SAHARA SMITH – MYTH OF THE HEART
Sahara Smith is a natural. Or as the Austin Chronicle observes, “She's the real deal all
right.”
Don’t take our word for it. Listen to her debut album on Playing in Tr...
In the five years since Said The Whale formed, the band's hook-heavy, pop-rock sound has propelled them to successes that include a nationally televised documentary, a JUNO Award victory, and a seemingly endless series o...
In the five years since Said The Whale formed, the band's hook-heavy, pop-rock sound has propelled them to successes that include a nationally televised documentary, a JUNO Award victory, and a seemingly endless series o...
Austin TX psychedelic garage rockers THE SAINT JAMES SOCIETY play electric rock music that brilliantly connects the dots between the late ‘60s British blues-based bands and the brooding atmospheres of early ‘80s post...
With sophisticated savvy and singularity, the Los Angeles quartet Saint Motel has built a formidable reputation on the back of inventive indie pop and wildly fun live shows. Mixing blistering pep with unique flair and ro...
With sophisticated savvy and singularity, the Los Angeles quartet Saint Motel has built a formidable reputation on the back of inventive indie pop and wildly fun live shows. Mixing blistering pep with unique flair and ro...
With sophisticated savvy and singularity, the Los Angeles quartet Saint Motel has built a formidable reputation on the back of inventive indie pop and wildly fun live shows. Mixing blistering pep with unique flair and ro...
In his Grammy acceptance speech for Best Rock Performance, Dave Grohl rallied musicians around the world with a battle cry for bringing back the human element to music. As if answering that call, Saints of Valory has b...
24-year-old Saito Johnny, currently of Tokyo, Japan, is swiftly gaining international popularity for his uniquely Japanese blend of bluegrass, country, rock and pop. In 2011 he was hand-selected by Taylor Swift to open ...
If a Beatle was left in the desert at age 3 and raised in El Paso - you might have Salim Nourallah...Nourallah is a North Texas music scene fixture. After gaining initial acclaim with the Denton-based Nourallah Brothers ...
Salt to Bitters
From lilt to lurch, from swagger to stagger, Salt To Bitters crashes its way across a bittersweet soundscape in fits and starts, tempering depravity with a tunefulness that could only have been born in t...
Paul Salva is quickly becoming one of electronic music's most exciting and diverse figureheads. After his rave-reviewed 'Complex Housing' LP on Friends of Friends in early 2011, he went on to remix artists such as Shloh...
Presented by: Tormenta Tropical vs. Mixpak vs. Body High
Samo Sound Boy is a Los Angeles based producer and DJ whose powerful
live sets, and original productions have brought him to the forefront
of today's forward-minded club scene. Having earned his chops DJing at
Fugees ...
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Hickman’s reputation in the Lone Star State is well
established – she holds the prestigious designation of being
a former Texas State Musician – but with this sumptuous
collection, she’s indelibly etc...
Sarah Jaffe – Suburban Nature
If there is one thing that Sarah Jaffe will never have to contend with it is the idea that she is a female singer for females. There was once a time that being a female singer meant yo...
Sarah Siskind has been called "the best female singer/songwriter in America today" (Steve Binder, legendary TV director/producer) and “an artist you must hear now” by Spin Magazine. She has toured with Bon Iver (he h...
Presented by: Hip Hop Hope Unity Conference and City Takers Weekend
Part rapper/part singer songwriter, SaulPaul is an artist who entertains while blending his voice, his guitar and his loop pedal to create a live show that's nothing less than an EXPERIENCE.
SaulPaul uses a digital lo...
Live music in the purest and most powerful sense of the word. A melting pot of songs with special Nairobi spice, that never fails to bring fans to their feet. Sauti Sol are a magnetic, magical experience to behold.
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Live music in the purest and most powerful sense of the word. A melting pot of songs with special Nairobi spice, that never fails to bring fans to their feet. Sauti Sol are a magnetic, magical experience to behold.
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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...
If you're not familiar with the back-story of Savoir Adore, what began as a 48-hour challenge between two best friends blossomed into one of Brooklyn's most exciting and unique young bands.
With an experimental approa...
If you're not familiar with the back-story of Savoir Adore, what began as a 48-hour challenge between two best friends blossomed into one of Brooklyn's most exciting and unique young bands.
With an experimental approa...
SAVOY is a live electronic music hybrid. Consisting of DJs Ben Eberdt, Gray Smith and drummer Mike Kelly; the SAVOY experience can be described as a high energy dance party and laser spectacular that has been referre...
Say Anything has been making odd, unclassifiable indie rock music since they were 14 or 15 years old, playing strangely literate and loud rock, characterized by what one might imagine if Larry David fronted a Fugazi cove...
Say Anything has been making odd, unclassifiable indie rock music since they were 14 or 15 years old, playing strangely literate and loud rock, characterized by what one might imagine if Larry David fronted a Fugazi cove...
For Scattered Trees, Sympathy is a labor of love that almost didn't happen. The band grew up together in the outskirts of Chicago, playing music together in various groups over the years. They became a family in more way...
Schaffer the Darklord (or STD) is a New York City-based rapper and comedian with material best-suited for brainy and/or drug-addled audiences. With manic energy, verbose vocabulary and cartoonishly commanding stage prese...
Schmillion formed in the summer of 2009. Back then we were 13-15 years old. But most of us drive now and Natalie has advanced to higher ed. Our sound is built on crunchy guitar riffs and belting vocals. We all have diffe...
With her vibrant voice and honest songwriting, Schuyler Fisk (SKY-ler) draws legions of fans to her music, both onstage and online, where she enjoys an active grassroots following. Her anticipated debut album THE G...
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EST. 2004 Scooter Brown started out as an acoustic duo after lead singer Scott Brown returned home from serving 4 years in the United States Marine Corps and 1 tour of combat in Iraq.
