Since 1999 Mainline has developed their unique blend of Southern California styles to bring you their latest work Notice of Disconnection 2006. We call our genre Southern California punk or Mainline for short. We do what we want. We started in the living room of a townhouse in Hemet, CA shaking our neighbor’s pictures off her wall. Back then it was Bryan, Jeff and me (Mike). Before then Bryan and Ciamak had been in a couple of different bands together and Jeff had been jamming in bands for about eight years. I was the only person with zero experience; just a few books full of lyrics and an acute inability to sing in key. So we continued jamming and sticking beer bottle caps into the stucco. Later we added Ciamak in 2000 and went into Park Hill Studio in Hemet to record our first album. Parkhill was a studio which was way too nice for a fledgling band such as ourselves and an inexperienced singer such as me but it was a great learning experience and helped us learn about real studio recording. We left the studio with ten songs that we never released except to some friends; it was called Dead Before We Die. A few of those songs ended up rerecorded on the 2003 release of Placebo. - (Read more)

In the 12th Century, the Catholic Church declared a holy crusade to be fought against heretical sects which didn't recognize the supreme power of the pope. When absolute destruction of these blasphemers couldn't be achieved through murder and torture, more insidious means were devised. Monkish orders which emulated the philosophies and postures of the heretics were created by Rome and sent out through the Christian world, so as to trick the pious into believing that Rome was with them in their Christ-like poverty. Thus, the dominican and Franciscan orders were formed; impostors, charlatans, poseurs, frauds. The Catholic church was saved from abandonment by the faithful through such infiltrating tactics. . . The situation with underground rock n roll couldn't be more analogous. Fraudulent vermin animated by the doctors at Bile Inc. infest the stages, the labels, the clubs we attend and even the beds in which we reside. The inability to discern them from our comrades becomes more acute as the scientists devise cleverer and cleverer ways to disguise them. Meanwhile, desertion rates are climbing as the most stalwart soldiers are seduced by the promise of validity and respectability. The Rock N Roll industry perfected cloning long before the sheep in england or any other farm animal nonsense. It's ability to replicate and co-opt each and every threatening phenomena has demolished all attempts to rally against it's cultural stranglehold on the world; the one which has been so successful in hypnotizing the collective global villa to march to it's neo-fascist rhythm. The one thing they haven't been able to replicate is a woman from Boston called Mary Timony. Maybe because her music defies Rock N Roll convention in such an unusual and unexpected way, sidestepping blues tropes and usualities in a manner that's not self conscious or contrived but genuinely idiosyncratic; completely natural. - (Read more)

Matt Mendians is a freelance drummer who has been on the music scene for almost twelve years. His main style of playing is progressive rock but has played many other styles as well. He attended college at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and received an Associates Degree in Music and Video Business in 1993. He moved to Nashville in the spring of 1995 and has been playing with bands and various artists. Some of these artists include Glass Hammer, Leslie Road, One Must Fall, David Wallimann, and Jason Minton to name a few. Some of the highlights in Matt's music career include opening up for Big Head Todd & the Monsters with Leslie Road at a Nashville music festival known as 'Uptown Mix'. He worked with producer Bruce Dees, while with Leslie Road, on both their EP 'Simplicity' and full length CD titled 'Strangest Life'. With Glass Hammer he performed at Nearfest in 2003, in which he got to perform with Rich Williams from the band Kansas. Also with Glass Hammer he performed at the Gathering of the Fellowship conference in Toronto, Ontario, at Belmont University's C.S. Lewis Conference at Massy Auditorium and The Tivolia in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Matt recently spent two years playing with the band One Must Fall.

Devin and Chad. Faraquet. Devin and Andrew. Chad. Medications. EP. Tour. Japan. Your Favorite People All in One Place. Tour. Europe. Tour. Brazil. Devin and Chad. - (Read more)

After the great waves of success in the years 2001 and 2002, in which the music publications described MEGAHERZ as one of the most important representatives of hard German rock music, and after the band has sold over 100,000 CDs, MEGAHERZ is now back. After two years of preparations and intensive song writing, MEGAHERZ present themselves with their new single and new album – more dynamic, more vivid, and better than ever before. Mathias Elsholz is the name of the new front man with whom MEGAHERZ are beginning their new musical era with s.a.d. music. With him the band itself has gone through a heart transplant and now beats more emotional and alive than ever. In order to realize their new and ambitious goals, they had none other than Ralph Quick (Die Happy, H-Blockx, etc.) on board as producer. The album "5" was recorded in the Lundgaard-Studios in Denmark. The outcome is an outstanding album that spans all genres of the category "Hard and German" – somewhere between industrial, dark rock, electronica, and "fat grooves". An album that rocks and speeds along, but also one that doesn't ignore the sensitive, down-tempo ballads. The wait was well worth it – MEGAHERZ are back and are longing to show it to everyone. - (Read more)