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Forming in early 2010 in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, Try This At Home are a perfect fusion of pop-punk meets synthesisers, and as drummer Dave puts it, “It’s music you can dance to!”. The 4 piece is comprised of Ross (vocals, guitar and synth), Ryan (guitar and vocals), Johnny (bass and vocals) and Dave

Fans of now defunct rock band The Beautiful Mistake will be familiar with the name Josh Hagquist as over their six year existence they made several appearances supporting well know bands such as Funeral For A Friend, Fall Out Boy, Senses Fail and Every Time I Die while releasing two EPs and two studio albums.

Coming from the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, A Day Overdue is the new breed of pop-punk set to take the planet by storm. With a sound very similar to that of bands such as Fall Out Boy and Blink 182 there is massive potential for ADO to mimic the success of these bands and who knows,

Hailing from Scotland, Fall And Perish are possibly the next big thing to hit thrash metal! With a sound that’s as brutal as Trivium and as tight as Bullet For My Valentine, Fall And Perish are going places. Having started in 2008 the band went through a break-up towards the end and all seemed lost

The Stone Foxes Rock / Blues / Soul San Francisco, USA The Stone Foxes are a rock and roll band based in San Francisco, CA. Heavily influenced by the great stars of the 60s and 70s, The Stone Foxes play a unique brand of loose rock and roll and heavy dirty blues, creating a wall

Restorations Indie / Rock / Shoegaze Philadelphia, USA There’s not much info to be found on these apparently mysterious guys from Philadelphia. I know that there is five of them in the band & that they’ve only released a two track 7″ on Evil Weevil Records thus far. They are currently tracking drums for the

“Fan favourites with a great live show; packed floor to rafters every time!” -Fitz Madrid, DJ 98KUPD Digital Summer are a Hard Rock act from Phoenix, Arizona who formed in 2006 and have since released 1 album and 1 EP. The band is due to release their brand new album, Counting The Hours, on April

Sleep Parade Progressive, Alt. Rock Melbourne, Australia “With the release of ‘Things Can Always Change’ Sleep Parade have evolved into a heavyweight contender on the Australian prog-rock scene. A Flawless, world-class album” ~Nick Snelling, Beat Magazine Melbourne’s Sleep Parade’s debut album Things Can Always Change was released in April 2008 through Shock Records

Venice Queen Rock, Punk Vancouver, Canada Vancouver Fox Seeds winners, Venice Queen, started out as four friends playing cover songs of their favorite bands back when they were in high school. After taking a few years off for post secondary education, they reunited in 2008, writing and performing original material. Venice Queen quickly became one

My second “I have discovered” today also covers a local band. The Detours are a five-piece band from East Kilbride/Glasgow with a sound similar to many signed artists and would fit well into the current rock scene

In the first of my two discoveries today, I will be introducing some local bands from right here in Scotland. Formed in my home town, the band from East Kilbride/Glasgow was put together by brothers John-Paul (lead guitar and vocals) and Gary Hughes (rhythm guitar and vocals) with

Document Rock / Indie New York, USA The band: Jeff Rendano, Chris Curtin & Nick Derevjanik. ” The three members of ‘Document’ flooded the downstairs of Valentines with a wall of sound that swooped and crashed together like an ocean sinking a life boat

Quixote Indie Rock Boston, USA The Band: Joe Stulpin (Vocals, Guitar), Anthony Valera (Guitar), Justin Demers (Bass) & Evan Murphy (Drums). Massachusetts indie-rock band Quixote was born in 2007 out of a college recording project between members Evan Murphy (drums) and Joe Stulpin (vocals/guitar)

The Wanton Looks Rock / Punk Chicago, USA The Wanton Looks are an all female power pop band from Chicago. They will break your face and your heart

KillCode Rock / Metal New York, USA Chas Banellis (Guitar, backing vocals), Tom Morrissey (Vocals), Eric Bonesmith (Bass), Pat Harrington (Guitar) & Rob Noxious (Drums). The five guys that make up Killcode didn’t have to rise from ashes or go through some spiritual quest to find themselves where they are today, it just happened.