Band of the Week - Brave Citizens

I've been absolutely obsessed about this week's featured band Brave Citizens over the past few weeks. The San Francisco based duo is a side project of lead singer Andrew Capra who currently sings and plays guitar in the pop/rock band Hopefield.

Although this is considered a side project, it in no way lacks the incredible edge most sideprojects seem to miss. Andrew completely self-produced the entire EP Revolutions which is up in it's entirety streaming for free on their MySpace.

As far as sound, the band is an awesome mix of bands such as Mute Math, U2, and tons more proving further more that Andrew and friends can write great, catchy edgy rock songs that is a complete rarity these days.

www.myspace.com/bravecitizens
Hightrack Track: the entire Revolutions EP

Band of the Week - Into It. Over It

This week's Band of the Week is an artist I've actually already mentioned on this blog Into It. Over It. After a week, I am still glued to my iTunes listening to the songs Evan has recorded over the last 10 weeks. In case you haven't gotten a chance to look at the previous post about Evan's newest project, the main premise of Into It. Over It is to create a song every week of Evan's 23rd year. That's an asounding 52 songs!

It's a creative and innovative idea that gives you something to look forward to each week. I know that I personally have been caught up listening to each new song that premieres every Thursday and reflecting on the past week. It's seriously a powerful thing that Evan is doing. It also helps that the songs are absolutely awesome and totally free to download on his website!

www.myspace.com/intoitoverit
www.intoitoverit.com

Similar artists: Texas is the Reason, Death Cab for Cutie, Braid, The Progress, Up Up Down Down
Highlight track: All of them!

Band of the Week - Sing It Loud

Here is my first artist profile kiddies! Expect this to be updated every Thursday with a hot and fresh new musical act to dig your teeth into.

Today I bring Minnepolis' finest Sing It Loud. These 5 wonderful gentlemen are bringing their finest pop punk electronic effort to the table and man, does it rule. Coming out of the ashes of the mildly successful Jamestown Story, as well as heralded Minnesota local act, The Semester, the guys in Sing it Loud already have plenty of musical experience and talent under their belt. It also helps their self-titled EP produced by the very talented and young Jordan Schmidt who in his relatively short career has already helmed the board of some pretty fantastic records from Automatic Loveletter, All Time Low, The Morning Light, and a ton more. The band also recently finished an incredible tour featuring Universal act Between the Trees as well as the previously mentioned Automatic Loveletter.

Their active live show is refreshing breath of fresh air in a pool of boring live bands that simply can't maintain my interest anymore even though they might play incredible music. They love getting the crowd pumped out before lead singer Pat Brown bellows out his first note that any bystander has to stop in their tracks and watch what all their onstage fuss is about.

The record is just as good if not even better. Every song is unbelievably catchy and will be sure to stick in your head for weeks on end. Come Around is by far the highlight track and really captures the energy of the entire album. I would describe the rest of the record but I'm out of compliments for this band. Just click the link below and listen away!!

www.myspace.com/singitloud