Like a genetic splicing of The Sex Pistols and The Beatles, Oasis rose to fame on the back of the surging excitement of Noel's songs, full of hedonistic euphoria and almost football terrace-like choruses, delivered with a perfect rock 'n' roll sneer by Liam. Oasis were perfect for the post-rave era, they made people feel that, like the era of 60's, they were living through special times.

The Pat McGee Band is a rock band from Richmond, Virginia. Formed by frontman Pat McGee on the heels of his solo release From the Wood in 1995, the Pat McGee Band signed with Warner Bros. Records subsidiary Giant Records in 1999. Shine, the band's major-label debut, was released in 2000 with the national singles "Runaway" and "Rebecca". After two years of delays, the band released their second album with Warner, Save Me, in 2004. The band was dropped from the label that year and picked up by Kirtland Records. An enhanced Save Me is now being distributed through Kirtland with the radio single "Must Have Been Love".

Former guitarist and vocalist Al Walsh left the band in an amicable split at the end of 2001. Keyboardist and vocalist Jonathan Williams left in 2003 but rejoined the band in late 2005. Both were significant contributors to the band's sound, particularly in the form of backing vocals. The band didn't see another background vocalist until the 2003 addition of keyboardist/guitarist Todd Wright.

Longtime bassist John Small left the band in 2004. With Jonathan's return, Todd Wright has left the band. Todd is now finding success as the frontman of his own band, Getaway Car, where he's backed by guitarist Matt Miceli and Crix Reardon - while still a part of Pat McGee Band - on bass.

Drummer Chris Williams passed away peacefully in his home October 28th, 2006.

As of June 2007, the band has severed ties with Kirtland Records and is once again recording independently.

A very rockin' band from Austin, Texas! In their own words: The Incredible Adam Tyner on the drums Ladies and Gentlemen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dig the Guitar Crimes! Mr. Randy Plants Thomas!!!!!! Ladies and Gentlemen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On Bass Guitar.... Lookout Ladies! ...It's Loaded.... It's time to eat Crow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ladies and gentlemen, let the stadium know, it's time for the show, we bring you the FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO WANTS TO F$%# THE BAND!!!! C'MON!!!!!!

The "Becoming A Monster" video opens in a drab, old-school corporate office - the walls are institution green, the desks are Seventies brown, and the workers are outfitted with pens, lamps, and cheap electric typewriters. Dressed in white suits, the members of Self Against City sit at their cramped stations and fiddle with their analog tools. The song doesn't start, though, until one of the workers shoves a plug into an overburdened socket. The sprinklers are triggered, and the room is soon awash, covering floors and desktops with water. Suddenly, singer Jonathan Michael - still seated behind his desk - begins to advance toward the camera, as if drawn forward by a magnet. Intense, eyes blazing, he hurls his lines at the listener; then, without warning, he breaks a fourth wall and he's out on a suburban street. When the group returns to this office later in the clip, they'll tear it up even further, pounding out their contempt for the sterile environment.

Indeed, the San Luis Obispo quartet is no Internet phenomenon. They're Warped Tour veterans, and they've played to sold-out houses all over America; they are currently on tour with Mae and Relient K, and later this summer, they'll be hitting the road with Motion City Soundtrack. Their much-loved 2005 debut album Sing, But Keep Going announced the arrival of a multifaceted combo: a contemporary band that loves The Beach Boys as much as The Get-Up Kids, and who've got the rich vocal harmonies and sun-drenched California melodies to prove it. Alternative Press named them one of "22 underground bands that won't stay underground for very long", and the band will be appearing alongside MySpace head honcho Tom Anderson on an upcoming edition of TRL. On A Different Light, they've added dizzy synths to their modern rock, and the resulting hybrid is something singular - reminiscent at times of hellogoodbye's romantic electro-pop or Rooney's psychedelic beachscapes, but more elastic than either of those excellent groups. "Song In My Head", the lead single, is the undeniable rock anthem and inevitable radio hit, but A Different Light also contains letter-perfect electropop ("The Best In Me"), fascinating electronic experiments ("Alley Cat"), dazzling summer-funk ("Give Up!") and pure statements of purpose ("A Different Light"). If you find another 2007 modern-rock album that covers more territory with grace, we'd certainly like to hear it!

