B. Bravo adds a touch of love to every funked-out late night synth groove he gets his hands on. Hailing from California under the influence of west coast G-Funk, Roy Ayers and Herbie Hancock, he's pioneering a new sound ...
Bay Area funk sorcerer B. Bravo has assembled a crew of intergalactic badmen to form The Starship Connection - a synthesizer funk / future bass quartet co-piloted by producer and synth wizard Teeko (synths &talkbox), fea...
The Backburner Crew is a Canadian hip-hop collective of producers, DJs, and rappers. This phalanx of flavah includes the likes of Fresh Kils, Wordburglar, Timbuktu, More Or Les, DJ Uncle Fester, Ghettosocks, Chokeules, J...
After touring the country relentlessly for 5 years, the singer of a Pennsylvania hardcore band decided to stop everything, lock himself in his basement and turn a new page. Armed with a 4 track and a life long obsession ...
Also known as "The Writer." Born in Inglewood, raised in Watts, his entry into the music industry was working for Rodney Jerkins & Ricc Rude(Destiny Child's - Cater 2 You). Shortly after that he met artists fellow West C...
Bad Rabbits are the American Dream. The collective first generation sons of Indian, Argentinean, Ghanaian and Israeli lineage with a single son of liberty are your tired, hungry and poor invading this nation with a uniqu...
Bad Rabbits are the American Dream. The collective first generation sons of Indian, Argentinean, Ghanaian and Israeli lineage with a single son of liberty are your tired, hungry and poor invading this nation with a uniqu...
Hailing from Denton, Texas, Bad Sports are a band whose music is a powerful fusion of punk rock velocity and attitude, hard rock guitar raunch, and power pop hooks. Influenced by old-school punk bands like the Ramones an...
Bad Weather California’s new LP Sunkissed is their 2nd full length album and debut for Akron/Family’s Family Tree Records label. The album was recorded in Detroit at the home studio of engineer Chris Koltay, produced...
BAR CHORDS THE NEW ALBUM FROM BAHAMAS SET FOR FEBRUARY 7 RELEASE ON BRUSHFIRE RECORDS
"Barchords is a gorgeous, full-bodied recording that revels in spare
but intensely flavorful textures." - Los Angeles Times
“A ...
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...
It’s a birds and the bees sort of question… Or maybe a chicken or the egg sort of question… What came first the rosined violin strings, major falls, classical theory or the smashed guitars, split finger tips and sw...
For the uninitiated, Balkan Beat Box first burst out of New York City’s underground music scene in 2005, with a self-titled debut that introduced the world to their Mediterranean-inflected, globalized electronica sound...
For the uninitiated, Balkan Beat Box first burst out of New York City’s underground music scene in 2005, with a self-titled debut that introduced the world to their Mediterranean-inflected, globalized electronica sound...
Baloji rhymes in a intensely personal way about his life between the two poles of Belgium and Congo. He was born in Congo but grew up in Belgium. That complex identity has lead him to make some very rich music. The album...
Only important Belgian albums are rewarded with a foreign release. Balthazar's "Applause" is a twofold milestone. It's the first debut since dEUS' "Worst Case Scenario" (1994) to be proclaimed best Belgian album of the y...
Albums that are determined to become legendary milestones seem to be appearing less frequently during the 21st century. With the immediacy of the Internet, as listeners, we consume a bigger number of projects than we did...
Albums that are determined to become legendary milestones seem to be appearing less frequently during the 21st century. With the immediacy of the Internet, as listeners, we consume a bigger number of projects than we did...
BAMBARABANDA is a unique group, one that synthesizes an authentic approach infused with a strong cultural identity, nourished by musical traditions of the Andean regions of Colombia and South America in a fusion of unive...
BAMBARABANDA is a unique group, one that synthesizes an authentic approach infused with a strong cultural identity, nourished by musical traditions of the Andean regions of Colombia and South America in a fusion of unive...
Straight out of the San Francisco Bay Area Bang Data is born in early 2008, bringing you a mix of slick and melodic guitar, gritty synth & bass, over banging electro-acoustic rhythms; making this the perfect canvas for D...
Bare Wires patent their own brand of electrified garage punk, fusing glam glitter pop with garage punk grime, producing a sound that has been called everything from “Soft Punk” to “Leather Jacket Rock”. The Oakla...
One of the first Christmas presents that Brad and Andrew Barr received were two pairs of red boxing gloves. They set up a makeshift ring in their basement in Providence, RI and hung a bell from the water pipes. When the ...
