Presented by: Frenchie Smith Records

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...

Austin TX

 

Presented by: Frenchie Smith Records

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...

Austin TX

   

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Louisiana’s own dark star and Orpheus of the underground, Dax Riggs – the fool in your tarot deck – trippin’ over his own tombstone, reaching into the atmosphere and pulling spirits from the air. An alchemy of ...

Austin TX

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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...

Austin TX

 

Presented by: Frenchie Smith Records

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...

Austin TX

   

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Austin TX

Presented by: Hardly Art

Confidence isn’t always born of experience, as seen by the forceful debut by Los Angeles band Cold Showers. Combining influences of late 1970s post-punk with a sonic exploration closer to something from Neu!, it is the...

Los Angeles CA

   

Presented by: Hardly Art

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...

Vancouver BC CANADA

 

Presented by: Hardly Art

Xray Eyeballs began as the brainchild of guitarist O.J. San Felipe and bassist Carly Rabalais, who, after founding Brooklyn garage-rock juggernaut Golden Triangle (Hardly Art), sought a release that would sate both their...

Brooklyn NY

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Austin TX

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The K-Holes speak at once of the mystic and the cosmopolitan, the primal and the urbane, the earthen elements and their synthesized cousins. But unlike their contemporaries, the K-Holes’ sound is not of the grinning, g...

Brooklyn NY

Presented by: Hardly Art

The Jacuzzi Boys’ practice space is like most any other -- crammed with gear along with one of the guys’ record collections. But their band room happens to be located in a trailer tucked just inside Bill Baggs Cape F...

Miami FL

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Four gentlemen from Barcelona who met at the university, where they studied cinema, and came to the brilliant idea to form a band. We don't know if they would have been geniuses in the science of cinema, we do know that ...

Barcelona SPAIN

 

Presented by: Hardly Art

On the surface, TacocaT may seem to be all about tacos, cats, fluorescent highlighters, reverb, great hair, gum, and tambourines, but that's just to throw you. That's frosting. Through clever social and political comment...

Seattle WA

Presented by: Hardly Art

Grave Babies don't give a fuck.......

Seattle WA

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I know a couple of things about Colleen Green. One thing that's for sure: she's a songwriting phenomenon. She sings lovely, catchy, fuzzy songs that range from 80s pop goulash to psychedelic drone; from 90s power punk...

Boston MA

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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...

Seattle WA

 

Presented by: Hardly Art

La Sera’s Sees The Light follows 2011’s masterful self-titled debut with ten new tracks of peppy break-up pop brimming with defiance and bitter sweetness. On album opener “Love That’s Gone,” the vocals and drum...

Los Angeles CA

 

Presented by: Pop Montreal

Based in Montreal, Tops make melodic soft rock. With their intricate guitar figures, gauzy synth pads and deceptively complex arrangements, Tops recall bygone decades of pop (Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Romeo Void, Dire Strait...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Pop Montreal

COUSINS is bare-bones garage-rock power group. Formed in 2009 by Aaron Mangle, the shape shifting group features Leigh Dotey and Pat Ryan who help manifest Mangle’s quirky vision of sweet n’ heavy raucous pop music i...

Halifax NS CANADA

 

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Jennifer Castle has one of those captivating voices that can quiet a room of bawdy drunks. Her mesmerizing art-folk hymns possess both a certain golden-oldies-radio familiarity and a spectral eeriness....- SPIN......

Toronto ON CANADA

Presented by: Pop Montreal

we really like playing together!......

Halifax NS CANADA

Presented by: Pop Montreal

Caila Thompson-Hannant is Mozart's Sister and as she writes this she is on her computer in Montreal making music.......

Montreal QC CANADA

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Montreal-born Jef Barbara's debut LP Contamination stakes his claim as an heir of pop music's golden age. With a wide array of influences, Contamination falls within the tradition of 80s landmarks such as George Michael'...

Montreal QC CANADA

   

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"It's cold-wave dance music, cold, moody, distant, aggressive and very nonchalantly sexy. And even with only two people, they're also phenomenally fun to watch. Keith wanders the stage and puts as much energy into her fr...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

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La Porte TX

DJ Samuel Kklovenhoof of the NYC based electronic/post punk/industrial group Led Er Est (Sacred Bones Records)......

Austin TX

RITUALZ is a one man project hailing from Mexico City with a reputation for its unique approach to electronic music, producing moody experimental music influenced by a wide spectrum of styles going from deep droney and l...

Mexico City MEXICO

 

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...

Los Angeles CA

   

WHITE RING are a duo that dwell on the outskirts of pop music. Bryan Kurkimilis and Kendra Malia met on the internet in 2007 and started an email correspondence and exchanged ideas. Growing up in the age of the internet ...

New York NY

Covered in Dust the debut LP from Louisiana's Kindest Lines, opens suitably with a beat that sounds a lot like an industrial rendition of The Ronettes' "Be My Baby." Brian Wilson cited that song by the legendary New York...

New Orleans LA

   

Lead by vocalist and songwriter Xavier Paradis (who has long garnered a cult underground following with his solo minimal synth project ARNAUD LAZLAUD, active in Canada since the late 90's), Automelodi was formed in 2006 ...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

The debut full-length album by LIGHT ASYLUM has been a long time coming, but not without rabid anticipation. As their self-released In Tension EP circulated and resonated with new leagues of listeners worldwide, the repu...

Brooklyn NY