Directed by Sherwood guitarist Nathan Henry with help from his bandmates, the video for "Song In My Head" is a sun-drenched reverie, and a whimsical look at the "making" of a band. In the clip, the four members of Sherwood are imagined as paper-doll cutouts animated by a pre-school kid. The child constructs a shoebox diorama on the floor of his suburban home; inside the "room", the musicians are dressed in brown paper and given huge cardboard instruments to play. Scraping their fingers over strings drawn on by magic-marker, the quartet moves like marionettes. Later, the boy brings the shoebox out onto a lawn - and when other kids start to chase him, the four members of Sherwood are flung against the brown paper walls of the box. A twig tossed into the diorama becomes a gigantic log crashing down on the cardboard drumkit; a little girl stops to lend a hand and dresses the figures in roughly-cut pink floral outfits. Finally, the little boy and girl carry the band with them as they race off into the sunshine - their song still echoing across the open meadows.

For the "Impossible" clip, Shout Out Louds bassist Ted Malmros reprises his double-role as the band's video director. Malmros won a Grammi (the Swedish Grammy Award) for his endearing video for Peter, Bjorn & John's "Young Folks", and we hope he's got room on his mantelpiece for another. "Impossible" is a gorgeous piece of filmmaking as well as the perfect accompaniment to Olenius's tale of romantic despair. It's a chronicle of a long Scandinavian night - the sort of too-bright evening that complicates longing and compounds midsummer disorientation. Malmros catches the band under the whirling lights of an amusement park; they arrive separately and leave the same way, but gather in the arcade to keep each other cold company. One Shout Out Loud shoots a target and wins a stuffed Pooh bear, and the poor doll spends the rest of the clip staring upward from a bicycle basket. The carnival rides crash and spin under the never-dark sky, and the five bandmembers wander as if in a dream. The coin-op claw, fishing for prizes behind a glass case, becomes a metaphor for the futility of romantic connection; the inexorable rush of the rollercoaster suggests the speedy approach of the future. Throughout, Malmros's colors are bold, dazzling, and hypnotic, and the red-stained faces of the Shout Out Louds are tremendously expressive in their impassivity. Heartbreak seeps through the frames, and radiates from the winsome faces of the young musicians.

Shout Out Louds are lucky to have their own in-house director: bassist Ted Malmros, whose production company (that also includes his brother Tom) has shot clips for many popular Scandinavian bands. His animated video for "Young Folks" by Peter, Bjorn & John became one of the best-loved spots of 2006, received international acclaim (and thousands of downloads on social-networking sites), and won the bassist and filmmaker a Swedish Grammy. The Malmros brothers-directed clip for "Tonight I Have To Leave It" - the lead single from Our Ill Wills - is described as a documentary, and it does indeed have the intimate feel of a video diary or an exploration journal. Shot aboard a giant transport ship, it follows the story of a young man's journey across the ocean. All the seafaring details are here: the cramped quarters and steamy mess-hall, the white-bearded old captain, the arcane navigation equipment, and the clouds of steam and frost that hover in the air after the crewmembers exhale. Life aboard an oceangoing vessel is shown in a few bold, rich strokes: exciting and mundane, dull and surprisingly beautiful. Below the deck, the members of Shout Out Louds (they've taken this trip, as well) gather to sketch the skylines of the cities they've seen. In fact, the video itself is based on a dream of the band's to tour the world on a ship and do shows at every port!

They've brought along their instruments, too. The quintet sets up in the cargo hold, and the cold grandeur of the gigantic room perfectly suits the cinematic sound of "Tonight I Have To Leave It". Produced - as is all of Our Ill Wills - by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn & John, it's a gorgeous synthesis of Scandinavian indiepop and classic Head On The Door-style alt-rock. Shout Out Louds deliver a sweeping string arrangement, rattling percussion, a dark and engrossing lyric wedded to a potent melody, and an impassioned performance by frontman Adam Olenius. Wide-eyed and urgent, Olenius sends his song up to the top of the cavernous hold, as his band fills the shadows behind him with echoing harmony.