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Back Burner

Just started listening to these guys a few weeks back. They’re pretty cool, production on their newest disc (White Lies) sounds great, songs are catchy, good stuff.  Haven’t actually listened to the first one, but as you may know i don’t really like band’s first albums.

The story starts in the very same place that it does for most bands: begin recording demos, show demos around, label interest heats up, finish album, talk to labels, think some more about it, sign in blood, begin touring endlessly on said album. But its here where the differences between LoveHateHero and the rest of the bands today start to show.

Three days before the band’s 4th major tour on their first album, three of the members left. Including BOTH guitar players and one of the guitar players even takes the Van with him (due to being the owner of the band and needing to pay off the debt for buying the van). And all of the sudden, there were only two members left. Faced with the decision (and challenge) to either throw in the towel, or try and find a way to keep going, Paris and Pierrick chose the latter. To them, it was an easy decision in the face of the worst of circumstances.

And that decision has come to define this band as a band who does not stop, give in, skip shows, forget fans names, or by any other means, back down in the face of adversity. Brand new van’s gone? Fine. We’ll dump the bank accounts, bust out the circular saw, and take the road in a bunked-out former city transit van. What’s that about fried trailer axles, tires, fuel injectors? Who cares. Its time to rock. You can be guaranteed if something out there gets in the way of this band making it to the next show, they are going to find a way around it, or through it. And when they get to town and hit the stage, nothing matters anymore but the rock. Not how many kids are there, not how sick they are of one another, nothing. Guitar players want to stay home and cuddle with their chicks? Fine, with a couple phone calls from their drummer Scott Gee, a schooled musician and drummer since the age of 7, and a wink and a nod from the universe, Mike Russell shows up ready to jump in the band and leave home forever.

Couple weeks into the tour, with a good natured Canadian filling in on second guitar, they roll into another faceless club in upstate New York, only to find guitar whiz Kevin Gruft warming up for his local band - except his warmup sounds like George Dokken battling EVH.

The boys immediately lock him in their sights, and following his graduation from high school, fly him out to Los Angeles to start working on the 2nd album. This is how LoveHateHero gets it done - full-on commitment to the cause and connection with every living soul they play for. This is a band on the mission to bring their music as hard as possible to any stage that will have them. And deliver it all with a personal passion for the stories they tell, and the ones they create with their fans and friends all along the way.

Yeah, yea. Powerpop/Pop-punk is so last year. Still, this band is awesome, they write great songs. Expect to see lots more of them real soon. The singer looks like the singer from Eve6’s little brother. If he has one. Quite goonish. Good voice and awesome tunes tho.

The bandmembers first met at Martha B. King Middle School in Bradenton, and their name refers to this institution. The group began playing together while at Manatee High School in the early 2000s, and landed on the PureVolume Top 10 list after hiring a manager. After continuing success via internet sites such as MySpace, the group signed to S-Curve Records, who issued their debut self-titled album on October 2, 2007. The album peaked at #33 on Billboard’s Top Heatseekers chart.

This pop rock quartet hailing from Bradenton, Florida are currently signed to the independent label S-Curve Records.

Skyway Avenue - Love the handwritten signs…makes for a great, albeit very common, story.

Check Yes Juliet

They might as well be a slightly poppier Lost Prophets, good tunes. This is basically what i wish the lead singer from LP sounded like. less nasal.

“Kids In Glass Houses are a powerpop five-piece from Cardiff, South Wales with infectious hooks and vocals.

They signed a record deal with Roadrunner Records in December ‘07.

Formed in 2003 and since then have supported bands like Lostprophets, Cute Is What We Aim For, Simple Plan, Paramore, New Found Glory and 30 Seconds to Mars. They are starting to gain notoriety and recently played at Give It A Name 2007. In 2007, the band also appeared at The Full Ponty Festival, Download Festival, Hyde Park Calling, Farnham’s Summer Breeze Festival, Collision Course Festival and the Reading and Leeds Festivals.”

KiGH - Easy Tiger

This is a band that i will be totally stoked to see on warp tour this yr.

Techcore is basically dance/electronica mixed with modern/post hardcore + screamo.

There is a song on their myspace called “Honest Hitchhikers..”. Listen to it. I dig their old shit.

I really hope to hear / discover more bands like this. Their CD is available at the usual locations.