Scooter Brown as they are known...
Scorpio Rising is an electro/dance/rock band from Austin, Texas, whose recordings and intense live performances have made them one of Austin’s premiere entertainment commodities. Hailed as one of Austin’s best Goth/I...
Scorpion Child
These guys hail from the past and have been put in our time to save ROCK! They are true and honest creating insane inventions of modern music with all the right materials. Big drums, thunder heavy riff...
“For some it seems a mistake, for me it's a way of life.”
It’s a lyric from Aussie-born New Yorker, Scott Matthew’s new album, which also tells the story of Matthews’ own journey. In a nutshell, it’s a lif...
Scoundrels are the first UK signing by legendary A&R man Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer (original partners in Sire Records) to the recently revived, classic UK Blues label Blue Horizon (first home to Fleetwood Mac, ...
The Scoundrels are Bianca Bananas (vocals), Steve DeZarn (guitar), Antonio Mojica (bass), Luis Mendez (drums), and the newest member, Brandon DuVall (trumpet/ keyboard). They are a pure rock n’ roll band out of the fa...
Screaming Females' seven years as a band, four full-length albums and 700 globe-spanning live shows has made them difficult to miss. Through it all, the New Brunswick, New Jersey trio have continued to exude a frenetic e...
Who are the Scruffs?
Legendary band, The Scruffs, originally hailed from Memphis, Tennessee and became Southern pioneers of the “power pop” musical movement. Founded by lead songwriter, singer and guitarist Steph...
Last we heard of Sean Bones he was riding a triple wave with RINGS, his oddball reggae debut, an acclaimed feature film Wah Do Dem and still shipping orders of swim trunks for his S/S Friends line. The three projects wer...
Sean Smith is a guitarist and composer from San Francisco. He currently leads a power trio playing over the top avant instrumental rock. Prog, doom and Krautrock are evenly fused. Live performances are jaw dropping......
The music of Seapony is refreshing in its simplicity. Most songs on Go With Me use no more than three chords, with an average running time around two-and-a-half minutes. In lieu of a human drummer, the Seattle trio entru...
Secret Colours released their eponymous debut in the summer of 2010 with high praise from IFC, Nylon, The Deli, as well as countless blogs and alternative newsweeklies with acute tastes, a Pitchfork video premiere, and f...
“The bulk of the last decade brought Baltimore’s hyper-color acts—the dance epics of Dan Deacon and the guitar spirals of Ecstatic Sunshine and Ponytail, or even the expatriate pop exuberance of Animal Collective...
The duo met in Brooklyn drawn together out of desperation to make music outside the indie band mediocrity. Secret Music began when Chase demoed an early version of “Top Drop” to Daniel with nothing but a raw Casio k...
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...
The Seedy Seeds don’t know you, but they already
like you. With a completely original sound and presentation, including banjo, accordion and toy keyboard beats, The Seedy Seeds create melodic, danceable music that is ...
Self Scientific is DJ Khalil & Chace Infinite.
"Trials Of The Blackhearted" is the latest EP project from the critically acclaimed duo, Self Scientific. "Trials Of The Blackhearted" captures the societal angst and c...
Sepalcure’s combination of love for bass and 90s house acapellas is the culmination of a cathartic two week collaboration between Travis Stewart (Machinedrum) and Praveen Sharma (Praveen & Benoît). Their mix of tribal...
Set Your Goals is an American punk rock band from Walnut Creek, CA (an affluent town in the East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Area), formed in 2004. Their musical style typically employs a combination of pop punk an...
I met Sherman when he wasn’t much more than a charming, but intimidating borderline music bully that rode my bus in high school and taunted me for wearing a Muddy Waters t-shirt that first and fateful week of 9th grade...
With the mighty new From Africa With Fury: Rise, Seun Anikulapo Kuti returns with his hybrid of Afrobeat touchstones and contemporary cues. As with his previous efforts, Seun heads up Egypt 80, the extraordinary combo fi...
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; ...
Being the younger brother of Lord Digga, one of hip hop's notable producers, Brooklyn bred emcee Sha Stimuli's spent most of his youth in the mix amongst hip hop legends like Master Ace, members of the Juice Crew, and Bi...
Shakey Graves is being hailed as the best damn one man show in Austin. His set involves a hand made suitcase kick drum and feverish finger picking which follows in the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Leo Kottke and Michae...
If you believe that music is humankind’s universal gift to itself and that it has been passed on over thousands of years from generation to generation in all of its various mind expanding shapes and that it is holy and...
Born in Canada and raised in both the Bahamas and L.A., Shane Eli is a producer, rapper, songwriter, music instructor and modern day renaissance man. After graduating college on a football scholarship, Eli decided to dev...
As the Pop Fusion Gypsy of Lil Wayne’s eclectic label crew of winning artists Young Money, Universal/Young Money songstress Shanell aka SnL is far from the average vocalist. The Atlanta-based singer/songwriter who‟s ...
Presented by: The GRAMMY Museum's Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute
"Shannon McNally is one of the more interesting singer songwriters to emerge in first decade of the 21st century." Stereophile
Shannon McNally in the crux of a prolific phase. In 2010 she released the highly accl...
"Shannon McNally is one of the more interesting singer songwriters to emerge in first decade of the 21st century." Stereophile
Shannon McNally in the crux of a prolific phase. In 2010 she released the highly accl...
Sharon Van Etten came to Brooklyn via Jersey via Tennessee via Jersey. Along the way, she sang in choirs, rejected her school’s music program, worked at an all-ages venue, trained as a sommelier, and got a full time jo...
Sharon Van Etten came to Brooklyn via Jersey via Tennessee via Jersey. Along the way, she sang in choirs, rejected her school’s music program, worked at an all-ages venue, trained as a sommelier, and got a full time jo...
