Artist Profile

  • Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

    Getting a song on the “FM” soundtrack (“Breakdown”) helped establish Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. “Refuge,” “Don’t Do Me Like That,” “The Waiting,” and “You Got Lucky” followed. Petty also had an impressive solo career that included a duet with Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac) on “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (Nicks had previously provided vocals…

  • Buckcherry

    Buckcherry formed in 1995. Whether the band’s name was a spoonerism of ‘Chuck Berry’ or the moniker of a drag queen acquaintance, ‘Buck Cherry’, remains undetermined. Over the band’s history, over a dozen musicians have been in Buckcherry with lead singer Josh Todd being the only constant. 15 A self-titled debut, released in ’99, was DreamWorks…

  • Incubus

    High school is a great place to start a Rock band. However, it’s difficult to keep the thing going once everyone graduates. In ’91, Incubus came together with school chums Brandon Boyd (vocals), Mike Einziger (guitars), Alex Katunich (bass) and Jose Pasillias (drums). Soon the group was playing the all-ages club circuit throughout their native…

  • Asking Alexandria

    After two Metalcore efforts, Asking Alexandria singer Danny Worsnop sustained a torn vocal cord. Doctors told Worsnop to rest. But he reassured fans that his injury would not hinder the release of Asking Alexandria’s third album since most of the recording had already been completed. He claimed the next album would be the “…musical baby…

  • Megadeth

    It’s rare a musician gets bounced from a major group like Metallica for drug abuse and being difficult (the former usually causes the latter) and starts a successful group. Launched in ’83, by former Metallica guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, Megadeth’s debut “Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good” dropped less than two years later. Next,…

  • The Go-Go’s

    Not since the Beach Boys, nearly two decades earlier, had a band been more consistently happy and upbeat. It shouldn’t be surprising since The Go-Go’s lead singer Belinda Carlisle was a high school cheerleader – in Hollywood, no less. Ironically though, The Go-Go’s began as an L.A. Punk group. Carlisle, Jane Wieldin (guitar), Charlotte Caffey…

  • B-52s

    The great thing about alcohol is briefly, very briefly in fact, all things seem possible. With a buzz on, drinking away the evening in a Chinese restaurant in Athens, GA, future members of the B-52s, who had little or no prior musical experience, decided to form a group. The name came not from the lethal…

  • Linkin Park

    Taking Old School Hip-Hop, Classic Rock and electronic elements into the mix, Linkin Park burst out of the So. Cal music scene. Their debut, “Hybrid Theory” was released in late ’00. Interestingly, the CD’s title was the group’s original name. The aggressive Rap/Rocker “One Step Closer” led the way with Joseph Hahn’s scratching and Brad…

  • 3 Doors Down

    3 Doors Down’s ’00 debut single, “Kryptonite,” which lead singer Brad Arnold wrote while in high school, peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The parent album, “The Better Life” went 7x platinum. An impressive launch for the Escatawpa, Mississippi, Post-Grunge/Alternative Rock band that formed four years earlier. Kryptonite Featuring the singles “When I’m…

  • Falling In Reverse

    Falling In Reverse scored a #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart with “All My Life,” a Country-Rock collaboration between the band and Jelly Roll (Jason Bradley DeFord). All My Life Later in 24, the band’s fifth album, “Popular Monster” dropped followed by a U.S. tour. Next was a U.K. run of dates.  But the band…