Feature: Band of the Week
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Crosby Loggins— Let's be kind and not mention Lisa-Marie Presley...
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Interview: Band of the Week - Crosby Loggins
— He may have begun life as the privileged son of an internationally acclaimed rock star, but Crosby is no spoiled wannabe.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Jay Nash— Down-to-earth, playful, witty, and occasionally profound, grounded but sentimental, sensual but intelligent, romantic but only in passing. A superb album.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Jay Nash
— With hints of alt-country nostalgia, and swimming in acoustic melodies...
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Interview: Band of the Week - Rachael Sage— Intelligent, witty, and upbeat, Sage managed to be engaging and whimsical while always maintaining a professional demeanour.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - The Dollyrots— The Dead Kennedys love child with Gwen Stefani, nannied by The Go-Go's, playing tag with The B-52's.
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Dollyrots
— Because they really are awesome.
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Interview: Band of the Week — Suffrajett— Boil down the fiercest rock and roll formula, add in an amazing woman vocalist, and you have the perfect band - You have Suffrajett, people!
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Interview: Band of the Week - 2nd Day Crush— 2DC’s effervescent brand of pop is radio friendly without being insipid.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - The Bittersweets— This debut album is one of the strongest and most surprisingly mature albums from a young band I have heard.
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Bittersweets
— A sound that isn’t too country and not too rock and roll. Think Rilo Kiley without the twang or Shawn Colvin minus the twee.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Girl In A Coma— Think Indigo Girls, Siouxsie Sioux and Shirley Manson in a dark alley kicking the shit out of the Pixies.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Girl In A Coma
— The first band of the year, and they will knock you on your ass. It is a portent of things to come.
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Band Of The Week's Top Ten Indie Bands of 2007
— 2007 was an excellent year here at Band of the Week. This is a round-up by A.L. Harper and Michael Jones.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Dan Ferrari
— Wow, wow and wow again. He's all that AND he makes my panties wet.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Dan Ferrari
— Amazing lyrics, fabulous musicianship, and great energy. What more do you need?
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Slow Runner— Slow Runner is what happens when Star Wars or AV geeks grow up and form a band... after pulling a sword from a stone.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Stealing Jane— Say Something is a rollicking romp through rock/blues/R&B influenced ska-pop.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Stealing Jane
— Stealing Jane’s ska-pop is a high energy, harmony-filled, blues-infused sound that moves a person to jump up and dance on a chair.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Carmen & Camille— The duo's genuine sound can move them ahead of the pack.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Carmen & Camille
— Pop moving to rock equals success.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Matt Jenkins— Tall, curly blonde hair, big green eyes, charming, witty, intelligent, and flirty.... and I think he sings or something...
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The Ruse Live at the Viper Room Free For Download
— The Ruse put their brand new EP Live at the Viper Room up for download, free of charge for, the entire month of November.
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Music Review : Band of the Week - The Trucks— You'll like it, you'll love it....
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Trucks
— The Trucks' drive has almost certainly put them on the road to the big time.
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Music Review: Band of the Week — Inverse Order— Want to get to know a band before they make it big? Come get to know Inverse Order, then!
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Interview: Band of the Week — Inverse Order
— I only hope that I’ve managed to string enough coherent words together through the haze of Nyquil to inspire...
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Interview: Band Of The Week - The Commons
— On their fourth album and better than ever.
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Band of the Week: Interview - Wil Maring— Singer uses memories to reignite classic folk music.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - The Flaws— The Flaws' sound is filled with strong melodies enveloped in synth, glittering, jangly guitars, and rich, fervid vocals.
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Interview: Band Of The Week: Composer Rene Gruss— This composer may not be a band in the strictest sense of the word, but he did work with a real orchestra, and that's close.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Backyard Tire Fire— This Bloomington, Illinois-based trio delivers honest, original songs.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week: Sons Of William— Stark’s mind-blowing talent with a guitar is matched by his mellow, smoky, make-my-panties-wet vocals followed closely by his ability...