“Every rapper that’s actually good at what he does is an intellectual,” says a laid back Shawn Chrystopher from his hotel room in NYC’s Times Square. “Wayne is an intellectual, Jay of course is a intellectual, ...
It’s been suggested—by fans, detractors, even by the band’s founder—that Shearwater and whatever we call underground/indie/whatever-rock in this part of the century are not an obvious fit. And that’s true. So m...
It’s been suggested—by fans, detractors, even by the band’s founder—that Shearwater and whatever we call underground/indie/whatever-rock in this part of the century are not an obvious fit. And that’s true. So m...
“It’s an isolated city,” begins Ewan Currie, vocalist and guitarist for Saskatoon, SK-based rock and roll outfit The Sheepdogs about how their home base in the Canadian prairies shaped his band’s sound. “It rea...
“It’s an isolated city,” begins Ewan Currie, vocalist and guitarist for Saskatoon, SK-based rock and roll outfit The Sheepdogs about how their home base in the Canadian prairies shaped his band’s sound. “It rea...
Artists take on pseudonyms for a multitude of reasons, but in Zach Saginaw’s case, those reasons run deeper than most. Zach records under the name Shigeto. It’s his middle name; it’s also his grandfather’s name, ...
Artists take on pseudonyms for a multitude of reasons, but in Zach Saginaw’s case, those reasons run deeper than most. Zach records under the name Shigeto. It’s his middle name; it’s also his grandfather’s name, ...
Shimmering Stars is a three-piece dream pop act from Vancouver, BC, Canada. The music embodies an attempt at drawing out and illuminating the subtle darkness inherent in the seemingly wholesome, innocent music of the 195...
”A Study in Coordinated Whiplash” wrote The New York Times October 2008, after one of SHINING’s pounding concerts in Manhattan. Norway's NRK Lydverket were equally impressed with SHINING after their performance in ...
Shinobi Ninja is a Brooklyn-based party rock circus with an explosive live show. The band's music mashes up the sounds of 311, The Beastie Boys, Sublime, and Rage Against the Machine. This year, Shinobi has completed t...
Shinobi Ninja is a Brooklyn-based party rock circus with an explosive live show. The band's music mashes up the sounds of 311, The Beastie Boys, Sublime, and Rage Against the Machine. This year, Shinobi has completed t...
Shiny Toy Guns is an alternative/electronic band which formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The band consists of Carah Faye Charnow (vocals), Chad Petree (vocals, guitar), Jeremy Dawson (synth, bass)...
Shiny Toy Guns is an alternative/electronic band which formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The band consists of Carah Faye Charnow (vocals), Chad Petree (vocals, guitar), Jeremy Dawson (synth, bass)...
Presented by: Davis McLarty Agency/Nine Mile Records
I present to you,Shinyribs, the living embodiment of the tension between two opposing truths, The Father Of Secular Gospel, A walking talking Conflicted Juxtaposition, The Laziest Man In Show Buisness, Mr. Cold Fusion, T...
"I am beginning to believe the deals our forefathers made with the Devil not that long ago sealed our fate as well as theirs. How many generations will the Calling seduce and intoxicate? Did any of us have a choice? The ...
Spanish Moss And Total Loss, Shout Out Out Out Out's third full length album since forming in 2004, is their most melodic, textured, and interesting record to date. The new album shows Shout Out Out Out Out growing as so...
Spanish Moss And Total Loss, Shout Out Out Out Out's third full length album since forming in 2004, is their most melodic, textured, and interesting record to date. The new album shows Shout Out Out Out Out growing as so...
With Shuga it’s all in that name: saccharine and brutalized. They are essentially sweet; a simple, stripped-down, loved-up rock n roll combo, but like their spelling, they’re also fucked up. A rowdy London three-piec...
There is an elusive sweet spot at the crossroads where soul music, country, and rock’n’roll intersect, and the Austin, TX-based band Shurman hits that bulls-eye dead on. The band has gained a reputation as a “must ...
Sick of Sarah
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“The women who make up this Minnesota quartet bow at the altar of riot grrls’ days gone by while simultaneously thumbing their noses at scowling chick-rock clichés. The songs are as bracing a...
The Sidekicks have been a band since the members were 15, quite literally learning how to play their instruments by playing together. The result has been a musical and personal relationship that has inevitably transforme...
Born in the mountain enclave of Missoula, MT, Denver based Signal Path bends musical genres and deep melodic ideas around a core of unrelenting rhythm and massive low-end. They create a depth and intricacy of sound that ...
In 2006 a loose collection of musicians began to evolve into a quartet of performers who turn heads for their wild live performance, genre-bending sound, and unique aesthetic. In 2008, the group recorded their eponymous ...
Silent Diane is a electronic duo forged out of Christine Aprile and Malcolm Elijah's angular and warped pop sensibilities. The group uses analog synthesizers, electro acoustic elements, moody movements, pulsing drum mach...
Silver Swans take their name from the group of super-villains in the Wonder Woman comic book series. The evil Swans have the ability to create a powerful “swan song” of sound waves using their voices that is capable ...
Silverbus was formed in 2008. The band released their first EP "Today" in 2009, and they were invited as the opening/support band for Kings of Convenience Taipei concert in April 2010.
After releasing their first full...
Restless and passionate but with an unflinching realism at his core, Sims has seen enough of life to know there are no easy answers. His second full-length release, Bad Time Zoo, out February 15th on Doomtree Records, re...
Presented by: Tormenta Tropical vs. Mixpak vs. Body High
Straddling a bass heavy club sound that also encompasses leftfield rock music and global beats, Sinden is renowned for his genre-blending DJ sets, cracklin’ hot radio show, his banging remixes, a hugely successful proj...