One of the first Christmas presents that Brad and Andrew Barr received were two pairs of red boxing gloves. They set up a makeshift ring in their basement in Providence, RI and hung a bell from the water pipes. When the ...
Bass Drum of Death is a band from Mississippi. John plays guitar and sings and Colin plays the drums. Together they make blown-out, blazing songs. John was Fat Possum’s worst employee 3 years ago. He wrote and recorded...
Beach Fossils is a Brooklyn-based group, formed in early 2009 by Dustin Payseur. After signing to Captured Tracks and quickly pulling together a live band, they took off playing countless shows across the U.S. gathering ...
Beach Fossils is a Brooklyn-based group, formed in early 2009 by Dustin Payseur. After signing to Captured Tracks and quickly pulling together a live band, they took off playing countless shows across the U.S. gathering ...
Dylan Rau started Bear Hands to spite a romantic rival. Joining forces with fellow Wesleyan university alumnus Ted Feldman and iconoclast punk veterans Val Loper and TJ Orscher, the band started to stomp live. Both other...
Dylan Rau started Bear Hands to spite a romantic rival. Joining forces with fellow Wesleyan university alumnus Ted Feldman and iconoclast punk veterans Val Loper and TJ Orscher, the band started to stomp live. Both other...
Most people assume that when a band makes it—that is, reaches a critical mass of listeners, where shows across the country get packed, where the big festivals come calling, where placement on year-end lists seems preem...
Most people assume that when a band makes it—that is, reaches a critical mass of listeners, where shows across the country get packed, where the big festivals come calling, where placement on year-end lists seems preem...
Beat Connection’s members – the duo of Jordan Koplowitz and Reed Juenger – met in summer 2008, in that first youthful flush of “hey wait, I don’t live with my parents anymore...” and began making some late-su...
Alexis and Médéric are together BeatauCue, french electro duo from Caen signed on Kitsune.
Going back to 2009, from the Normandy countryside; the two bedroom producers decided to realize a remix for Major Lazer – ...
Listening to the new songs from the San Diego based quartet The Beautiful View makes you think "sounds like this should be on the radio", which isn’t a bad thing in this case. There's a familiarity that the band brings...
Bee vs. Moth is an instrumental jazz/rock band from Austin, TX. The band’s eclectic sound has been described as a mix between Ornette Coleman and Television. Bee vs. Moth has been featured on NPR's "All Songs Conside...
Rami El-Farrah (soprano saxophone), Sunil Gadgil (alto saxophone), Spencer Nielsen (tenor saxophone), and Michael Hertel (baritone saxophone) met as graduate saxophone students at the University of Texas at Austin Butler...
THE BELLE BRIGADE
Ethan Gruska — Vocals, guitar, piano
Barbara Gruska — Vocals, drums, guitar
Like many siblings, Barbara and Ethan Gruska had their ups and downs over their years growing up together in Los An...
Rugged, raspy, and roaring with charisma, Halifax’s Ben Caplan is to folklore what smoke is to bourbon. Perfectly coupled. Ben’s songwriting is as bold in range as it is in ferocity. Fuelled by a striking melodram...
In 2009, Ben Kweller moved back to Texas after 10 years in New York City. To welcome himself home, he made a country record that released a voice he’d been hearing in his head since his earliest days growing up in Gree...
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...
BENSH
‘Adorably fresh¬’
- MTV Iggy
From the Austrian Alps to the United Kingdom, from Japan to Germany to Iceland and back through Europe, Clues is the debut album of self-styled noisepop cosmopolitan Bensh.....
Benzona is half the management team that runs Mad Decent, the genre defying record label spearheaded by globe trotting DJ/Producer Diplo. Having access to an endless library of demo submissions and scouring the internet ...
When they aren't providing top-notch entertainment around the world they stay busy cranking out weird little songs for you to listen to. They got all types of sounds on here you should really check em out......
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...
Beth Rowley was born in Peru, raised in Bristol and after college in Brighton began a stunning career as a singer songwriter that saw her sign to Universal Music for the world, release her debut album ‘Little Dreamer...
After being named a “New Face of Comedy” at the Just for Laughs Montreal Festival, Beth Stelling relocated to Los Angeles. So all that stuff she did in Chicago means nothing. But if you want to know about it…
As...
After being named a “New Face of Comedy” at the Just for Laughs Montreal Festival, Beth Stelling relocated to Los Angeles. So all that stuff she did in Chicago means nothing. But if you want to know about it…
As...
Based in the bustling music town of Athens, GA, Betsy Kingston & the Crowns is Betsy Kingston, Joseph Dinnan, Bill, Baker, Rackley Davis, and a rotating cast of regional talent.
