For personal health reasons, former Ohioan, current Chicagoan Jessica Murnane started a food revolution that is quickly taking root with others in her community. Founding One Part Plant, an online blog, newsletter and outreach organization that partners with restaurants to create more plant-based dishes, Murnane discovered her untapped passion for encouraging herself and others to [...]
It can be difficult for a fledgling band to attract listeners based solely on musical merit and, while it’s not uncommon to mention members’ previous endeavors, Highness’ debut album Hold stems from a desire to create something more than the sum of its parts, something hinted at by the contributing artists’ past work but [...]
Baltimore rock five-piece In Between cite influences like Quicksand, Silent Majority, Avail and Lifetime, while melding post-punk, post-hardcore and pop-punk styles to create a complex sound that is uniquely their own. Grinding riffs and emotionally charged vocals abound as In Between charge through five new songs on Still, pushing and exploring the boundaries of their [...]
Jarringly heavy and delicately emotional, Doylestown, Pennsylvania’s Daylight has spent the past few years honing their brooding, grooving sound across several EPs. In 2008, friends Taylor Madison (vocals/guitar), Joe Kane (bass) and Jake Clarke (vocals/guitar) began writing songs calling on ‘90s grunge and punk influences all while adding their own dark vibe. That vibe is [...]
On May 21st, 2013, The Story Changes bring a welcomed sunrise to the music of the last decade, as their artwork depicts from the band’s 3rd full-length studio album, Static And Trembling. The new album revisits a better time in music, which sounds more like the greats of the ‘90s than nearly anything released in [...]
Laura Stevenson comes from a long line of musicians. Her mother’s parents were successful musicians; Harry Simeone, the composer and choral arranger responsible for such works as “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Do You Hear What I Hear?” and Margaret McCravy (stage name McCrae), a singer from South Carolina who got her start accompanying [...]
Though metal has traditionally been a rigidly white and male dominated universe, it spoke loudly to a young Laina Dawes. In her groundbreaking heavy metal memoir, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal,” Dawes chronicles the good, bad and ugly sides of being a black woman navigating [...]
Emo bands have long been a spring board that yields serious musicianship across genres. Whether that is a result of maturity or changing tastes is perhaps a product of the individual musician. But, it goes without saying that Strictly Ballroom, the dynamic and innovative melodic hardcore band that was the product of one particular group [...]
To say that Texas Is The Reason were influential is an incredible disservice; frankly, the deafening response to their reunion and subsequent discography reissue (on Revelation in February) says the band ARE influential. Coming from some of the most popular, if not polarizing, hardcore bands of the early ’90s (Shelter, 108, Ressurection), Texas Is The [...]
Over the last decade, veteran Seattle quintet Minus The Bear avoided the pitfalls that would remove a lesser band from the game before their time, continuing to recreate and reinvent themselves without straying too far from their guitar-centric indie roots. The band, who is recognized for their bristling guitar acrobatics and technically focused pop [...]