There are at least two artists using the name Hinder:

1) Hinder was formed in Oklahoma City more than four years ago, when guitarist Joe Garvey and drummer Cody Hanson discovered Austin Winkler singing for a cover band at a college dorm party. “I heard him and was blown away,” says Cody. “He has the kind of charisma very few people have and that unique voice. You can’t really compare him to anybody.”

Indeed, it is Winkler who infuses Hinder’s often-bitter sentiments of regret and forgetting the past on songs like the tongue-in-cheek “Bliss” and “Better Than Me” with flesh-and-blood humanity. “It’s more about getting things off our chests,” he says. “And it’s lyrics you can understand, not this dark sh-t.”

The band—also featuring guitarist Mark King and bassist Mike Rodden—often overturns expectations, especially on “Get Stoned,” which, rather than the ... read more »