"Any other artist, dead or alive have ever made anything like this. It´s totally original! Agnes Mercedes creativity and very own expression is so great that one wonders if she is mad or brilliant, but however that may ...
"Any other artist, dead or alive have ever made anything like this. It´s totally original! Agnes Mercedes creativity and very own expression is so great that one wonders if she is mad or brilliant, but however that may ...
Balaclavas are from Houston, Texas where everything is eternally blistered, chemically altered, and forlorn. They are a band in the realest sense- they come on like a gang, play with one mind, hunt in one pack, party and...
Benjamin von Wildenhaus. Name sounds like a turn-of-the-century Prussian duke or peddler of curios, snakeoil and ersatz jewelry. Maybe not such a bad set of images to start by thinking about, rather than all his influenc...
Bestial Mouths began in 2009 in Los Angeles, CA. Drawing from a large base of influences including early Industrial, Synthpunk and the British Gothic and American Deathrock music of the late 70’s and early 80’s, foun...
In a night that will combine the best of SXSW 2012 film and music, an all-star group of musicians will gather at Austin’s historic Paramount Theatre on March 15th to celebrate the Big Star legacy through a complete per...
Do you remember the moment in Jerry Macguire when he's driving down the highway singing "Free Fallin'"? I'm like Jerry, heroic and pathetic, one foot in manic, elated joy and the other in total, dismal depression.
Bod...
Grant Cutler is a songwriter, producer and experimental electronic musician. Chris Campbell is a composer and runs innova recordings. Current projects include 2012, Grant Cutler & The Gorgeous Lords, STACband, Things Yo...
Guitarist Chris Forsyth's hypnotic compositions assimilate minimalism and psychedelia with art rock, folk, and blues influences. He has toured throughout Europe and the US, sharing stages with such like-minded artists a...
Chrysta Bell is a singer, songwriter, entertainer, model and muse. She has shared the stage with such legendary talents as Willie Nelson, Brian Setzer, Donovan, and members of King Crimson.
Chrysta Bell has recently h...
At just 22 years old, Indiana’s Haley Fohr has already undergone the sort of transformation that scarcely strikes musicians two or three times her age. The release this year of Portrait, her third solo album as Circuit...
Tobiasz Biliński is a co-founder of the band Kyst, which has up to now released two critically acclaimed albums – “Cotton Touch” and “Waterworks” and performed at such festivals as Primavera Sound, Fusion, Inc...
On the fringes of the southwesternmost corner of culture and smart in these United States, Cuckoo Chaos is the Richard Nixon of disco dancing. Cuckoo Chaos is the Henry Ford of Dada. Cuckoo Chaos is the John The Baptist ...
The experimental, electronic, no wave, hip-hop duo Deadly Cradle Death is formed by He Fan (also member of Carsick Cars and Birdstriking) and Liu Xinyu (from Chui Wan). The pair met in a experimental guitar show back in...
San Francisco’s ambassadors of gypsy rock, Diego’s Umbrella captures California’s cultural multiplicity with enthusiasm, humor, decadence and a bit of fury.
These urban, gringo, gypsy mariachis have performed ...
Presented by: Team Clermont/Fire Records/Critical Heights
Los Angeles is a trip. And currently the musics emanating from this West Coast dreamland are spinning heads like no others. Diva Dompe is central to this L.A. renaissance, having founded the fabulously costumed trio Blac...
DIVE is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece.
Recently inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIVE created...
"When I begin to explore and to build a song through a series of pedals, I begin with the tuner. It helps keep my guitar's pitch consistent. An octave pedal and the distortion pedals allows me to change the textures and ...
The acoustic-electric sibling duo Dva was founded in the spring of 2006 in small town near to Hradec Kralove. Now they operate in Pardubice and Hradec Králové. They characterize themselves as Pop of non-existent radios...
Sludge Meditation.
No practice.
We'll play anywhere.
We have releases on Not Not Fun, Monophonus Press, and For Noise's Sake.
We have more shit recorded. You should put it out.......
From compulsive creator Brent Sluder, comes Field Dress. Played on vintage keyboards manipulated through pedals and samplers, often beyond recognition, and punctuated by mysterious vocals and hypnotic drum kit loops, F-D...
Foxtails Brigade present an ornate kind of chamber pop, intricate violin and cello arrangements are anchored by Laura Weinbach’s intricately played classical guitar and pitch perfect vocals. But underneath the simple ...
FUTURE BLONDES generate storm and chant. INTERVIEW on SWAMP BATS blog by T. KERSCHEN of INDIAN JEWELRY.
What’s up:
L.L.L. HEAVENS
Where are you from:
BLVD. ZERO
Where are you now:
THE 99TH FLOOR.
How lo...
Gt//Sachio Yoshizawa
Dr//Ryo Inoue
From Shibuya, Tokyo and Kashiwa, Chiba!
Since 2008
::discography::
"GAGAKIRISE//JUIICEBOXXX split EP"(cd/2010)
"Gentlemen GAGA"(cassette tape/2010) out of stock!
