Christina Pomoni asked: In the mid 70s, punk music emerged in the UK as a social and cultural phenomenon. Reflecting the hopelessness of an uncompromisingly modern, young audience with a common revolutionary mentality, punk music articulated political views, opposition and controversy as a response to the over-romanticizing of flower-power rock of the early 70s. Moreover, punk rock music was the means for the colossal social attack on the British monarchy and nationalism. Being exceedingly irritated by the British system and highly-politicized, UK Punk groups influenced a whole generation with their effortlessly contagious outbreak of violence and impassiveness ... Read more »

Sergio Mendoza Hochmann asked: Looking cool does not a rocker attitude make. Back in the 1970’s, rock bands didn’t really care about perception of their image per sé, although, of course, certain acts – Kiss, Alice Cooper, David Bowie – did have to keep that in mind for marketing purposes. But then along came punk rock, with it’s devil-may-care, bullocks-to-the-government attitude. They dressed poorly because many times that’s what they were, poor. Bands like the *** Pistols dressed on stage how they dressed off stage, in order to keep things, as we would put it nowdays, “real”. The ... Read more »

Chris Chew asked: Have you ever play or sing with a jam band? A jam band is a makeshift band and the musicians probably played together for the first time unrehearsed either in an impromptu performance or in a Jam music bar. Jam bands usually play jazz or blues both these genre of music have fixed music chord progressions and free form personal interpretation can be weaved into the chord sequence.Since most jam bands play to a small audience, there is usually no sound technician to balance the sound produced by the bands and thus the musicians ... Read more »

Eric de Fontenay asked: Throughout the month of October, AirPlay Direct ran our FREE to enter “All Things Digital Alt. Rock / College / Indie Rock” artist contest. The winner a’tris will receive the Grand Prize package which includes:* A fee waiver for the contest winner to carry their CD in Best Buy and one performance at a Best Buy branded event (value – priceless)* A recording studio package fro a master quality EP (5 songs) from Slot-1 Studios (a $5,000 value)* A full album mastering package from Skyline Sound (a $3,000 value)* A professional microphone package ... Read more »

Sugarbullets asked: Ramones. It seems that they were inspired by Paul McCartney, who used Ramone as a surname; then all the members of the band adopted this surname despite not being related. The logo was designed by Arturo Vega, sometime in the 70s; the concept was based on the Seal of the President of United States of America. The names of the band members replace the original legend around the eagle which holds an apple tree branch and a baseball bat instead of the olive tree branch and the arrows. Vega’s inspiration came after seen them performing ... Read more »

Daniel Sitar asked: The list of bands that are confirmed to be performing for the 2009 edition of the Warped Tour has been announced. These bands/artists are listed as follows:*** USA Residents – Click Here and Enter Your ZIP Code to Get A Free $250 Grocery Gift Card ***3OH!3 A Day to Remember A Skylit Drive Alexisonfire Anti-Flag Bad Religion Bayside Big D and the Kids Table Black Tide Bouncing Souls Breathe Carolina Brokencyde Cash Cash Chiodos Dance Gavin Dance Dear and the Headlights Dirty Heads Escape the Fate Every Avenue Flogging Molly Gallows Hit the Lights ... Read more »