Battling entropy
There is a special kind of alchemy that is required in order for a band to make it as a self-sustaining entity. Band members need to be talented, smart enough [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in The Sound
Posted January 20, 2016in The Sound
Thomas Rhett’s tangled evolution
Thomas Rhett seems to be right out of central casting. The son of a successful country music performer and songwriter, Rhett is the Georgia boy with the guy-next-door good looks [...]
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Posted January 13, 2016in The Sound
Doing it their way
7 Minutes in Heaven has taken a few unique turns to get to where it is today. And while the band’s profile is still on the rise, the one thing [...]
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Posted January 06, 2016in The Sound
William Clark Green’s Lone Star success
William Clark Green is a Texas boy, through and through. Born in Flint, Texas, the 29-year-old has cut his teeth on the Lone Star State’s dusty roads, and his music [...]
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Posted December 23, 2015in The Sound
Letting the kids play
In case you missed it, the Des Moines City Council held a vote a couple of weeks ago regarding the city’s all-ages show ordinance. For those unaware, the city ordinance [...]
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Posted December 16, 2015in The Sound
’Tis the season
Minnesota-based vocal group Tonic Sol Fa has been putting on an annual Christmas show for almost as long as they’ve been active. In fact, the holiday season has always played [...]
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Posted December 09, 2015in The Sound
The Wombats continue to defy expectations
Over the past decade, The Wombats have firmly staked out a place in the long line of great Liverpool bands. Originally pitched to the world as an indie rock band, [...]
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Posted December 02, 2015in The Sound
A telltale heart
For the uninitiated, Stitched Up Heart looks like a typical “assembled” band. They come from L.A., the band has a genuine gimmick in its sound (a glossy mix of metal [...]
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Posted November 25, 2015in The Sound
Keeping Shelly in focus
Keep Shelly in Athens, the chillwave two-piece whose name is a play on the Kypseli neighborhood of Athens, Greece, that they call home, is really the brainchild of mercurial producer [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in The Sound
Open letters
There is no other way to really put it: Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSC) is a weird act. The band’s music is not particularly freaky or outlandish. That is not the kind [...]
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