me = drums, feedback, guitar loops, microphone headset. My 17 1/2 minute record, "Who Are Your Customers" is available through Furniture Records (furniturerecords@gmail.com) or me (grassmaze@hotmail.com. thank you.

Though formed nearly 17 years ago, Grand Champeen's current lineup was established in March of 2000. GC started touring in the fall of 2000 and have continued to tour the nation ever since. With three albums under their belt, Grand Champeen is about to unleash their most potent platter to date. Like many of their influences, evolution and growth are the name of the game. Expect the same old Grand Champeen taking their next step in songwrit...read more

Hailing from Tempe, Arizona, Jared and Michael Bell formed Lymbyc Systym late in 2001. Drawing inspiration from the groups Tortoise, My Bloody Valentine and Four Tet, their compositions cleverly combine vintage keyboards, infectious melodies, analog effects, dynamic drumming, and intricate laptop programming to form melodic and cohesive tracks that blur the borders between post-rock, indie-rock, and folktronica. As the opening act for the Albu...read more

David Fricke of Rolling Stone called My Education's sound "advanced ecstasy" and announced the band as his "surprise find" at SXSW 2005, but plenty of fans from central Texas and all around the globe already knew that My Education are better than drugs: the pulse-pounding emotion of their visceral live shows and the lyrical beauty and dark grandeur of their recorded output had heralded this from the get-go. Formed in Au...read more

There was always a hint of menace to the music of Austin's Okkervil River. Two albums -- Down the River of Golden Dreams and Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See -- dealt with the sad stuff, but the postmodern chamber pop arrangements were warm. Things changed on Black Sheep Boy. The band got dark. Frontman Will Sheff's lyrics were the stuff of nightmares and horror films full of gnashing teeth, claws, shredded throats and buck...read more

Rock / Indie / Pop

Melvins are an American rock band and usually play as a trio. Singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne (aka "King Buzzo") and drummer Dale Crover are constant members, but several bass guitarists have been through the group. The band was named after a grocery clerk at the Thriftway in Montesano, Washington where Osborne served as clerk (and vandal). Melvin was the most-hated fellow employee and the band's members felt it to be an appropriat...read more

SINGLE REVIEW by Bodie Plecas for Morning Paper "The Steps new single hits the top floor As I've lamented many times, the Brits seem to discover the great American bands long before we do at home. The Strokes, White Stripes, Orson - all examples of US bands that had huge success across the pond before finding an equal audience in the land of their birth. Add another band to that list. Austin's rocking combo The Steps have released...read more

*clarke wilson on bass / on the microphone *adam r. hatley on guitar / on the microphone *erik conn on the drum / on the cymbal

our blend of improvisational , heavy metal , stoner blues completely kicks ass!!! try it out . you'll see! we finally turned in the tracks and art work for our next release on australian cattle god!!! the release will be self titled with cover art by winn wallace of gorch fock. keep your eyes and ears open for a release date in mid october !!! cheers -tia here is a cool review of one of our releases from an online mag from somewhere in swi...read more

Admirers of My Morning Jacket and Nada Surf will appreciate Band Of Horses' brand of intelligent, jangly, folkish rock. 'Cease To Begin' is the second album by this trio from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains and, with angel-voiced lead singer Ben Bridwell at the fore, it's a delightfully soothing record. It's founded on some Flaming Lips-style handclapping, ghostly echoes, plinky-plonk piano amid much musing on lo...read more

Most people fail to make The Leap in life because they make the same mistakes over and over again and fail to correct them. Justin Furstenfeld made The Leap precisely because he made the same mistakes over and over again and failed to correct them. The jarringly frank “Hate Me,” is one of many reasons that his chameleonic modern rock outfit Blue October is evolving from an intensely beloved cult band to fledgling mainstream radio c...read more

"Cry Blood Apache’s guerrilla approach to playing shows (alleyways, massage parlors, porn-store parking lots) reflects their equally abrasive and hypnotic sound... An infectious, poppier mix of Suicide and early Ministry, CBA’s beat-heavy electro-jerk can be heard on their CD and tape releases, but it’s best experienced live and pumped loud." - Audra Schroeder

If you made it in here you obviously know something about De La Soul. We could talk history and accomplishments for days...the future is our "now" concern. So we ask, where is Hip Hop going and where will De La go with it? Stick around, you will find out. For the new heads who are here to learn more about De La, go buy a record or a CD. Our lives are in each song...enjoy! You're Welcome.

Davis grew up in Hayward, CA, a predominantly lower-middle-class suburb of San Francisco. The odd white suburban hip-hop fan in the hard rock-dominated early '80s, Davis gravitated toward the turntable/mixer setup of the hip-hop DJ over the guitars, bass, and drums of his peers. He worked his way through hip-hop's early years into the heyday of crews like Eric B. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MC's, and Public Enemy, groups that promin...read more

Indie / Country / Other 

Pittsburgh's Greg Gillis is arguably the nation's hottest mash-up DJ; at least, he's the best-reviewed one. His albums are more like party mixes and are crammed with enough samples (both left-field and top-forty) to keep music nerds at rapt attention. It's more than just geekery, though; this guy drops serious bangers. www.last.fm 

HüTZNOMOVETZ - INTRO WORD - There are many of us for whom music is an irreplaceable part of life We rely on it to take us out of sadness, pressures of poverty, youth, age, etc Mixed with alcohol it seems to be a remedy for just about anything Be it a rapid fire of notes exploding in catharsis all over the major key or an obsessive marathon of soul-searching sounds crawling around minor it all appears somehow more solid and present in our ...read more

Dubbed "an American roots musician of the highest order" by Texas Music magazine, Guy Forsyth is something of a musical shaman. As a singer, songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player and bandleader - as well as actor, martial arts devotee and master of the rare art of playing the musical saw - his goal whenever he steps onstage or into a recording studio is to create magic. "Music is at the core of every religion in the world,&quo...read more