Straddling a bass heavy club sound that also encompasses leftfield rock music and global beats, Sinden is renowned for his genre-blending DJ sets, cracklin’ hot radio show, his banging remixes, a hugely successful proj...
Siôn Russell Jones is a singer/songwriter from Cardiff, Wales. He has a unique and infectious vocal backed up by intricate guitar melodies and cracking choruses. In October 2010, Siôn released his debut album 'And Sudd...
SIRsir AKA Lucas Silveira is a Sao Paulo-based producer doing all kinds of distorted, glitchy, psychedelic, phat-bass-driven electronic danceable music. While not sticking to any styles, SIRsir agressively transits betwe...
The Sister Ruby Band is the psych-rock project of 22 year old Los Angeles based Johnny Ruby. After last year’s self-recorded EP “A Shot In The Dark”, The Sister Ruby Band is set to release their full-length debut a...
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds is a nine-piece powerhouse that puts a modern spin on classic soul. The band is led by Arleigh Kincheloe (Sister Sparrow), whose astoundingly powerful voice and sly demeanor make for a sp...
SISU (pronounced “see-soo”) is from Los Angeles, California, and upcoming full-length Blood Tears is their first proper collection of songs. Led by Sandra Vu, the quartet is completed by Ryan Wood, Nathanael Keefer, ...
Sixteen Deluxe are a psychedelic noise-pop band from Austin, Texas, best known for their energetic, deafening live performances and lysergic studio creations. Formed in April 1994, they began playing live shows in June o...
Do you and work hard,” says a laid back Skeme over lunch at a health food café in an affluent area of Los Angeles. “That’s the best advice I got from my big bro about the business and that’s what I do.” Spea...
Do you and work hard,” says a laid back Skeme over lunch at a health food café in an affluent area of Los Angeles. “That’s the best advice I got from my big bro about the business and that’s what I do.” Spea...
According to hip hop artist Skewby’s confidently titled 2009 mixtape, he’s been “Proving You Wrong Since 1988.” Reigning as a rapper/producer from Memphis, Tennessee, his first major move was to ignore the trend ...
The Skies Revolt is a quirky blend of indie music, catchy electronics, and aggressive blasts of sounds. This along with an energetic live show that has earned them a strong, growing following, and positive reviews.
T...
What exactly is it about Skindred that makes them so unique, so unto themselves both musically and spiritually? Is it their origins on the mean streets of Newport, Wales? Is it their dancehall roots? Is it their punk, DI...
Skinny Lister are not your average, modern day, gentrified English folk group. Fronted by Dan Heptinstall and Lorna Thomas; a vocalist with a lusty cackle and flirtatious presence, the London based five-piece hail from ...
Skream and Benga, the creators of Dubstep, pioneered this genre of music and have been working on it over the course of the past ten years. The two have focused on their solo careers, but also have collaborated together ...
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’90′s industrial kingpins, Skrew, have stripped off their exoskeleton to reveal an unholy bastion of extreme metal for an Antichrist nation. This angry metal machine is back with more psalms of destruction in a world...
It takes great vision for a band to refuse to rest on their previous successes and instead focus on what they need to become. That’s exactly what Lodi, California’s A Skylit Drive achieved with the sextet’s third f...
Growing up just a block away from The Notorious B.I.G., watching him go from local kid to rap superstar, “Skyzoo” couldn't help but dream big.
He started making mixtapes in 2002, and in 2005, through a mutual fri...
Growing up just a block away from The Notorious B.I.G., watching him go from local kid to rap superstar, “Skyzoo” couldn't help but dream big.
He started making mixtapes in 2002, and in 2005, through a mutual fri...
All too often when people think of Little Rock, Arkansas, the first thing that comes to mind is HBO’s award-winning 1994 documentary Gang War: Bangin’ in Little Rock. Not any more. With the Rock on his back and a Raz...
NY-based band Slam Donahue has debuted two brand new tracks 'It's Scary' and 'No More Talking' off their forthcoming 'Big House Nice Dreams' Mixtape (out March 28) as they make their way down to SXSW. Led by singer/guita...
In the summer of 2009, a group of five Victoria-based friends set out to form a band that would incorporate everything they adored in a classic pop hook, but invoked with something more cathartic, brash and chaotic. That...
Sleep ∞ Over was formed in early 2010 in Austin TX. With a few rough demos recorded live on a handheld tape recorder, the band (consisting at the time of Stefanie Franciotti and former members Christa Palazzolo and Sar...
Florida as of late, has churned out dozens of young bands trying to gain recognition, but none have broken out quite as well as Orlando's Sleeping with Sirens. Influenced by metal bands like Drop Dead Gorgeous and rock b...
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...
Sleepy Sun- Spine Hits- Biography 2012 by Charles Saufley
The band of brothers known far and wide as Sleepy Sun don’t sit still for long. Though they remain real and spiritual citizens of the Northern California hiv...
Sleepy Sun- Spine Hits- Biography 2012 by Charles Saufley
The band of brothers known far and wide as Sleepy Sun don’t sit still for long. Though they remain real and spiritual citizens of the Northern California hiv...
Sleepy Vikings have braved an infernal Florida sun to write the songs about stalkers, dead kings, summer, presidents and teenage loitering that make up the debut, They Will Find You Here.
The album, filled with dream...
SLOW CLUB
Paradise
Like all good clichés, there's more than a seed of truth to be found in the saying: “a band has a lifetime to make their first record”. So what happens when that band comprises of just two of ...
SLOW CLUB
Paradise
Like all good clichés, there's more than a seed of truth to be found in the saying: “a band has a lifetime to make their first record”. So what happens when that band comprises of just two of ...
Slowdance began as a band of friends who wanted to create the music they wanted to hear. Starting in 2009 with Thomas Quigley playing bass guitar, Luke Fox playing keyboards, Kyle McKeveny on guitar, and Quay Quinn-Sette...
