Since the release of their debut album, Albatross, in 2006, this Seattle band has been creating a buzz in the underground alternative music scene. The band proved themselves by selling 3,700 copies of Albatross in the first week, making it the highest selling debut album from their record company, Tooth & Nail records.Having played together since high school where they searched for a medium between their parents favorite music like Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, but playing close attention to their surroundings including the likes of Pearl Jam and Gatsby’s American Dream, The Classic Crime have developed their own style best described as a new take on old rock ‘n’ roll.

Some fans have assumed that The Classic Crime is a “Christian band” due to being signed onto Tooth & Nail Records. However, The Classic Crime does not label themselves a ‘Christian’ band. As Matt writes on TCC’s discussion board:

We believe faith is personal, and can be only held by an individual person. To entitle a group “christian” would be to assume that the group has a collective soul, or at least individual souls tied to a solid collective belief. Not everyone in our band is decidedly set in their faith, and we respect that.” Also Justin one of the members of The Classic Crime add “3 of the 5 members in the band are Christian… We get that alot being on a pseudo-christian label (tooth & nail) but, no we are not a Christian band. Our lyrics are very positive and hopeful though”

Band members include:
Matt MacDonald (vocals)
Alan Clark (bass)
Robbie “Cheeze” Negrin (guitar)
Paul “Skip” Erickson (drums)
Justin Duque (guitar)

Recommended Tracks:
Seattle
The Coldest Heart
The Fight
Who Needs Air
All the Memories
Blisters and Coffee

The Classic Crime has toured with fellow Tooth & Nail artists
- Anberlin
- MXPX
- Emery
- Run kid Run

as well as:
- A Change of Pace
- A Static Lullaby
- Quit Drive
- So they say
- Just Surrender
-Scary Kids Scaring Kids

Ever since their release of their first single The Adventure in May 2006, Angels & Airwaves have taken the hearts of millions of people around the world. Without a doubt Angels and Airwaves is one of the most, if not the most influential band of all time. With amazingly deep and inspirational lyrics, matched with an ambient yet upbeat sound, their music gives its listener a feeling that will inspire and uplift them.

Surprisingly Angels and Airwaves has become much more famous outside the United States in areas such as Europe and Australia than within the United States, although anybody who has experienced the sound of Angels and Airwaves and actually listened attentively to the music and lyrics will without a doubt say that they are one of the greatest bands of all time.
Angels and Airwaves is often thought of as a spin-off of famous band Blink-182 because it was formed by lead singer/guitarist Tom Delonge after the breakup of Blink-182 in 2005

Band members include:

Tom DeLonge — Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (2005 – present)
David Kennedy — Lead Guitar, Electronic Drum, Keyboards (2005 – present)
Matt Wachter — Bass, Backing Vocals, Keyboards (2007 – present)
Adam Willard — Drums (2005 – present) Recommended TracksRite of Spring
The Adventure
Everything’s Magic
Heaven
Secret Crowds
A Little’s Enough
It Hurts

Immortal Technique

Born in Peru and raised in Harlem, this MC later spent time at Penn State, in a state pen and is ready to give corporate America a run for its money. This underground rapper is the real deal, spitting flow about an uprise, this rapper in a genius at throwing together stories and metaphors that inspire change in such a way that other rappers can only attempt to do.

Immortal Technique is a genius at street intellect and worldly politics and is using his music to change the system. He understands the system so well and knows how to challenge it and therefore refuses to play by the rules. Since releasing his debut album “Revolutionary Vol. 1“, he refuses to sign to a major record label and has no plans to do so, although he has received many big offers, it is apparent that to Immortal Technique(who’s real name remains anonymous by request of the artist) it isn’t about selling out, its about remaining in control of his music and therefore his message so that nobody can put a sensor it. He has since released his second album “Revolutionary Vol. 2” in 2003 with Viper Records, which he is the president of.

