It’s Morning For The Last Goodnight
LOS ANGELES (TNA) – It’s a good morning for the band known as The Last Goodnight – metaphorically speaking.The Connecticut-based rock group has released two albums on its own, but the sun won’t rise on its career officially until August 28, when its debut album...
The Xbox Boys Game To Woo Rock Fans
KIRKLAND, Wash. (TNA) — Most bands sing about sex, drugs, or rock and roll, but a band in Kirkland, Wash, prefers to sing about Gears of War, Rainbow Six Vegas, and other topics related specifically to the Xbox. Fittingly, the band is called the Xbox Boys. They broke out...
Starbucks Connection Helps 'Until June' Keep Buzz Going
LOS ANGELES (TNA) – Back in the old days of Hollywood, stars were discovered at the soda fountain.These days, they’re discovered at Starbucks.Case in point: the pop trio Until June, which is currently touring behind its self-titled debut CD.Pianist Josh Ballard...
Composer Makes Sweet Music for Ice Cream Vendors
NEW YORK (TNA) – Think you’ve got problems? Try driving an ice cream truck.Not only do those folks spend their days baking in the sun while peddling popsicles, but they must also do so while enduring a repetitious recording of a glockenspiel, or bells ringing “The...
Staind Frontman Enjoys Flying Solo
BOISE, Idaho (TNA) – It’s a beautiful summer day in Boise, Idaho, but Staind frontman Aaron Lewis wouldn’t know the difference if there was a raging snowstorm outside.That’s because he’s been inside his tour bus all day, hanging out with his roadies and...
Captured by Robots! Leader Rages Again With The Machines
SAN FRANCISCO (TNA) – “I couldn’t play with people anymore. Too much bullshit – drugs, egos, people showing up late, all sorts of problems.”So says JBOT, a former jazz and ska musician who is now the semi-human slave for a sadistic gang of machines.
Sharks Won't Mate To Britney Spears Music
HAMBURG, Germany (TNA) – As if things couldn’t get worse for Britney Spears, now comes word that sharks hate having sex to her music.That’s the bizarre discovery made by researchers at Sea Life Timmendorf, a sea life center in Hamburg, Germany.
Henry Rollins Hopes Fans Get ‘Provoked’
LOS ANGELES (TNA) – Henry Rollins is in a talkative mood, and that’s a good thing, because he’ll be doing a lot of talking for the next few months.Rollins is getting ready to start a nationwide spoken tour that he is calling “Provoked: An Evening Of...
Eve To Adam Singer: `It's Okay To Rock Again!'
MILWAUKEE (TNA) – Back in 1992, Nirvana started a rock revolution that plunged a knife in the beast that was big, loud metal rock.Now, 15 years later, that behemoth is coming back to life and that’s music to the ears of Taki Sassaris, lead singer of Eve To Adam, a rock group...
NASHVILLE (TNA) – It hasn’t been a good minute for Tesla bassist Brian Wheat.“Can I call you back? I just got a call from the alarm company,” Wheat says. “Someone is breaking into my house back in Sacramento, and I’m here in Nashville right...
Pennywise Singer Proudly Raising Punks Of His Own
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. (TNA) – Rock ‘n’ roll has traditionally preached an ethos of living fast and dying young, an attitude that doesn’t exactly match well with responsible parenting.But Jim Lindberg, the lead singer of the California-based punk group Pennywise,...
Beatles And Metallica Come Together
PITTSBURGH (TNA) – In many peoples’ eyes, the Beatles are still the Fab Four, but that isn’t stopping them from getting a thrashing from four musicians from Milwaukee, who call themselves Beatallica.If that sounds like Metallica, you’re catching on to the idea. The...
Writing On The Road Just So-So For OK Go
CLEVELAND (TNA) – To use a cliché, it’s the best of times and the worst of times for the members of the Chicago-based quartet OK Go, the band that burst to online fame by dancing on YouTube.The group is currently on a world tour capitalizing on the success of its latest...
Ike Reilly Assassination Hopes To Make A Killing
CHICAGO (TNA) -- Musician Ike Reilly hopes to make a killing. So maybe it’s appropriate that he calls his band an "assassination," rather than, say, a congregation.The Chicago-based leader of the Ike Reilly Assassination admits the band name is as much as a character...
Grandpa Garage Band 'Humping' Every Chance They Get
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TNA) – You may not be able to teach old bands new licks, but in the case of The Invictas, maybe that’s a good thing.The Invictas are a group of fifty- and sixty-something musicians who cut their teeth playing frat parties and bars back in the 1960s and...
Seattle Man Sounds Off About Musical Intermissions
SEATTLE (TNA) – Some music fans go to classical musical concerts to hear their old favorites by Beethoven and Stravinsky, but not Christopher DeLaurenti. He’s more interested in the sounds taking place during the intermissions.DeLaurenti, 39, a music writer and composer in...
