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Hey Guys,

Not Much has went on like I said I've been getting into power metal since I went to Ozzfest (Breakout Performances: Trivium and Mastadon). So I've been listening to a lot of bands from europe like Tierra Santa, Angrus, Shadow Gallery and other awesome power metal bands i really say you should all go check them out when you have the chance.

I've also been having a blast with a little program called guitar pro, if your a musician get this. With the large archive of tabbed out music online guitar pro really helps you understand how most music is put together and really helps your writing.

I hate Jamison Parker, why does anyone like Jamison Parker is beyond me it's so boring and uninteresting but I guess a lot of music has been latley. There has definetley been some awesome highlights latley. Like the Cardinal Sin who features former members of Cadillac Blindside, I saw them last year live with Treysuno and The Lawrence Arms.

The Cardinal Sin - http://www.purevolume.com/thecardinalsin

Another sweet band is Skyrocket some atmospheric indie goodness though the vocalist seems like a less talented version of the Death by Stereo vocalist.

Skyrocket - http://www.purevolume.com/skyrocket

And last I'll leave with you todays Now!load which comes from an Awesome Equal Vision records band, The Fall of Troy.
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Todays NOW!load: The Fall of Troy - Whacko Jacko Steals the Elephant

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Hey everybody, sorry it's been awhile but man do I have lot to talk about today. I've been doing a lot of concert promoting, if you live in the northwest ohio go http://fnmusic.atspace.com and see what I got going. Also I've been doing a lot of listneing to music on myspace and PV, and I really must say go check out Happy Anarchy at purevolume, they are like an upbeat indie band with horns and keyboards, it's very badass.

For all you emo kids, here are some names you should familiarize yourself with, Rory, The Junior Varsity, and Animal Suit Driveby, head over to purevolume.com and check them all out now, they are damn good.

For all you hardcore lovers The Esoteric is pretty freaking sweet, very orignal atmospheric hardcore, sounds kind of weird, cause it is in a very very good way.

If your into hip hop you must go check out the Lab Rats at myspace.com and buy the new album by the living legends.

not too detailed but should give you some names to check out, and for today's Now!load we got the new coheed e-card.
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Todays NOW!load: Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home

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Sorry guys that I havn't posted for a few days, I've got a new guitar and got lost in the whole song writing deal, to check my stuff out just look up Alex Merced. Well, I have heard one really sweet band laltey, they are of montreal. They play a synth filled indie pop but with a heavy beatles influence. Check them out at http://www.ofmontreal.net/. They are on tour with Grand Buffet one of the best hip hop duos ever, if havn't seen Grand Buffet before you should find a way to see them cause they are awesome. That's really all I got for now, but honestly, of montreal is so good they are worth making a whole post just for them.

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Todays NOW!load: Of Montreal - Requiem for O.M.M2

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Hey everybody, I'm not officially 20 years old and I have a cold, what a great day, haha. Well I thought I'd run thorugh some new releases and what I think of the bands so here we go.

Youth Gone Mad - Puke (http://www.youthgonemad.com/): This is real gritty rock with real grainy and beat up vocals, and the production is RAW, real raw, but for some reason I really think the songs are pretty sweet.

Bullet Treatment - The Bigger, The Better (http://www.bullettreatment.com/): This is old school hardcore, which I was never into, though i spend a lot of time NYC, the old school has never been my thing, but if it is, this 7" might just be for you.

Dexter Danger - Hellofornia (http://www.dexterdanger.com/) - I remember getting these guys old ep from the orange peel records tent at the warped tour. I have to say they've beocme a lot tigher but they are still a little bland. Their like Emo with beatles influence, saying that I know will make a lot of people gag, but it's cool, if your a fan of emo well these guys should float your boat.

In Stereo - Death before Emo (http://www.instereomusic.com/) - for a band that was only formed like 5 months ago, these guys have there shit together. But yes, this is very powerpop heavy witha dash of emo. It's pretty good, in a mainstream relient k kinda way.

The Universal indicator - Grandstand of Horror (http://www.theuniversalindicator.de/) - Well this is a very sloppy punk band from germany, seems they're more about politcs from their song titles. It's pretty good, despite being really off time punk fair, the songs do have some charm. Not my thing.
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Todays NOW!load: Clap Your Hands Say yeah - In this Home on Ice

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I've been fishing through myspace.com the last few days, you should all add my promotions agency as a friend if you read this. Http://www.myspace.com/fnmusic. Well as usual I'll go through my findings, fun times.