Kingston’s vocal styling is reminisce...
Partners in music, business, and life, bassist/composer/producer Joël Dilley and songwriter/vocalist/pianist Bett Butler have performed together for over two decades in configurations from jazz trios to small orchestras...
Change is good. Sometimes, you just need a little shake-up to get things to how they always ought to have been. With Heat Sin Water Skin, BettySoo adds some welcome edge and grit to the heartbreaker ballads and bell-pure...
Beware of Darkness is a bold, new power-trio of old souls, pissed at life in a modern age. They are ready to frighten your children, sleep with your daughters, and make you shake, scream, and contort like it’s a Depres...
A fresh breeze is blowing through Nigerian soul music on the guitar strings of a young performer called Bez. He makes alternative soul, an understated and unusual hybrid of Soul, Jazz and R&B music that sets him well apa...
Using only two voices and two guitars, Alice Costelloe and Kacey Underwood create music that’s unfettered by the constraints of a traditional band. Their sound is gauzy but spartan; his vocal, dusky, hers crystalline, ...
Big Harp is the by-product of a three-year whirlwind for husband-and-wife duo Chris Senseney (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney (bass, backing vocals). In those three years a boy from the western N...
Imagine Kanye West being born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi. Now imagine him being produced by Organized Noize. That imagery would create music almost identical to the Crooked Letter state’s next hip-hop heavywei...
Imagine Kanye West being born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi. Now imagine him being produced by Organized Noize. That imagery would create music almost identical to the Crooked Letter state’s next hip-hop heavywei...
Imagine Kanye West being born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi. Now imagine him being produced by Organized Noize. That imagery would create music almost identical to the Crooked Letter state’s next hip-hop heavywei...
BORN SEPTEMBER 7, 1988 ON THE SOUTHSIDE OF CHICAGO IT WASN'T ALWAYS EASY FOR BIG KANNON (DAJUAN WILSON). WITH THE STRUGGLE OF HIS CHILDHOOD AND THE UPS AND DOWNS OF DEALING FAMILY PROBLEMS HE NEEDED A WAY TO RELEASE HIS ...
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Big Scary are a boy/girl two-piece from Melbourne, Australia. Joanna chills at the kit, occasionally chiming in with some ba...
BIG SEAN BIOGRAPHY
Some may call it luck, but for Detroit based MC Big Sean, his chance meeting with Kanye West in 2005 was the exact moment when his hard work finally started to pay off.
After rapping for the mult...
Considering how quiet they’ve been over the past couple years, you’d think the Big Sleep decided to suddenly take their name seriously after the tireless tour cycle behind 2008’s Sleep Forever LP. The truth is much...
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...
Bigott is a band from Zaragoza, Spain. Singing in English, Borja Laudo has been compared to the likes of Bonnie Prince BIlly, Iron and Wine, Lou Reed, and Tom Waits. Laudo has worked with bands such as Tachenko, Big Ci...
Over the years Billy Harvey has been playing his own brand of Post Modern Pop, working not only as an artist but also as a producer (Charlie Mars, Bob Schneider, Slaid Cleaves, and Steve Poltz are among his credits).
A ...
I was not even born yet when my father first tried to kill me.
It was June and the evening light had started to fade, but it was still hotter than nine kinds of hell. We were outside of Corsicana, a little cotton town...
I was not even born yet when my father first tried to kill me.
It was June and the evening light had started to fade, but it was still hotter than nine kinds of hell. We were outside of Corsicana, a little cotton town...
Bird Peterson, or Texas born Andrew "Old Shep" Hoke, is just what the doctor ordered. He prides himself as the Elegant Gentleman King of Hot Jams, and retains this title by his own doings. He's a scholar in the art of ba...
Minneapolis/St. Paul based energetic, garage, punk, noise Japanese duo the Birthday Suits formed in spring of 2005 and released their debut album Cherry Blue later that year. After the release of Cherry Blue, it did not...
Brooklyn's Bit Funk is an indie dance mainstay and Hype Machine chart topper, with songs featured everywhere from Treasure Fingers' DJ crate to the soundtrack for CW's Vampire Diaries. Appearing on major labels from Def...
BITCHES are a noise pop duo from London. Blake plays on the bass guitar and shouts and Staz hits drums and screams. Their sound is a thrilling hybrid of fuzzed up, noisy punk combined with a playful, melodic pop sensibil...
