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Fresh Faces: Paradise Fears

Posted Under: Fresh Faces, Interviews | February 22, 2012

I’ve hit a pop rock lull. Bands I used to love have fallen into the tragic fate of my recycle bin. Right-click. Delete. Delete to Recycle Bin. And that’s it. No tears are shed and I don’t spend a second more thinking about it. How many “pop rock” albums that have been through this, I can’t recall but I can recall those who survive this destined fate. Paradise Fears is among the few. With one listen of “Last Breath” off their full length, Yours Truly, I knew I had found something great.

What The Nell designer, Nell Johnson

Posted Under: Features | December 3, 2011

Fashion Institute of Technology student, Nell Johnson, in NYC has been making working with wire since she was a child. Johnson was an only child, so making her own entertainment was of the norm to her. Rather than being “unproductive” and “playing with [her] stuffed animals,” she learned to work with wire and has been making jewelry ever since.

YouTubers: VanJess24

Posted Under: Features, Youtubers | December 2, 2011

Self described “eclectic R&B” sister act Ivana Nwokike and Jess Nwokike, otherwise known as VanJess on YouTube, have always had music around them. These Lagos, Nigerian natives have been around music and performing very early on whether it was “singing in school plays, piano lessons, [or] choir.” Coming from parents who are avid music lovers, the singing bug bit them early and Ivana and Jess have always sang together but when exactly did they discover their sound?

The OverUnder

Posted Under: Features, Fresh Faces | November 14, 2011

When Jimmy Connors got out of school, music was always the dream but what to do with it was the question still unanswered. “A lot of my friends were getting 9-5 jobs and sort of going the typical route which I could’ve just as easily done myself. I knew though that I had to at least try to make a career out of music or I’d regret it, regardless of whether I succeeded or not” he says. With this, Jimmy moved to New York from a small city in Pennsylvania with the “hopes of making a better life” for himself.

Fresh-Faced & New-Found: Savvy

Posted Under: Fresh Faces, Interviews | August 30, 2011

A teen pop group that is an international hit in 92 countries with their own television show? Upon reading this, I instantly thought, “this is not for me.” If anyone has seen the type of music I’m into, this type of music would not be something any person would associate with me.

Fresh-Faced & New-Found: Dave Patten

Posted Under: Fresh Faces, Interviews | August 28, 2011

Dave Patten is one of those rare people; he writes his own songs, produces them, plays a plethora of instruments, and synchronizes “each aspect of his tracks to the exact specifications of his creative vision.” From start to finish, there’s not one ounce of his music that he doesn’t play a role in.

Fresh-Faced & New-Found: Jesse Macht

Posted Under: Fresh Faces, Interviews | August 23, 2011

No album will grace my meticulously and painstakingly organized iTunes unless it brings me to absolute tears. So when I was sent some YouTube links to music by Jesse Macht, I was wary at first; another “ugh here we go again,” but that didn’t happen at all.