Some bands form as an epiphany. A few musicians come together and suddenly, POW!!!, they're a band. Most good bands, though, are formed over time - shaped by the wind and the rain and, in Texas at least, the glaring su...
SLUGABED – BIOGRAPHY 2012
Blending influences both classic and contemporary, from the outermost reaches of dubstep, hip hop and beyond, Slugabed has received unanimous praise for his first Ninja Tune releases since ...
Slugbug is the tape name of Texas person Paul D. Millar. He has been making tapes since he was a tiny horrible man. Now a regular sized horrible man, he aims to amuse/horrify audiences with his manic New Wave influenced ...
Slum Village is a hip hop group from Conant Gardens, Detroit, Michigan.
The group was formed by three members: rappers Baatin (deceased, 31 July 2009) and T3, plus rapper and producer J Dilla (deceased, 10 February 2006...
Smif N Wessun are the legendary rap duo from Brooklyn, NY, who forever changed the name of the iconic borough from BK to Bucktown. In 2011, Smif N Wessun released a group project entitled, 'Monumental,' entirely produced...
Smoke and Feathers began in Austin, TX with the meeting of Hunter Cahalan and Josh Terry in late 2007, both possessing unique singing and guitar techniques. Josh's heavy southern stylings and Hunter's eery psychedelic pu...
Hip Hop is just a hobby for some but for Smoke DZA, it is a way of life
Born and raised in Harlem, NY, DZA (real name Sean Pompey) was raised surrounded by music, though it wasn’t necessarily hip hop, “My fir...
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, ...
Who are your top 10 female rappers? If you can even name 10 you’d put in a list of favorites, then you’ve got a great ear, and a great memory. Fact is, today’s Hip Hop ‘femcee’ movement is all but lost in a wor...
Who are your top 10 female rappers? If you can even name 10 you’d put in a list of favorites, then you’ve got a great ear, and a great memory. Fact is, today’s Hip Hop ‘femcee’ movement is all but lost in a wor...
Snowden, the music namesake of Jordan Jeffares, began in 2003 in Atlanta GA. Building on the release of an early EP through Stickfigure Recordings, the band came up in the same scene and on the same local label that spaw...
The Brooklyn five-piece embraces an indie pop sound rich with echo pedals, tribal beats, electro-acoustic soundscapes and classical orchestrations. The band is fronted by new-classical composer Grayson Sanders, whose voc...
Los Angeles based indie pop/folk/soul band, SO & SO, is anything but ordinary.
When singer/songwriter, Amie Miriello, acoustic guitarist, Jay Dmuchowski, and Canadian producer, Rob Wells meant to put a songwriting tea...
Soccer Team is comprised of Ryan Nelson & Melissa Quinley, friends who met years ago when working together at Dischord Records in Washington, DC. Slowly discovering numerous shared tastes in music, art and popular cultur...
Sofia Talvik is the next rising star from the Sweden. She’s emerged like a Lady of the forest bringing a new interesting side to folk music. Where other artists surrender to the mainstream, Sofia makes her own pa...
Soft Metals is a multi-disciplinary electronic duo from Portland, Oregon now residing in Los Angeles, California. Its members Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall were brought together through a common love of 1970s and 80s synt...
Soft Metals is a multi-disciplinary electronic duo from Portland, Oregon now residing in Los Angeles, California. Its members Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall were brought together through a common love of 1970s and 80s synt...
Sharp and sensible, new musical duo Soft Swells nails the canny pop sensibility of today’s indie landscape on their forthcoming self-titled ‘Soft Swells’ LP making full use of an arsenal of sounds, including stutte...
San Francisco’s The Soft White Sixties are a hard-driving, original Rock & Roll band that delivers R&B grooves and pop hooks with the transformative power of raw Soul.
They have been described as "a perfect mix of o...
In 2001 Sol formed the band called Los Cocineros, which she recorded 7 albums. She is a composer and multi-instrumentalist (trumpet, guitar, Venezuelan cuatro, ukulele, percussion, and vocals). In 2008 she became a mem...
Solander is a Swedish inventive trio making pop music with a folky touch and a playful approach. With the starting point in the Malmö underground scene, Solander emerged with its debut album “Since We Are Pigeons” i...
The Soldier Thread is an indie pop-rock quintet hailing from Austin, Texas. Having been only patched together since late 2007, the ensemble has already undergone quite an alteration in style. Todd Abels (guitar, keyboard...
The Soldier Thread is an indie pop-rock quintet hailing from Austin, Texas. Having been only patched together since late 2007, the ensemble has already undergone quite an alteration in style. Todd Abels (guitar, keyboard...
The Soldier Thread is an indie pop-rock quintet hailing from Austin, Texas. Having been only patched together since late 2007, the ensemble has already undergone quite an alteration in style. Todd Abels (guitar, keyboard...
Sole, aka Tim Holland, put out his first vinyl at age 16.Since then he has been at the forefront of independent rap. In '98 he launched the label anticon and helped spearhead a genre of alternative hip-hop. Sole’s fi...
Formed in 2009 the Brazilian indie-punk quintet, Some Community, who once called itself a girl group now finds itself with a much stronger lineup. Although the three original ladies, Veronica Vacaro (Keys), Juliana Vacar...
Something Fierce is a three-piece punk/pop band from Houston, Texas whose music combines the sound and attitude of first-wave 1977 punk with an energy and outlook that's thoroughly contemporary, updating the attack of th...
Producer, DJ, vocalist and multi instrumentalist Son Of Kick is making waves with his bumping, super-charged live set. A bass-feast packed full of electro, dubstep, heavy grooves and the insanely unpredictable. Catch h...