"I guess releasing one outta-this-world album in 2010 wasn’t enough for these power pop superheroes because they’ve gone ahead and dropped yet another five-song masterpiece on us like a sack full o’ diamonds. Serio...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID!
REAL MUSICIAN FIRST
Born, raised, and nurtured on the South Side
of Chicago in the early 80's, BJ's childhood was a fusion of elements from both the streets
and the church. With parents who served...
The band was discovered at SXSW in 2007 by Talking Head and Modern Lover, Jerry Harrison. Harrison offered to produce the band's debut LP at his studio in Sausalito, CA and it was released in 2008 on Brando/Rocket Scien...
The band was discovered at SXSW in 2007 by Talking Head and Modern Lover, Jerry Harrison. Harrison offered to produce the band's debut LP at his studio in Sausalito, CA and it was released in 2008 on Brando/Rocket Scien...
Since Aristotle, man has organized his knowledge vertically in separate and unrelated groups---Science, Religion, Sex, Relaxation, Work, etc. The main emphasis in his language, his system of storing knowledge, has been o...
The Black Belles are from Nashville TN. They met in a School For Wayward Girls in 2010 and have been practicing black magick and musik ever since. They are signed exclusively to Third Man Records, their debut LP "The Bla...
The Black Belles are from Nashville TN. They met in a School For Wayward Girls in 2010 and have been practicing black magick and musik ever since. They are signed exclusively to Third Man Records, their debut LP "The Bla...
Black Bone Child started in 2008 as a musical collaboration between Donny James and Kenneth M. Patterson. Through a shared love of delta style blues and modern rock, the two wrote their self-titled debut over email, even...
Black Books is a 5-piece band from Austin, TX playing a moody mix of dream pop and southern rock.
Friends since forever, Black Books since 2010.
Look for their first album this Spring.......
Presented by: BrooklynVegan/Power of the Riff/Trasher
Black Breath are from Seattle and play fast and loud. A brand new album titled "Sentenced to Life" (released by Southern Lord Records) will be available at the showcase.......
Formed by drummer Rafa Martinez (ex-16, ex-Acid King) and guitarist/vocalist Jason Landrian (ex-Cavity), BLACK COBRA catapulted themselves onto the scene in 2001 with their ravenous, upbeat and ultimately unique style of...
Black Flamingo began as the musical love child of multi-instrumentalists/vocalists Kimi and Ammo. After a chance encounter at a Halloween house party in San Francisco’s Mission District — where they bonded on all thi...
Black Pistol Fire is a Canadian Rock and Roll duo that split’s time between Toronto, Ontario and Austin, Texas. Their wild and energetic rock-and-roll sound has been described as a mix of classic southern rock and gara...
Austin-based jazz phenoms Ephraim Owens, Red Young, and Brannen Temple transform into the explosively eclectic trio, Black Red Black. Individually, these musicians are powerhouses– Owens won the title of “Best Horn...
With auspicious sensual textured layers of melody and guitars, both Scott Von Ryper and chanteuse Miss Aimee Nash weave a densely rich tapestry of love, sex and death, mountains, oceans and astral travel.
They indica...
**** (4/5 stars)- Mojo
"...a gorgeous sounding record" - Pitchfork
"an artful intentionality to it all... a terrific album."-- Paste
Ohio has long been a breeding ground for strange beauty. Visionary natives inc...
BLACK TAXI is one of NYC's most prominent live acts, smashing an anything-goes punk ethos together with pop sensibilities, unparalleled energy, and brilliant songwriting. The result is a raucous stage show, heavy on har...
According to Trouser Press, "the black watch are a psych/janglepop treasure worth seeking out by anyone with an interest in super catchy melodies, twin guitar attack, and highly poetic lyrics." Formed in Santa Barbara, ...
Blackbird Blackbird (formerly Bye Bye Blackbird) is the moniker/musical outlet of San Francisco, California wunderkind Mikey Maramag. His reverb-laden musical collages tend to lean towards anthemic, inspirational, and dr...
Cleopatra Records electrorock/dubsteb artist Blackburner has just been tapped to support MINISTRY on its summer 2012 national tour.
Blackburner is a bold new force in electronic music, combining the heavily twisted an...
BLAQSTARR
Blaqstarr, the Baltimore born DJ, producer, and artist extraordinaire, is a talent that comes around once in a lifetime. Writing, producing, and arranging all his material, Blaqstarr’s worldly sound has no b...
Back to basics. Take your time. Guitars and golden noise. Meet Bleached, two sisters from LA creating rough-hewed, high-collared, melodic Rock & Roll. Formerly part of Mika Miko, Jessica and Jennifer Clavin were best kno...
