Since their 1997 inception, New York's ErrorType: 11 has gotten a lot of flack for their decidedly un-indie attitude inside the very indie emo scene. "(Bands with that attitude) realize they're not capable of doing any better," says their self-described "arrogant asshole" singer/guitarist Arty Shepherd. "But everybody wants to play an arena. I don't care who you are, everybody wants to be a star. We want to be this scene's little arena rock band. Of course, we'd like to be the world's arena rock band, but we take it one step at a time." With their second full-length album, Amplified to Rock(Some), the band's come one step closer, capturing the lost art of the rock anthem with guitars that downshift from churning to shimmering and back, behind Shepherd's part-croon, part-yelp. They have no plans to curb the bravado any time soon, either: "I'm just buying time to go out and fuckin' save the world from the wretched sounds of Limp Bizkit," Shepherd says. "We're saving rock one song at a time." >>> Nicole Keiper
