Country music is full of Lazarus-like figures, but nobody rises from the dead like John Anderson. Once a top draw and a regular presence atop the charts, the Florida born singer/songwriter has led an impressive yet tumultuous career. With an influence that is undeniable, his unique style helped pave the way for the current country…
Scary Kids Scaring Kids were a pretty monumental band during the so-called scene days of concert-goers of events such as Warped Tour and other tours featuring similar artists such as Attack Attack! and others considered to be screamo style of metalcore that was quickly rising, a genre that heavily featured keyboards and breakdowns. Unfortunately, although…
Weezer has released many albums in their long career, but among their most interesting have always been their self-titled, or color-themed albums, such as “The Blue Album” or “The Black Album”, which are nicknames technically as the albums are truly titled “Weezer”. In total Weezer has released 6 self-titled albums, starting with their debut “Weezer”….
Glen Danzig started his career as a singer for the groups Samhain and Misfits, turning to his namesake heavy metal band Danzig later. The controversial group combined heavy metal with various genres. You heard blues and darkness that gave them their signature sound in some albums with abrupt changes utilizing experimental sounds. The group released…
Dance Gavin Dance has always been a band of questionable lyrics and strange instrumental tracks to back them, but behind that, there has been a constantly rotating group of Swancore, and similar, artists and bands to help keep the band going when it was necessary. Now some odd years later, the band may have shifted…
Enter Shikari, a band that may best be known from the MySpace era has always been a highly interesting band, with their use of sounds literally no other band has ever or will ever use, with the extensive use of equipment that the band incorporates into their music. The band hail from the U.K. where…
Dance Gavin Dance has been a band with a rotating lineup of singers throughout its history but upon finding their current singer, the band has stayed with the vocalist ever since. However, even with finding a permanent vocalist in Tillian Pearson, who has been featured on the band’s Punk Goes Pop cover, Dance Gavin Dance…
After getting off to a slightly shaky start, Sonic Youth delivered a minor masterpiece with their third studio album, EVOL. From there, things just got better. They might never have been the most commercial band on the block, but their influence on the alt-rock scene of the late ’80s and ’90s is hard to overestimate….
Nina Simone was always an artist who defied labels, a classical pianist who could tackle a pop ballad as easily as a jazz standard, who could transform throwaway be-pop ditties into scorching spirituals and gentle folk songs into blistering rockers. She breathed new life into familiar lyrics, while also penning some of the most inspired…