Bleeding Rainbow started 4 years ago in Philadelphia as a two piece known then as Reading Rainbow. After completing two full length albums and a handful of singles, the group has expanded to include two additional membe...
Calling Bleubird an MC doesn’t feel complete. Storytellers draw from varied impulses, and Bleubird’s vision is oddly utopian. He takes mere observations, gift-wraps them and re-presents them as spectacles. It’s the...
The Blind Shake is a trio of detuned, garage-stomp noisemakers from Minneapolis, MN. They are known for their explosive live shows and collaborations with psych legend Michael Yonkers.
The band's full length album "Se...
Key Information about Bliss n Eso
Latest album Running On Air Debut #1 on the Australian ARIA Albums chart and is Platinum in Australia with sales in excess of 100,000 units.
Recent Running On Air tour is officiall...
A blindingly bright clarity drives Blitz the Ambassador. With a spot-on sense of flow, he name-checks Basquiat and Lumumba, evokes lovelorn sighs on Accra buses, émigré alienation, history’s shadows. All set to swirl...
American Goldwing is Sub Pop’s third full-length release with Portland’s Blitzen Trapper and the band’s sixth full-length overall. Over the course of their career they’ve earned rave reviews (from Rolling Stone, ...
American Goldwing is Sub Pop’s third full-length release with Portland’s Blitzen Trapper and the band’s sixth full-length overall. Over the course of their career they’ve earned rave reviews (from Rolling Stone, ...
American Goldwing is Sub Pop’s third full-length release with Portland’s Blitzen Trapper and the band’s sixth full-length overall. Over the course of their career they’ve earned rave reviews (from Rolling Stone, ...
“Our musical chemistry has always existed in the context of actually playing,” explains Sam Haar, one-half of the Brooklyn-based duo Blondes. “From pre-written material in our old post-punk band to recent tracks th...
“Our musical chemistry has always existed in the context of actually playing,” explains Sam Haar, one-half of the Brooklyn-based duo Blondes. “From pre-written material in our old post-punk band to recent tracks th...
Blondfire, an LA based Brazilian/American, brother/sister duo featuring Erica Driscoll and her brother Bruce. Erica's soft, haunting vocals drive a sound that is undeniably catchy and irresistable. They're the first unsi...
Devonté Hynes has produced a lot of music. Some for himself:Test Icicles, Lightspeed Champion and some for others: Basement Jaxx, Florence & The Machine, Theophilus London, Solange Knowles, Cassie, Diana Vickers. Somewh...
The music of Bloody Beach is a conglomerate of musical styles from around the world, but always with a firm foothold in energetic indie rock. Everyone from Turkish DJs to Scandinavian indie kids has been blown away by th...
Blue Sky Black Death are an accomplished West Coast production duo. Their sound transforms the raw into the refined through technically building layers that exceed the boundaries of any one particular musical genre.
Y...
BLUNT FANG IS A YOUNG RAP ARTIST CELEBRITY FEMINIST ACTIVIST FASCION ICON DIRECTOR PRODUCER AND UP AND COMING INDUSTRY MOGUL FROM ATLANTA GA. HE IS MOSTLY PREOCCUPIED WITH DRAMATIC BIBLICAL SCALE IMAGERY, SOUTHERN COLLOQ...
BLUNT FANG IS A YOUNG RAP ARTIST CELEBRITY FEMINIST ACTIVIST FASCION ICON DIRECTOR PRODUCER AND UP AND COMING INDUSTRY MOGUL FROM ATLANTA GA. HE IS MOSTLY PREOCCUPIED WITH DRAMATIC BIBLICAL SCALE IMAGERY, SOUTHERN COLLOQ...
Veteran of the Houston jungle/drum and bass scene, BMC started deejaying in 1994. He quickly became one of Houston's most sought after drum and bass DJs. He has traveled throughout the United States playing venues of var...
BOAN is the new post Medio Mutante project featuring Mariana Saldana (//TENSE//, MM) and Jose Cota (SSLEEPERHOLD, MM) with audio production by Michael Stein (SURVIVE).
Inspired by ACID, NewBeat, Post Apocalyptic Dreams,...
Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel
Bobby Whitlock is perhaps most well known for being a member of the band Derek & The Dominos, recording and co-producing one of Rock and Rolls most important records in history “Layla and ...
Busy saving the city from the brick wall arm crossing and the casual head nods, Brooklyn's own Body Language has risen from the DIY venue basements armed with the kinetic dynamite you would expect from the name. Their or...