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Interview: Band Of The Week: Sons Of William
— The lyrics are, you can’t help thinking to yourself, intellectually above this bar’s usual crowd.
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Music Review: Band of the Week Dying to Know - The Obvious— Ten tracks of a blend of hard rock and alternative metal that is loud and bold while still being melodious and intricate.
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Interview: Band of the Week – Dying to Know— Toldeo, Ohio's own Dying to Know takes time out of their practice schedule to talk about their album, their live show, their fans, and their music.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Yoshi— Yoshi are on their way up… I just hope the neighbour boy fixes the hall light before he makes it big and moves out.
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Concert Review: Band of the Week - The Evens — The Evens played a Syracuse sweatbox on June 26th, but the show was one of the best this reviewer has ever attended.
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Evens
— The Evens' Amy Farina chats with us about her band and art.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Sacred Heart— As someone who has seen the band live many times, it pains me to think that their live sound still has not been captured just yet.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Cary Brothers— Brothers music reflects his life spent in the dappled light of greatness.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Cary Brothers
— The idea of Brothers being a weekend, closet Elvis impersonator is rather charming.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Chromatics— Italo-disco was a European strain of disco and didn’t suffer the violent death it did in America but allowed to openly grow.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Chromatics— I still hadn’t located him and was beginning to believe he wouldn’t show at all. Jilted by yet another rock star? Why me?
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Music Review: Sunspot - Neanderthal— Even a musical Neanderthal like me has to learn to love Sunspot's latest effort, "Neanderthal."
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Band of the Week Interview: Sunspot
— Smart musicianship + Lyrics that border on Snarky and Pop + Genuine love of playing music = Sunspot.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Kate Voegele— Kate is the genuine article, despite the body that could stop traffic.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Steve Carlson— Groovin On The Inside is a vibrant album that crosses genres to find a warm, snug place in your heart.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Steve Carlson
— Mixed genres, a mellow resonant voice, awe inspiring musical talent. Some people have all the luck.
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Music Review: Sam Yahel, Joshua Redman, Brian Blade - Yaya3 — Even when these guys are just having fun, the jazz they make is seriously good.
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Music Review: Korben - Steady Fools
— If the Cranberries had married the Foo Fighters and had children. Basement rock at it's finest.
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Music Review: Sam Yahel Trio - Truth And Beauty — Yahel stakes out a new approach to the jazz organ trio with a couple of sympathetic and very capable colleagues.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Sam Yahel
— Find out what sets Yahel apart from other Hammond B-3 players.
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Music Review: Suffrajett — Black Glitter
— Ever wondered if it were still possible for a band to blow you away?
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Korben— Ever had a good tip from a complete stranger? Read about Korben, the best tip I ever got.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - End of a Year— Albany, NY hardcore band End of a Year has that DC punk aesthetic, but a hard-driving hardcore sound.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - End Of A Year
— This Albany hardcore band is currently touring Europe and is working on its sophomore release for Revelation Records.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Circus
— This is a band that should be huge, very soon.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Vintage— Vintage have a sound and style dripping with the stench of a groovy retro clothing shop.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Everybody Else— Carrick Moore Gerety - "I didn't want to get pigeonholed into that power-pop nerd genre".
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - The Nick Black Band - Hollow— Nick Black's Hollow, proves that an album cannot be judged by title alone — as it is an album filled with damn good music.
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Interview: Band Of The Week — The Nick Black Band
— You never know when you'll be surfing the internet only to accidentally discover an eventual BOTW artist, now do you?
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Interview: Band Of The Week - The Working Title— After an amicable split with Universal Records, The Working Title are unsigned and therefore qualify for the Band of the Week.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Attica State
— The Beatles after being bitten, chewed, swallowed and digested by Nirvana.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Unholy— East Coast doom-metal band Unholy's Jonathan Dennison talks about music, touring and songwriting.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Willie Herath - Cohgie Never Landed— Willie Herath has created aurally, the smell of summer and the beach with lively, fresh, animated music.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Willie Herath
— Willie Herath's self-described “nod your head beach rock” is the epitome of summer music.