The members of Sky Eats Airplane started their musical careers in two separate bands. Brack began playing guitar in Backseat Driver in 2003. It was a Punk/Post-Hardcore group which consistently drew a hundred people per show. Meanwhile, Lee created a band called Our First Fall with Daniel Hunter (Now PlayRadioPlay!), which had an indie/post-hardcore sound. By the time Backseat Driver failed due to problems with band members, Our First Fall was drawing a consistent hundred people per show. The band quickly jumped at the chance to let Brack play guitar. Brack and Lee used their differing musical approaches to their advantage, combining both traditional and radical sounds to create a unique chemistry. Lee had an inventive musical approach and Brack fine-tuned songs with his natural, music mindset. This creative path led them to experiment with electronica programs. Eventually, the band came to an impasse with Brack and Lee deciding to pursue a hybrid genre of electronica music and hardcore rock.

The Result was Sky Eats Airplane, created in 2005 by Lee Duck and Brack Cantrell. Following the release of several demo songs, the band became a huge online success and became well known in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. For a total of three months, Brack and Lee worked on their self-produced album titled “Everything Perfect On the Wrong Day”. The entire nine-track album was exclusively recorded and produced by the duo. On July 15th, 2006, Sky Eats Airplane held their CD release party for their debut album, and alone drew 125 people for a fantastic live show.

In the Fall of 2006, Brack left the band due to wanting to pursue softer, acoustic music. Lee took this as a great opportunity to have a nationwide search for the perfect singer for the band. After over two months of searching, Jerry Roush was made vocalist for the band. During the same time, local Texas metal act (in theory) broke up. In no time, three of their previous members joined the band: Zack Ordway, Johno Erickson, and Kenny Schick. Thus, Sky Eats Airplane has evolved into a full 5-piece band with two guitarists and a bassist, drummer, and singer.

Fucking fort worth.

Me: CHICAGO STOP SUPPORTING STUPID FUCKING COVER BANDS!
Chicago: but we do we have fall out boy and disturbed
Me: fob sucks live harder than life, and disturbed think theyre god, supported by bigger douchebag blowhard fans than dave matthews band.
Chicago: but we have q101
Me: *stabs chicago in face with fork*
Chicago: yea, we only like cover bands, you’re right

myspace.com/skyeatsairplanes

Here’s vids that don’t do the band justice.

Photographic Memory

The Artificial

One of chicago’s finest bands in the past few years, from the ashes of the blank theory and reforma, ladies and gentlemen, madina lake.

Madina Lake is a pop punk/post-hardcore band from Chicago, Illinois. The group officially formed in 2005 when twin brothers Nathan and Matthew Leone, both former members of The Blank Theory got the money to make their demo from winning Fear Factor twins. The $50,000 was the start up money for Madina Lake. Completing the 4-piece band is Mateo Camargo and Dan Torelli, former members of Chicago rock band Reforma.

I remember going to blank theory shows and reforma shows back when i was in grindbox. Both of these bands were great.

Madina Lake themes its music in a town created in the mind of the bass player, Matthew Leone. It is set high in the American mountains, and, isolated from human contact, has remained in a 1950s themed era. The music provides an outlet for the band’s views on politics, culture, and the media’s obsession with celebrity status. The theme behind the band’s music is in relation to the mystery of Adalia. The album artwork shows images of her and the mysteries behind her and the town of Madina Lake.

Thats the one thing that really got me into bands like this and 30stm, they are bands built on a whole theme and have a identity all their own.

If you have Tap Tap Revolution on your IPod or IPhone, you are welcome. I made tracks for the whole cd. =)

They also duplicated with a staple of the chicago music scene, Breakthrough audio. Joey Guyette is a smart guy. Props.

In any case..here’s videos. These guys are great.

Madina Lake EPK Part 1

Madina Lake EPK Part 2

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Think Dream Theater meets In flames + 5 shred. mmm. shred.

The Human Abstract is a metalcore/mathcore band with progressive elements from Los Angeles, California. The band’s name references a poem of the same title by William Blake.

They released their debut album Nocturne on Hopeless Records on August 22, 2006. The Human Abstract has received much critical acclaim for their skilled musicianship and ability to blend classical music with metalcore. In the past they have toured with bands such as All That Remains, Arsis, Goatwhore, God Forbid, Misery Signals, The Devil Wears Prada, Drop Dead, Gorgeous, Protest the Hero, The Chariot, and It Dies Today. They will be touring on The Warped Tour in 2007.

Official Myspace

Crossing The Rubicon

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The DVD should be out, but i haven’t been able to find it. I can’t wait. Underoath is my favorite band bar none.

In Regards To Myself - Live

One of my all time fav bands. Since Atrocity.

Nothingface have reunited with their classic line-up of Matt Holt, Tom Maxwell, Chris Houck and Bill Gaal and have begun writing and recording new material for a new album - their first with this line-up since “Violence” in 2000.

Thank you Prp.

NOW GET A DAMN RSS FEED!

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Will the next taproot album redeem their past two?

I can only hope.