Tracy Bonham (http://www.tracy-bonham.com/) - I've really been into female singer/songwriters latley, mainly piano driven ones such Regina Spektor and Tori Amos. Tracy Bonham is more guitar driven like Cheryl Crow, I think it's pretty good.

S1 (http://www.myspace.com/s1) - I'm a big hip-hop fan, I'm mostly into more oldschool type stuff and into a lot of stuff on rhymesayers, saying that I do not like S1. S1 is that overproduced R&B rap that saturates mainstream television and is just overly lacking in substance, icky poo poo.

The Stairs (http://www.thestairs.com/) - This is very awesome indie rock, with very retro production, I want to compare them to the beatles but I think that's not the comparison I'm looking for. Though the Stairs rock so listen!

Veda (http://www.weareveda.com/) - Female fronted indie rock, sounds like how Tsunami Bomb Would sound like if they traded in their moshing shoes for a collection of Muse Albums.

Lyfe Jennings (http://www.2lyfe.com/) - This is pretty much R&B though it saids hip hop, though I believed R&B died with Marvin Gaye, tis isn't half bad, not overly produced not trying to be flashy. Not my type of things, but definetly a step in the right direction for genres that been a little lacking latley for the exception of John Legend who's amazing.

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Today NOW!load: Red Knife Lottery - So Much Drama

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Well today is definetely a very special and joyous day, Cursive has announced that they will begin on new album, hopefully some live performances soon after cause I'd love to see them live, and for those you of you nore familiar with the band better get your ass out and do so, or I'll be mad.

In other news of more well know bands, Fall Out Boy have hit #1 on TRL, usally I'd not care about TRL, but I feel Fall Out Boy deserves the huge rash of success that's hit them lately, may they hit greater heights. Also Billy Talent has put some news songs on their purevolume.com and they are damn good, go listen to it now, you won't regret it.

A band that I've gotten pretty fond of is the Red Knife Lottery which is great for you blood brothers/locust fans, they so rock.

Also here is a Band Reviews from this weeks release schedule off Punknews.org:

Dear Diary (http://www.deardiary.de/) - Well the intrumental work is pretty sweet, but the vocals are definetley kinda whiny and the chorus don't really stand out, but they are pretty cool for a German band.

well I review of this weeks bands with releases int he next post, for now have a good one and celebrate Cursives return!!!
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Todays NOW!load: Bayside - Masterpiece

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Well, I'm having a blast here in Puerto Rico, I thought I'd post on some cool bands I've been listening to while I'm here. So here we go:

27 (http://www.27.vg/) - Sounding a lot like you typical female fronted indie pop band, it's mellow, relaxing, and just calling out to fans of Bjork and Portoisehead. It's really good study music atmosphere music to have going in the background.

A Cadence of Sorts (http://www.acadenceofsorts.net/) - these guys remind me of hey mercedes and far, emo, but more of the kind of emo that was good when the whole genres kinda got it's start emotional and angular no overpoduction or sugary pop punk hooks, it's the real deal, I like it.

Aiden (www.aiden.org) - I've been following this band for years, I love this band aggressive and just cool. They are what My Chemical ROmance should of been, now on Victory they should be soon taking over big on fuse when their album falls. I know this little review has tuned off a lot of people, but check them out, you'll be surprised.

Big City Dream (http://www.bigcitydreams.com/) - I hung out with these guys when they played Howards Club H, me and my buddy where the only ones there and they rocked. Again, they are in the vein of Hey Mercedes or the Promise Ring, really good powerpop.

Chiodos (http://www.chiodos.net/) - another band I've met and love, these guys are hardcore for people who love to dance... just so awesome, they're albums should be out soon.

