By Laura Robida

It seems that all too often bands come along and just expect fans to fall in line, buy up their music and merchandise and attend their shows. They seem to think that they can randomly add "friends" to their Myspace page and everyone who accepts their friend add request has not only taken the time to visit their page and listen to their music but actually liked it to you.

By Laura Robida

Not all musicians are created equally. Surely there are the obvious differences amongst us that divide us into different genres, styles, and skill sets. Some of us draw our influences from the pool of rock musicians who did so much for the style while others are more closely tied to the true pioneers of jazz and blues musicians. But one thing seems to remain constant: all musicians have their own way of getting hyped up for a performance.

By Laura Robida

While shopping around looking for artists to spotlight as Indie Noise artists or featured Listen2This artists we came upon a terrifying realization that hit us like a ton of bricks: every band out there sounds exactly the same. We must have listened to about 30 or 40 songs before settling on our five selections for Listen2This. We’ll let the difference between our five and the other 35 speak for themselves: all those bands sounded the same.

By Laura Robida

Everyone who has ever gone through a break up has heard the line before: it’s not you, it’s me. That’s usually not true, its more of a polite way to let someone go (even if we all know better) but for bands, that line couldn’t be more true.