Busy saving the city from the brick wall arm crossing and the casual head nods, Brooklyn's own Body Language has risen from the DIY venue basements armed with the kinetic dynamite you would expect from the name. Their or...
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...
Presented by: SXSW Music: FREE Opening Night Party!
"Austin's Bodytronix (Eric Archer and Erich Ragsdale) have been hard at work for awhile without anyone outside of their fair city really knowing what these dudes were up to. Well, if their live mix "Night of the Arawans"...
"Austin's Bodytronix (Eric Archer and Erich Ragsdale) have been hard at work for awhile without anyone outside of their fair city really knowing what these dudes were up to. Well, if their live mix "Night of the Arawans"...
Boldy James is a native of Detroit, MI. His first garnered national attetion with a guest appearance of The Cool Kids record "Tires". Boldy was later featured on the Fat Raps Remix, which was featured on Big Sean's "Fina...
ROOTS
Bomba Estereo was created from the influence of late 90’s Colombian bands such as Sidestepper and Bloque de Búsqueda, which explored the fusion of folklore and tropical Colombian rhythms with contemporary sou...
ROOTS
Bomba Estereo was created from the influence of late 90’s Colombian bands such as Sidestepper and Bloque de Búsqueda, which explored the fusion of folklore and tropical Colombian rhythms with contemporary sou...
ROOTS
Bomba Estereo was created from the influence of late 90’s Colombian bands such as Sidestepper and Bloque de Búsqueda, which explored the fusion of folklore and tropical Colombian rhythms with contemporary sou...
Bombasta has performed through out Texas and beyond, from the west coast of central Mexico to workshopping and teaching kids in Georgia; this unique musical ensemble carries the pride of San Antonio's barrio streets on t...
The Bombettes formed in 2005 and play catchy punk rock with influences from the 60s. They have toured both Europe and USA, they’ve played at clubs, garages, squats, pubs as well as bigger arenas. With their catchy tune...
BONAPARTE performed a first show in october of 2006 on trash found in the backstage area of now legendary bar25 in berlin, germany. after their first album "too much" (2008) became an independent hit they emerged from th...
Bonfire Nights' make swirling moody psych-pop: a clash of surf and synth, shoe-gaze with purple haze, Virginia Plain meets Jesus & Mary Chain.
With mantra like drones, shaking bones and sweet candy overtones, Bonf...
Bonfire Nights' make swirling moody psych-pop: a clash of surf and synth, shoe-gaze with purple haze, Virginia Plain meets Jesus & Mary Chain.
With mantra like drones, shaking bones and sweet candy overtones, Bonf...
Currently based in Atlanta, Detroit-native Boog Brown is not only an emcee, poet, and publisher, but she describes herself as a “lover, fighter and artist.” With tracks like “The Essence,” “Dope Girl Magic,” ...
Currently based in Atlanta, Detroit-native Boog Brown is not only an emcee, poet, and publisher, but she describes herself as a “lover, fighter and artist.” With tracks like “The Essence,” “Dope Girl Magic,” ...
The Boom Bang, a garage/surf/punk band hails from Norman, Oklahoma. With several releases under their belt and the summer of 2011 touring the country, they are back again to perform at SXSW! Their most recent release was...
“My music sounds like commercial American hip-hop and death metal being played through various farm animals.”
– Borgore, from an interview with Spinner.com
Lock up your livestock: Borgore – bass culture’s e...
BORIS McCUTCHEON
Boris McCutcheon lives off the grid in northern New Mexico, on the High Road to Taos, writing when he can catch a break from pruning fruit trees, chopping cords of wood, and managing the local acequia...
Bosco Delrey, producer and purveyor of experimental pop and rock n roll, spent early 2011 playing in support of like-minded, genre-blurring acts Sleigh Bells and CSS, previewing his debut LP, Everybody Wah, for crowds ac...
BOTANY is the catch-all title for the musical quests of Spencer Stephenson, a young Texas musician who calls “somewhere between Denton and Austin” his home. Hearing echoes from both coasts, all times, and everywhere...
The Boxing Lesson is a group of psychedelic progressive rock musicians based in Austin, TX. Currently a power trio with synthesizers performing the bass player's role, they create a layered sound that usually starts mini...
BOY is an Austin, TX-based quartet of glitter-grunge sweeties clambering to the middle of the tangled heap; a prayer in their hearts, a knife in their teeth.
Consisting of brothers Joshua and Jakob Clark, long-time fr...
Boy Friend is best buds Christa Palazzolo and Sarah Brown. With a creative partnership that combines different stylistic preferences and attitude with a passion for dark fantasy, narratives and love-sick lyrics, their so...
