Unsigned Showcase: NGHBRS
NGHBRS took the top spot and was voted Straight Up Random’s Top Unsigned Band in January! Relentless hard work and fan support has been driving this band from Long Island toward success. Read the interview below for more details on what this band is all about: SUR: Can you please state your name and your role … Read more
Unsigned Showcase: From Coast To Skyline
SUR: Please state your name and your role in the band My name is Tanner, I sing and play rhythm guitar in FCTS. SUR: How’d the band come together? The band has rapidly shaped over the the past 2 years, starting as a three piece and eventually turning into a six piece! Now we are back … Read more
Unsigned Showcase: The After Party
SUR: Please state your name and your role in the band. My name is Andy Bell, and I play guitar and look handsome SUR:How’d the band come together? We the four of us went to high school together, in a tiny rural school. We were the only kids who were really into music at the … Read more
Unsigned Showcase: Not Tonight Josephine
SUR: Please state your name and what you do in the band. Evan Foley, Bass and backup vocals SUR: How’d the band come together? It’s kind of an interesting story. In one way or another, everyone in the band, sans myself, had played together in other bands at one point in time. Jake (Moore, Guitar) … Read more
Unsigned Showcase: The Gallery
SUR: Can you introduce yourselves? Shea: I’m Shea, I play guitar in The Gallery. Ryan: I’m Ryan, I play drums. SUR: These have been your EP release shows you’ve been playing right? Ryan: Yup SUR: How have they been going? Ryan: Good. We played one up in, Massachusetts, where we’re from, and it was a … Read more
Unsigned Showcase: The Best Week Ever
SUR: Howd the band come together? Tom and James used to live in the Bronx together, where they started writing and recording music. Eventually, Tom moved to Poughkeepsie where he started recording bands in his home studio. Through one of the bands he recorded, he and I met in the summer of 2009 and I … Read more
Unsigned Showcase: Venona
SUR: I know the band has had a change in singers. How did you choose your new singer, and why did you decide to not look for a female singer again? Well I’ll answer that second question first. We actually never decided to not look for a female singer. We were trying our both guys … Read more
Unsigned Showcase: Highland Fall
SUR: How did the band come together? Highland Fall was formed in the summer of 2008. It’s an interesting story, really, because I was never really the “band” type. I mean I was in my high school choir and what not, and I loved music, but my school was known for the athletics and that’s what … Read more
Unsigned Showcase: Stay
SUR: How was the tour with Down With Webster? It was really good thank you! Definitely one of the best tours we’ve been on for turnouts at the shows. All the bands were super rad and most of the crowds were totally amazing. Especially New York. SUR: Whats your favorite part about touring? Least favorite? My favorite … Read more
Unsigned Showcase: The Jealous Sea
SUR: Could you tell us what exactly happened with Hollywood Lies and why they split? Hollywood Lies broke up because we all wanted to make different types of music, and it didn’t make sense for us to all be in the same band anymore, so we split and are all doing different things. SUR: How did … Read more
