A little bit of love for JLS. My interview!

Hey there lovelies.

So it's been a while since I've updated but this girl has so much material ready to go at a minute's notice. I have interviews with The Word Alive, Anarbor, We Came As Romans, This Time Next Year, Strike Anywhere, Trevor Hall & Jer Coons to go live along with many others with bands like This Providence, Hey Monday, Christofer Drew and Every Avenue just to name a few. I have been a very busy girl and I am so excited to share all of those and more with you including where I'll be tonight with Spill Canvas, AM Taxi and Tyler Hilton..but for now a little holdover with the cutest video from a band I interviewed back last month and a link to our interview!

Also, please vote in a poll that I will be posting momentarily about what interview you want to see next and have a great week! Check back in often!



My JLS Interview here on the website I work as features editor for!

New Sing It Loud Record out today! "Everything Collide"

Hey lovely people,
the follow up to Sing It Loud's highly succesful debut record hits your cd racks today with "Everything Collide"! Currently you can catch them on tour with Mayday Parade & A Rocket To The Moon and catch the review I wrote for my other publication MusicRemedy.com below! Let me know what you think of it!:

We’ve all been in high anticipation for the sophomore album for pop punk friendly Sing It Loud and the new one is even better then the first. The group definitely knows how to write a song about love and special girls in their life, which may be one of the reasons so many girls melt for them, but hey it works! It starts off with a bang on the first single off the record, “Sugar Sweet”. It is a great starter to the eleven track record, and is dancy to the extreme along with a good catchy message behind it!
Going into “Thunderstorms”, the upbeat music that we’ve grown to know from the band continues on but it doesn’t get boring like it does with some bands. It’s one of those records that I can really already see them playing live. The next song is quite possibly one of my favorites on the record, “Here With You”. It’s one of the happier tracks on the record, not that all aren’t upbeat and energetic but for the first two tracks on the album, it’s not such happy material about love.
Right when it hit’s the next track though with “Only One”, it goes back to the same message. It leads me to wonder where the band was when they wrote this record, but to me it seems like a common theme these days to write an album as kind of a concept theme of a story of a breakup, make up, the sweet moments in love, and it’s been working for people!
“Addicted To When You’re Gone” is one of my clear favorite tracks on this record. It’s the moment on the record where Pat Brown and the band finally admit that they’re over who ever the song is written about.
The album begins to slow down once we reach “Believe In Me”. It’s where the songs are about wanting the girl back, after throwing her away with ‘Addicted’. It definitely comes across as a concept record and it’s a beautiful story. Most kids don’t sit down and listen to a record track by track in order, but that’s why most musicians order an album a certain way. Sometimes it’s not to tell a story, but in this case it seems this way.
“Letting Go” is another great slower track for the band, and comes across as one of the better tracks I’ve heard on this record. It comes off as they are pretty much giving all they can to this girl if only she’ll take them back.
“Wonder Why” ends the album on a genius note. It brings the album to a close with the idea that you should just go for it.

Overall I give this record a rating of 4.5/5! I love the direction where this band is heading and am excited to see where this record takes them this year!

Songs you should download: “Here With You” “Addicted To When You’re Gone” “Letting Go” “Wonder Why”

www.myspace.com/singitloud

Breaking: Bay State on a break!

After six years a band, The Bay State has announced that they will be taking a break as a band. Based out of Portland, Maine this band has been a mainstay in the indie music scene and it will be a sad goodbye to them for now. Hopefully as Tom Tash writes in the blog past about the break, it will just be a see you later, and hopefully we get another chance to see them in case they do end up staying on that break!

We did one last follow up interview with the band back at a show they played recently in Braintree, so look for that soon as well. All the best wishes to the band!

Don't let it get to you Mat Devine, just remix it & make it a quick hit!

If you've been reading this blog for a while and have followed my work on Music Remedy, you know that back in September I sat down with Chicago underground legend Mat Devine of Kill Hannah and since then I've been keeping up to date with this talented band and Mat just posted possibly the greatest thing ever.

