Chances are good you’ve heard, seen, or read about Fireflight in some pretty big forums lately. The title track to their last album, Unbreakable, headlined the promos for NBC’s short-lived series, The Bionic Woman; they were one of three bands to win Taco Bell’s “Feed the Beat” contest and they performed at ESPN’s Winter X [...]

Anytime a band’s label says that their newest release is bound to appear on a lot of critics’ “best of” lists at the end of the year—and this at the beginning of the year in question—it’s hard not to be skeptical. Labels are inherently biased and subjective in their assessments of their own artists and [...]

Part Two: Armstrong shares a bit of her journey through cancer and her passion for sharing her heart with others.

Part One: The young artist shares about her debut album and her passion to see people ‘Wake Up.’

Flyleaf is definitely an acquired taste. When I first heard their self-titled debut several years ago I couldn’t make it through the first song, “I’m So Sick.” But having heard the song hundreds of times since then, I now have a much deeper appreciation for the guttural screams, the darker and forbidding sequences and the [...]

Piano pop is one of music’s prettiest genres. Often matched with modern rock drums, epic guitars and/or skyscraping vocals, tunes are augmented by the light or lamenting sound of a piano’s ivories depending on the song’s intended tone. Add to these factors those times when the lyrical content tends toward the romantic, uplifting or inspiring [...]

Part Two: Sojourn dishes on the business of being a musician and his passion for making music.

Part One: Rising artist dishes on his latest album and misconceptions within the hip-hop world.

Give ‘em credit for saturation, because Satellites & Sirens have burst onto the music scene by releasing 2 EPs since August, and their full-length, self-titled debut is scheduled for release in early 2010. I can’t speak for the first EP (All We Need is Sound), but there is enough on the 3-track Breaking the Noise [...]

Female acoustic folk singer-songwriters are a hard group to judge sometimes. Typically the vocals are pleasant, the instrumentation is sparse, and the themes are familiarly maudlin enough to be recognizable without being entirely memorable. So while the efforts often sound good and make for great background music on a lazy day when you don’t feel [...]