SONIC AVENUES are just four Montreal kids who started riffing punk tunes in 2006, but since getting swept up in the booming punk epicentre of neighbouring Ottawa, they've been catapulted into the ranks of the best pop-pu...
Sonido San Francisco is a mix of opposites, the sound of a small latin town invading the big city, the guacharaca and the güiro sharing frequencies with the synthesizer, the electricity of the bass following the precise...
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...
Sons of Bill is a five-piece rock band from Charlottesville, Virginia featuring brothers James, Sam and Abe Wilson, as well as Seth Green and Todd Wellons. In 2011, the band joined forces with fellow Virginian David Lowe...
Trends and styles may change in music, but there are just some things that are timeless…like songwriting from the heart with ear-catching melodies and rich harmony vocals. The team of David Beck (a stage name as his re...
This “experimental” hip hop group brings forth a fresh wave of music for your ears. Dallas, Texas made, Sore Losers are a breath of fresh air to the music and entertainment industry. Composed of 6 members, Vince “...
Soul Khan is a Brooklyn-based emcee from the underground hip hop group Brown Bag Allstars. His first album in November 2010, Soul Like Khan, was downloaded over 50,000 times, charted on CMJ charts, and garnered a ground...
Soul Khan is a Brooklyn-based emcee from the underground hip hop group Brown Bag Allstars. His first album in November 2010, Soul Like Khan, was downloaded over 50,000 times, charted on CMJ charts, and garnered a ground...
Today Orgasmic and Teki Latex, the two public faces of the label, unite to form the SOUND PELLEGRINO THERMAL TEAM and they are ready to take that movement to a club near you. Even though their teaming up behind the turnt...
Sound Remedy....Hailing from Chicago Sound Remedy is business student turned producer. After growing up in a family of classically trained musicians i have always aspired to find my place in music, while bringing a new a...
((SOUNDER)) is the music project of Mike Aho, who splits his time as a
musician, visual artist and video director. In recent years Aho has
directed videos for Mando Diao, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and RTX in
addition...
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With their sophomore release, Where My Communist Heart Meets My Capitalist Mind, Sounds Under Radio continues to build upon the foundational musical truths that they established through their first full length rele...
"Never short on hooks or ambition, The Sour Notes play brittle pop for star-crossed post-grads. Frontman Jared Boulanger knows a good deal about transitional periods, having led several versions of the band. On rising ti...
In the year of 2011 five friends gathered out of mutual admiration to play music and get back to the basics of having fun dubbing themselves The South Austin Moonlighters. All stemming from successful Austin Texas bands...
NPR – World Cafe: Next: “a historical yet entirely contemporary work.”
All Music: ★★★★ “Canary is a true find from a band that’s quietly created one of the most powerful albums of the year.”
Pas...
Naeem Juwan AKA Spank Rock comes from the wall-sweating, pipe-bursting, hip-grinding basements of the Baltimore Bass movement. After spending some time at Drexel University in Philly he linked up with the Diplo-powered ...
Naeem Juwan AKA Spank Rock comes from the wall-sweating, pipe-bursting, hip-grinding basements of the Baltimore Bass movement. After spending some time at Drexel University in Philly he linked up with the Diplo-powered ...
Naeem Juwan AKA Spank Rock comes from the wall-sweating, pipe-bursting, hip-grinding basements of the Baltimore Bass movement. After spending some time at Drexel University in Philly he linked up with the Diplo-powered ...
Always striving for original, innovative melodies SPEAK garnered noteworthy attention with their 2010 debut EP, Hear Here and received overwhelming industry praise. Austin Chronicle asserted they are “poised to change ...
Inspired by the music he grew up listening to as a child, from the Rolling Stones (the only CD's his mum ever has in her car) to The Style Council, Elvis Costello and The Ronettes, it's all "just about love really".
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Inspired by the music he grew up listening to as a child, from the Rolling Stones (the only CD's his mum ever has in her car) to The Style Council, Elvis Costello and The Ronettes, it's all "just about love really".
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Cory Dennis, Todd Harris, and Aaron Miller's first glimpse of success came in high school with The El Guapos, an indie-rock outfit that disbanded after three years of packed Austin venues, a capacity performance at the 2...
Just like the next season of Mad Men, some things need a bit of time to stew. Such is the case for the upcoming album from The Spinto Band, titled Shy Pursuit. Forged in their Delaware studio, the latest release from the...
“Sounds like King Crimson jamming to tracks from Physical Grafitti” - Classic Rock Magazine
“A three-note riff heavy enough to raze skyscrapers, to level cities, nay, to crack the earth” - The Line of Best Fit
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Combining years of experience with a fresh enthusiasm in a way that very few artists can, SPL aka Sam Pool turns audio expectations on their heads with his dynamic take on electronic music, producing a party sound inform...
Spoek Mathambo is the stage name of South African musician (Singer-Rapper-Producer-DJ), Nthato Mokgata. At the vanguard of a new wave of African artists, Spoek is hitting the world hard with his take on Afro-futurism. Hi...
Spoek Mathambo is the stage name of South African musician (Singer-Rapper-Producer-DJ), Nthato Mokgata. At the vanguard of a new wave of African artists, Spoek is hitting the world hard with his take on Afro-futurism. Hi...
Three former UT football defensive standouts (who allowed a league low of 899 rushing yards and 1396 yards in the air) form the three headed monster that is Spray Paint. They have been filling auditoriums all over the wo...
The Spring Standards are an energetic force of three-part harmony circling over a rock n' roll sound with an old country aftertaste. From small towns to big cities, they explode on stage with spirit, spontaneity, and a s...
Sometimes you have to look in the most unlikely of places to strike gold. As long as the ground you step on is rich and carefully maintained over the years then there’s a better chance you’re walking on foundations t...
