Our Big, Fat Prediction: Rival Sons Will Break Through With Pressure & Time

Imagine Black Crowes crossed with Aerosmith, and more than a hint of Zeppelin and you’re getting kinda close.

Every band wants to be Radiohead or Coldplay and Rival Sons are far from that. What they are: an LA-based four piece demolition squad that we predict, after very little contact, are going to be kicking some serious butt. Pressure and Time is their second studio album (after 2008’s Before the Fire) but should prove to be their breakthrough.



Remember: you saw it here. If you want to see it there, you can visit their website.

Amy Winehouse Dead at 27

I don't ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I don't mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal.. you have to pace yourself. You can't take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. I'm not a one trick pony. I'm at least a five-trick pony.

Sad this morning to read about the death of Amy Winehouse, just 27-years-old. Everything about her seemed so tortured sometimes. Everything we saw in the press, anyway. But her music was not tortured. It was lovely. And I’m so sad for all the might-have-beens.

I'm not religious at all. I think faith is something that gives you strength. I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though. There are so many rude people around and they're the people that don't have any real friends. And relationships with people - with your mom, your nan, your dog.. are what you get the most happiness in life from. Apart from shoes and bags.

As I write this, the press is saying Winehouse’s death is “unexplained.” We’ll know more soon, I guess. For now, though, we have her music. And her words.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.