Robin, belting out these heart-worn lyrics as the afternoon spring sunlight streamed through rain-stained windows, illuminating a thousand dust flecks in my cluttered college apartment. Each verse further eclipsed any hint of a self-consci...

Artist Biography: Hemlock

Our band is Hemlock. We are based out of Las Vegas, NV. Although our real home is on the road continuing to carve a name for ourselves in the underground. We have toured with Slayer, Hatebreed, Soulfly, Otep, Slipknot, Lamb of God, Disturbed, Chimaira, Drowning Pool, HedPE, Shadows Fall, Snot, Devildriver,Sepultra, Exodus, Sevendust, Arch Enemy and tons more. We have done regional touring in the Southwest headlining shows and also toured across the entire U.S. several times now...

Artist Biography: King Crimson

King Crimson are a musical group founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969. They have typically been categorised as progressive rock, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, classical and experimental music to psychedelic, New Wave, hard rock, gamelan and folk music. King Crimson have garnered little radio or music video airplay, but gained a large cult following. Their debut album, In the ...

Artist Biography: Xasthur

Xasthur was created in December 1995, in Alhambra, Calif. (U.S.), after Conner had played with several local death metal groups in Southern California.^<...

Artist Biography: Xentrix

Amongst the best thrash metal bands in history Xentrix stands out as the best England had to offer. Their powerful debut Shattered Existence proudly rivals anything offered by the SF Bay Area scene of the late 80's early 90's. With the release their worthy second album For Whose Advantage the band secured its spot in the annals of metal. Then Kin followed, and to say that was a misstep is an understatement. With their three fi...

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Artist Biography: The Toadies

Artist Biography: Znowhite

Artist Biography: Amateur Radio Operator

Artist Biography: Fjord Rowboat

Artist Biography: Uglysuit

Arist Interview: Supergrass

Artist Biography: Shai Hulud

Artist Biography: Amplexus

Artist Biography: Ed Harcourt

Artist Biography: Albert Hammond Jr.

Arist Interview: Fall Of Troy

Artist Biography: Fleet Foxes

Artist Biography: Hemlock

Artist Biography: King Crimson

Artist Biography: Xasthur

Artist Biography: Xentrix