“I’m here with my fiance’ to see The Band Perry live for the first time. I like their new sound better than the country music they were known for before. It’s just more my style of music. And I think the songs are better because they are being true to themselves. I feel like I can relate to them in that way...
“When I was younger I was really into kind of depressing music. I mean, I was probably depressed on some level so I felt like I could relate to it. But when I heard Tool for the first time there was just no going back. I’d never had music make me feel the way Tool did. As I got deeper and deeper into it and started digesting...
“The teenage years are a tough time for a lot of people. For me they were difficult because of the issues I had with social anxiety. I didn’t have many friends, so music was the only thing I had to get me through. Well, music and self-harm. I turned to cutting and burning myself as a way to escape my extreme feelings of...
“I was in my early 20’s, it was the season of life when everything was new. I was just married, we moved from a stable, rural community to the big city. I had lots of hopes and dreams as I was trying to prepare for whatever my future was going to be. That was when my Brother-in-law gave me Switchfoot’s Learning to...
“Shinedown has been my absolute favorite band since I was in 6th grade. A lot of my friends would listen to melodies and the overall sound of a song to decide if they liked it. But I was paying more attention to the vocals and lyrics. A couple of years later I found out that Brent went to my high school so I felt an even stronger...
“Before I started elementary school my older brother was into Switchfoot. So I was about 4 years old and I was like, oh my gosh, these guys are so cool, and the music is so awesome. They were the first rock n’ roll sounding band I’d ever heard, I remember their sound was really distinctive, and even from a young age it...