List of NEWW bands that should be checked out (:

Romance On A Rocketship
Jamestown Story
Take The City
REPRESENT! (Have To Search Them. It's www.myspace.com/represent952)
Lights Out Dancing
Can’t Be Too Jumpy
Fastest Kid Alive
The Radiance Effect
Abandon Kansas
School Boy Humor
Chase Coy
Joel Tock
NATETHEGREAT!
Breathe Electric
Letters And Lights
The Ready Set
Big City Someone
PlugInStereo
Were Like Twins
Hurry! Lets Go
Carter Hulsey
The Fold
Erin
AVERY PKWY
Hometown Beatdown
The Apprehension
This Night Is Forever
SHE-IS-EPIC
Denison
An Honest Lie
Maisie
We The Kings
The Friday Night Boys
Stereo Skyline
The Bigger Lights
The Summer Set
Artist Vs Poet (Has The Same Bloke In From The Follow Through, So They’re AMAZINGG)
Rocket To The Moon
The Fold
The Bride Wore Black
The Record Life
My Favourite Highway
Care Bears On Fire
Cash Cash
ThisIsEnergy
And Some Good New Stuff From:
Cobra Starship
VersaEmerge
Valencia
Stephen Jerzak
NeverShoutNever!


I’ll Add To Thiss (;

and i cant forget the nights that we spent til morning came,
and it wont happen again so here it goes one last time,


one day when we are older you're gonna see me and i'll say hi,
but thats all its gonna be, thats all its gonna be,
cuz this was your chance to make us last,
and you broke my heart baby thats no joke,
we're here and better off,
we're here and better off,


this is not love, this is not hate,
this is something we're just going through each and every day,


i'm not everything you wanted,
i'm not any good at writing these words,
and now that you're gone,
i see the end,
and i just know i'm here to stay

This song was my baby for a long time. Growing up, I listened to a lot of music. I’d sit on my bed with my cheap Squire guitar, and learn how to play everything from “Back In Black” by ACDC to “Radio” by Alkaline Trio, or sing at the top of my lungs when my parents weren’t home to avoid the embarrassment of being heard. As I got older, I started realizing a few things. One was that I wanted to be musician, and two was that I was really annoyed and irritated at most of the songs that I heard and listened to (just heard or just listened. Both is redundant.) They were all sad. All were about heartbreak, depression, vengeance, and not being able to cope with reality and all of the things that come with it. With that, I made a promise to myself. I swore that if I was ever in a position where my music could be heard, I would do something with it. I would make a statement and try to do some good with six strings, a pen, and my voice.

Take My Hand is about hope. It is about believing. I’ve always believed that if you stay strong and find the strength within yourself to hold your head high and to keep your eyes to the sky, good things will come. So I wrote a story about a young girl… lost… alone… all but gone. She was begging to be saved. What a lot of people don’t realize is that people who are lonely, depressed, or in a hard spot want to be saved. They’re waiting for a pair of hands to push through their sky and to lift them up off of the ground. I thought maybe, just maybe, I could be those hands. I could SAVE someone. Do you know how that feels? It takes just as much courage to lend a helping hand as it does to receive it.

My favorite lyrics of this song might be “Hoping that you remain the same.” This is short and simple. Don’t change for anybody. I think you guys are fine the way you are. I love you all for it. Be yourself, stay true to yourself, and stay true to your heart and I promise you’ll be just fine.

Anyways, this song is telling the young lady to stay calm and to “just breathe.” Lyrics such as “We won’t be a part of this” are all about standing as tall and strong as concrete when the current comes to reel you in. You don’t have to be a fish on the end of a hook… you can be stronger, bigger, and better than the horrible things around you. Swim through the negativity. Search within yourself and find your passion in life. The things that keep you going, that keep your gears spinning and your wine flowing.

We need to believe in ourselves. Sometimes that’s all we have. I beg you—friends, family, people that hate me and will rip me apart tomorrow on message boards, strangers—lend a helping hand. Be someone’s safe place. Shelter them from the cold rain that seems to fall fairly often. Take their hand and run away. As the song says…this night doesn’t have to be the enemy. It can be your best friend. Most importantly…any night could be a new beginning.

It’s up to you.

-Alexander Michael