As a handful of you know, there is a fairly large write up of how this website came to be in the “About” section. But this post is more about the more detailed versions of how this website came to be.
First of all, it’s very silly to believe that many music blogs actually venture...
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Being submerged in this indie music scene is sometimes all encompassing. All your conversations about music tend to revolve around the bands and artists you listen to the most. Through that (assuming music dictates your life as it does everyone at 402), other hobbies and conversations arise that all stem from listening to indie...
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As always, here are our top five selections as selected by the staff here at 402 Productions! The list was created in a few steps: first, all the writers from this past year listen to every album that has been nominated for album of the year for 2011. Then, they rank their top five...
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Infinity Cat labelmates Diarrhea Planet just recently released their first full length, Loose Jewels. The album is quite a listen, as it features a wall of four guitars in addition to drums and bass. It’s heavy, it’s fun, and you can read my review for it right here. Jordan Smith of the band was nice enough to respond...
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It’s the month of May! Every May, I try to make an effort to promote the local Bay Area music scene. Now that I have a handful of writers who live across America, I feel that I can extend this writing adventure across the country. So, we’re looking for bands and artists from the...
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Excuse the extremely large intro picture, but it seems pretty necessary since it’s all the picks we had this afternoon. You can view the conversations we had over 30 minutes right here!
If you are kind of confused as to what is happening… everyone at this site was asked at some point what would be...
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The Get Up Kids have been touring constantly this year in promotion of their latest album There Are Rules. The album is the first full-length since 2004, so it is no surprise that this album would be a sort of rebirth of TGUK. Matt Pryor was kind enough to answer a few questions we...
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I could talk for ages about all the nitty gritty correlations I’ve found between all of these magazines, but rather than write a thesis paper’s length post on a site that gets as much traffic in a single week as any single post on any one of these sites I’ll keep it to a...
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I recall my first girlfriend and her favorite band being The Juliana Theory, which wasn’t necessarily an anomaly from where I grew up. The front man of the pseudo-reunited TJT, Brett Detar, has begun trekking his own path years after The Juliana Theory has called it quits (more or less). The masterful Adam Haynes...
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