Well that's all for now I'm getting kinda tired, don't forget to leave comment on what you though of the bands and do so for the old posts as well.
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Todays NOW!load: Welcome - Xtra Effort

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Well, Luckily I have some internet access so I'm gonna make another post during my trip, woot woot. Well, since I don't have much time to really scour for music I'll do what I plan on doing most mondays, reviewing all the bands on the purevolume.com frontpage. So Here we go:

The PurePromos

Hot Vegas - a lot of people will say these emo/indie bands would be better if the genres wasn't so saturated, I tend to disagree, if you suck you suck. I think Hot Vegas is well, not that good, they play well enough but there is nothing really keeping me listening so I'll pass on this. I know there is those who'll eat up any band long as it's associated with the right genres take a look at TBS and Hawthorne Heights' fanbase... really, i know this is purevolume.com I think this review will apply to a lot of the bands I'll be listneing to.

The Arrival - These guys are little bit more fun to listen to, at least I can tap my foot to this and the vocals have some shining moments on occasion, but of for the most part read the hot vegas review for what I think of this band.

Point Hallow - Well, I'm a big glassjaw fan, so some post-hardcore still floats my boat, though this is still pretty bland again although the guitar work is more the aggressive angular approach I enjoy but the song seem so overdone... read Hot Vegas. Still, we're getting warmer still.

Faraway - This is a definetley a step in the right direction, more along the lines of the sort of approach of the kite-Eating tree, still a tad bland but definetley some potential showing in the band. At least I see it.

L.A.O - The recording is rough but I like this a more rock than emo, don't get me wrong, as you can tell form the other posts I've had a bit of indie kick latley, but I still appreciate good emo/hardcore. The band is like Emanuel light, though the vocalist could definetley use some work.

A True Story - when I first began frequenting purevolume.com I was much more into this whole emo thing, it's sort of quickly faded from me as I listen to more quality stuff at the station, basically what I'm trying to say is put this band with the rest of them in bland and untight. Just cause you wrote a song and can play it, doesn't mean people are gonna like it, can't people tell if their songs are awesome?

ok... fuck this, everything on purevolume.com aside from the few times I see The Stiletto formal and the Fury (who are both amazing) on there has been pretty lacking, let's go to myspace.com

Single File - Yes!!! Something good, myspace wins despite the awkward hard to get to work XML media player. Single File is good mellow indie pop for fans of bright eyes, sufjan stevens, or all the mellow acoustic pop stuff, it's good.

2mex of sungodsuns - some decent hip hop from the LA native, ummm... but if you want to listen to good hip hp just stick with Gym Class heroes and Sage Francis.

The Posies - really good alt pop, kinda like live or those early 90's bands,it's good

not the best post, but don't have much time to scour as I said, but I'll leave you now with a fun NOW!load.
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Todays NOW!load: Javelins - Square hips

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Well, I'm gonna be in puerto rico all next week so I won't be able to post till I return so I thought I should make one more post before I go. This one will probably not be too long so it's so soon since the last one but think of it as a favor to you guys, those who love music.

What I'm doing in this post is I'm going to the website of Tree Wave, a band I mentioned in a previous post and going through their tour dates and checking out the bands they are touring with on different dates and posting what I think about them.

Dogme 95 (http://missionlabel.com/dogme95/) - I actually like this, it's like singer song writer type stuff but with a lot of electronics to compliment the acoustic, I've made a few songs like this, but this guy is a lot better at it.

Super Love Attack (http://www.superloveattack.com/) - Really Psychedelic, if you dig a lot of classic rock or radiohead, give this band a try you might just like it.

The Tah-Dahs (http://www.tahdahs.com/) - HAHA, this band is awesome, it's quirky indie pop ala The Recital or Weezer with a dash of surf rock, these guys are the freaking shit!!! THEY HAVE BELLS!!!

Capillary Action (http://www.capillaryaction.net/) - The is more for fans of Godspeed or Mogwai, really awesome indie instrumentals, I would really love to see this live lot of stuff going.

Brief Candles (http://www.briefcandles.com/) - Your typical indie rock fare, not to big on the vocals, but other than that the guitar work is pretty solid and atmosphering. Give it a try if it sounds like your type of thing.

The Robot Ate Me (http://www.therobotateme.com/) - Out of all these bands these guys are hand down the coolest, they play what it sounds like old 20's and 30's silent movie scores on a tape player while a guy sings over them... it's genius. So genius they get the NOWload of the day!!!
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Todays NOW!load: The Robot at Me - Oh no! Oh My!

