About The Authors

Echo (Scott Greenberg):

Scott graduated from The Florida State University with a degree in English, and later attended The Florida International University College of Law. In his undergrad career, the student newspaper coined him as the “Van Wilder of Florida State,” due to such factors as starting and playing guitar in one of Tallahassee's biggest bands, running the largest student website on campus, and belonging to almost every organization the school had to offer. While in the English department, Scott was published numerous times and wrote for three newspapers, including the Tallahassee Democrat. He also worked under two national best-selling authors, one of whom recently sold her book rights to Universal Pictures. After FSU, Scott moved to Miami to pursue his dream of becoming an Entertainment Lawyer. (...his other dream being the coveted 'Rock Star' title.) Now in Pensacola, FL. under the umbrella of a major corporation, Scott spends his leisure time listening to new bands and creating venture ideas for the music business world.

Crescent Fresh (Josh Greenberg):

Josh was born three years before aforementioned A&R blogger Scott, thus making him the alpha-male of the Greenberg household. Why does his most brilliant profile come after Scott’s then? This is probably because Scott created Armed&Ready and it secretly bothers him that Josh smacked him in the neck that one time with the sharp end of a Guitar Hero guitar-controller in an ACDC-100,000 point rage. When he’s not dancing around with plastic controllers, Josh works as an Account Executive for an online media agency in Atlanta, GA. Josh enjoys planets, stars, pulsars, heliocentricity, gravitational collapse and the science of celestial mechanics. Oh, also egg nog and fudge.

RawkDoc (Brandon Kitay):

When Brandon isn't repin' Cardboard City to the paparazzi, he spends most of his time developing "mad" scientist skills. Brandon was accepted to medical school out of high school through the University of Miami's Honors Program in Medicine, and after receiving his Bachelor's of Science degree in two years, he chose to prolong his graduate school sentence by tacking on a PhD in Neuroscience to his MD degree (AKA. The dreaded MD/PhD program). Two years of medical school and a 1.5 years of PhD research later, he's now neck deep in neuroregenerative research trying to find repairative strategies for spinal cord injury (or trying to find the "restart button" as Echo likes to put it). How does Brandon's huge, throbbing, scientific prowess contribute to his keen ability to sniff out haute music? Well, it doesn't... Much like Scott, Brandon always secretly wished to be a rockstar; however, unlike Scott who can shred, the only musical ability Brandon retains is a great sense musical taste and an understanding of the rocker lifestyle (booze, tattoos, and sphygnomanometers). And so we have the rawkin' doc. Brandon is actually known as the "rocker-man" in the lab (just ask the receptionist in the lobby of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis... much to his chagrin, she yells "here comes rocker-man" as he saunters in every morning). Between trying to win a Nobel Prize in nothing but a lab coat and working to graduate sometime this century, he blogs about what music motivates him to cure the world. This bio was written in nothing but a lab coat.

Czar (Tyler Tuszynski):

Tyler once shielded an entire village of Central Americans from a bloody military coup against a sitting liberal establishment. He did this with his bare hands, or was it his BEAR hands (RAWR!)? ... but I digress.

However, that being said, it is a complete lie. Tyler is just your normal overeducated, overweight, overconfident American, living the dream.

I know what you are thinking ... The Central America story was much better. I agree wholeheartedly. However, this is supposed to be true so I will represent the true Tyler. He is currently a boring law graduate from Miami, FL who holds degrees in Health Science and Public Health. When the law school gives him his walking papers he is going to be a boring estate and tax attorney making the rich richer and hopefully putting some coin in the bank for himself. When he isn't reading, sleeping, or watching The Discovery Channel ... he listens to music. Lots and lots of music! He doesn't have any prerequisite experience to be a music blogger, other than a desire to listen to great music and tell others about it.

So back to the coup story, There he WAS ...

Broken Humor (Zach Melick):

Like every great Gwar show, Zach was born screaming, naked, and covered with blood and slime. As soon as he learned how to speak, he was shouting out the lyrics to anything he could get his hands on. At age 8 he was taking a page from Scooby and Shaggy, snooping around his grandparent’s basement looking for those pesky ghosts, when he stumbled upon a strange, dusty container. Prying off the lid, a beacon of light emerged with all the glory of the heavens. Inside was a stash of 45’s from his Mom’s days of teenage rebellion. This marked the beginning of his education as he learned who these strange characters were. Hendrix, Zeppelin, Joplin, Vaughn, Wonder, The Beatles, The Monkeys, The Doors, Mo Town, Blues, Jazz, and oh yes… Rock and Motherfucking Roll. He turned those records into melted wax, committing them to memory, but after time they just weren’t enough. He spent the next 15 years in Philly and Florida fiendishly injecting all the tunes he could. Folk, Hip Hop, Indie, Dance, Classics, Nintendocore, Thrash, Punk. Beats, Jazz, Blues, Scores, Jam, Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise... when will it be enough? All signs point to... Never.

Stansford (Drew Stanley):

Drew met Music on a blind date back in '94 outside the Philadelphia area. Music knew it was taking a chance with a minor, but it had heard rumors that Drew put out. Pretty soon, the two were locked in his bedroom night after night making hot, sweaty, loud melodies. The neighbors complained, cops were called, things got ugly. Drew took up guitar late in ’95, and played 6 hours a day until he was good enough to impress Music. He wrote songs throughout and was in bands off/on throughout highschool. In 2002, the couple eloped to Tallahassee, where Drew attended Florida State University. There, he met Scott and Zach, who tried to steal Drew’s Music from him. Luckily, Drew learned how to share in preschool, and the three formed a love-rhombus with Music. For the next two years, Drew and Scott formed one of the most unique bands ever to come out of Tallahassee. Eventually, Drew got carried away and began whoring out Music on the side to anyone willing. No one knows the exact whereabouts of Drew today, but it is said that there have been sightings of him pimping out Music on the streets of Tampa, FL. and Atlanta, GA.

Blue Halo (Angel J Melendez):

In order to get  a gist of who Angel is, consider that he was recently asked who his heroes were. He listed two. Jesus (so he wouldn't go to hell) and Batman. He loves Batman so much he owns a Batman T-shirt he bought from Target and proudly wears to dive bars. Of course, no one messes with him because he is a large, hairy domesticated wookie. Lucky for him, no ones knows he can't fight and if punched would probably cry hysterically whilst swinging his arms wildly like a fat kid getting his man boobs titty twisted. He is currently in year 8 of his 10 year college plan at Florida Atlantic University studying English Education. He once dreamed of being a rock star and even started a band in middle school with a friend. Unfortunately, despite writing numerous songs the band floundered and eventually broke up. This was due mainly to the fact that he can neither play the guitar, the drums or sing in a key humans can stand. Despite music not loving him, Angel still loves it and drunk phone calls it daily. Other hobbies include obsessive mixtaping, using Twizzlers as straws and writing biographies naked.

Contact Info:

scott@armedready.com