First Music Review: The Summer Floods

   This music review blog will focus on modern music and artists. I am going to find local bands and artists that perform in the area and elsewhere. I will write more on rock music since that is my passion, but I will discuss many artists from an array of genres. I enjoy listening to most genres of music, but I try to appreciate all of them. Every style of music from classical to rap, has listeners that emotional connect with it. It is important for me to keep this in mind when I listen to music that I personally don't enjoy.  I figured the first band I would review is my own band, The Summer Floods.

   The Summer Floods, formed in the summer of 2011. Our name was chosen after our practice space flooded multiple times throughout the summer. Many times, the floods actually prevented us from practicing so the band figured that The Summer Floods would be the most appropriate band name for us.

   Our genre is under the umbrella of rock music, but each member of the band brings his own musical influences. The singer, Ramy Zabarah, enjoys rock, electronic, and hip-hop. The bassist, Matt Harrison, likes rock, indie, and funk music. The drummer, Carl Walker, listens to heavier rock such as punk and metal, but he enjoys listening to other genres too. My name is Cooper Drummond, and I am the guitarist. I like rock music from most decades. I was influenced heavily by classic rock, but modern bands like the Black Keys and the Strokes are my favorite bands now. I find myself listening to a variety of music from classical and jazz to old and new electronic music. When I interviewed Matt Harrison and asked him to describe our band's sound, he said, "I think The Summer Floods are a rock band with influences of indie, punk, and dance genres."

   The Summer Floods have played at many house shows, bars, and events on George Mason University. Here is a video of our performance at the 2012 Mason Battle of the Bands.

   To find out more information about The Summer Floods, visit facebook.com/thesummerfloods. Also, you can find us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/TheSummerFloods and Soundcloud at http://soundcloud.com/the-summer-floods. If you wish to hear our first single or live performances, check us out on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/thesummerfloods.