Sunday, October 01, 2006

Under the Influence of Protestants

A couple of bands I’ve gotten into lately, one mainstream, one sub-stream.

The mainstream band I first saw on the best late night show around, Jimmy Kimmel live. Please program your tivo’s now (especially in Chicagoland, where Jimmy airs at like 12:30am or something ridiculous. Jerks.) The band is Under the Influence of Giants. I stink at describing music, but they are alt-rock like with a 70’s hipster flair. Hmm, better just go to their myspace page and listen.
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In the substream category is a Milwaukee band, Protestant. Protestant play hardcore punk rock with a metal\math rock edge. I dunno, something like that. Earlier stuff seems more math rockish and later more heavy\grindcore. Cory von Bohlen who used to do Butt Ugly fanzine is the singer\guitarist so what more do you need to know?

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