Cobra Cocktail, a Northridge-based metal-rock band comprised of CSUN students, is gearing up to participate in a music tournament at the Guitar Center in North Hollywood, sponsored by Guns N’ Roses legend, Slash. In order to qualify for the competition, all participating bands had to create a profie on yournextrecord.com and upload three songs along with a band photo. Through the profile, viewers can browse the bands’ profiles, listen to their music and see photos. The band that generates the… Read more

Kelly Moreno, contributing reporter Alex Deep, lead singer of the new band Merlinmoon, found his love for music while he was a DJ. His talents as a DJ had not gone unnoticed, however, he found that lyric-less music didn’t provide him the proper outlet for his music aspirations. Kelly Moreno, contributing reporter “As a DJ I wasn’t satisfied with the music I was playing because I couldn’t find the music I wanted to play, so I decided to make my… Read more

Valley Circle is a two man band, made up of a drummer and a guitar player. What’s interesting about this band is that they play a style that you wouldn’t expect to hear when you think of the word band. Guitarist Raffi Hammasian and drummer Manuk Avedikyan are the heart, soul and creators of Valley Circle. They played to a packed crowd Saturday night at the Troubadour. The set started off great and for the next 30 to 45 minutes,… Read more

Before the world of social networking and constant online media, people would meet in person. Now with the tools of digital classifieds and social networking sites like MySpace, the missing musician for your band could be just a click away. Formed in late 2008, the Hollywood based band, Owls Stretching Time, used Craigslist and other types of online networking to form their band. Their sound has been categorized as post hardcore. “There’s two guitars, a bass player, a drummer, and… Read more

After watching music videos of the 80’s band “Devo”, Hiroyuki (Hiro) Hayashi decided to start his own new wave band out of Tokyo, Japan called Polysics. The band, named after the Korg Polysix synthesizer, now consists of two male and two female members, Hiro, Fumi, Yano and Kayo, who’ve been together since 1997. Polysics music carries the digital synthesizer sound with a hint of techno influence. It is what they refer to as “technicolor pogo punk.” It’s similar to the… Read more

The band “Big Moves” has a thing for dinosaurs and the color purple. More than half the songs on their first album, “In the Beginning”, were named after dinosaurs. “Dinosaurs were a passion of mind as a child,” Blake Straus, 22, said. “It’s something we ran with in the first album. Purple is my favorite color; I think everyone in the band now likes the color. I wish it was deeper than that.” What is deeper is the level of… Read more