When the OnPoint Music and Arts Festival was initially announced, I was immediately taken by the quality of the lineup curation and overall organization. Then I found out the festival was the passion project of two Stevens Institute of Technology [...]
If you are in the ska-punk scene and haven’t been listening to everything The Interrupters put out, you’ve been messing up pretty bad. This band has made more progress in the scene in the last two years than most bands [...]
For the San Francisco-based artist Jimmy Dias, life has offered several callings. In duly following, Dias has found enlightenment in studying to be a shamanic healer and through music. It was through the latter pursuit that Dias came to found [...]
Less Than Jake – the band that has had more influence on my sound than any other band I’ve ever listened to – was the second interview of my Fake Famous career! I’ve hung out with the guys of Less [...]
Every year, we all ask ourselves the question: Is Warped Tour worth going to this year? For the second time in my life, the answer was a clear “YES!” There was so much talent on this tour that I didn’t [...]
Photo Credit: Nick Sayers The ever evolving, in lineup and sound, Oxford, UK-based group TTNG (formerly known as This Town Needs Guns) are never afraid to push their work out of their comfort zone. Their just-released third LP, Disappointment Island, [...]
DIY-ers in the truest sense, Toronto-based punk-rockers Bad Buzz formed as many great bands do; via Down To Jam. The four piece consisting of Andrew Laurie, Tristan Loria, Troy Fullerton and Ross Carvelli recorded their debut EP earlier this year [...]
Although they certainly evoke the sounds of retro 80’s influences, synth-electro-pop group Marsheaux has been on the cusp of new trends since the first started gaining traction in their home country of Greece in 2003. Before the advent of Youtube, [...]
Photo Credit: Julia Dratel Since 2003, Chicago-based artist Brian J Sulpizio has been recording under the moniker of Health&Beauty. Over the course of five albums, Health&Beauty has experimented with a variety of styles and lineups, with pianist Ben Boye and [...]
Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez It’s fitting that the latest from Kent Odessa, “Palms Hotel,” at least titularly, reflects the diverse ranges of places its creator recorded the album on which it will eventually appear. When crafting the LPs worth of [...]
