The Who: Sun Drug (Los Angeles, CA) The What: Even while still under the moniker of the quintet Vanaprasta, Steven Wilkin, Collin Desha, Taylor Brown and Cameron Dmytryk were on an exploratory musical path: moving outside the lines of psych/prog-rock, the songs were becoming increasingly more agitated and incredibly experimental. Time spent receiving counsel from Silver Lake, CA shaman, Rocco DeLuca, […]
The Who: Fictionist (Provo, UT) The What: The music industry can be an unfortunately funny thing but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be inspirational. Life on a major record label doesn’t always live up to the hype and Utah’s Fictionist (Stuart Maxfield/lead vox & guitar, Robbie Connolly/lead vox & bass, Brandon Kitterman/guitar & bass, and Aaron Anderson/drums) tasted that […]
The Who: Daniel Johns (Newcastle, Australia) The What: Daniel Johns’ post-Silverchair life has pretty much been on his own terms and one of those terms included disappearing from the spotlight for 8 years. Now he may have been gone, but he was never completely silent: writing, as well as exploring various musical terrains outside of the grunge and rock box […]
The Who: Jeremy Loops (Cape Town, South Africa) The What: Jeremy’s debut album, Trading Change, is due out August 11th. Now while you may not be particularly familiar with the guy, rest assured he’s made a name for himself back home in his native South Africa as a festival headliner, the owner of #1 singles and a passionate activist and protector […]
The Who: Satellite Sky (Los Angeles, CA) The What: It’s just another day in the park for the Melbourne, Australia brother/sister rock duo of Kim Kicks (drums) and Pete Kicks (vox/guitar). “Next Time” is the first single from their brand new album, Magnetize, and in a cosmically comical fashion and a blurring of the lines between a Pink Panther movie and a […]
The Who: The Moth & the Flame (Los Angeles, CA) The What: While we wait for their second full length album (their first on Elektra Records) to materialize, let’s examine The Moth & the Flame’s brand new video for their brand new single, “Young & Unafraid.” Attitude: check. Determination: check. Failure not being an option: check. Defiant statement of purpose: […]
The Who: Mothxr (Brooklyn, NY) The What: Yes, it’s pronounced “Mother.” But crazy spelling aside, since their inception in the Summer of 2014, the Brooklyn bedroom four-piece Mothxr (Jimmy Giannopoulos, Simon Oscroft, Darren Will and fronted by Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgely) has dished out moody and broody electronic soul, baby-making music. Live shows have been sparse, (mostly contained to New York […]