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Hey Guys,

Welcome to another edition of Music is Now! The Blog that keep you informed on the best in upcoming music. Today I'd like to focus on the midwest music scene, since I go to school at BGSU I'm pretty familiar with it so I'll spend some time on it.

Now if your familiar with the Midwest Music scene you might now of some amazing bands already such as Stylex, Thunderbirds are Now!, Javelins, and many others. In the indie seen I feel there a few other names you should keep your eye one, just from around Bowling Green is a real awesome band called bullet teeth who can sometimes come off similar to the blood brothers, they put on a eccentric live show that i'm sure anyone can enjoy. I mentioned Javlelins before, they are on a music label called Suburban Sprawl records, their whole roster is pretty good which includes El Boxeo, The Recital, and The Pop Project. Then there is my ol' buddys justin band Treysuno who taught me how fun theremins can be, they don't play around much anymore but when they do it's worth checking out if your big into bands like The Detachment Kit, check them out. Of course I know you Devo fans already probably listen to Stylex and Thunderbirds are now! but you should also check Canadas Electric Tiger Machine with it's angular electronic delivery that's sure to put a smile over your face. Some other names that you should familiarize yourself with Clive Staples, Chalk, Otto Vector, Rediscover, and The Flirting Kind.

On the not so indie/electronic side you probably pretty familiar with bands like Hawthorne Heights, Fall Out Boy who've recently broken from the midwest. Well in that vein as in most scenes there is a flood of similar bands but of course there is always those that stand out. My personal favorites are Medford Drive and The Drama Summer, check them out as they might fit your fancy if you a fan of the before mentioned bands. I love to dance which why definetley my call for the next band to break big from the midwest is The Fury, currently on tour with Head Automatica and I am the Avalanche (ex-movielife), they are one of the most danciest, fun and unique bands around don't miss out on the Fury, or you'll later regret it.

I'll come back to the midwest on occasional but now to go over some bands I've heard over the last few days. If you havn't already notice latley I've definetley have had my taste for quirky indie bands, ones who really come off different. Deerhoof who remind me of early enon gone wrong is an awesome band you can check out at Epitonic.com among many other bands. On the same boat some bands that have recently released material are Tree Wave and mixel pixel, check them out or I'll beat you senseless. There is also a band from good ol' Conneticut you should check out called Welcome, if you love quirky indie pop, these guys will consume you with their odd jazzy but electronic filled sing-a-longs with the occasional hand clappings and spelling of words.

Well now for you guys who listen to emo/hardcore and the like, I'm kinda sad Monday in London broke up, if you never picked up there first album, get it, it's damn freaking good, especially if you like Muse. If you're a Harcore kid get the new This is Hell release, it's hardcore and Daryl Palumbo makes a guest appearance what more can you ask for other than a new glassjaw album! For your Morrissey fans there is the new Ad Frank album which will supply you appetite with some nice tunes.

Well that's all for now, as usual leave your own comments with your thought on what music people should check out and I'll see you all on the next post.
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Todays NOW!load: Deerhoof - Holy Night Fever

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Hey,

Welcome to Music is Now!, this is my music blog where I'll be talking about what music I've been listening to and what you should keep an eye on!

For the first post I'll recap the mainstays of my recent musical taste. Latley I've been listening mainly to Blood Brothers, Death from Above 1979, Thunderbirds are now!, The Fury, and Stylex. If you haven't heard of any of these bands well looks like that'd be a good place to start I think.

Stuff that has caught my ear lately is definetly The Go! Team a team of remixers who are awesome, the best example of this hands down has to be the song Ladyflash, it's just fun and awesome if you haven't heard it go do that. Also The Stiletto Formal form Arizona is pretty awesome, they are like the Blood borthers with a lot more synth and even some cello. Little Yellow Box from CT is always one of my favorite bands and always put on an awesome live show. Their new album should be dropping soon, so keep an eye on it.

I think as far as huge TRL like success the two bands to really keep your eye on is City Sleeps, labelmates with Story of the Year they have similar sound have some catchy songs, not really my thing but I think they are coming to make an impression. On a more awesome note, Panic At The Disco with fall out boy vocals but with a very dancey and upbeat cabaret sound these guys are coming to take the masses by storm I have no doubt that they will be big.

well that's all for now keep reading for more musical updates and what nots.
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Todays NOW!load: Stylex - Wake up, Go to Work