Immortal Technique has announced that he is working on a new album, although not much information has been released about it. “There is definitely something different about this album,” he said. “My flow is improved. I am not a 19-year-old-kid no more, screaming into the microphone. My voice changed. I am older. I am wiser.”

The hip-hop movement gives a voice to a group of people who may not otherwise have an opportunity to be revolutionary, people that have long been silenced by the system. However this doesn’t mean Technique can’t appreciate a good club mix.

“You’ve got to understand something: Hip-hop was invented by people who were going through some of the worst economic years in recent history in terms of urban environment. These people didn’t just make protest music, or music about struggle. At the end of the day they wanted to go home and forget some of their troubles, forget some of their misery,” he said. “I never apologize for being a single heterosexual male, and I won’t ever. I love to dance. I love going to the salsa and the meringue clubs, the hip-hop clubs, just to have a great time. But I just want to see the culture exemplified correctly, to see realness.”

Recommended Tracks

• Dance with the Devil
• Harlem Streets
• Point of No Return
• Caught in a Hustle
• Bin Laden

  A Cursive Memory - Everything

      A Cursive Memory is a new band that has a pretty nice, and upbeat sound, but the thing that makes them unique was their great idea for the music video for their hit song called “Everything”. What this band did for this video was they spent over 300 hours on the streets of Hollywood, following celebrities around while being filmed singing their song “Everything” as though from the point of view of the Paparazzi.
         This video is very fun and entertaining and the idea has made this song, and this band very popular, So check it out!During the video they are seen singing in the background of famous celebrities such as
-Britney Spears
-David Spade
-Paris Hilton
-Jerry Springer etc.

This new California foursome has already shared the stage with famous bands such as Boys Like Girls, Hello Goodbye, and Jimmy Eat World.

Band Members include

• Shaun Profeta- Guitar/Vocals 
• Colin Baylen–Guitar/Vocals
• Mark Borst Smith–Bass/Keyboards 
• Dillan Wheeler- Drums

                                                                                                             
   

Secret and Whisper, a new band out of Kelowna, Canada, still in its underground phase, will soon be taking over the Post-Hardcore/alternative music scene. This band, still hardly over a year old, has an amazing hard yet ambient meaningful sound that is comparable to bands like 30 Seconds to Mars, and Saosin.

Originally called “Stutterfly” Secret and Whisperchanged their name in February of 2007, and shortly after had their lead singer leave the band, and was replaced with Charles Furney of “thebleedingalarm”.

Band members include Chris Furney (Vocals), Bradyn Byron (Guitar, Backing Vocals), Jordan Chase (Bass, Baking Vocals/Screams) Jason Ciolli (Guitar), and Ryan Loerke (Drums).

Secret and Whispers debut album called “Great White Whale” was released in 2008 by “Tooth and Nail Records” and is now available to purchase in store, or on iTunes or at Amazon.com.

Recommended Tracks

• Vanishings
• XOXOXO
• Spider Besider
• Anchors
• Werewolves

Love You Long Time

Love you long time is a fresh new band out of Rexburg, Idaho that rocks fresh, unique music that is both crazy fun to listen to, and will get stuck in your head for days. Comprised of lead singer/synthesizer/guitarist Oz, his sister and keyboardist Sally, her husband and bass player Chains, and their friend Liam on drums this bands “power-pop/synth/dance-punk electronica/hip-hop” sound has been described by Absolutepunk.net as “THE NEXT TO INHERIT THE THRONE OF SYNTH-POP”.

These party rockers released their first EP album, “Dont Poop on my Party” in 2005, and since then have released “Party till your Pooped” and “Demonstration”, all of which can be bought off iTunes, and Amazon.com.

• Love you long time is quickly gaining momentum, currently touring the Central and west coast united states, and playing with major bands such as
• Shiny Toy Guns, Datarock, Family Force 5, The Secret Handshake, The Format, The Aquabats, MC Lars, Dashboard Confessional Limbeck, and Colbie Caillat and also played in the 2007 Warped Tour.