Color Copy Q&A

Your name:

Chandler Entrekin.

Where are you from?

Gulf Shores, Alabama, USA.

Name of band: 

Color Copy.

Who else is in your band? 

Tamen Ashmore and Branden Bates.

How would you describe yourselves and your music?

To describe ourselves, it would be things like; best friends, brothers, fun loving, food devouring people. To describe our music, I'd say it is indie rock with pop influences.

Who are your main influences musically?

As a singer, my favorites are John Newman, Sam Smith, Adam Levine, and Ryan Tedder. The band itself takes influence from Young the Giant, Onerepublic, Band of Horses, and Magic Man.

What do you hope to achieve in music?

We all basically want the same thing and that is to travel the world playing and recording music for those that want to hear it. I want to find success in music and help others reach their goals as well.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?

We recorded our debut EP, Said and Done this past November and it was an amazing experience to put everything we had into five songs that we loved.

And what’s the moment you want to forget?

None so far, fortunately!

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?

Stuck, and because it shows the power of the band musically. It encompasses awesome drumming, thunderous bass, and layered guitar that takes forefront and my vocals lay on top near perfect in the song. Plus, lyrically, it speaks of depression, a thing that needs to be spoken about more openly and looked into.

Where can we listen to it? 

You can check us out directly on our website at http://www.colorcopymusic.com/#music

Where can we find out more about your music? 

Facebook.com/ColorCopyMusic

Twitter.com/ColorCopyMusic

ColorCopyMusic.Com

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/said-and-done-ep/id953841026

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Wi7cxBAuFfU2bbwPiXCqo

Anything else you’d like to say about your music that I forgot to ask?

We'll let the music speak for itself! Youtube.com/ColorCopyAl Blessings!

Two State Nation Q&A

Band name:

Two State Nation.

Where are you from?

Birmingham, Alabama US.

Who else is in your band?

Shellina Ryals - Lead Singer

Steven Ryals - Guitar (spouse to Shellina)

Jesslyn Parmley - Guitar

Isaac Mixon - Drums

Amanda Miller - Bass

How would you describe yourselves and your music?

We are a garage rock/indie rock band. Many of us have played music together for years in various other projects. Shellina and Jesslyn began working on a new sound that would take a deeper rock sound than what any of us had previously performed together.

We formed the band in January, worked on songs in Feb-April, went into Studio in May-June, mixed July-Aug, released the debut and began touring.

Who are your main influences musically?

Five people in this band with almost opposing musical tastes but we found our unique sound began to form at times when we covered a little band called...The Dead Weather...or as we like to call it our favorite Jack White side project. Our personal main musical influences are a bit mix matched, our bass player is a huge Manchester Orchestra/Kings of Leon fan, our lead guitar player Johnny Greenwood(Radiohead) /John Frusciante(Red Hot Chili Peppers) our rhythm guitar player Damien Rice/Glen Hansard, our drummer a bit of Dave Matthews Band/Avenge Sevenfold, and our lead singer anyone from Bjork/Ani Difranco/Robert Plant.

What do you hope to achieve in music?

As songwriters and musicians our goal is to play and be heard like anyone else. We had a goal to record, tour, and perform our original songs. We have been honored to get to keep doing that with our fall tour, and are now booking into our spring/summer tour. For us to play and to be able to have a moment in front of  an audience is why we do what we do...it's a wonderful blessing every time we play! We are terrified, we perform, it feels like an electrical boost, and we blink it's over and we want it again.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?

Our initial album release party was the first time many of our songs had ever been played before anyone. We had our closest family and friends that packed themselves into our favorite little punk dive called The Syndicate Lounge. To hear everyone singing our songs back and jumping up and down to 10 Foot Golden made every moment of work worth it for us! It was a surreal moment to hear people connect to your music. 

And what’s the moment you want to forget?

Hahaha...well I'm not sure we can say as we must protect the innocent..but without those moments of disaster on a tour you don't really have the laughs have after you have survived it all...but a few eager male fans at times that have lead to a few interesting or cringeworthy moments I could desire to forget.

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?

That's hard as each person in the band seems to have their favorite for various moments, however as a band we tend to all agree that "Fool On Fire" is us at our most natural relaxed state. We began a jam in practice with the intro riff and that lead to the entire song coming together almost instantly. 

Where can we listen to it? 

http://twostatenation.com/index.php/music

Where can we find out more about your music?

https://www.facebook.com/twostatenation

https://twitter.com/twostatenation

http://instagram.com/twostatenation

https://soundcloud.com/twostatenation

Anything else you’d like to say about your music that I forgot to ask?

We are having  the time of our lives! We hope our music connects that attitude to our fans. We are a very close family and we love to play...the audience is always our focus. We have and always will be a live band! Our goal is to make you laugh, make you sing, make you jump up and down, give you a song when you cry, a song when you are pissed, a song when you don't know your name, and a song to play for mom to show her how evolved you have become...or that band you play when you just need a smile!

In Snow release album ef·fort

INSTRUMENTAL outfit In Snow have released their album ef·fort on Step Pepper Records.

