THE HIGHEST LOW
Hailing from Chicago and Aurora, Illinois; the hip hop duo, The Highest Low integrate their high energy, catchy and captivating lyrics with infectious beats.
Chicago native Just Wise and Aurora native Snotty Pippen describe their music as golden era hip hop influenced with a modern feel. Strategically creating relatable rhymes, The Highest Low raps about everything from politics, violence and hating their 9 to 5.
Not only has the duo performed at several venues in Chicago, they have also opened for Qwel+Maker, Funkdoobiest, Prof and People Under The Stairs. Sharing their music nationally, Snotty Pippen and Just Wise have performed at SXSW, Las Vegas and several other states.
In November 2013, The Highest Low released their full length project “The Bootleg Sessions” with a wide range of producers such as Omega Red, Giallo Point, 8ohEight and many more. With tracks like “Spazzin Out” and “Drop”; this prismatic project will show you what The Highest Low is about.
THE HISTRONIC
THE HOLLYWOOD NIGHTMARES
THE HOLOCENE
THE HONEYBEES
The Honeybees play a mix of Rock n Roll, Rockabilly, R&B, Blues all mixed together like a martini. The double vocal from Barb and Megan keep you interested in listening to what else they can do! Theresa keeps the back beat on the drums. Michael (bass) and Manny (guitar) keep the strings in line! (Barb & former Honeybee Rachel also appear on the Swiss label, Blue Lake Records, under the name “The Wuanabees”. Buy the CD Sampler at ….LAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL!..)
THE HONORARY TITLE
THE HOODS
THE HOOKS
THE HORRIDS
THe Horrids Straight out of Lombard, Illinois are 138% Hardcore PUnk Rot Rock n Roll. 7 Years and 4 full lengths later they have prove to be Probably the most energetic grueling display of punk rock creatures ever seen on stage. They give it all at every show , blood and sweat beatin down their face, putting every inch of soul they have to put on a great show. Year after year they have been building a fan base that has grown much more greater then anyone has ever expected. Now they have turned into one of the most professional PUnk Band out there today and just trying to get their name out there.
THE HOT RAILS
THE HOTTNESS
THE HOUSE FLOOR
THE HOUSE THAT GLORIA VANDERBILT
THE HOWABOUTS
THE HOWLERS
THE HOWLIN TUMBLEWEEDS
THE HUDSON BRANCH
THE HUE
THE HUMAN DEFECT
THE HUMANOIDS
THE FORTHRIGHTS
THE FRAGILES
THE FRANTIC
THE FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS
THE FRIENDLY LENS
THE FUCKAROUND KIDS
THE FUGLEES
THE FUNERAL AND THE TWILIGHT
THE FUTURE KINGS OF NOWHERE
THE FUZ
THE GARRISON
GAS HOUSE GORILLAS
The Gas House Gorillas are from Brooklyn, NY and have been burning down clubs and festivals all over the country for the past eight years. They describe their sound as Punk Americana which encompasses a broad range of styles that include Jump Blues, Rock & Roll, Roots Rock, Swing, with unbelievable energy. Artists as diverse as Wynonie Harris, Groucho Marx, Sam Cooke, Fats Waller, and The Ramones all coexist in the Gorillas musical and on stage vernacular.
The band brings the show into the audience spurring fans to sing, dance and get wild. Cutting up with each other and the crowd, the Gorillas are more than a great band, they are great entertainers as well. The Gas House Gorillas are considered by many to be the most fearlessly uninhibited performers ever witnessed and a sure fire guarantee for a rippin’ good time!
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM
THE GATES OF SLUMBER
THE GATES OF SLUMBER encapsulates the metal experience for true believers. The Indianapolis doom metal trio formed in the late 1990’s with the goal of creating a band whose sound delivered an updated take on the member’s long list of favorite heavy metal greats. Weaned on Black Sabbath, St. Vitus, the melodic might of Iron Maiden and a host of classic bands from Thin Lizzy to Rainbow to Mercyful Fate, THE GATES OF SLUMBER draw deep from heavy metal’s most powerful blood and deliver doom in its purest form.
