Interview with: Matthew McginnInterview by: Shannah Lauren When and how did you start playing music?I actually got a piano when I was 3 years old, and started taking piano lessons. It actually taught me a lot! And it helped me eventually learn guitar on my own. I know from experience how piano teachers can be, not [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
If you went to the Warped Tour this year, or the Cheap Date tour, or are going to the new Motion City Soundtrack tour, then you probably have heard of this band, whew! Pretty much attacking the road these last few months, Sing It Loud have been making quite the name for themselves. With their [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Since the release of their sophomore album as the band they are today with Adelphia, A Skylit Drive have skyrocketed to the top of the screamo rock game. After seeing them perform to a crowd of around 1,500 kids in comparison to my last time seeing them with maybe 300 just a short few months [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Hot off the tour circuit and fresh with a new album, EastScene’s Shannah Lauren caught up with vocalist Kristian Hallbert of the Long Island alt-punk outfit Crime in Stereo to discuss I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone, their latest release on Bridge Nine Records, band history, and plenty of other bits to get [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
EastScene’s Shannah Lauren had a chat with Paul Meany, the voice and keyboardist of the critically-acclaimed alt-rock band MuteMath. Meany answers to questions concerning the New Orleans outfit’s past, present, popularity, and close-calls to calling it all off. To start, let’s go back, how exactly did you get into music personally? I started playing in church actually, [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
EastScene’s Shannah Lauren caught up with The Word Alive’s Tyler “Telle” Smith to chat about the hardcore sextet’s future plans and multiple band switch-ups. How did the band officially get together? Well Zack and our former singer Craig Mabbitt started the band, soon followed by Tony P and Nick. They then enlisted Tony A who brought along [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Broadway’s Jake Garland took some time to catch up with EastScene’s Shannah Lauren. The screamo outfit, who hail from Orlando, FL, are in hot pursuit of a budding career, all while facing challenges regarding constant line-up changes. Get ready to find out what makes this band tick and what made them who they are.
Monday, January 25, 2010
EastScene’s Shannah Lauren had the chance to catch up with Derek Sanders, lead vocalist of Tallahassee, FL’s Mayday Parade. The band is fresh off the touring circuit (AP Fall Ball Tour) and ready to embark on this winter’s Taste of Chaos Tour as headliners. Sanders talks about the band’s formation, their current state, and what’s [...]
Monday, January 25, 2010
EastScene’s Shannah Lauren caught up with Nashville’s up-and-coming alt-rock outfit SafetySuit, covering all the past and current bases of the Universal Records quartet. When and how did SafetySuit get together? We actually got the band together in 2002 and were all close friends. I think the best part was we got together as more of a joke, [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
EastScene recently got in touch with guitarist Travis Miguel of Atreyu to talk touring, as well as their new album titled Congregation of the Damned. ES: Where and when did Atreyu first form? Atreyu formed in 1999 in Orange County, California. ES: What was the first album you listened to that made you decide you wanted to work [...]
Sunday, March 7, 2010
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