(The Learning Curve) There's literally something for everyone's palette. This week is a journey. Hit the dance floor with SS Nova and Blaqk Audio, whip out the air guitar with Lynam, jump in the mosh pit with Demon Hunter and then start singing along with New Years Day.

This week you might see some familiar faces in some of these bands, but still, they are worth a listen. The members that formed these bands sound little or nothing like their old calling cards, so make sure you take the time to listen.

Enjoy my friends.

1.) SS Nova - Rock/Electronic

Hail from: Orange County...

With an impressive first week, legendary rock band Mötley Crüe earned themselves an impressive top 5 debut on the Billboard chart with Saints Of Los Angeles, their first new album featuring the original lineup in over a decade and their highest since 1997s Generation Swine. The single, "Saints of Los Angeles," which remains a top ten rock track was released simultaneously via the video game Rock Band and to traditional retailers and sold over five times the number of downloads on Rock Band as it did on iTunes in its first week. The band has also pioneered digital initiatives including onli...

(Los Angeles) June 7, 2007 - One of the most creative forces in the artist community, Mötley Crüe founding member and songwriter Nikki Sixx takes a different stroke with the pen with his first book Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (VH1/Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster), releasing in the US & Canada on September 18. Accompanying the book will be the sonic diary, Heroin Diaries (Eleven Seven Music) in stores August 21 introducing Nikki's new side-project, Sixx:A.M. as well as his clothing line, Royal Underground.

Co-written with Ian Gittins (The Gu...

Los Angeles modern rock band The Exies have signed with Eleven Seven Music to release their forthcoming album, "A Modern Way Of Living With The Truth," the band's first studio album in two years. The Exies first two studio albums (Inertia & Head for the Door, Virgin Records), have yielded such hits songs as "Ugly" and "My Goddess." The new studio album on Eleven Seven Music will be part of the label's "upstreaming" business model with ADA and is slated for release in March of 2007. Eleven Seven's model was proven to work via the label's inaugural release (Buckcherry's new album 15) whic...