New Jersey knows its son, Ace Enders, best as the frontman for emo rockers The Early November, but that may be changing. Having first dipped his toes into solo artist territory with his side project, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business, following TEN’s last performance at the 2007…

When you think of Christian rockers, Underoath, the word mainstream doesn’t exactly spring to mind; especially when the band’s latest album, Lost In The Sound Of Separation, harkens back to Underoath’s early career when their music was heaviest. Yet, the album peaked at #8 on the Billboard Charts upon its…

For over 10 years, a few young hardcore and punk teens got together in Coral Springs, FL, to form what would become one of the most influential punk rock bands this past decade. Face it, at one point in your life, whether you want to admit it or not, New…

As Warped Tour rolls into New Jersey this year, one of the year’s most hyped about bands is a staple on the traveling musical circus. Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Forever The Sickest Kids are an electronic powerpop group that knows how to get any crowd in the party mood.

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NEW YORK, NY–I’m not one for mainstream music. If you want to count such guilty pleasures as Fall Out Boy or Paramore, then by all means go ahead, but that’s not what I am referring to as mainstream. I am talking about straight-up Top 40 prefabricated trash that was packaged…

Not only is Nick Thomas, the lead singer of the guitar driven band The Spill Canvas, but he is also one of the humblest people I have ever had the pleasure of speaking to on the telephone. Describing the members of the band as “boring” and “pretty laid back,” Thomas…

These past few weeks I have been interviewing a lot of the bands that will be gracing New Jersey the first weekend in May for the long-awaited Bamboozle Festival. Each one of them is anticipating their own set and anxious to watch all the bands that they have not had…

“On our most recent tour it was surprising people still remembered us and came to the shows…” When Alex Linares, guitarist for iconic post-hardcore band Finch, relayed that answer to me during our interview I couldn’t help but laugh at the thought. As one of the bands credited for ushering…

Whatever happened to the days when the front man of a band would make daily entertainment news headlines for actual newsworthy stories? Trashing hotel rooms, group orgies with fans in the back of the tour bus, no holds barred interviews with rock journalists on the road while snorting nose candy—what…

While most cookie-cutter pretty boy power-pop bands are struggling to differentiate their fivesomes from the copious amounts of imitators out there, the successful few are leading the pack with a refreshing, creative, musical edginess and kids-next- door mass appeal. The guys of Mayday Parade have mastered this formula.

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