Jeremy Slivnick

Bowling For Soup is the greatest band ever to emerge from the great state of Texas, hmmm, but theyve recently adopted the UK as their homeland when earlier this year their fab-fans and readers, viewers, and listeners of the Kerrang rawk empire voted them #10 of the 100 Best Rock Bands...

DEER TICK: THE UNLIKELY SAVIOURS OF LIVE MUSIC by Finbarr Bermingham Remember the good ol days? You remember, back when Pluto was still a planet? People used to laugh, regularly. They would shout, maybe have a little drinkie and, yknow, enjoy themselves? Oh, nostalgia! And, sometimes, people would go to concerts...

B-Real is the lead member of the legendary rap group Cypress Hill, who through their illustrious career have sold over 17 million records world-wide. B-Real just released a solo album entitled Smoke N Mirrors with features from Damian Jr Gong Marley, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Too $hort, Buckshot, and more.

Fool’s Gold is a Los Angeles collective that weaves together western pop aesthetics with African rhythms and melodies. The group started as a side project of two young LA musicians, vocalist/bassist Luke Top and lead guitarist Lewis Pesacov, who set out to explore their shared love of various forms of African...

DEER TICK: THE UNLIKELY SAVIOURS OF LIVE MUSIC by Finbarr Bermingham Remember the good ol days? You remember, back when Pluto was still a planet? People used to laugh, regularly. They would shout, maybe have a little drinkie and, yknow, enjoy themselves? Oh, nostalgia! And, sometimes, people would go to concerts...

Kidz In The Hall are an MC/Producer duo who have had much success over the past couple years. The release of their album, THE IN CROWD, in 2008, which featured hit records Drivin Down The Block and Love Hangover ft Estelle, helped put the group on the national radar. Following this...

He is a standard bearer for what folks call ‘old school’ music, a contemporary artist continuing a time-honored tradition that goes back to the ‘60s and ‘70s. From his early days as a member of the groundbreaking ‘80s group Tony! Toni! Toné! through his work as an award-winning producer of such...

Hilly Kristals grimy NYC emporium of punk changed the world of music from an unlikely location in the Bowery. In the late 70s, CBGB & OMFUG was the beachhead of American punk. A wide array of artists first gained acclaim at CBGB, including Television, Patti Smith, Talking Heads and Blondie. The...

Seattle musician Rocky Votolato is a soft-spoken, very kind, very hard-working father of two, born in rural Texas and raised in the Pacific Northwest indie scene (where he fronted the acclaimed rock band Waxwing). In his decade-plus life as a songwriter and musician he has sought to articulate something essential about...

The Walkmen is a rock band formed in New York in 2000. In the late 90s, the guys constructed an analogue recording studio in an abandoned Nash Rambler factory in west Harlem, where they self-recorded their first album, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone. Three of the members now...

Chamillionaire thrives under pressure… As an unknown rapper in Houston at the start of the new millennium, the aspiring rap superstar knew he needed to make a name for himself at a time when his city’s buzz was hovering near zero on the rap popularity scale. His innovative decision:¬ use of...

The Walkmen is a rock band formed in New York in 2000. In the late 90s, the guys constructed an analogue recording studio in an abandoned Nash Rambler factory in west Harlem, where they self-recorded their first album, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone. Three of the members now...