Upcoming Bands

If you’re fond of indie music, then The Rakes should be on your list. Since its formation in 2004, The Rakes has been true to its name—they’ve been raking awards and brushing others aside in the UK top charts. Since today’s generation prefer indie bands over those who already have labels to support them, The Rakes never had troubles acquiring a spot in every rocker’s heart (and the non-rockers too).

The Rakes’ songs are mostly about the working life, routine events that seem to be ignored already by the many, and surrealism (or some argue that it’s actually escapism). Three of their singles have been included in the UK Album Chart and most of the indie rock genre listeners predict that they’ll continue to storm UK top charts come their next album.

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The Number Twelve Looks Like You. What? No. It doesn’t mean anything, really. It’s the name of the band hailing from New Jersey. They’re not your typical punk rock kiddos found in garage concerts. First, they’re old enough to be considered kiddos and second, they’re music is not punk rock—it’s mathcore. Mathcore, or grindcore for some, is a new kind of hardcore music. The Number Twelve Looks Like You incorporated technical metalcore, techno hardcore and progressive metalrock in their music to create mixes of different genres that jive. The name of the band was taken from an episode of the most popular thriller series of all times, The Twilight Zone.

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After organizing your band’s repertoire, it’s time to get organized and put together your band library. This will allow easy access to your music whenever you need it. Organizing your library is not just creating a database. Labeling, organizing folders, storing and returning and taking care of your music are all involved in creating your library.

A music library is a good tool for new and upcoming bands. Saving countless time and energy and making your music accessible is the point of creating your music library. Here are tips on how to effectively create your library:

1. Make someone in charge
2. Start with what you actually have
3. Get a computer
4. Choose an appropriate database program
5. Catalog items
6. List information to be included
7. Access and security
8. Keep it updated

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Boyce Avenue hails from Florida, which is popular for acoustic and melodic rock sound bands. The group is composed of the Manzano brothers, namely Alejandro (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Fabian (guitar, vocals), and Daniel (bass, percussion, vocals). Due to Boyce Avenue’s success in the United States and the Philippines, the band recently held a series of shows in different malls in the Philippines last February 12-15, 2009. The band drew many fans from the Philippines (and around the world) through the popular internet video site YouTube.

Boyce Avenue is famous for doing covers of many famous songs, like With You (Chris Brown), Disturbia, Hate That I Love You, and Umbrella (Rihanna), Bleeding Love (Leona Lewis), and No Air (Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown).

Boyce Avenue will certainly go a long way with their talent in songwriting and performing as proven by their hits and huge following.

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There are a lot of shining talents who enter the music scene from humble beginnings with most coming from small time and even evangelic backgrounds. The new British band White lies however comes from a totally opposite region of Arcade Fire and Coldplay bringing music of the deathly type. They have managed to catch the attention of rockers in England but the threesome group admits thought they love their art, it is very draining on the soul, for real. The three members, Harry McVeigh on vocals, bassist and lyricist Charles cave and drummer Jack Lawrence-Brown all agree on the utter soul draining direction of their music.
Thought their music may be dark themed, they are other than dark for they help break the ice from their grim songs with humor on and off stage. This keeps us in touch with reality as it is and keeps our minds off the music which can get into your skin most of the times. The group is one of Britain’s rising metal bands who are catching attention from critics, just hope they were a bit more wholesome like the rest of the band.

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Weeks and Jason Null are the pioneers of the band Saving Abel. They formed the group in their hometown of Corinth, Mississippi last 2004. They crossed paths one day in a best friend’s house and everything grew from there. They immediately went on to write songs together. Apparently, Skidd Mills heard the groups songs and then invited them to his studios. It was the song ‘18 Days’ that really got his attention. He believed that this group would fare well in the music scene. Added to the group were Scott Bartlett, guitarist. Eric Taylor, bass player and Blake Dixon on drums. The name came to be when Null came across a line in the story of Cain and Abel that read… there was no saving Abel.

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Mixing vintage rock and pop with moody guitars, Glasvegas is one band you should watch out for this 2008. Alan Mcgee, an indie music mogul, also credited for his discovery of a young band 15 years ago, called Oasis. Mcgee is convinced, at the same time, excited that he finally finds yet another promising group. Glasvegas, according to him, is the best Scottish band in 20 years. Daddy’s Gone, their first single released, ranked 2nd best track, announcing it as an exciting debut single since Arctic Monkey. Glasvegas has a rockabilly and pop music influence. Nothing overdone. It has a minimalist rhythmic approach and its very simple. But leaves a lot of room for other things.

James Allan- singer
Rab Allan- guitar
Paul Donoguhe- bass
Caroline McKay- drums

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Lovely Victoria, British Columbia, a charming city on the water visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists each year — perhaps not the place you’d expect to find one of the weirder and smarter punk bands around today. Or perhaps exactly the sort of place you’d expect to find such a band. In any case, it’s the place No Means No calls home. Possibly Canada’s preeminent power trio, No Means No have been abrading delicate ears with their complex rhythm-heavy funk-punk and promulgating leftist social commentary across North America since 1981. That was the year a couple of nice Canadian boys, brothers John and Rob Wright, formally began their strange sonic experiments that fused punk with blues, jazz, funk, metal, and pure noise.

Rhythms and declamatory lyrics dominated their sound, a situation that remains true today after two decades of developing their sound. The Wright brothers added a guitarist — first Andrew Kerr and later Tom Holliston — but the slashing, sometimes bluesy guitar parts have always seemed to work at the service of the band’s complicated rhythms, not the other way around. Rob’s deep chugging bass is usually the biggest sound in the mix and John’s jarring, polyrhythmic drumming is a lot more sophisticated than most of the percussion you hear in rock music. The brothers share vocals, which range from forceful spoken word speak-sing to Jello Biafra-style demented rants, only occasionally approaching anything like melody. Tricky, confrontational music, but if you appreciate it, consistently rewarding.

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One MSNBC Contributor gave these list of his ten best Rock Bands in history of Rock Music:

1. The Beatles   

2. The Rolling Stones   

3. U2  

4.  The Grateful Dead 

5. Velvet Underground

6. Led Zeppelin   

7. Ramones

8. Pink Floyd

9. Bob Marley and The Wailers   

10. Sly and The Family Stone

(Source:MSNBC)

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1. The Beatles  

2. Pink Floyd  

3. The Who

4. Rolling Stones  

5. Led Zeppelin

6. Eagles

7. Grateful Dead

8. Jefferson Airplane

9. The Doors 

10. Moody Blues

11. Fleetwood Mac

12. AC/DC

13. Boston

14. Cream

15. Def Leppard  

16. The Byrds

17. Aerosmith    

18. Santana

19.  Blood, Sweat and Tears

20. Van Halen   

(Source:About.com)

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