The orchestral/post-rock band from Birmingham, Alabama, formed in October 2012 and is made up of Brooke McCarley (bass) , Sam Porter (guitar), Michael Pocus (drums) and Christopher Suda (guitar).

Christopher told RealSoundsOK: "Our creative process is one of the most exciting and therapeutic settings I have ever been in, and I am very grateful and excited to have released 'ef·fort' out in to the world."

You can check out the video of In Snow performing live above and if you like what you hear, download the album at insnow.bandcamp.com

Over The Effect Q&A

Band name:

Over The Effect.

Where are you from?

The band is located in Atlanta GA. Aaron is originally from Alabama, Ashley is a life-long ATL resident.

Who is in your band?

Ashley Barker plays guitar and sings, Aaron Kamphuis plays bass and does all our recording and engineering. We also have recently added Rob Nouryeh as our new drummer.

How would you describe yourselves?

Ashley: As a band, we're catchy enough to sing along to, but complex enough to be respected. We write songs that have meaning to us and are fun to play.

Aaron: Despite the serious and sometimes depressing aspect of our music, we're both completely goofy people, pretty relaxed and easy going.

Who are your main influences musically?

Ashley: Pearl Jam, Tool, Soundgarden, a lot of early 90s rock music, but I also grew up listening to a lot of hip hop, classic rock, and salsa music. All of that stuff finds it's way into our music.

Aaron: Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, Alice In Chains, Rush, Hum, Deftones. I listened to a lot of different stuff growing up. From punk rock to prog rock, jambands to jazz.

What do you hope to achieve in music?

Ashley: Our dream is to make a comfortable enough living to focus all of our time and energy on making music, recording and performing.

Aaron: I want to tour Europe.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?

Ashley: We've played a friend of ours house a few times. House parties are typically not a huge deal for most bands, but it's always been a really good time, and she keeps asking us back. Nikki's house parties are the best.

Aaron: I would say self producing our own stuff on our own timetable, without anyone other than our own creative consciousness to answer to. Also, the first time I heard one of our songs on radio was a rush! 

And what’s the moment you want to forget?

Our second show was terrible. It was a Monday night, we were not on our game at all, and everything that could have went wrong did. The venue was an upstairs room with this awfully rickety metal stairway that was like an old school fire escape, which made load in a nightmare. The opening band was on their first out of town show, and seemed kinda bummed there wasn't more of a turn out. The second band brought a decent number of people with them, but then they all left as soon as they were done. So we played for the opening band and the bartender, and it's pretty unanimous that it's not our finest hour.

If you had to choose just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?

Ashley: Sunshine - it's melodic fun passionate rock, a blast to play and a great set closer.

Where can we listen to it?

http://overtheeffect.bandcamp.com/track/sunshine

Where can we find out more about your music?

http://overtheeffect.bandcamp.com/

http://overtheeffect.com

http://www.facebook.com/overtheeffect

http://www.reverbnation.com/overtheeffect

http://soundcloud.com/overtheeffect

Anything else you’d like to say about your band that I forgot to ask?

We're currently working on our fifth EP, which should be out by September. We really love being able to constantly write and record new music. 

A.Z. Q&A

Your name: 

Clark Walker.

Where are you from? 
Arab, Alabama, USA.

Name of band:
A.Z.

Who else is in your band? 
Josh Thompson and Drew Hobbs.

How would you describe yourselves? 
Hard hitting melodic metal with deep lyrical content. Heavy enough for many-a-mosh-pit yet melodic enough to get stuck in your head all day.

Who are your main influences musically? 
John Petrucci, Steve Vai, The Nixons, Metallica, Sevendust, Taproot, Lamb of God, All That Remains, Bach, Nothing Face, Stereomud, Pulse Ultra, Classical Violin, Bury Your Dead, A Perfect Circle, etc..

What do you hope to achieve in music? 
To be able to pay my bills doing what I love.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why? 
Getting to create this machine which we call A.Z. It's all about the journey. 

And what’s the moment you want to forget? Almost every battle of the bands we ever played. (Needless to say, we don't do those anymore, lol)

If you could choose just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why? 
Probably an old song called "3 Days" which will be on our new album. It's very angry and driving, yet deep in meaning. It reflects us as a band very well. Over these 15 years we have learned to turn the anger and disappointment into drive and focus. To push forward and don't slow down!

Where can we listen to it ? 
This song is not available as of yet but will be featured on our up and coming album "Brutally Beautiful" due out soon. You may check out other songs and link to our other sites from our main webpage. http://www.azband.com

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Where can we find out more about your music?
A.Z. LINKS:
http://www.azband.com
http://www.azband.net
http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/az
http://twitter.com/azband
http://www.facebook.com/pages/AZ-Band/162985590417?fref=ts
http://www.reverbnation.com/bandaz

http://www.soundcloud.com/a-z

Anything else you’d like to say about your band that I forgot to ask?
The original music industry - My thoughts "Love it, or leave it" there is no in between here. The most cruel industry on the planet but can also be the most rewarding in so many ways. Horns Up Breeders! :P