BP FALLON & THE BANDITS
Blame Jack White.
"I'm not against a little darkness
I'm not against a little sin
As long as no-one gets hurt
Or lets the devil in"
-BP Fallon from I Believe In Elvis Presley (Fallon/T...
Braid was an influential emo/post-hardcore band from Illinois that formed in 1993. After forming, the band went through several line-up changes but eventually settled on: Bob Nanna on guitar/vocals, Todd Bell on bass, Ch...
Braille (Rush Hour / Hotflush)
Praveen Sharma is the founder of Percussion Lab and one half of bass music
duo Sepalcure who have just released one of the most acclaimed albums of
the year.
Following his debut singl...
Straight out of Dallas, Texas, the experimental beat scientist known as Brandon "Brain Gang" Blue started his musical voyage in 2004. Trying to follow in the footsteps of his influences: Timbaland, Missy Elliot, & The Ne...
Brandon Patton aka BL4k Lotus is a songwriter from New Haven, CT who has also toured as a bassist for MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, and Futureboy. His solo albums are known for their extreme ecclecticism, each one inha...
Brandon Wardell is a comedy wunderkind. Brandon Wardell has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and is performing at SXSW. Brandon Wardell is currently based out of Washington DC, where he is the crown jewel of t...
Brandon Wardell is a comedy wunderkind. Brandon Wardell has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and is performing at SXSW. Brandon Wardell is currently based out of Washington DC, where he is the crown jewel of t...
Brandon Wardell is a comedy wunderkind. Brandon Wardell has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and is performing at SXSW. Brandon Wardell is currently based out of Washington DC, where he is the crown jewel of t...
The Brooklyn based electronic duo, Break Science kick off 2012 with the release of their second EP entitled Monolith Code (Pretty Lights Music). As seasoned producers and touring veterans, Adam Deitch and Borahm Lee have...
Breakage aka James Boyle is never been one to be pigeonholed. Moving effortlessly through styles from drum and bass to dubstep, Breakage has proved himself to be one of the most versatile operators in either scene to dat...
It's no easy thing to carve a true niche in the current musical climate. With attention spans shorter than ever, the demand for a constant "something new" is a pressure that makes many acts crumble before they fulfill th...
Brendan Benson
Late afternoon, Miami, and Iggy Pop and I were standing watching for a manatee that occasionally swims up along the river at the end of his garden. Pop was bare-chested in cerise trousers, talking about...
Originally from Philadelphia, PA, Brendon Walsh established himself in comedy in Austin, TX. In 2004 he won the “Funniest Person In Austin” contest and that same year also appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” ...
Originally from Philadelphia, PA, Brendon Walsh established himself in comedy in Austin, TX. In 2004 he won the “Funniest Person In Austin” contest and that same year also appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” ...
Originally from Philadelphia, PA, Brendon Walsh established himself in comedy in Austin, TX. In 2004 he won the “Funniest Person In Austin” contest and that same year also appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” ...
Brooklyn by way of Chicago based DJ and producer, Brenmar, represents a strange musical paradox. Somehow defying the odds, he marries the artificial gloss of commercial R’n’B with the urban grittiness of underground ...
If what passes for country music these days gives you a headache, Brennen Leigh has the remedy.” So wrote the Austin Chronicle in a review of the talented singer-songwriter’s latest album The Box. She mixes the tradi...
Breton is about audio and audio-visual autopsy; deconstructing and re-assembling popular culture.
Borne from the squat party scene and band mastermind Roman Rappak’s formative musical experiences of post-Communist ...
Brett Netson is a name that should be familiar to anyone who grew up during and survived the alternative nation explosion of the '90s. The Boise, Idaho native has, since 1993, played guitar with the long-running rock dyn...
Brian Pounds' voice is the perfect aphrodisiac. It is effortlessly smooth, endearingly honest, and layered with a bite of soul that leaves you breathless. His ability to vividly shape words, and the intensity of his voic...
Asbury Park, New Jersey's Brick + Mortar are Brandon Asraf and John Tacon. The unconventional 2 piece fuses driving percussion, grooving bass, eclectic samples, and anthemic vocals to create a new world sound that is so ...
The Bright Light Social Hour is an American rock band from Austin, Texas. Born out of a university art-rock collective, The Bright Light Social Hour has evolved into an unabashedly wide-screen rock group, melding fists-...
The Bright Light Social Hour is an American rock band from Austin, Texas. Born out of a university art-rock collective, The Bright Light Social Hour has evolved into an unabashedly wide-screen rock group, melding fists-...
