Embarking on a quest to find exactly what it is you're looking for in this life isn't a mantra for kicks. For Endless Hallway, it's a matter of spiritual survival and living up to your creative expectations. The Los Angeles-based five-piece, spearheaded by longtime friends Ryan Jackson (vocals) and Jono Evans (guitar), embraces a creative environment that's uniquely expressive and raw. Their debut LP, Autonomy Games, harks upon the craft of music as visual art, while providing a distinct sonic sphere for each listener to return to.

Produced by Noah Shain (Jordan Zevon, Orson, Nico Vega) and recorded between L.A. and El Paso, Texas, Endless Hallway honed in their searing rock sound found on their 2007 demo for a wide-ranging palate of emotionally-charged epics. Getting there was no easy feat for them, however. "I think the recording process was sort of like when you're first learning to swim," Jackson explains. "When you first hit the water, you exert force every way around you. We had a bunch of great songs ready to go, yet we definitely showed that naiveté. We managed to get our heads together in the end, to focus our energy, and the songs became what they needed to be."

With Joe Mullen (drums), Evan McCarthy (bass), and Michael Tye (guitar) completing the band's line-up, Autonomy Games juxtaposes structure with fantasy, while also reflecting upon an articulate array of influences including Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Japanese composers Nobuo Uematsu and Yasonuri Mitsuda. "For this record, we tried to write each song as a unique location within one world, with the album representing that world. Hopefully that concept gets through and people find places they'll want to return to" says Jackson.

From the explosive guitar-driven elasticity of album opener "Autonomy Barrier" and the glam-rock slickness of "Cell" and "Solvency" to the more spectral quietude of "Remora", Autonomy Games' massive soundscapes soar above the basics to reach for the real blood and guts, and that real primitiveness that rock's been without for too long.

Embarking on a quest to find exactly what it is you're looking for in this life isn't a mantra for kicks. For ENDLESS HALLWAY, it's a matter of spiritual survival and living up to your creative expectations. The Los Angeles-based five-piece, spearheaded by longtime friends Ryan Jackson (vocals) and Jono Evans (guitar), embraces a creative environment that's uniquely expressive and raw.

A new writing process has taken effect recently that has sparked new life into the band, and has given new meaning to what what Kill The Academy represents. Two Stages of works are in motion:

Volume I : An album that holds ten tracks very dear the band's heart and soul that represents everything we have worked so hard to watch surface, and is very close to seeing the light of day.

Volume II : A body of work that has already taken shape, and is breathing new life into the band. Songs that range from dark and moody, to elegantly fragile and even sometimes harsh and brutally noisy. The line is distorted and songs are more like separate environments that all make up one component. The songs are developing a unique approach that has not only inspired more writing, but has also left the band more anxious than ever to deliver the new material in both record/mp3 and live formats.

Kill The Academy exists to challenge their own artistic agenda. Anyone with an open mind, and an agenda of their own are welcome to join along for the ride. For Guitarist [Kyle Peters] drummer [Michael Thomas] and bassist Zach Edwards... KILL THE ACADEMY is the blank canvas that begs for fresh paint and accepts obscure colors in abstract places. Has no blue print for design, and lacks lines that aren't allowed to be colored over. After all... art isn't supposed to have rules. Even though the band has been working hard completing the EP, and have already begun pre-production on the follow up to "The New Void", It's the rehearsing for the live show that has the band's attention to detail. "

The Chinese character for crisis also means opportunity. This is the mantra of Magnuson. From the coffee shops of San Diego, to the rock clubs they frequent today, Magnuson has been playing their unique brand of Indie/Prog in whatever format they could cobble together. Comprised of Greg and Kyrsten Magnuson, this dynamic duo has collectively been known to play drums, guitar, bass, and keyboards live all while maintaining beautifully intricate harmonies. Their latest tour takes them on the road in the Pacific North West driven by a simple passion...to play music. Performing songs from their 2007 EP "The Struggle Within" and hits off their debut album "Last Days" these two have honed their sound into lush, heavy guitars, backed by fat drum beats topped off by their signature alternating vocals. Some may wonder, after listening to their recorded music if these two can pull off a "White Stripes/DFA1979" type sound. Fact is, they not only pull it off, they do it with such passion it's hard to imagine it live any other way. Listen to the songs and watch the live video, you won't be disappointed.

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