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Music Review: Band of the Week's Kate Schutt - No Love Lost— Smooth and silky pop-jazz that is sensual to the ear.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Kate Schutt
— Independent Jazz artist, Kate Schutt talks about her music, her record label, and what inspires her.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Heidi McCurdy— Vancouver, British Columbia-based jazz-pop vocalist by the name of Heidi McCurdy
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Stonesthrow
— The sarcasm flowed as freely as the beer, as it always will when talking to any Scot. I laughed so hard I almost peed.
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Music Review: Band of the Week In Theory - This is It
— Applying labels to this young band is harder than you might think.
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Interview: Band of the Week – In Theory
— "A lot of people try to box us into a genre and we really don't like that."
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Argonauts— A healthy mix of punk and ska.
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Music Review: Band of the Week, Dollar Sent— How long does it take to blow your mind and eardrums? 23 minutes, if your band is named Dollar Sent.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Dollar Sent— This week's BOTW is a rock monster from Brighton. You'll love 'em!
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Interview: Band of the Week - Airline
— Eclectic sounds, softly moving, pensive lyrics sung in a moody, atmospheric way; Airline make songs that can lift you up and make you think.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - The Appearance— Frontman Alan Oakes talks about his man-crush on Rick Springfield among other things.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Andrew Osenga— Christian music is a music journalist's idea of hell. But Andrew Osenga doesn't make Christian music. Praise jebus!
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Music Review: Green River Ordinance - The Beauty Of Letting Go— Every once in a while you come across a band so talented that you stand back, shake your head, and mutter in awe...
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Interview: Band of the Week - Andrew Osenga
— Andrew’s tangled tapestry of sound and lyric paints an ardent, stirring picture of this deep, multifaceted and truly talented young man.
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Slides— The Slides bring a gently psychedelic atmosphere to their brand of retro chic Brit-pop.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Of Fate And Chance— Looking for a new band that shines with talent enough for two? Meet OF Fate And Chance!
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Interview: Band of the Week - Of Fate And Chance
— Get to know a young band that looks and sounds like it has a bright future ahead.
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Music Review: Band of the Week's Self Against City - Telling Secrets To Strangers— Each song covers emotions and topics one might hear whispered between close friends.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Self Against City
— "You can access any band in the world from your chair in your bedroom."
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Interview: Band of the Week - Steve Adey— It is cold, desolate and more beautiful in its bleak, natural romance than the violent, wind swept moors of Wuthering Heights.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Tim Pare— Trans-Siberian Express has a unique intimacy and personal-confession feel, with just a whiff of religious melodrama.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Tim Pare
— Surrounded by violent, barbaric, drunken Russian conscripts and with a knife to his neck that Tim began writing his debut EP.
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Band of the Week: Best Indie Artists of 2006— I have chosen five of the best indie bands, featured in Band of the Week, for the year 2006. Plus two honourable mentions.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Green River Ordinance
— Green River Ordinance are intelligent, diverse, dynamic alt/pop/rock with tons of heart and soul.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Throwback Suburbia— I have no doubt one day we will see them in the sky, suburbia in the stars.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Throwback Suburbia
— Blending their pop sensibilities with a rock & roll attitude they manage to capture the essence of retro-pop and make it modern rock.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - The Big Provider - Start Making A Scene— Buoyant, dynamic, raw, sometimes boyish, sometimes mature always accomplished, Start Making A Scene are all these things.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - The Big Provider
— The Big Provider are a catharsis of modern pop music with a sound that is overflowing with ceaseless energy, pure, untainted and raw.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Phil Ayoub - Schoolbus Window Paper Heart— This amazing debut album is filled with beautiful, deep, often playful lyrics, acoustic guitar, jangly synth, and Ayoub’s earthy, gentle, sensual vocals.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Phil Ayoub
— After discussing apple crumble, his dog Bailey, VH1's Surreal Life and ancient pornography our interview started like this…
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Music Review: 3 Pill Morning - Life Dynamic— Life Dynamic has rhythmic beats and clear, melodious, razor-sharp vocals.
