Kurt Deimer doesn’t want to be boxed in. On his debut double album “And So It Begins…”, the Cincinnati-born rocker lays out a sprawling introduction that blends storytelling, collaboration, and a refusal to stay in one lane. It’s a record built to be consumed as a journey, not as a collection of singles shuffled in […]
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Ten years into their career, I Prevail still feel like underdogs. That chip on their shoulder powers Violent Nature, the band’s heaviest and most ambitious record yet — and according to frontman Eric Vanlerberghe, it’s their way of planting a flag. “Our story has always been a bit of an underdog story,” Vanlerberghe says. “From
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Chris Daughtry has already fulfilled his rock star dream, scoring chart-topping hits and multi-platinum albums. Still, the singer – who is also long time comic book fan – has another goal on his list: appearing in a superhero film. During a recent conversation with SNSMix, Daughtry admitted he was “always obsessed with superheroes.” “It started
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For Joe Cotela, frontman of Arizona heavy hitters DED, the last few years felt like limbo. Legal and label hang-ups left the band unable to release music just as the pandemic crushed momentum. “We weren’t really allowed to release music, and it was rough,” Cotela says. “It felt like something was taken away from us.
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Daughtry just dropped a new EP called Shock to the System: Part Two, a sequel to last year’s Part One. A standout track on the new EP is The Bottom,” a tune that had been several years in the making. “We just kind of put it on the back burner,” Chris Daughtry admitted during a
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Del Water Gap isn’t so much a band as it is the unfiltered psyche of Samuel Holden Jaffe—equal parts confession, comedy, and catharsis. His music feels tailor-made for late-night subway rides or hazy after-parties, where the lines between laughter and longing blur. Since recording his first songs in a high school closet, Jaffe has built
By the time the first show happens, Shavo Odadjian will have been waiting months for this moment — stepping out in front of tens of thousands of roaring fans, bass slung low, as System of a Down barrels into a two-hour set that spans their entire, unpredictable career. “It’s a lot of music, bro. A
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By the time The Funeral Portrait’s “Suffocate City” hit No. 1 on the rock radio charts, frontman Lee Jennings was still half in disbelief. “None of us thought the song was actually going to get there,” he explains to SNSMix. “We figured we’d be stuck under Linkin Park for another six weeks.” Instead, on a
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It’s been ten years since the Finger Eleven last released new music, but frontman Scott Anderson is quick to point out they never truly stopped. Family life, changing priorities, and a deliberately slow, democratic writing process kept them from rushing. By the time Anderson starts talking with SNSMix about Finger Eleven’s upcoming album, it’s clear
Warped Tour returns to Southern California this weekend for the Long Beach edition of the 2025 fest. The event – which already enjoyed a successful stop in Washington D.C. earlier this summer – is being hailed by fans and musicians alike. Of course, Warped tour’s long history goes back decades. In the ‘90s and 2000s,
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