THE A.K.A.s
THE ABACINATORS
THE ABILITY
THE ABLE BODY
THE ACACIA STRAIN
It can be said that some bands truly embody a certain spirit or emotion. Without a doubt, Massachusetts’ long running juggernauts, THE ACACIA STRAIN, truly embody anger. And that shows more than ever on their newest full length, “Wormwood.” The band’s actual sound and vibe are more ferocious than ever on this, their fourth full length for Prosthetic Records and fifth effort overall. Even the successes of their previous full-length, “Continent,” which debuted at #2 on Billboard’s “Heatseekers” chart in 2008 and their DVD, “The Most Known Unknown,” which debuted at #10 on Billboard’s Top Video Sales Chart in the February of its release, have not assuaged front man and lyricist Vincent Bennett’s turmoil. For “Wormwood,” the band returned to the scene of the creation of “Continent;” producer Zeus’ of Planet Z Studio in Hadley, MA, who has previously worked with the likes of Hatebreed, The Red Chord, All That Remains and more, engineered, mixed and mastered the slab of vitriol. This time around, we find guitarist, D.L. experimenting with 8 string guitars, adding further depth and low end to the band’s already stomach-turning low end sound. “Wormwood” peaked at #67 on the U.S. Billboard charts, signaling metal fans’ increasing affinity for the band’s sheer musical passion and vicious brand of heaviness. The band appeared on last year’s “Cool Tour” with As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Between the Buried And Me, Blessthefall, Architects, Cancer Bats and War of Ages. The band’s extensive tour history has them on the road with acts such as Whitechapel, Unearth, Bleeding Through, Killswitch Engage, Despised Icon and August Burns Red. They have also appeared on The Sounds of the Underground Tour and will be a must-see addition to this summer’s Vans Warped Tour. THE ACACIA STRAIN were formed in 2002 in Western Massachusetts, and have gone through a variety of line ups, even, at one point having three guitars, but have played in their current incarnation since 2006. That line up consists of vocalist Vincent Bennett, bassist Jack Strong, guitarist Daniel “DL” Laskeiwitz and drummer Kevin Boutot.
THE ACTION BLAST
THE ACTION DESIGN
THE ADDITIVES
The Additives play a refreshing hybrid of indie, folk, and subterranean Bridgeport blues.
TAFKA VINCE & HIS ALL STAR BITCH BAND
TAFKA VINCE & THE NUCLEAR POWER PANTS
TAIL DRAGGER
TAKE COVER
TAKE NO DAMAGE
TAKE THE LEAD
TALK-SIC
TALL DARK STRANGER
TALL FRIENDS
TALL TALE
TARRIII
TATTOOED MILLIONAIRES
TAUTOLOGIC
Tautologic is an eclectic progressive rock band based in Chicago. The band was formed in 1997 as a vehicle for founding members Ethan Sellers’ and Pat Buzby’s eclectic musical compositions and off-beat lyrics. The group’s richly orchestrated recordings have garnered the band praise for its inventive arrangements, performed by some of Chicago’s best musicians.
Tautologic has released two CDs to international critical acclaim and radio airplay, making at least one critic’s year-end best-of list. The band has performed on the stage at various clubs, radio stations, and television shows in Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, and the Minneapolis-area.
Tautologic writes lyrics and constructs rock operas about things drawn from life like burnout roommates and their psychotic crack-whore girlfriends, tube socks, crazy homeless people, indie hipsters, quasi-terroristic rants against totalitarian utility companies, and anything else that entertains and/or irritates Sellers and Buzby in real life.
TAXI
TAYLOR HICKS
TBA
TEAM BAND
TEAM HOSS
In days of old when men were men a mighty band was forged. This quartet of debonair stoner rock hero’s was dubbed Team Hoss. Since the year 2000 A.D the group has sonically raped and pillaged their way across planet Earth like a Mongol horde on meth leaving a trail of broken hearts and bleeding eardrums in their wake. Get your daily dose of ferocious fuzz here.
TED SIROTA
Berklee grad Ted Sirota has been a steady presence in the Chicago music scene for two decades. While he is perhaps best known for his late Saturday night gig with Sabertooth at the Green Mill and his own group, the Rebel Souls, he has worked with a long list of great musicians including Von Freeman, Greg Osby, Bobby Broom, Eddie Kirkland, Jeff Parker and hundreds of others. His Rebel Souls draw on myriad styles, including afro-pop, funk, reggae, ska and hip-hop. “Sirota turns in one of the most inspiring, integrational “jazz” performances since Charlie Haden’s first Liberation Music Orchestra album… The sheer musical and emotional range of this band is startling.” – Thom Jurek
TED SIROTA & THE REBEL SOULS
TED WULFERS
Ted Wulfers is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in the Chicago-land area, he splits his time between Chicago and Los Angeles but calls the road his home. He is the leader of the Ted Wulfers Band and also performs solo acoustic. As a rootsy rocker, his combination of Heartland rock, Stadium pop, Stonesy swagger, California cool and Texas twang has earned him comparisons to Tom Petty, Wilco, The Foo Fighters, Chris Isaak, Dierks Bentley, Kid Rock, Kings of Leon, Lyle Lovett and The Wallflowers. His ability as a performer to connect with listeners keeps him busy for 50-200 shows a year.
