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Track By Track: Demon Hunter, "True Defiance"
DEMON HUNTER vocalist Ryan Clark takes us track by track through the band's new album, True Defiance. “Crucifix” I had the idea for this song long before I wrote it. We knew we really wanted to start this album with a ripper, much like we did with the title track on Storm The Gates Of […]
Track By Track: MxPx, "Plans Within Plans"
MxPx frontman Mike Herrera talks about the band’s new album Plans Within Plans, out today via MRI/Rock City Recording Company. “Aces Up” Making mistakes is just part of life. That won't change anytime soon. But how we react and navigate through life's many corridors, tributaries and superhighways is the real issue here. Many of the […]
Track By Track: I The Mighty, "Karma Never Sleeps"
(Photo: Emily Ibarra) Brent Walsh of I The Mighty takes us track by track through the band's new EP for Equal Vision Records, Karma Never Sleeps. “The Dreamer” This is a more in-depth song to describe and probably one that a listener wouldn't fully understand without reading this. The story is about a boy in […]
Track By Track: Black God (Coliseum, By The Grace Of God, Young Widows), "II"
BLACK GOD vocalist Rob Pennington takes us track by track through the Louisville, Kentucky band's new EP for No Idea Records, II. “Cast You Out” This is the first banger that Ryan wrote for this new EP. This song is not about trashing someone's religious faith but more about expressing my anger with the nefarious activities of […]
Track By Track: Hands Like Houses, "Ground Dweller"
HANDS LIKE HOUSES vocalist Trenton Todd Woodley takes us through the band's new album for Rise Records, Ground Dweller. “Antarctica” This song is about growing up–being taught to stay grounded while reaching for your dreams, so that you're stronger and able to keep pushing for them even when you're knocked down. Musically it was the […]
Track By Track: I The Breather, "Truth And Purpose"
Vocalist Shawn Spann and drummer Morgan Wright take us track by track through I The Breather’s new album Truth And Purpose, out now via Sumerian Records. We often look at life struggles as negative experiences. With this album I tried to put my struggles out there for the world to see. I hope it touches […]
Track By Track: The Sidekicks, "Awkward Breeds"
THE SIDEKICKS guitarist/vocalist Steve Ciolek takes us track-by-track through the band’s new album, Awkward Breeds. I suppose I’ll start by explaining the album title. Awkward Breeds refers to the condition I perceive myself, my friends, and a lot of people I have met to be in. This condition comes from growing up in an America […]
Track By Track: Eisley's "Deep Space" EP
EISLEY take us track by track through their new EP for Equal Vision, Deep Space: “Lights Out” Sherri DuPree-Bemis: With the way the economy is these days, my parents were some of those people that were looking at possibly, quite seriously losing their house. This song is just about dealing with that as a family. […]
Track By Track: My Ticket Home's "To Create A Cure"
Vocalist Nick Giumenti takes us through My Ticket Home's new album To Create A Cure, track by track. “A New Breed” This song is about a race of beings that was bred into captivity and made slaves by their self-proclaimed masters. The storyline follows a character who is born into this society but throughout his […]
Track By Track: Enter Shikari's "A Flash Flood Of Colour"
ENTER SHIKARI frontman Roughton “Rou” Reynolds takes us through the band's new album A Flash Flood Of Colour. Stream the album (if you haven't already) and read the descriptions below. “System…” This track started off life as a short piece of music for a string quartet. Yes, I like to write classical music from time to […]
Track By Track: Matt Pryor's (The Get Up Kids) "May Day"
THE GET UP KIDS frontman MATT PRYOR takes us track by track through his new solo album, May Day. “Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down” This is something that my mom used to say to me when I was a kid, kind of like it's not your fault if other people suck. There is […]
Track By Track: Attack Attack!'s "This Means War"
ATTACK ATTACK! vocalist Caleb Shomo takes us track-by-track through the band's new album, This Means War. “The Revolution” The opening line of the record is “start the revolution” which is about pretty much what it says; in the story there's a war happening against a twisted dictator. I loosely based a lot of his character […]
Track By Track: Kurt Travis' (A Lot Like Birds, ex-Dance Gavin Dance) "Wha Happen?" EP
Kurt Travis (A Lot Like Birds, ex-Dance Gavin Dance) takes us track by tract through his new solo EP, Wha Happen? “25 New Ways To Regress” Okay, so this song I wrote a long time ago before I was in DGD and all my roommates had jobs and I had just lost mine. I had […]
Track By Track: Dia Frampton's "Red"
Dia Frampton takes us track by track through her solo debut Red, which is in stores now. “Isabella” I wrote this song in Nashville. I was writing with two friends in this really cool cabin-like house on a farm. You could see rows of trees out the window and a dog digging in the yard. […]
Track By Track: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "The Magic Of Youth"
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones frontman Dicky Barrett takes us track by track through the legendary ska group's new album, The Magic Of Youth. You can listen to the album here. “The Daylights” On the one hand it's simply about being afraid of the unknown. Beyond that it suggests that some eye-opening event brought me to […]
Track By Track: Dan P And The Bricks' "Watch Where You Walk"
Dan Potthast, leader and namesake of Dan P And The Bricks, takes us through the band's debut Watch Where You Walk track by track. The album is out now on Asian Man Records. “Watch Where You Walk” This is one of the oldest songs on the record. I wrote it maybe thirteen or fourteen years […]
Track By Track: Coalesce's "Give Them Rope"
With COALESCE reissuing their landmark 1998 full-length Give Them Rope today on 2xCD (via Relapse Records) and 2xLP (via No Sleep Records), frontman Sean Ingram broke down the lyrical themes of each song in this track by track. Please note that Sean Ingram is in no way trying to speak for any other member of […]
Album Stream/Track By Track: Coliseum's "Parasites" EP
Coliseum's new EP Parasites drops today via Temporary Residence. Listen to it here first and follow along as vocalist/guitarist Ryan Patterson breaks down the release, track by track. “One Last Night” We recorded four of the songs on Parasites with J. Robbins at Inner Ear Studio in DC on a day off from tour last […]
Track By Track: Young Statues
Carmen Cirignano AKA Young Statues walks us through his new self-titled album, out today via Run For Cover Records. “Spacism” This was probably the song that changed the most between the early demo recording and the finished version. The last thing we tracked was acoustic guitar, but I feel like it was the most crucial […]
Track By Track: Lucero
With Lucero's landmark 2003 full-length That Much Further West seeing a vinyl reissue this week via Sabot Productions, frontman Ben Nichols looked to the past and took us track by track through the release. The words “That Much Further West” came about because even though I had been in Memphis for a number of years […]
