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Run Run Run Rouses Viper Room As BMI’s September ‘Pick’

BMI hosted RUN RUN RUN at the September 3 edition of BMI’s Pick of the Month series. The highly anticipated and well attended show at the Viper Room featured the stylish, high-energy quartet delivering their infectious blend of pop/rock in the perfect Hollywood setting. RUN RUN RUN has spent the past year crisscrossing North America four times in support of their independently released Good Company EP. The…

From News, posted 9.15.08

Escape the Fate

Escape the Fate is a Las Vegas-based band that, thanks to the group’s post-hardcore sound, reflects the underside of the city where America goes to party and gamble. But in their case, what happens in Vegas has hardly stayed in Vegas. The band members found one another through My Space, and scored an early success after getting some play on local radio by winning a radio station…

From MusicWorld, posted 8.08.08

Seether

Releasing a song that was written as a joke could have been a mistake. But for hard-rock outfit Seether, there’s nothing funny about “Fake It,” the infectious first single from the group’s recently released third studio effort, Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces (Wind-up Records). Frontman, guitarist and principal songwriter Shaun Morgan admits “Fake It” almost didn’t make the record. “We wanted to create songs that are a…

From MusicWorld, posted 3.08.08

Evanescence Returns with ‘Open Door’

Not since Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 smash Rumours has a follow-up album come with as much attendant melodrama as Evanescence’s The Open Door. Aside from the pressures of having to follow up their 14 million-selling debut album Fallen, Evanescence was faced with the challenge of creating a new record without founding member Ben Moody. The guitarist and co-songwriter parted ways with the band in the midst of their…

From MusicWorld, posted 12.22.06

Saosin Explode at Retail

Southern California quintet Saosin is one of the fastest-growing headliners in rock, earning mainstage slots on the Vans Warped Tour, selling out clubs in a flash, going out with heavyweights like AFI, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday, and garnering an ocean of fans who’ve downloaded their songs from MySpace over five million times, all before they’ve released…

From MusicWorld, posted 10.04.06

Hot Like A Robot Performs Solid Set at ‘Pick of the Month’ Showcase

The August edition of BMI's "Pick of the Month" showcase featured a performance by San Diego rock outfit Hot Like a Robot, who ripped through a rabid set that included material from their 2006 release, Virginity. The event, held at the Key Club in Hollywood, kicked off the promotional tour in support of their sophomore album and celebrated their incorporation to Skeleton Crew, the record label owned…

From News, posted 8.13.06

Kill Hannah

Mat Devine (vocals, guitar) Dan Wiese (guitars) Jon Radtke (guitars) Greg Corner (bass) “And I’m not running anymore, I’ll stand to face it all, I’ll fight for every breath/Until there’s nothing left of us“ “Believer” by Kill Hannah A title could not be more apropos. Until There’s Nothing Left of Us, the latest offering from Kill Hannah, defines the blue-collar work ethic of…

From MusicWorld, posted 8.02.06

Death From Above 1979 Continue World Dominance

“We wanted our band to be like an elephant in your living room” says Jesse F Keeler, one half of Death From Above 1979 “that’s why we gave ourselves trunks.” Of course there have been two piece bands before, the two-piece is engrained indelibly in the lexicon of rock, Simon and Garfunkel, the Chemical Brothers, The Carpenters, Sonny and Cher, the list goes one. It is fair to say though…

From MusicWorld, posted 4.29.05