"Black ...
GARY LUCAS, "one of the best and most original guitarists in America" (Rolling Stone) returns to SXSW to play his live solo guitar score accompanying Jose Mojica Marins a/k/a COFFIN JOE's 1967 Brazilian cult horror shock...
Over the last year and a half, Gauntlet Hair has seen its noise-pop anthems released on 7"s by tastemaker labels Forest Family ("I Was Thinking..." b/w "Our Scenery") and Mexican Summer ("Out, Don't..." b/w "Heave") resp...
Following the Jamaican dub tradition of remixing reggae tracks into effects-laden instrumentals, Grimy Styles set out to employ this notion to all their beloved genres of music by applying the techniques of their dub pre...
Gypsyblood formed in 2009 when longtime friends and former bandmates Adam James and vocalist/drummer/bassist Kyle Victor healed the somewhat fresh wounds of their previous band’s breakup (initiated by Victor storming o...
Horse Thief is a psychedelic folk rock band based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The band is formed of four guys who feel there’s a void in the current music scene that needs to be filled. “Our music is about more than ...
btwn twitter and facebook Everyday is war against consumeristic suicide and soul sucking "entertrainment" . how i quit crack is contemptorary visual and sonic art// CREATING A MOVING BREAThING SINGING IMAGE, , but not a ...
Il abanico is an Indie/Experimental band created in 2010 by Nicolás Losada (guitar) and Juliana Ronderos (Voice). They expose their personalities with innovative melodies, an upbeat rhythm section and unorthodox guitars...
Il abanico is an Indie/Experimental band created in 2010 by Nicolás Losada (guitar) and Juliana Ronderos (Voice). They expose their personalities with innovative melodies, an upbeat rhythm section and unorthodox guitars...
Incan Abraham was founded in a garage in Rhinebeck, New York, in June 2009. In the fall of that year, the band relocated to Los Angeles, the hometown of three of its members, and Teddy, the only New Yorker, moved out Wes...
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Exciting avant-disco neo-crunk outfit, INSTITUTIONAL PROSTITUTION is formed by 2 DAY TIME WORKERS actresses without a Union, MELISSA GAGNE and SAD H. NAVA.
Winter 2011: Institutional...
WWW.INSTITUTIONALPROSTITUTION.COM
Exciting avant-disco neo-crunk outfit, INSTITUTIONAL PROSTITUTION is formed by 2 DAY TIME WORKERS actresses without a Union, MELISSA GAGNE and SAD H. NAVA.
Winter 2011: Institutional...
Japanese Gum is an experimental psychedelic Italian duo originally from Genova born in the spring of 2005.
The band consists now of Davide Cedolin, Paolo Tortora, with some live collaborators and performers.
JG music i...
Formed in 2009 at the University of Texas at Austin, line upon line percussion has set out to expand their repertoire through the commission of new works. The group's first disc, released in August 2011, contains four pi...
LITTLE SCREAM’S MUSIC is—like her moniker—full of perfectly satisfying contradictions. It is at once familiar and completely distinct; effortlessly absorbing multiple genres into a sparkly and cohesive landscape. F...
Marriages is a new band featuring Greg Burns (Red Sparowes), Emma Ruth Rundle (Red Sparowes / Nocturnes) and Dave Clifford (Red Sparowes / Nocturnes / Pleasure Forever / The VSS).......
"Maus Haus used to be known as San Francisco’s own vintage synth-collecting, guitar-hating weird dudes. Well, they still are, sorta, but now they might do an entire album with only guitars. With a standout set at this ...
Moja Adrenalina is first polish band to work with one of the most important and infuential producing duet in modern alternative music – Ross Robinson and Steve Evetts. New album demonstrates conventionally named by mus...
On its second album Delirium Tremendous (July 26th, Chicken Ranch Records) perhaps as Jim Morrison fronting a Rohypnol-addled Pogues? Or maybe as Tom Waits fronting The Doors. Obviously, this would be a good time for a ...
Trying to pigeonhole the music of Austin's My Education is akin to trying to stuff a pigeon in a hole: the sound is calamitous, there's movement all around, the frenzied beating of wings against wall, and somewhere somet...
Trying to pigeonhole the music of Austin's My Education is akin to trying to stuff a pigeon in a hole: the sound is calamitous, there's movement all around, the frenzied beating of wings against wall, and somewhere somet...
With a unique blend of acoustic folk, jazz, pop, classical, bluegrass, humor and the avant-garde, New Haven, CT duo Prester John has a sound that
is entirely their own. Formed in 2008 by underground guitar-hero Shawn Pe...
BIO:
Brainfeeder's latest artist RYAT (pronounced "riot") is the brainchild of Christina Ryat, a producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and sound manipulator who uses live electronics, instruments, pedals,...
BIO:
Brainfeeder's latest artist RYAT (pronounced "riot") is the brainchild of Christina Ryat, a producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and sound manipulator who uses live electronics, instruments, pedals,...