It all started with singer and guitarist Roy Duffy playing solo acoustic sets around Dublin in 2009. After some local support slots and a two week tour with Hands Up Who Wants To Die in Eastern Europe where Roy played ...
St. Lucia is what happens when the long and bleak winters of New York recede and summer emerges; giving birth to memories of childhood holidays, faded photos of exotic places and the dream of recapturing this. Inspired b...
Born amongst the steel mills of Massillon, Ohio, Kyle Myricks earned his nickname, Stallion, because of the grit and
determination that characterized his youthful athleticism. Later, Stallion was shortened to Stalley, a...
Born amongst the steel mills of Massillon, Ohio, Kyle Myricks earned his nickname, Stallion, because of the grit and
determination that characterized his youthful athleticism. Later, Stallion was shortened to Stalley, a...
Standells Biography
“Best known for their hit ‘Dirty Water’, The Standells released a string of snotty, aggressive garage singles in the mid to late 1960s which are now rightly regarded as proto-punk classics. ‘...
Meet The Stanfields, a maelstrom of rock ‘n’ roll, Celtic and bluegrass. Hailing from the gritty post-industrial towns of Nova Scotia, Canada, The Stanfields play every show like it’s their collective last night on...
Meet The Stanfields, a maelstrom of rock ‘n’ roll, Celtic and bluegrass. Hailing from the gritty post-industrial towns of Nova Scotia, Canada, The Stanfields play every show like it’s their collective last night on...
In lieu of cold statistics, nationwide bamboozlement and the usual mind numbing malaise, Sean Yseult (White Zombie), vocalist Von Hesseling, guitarist Donna She Wolf (Cycle Sluts From Hell), guitarist Dave Catching (Eag...
It was a dark night, like many before it in Memphis, Tennessee. Joshua Andrew Cosby walked home from rehearsal with his guitar, case-less, slung over his back. A local homeless man flagged him down, not for money but for...
PJ Geissinger aka Starkey is blessed with musical arrangement skills that would leave most composers green faced with envy. This combined with his high production ethic makes him a formidable force not only in the underg...
Starting Six
Biography
When East Bay California friends Bread, Nic Nac, Riggz, Fess, Goose and Big Steve decided to make a video for their “Thirsty” song back in 2009, they were doing it simply for fun. Recording...
Starting Six
Biography
When East Bay California friends Bread, Nic Nac, Riggz, Fess, Goose and Big Steve decided to make a video for their “Thirsty” song back in 2009, they were doing it simply for fun. Recording...
Since they formed in 2009, Westfield, New Jersey’s the Static Jacks (lead vocalist Ian Devaney, guitarists Henry Kaye and Michael Sue-Poi, and drummer Nick Brennan) have earnestly burned their own path through indie ro...
Since they formed in 2009, Westfield, New Jersey’s the Static Jacks (lead vocalist Ian Devaney, guitarists Henry Kaye and Michael Sue-Poi, and drummer Nick Brennan) have earnestly burned their own path through indie ro...
DJ on Eminem's Shade 45, JAMN 94.5 (Boston), In Video Games - Grand Theft Auto IV & Midnight Club, Tour DJ for Q-Tip, Nas & many more...Producer for Eminem, Jadakiss, Bun B, Nas, Styles P, Saigon, Freeway, Freddie Gibbs,...
DJ on Eminem's Shade 45, JAMN 94.5 (Boston), In Video Games - Grand Theft Auto IV & Midnight Club, Tour DJ for Q-Tip, Nas & many more...Producer for Eminem, Jadakiss, Bun B, Nas, Styles P, Saigon, Freeway, Freddie Gibbs,...
DJ on Eminem's Shade 45, JAMN 94.5 (Boston), In Video Games - Grand Theft Auto IV & Midnight Club, Tour DJ for Q-Tip, Nas & many more...Producer for Eminem, Jadakiss, Bun B, Nas, Styles P, Saigon, Freeway, Freddie Gibbs,...
The Staves are English sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor, whose unique vocal harmonies and haunting melodies have already seen them tipped for success by The Guardian, iTunes, Time Out, and The Independe...
Nashville, Tennessee is a nexus – a point where tradition and innovation intersect, where commerce collides with art. It may be the only town around where salaried songwriters and full-time session musicians are as co...
The Stepkids are futuristic electro soul recorded on a reel-to-reel; soaring harmonies sung by three singer/songwriters; Kandinsky-esque visuals that make for enigmatic live performances.
"A lot of what excites us abo...
The Stepkids are futuristic electro soul recorded on a reel-to-reel; soaring harmonies sung by three singer/songwriters; Kandinsky-esque visuals that make for enigmatic live performances.
"A lot of what excites us abo...
Founded deep in the heart of Austin, TX, STEREO IS A LIE came to life when Glynn Wedgewood (vocals/guitar, ex-IV Thieves) relocated from his native England, and recruited Texans Justin Scott (keyboards), and Danny Staple...
The Steve Adamyk Band are a bunch of obnoxious, rowdy, "kids" from Ottawa, Ontario. While the name would automatically draw comparison to a blues, jazz or rock band given the layout, make no mistake; the Steve Adamyk Ban...
To suggest that Steve Poltz isn’t normal is about as safe a statement as one could make. You would basically require the powers of the Hubble space telescope to locate Steve Poltz from any region of normalcy.
For musi...
R&B singer-songwriter Steven A. Clark broke onto the scene in 2010 with his soul-baring and darkly arranged eight-song LP debut STRIPES, which earned him the title of “Miami’s best independent album of 2011” by loc...
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...
Stickygreen Productions was started in 2003 by Dj Buddha and Dj Flea, two Missouri City natives. Stickygreen has since become a culture due to the music and Tshirts leading the charge. In 2008 Stickygreen acquired SouthW...
