Ways to be awesome:
#1: Sample the Hook soundtrack
Unsigned Fort Worth bedroom project, HasJ, slices and dices audio clips from Hook (including some of the original John Williams music) in a stroke a sheer genius on “Bangarang.” The track is one of many electronic, instrumental jams aching to be on the next Kid Cudi mixtape streaming [...]

I was clicking around Delta Mirror’s Myspace and came across Franco Near Death, an unsigned LA based band with a handful of solid tracks on their player. About a year ago, the band told Radio Free Silver Lake that they were working on a new record, but, from the looks of it, they seem to [...]

I can’t imagine anything more perfect making its way to my inbox on a day like today. It feels like it’s been raining for 4 months straight here in NYC, and being from Brooklyn, I believe that Hollands relate to my New York summer rain blues.
The band is set to release their second EP, Mother, [...]

For the past 6 years, I’ve been genuinely disturbed by every solo release by former Life of Agony frontman Keith Caputo. I don’t think the man knows how to write anything but incredible, intense, soul crushing music. After 7 amazing albums (including one with band Freax and a live record), Keith’s library of work is [...]

Riding Between Cars, British born musician Mark Bleasdale’s one-man-band, is an NYC indie project if I ever heard one. The fast-paced electronic influenced rock songs are as catchy as they are depressing, musically personifying a move across the pond. Mark used nothing but Garagaband and an acoustic guitar to create the 6 remarkable songs on [...]

Boston’s Boy in Static has developed exponentially since I first blogged about them in 2006 (Myspace Music Review: I thought it was a good idea). To quote me, “the music of Alexander Chen is a Bloody Smashing Cure of lushy electronic pro tools pop. Chen’s vocals are nothing short of brilliant; a moaning and groaning [...]