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Interview: Band of the Week - 3 Pill Morning
— "Get it on the road and get it going."
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Band Of The Week: Deccatree— Deccatree’s story starts with front man and founder Chris Karn, a visionary and deeply thoughtful man with a quiet, humble tranquility about him.
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Band Of The Week: Kelwan— Kelwan has an alt.rock sound reminiscent of the late 90s, but with a little Metallica thrown in.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Locksley— Style, substance, savoir faire, dynamic magnetism, brutally hot men and timeless song writing Locksley manage to encompass it all.
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Band Of The Week: Locksley
— Co-frontman Jesse Laz could have charmed my panties off, but that’s another story.
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Music Review: Naomi Sommers - Flying Through and Hypnotized— It’s the kind of music that creeps up on you quietly and takes you pleasantly by surprise.
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Band of the Week: Naomi Sommers
— Sometimes the best discoveries are the ones you weren’t expecting to make.
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Music Review: Band of the Week, Emelee – Songs from Kiss And Tell— There is a common theme - Love.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Emelee
— "It gets really busy. Sometimes I just want to sleep."
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - The Hereafter— "I’d take you upstairs and lock the door and I wouldn’t care when your parents heard you screaming for more.”
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Band Of The Week: The Hereafter
— After talking about the real meaning of the word vagina, the “Master Cleanser” diet, and John Mayer, we had the following conversation.
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Band Of The Week: The New Amsterdams— Matt Pryor talks about The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, Kansas, and watching other men pee.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - The Crash Moderns— The Crash Moderns five track self-titled EP is the absolute ideal of flirtatious, effervescent, sublime pop music.
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Band Of The Week: The Crash Moderns— This five-piece, power-pop band have a sound that is an exciting mix of retro-pop and modern pop-rock.
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Band Of The Week: Music Review - Aaron McMullan— Aaron’s deep voice is subtly passionate in its soft, genteel melancholy. It smoulders with deep regret and unrequited lust.
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Band Of The Week: Aaron McMullan a.k.a. The Duke De Mondo— Aaron: "So yeah… (laughing) I’m naked when I sing."
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Band Of The Week: Music Video Review - American Princes "Never Grow Old"— Take a look at the American Princes new video. It's innovative and ingenious... something you could make at home or school, while doodling in class..
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Band of the Week: American Princes
— It's like making love outside in the pouring rain. You can imagine how very excited I was.
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Interview/Music Review: Band of the Week - The Ruse— I learned they had recorded it on a laptop in a closet, “With clothes on the floor and everything”.
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Band Of The Week: The Ruse
— I expected the stereotype: arrogant, narcissistic, shallow. But John Dauer is intelligent, articulate, deeply thoughtful and has a charming sense of humour.
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Band Of The Week: The Perfect Addiction— They have strong Christian beliefs but they consider themselves rockers, who are Christian, making mainstream music.
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Band Of The Week: Big Strides— Not the best decision I have ever made, because they said yes, and ambushed me right back.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Futuro— Bloc Party being held hostage by Audioslave and forced to dance, while Franz Ferdinand watch and laugh!
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Interview: Band of the Week - Futuro— Glasgow based Futuro are three of the nicest men I have ever met, and they still rock.
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CD Review: Attic Lights— So what happens when you mix alt.coutry with indie rock? Attic Lights.
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Band Of The Week: Attic Lights
— Any more rope and we're going to hang ourselves.
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Blogcritics News: New Music Feature - Band Of The Week— We will be featuring a different (preferably unsigned) band every week. But we need bands!
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