TEEN IDOLS
TEEN SLUT
TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET
They’ve toured the world countless times. They kept the leather jacket-and-Converse look alive through an increasingly neon landscape. They’ve written songs about KISS, Top Gun and Minecraft. Hell, they’ve even been on CNN a few times. Please welcome back to the spotlight Wyoming’s own Teenage Bottlerocket, whose ninth album, the 12-track Sick Sesh! — traffic-cone-orange cover art and all — will be released 08/27/2021 on Fat Wreck Chords. Recorded in November 2020 at the Blasting Room (the band’s eighth straight full-length with producer Andrew Berlin), Sick Sesh! is a little bit rougher around the edges than the last few TBR albums. “We spent a lot of time on guitar tones this time around — that was important for us,” he says. ““We made sure to bring the noisy, loud, irritate your fuckin’ mom guitar back. There’s a ton of intentional guitar noise and feedback. This is punk rock, after all.” “Fat Mike called me and said, ‘Hey, this is your best record,” Carlisle recalls. “I said, ‘Cool, thanks for noticing.’” With Sick Sesh! ready to drop, Teenage Bottlerocket will return to the road once more throughout 2021 and beyond, and you can expect to hear plenty of new tracks peppered into their already high-energy sets. Given that the band is already two decades old, however, is there any chance of the band slowing down? Carlisle shoots that idea down right away. Well there you have it: The three things in life can always count on are death, taxes and Teenage Bottlerocket.
TEENAGE RAGE
TEENAGE REHAB
Simply put, Teenage Rehab is a punk rock band. After a decade of touring, recording and releasing albums Teenage Rehab have won over many fans in America and beyond. In an age where emo,screamo, and indie have all but replaced punk music, Teenage Rehab stand out as the pocket of resistance against mainstream and underground trends in music.
TEKQUILLA
TELL YOUR FRIENDS
TEMPEST
Since forming in 1988, Tempest has delivered a globally-renowned hybrid of high-energy Folk Rock fusing Irish reels, Scottish ballads, Norwegian influences and other world music elements. The last 26 years have seen the San Francisco Bay Area based act release fifteen critically acclaimed CDs and play more than 2,000 gigs. It’s also enjoyed an evolving line-up that’s enabled musicianship and creativity to rise with each new member.
Hailing from Oslo, Norway, founding member and lead singer/electric mandolinist, Lief Sorbye, is recognized as a driving force in the modern folk-rock movement. He started Tempest after years of touring and recording on the folk circuit. San Francisco fiddler Kathy Buys brings her international award winning playing to the Tempest stage. Her experience performing world-fusion music with high energy dance bands combined with many years of playing Irish traditional music in America and Ireland makes her a perfect fit for Tempest. The newest member is Josh Fossgreen, an exceptional young talent whose innovative bass textures add a rich dimension to the Tempest soundscape. Born in Colorado and brought up in small town Missouri, Gregory Jones is the latest in a long line of Tempest guitar greats! His fiery licks and hard-rocking approach to the instrument, combined with his experience and understanding of Celtic music is a fast favorite with fans, new and old alike! Cuban-born drummer Adolfo Lazo, an original Tempest member, colors the band’s sound with inventive rhythms, and rock-steady drumming.
Signed to Sony-distributed Magna Carta Records, Tempest’s releases are acclaimed worldwide. The group’s latest studio CD, The Tracks We Leave, may be the bands most exciting work to date, as their unique blend of world music elements showcases inventive new original and traditional material.
Tempest is regularly featured at prestigious festivals including The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Denmark’s Skagen Festival, Britain’s Cropredy Festival and The Winnipeg Folk Festival in Canada. The band is also a mainstay at countless American Celtic festivals.
CURTIS MAYFIELD SUPER FLY
Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul and funk musician Curtis Mayfield, released in July 1972 on Curtom Records.
SUPERFUN YEAH YEAH ROCKETSHIP
SUPERSIXTY
SUPERSUCKERS
You’ve heard our name, you’ve seen our records, our t-shirts and our stickers. We’re probably the favorite band of someone you know and yet maybe we’re still a mystery to you. Well my friend, that’s okay, you’re at the right place to get to know the greatest rock-n-roll band in the world, The Supersuckers.
