Category Archives: Bands
A New Music Cultivator and New Indie Artist Launchpad – Grow Music Project
The GROW MUSIC PROJECT was conceived by Hollywood songwriter/composer/producer CHRISTOPHER TYNG [“Futurama”, “Suits,” “The OC”] to be a new music “cultivator” and artist “launchpad” for uniquely talented independent artists and bands. Our mission is to recognize and support emerging, career-focused artists by giving them the opportunity to have their most promising song professionally produced, recorded, and mixed in our world-class studio, entirely for free and with no strings attached. These artists will also be showcased on the Grow Music Project website, a hub established to foster artists’ musical connections, opportunities for exposure and career growth.
WHY?
Independent artists and bands need help now more than ever. Few places are left in the music industry that are still able to support and foster the talent of budding artists. The Grow Music Project endeavors to fill that void, to open the doors of our studio to up and coming artists and bands and give them a place to learn, develop and hone their craft. The GMP community will support their creative process, and strive to give their music the wider audience that it deserves.
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Indie Pop-Punk Band/Trio Super Prime Release 2nd EP
The Boston based 3-piece pop-punk band known as Super Prime are currently promoting their second EP, “Sun’s Out, Gun’s Out“. The album dropped October 8th and was featured on AOL Music. They have already been signed onto bills with resident pop punkers Yellowcard, Hawthorne Heights, Patent Pending, Twin Berlin and Marky Ramone of The Ramones.
Super Prime is the epitome of this generation’s pop punk genre, giving fans of Blink 182, The Wonder Years, Green Day and Jimmy Eat World something to get excited about. The band’s music combines the best elements of early pop punk and nineties angsty emo rock with their quick and catchy guitar riffs, hard-driving drums, Billy Joe Armstrong-esque singing and gang-vocal inducing lyrics.
Borrowing from the frenetic pop punk and angsty emo of the nineties, Super Prime has evolved to epitomize today’s pop punk genre: their music gets right up in your face, and then refuses to get out of your head.
Formed while attending Berklee College of Music, Super Prime consists of Austin Bond (vocals, bass), Adam Newall (vocals, guitar), and Marcus James (drums). The band fiercely stepped out into the Boston rock scene in the spring of 2011, mere moments after their inception. In under a year they recorded and released their first EP, “Super Prime”.
Goodnight Caulfield Gear Up to Release EP
San Diego based indie rock band Goodnight Caulfield will release a new EP titled, Taking Shape, produced by Erik Ron (Panic! at The Disco, D.R.U.G.S., Good Charlotte) on May 3.
Goodnight Caulfield’s name is in reference to Holden Caulfield of the best-selling novel, The Catcher in the Rye. The band is bidding adieu to Caulfield’s style of rebellious pessimism and negativity in order to welcome something more positive – something they hope their music brings to people.
The Sliders’ New Album “City by the Sound” Out Now
The Long Island piano-rock foursome known as The Sliders have released their first full-length album, City By The Sound, produced by Jim Wirt (Incubus, Hoobastank, Jack’s Mannequin).
The independent band’s first full-length album, City By The Sound, is a record comprised of 11 coming-of-age tracks reminiscent of bands like The Script, Parachute, OAR, and Maroon 5. Their music combines the best of pop-rock with a musical sensibility. Eric, the group’s vocalist and primary songwriter, cites artists like Stevie Wonder and Sara Barielles as his key influences for writing catchy pop songs with intricate melodic foundations.
The Body Rampant Announces Release Date for New EP
Experimental indie rock band The Body Rampant will be releasing their new EP, Transient Years, on April 5.
Transient Years, produced by Casey Bates (Gatsbys American Dream, Portugal, The Man, MxPx, Chiodos), is a collection of music to be ultimately impressed by with an aggressive indie rock sound where at times listeners can find hints of experimental pop.
And Why Should I Give You Money For Your Album?
It is funny, great and sad all at once at how fan funding has progressed in the past number of years. I started with the process with some of my clients as far back as 2002 and now with numerous websites and different ways to both donate directly and sites where you have to achieve the full amount before receiving it, fan funding has taken center stage in many ways.
Still it presents serious problems since the popularization of the social networks and the millions (not an exaggerated number) of bands that are taking this approach.
Artists are throwing numbers at dart board and telling fans that’s all they need to make the album that will bring them to the masses. The bulk of the time, the number is way under what is required and many of these projects are not being finished, fail to even see the light of day or they are falling apart right out of the gate.
Now for certain artists that are just trying to make a recording for a smaller fan base and doing it on a shoe string budget with more of the intentions of creating a product more on the fun, hobby or local level, this is a fine approach. Yet, it can cause issues when artists are pushing for a larger level of success.
Finland’s Rubik Set to Release Third Full-Length Studio Album – Solar
Finland’s experimental indie pop masters, Rubik, are set to release their third full-length studio album, Solar, out April 2011 on Paper Tiger/Fullsteam Records. Solar was created during the hottest summer of our lifetime in Helsinki’s Kulttuuritalo (“House of Culture”), a historical brick-walled venue designed by Finnish architect giant Alvar Aalto in the 1950s.
Kulttuuritalo is best known for hosting concerts of historical artists such as John Coltrane, Queen, Frank Zappa, Gil Evans and Jimi Hendrix. Fittingly then, Solar, produced and recorded by the band themselves and mixed by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Gnarls Barkley) absolutely cooks.
Sainthood Reps Sign with Tooth & Nail Records, Performing at SXSW
The Long Island rock band Sainthood Reps have recently signed to Tooth & Nail Records. The band will also be performing at this year’s SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas at the Tooth & Nail Showcase on March 19 at Bat Bar.
As 2010 drew to a close, the band partnered with Tooth & Nail Records to begin working on their debut full-length, produced by Long Islander Mike Sapone (Brand New, Crime in Stereo, The Xcerts) and slated for release in 2011.
Sainthood Reps began when Francesco Montesanto created and recorded four-demos and played them for his longtime musical companion, guitarist Derrick Sherman. Knowing that he was unrefined, Montesanto hoped to entice Sherman into joining his musical endeavor because of his experience and similar musical interests, and thought he could turn his project into something worth pursuing more seriously.
