The Amazing Pilots are brothers Paul and Phil Wilkinson who traveled from a small town in Ireland to record their gentle tunes in England After a self-released EP titled Graduate Blood in 2001 and a respectable review from the NME the duo signed with…

Besides Black Flags Greg Ginn The Meat Puppets Curt Kirkwood was one of the top guitarists to emerge from the 80s US punk rock movement But in truth Kirkwoods playing and writing has little to do with punk besides being full of punks energy and unpre…

The Swords Project was formed in 1999 in Portland OR when two bands the Icebreak and Slower Than would play songs and improvise together at the same shows The collective dubbed themselves the Swords hired assassins of rock and were later renamed the …

Beginning in 2002 Austin-based metalcore quintet At All Cost started working hard to record book shows and promote its political and social agenda to anyone who would listen Texas audiences responded both to the music and the bands hard work and by 2…

Encouraged by his parents Ian Moore took up the violin at age six moving to guitar nine years later The Austin-based blues-rockers early influences included the Beatles Curtis Mayfield Stevie Wonder and Sly the Family Stone Moore gained experience t…

Inspired by the disparate likes of My Bloody Valentine and Joni Mitchell Irelands Gemma Hayes began to receive a fair amount of notice during 2001 as a rising singersongwriter Signed to Frances hip Source label on the strength of a demo that lacked a…

Bassist Steve Dawson played an integral role in the success of British metallers Saxon which began in 1972 as Son of a Bitch he got the gigs drove the van and sent the demos However the band stayed unsigned until 1979 when Carrere Records issued Saxo…

Over the Rhine had already developed a large and intensely loyal following in its native Cincinnati OH before they independently released their first two albums Till We Have Faces 1991 and Patience 1992 Their music which they aptly dubbed post-nuclea…

There has to be some credit given at least for this bands name alone -- co-founder John Gourley once explained it as an attempt to create a demi-mythic entity bigger than the individual members Whatever the exact origins of the name Portugal The Man …

The lo-fi experimental outfit National Eye came together in 2002 while each member attended college in Colorado Jeff Love Doug Kirby Richard Flom and William Baggott were given a four-track recorder by a friend and almost immediately the foursome fou…