It's called "Change of Heart" the remix, which is a full 3:30 goodness of changing this girl's rant:


Into a genius lipsync:


Into the remix 'Change of Heart' here:



Absolutely love, another reason you're a genius! <3

New song "Pretty Pretty Girl" from Stephen Jerzak..and more!

It's been a few months since I interviewed the only eighteen year old Stephen Jerzak and since then his career has literally been skyrocketing. Stephen has signed to Universal Republic, has finished his debut album 100%, has gone on a national tour with The Downtown Fiction & Stereo Skyline and is now putting out a brand new EP to hold over fans called "My Uke has a Crush On You" along with releasing the first track for stream on his myspace.

The track won't disappoint fans as it is similar to his past songs but with this one, as young as he is, I really think he's maturing and am really looking forward to this record and the tours it is to bring!

Bored in Boston? Well, this is your lucky week!

It literally drives me crazy how good this week is in music for Boston and surrounding area, and bums me out that I can't do everything!

First up, if you didn't know about it, there is a great indie music dance party really at Harper's Ferry every Thursday in Allston. For Montrealers, it really reminds me of what you would find with the Mustache Men wherever they find themselves these days. What makes the event even more special though is that this week, national touring band from Pennsylvania InnerPartySystem will be deejaying the event for the night, and it's as well the official Passion Pit afterparty complete with the deejays that work with that band. Nothing about this event is bad this week, and I am wicked bummed I can't make it out!

Even if you aren't the dancing like a fool type, this night is something completely different and is this way every week. Many a band I know has taken part in this night but this is the biggest I've ever seen it. You may recognize the InnerPartySystem name either from here and my incessant love for them or from playing all of Warped Tour this summer which allowed them to grow so much in fame, constantly moving to larger stages and their main support slot for Saosin all fall on the Pac Sun tour! Want a little taste? Check out this sick remix of 'Hot Mess' by Cobra Starship. If you don't move a little bit in your seat, you're just cold. They'll be playing both their tracks, 'Don't Stop' is my personal favorite, and a whole slew of their famous remixes. It's only ten dollars, so if you don't go, I don't know honestly!:



Next up, Friday night! Take it a little more low key and as a cool down from Thursday night, but a great alternative rock band I've grown to know from Dallas named Sleeperstar will be taking the stage at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square. They'll be dropping their first major label full length on June 22nd, and when that comes out, they are sure to be all over the radio. I'll be at this show, and it's a great little break to get you ready for Saturday's event-Skate Fest!

For Skate Fest on Saturday, there is a wee bit of a travel but the train is only 8 dollars to Worcester, and it's a ten minute walk to the palladium from there with a bus that heads back to Boston at 11:05 pm to get you there with in the hour! Skate Fest is a day long festival (doors open at noon, show starts at 1) and it features both local favorites like Vanna and Stay to nationally known acts like Envy On The Coast, TREOS (Reunion!) and VersaEmerge. It all goes to a good cause, for the Mend a Heart charity which was started by Jordan Pundik of New Found Glory. I'm hoping for a visit from him, but either way it's going to be a whole day of great music! I'll be at this as well!

Then finally, we end on a pop punk note with the Too Fast For Love tour running through Boston on Sunday at the House of Blues. Even though 30H!3 and Cobra Starship are co-headlining the date, Cobra has the bigger market so they will be playing the end of the night/longer set along with Travie McCoy who has an amazing solo project right now off of Gym Class Heroes and the Chicago group I Fight Dragons!

Hope you make it out to one or two of these events, let me know if you do!

New Cobra Video.

For those who say Cobra Starship doesn't tour enough, you're just silly. I've seen the band three times since May 6th of last year and Sunday would be the fourth but it's Mother's Day here! The reason for my maybe rant? Cobra just dropped their brand new video for 'Living In The Sky With Diamonds' and it features my favorite nut case/hot mess/you're just a fool Peaches Geldof.

I may be biased but the home girl agreed to marry maybe my biggest indie crush Max of Chester French after four months and divorced him just over a half year later. Are you an idiot? but besides the point, the new video is great and she does look pretty ridiculous in it. Find it on cobrastarship.com right now, you won't regret it promise!