When The Funeral Portrait frontman Lee Jennings talks about his band’s single “Dark Thoughts,” he doesn’t treat it like just another track on their album — he treats it like therapy. “People don’t talk about it enough,” he says. “I try to live my life as an open book. I try really hard to be […]
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Sublime are back on top — and they did it with a song they didn’t even expect to blow up. “Ensenada” has now spent seven straight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative chart, officially becoming the biggest radio hit in Sublime’s entire career. Not bad for a track Jakob Nowell says started out
OTTTO have never been a band afraid to dive headfirst into chaos, but on their new Sweaty Pool EP, the Venice-based trio stretch further into the abstract than ever before. Coming off 2023’s Life Is a Game, bassist Tye Trujillo says the band felt an urge to break from the straight-ahead punch of their earlier
Brian Sachs, the drummer, lyricist and co-founder of rising rock group Mynd Reader, has endured many highs and lows to get to this point. Like rock and roll’s version of Forrest Gump, his story is intertwined with some of the biggest names in music history. Speaking with SNSMix from his Colorado home, Sachs’ journey started
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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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Some bands grind for years before they find their chemistry; Edgehill found theirs in a single song. Guitarist Jake Zimmermann and vocalist Chris Kelly first linked at a Vanderbilt jam session, where their debut single “Shooting Glances” came together so seamlessly it demanded a full band. With drummer Aidan Cunningham in the fold, the Nashville
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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 stars dream, scoring chart-topping hits and multi-platinum albums. Still, the singer – who is also long time comic book fan – admits he has another goal: appearing in a superhero movie. During a recent conversation with SNSMix, Daughtry admitted he was “always obsessed with superheroes.” “It started with,
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In a career spanning more than 30 years, Nick Hexum has seen a lot of things. Among them, a crowd of his fans mercilessly booing one of the biggest pop stars in the world: Justin Timberlake. The incident took place in 2002 when Hexum’s band, 311, was part of the Liquid Mix tour. The lineup
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By all accounts, Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix never saw it coming: a crossover moment that would unite one of alt-metal’s most enduring voices with a modern country powerhouse. But when Carrie Underwood’s name landed in the band’s orbit, everything changed. The result? A raw and powerful reimagining of “Leave a Light On”—an acoustic anthem
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