THE GATEWAY DISTRICT
THE GAY BLADES
THE GERMS
THE GET GO
THE GHOST
THE GIRLS
THE GLIDE
THE GOLDSTARS
THE GORNYS
THE GRADUATE
THE GRAND FURY
THE GRAVETONES
Scary Larry started the Gravetones
THE GRAYCES
THE GREAT COMMISSION
THE GREAT CRUSADES
It’s not hard to believe that The Great Crusades have been a band for more than 10 years and have seven albums to their name as well as a career retrospective DVD (Key to the City). The band members’ friendships lie at the heart of why The Great Crusades is still a viable, prolific band in 2010. On the other hand, some might say the band is still together only because it took this long to make its best album yet, Fiction to Shame.
Regardless, the personal history of the band is at least partly responsible for its longevity. Although The Great Crusades was formed in Champaign, Illinois, by vocalist/guitarist Brian Krumm in 1996, the current lineup of the band has been together since 1998. The band members have also known each other most of their lives at this point.
Krumm, bassist Brian Hunt, and drummer Christian Moder went to grade school and high school (and played in bands together) in the St. Louis suburb of Collinsville, Illinois. Hunt and Krumm met Brian Leach, guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist, in 1989 in Champaign. Somehow, all four band members ended up in Chicago in 1998, and they’ve managed to stay together and make great music together to this day.
The first Great Crusades album, The First Spilled Drink of the Evening, was released by Mud Records in 1997, and its sound and lyrics quickly created a cult following for the band. Rolling Stone’s David Fricke wrote, “The Great Crusades look at life through a shot-glass lens…mixing anger, muscle, and minor-key remorse like a roughneck Tindersticks with the bonus of a singer (Krumm) who’s got the tubercular pipes of Tom Waits and Axl Rose’s love child.” The album was reissued in Europe in 1998 by the German indie Trocadero Records, and the first of many European tours followed.
Damaged Goods was released by the venerated German label, Glitterhouse Records, in 2000, and by Checkered Past Records in the U.S. The critical accolades kept coming with praise from European and American press alike. Never Go Home (2002) earned 4 stars from Rolling Stone (Germany) and saw the band reach a higher public profile when a tour of Germany, Austria, and Croatia was presented by Musikexpress magazine. In 2003, the band gained even more exposure as part of their appearance on the celebrated German television program, Rockpalast.
Welcome to the Hiawatha Inn (2004), Four Thirty (2006), and Keep Them Entertained (2007) followed, each featuring a fresh approach to the band’s sound. The band continued to expand its fan base and further build its reputation as one of the most engaging, wildest live bands in the business. Along the way, the band shared the stage with a very diverse list of artists, including Gary Moore, Scorpions, 16 Horsepower, Broken Social Scene, Bottle Rockets, Steve Wynn, and Leningrad Cowboys.
Now, with Fiction to Shame, the band is poised to introduce yet another creative direction to its dedicated following. Written and recorded live simultaneously, this album includes some of the band’s most unique-sounding yet accessible songs to this point. Most importantly, however, at the heart of the record lies the sound of four great, lifelong friends making music together as they have for more than a decade.
THE GREAT KALI
THE GREAT SOCIETY MIND DESTROYERS
The GREEN HITS
THE GUILE
THE GUITARS OF SPAIN
THE GUNSHY
“While it’s easy to classify Silent Songs as a return, I see it more as a celebration. A heart felt love letter to music andwhat it has given Arbogast (and letting go of what its taken from him too).
There is genuine inspiration and salvation in these songs. The disappointment of seeing peers pack it in is real, but so is the joy he takes from the memories, the tours and people he’s met. He is excited as he is reflective. This is a look back at the last ten years, but it’s also an artist being able to exist entirely in the moment, unfazed by the state of music or what the future will bring.
In reality, the full band feel of these songs is a reinvention of The Gunshy sound. It’s as much punk rock as a solitary, bar room prophet. Gang vocals, triumphant horns, swells of strings and a quickened pace all give these songs a more vibrant finish.
Arbogast can still pen delicate finger picked ballads (“Getting High in Denver” / “Ten Years”) but it’s the energetic, raw numbers that really define this LP. Arbogast has found a new sound, a new well of creativity from which he can draw. Silent Songs is a manifesto of sorts, a reason to keep singing, writing, and touring. A reason to keep living and keep loving.
We all need reason to keep the blood coursing through our veins, and search for the cause that makes us willing to let our blood stain the fields of battle.”
– Herohill