Scale the Summit is an American progressive metal band based out of Houston, Texas. It formed in 2004 and signed to Prosthetic Records. The band draws influences from other progressive acts such as Cynic and Dream Theater. However, unlike most other progressive metal bands, they have no vocalist and play solely instrumental music.
In 2004, Guitarists Chris Letchford and Travis Levrier moved to Los Angeles to attend the Musicians Institute where they met drummer Pat Skeffington. Several months later, the band was complete with the addition of Jordan Eberhardt, while attending M.I. Chris and Travis also attended a luthier course, where the duo learned to build their own custom guitars. At the end of 2006, Scale The Summit moved to Letchford's home state of Texas where they released their self-released debut album, Monument. They slowly started to gain attention from magazines such as Kerrang and Rock Sound and Amp. A couple years later in 2008 they signed with Prosthetic Records and began working on their second album, Carving Desert Canyons. It was this album that started getting them a lot more attention and it was soon after that they really started to become more known within the metal community through such avenues as the Progressive Nation tour. After a couple more years of touring the band settled in again in late 2010 to record their most recent album, The Collective.
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Bad Weather California describes themselves as
"A punk band that doesn't sound like one. A sound track to a made up movie about the summer you spent skateboarding, discovering drugs, going to the beach, falling in love... This is American music. Drawing on The Velvet Underground, John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band to the Minutemen and Black Flag, Bad Weather California is both timeless and classic yet forward-thinking and modern.
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Twin Sister create the kind of buzzy hypnotic pop you've been dreaming about since Galaxie 500 fizzled, cut with Tusk-era Fleetwood Mac thump, and a shot of Lynchian weirdness for good measure. They're slack yet focused, a spark in the dark distance on a desert highway where speed is relative.
Formed in Long Island two years ago, the band has lately been wooing fans and critics alike, with glowing write ups in Chocolate Bobk, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Said the Gramophone, My Old Kentucky Blog, and dozens more, all on the strength of a free debut EP. Their first official release will be entitled "Color Your Life", and is being released in May on Infinite Best Recordings.
More than anything, Twin Sister want to make music you could feel comfortable cheating on someone to.
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Mike Pinto has crafted an exceptional style of songwriting, with a truly unique take on Roots, Vintage Rock, Reggae, Ska and Classic Surf, but it's his distinct voice and seamless storytelling that have brought him success both in the States and overseas.
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Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows (aka D.R.U.G.S.) was created by Craig Owens in 2010 in Pontiac, Michigan. They released their debut album D.R.U.G.S. on February 22, 2011. The band's members were originally announced in several YouTube video updates on Craig Owens' channel. The band's original lineup was Craig Owens (ex-Chiodos, Cinematic Sunrise, Isles & Glaciers), Matt Good (ex-From First To Last), Aaron Stern (ex-Matchbook Romance), and Nick Martin (ex-Underminded), with Adam Russel (Story Of The Year) being the band's latest addition.
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Wings and teeth. No two symbols could've been better chosen to represent Minneapolis rap stalwarts Doomtree. The endlessly innovative crew/label has defied categorization from the start, leaving behind convention for what's best described as aggressive transcendence. Through a tireless work ethic, take-noprisoners production, lyrics that never shy from truth, and an always shifting stylistic mix, this family has carved out an elevated corner unto itself. And like most families, as well as the imagery this one employs, Doomtree is as defined by its internal differences as its similarities: Seven artists whose diversity of tastes and consistency of character combine to make the team an unstoppable, honest, creatively vicious whole.
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The Lemonheads formed in 1986. Their popularity grew during the following decade with the 1992 album It's A Shame About Ray, which was produced, engineered, and mixed by The Robb Brothers (Bruce Robb, Dee, and Joe), followed by a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson", which eventually became one of the band's most successful singles. Cited as one of the most important alternative rock groups, The Lemonheads were active until 1997 and went on hiatus, but reformed with a new lineup in 2005 and released The Lemonheads in the following year. The band released its latest album, Varshons, in June 2009.
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Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors find themselves in the midst of a creative revival of popular music in Nashville, where artists like Kings of Leon, Jack White, Mat Kearney, and a legion of other national acts have re-invented the reputation of Nashville as a hotbed of music beyond the realm of Country. Holcomb and his band have found their own unique niche in this scene, with their 2008 LP, Passenger Seat, and their 2009 EP, Live Forever, both debuting at #2 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts. They've also had multiple TV placements on shows like NBCs Parenthood, Oprah, Army Wives, The Cleaner, and others, proving that Holcomb's career has stretched far beyond the TN state limits where he was born and raised.
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On January 24, Barsuk Records will release La Grande, the 3rd album by native Oregonian songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Laura Gibson. La Grande is a town just east of the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon, a place that "people usually pass through on their way to somewhere else, but which contains a certain gravity, a curious energy." It's an album about strength and confidence – about the tension between wildness and domesticity and the courage required to embark upon either path, about asserting one's will rather than submitting. Joining Gibson on the album are musicians including Joey Burns of Calexico and members of The Dodos and The Decemberists. Gibson's previous album, Beasts of Seasons, was highly praised:
"One of the year's most breathtaking albums. Beasts of Seasons is nothing short of a masterpiece." NPR National Public Radio
"Both quietly devastating and life affirming." **** 4 stars MOJO
"A new soundtrack for your next long hike through the enchanted forest." Rolling Stone
"Gibson treats syllables with the same patience and loving precision a mosaic maker might put into cutting and arranging his / her tiles…rewards repeat listens." Pitchfork
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What do you do when you feel like you're surrounded by darkness and demons? Some pull up the covers and hide, but not The Polyphonic Spree. Their exciting new album, The Fragile Army, is an exuberant and passionate explosion that finds the Dallas-based symphonic rock group joyfully raging against the dying of the light with newfound zeal. "We were going in a high-energy direction, because that's the way we are in our live show," declares co-leader/songwriter Tim DeLaughter. "I think that this album is the one that best captures the Spree live experience." The band's other leader/songwriter, Julie Doyle, is equally excited about their third LP. "We really hit the nail on the head this time; this is the Spree at its finest."
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