BY STEVE HALLO Here's the thing about the Canton rockers inSuper Predator: For the most part, they actually are super predators. This became abundantly clear about a half hour into our conversation as guitar player Eric Blankenhorn and drummer Dan Meinhart laid out their zombie contingency plans. The moniker also suits the band's sound — a creeping, prowling sludgy rock, that veers off into metal and blues regions, throwing the listener off the fact that they are being stalked until Super Predator pounces into full-force crushing sonic territory. Equal parts Fu Manchu, Sonic Youth and ston...
Though the name sounds strange, the story behind the moniker The Bubble Process should be familiar to anyone who’s gone away to college: Kent State alumni Sean Higgins and Nicholas “Rez” Rezabek both lived on Kent’s campus at Koonce Hall. Because all the essentials for survival were located there, they really didn’t have to leave for anything. They were basically living in a bubble. Now, the concept has returned in the name of a collaborative design studio run by both artists. The twist? It’s done across a distance of nearly 500 miles. After graduating from Kent, the two had ...
The world of music is enormous. Trying to compile an exhaustive list of genres, sub-genres, cross-genres and the like results in concussions from foreheads slamming against walls. Most artists don’t even like to attempt classifying their own work. 2D6 is different. 2D6 is nerdcore hip-hop, plain and simple. MC Cliff B and DJ Stuck Down A Mineshaft With a Broken Leg (DJ Stuck) have been friends since they met in high school at Austintown Fitch, where they inexplicably sat at the less-than-cool table and discussed topics like anime, pop-culture, games and whatever else crossed their minds. ...
Tonight, a full lineup hits the stage at Barley's Pub. Ranging from growling hardcore to happy hip-hop, there's a little something for everyone represented. Local nerdcore hip-hop duo, 2D6, will open a set full of rock and hardcore which seems odd until you realize 2D6 is playing everywhere lately. Maybe they're shooting for the "hardest working band in nerdcore" moniker. They're certainly energetic enough to get the crowd going, regardless. Pop-punk trio The Royal Remedy will keep the atmosphere charged, as will the acoustic rock strummings of Candlelight Armada. Headliners We Shall Prevail...
Superhero is the name of Candye's original song and the title of her latest CD for Los Angeles based label, Delta Groove records. It is also an apt description of the jump blues singer, songwriter and mother from East Los Angeles who has earned this moniker the hard way. Nominated for four National Blues Foundation Awards (including Best Contemporary Blues Female 2011), Kane presents a colorful mixture of the traditional and the eclectic. She cut her musical teeth in the early 80’s onstage with Hollywood musicians and friends, Social Distortion, Dwight Yoakum, Dave Alvin, The Blasters, X...
Thanks to David Ignizio of Square Records and Jeremy Bible of Experimedia, we got in touch with Belgian experimental artists Lieven Martens, the man behind the one-man musical project Dolphins into the Future, and filmmaker/musician Floris Vanhoof. The result is one hell of a read. How did Dolphins into the Future first come about? Martens: When a certain woman sat ashore and a big whale came to her. It looked at her with his huge eyes and she started to write down stuff in an automatic writing process. Years and years after that I started to make music in an automatic writing process. ...
Their biography bills them as “the rock equivalent of a duty-bound pack of Wild West outlaws who've spent the last 25 years on Mars and are now returning to right the musical wrongs of us puny Earth creatures”. When you think of a clever way to fuse rock and punk, yet stay laid-back and funky…but you need some falsetto disco vocals, it could seem like impossibility. Electric Six says no, it’s really not. See them for yourself at the Grog Shop in Cleveland, November 6th, doors at 8pm. Though Electric Six have such a huge range of styling’s, they tend to reject such ugly genre class...
The Black Keys Brothers It’s disappointing that Akron’s Black Keys still remain warily overshadowed by another two-piece guitar rock band with a color-themed moniker. The Black Keys have been far more innovative, adventurous and dynamic during their tenure than the White Stripes, save for the Stripe’s last couple albums when Jack White & Co. began to bleed out of their comfort zone. But it’s really not fair to compare the two. And with the Keys’ new effort, Brothers, that distance between the bands continues to grow. Brothers is the sound of a band renewed and finding the...
