Video Q&A With Not A Planet

Success is a term that changes as you grow. We have things to achieve now, and things to achieve later.

Q&A With The Black Lillies

What’s the meaning of your band name? I spent over a year driving a truck and thinking of band names daily. I figured it had better be right – it might just stick. I first wrote the song “Where the Black Lillies Grow.” I really fell for the imagery and the “Lil’ Lies” inference. With [...]

Q&A With Shortstack

What’s the meaning of your band name? It’s a type of locomotive. It’s sort of a reference to a line in the Hank Williams‘ song “Ramblin’ Man.” We picked that name so long ago none of us remember any other contenders.

Q&A With Midnight Spin

What’s the meaning of your band name? There’s no real significance to the name; any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. There was a long list of contenders, but Midnight Spin took them to the toolshed.

Q&A With Hotspur

What’s the meaning of your band name? Our old bass player wanted to name the band “Arsenal”— which felt a little too much like a German industrial metal band to me — but their arch rivals are Tottenham Hotspur. We started researching the name a bit, and after finding the ties to Shakespeare and the [...]

Q&A With Gina’s Picture Show

Describe your nominated work: I wrote “Don’t Be Mad” back in the summer of 2007 while still attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. I wrote it about a particular battle I was having between my heart and my head in relationship to a close friend at the time.

IMA Winners – Fictionist is one of the Final Four in Rolling Stone’s Choose the Cover Contest

Indie rock band Fictionist has come a long way from playing music in their basement and trying to pay attention in their jazz classes at BYU. The quintet from Provo has made it through the second round of Rolling Stone Magazine’s “Do You Wanna be a Rock & Roll Star” contest. Fictionist is now just [...]

Q&A With G. Miley

Describe your nominated work: An inspirational fresh sounding story song, with uplifting tones, which would comfortably sit well in many different genres and appeal to a wide audience…it consists of blood sweat, tears, joy and laughter in the making and it’s Brilliant!

Q&A With Evils That Never Came

What’s the meaning of your band name? Evils That Never Came is a bastardization of “the evils which never arrived” from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem. There were no other contenders.

Q&A With Evarusnik

Genre: Traveller’s Ballad/ World/ Ocean/ Mountainous/ Old Western/ Indie / Lyrical/ Meditative/ Soundtrack/ Eastern European/ Classical

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