Bleeding Through
BLEEDING THROUGH
Bleeding Through's Brandan Schieppati is angry. Or at least that's how he portrays himself on his band's last two records, Portrait of a Goddess and 2003's breakthrough This Is Love, This Is Murderous. Ever witness a Bleeding Through show? If you have, you've been privy to Schieppati's vein-bulged performances, hyper intensity, inability to stand still, and taut command over his adoring audience. He's like a teased pitbull ready to retaliate against his assailants.
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CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
You have 10 more minutes to think nice things about Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Because they've been the most talked-about - and rightly so - creation of 2005, you'll have to hate them. Soon. The itchy Williamsburg-based Clap (the Sargent brothers, Robbie Guertin, Sean Greenhalgh) and their tweaked-high Philadelphian singer Alec Ounsworth have it coming. READ MORE
DIAMOND NIGHTS
We arrived at the area of our hotel at 8 a.m. Soon after exiting our van, we were met by a very drunk man who wanted us to join him at the bar he had just run out of. READ MORE
JENNY LEWIS
Jenny Lewis sure is one busy lady. Her regular band, Rilo Kiley, just finished a tour opening for Coldplay, and now she's right back at us with a solo disc called Rabbit Fur Coat. So what's with this sudden flurry of activity, anyhow? READ MORE
NO INNOCENT VICTIM
Ten years, four albums, and the respect of its peers ... and a leader of the Christian hardcore movement decides to call it quits in 2002. Corona, Calif.'s No Innocent Victim collectively felt it had taken its uncompromisingly pious message and crushing musical approach as far as it could. READ MORE
Other Issue Features availiable in Winter 2005 / 06 Issue:

• HIM
• Solea
• Okkervil River
• American Eyes
• The Fully Down
• Stretch Arm Strong