Roman Candle has been slowly but steadily gaining fans throughout the U.S. and building a significant amount of buzz since the release of their first album The Wee Hours Review on V2...

"Right now, my kids are thrilled to be on the road with us just because it means they can go to hotels across America and jump on the beds," guitarist and vocalist Skip Matheny says...

THE ABILITY TO OVERCOME EVIL

Someone needs to make a movie about Roman Candle. Seriously. Their story has a whole lot of rock ’n’ roll iconography (gospel roots, out-of-the-blue discovery by a famous dude, major label screw-over, brothers in the band, love) without any of the really nasty stuff (divorce, suicide, drug-addiction). Hmm. Maybe I’m wrong about that. People do like bad news, and even though this Chapel Hill band has been through a lot of crap, they seem to have emerged smelling like a rose with their integrity intact,

Waiting to Explode

It's after midnight on a hot Friday night in June, a mile outside of Chapel Hill and remarkably quiet for being so close to campus. Impenetrably dark woods surround the duplex, the house's outside lights casting hyper-extended shadows of four people moving between the basement door and the burgundy conversion van in the driveway. Chapel Hill rock 'n' roll quintet Roman Candle has been still long enough. It's time to go somewhere.

"ROMAN CANDLE: Southern Fireworks"

When a professional football player decides to start up a record label, one might assume that it would be a metal or hip-hop label. But when Denver Broncos defensive fullback Trevor Pryce stumbled upon some MP3s by a North Carolina band called Roman Candle, he was so smitten by what he heard that he immediately signed them to his just-launched Outlook Music label. Comprised of brothers Logan and Skip Matheny, Roman Candle is decidedly not hip-hop or metal. If you were in a pinch and absolutely had to tag the band with a genre, you could loosely brand it as "power-pop." That term may describe what the band does musically; after all, Roman Candle has all the catchy hooks and volume of vintage Cheap Trick,