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Music as Our Weapon
Bands you should get to know
Nicole Copper
Guest Reporter
Eyes Set to Kill
This band was formed in 2004 by sisters Alexia and Anissa Rodriguez. Its namesake originates from a line in one of Alexia’s high school poems and means to be really determined and strive for what you believe in, not giving up on anything or anyone.
From Tempe, Arizona, the band consists of the sisters, Greg Kerwin on lead guitar, Caleb Clifton on drums, and Brandon Anderson with the scream vocals. They were signed four years after their creating by Breaksilence Records.
“Their were things I put on the record that I haven’t told anyone before, not even my sister or some of my best friends. Writing was like therapy to me, because there are times when I feel so alone that I don’t know to express myself other than through music. This is who I am and what I do,” Alexia says about their more recent album The World Outside.
The song Coming Home is an open letter to Alexia’s father who abandoned them at an early age. Catch Eyes Set to Kill on the Royal Family tour with From First to Last, Confide, and Sleeping with Sirens, or this summer on Vans Warped Tour.
Five songs to listen to by Eyes Set to Kill include:
Violent Kiss
Young Blood Spills Tonight
Beauty Through Broken Glass
Slight on Broken Wings
Bitter Pill
Pure White Lace
Never Shout Never
Making underage girls ‘swoon’ since 2007, Christofer Drew’s healing and easy listening music originates from Joplin, Missouri.
Drew started Never Shout Never after a shoulder injury while playing tennis. Some of his biggest influences were the Bob Dylan songs his farther taught him. He was 14 when he wrote his first song.
In his first full length album Drew blends emo and folk into heartbreakingly sweet tracks. There’s ‘Can’t Stand It’ where he gushes about girls who are super-duper cute and ‘Jane Doe’ where he crushes on pretty waitresses.
In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Drew said that he “likes to go to the waffle house and read, drink coffee and smoke cigarettes all day. I’m trying to be artistic.”
Never Shout Never consists of Christofer Drew, Caleb Denison, Nathan Ellison, Taylor Macfee, Dustin Doberning, Hayden Kaiser. The band will be on AP Tour at Warehouse Live on March 21 and Vans Warped Tour this summer.
Five songs to listen to by Never Shout Never include:
Trouble
Can’t Stand It
Jane Doe
Love is Our Weapon
Sacrilegious
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