He's the guy up at night by himself, stitching songs together in his New York City apartment all winter. There's a special art to making an album in the spare seconds that the rest of a regular life can't quite reach. Re...
The newest album from Seattle’s fun-loving quintet Brite Futures is a youthfully swaggering mix of synth-happy pop, rock, funk, disco, and New Wave that the band likes to describe as “punk rock Abba disco Osmonds wit...
Bro Safari is the alter-ego of DJ and producer, Knick. He's already well-known and deeply established in the music scene as a result of his work with leading American Drum & Bass group Evol Intent. Not to mention, his wi...
Harkening back to punk rock’s glory days of the 70s, Oklahoma outfit BRONCHO captures the aggression, DIY authenticity and youthful exhilaration of a bygone era and then drags it by the hair into the Here and Now, crea...
Harkening back to punk rock’s glory days of the 70s, Oklahoma outfit BRONCHO captures the aggression, DIY authenticity and youthful exhilaration of a bygone era and then drags it by the hair into the Here and Now, crea...
There are some records that manage to span multiple eras of time and various places, in essence creating a new sonic space. New Englanders Bronze Radio Return have done just that on their sophomore album, the gorgeous an...
Brooke Van Poppelen is a NYC based comic, writer and actress. She has appeared on vh1, TLC and The TV Guide Network. She is a contributing writer for "Guy Code" on MTV2 and is currently working on another show in develop...
Brother Ali's latest album, Us, is a progression that will establish him as one of Hip Hop’s most enduring figures. While maintaining his intimate approach to songwriting, Ali has broadened his focus to examine life th...
The Brothers Comatose formed in the Morrison Living Room, birthed from the sonic gumbo of the famous Morrison Music Parties. The band consists of Ben and Alex Morrison – hairy brothers, both singing, with Ben on Guitar...
Brown Bird is better listened to in a room made of wood. Of course, it is easy to download the code and listen to the band on small computer speakers, but what is the point? You miss the warm layers of guitar, banjo, vio...
New album "Oozy" out on Nat Geo Music - April 2011
If ever a band could boast having a complex genealogical tree, that band is Brownout. The eight-piece, Latin funk ensemble based in Austin, Texas, is both offspring a...
Bruce Hughes and the All Nude Army (BHANA) is fronted by life-long Austin musician Bruce Hughes (The Resentments, Jason Mraz, Bob Schneider, The Scabs, Ugly Americans, Cracker, Poi dog Pondering) who gathered some of his...
Bruce Saunders has 4 recordings as a leader: "Forget Everything" (with Jack DeJohnette), "Likely Story" (with Peter Erskine), "Fragment" and his most recent "8x5." He has appeared on many recordings as a sideman. He was ...
Indie rock sensations, THE BRUTE CHORUS, are finally making their way to the United States!
On the verge of announcing several official SXSW showcases, the group is ready to take to the stage for their first American ...
Buckshot, born & raised in Brooklyn, NY, is the lead MC for Black Moon & Boot Camp Clik. Buckshot is also the co-owner of Duck Down Music, a 16-year old indie hip-hop label based in NYC. In the early Summer of 2012, Buck...
BUDDY - (indie, alt rock, wimpy-core). www.iamyourbuddy.com Buddy's music has been featured on TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, The Big C, Smallvile, One Tree Hill, Ghost Whisperer, and feature films . Perez Hilton fea...
Presented by: Tormenta Tropical vs. Mixpak vs. Body High
Buraka Som Sistema
(Portugal)
Back in 2006 when four buddies got together to play music at a small club in the center of Lisbon, little did they know they would end up becoming part of a very select group of intern...
Chance Morgan and Matt Mooty are Burning Hotels. Their 2011 self-titled album recorded in Fort Worth, TX at Spaceway Studios, and mixed at Blackwatch Studios in Norman, OK, shines through with a Texas flare that fuses ne...
Rockhampton’s favourite sons BUSBY MAROU are having a huge 2011. They are the first signing to Warner Music Australia’s indie imprint Footstomp Records, and released their debut self-titled album in June. Their deb...
Possessing a hyper-literate, intellectual style of rapping augmented with dizzying elocution that would tongue-tie even the fiercest auctioneer, Busdriver is eclectic and eccentric enough to cite vocalese jazz singer Jon...
Buxton, who Esquire.com recently called one of “2012 Artists to Watch,” are currently touring behind their New West Records debut album Nothing Here Seems Strange. Buxton’s fusion of lovely harmonies, jarring explo...
