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A Detailed Guide to Making Music Your Career I can’t count how many times I’ve been asked this question. A simple Google search or a 10 minute browse on Yahoo Answers and you’ll see this question, or something very close to it, all over the place - as if the answer is just some simple [...]

Is There a Formula for the Perfect Music Melody? a Guest Post by Rob Playford Fоr many pеорle, mathematics is аn enigma. Chаractеrіsed by the imрresѕіоn оf numbеrѕ and саlculatіоns taught at sсhоol, it іѕ оftеn аccompanіеd by fеelіngѕ of reјectіоn аnd diѕintеreѕt, аnd it is belіеvеd tо be strictly ratіоnаl, аbstraсt, cоld and sоulleѕѕ. [...]

Dark Dark Dark Impresses Once Again Dark Dark Dark has released Who Needs Who to the masses, and it is being met with rave reviews. Fans will be getting what they expect from this album and then some. The trademark sound that endears the band to its fans flows throughout each song. The haunting vocals of [...]

MarsBands Caption Contest Ever find yourself wanting to buy some awesome new music but you just don’t have the money? MarsBands wants to help you out. Each month (starting sometime this month) MarsBands will post a picture on our website. All you have to do is write a funny caption for the picture in the [...]

#1,485 Lots of things piss me off. Like people who slide their fork on their teeth when they eat. Or people who breathe loudly. Or people who chew their gum like it’s alive and they’re trying to kill it in their mouth. The list goes on and on and is continuously added to, but Friday [...]

When Good Music Goes Bad So you know when you’re watching a video on YouTube and there’s that suggestion sidebar? Well I was watching a video and there was a video on the side that had a picture of Katy Perry holding a guitar. I thought surely it was a fake, so out of sheer [...]

The Blue Valentines We were sent a little message about this band on the Tweeter machine (@MarsBands) and told to check them out. We did so, and we were pretty pleased with their sound. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to come up with any pictures (still waiting for that email, Wily), so here is a bit [...]

Hits The Stores on 9.18.12 - But We Have It Now! We here at MarsBands have gotten our hands on The Dollyrots‘ new, self-titled album nearly a month before it goes out to the public. There are a few pretty awesome things about this new album, without even considering the music. For starters, how about [...]

Time to Put Billy in a Home? You know that decision that children have to make about when to put their parents into a nursing home? It’s a tough one to make, no doubt. And while this little piece of writing will not be discussing when is the right time to put your parents in [...]

The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness/1995) The album version of this song is pretty kick-ass. This live version of this song is pretty sucky. That being said, The Smashing Pumpkins were still pretty cool (although I always thought Billy was an odd duck and a bit of [...]