Month: October 2007

Posted on: October 30, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Me First – Teenage Flatsy [ADB]

This 5 song EP was released on Broken Rekids. I paid $2 for this slab of plastic. Me First is another band with the older punk/rock feel, sounding like The Donnas, the Runaways, and Joan Jett. They have very classical (read:70’s) guitar riffs, and a shitload of distortion. Mr First is also another all female punk band. Me First’s vocals are rough and deep, which just adds to the 70’s…

Posted on: October 30, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Travelworm, A New Travel Site, Creates Links to the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and More

Already established as the premiere online source for travel deals, TravelWorm will continue to fuse its involvement in the worlds of entertainment, music, and fashion with upcoming sponsorship partnerships with the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Cancun Fashion Show, Miami’s Winter Music Conference, and the Cannes Film Festival, among others.

Posted on: October 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

The Dangerous Summer – If You Could Only Keep Me Alive

The Dangerous Summer – If You Could Only Keep Me Alive / 2007 Hopeless / 7 Tracks / http://www.hopelessrecords.com / http://www.myspace.com/dangeroussummer / “I Would Stay” starts out “If You Could Only Keep Me Alive”, and starts out slowly. The band kicks into gear soon after, and the Taking Back Sunday meets MxPx style of the vocals move away from their stark sound into meshing well with the instrumentation. “I Would…

Posted on: October 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Great Northern Release Songs Pre-Eenie Meenie Days

GREAT NORTHERN’S PRE-TWILIGHT RECORDINGS TO SEE LIGHT OF DAY; DIGITAL PRE-RELEASE SET FOR NOVEMBER 6, ALBUM OUT FEBRUARY 2008 LOS ANGELES, October 24, 2007 – Before Great Northern honed the lush lullabies that made up its arresting debut LP, “Trading Twilight for Daylight” (Eenie Meenie Records), the L.A.-based foursome constructed a set of songs that laid the early groundwork for the band’s cinematic pop. Previously only available at live shows,…

Posted on: October 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Underwhelmed hits the road in support of EP release

Brooklyn, NY is known for many things, but great Modern Rock is probably not one of them. Now the BK’s best kept secret, Underwhelmed, are looking to change that, breaking out with a 3 Month tour in support of their recently released EP, The War Between Myself and Me, available at shows and via mail-order and iTunes, with a full-length to follow in early 2008 on Corporate Punishment Records/Koch.

Posted on: October 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Lower East Side Stitches – Staja98L.E.S

This is great NYC old style punk, plain and simple. Amazingly good songs, and they are not straight edgers. That is good. A guy has a mohawk. They thank Joey Ramone. This is out on NG records, which is a pretty cool as fuck label. This amazing work of an album gets a 9 out of 10. Good Work guys, just stay together. The guys in the band have cool…

Posted on: October 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 1

Lestat – Grave Desires

This tape is 36 minutes long, and it is from Jevan Records, which probably is a defunct label which was out of Parma Heights Ohio. This is electronic gothic music, which mixes depressed Depeche Mode with some Cure, and it also has Female and Male vocals. Lestat uses old clips between songs, which is a good, albeit overused median between songs. These guys have slow Cure like guitars, with samplers…

Posted on: October 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Loudblast – Sublime Dementia [ADB]

The lead singer on this tape screams so much that it sounds like he is being anally rape and making words about it. The guitar parts on this tape are really clear sounding, and this band sounds like Morbid Angel or Cannibal Corpse. This tape was made in 1993, and the drums are extremely fast. On Noise/Futurist records. Rating:8/10 1

Posted on: October 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Angels and Airwaves Release I-Empire, Discuss Life

Angels and Airwaves’ 2006 debut We Don’t Need to Whisper signaled the beginning of a concept that not only continues, but flourishes with the release of the band’s sophomore full-length, I-Empire. That’s because the San Diego-based rock group, fronted by Tom DeLonge, has always considered both We Don’t Need to Whisper and I-Empire two halves of its double-album concept. While the band’s debut addressed infinite possibility in the human experience,…

Posted on: October 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 1

Skye Interview (JMcQ)

Hello Skye. Can you give us a quick overview of who you are and what type of music you create? Hi! I’m a singer/songwriter from New York. I’m also a student at Wesleyan University. I balance my life between school and singing. The music that I play is kind of a rock infused version of the girl singer/songwriter genre.