It's not just great song writing, warm guitars, a nut-tight rhythm section, and the occasional blues harp riffs that make The Stone Foxes' so good; the Bay Area band consisting of brothers Shannon and Spence Koehler, Aar...
The Stooges Brass Band has been a premier New Orleans Brass Band since 1996. While appealing to the emotions of traditional jazz, the brass band uses their hip-hop influence to create a new sound. Their innovative incorp...
Josh Graham
(Battle Of Mice, Blood And Time, Neurosis): guitar, vocals, synthesizers, banjo, piano
Domenic Seita
(ex Tombs): bass, backing vocals, percussion
BJ Graves
(US Christmas, Generation of Vipers): drums
...
Stout Cortez is Justin Hunter Scott's electro diversion from everything that sucks. Over time the project has shifted from electro-pop with hints of house and r&b to something darker and deeper. But don't be confused -- ...
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...
The Strange Boys are an Amercian musical group who have just released their third LP on Rough Trade Records after releasing two LPs on In The Red Records. They play many types of songs in different keys and colors, and s...
The Strange Familiar, lead by Kira Leyden (vocalist, keyboard) and Jeff Andrea (lead guitarist) garnered early critical success with their Top 10 iTunes hit "Courage Is" (featured as the promo theme on ABC Family's The S...
As any cool kid of the 90's, Strip Steve grew up with Offspring, the
passion more or less regular of skateboard, and the art of
turntablism. Few scratches and a failure in a rap band after, he
remembered how much A...
Strong Arm Steady was formed in the shadows of the West Coast’s Death Row Records movement, which at one time, loomed large over much of the region’s talent. Many Los Angeles artists—themselves students and childre...
Strong Arm Steady was formed in the shadows of the West Coast’s Death Row Records movement, which at one time, loomed large over much of the region’s talent. Many Los Angeles artists—themselves students and childre...
Ecuador, 2002. Some individuals with different musical backgrounds, coming from an underground local scene, got together to form SUDAKAYA, A band based on reggae & ska influences, who evolved to make a unique Urban Latin...
¡Suénalo! (sweh-nah-low) verb
1. To sound, slap, or play upon a
musical instrument, object, or person.
Latin funk. Fusion. Jam band. Multicultural cocktail. The sound of Miami. Afro-Latin-Baby-Makin’-Descarga-Fu...
Sugar & The Hi Lows know that popular music isn’t a mirror, that melodies and lyrics aren’t tethered to the cultural landscapes of their day. Breathing a new sound into music with an old soul, this rootsy, vintage du...
Punk Rock band formed in 2006. Two years later released for free download, Johnny Yen EP, achieving a considerable amount of downloads. In late 2010 The Suicide Bitches successfully opened for Stone Temple Pilots's show ...
Awarded as the best Spanish electronic music act in 2010, THE SUICIDE OF WESTERN CULTURE have been playing at Primavera Sound Festival, Arenal Sound (sharing stage w/Orbital), supporting Animal Collective, Cut Copy, etc....
Sumsun is Judson Rogers, a dance producer based out of West Palm Beach, Florida. He released his debut album 'Samo Milagro' on Leaving Records in 2010. Sumsun has a 12" upcoming on Halo Cyan Records in 2012.......
Sundress is an American Psychedelic-Pop band, formed in Denton, Texas in 2010.
Sundress was created by principle members Ryan McAdams, bassist Drew McCary and guitarist Kennon Talley. After several names, due to legal m...
BRIEF ARTIST BIO
Imagine what American rock and roll would sound like if the British Invasion never happened. Or, imagine what a punk rock band would sound like if it were 1933. That's The Sundresses. They've taken Rock...
superhumanoids makes dreamy pop that shouts summery '60s harmonies, garage rock's raw tonality, slick new-wave electronics, and the adventurous dissonance of '90s indie rock. LA-based, the foursome is equally focused on ...
Superstartdjs, Austins best kept secret. DJ Spinner T. and Crop Diggie are not new to the game hip or music for that matter but are ready to bring a new perspective to the world of hip hop and music alike. Both are forme...
Supreme Dicks put out one single in their career. It was a double B-side. Maybe they had a sense of humor, but in hindsight it's hard to tell.
Falling somewhere between Captain Beefheart, Throbbing Gristle and SALEM in ...
Surreall is the life to the world of female MCs that has nearly become extinct. Her creative writing and unique style deliver a dynamic sound that can be heard before the 5'1 lyricist can be seen. Now that the diamond in...
Austin native Suzanna Choffel gave the songs on her new album, STEADY EYE SHAKY BOW, time to mature and build character, like fine wine, before she stepped into the studio to record. The result is 10 elegant tracks that ...
Suzy Bogguss had a revelation on stage with Garrison Keillor in 2008. Everyone loves to sing along on “Red River Valley” – except the children who somehow don't know the song. Folk songs are the scrapbook of the Am...
Sweatshop Union are heavyweights of North Western hip-hop, and have earned a reputation as the hardest working collective in the region. Having performed over five hundred shows internationally, they have changed the per...
Sweetback Sisters Emily Miller and Zara Bode may not be blood relations, but their precise, family-style harmonies recall the best of country music from the Everlys to The Judds, as well as the spirited rockabilly energy...
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...
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Sydney Wayser is a French-American, New York-based singer-songwriter who plays guitar, piano and children's toys. Wayser grew up in Los Angeles, California, while spending her summers in Paris. The Louvre and the Oranger...
Sydney Wayser is a French-American, New York-based singer-songwriter who plays guitar, piano and children's toys. Wayser grew up in Los Angeles, California, while spending her summers in Paris. The Louvre and the Oranger...
Sylvie is an anglo-american folk singer/songwriter who currently lives in Italy. She has released 2 albums in the USA on Cheap Lullaby Records (Joan As Policewoman, Teitur etc) and her third album produced by long-time c...
