Some confusion has unfortunately arisen in the world of music so let’s get it cleared up at the jump. There are two bands out there named Attack! Attack! One is a very fine punk band from Columbus, Ohio which is in the middle of an extremely backbreaking tour of the...

If karma comes back three-fold (or is it ten-fold?) then I think Bag of Toys' Afternooner was my reward for the seven hundred and one things that kept me from it for so long. (so much for the flu shot protecting me from much. I don't think I've ever been...

Calamity Magnet is a new group from Los Angeles featuring the sounds of Sara Radle as the lead vocalist and other people playing instruments. I would list these other folks but their MySpace has one list and the EP has another so I don’t really know what’s going on there....

I don’t know quite what I was expecting when I put JOURNEY, the debut project by Nigerian-born Douye in the player, but it wasn’t what I got. And that’s a good thing. Other than for a couple of minor (and only mildly distracting) missteps, JOURNEY is a joy. I have...

Elika, a duo out of Brooklyn, New York has broken out into the electro/pop music scene with their debut CD, Trying Got Us Nowhere. Evagelia Maravelias (vocals, keyboards, drums) and Brian Wenckebach (guitar, programming) make up this distinct duo. And yet nowhere is where they might end up.   I’m not...

Brooklyn has an abundance of bands doing their best to break out with the next big album. Most bands toil for years and years without ever even getting an EP to a record company. Ford and Fitzroy finally found a company willing to put out their full length debut Canyon...

Louisville native, Aaron Frisbee, better known as Frisbee, is the master mind behind the soft-rock album, ReDISCOVERY. Frisbee’s music is reflective and soft to the touch, definitely something to listen to if you’re ever in the mood to contemplate life. With simple lines like, “I heard you can’t love everyone...

It has now been a little over a year and half since Mark Crozer decided to start a new band called the International Jetsetters. Most people have absolutely no idea who Mark Crozer is, but you may know him better as the lead guitarist from the legendary indie rock band,...

I shit you not. At first blush, a CD anthology titled IRISH HIP HOP Vol. 1 full of Irish rap and hip hop would seem to be dead on arrival, kind of like a Jamaican bobsled team. It combines hip hop beats with traditional Irish music and influences and in...

Being born in Wyoming and raised in Missouri is an odd way to end up in Wales. Most people have no idea where to find the country of Wales on a globe. Maybe the rolling hills of Wales remind Nichols of his home in the Midwestern United States or maybe...