Presented by: Team Clermont/Fire Records/Critical Heights
Enchanting from the off, their eponymous debut is set to become a real cult classic, crossing secret paths between pastoral psych collaging and knowingly meticulous folk composition in the flicker of a hare's whisker. Wi...
Secret Walls is the World’s premier live art battle, first hosted in Shoreditch London in 2006. Secret Walls offers young and aspiring artists a creative platform - allowing them a chance to showcase their work on a gl...
Secret Walls is the World’s premier live art battle, first hosted in Shoreditch London in 2006. Secret Walls offers young and aspiring artists a creative platform - allowing them a chance to showcase their work on a gl...
When we talk about up-and-coming bands that hold true promise for 2012, we talk about Seward. Atypical and spectacular, Seward is a visionary musical concept woven from traditional folk instruments; samples and effects; ...
sleepmakeswaves are an instrumental (post-)rock band from sydney, australia.
The band came together in late 2006 with a desire to write textured, dynamic and emotive songs combining delicate beauty with dramatic clima...
In the wonder years of 2006-2008, Snapline became, almost overnight it seemed, perhaps Beijing’s fastest rising band. At the very beginning, the band consisted of Li Qing on guitar and keyboards and Li Weisi on bass, ...
Once upon no time, countless light-years from Earth, the cosmos revealed the moment had come to take action. Sonnymoon, a mystical, nurturing, peaceful planet, found itself on a collision course with Earth, whose inhabit...
Composer/performer Steven Snowden creates music for a diverse array of settings including theater, dance, film, multimedia installations, and the concert stage. He has focused much of his recent work on interdisciplinary...
In 2003, Tim Showalter's house burned down, his fiancée left him, and he resorted to writing songs on an acoustic guitar while living on park benches in suburban Philadelphia. Those events informed the entirety of his a...
Sxip has played exploding circus organ for the pyro-technic clowns of the Daredevil Opera Company at the Sydney Opera House and the Kennedy Center, industrial flutes for acrobats on mechanical jumping boots at The New Vi...
Portland, Oregon duo Kevin O'Connor and Lisa Molinaro create lush and evocative instrumental soundscapes under the name Talkdemonic. Formed in 2003, Talkdemonic began as Kevin's pursuit for new frontiers in percussion an...
THIS WILL DESTROY YOU began in earnest during the mid-00’s in San Marcos, TX. In many ways, the initial sound of the band was the logical destination point for four friends (Christopher Royal King, Jeremy Galindo, Raym...
Thulebasen consist of Nis, Niels and Felia, a trio from Vesterbro, downtown Copenhagen. Thulebasen have had a busy 2011 running the label ESCHO that spawned Iceage, making babies and playing within National Art Museums. ...
Tim Fite is an artist and true original. His music defies easy categorization. Esquire Magazine called him, “one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most subversive renaissance men.” The Brooklyn based Fite has released Ain’t...
The Union Line formed just after finishing high school in sunny San Juan Capistrano, CA. Shortly after forming, in 2010 they released their first EP "Cernido Sondidos" on RCA's Back Seal imprint. Later that year they hit...
Most people do not take vacations often enough, some not at all. Quality vacations let us recapture that feeling of childlike exploratory freedom, which we seem to experience less and less frequently as we age. We can ha...
Most people do not take vacations often enough, some not at all. Quality vacations let us recapture that feeling of childlike exploratory freedom, which we seem to experience less and less frequently as we age. We can ha...
Haitian electronic music composer/percussionist/
turntablist, evokes the musical esoteric realms of the creative subconscious and self defined as “Afro-Electronica.” She incorporates her African Haitian musical trad...
Spring 2010 saw the demise of Port O'Brien, and founding member/front man Van Pierszalowski needed a break from the hectic, wonderful mess that is touring. He stumbled into respite in Oslo, Norway, and spent some time aw...
Spring 2010 saw the demise of Port O'Brien, and founding member/front man Van Pierszalowski needed a break from the hectic, wonderful mess that is touring. He stumbled into respite in Oslo, Norway, and spent some time aw...
Wet Hair is Shawn Reed, Justin Thye, and Ryan Garbes, the two remaining members of Raccoo-oo-oon that stayed in Iowa City after the band’s end. Reed also runs Night-People Records, which Garbes often contributes to. We...
Presented by: Team Clermont/Fire Records/Critical Heights
James Jackson Toth, known to the world as Wooden Wand, is a maverick, good-hearted troubadour whose blend of smoky Americana has been garnering plaudits for the last decade. Unafraid to mix psychedelic workouts with swee...
ZA!
Za! is a band from Barcelona composed by 2 people and 7 instruments (drums, guitar, keyboard, voice, trumpet, kalimba, sampler).
Their music combines african beats, noise, thick distortions, vocal loops, free jazz,...
Zambri is the ethereal duo of Cristi Jo and Jessica, sisters whom have been making music together since they shared a bedroom as kids. Spending endless hours creating stories and building universes with their voices and ...
