In a sense, Straylight Run has spent its brief four-year career trying to escape its past. The group was started by guitarist/ singer John Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper shortly after they left   

From the very first days when Mute Math was coming together as a band, founding members Paul Meany and Darren King didn't put limits on the kind of music the group would create. The approached yi  

When Silversun Pickups first started playing live, the band was, to put it mildly, less than confident in its live shows. "Sometimes it was nerve-wracking because people didn't know we were in  

Tim McIlrath says Rise Against chose to sign to a major label knowing full well that there were no guarantees it would be the right move. "We went into this thing realizing it could backfire on   

The Minneapolis-based band Tapes 'N Tapes had no illusions when it finished its 2005 debut album, The Loon, about just how much it was likely to do for the group's fledgling career. The CD, af  

Sept. 19, 2003, should have been a day of excitement and celebration for Saves The Day. In Reverie, the band's major label debut on DreamWorks Records, had been released three days before and t  

Guitarist Steve Cropper doesn't especially enjoy talking about "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay," the song he wrote with Otis Redding just before the singer perished in an airplane crash in 1  

As a musician who, on the new Apples In Stereo CD New Magnetic Wonder, introduces a new musical scale that he's invented, it's not surprising to hear Robert Schneider has lofty goals for the ba  

You may need a pretty big stocking to call this year's holiday CDs stocking stuffers. With a deluge of releases, it would take a sleigh to carry this year's selection. Here is a look at some of  

Citizen Cope has apparently confused more than a few radio programmers -- not to mention music fans -- who struggle to pin down his music. The only thing that's difficult for Cope to understand,