And the next time you see the ‘Supersuckers’ name, whether it’s in the record store, online somewhere, or on the marquee at your local rock club, know that there’s some quality, honest, ass-kicking, hard working individuals behind it all trying to make your life a little better through the “Evil Powers Of Rock-n-Roll” (and the occasional detour into the country music, of course) and we’d love nothing better than to have you there with us as! Just remember to wear clean underwear, because we’re gonna rock your pants right off of you.
– Eddie Spaghetti, Rock Guy
The Supersuckers
SURACHAI
Fathme Records plague metal artist Surachai has been clearing dance floors for years leaving only true worshippers of metal. Providing punishing disjointed blast beats and spitting out non-time signatures, the once ‘breakcore’ categorized Surachai has been mending it’s own path. Focusing purely on melting off faces, he heavily relies on modular synthesizers to provide a crushing tower of sound. He currently runs the infamous Trash_Audio blog and shade:red record label with Justin McGrath.
SURRENDER DOROTHY
SURRENDER THE MASSES
SURROUND SOUND
SURTSEY
SUTURESELF
SutureSelf is a female-fronted Chicago electronic/industrial band that was originally formed as a solo-project in 2001 but evolved into a four-piece in 2009. Incorporating elements of metal, goth, EBM, and cinematic music, the band is hard to categorize. SutureSelf released a five song EP in 2010 and their first full-length album in October of 2011. The band recently signed with Beyond Therapy Records and released an album of remixes in September of 2012.
SUZY BRACK & THE NEW JACK LORDS
SWALLOW THE SUN
More than two decades of despair, beauty, and heartache have not only shaped but fueled Finnishmelancholy torchbearers, the chart-topping and two-time Finnish Grammy nominated Swallow TheSun. Formed in Jyväskylä in 2000, the quintet has enjoyed numerous fan-lauded music videos(10+ million YouTube views) and streaming dominance (50+ million Spotify plays), while alsoembarking on a four-continent, 900-show run throughout their 23-year career. The new album,Shining, however, is the group’s first step on the new path to the unknown.Shining is an exceptional album, not only because of the beauty and sheer power of the songs, butbecause this time the band searched for something new, something bright, something that will takethem to new spheres.Dan Lancaster, two-time Grammy nominee producer (Bring Me The Horizon, Muse, Don Broco,Blink 182, Enter Shikari, etc.), had the privilege to dive into the new Swallow The Sun material.This unexpected combination, and him producing the album, created something that Swallow TheSun has never experienced before. The leap into the unknown created an album that will blow youaway!Shining the latest album from Swallow the Sun, encapsulates the profound duality of the humanexperience and the band's enduring brilliance. The album explores the intrinsic challenges of beinghuman, contrasting the beauty and purity within individuals with the transformation that occurswhen we come together, chasing us away from innocence like rats from Eden. It highlights thestruggle and disillusionment in human interactions, dealing with a deep carved fear of life, and howmelancholy can slowly turn into your God.Marking 23 years of their musical progression, Shining also symbolizes the band's pride andresilience, showcasing their brightest and strongest work to date. This album is a testament toSwallow the Sun's artistic legacy, intertwining existential reflections with their characteristicmajestic sound. Shining – or the “Black Album” of Death Doom, as the bassist Matti Honkonencalls this album – was produced and mixed by Dan Lancaster, mastered by Tony Lindgren(Fascination Street Studios), and recorded by Juho Räihä at SoundSpiral Audio, except vocalsrecorded by Dan Lancaster. The artwork is by Rami Mursula.
SWASHBUCKLE
SWEET COBRA
Sweet Cobra formed in 2002 with drummer Jason Gagovski (Suicide Note) and vocalist/bassist Botchy Vasquez (The Killer). Guitarists Robert Lanham and Matt Arluck later joined on to complete the line-up. The band made its debut on Seventh Rule Recordings with “Praise,” introducing Sweet Cobra’s boundary defying sound. Picking up where “Praise” left off is 2007’s “Forever,” originally released through Hawthorne Street Records. “Forever” offers eight songs, encompassing a similar reefer madness, with production by Greg Norman (Pelican) and mixed by Sanford Parker (Minsk) at Volume Studios.
SWEET JAPONIC
SWEET PICK
SWEET REVENGE
SWIFFTONE
SWIM IGNORANT FIRE
SWINGIN NECKBREAKERS
SWINGIN’ UTTERS
SWOON METHOD
The multi-talented Keith Dukavicius (voted Best Underground Filmmaker of 2010 by Chicago Reader) is also the frontman for Chicago’s Swoon Method. Not content to stay behind the camera, Keith brings his unique cinematic storytelling to the world of music on their latest EP, The Music Stopped Her. Utilizing the lens of wistful British indie rock of days ago, Swoon Method films scenes with fully developed characters and story lines. On stage, Swoon Method evolves from romantic-drama to suspense-thriller, bringing a frantic energy that betrays their recorded sensitivity. The live show is the sequel to the album, ripe with more action, drama, and plot twists.