Blog

You can learn a lot about STONE from the artists they’ve already toured with. Before the Liverpool four-piece had so much as an EP to their name, they’d opened for the likes of Sam Fender and Yungblud – two fellow northerners who have achieved stardom with their candid lyrics and infectious energy. All of that […]

  Somewhere within each of us is the urge to go against the norms of everyday life. Rock n’ roll is what happens when some of us give in to that urge. Its very lifeblood is, and always has been, the desire to rebel. Andre Nault, the creative force behind Ottawa’s Stand Up and Say […]

Among North America’s strongest and most consistent pop bands, Sloan merged the intelligence and attack of alternative rock with the irresistible hooks and melodies of classic power pop. Featuring four gifted songwriters, Sloan became one of Canada’s most popular and celebrated bands of the ’90s and retained a sizable following at home well into the […]

Suneaters are an American psychedelic, rock and roll band formed in Kansas City, Missouri in 2008. Its core members are Scott Hartley, Chris Lost, Michael Judd, and Nick Carroll. Suneaters’ debut LP “One” was released in October 2011 on Lotuspool Records, an independent record label started by Chris Lost in the early 1990s. Suneaters advocate what they call a DIT (Do-it-together) culture – a variation […]

With their organic but richly atmospheric sound, Los Angeles alternative rock band Silversun Pickups helped put the über-hip Silver Lake scene on the map with their critical and commercial success in the 21st century. Debuting in 2005, they were indie radio favorites until their mainstream breakthrough, Swoon, arrived in 2009. With each subsequent album, the […]

A guitar hero for guitar heroes, Joe Satriani had already served as a teacher for some of rock’s most impressive axe slingers before accomplishing the rare feat of breaking into the mainstream with instrumental guitar music. His 1987 album Surfing with the Alien turned him into a star, kicking off a series of hit records […]

  The Smile are an English rock band formed by Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, in collaboration with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. They made their surprise debut in a performance streamed by Glastonbury Festival in May 2021, and released their debut single, “You Will Never Work […]

As the frontwoman for North Carolina’s Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, singer/songwriter Sarah Shook offers up a full-bodied combination of the sound of vintage outlaw country — with lyrics that waver between defiance and honest introspection — and the fire of punk rock. Having already attached her name to two previous backing bands (the Devil, […]

As the frontman for R.E.M., arguably the most important and influential American rock band of the post-punk era, Michael Stipe transformed himself from enigmatic cult hero into mainstream icon. Famed for his confoundingly opaque lyrics and notoriously mumbled delivery, the once-introverted Stipe translated his growing fame into an outlet to champion his social and political […]

Although they began as an artsy prog rock band, Styx would eventually transform into the virtual arena rock prototype by the late ’70s and early ’80s, due to a fondness for bombastic rockers and soaring power ballads. The seeds for the band were planted in another Chicago band during the late ’60s, the Tradewinds, which […]