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BAND YOU SHOULD KNOW/ INTERVIEW: ALEX JOHNSON

Social media is such an incredible powerful tool. You can say the way I found Alex Johnson’s music was pure serendipity. One of my friends posted a video of her friends singing a song that I just happened to watch. After it was over I saw, in the ‘other videos’ section, Alex’s video and I had a gut instinct to watch it. I was completely blown away. It was pure talent. No synths, no auto tune, just him and his guitar. Just watch this 25 second clip of Alex Johnson signing his song “Birds and Bees” and you will know that true talent hasn’t yet faded away.

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Interview With The Bigger Lights

Trucking from Vienna, Virginia, The Bigger Lights is a five piece male band with their minds set on bringing the rock and roll feelings that were common in the 1980’s back to the music industry today.  These sounds are exactly what one experiences when slipping in one of their CDs into a car stereo, making this band a force to be reckoned with.  Vocalist Christopher “Topher” Talley, guitarists John Kendall “JK” Royston and Chris McPeters, bassist Dan Mineart, and drummer Ryan Seaman bring their own unique sounds together to create a type of music that is less common nowadays in the music scene.  Since putting out their first EP under their Doghouse Records label titled “Fiction Fever” in 2009, The Bigger Lights have made quite a name for themselves.  Joining bands such as There For Tomorrow, Cartel, This Providence, Anarbor, and Hey Monday in tours that ran across the United States, The Bigger Lights have created an army of a fan base that is located in all parts of the world.  After putting out their first self-titled full length record last year, The Bigger Lights have continued to keep themselves busy through touring, setting out on their first headlining tour called “The Caffeine and Skinny Jeans Tour” that ran for a few weeks in August throughout the east coast.  The band is currently in the process of writing and recording a new album, and I got the opportunity to interview guitarist JK Royston regarding what can be expected in the future with this rock and roll band.

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