AWAKEN THE EMPIRE

Damien Lawson – Guitar/Vocals/Programming
Jaymz Marcc – Bass
Daryl Falconer – Drums
Shivan – Guitar

Awaken the Empire’s fusing of Alternative and Electronica quickly found them an audience in Los Angeles, where singer Damien Lawson founded the band in 2009. Known for their intense high-energy performances, the band’s contrasting sounds of Epic Alternative rock, with Infectious Electro-Dance is a beautifully chaotic blend of Artistic honesty and Rock Intensity.

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Second chances can be especially sweet, and for Trust Company, the four-piece hard rock band from Montgomery, Alabama, reuniting has been sweet indeed, allowing the band to fall in love with making music again because they’re doing it for themselves, free of the pressures, expectations and distractions of the business. On their new album, Dreaming In Black And White, the band branches off in exciting new directions while retaining the overpowering combination of intense hard rock and irresistible melodies that will delight both the hardcore base of fans that have been waiting patiently for years for Trust Company to return, and a new throng of fans that will be hearing the band for the first time.

The last the world heard from Trust Company was in 2005, when after release of their second album, True Parallels, they announced that they’d be going on hiatus. As lead vocalist and guitarist Kevin Palmer remembers, “After True Parallels, we were in a bad spot. No one was happy. We had been rushed into the studio to meet a record company deadline and all those external pressures – all the outside opinions about how our music should sound – had it stop being fun, which is why we got into it in the first place.” Drummer Jason Singleton adds, “We never said ‘we’re breaking up.’ It just stopped being exciting.  We had to get away from the big machine for a while.”

The band had made a lot of fans since its formation in 1997 and especially after their breakout success in 2002, with their gold selling debut, The Lonely Position Of Neutral and the hit single “Downfall.” Extensive airplay on MTV for “Downfall” and continuous touring with such bands as Korn, Papa Roach and Disturbed earned the band an especially rabid following, one that stuck around through the ensuing years that the band was apart. Jason recalls, “We all were in various side projects during our time apart and we made it a point to keep in touch with the fans via MySpace.  But that whole time we were away we all kept getting emails asking, ‘When is the next Trust Company album coming?’”

But the time away was beneficial, allowing the band to fall in love with music again. As Kevin explains, “When we finally got back together – which just started with an email asking if we wanted to jam – we let our wounds heal. It had us focus on the music without any expectations. We started having fun again, and that was all the expectation we wanted. We played for ourselves. It was the same feeling that it was back in the good old days.” And after getting their road legs back with gigging in 2008 and 2009, the band (including original member James Fukai on lead guitar) settled in to make new music for the first time in years.

The evidence of all the good feeling created by their reunion is in their new album, Dreaming In Black And White. Produced by Chuck Alkazian (Pop Evil, Sponge, Emphatic) the album is less a return to form than it is the truest representation of the band ever captured on record. Kevin elaborates, “Working with Chuck was awesome. When we first got signed, we jumped into the whole label world of singles and all that. Chuck helped us forget about those things.” Jason adds, “We’ve all just grown and grown. We’re all married now. The natural progress of time will change people, and that has come out in the music.”

Hailing from Austin Texas, Snake Skin Prison slings Rock N Roll like a gunslinger with an itchy trigger finger.  Come Hell or High water, no crowd too large, and no stage too small Snake Skin Prison guarantees to shove fist pumping American Rock N Roll right down the back of your throat.

“Life’s a Gamble live while you can, don’t waste a minute take every chance!” -I Ain’t Workin No More- SSP

Searing southern fried guitar work laced with heart pounding bass drums, Snake Skin Prison emits a pure stench riddled with the remnants of their influences, yet permeates of a new breed.

With one Album under their belts, “Get Bit!!”, SSP is primed and ready to release their new Album, “9 Kinds of Bad”.  Recorded at Sugar Hill Studios in Houston TX, this much anticipated album delivers exactly what was expected, Pure American Hard Rock n Roll.

Snake Skin Prison continues to burn up and down the highways, never wavering never slowing only growing Bigger…Faster…Stronger.  For more info, pics, schedule, and much more…hit the links below!!

“I may have many faults but being wrong ain’t one of ‘em!”-Jimmy Hoffa

Til we meet again;  SSP!!

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Think Tank came together when trio, Lex Deschuytter, Ian Young and Ian Deschuytter met singer Don Lawrence. Since forming in late 2005, Orange County-based Think Tank has played shows throughout the OC, San Diego, LA and the Inland Empire. In 2007 the band recorded Women and Philosophy, their debut EP. It was woven together with a blend of funk, rock and electronica. In 2008 they continued to develop their sound, releasing their 2nd EP Chapters. Now working on songs for a third installment, you can hear a rawness and edge in their newly released single“Okay“, produced by Mike Cosgrove (Alien Ant Farm). The band continues to write and is planning a west coast tour for early fall 2010.

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Black Gold is a Brooklyn based music project with Eric Ronick (lead vocals, keyboards) and Than Luu (drums, guitar, percussions, vocals) formed in early 2006. The project was started after touring with M. Ward, Ambulance LTD, Rachael Yamagata, Panic! at the Disco, and Adam Franklin of Swervedriver. The formation followed with writing and recording at Ronick’s Thinman Studios in Brooklyn, that culminated in the release of their debut album, Rush, released on February 3, 2009. Singles from the album include “Detroit” and “Plans & Reveries.”

Filmed on location in the California desert by director Josh Forbes, the imagery was intended to illuminate some of the song’s lyrical themes. “The heart of the song is about a time in a person’s life when his or her faith is being tested in the most challenging way they’ve ever known,” band member Than Luu explains. “In that moment, you pray for something or someone so bad that you’d be crushed if you were let down and reborn if you were not. The concept for the video speaks to this test of faith and the dreams that go with it. You’ll see imagery of friends and loves lost, hints of hopes and fears, light and dark.” The video closes with dozens of Chinese Flying Lanterns released into the heavens, sending messages to loved ones past and present.

INTERVURT is a highly motivated five-piece rock band from London, UK. Building a reputation of being a great live act that crosses the attitude and melody of the Killers and U2 with the richness and darkness of Depeche Mode and Muse, combined with the power of Queens of The Stone Age.