Moth Pick Of The Week – Saving America
To call Michael Behm a music industry renaissance man is actually something of an understatement. As an artist, he’s equally comfortable working under the spotlight or behind the scenes or in a studio, while he has found significant success as an entrepreneur in many different facets of the music business.
Twelve years of touring through North America have established Behm as a compelling live performer. To a rapidly growing number of fans around the globe, he is best known as a singer/songwriter of real melodic and lyrical intelligence. His versatile take on pop-rock has been showcased on seven albums, including 2008’s acclaimed Saving America.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Future Past
Future Past, Lovespirals’ 4th full-length album, is a career-defining synthesis of the band’s vast musical influences into a fresh new electronica sound.
Moth Pick Of The Week – My Personal Sky
Releasing her first major album at the age of 19 has been a long time coming for this songstress, writing fan favorites like “Lovely” and “My Own Hands To Hold” years earlier. Wise beyond her age, Sara writes about growing up in the modern teenage world in a way that connects. “When one of my songs touches someone it means the world to me,” exclaims Sara who’s had over 30 songs placed in films and television shows.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Through The Medium Of Noise
Michael J started his musical career as the lead singer, guitarist, and main songwriter for the Rochester, NY band Exploding Boy in 1987. In their 13 years together the band performed thousands of shows all over the Eastern US and opened for A Flock Of Seagulls, Joe Walsh, Billy Squier, Cheap Trick, and The Goo Goo Dolls among others.
Moth Pick Of The Week – On The Wire
A playground fist fight may not be the most promising start to a long-lasting friendship, nor indeed to the creation of a band; however, it was from these fractious beginnings that the story of Ardentjohn began, some time ago on the Scottish Isle of Bute…
Moth Pick Of The Week – Movin’ Higher
Nick Daugherty is a Los Angeles-based pop/rock/soul singer and songwriter in the vein of a John Mayer or Jason Mraz. Recently chosen as one of the “Top 100 Unsigned Artists for 2009” by Music Connection magazine, Nick Daugherty (released) his much-anticipated debut album “Movin’ Higher” on Skyrocket Records in May 2009.
Moth Pick Of The Week – True Story
Singer, writer, and producer all in one, David Homyk’s music can be described as a blend of Maroon 5 and James Blunt, often mixed with a Timbaland-style production. David is known to put on high energy live performances, juggling piano, guitar, and various instruments on stage. A producer by trade, David has made recordings for many well known artists including Beyoncé and her sister Solange.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Decade
As many of you may remember, the first band ever featured on The Mothpod was The Clintons. What you may not know is that The Clintons have just released a best of album titled Decade featuring five brand new tracks! As if that’s not enough to merit a Moth Pick Of The Week, they’re also giving the album away for FREE to all Moth Maniacs!
Moth Pick Of The Week – I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
The Bloodsugars first established themselves as a force within Brooklyn’s indie-rock scene with the 2008 release of their critically acclaimed debut EP, BQEP. Now gearing up for the November release of their first full-length, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On (Engine Room Recordings), the band finds itself poised to conquer new territory with national audiences. The group will promote the new album by setting out on a tour of the Midwest, wrapping up with a homecoming show at New York’s Webster Hall/The Studio November 21 with Project Jenny Project Jan and Savoir Adore…
Moth Pick Of The Week – Beyond Familiar
Ledbetter Heights comes from a college town, but it’s far more than a college band. They’re young men, but old souls. They were toddlers when “Joshua Tree” was released, but one can hear echoes of 70s funk and 60s soul threaded through a rock sound all their own. And best of all, they’re not playing for escapism or ephemeral pleasures. They’re slinging their grooves and melodies because they know moving people to jump, shout, laugh and cry is a serious and noble business, far more important than any day job…
Moth Pick Of The Week – Love Gone Mad
Since their inception in late 2007, Tulsa-based pop-rocker-foursome Stars Go Dim has captured the attention of a devoted fan base as well as music critics; they took the crown in a series of both fan and industry voted music contests nationwide, including the Country Music Television’s Listener’s Choice Award. In mid-2008, The Urban Tulsa named Stars Go Dim the “best unsigned pop band in Oklahoma.” Their popularity is only strengthened by opening act performances for Switchfoot, Daughtry, Paramore, All American Rejects, The Roots, and John Mayer. Stars Go Dim boasts two Grammy nominated musicians with a musical style that blends pop, rock and smooth soul and feature engaging lyrics held together with captivating melodies. The group recently recorded a self-titled debut EP in anticipation of the first single, “Come Around.” The full-length album, Love Gone Mad, which just released August 4, 2009.
Moth Pick Of The Week – Hollis Brown
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Nashville, Tenn. – Hollis Brown, Queens, New York’s hottest young band, releases their self-titled debut album September 1st on the independent label Vibe Theory Music. A mix of gritty rock and bluesy pop, Hollis Brown is a clear reflection of a band that has become essential to the New York City music scene because of [...]
Moth Pick Of The Week – Trying To Be Me
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With a voice, style and personality that draws from her inspirations growing up but is distinctly her own, Laura Bryna is emerging as one of the bright new sensations coming out of Nashville.
A native of Mount Airy, Maryland, Laura s love of country music developed at a very early age. She and her mother spent [...]
Moth Pick Of The Week – MicroCOSM
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David Packouz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the third of nine children of pioneering ‘Internet Rabbi’ Kalman Packouz. While living in Jerusalem and Miami he became fascinated by science, studied chemistry and philosophy and practiced massage therapy and international business. Through his immersion in these diverse fields and while traveling to many places around [...]
