Singer-songwriter Mike Rocket will be making his SXSW debut this year, performing the first set of the entire music festival! Rocket has been consistently rocking the New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia areas for ove...

Philadelphia PA

   

Presented by: KVRX

Love Inks is a minimalist pop band from Texas. Their sound is imbued with raw emotion, sexuality, and splashes of electronic colour. Focus is placed primarily on the voice, which is direct and honest.......

Austin TX

 

Presented by: KVRX

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...

Austin TX

   

Presented by: KVRX

Little Lo is an independent folk-rock sextet hailing from Austin, Texas. Their songs can best be described as swells; ranging from hushed whispering and strumming to anthemic shouts and trills (and back again) in the cou...

Austin TX

   

Presented by: KVRX

The Zoltars are a rock band from Austin. Since starting in summer 2009, they have been included on Gerard Cosloy's (President of Matador Records) Casual Victim Pile II compilation of his favorite Austin bands, they have ...

Austin TX

   

Presented by: KVRX

Austin based garage punk band that are Austin based and play garage punk in Austin......

Austin TX

Presented by: KVRX

The Frontier Brothers are either making Austin art rock in Brooklyn or Williamsburg indie in Texas; We're not really sure. Their untitled collection of imagination after-party anthems will be released in Summer 2012. Unt...

Austin TX

   

Presented by: Modern Outsider

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...

Los Angeles CA

 

Presented by: Modern Outsider

What’s a nice boy like Jeff Klein doing on the Lower East Side, doling out bruised rock anthems instead of taking up a nice, steady dental practice? Instead of being corrupted by cigarettes and whiskey, and transformi...

Austin TX

Presented by: Modern Outsider

The Calm Blue Sea’s lushly textured sound is a study in contrast. The music the (mostly) instrumental band from Austin, Texas creates, like its oceanic name, is at once beautiful and violent, transcendent and triumphan...

Austin TX

 

Presented by: Modern Outsider

Gliss is a Danish/American three-piece. The best description of the band is late night fucked up art pop. They’ve toured the US, CANADA, UK & EUROPE with Glasvegas, The Horrors, The Raveonettes, Editors, BRMC, Smashing...

Los Angeles CA

Presented by: Modern Outsider

Pomegranates are a band from Cincinnati that began as a project between two friends, Jacob Merritt and Isaac Karns, eventually growing into a four-piece with Joey Cook and, most recently, Curt Kiser. Over a span of four...

Cincinnati OH

 

Presented by: Modern Outsider

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...

Austin TX

   

Presented by: Modern Outsider

At the front of the stage, Lauren Larson wrangles her guitar. She bends the strings, attacks chords, her fingers blurred as they feverishly travel up and down the neck doling out lick after melodic lick while her hair wh...

Austin TX

   

Presented by: BreakOut West

Four blood brothers creating infectiously catchy rock n roll laden with synth textures, dynamic rhythms, contemplative lyricism and luscious guitars. That’s the genius of Saskatoon’s post-pop rockers Foam Lake. Equal...

Saskatoon SK CANADA

 

Presented by: BreakOut West

Yukon Blonde are road warriors. The young band spent the last year and a half raking in tour milage throughout cities in North America and Europe. Highlights of the journey include over 30 nearly sold out shows with Goo...

Vancouver BC CANADA

 

Presented by: BreakOut West

Library Voices are a seven-piece pop collective from Regina, Saskatchewan that blends tremolo soaked guitars with analog synths, vintage organs, circuit bent electronics, accordion, saxophone, strings, theremin, Tenori-o...

Regina SA CANADA

 

Presented by: BreakOut West

www.youtube.com/jordancookofficial Canadian born Jordan Cook has electrified audiences all over the world. Cook has been seen showcased at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he was the first Canadian rock artist t...

Saskatoon SK CANADA

 

Presented by: BreakOut West

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...

Vancouver BC CANADA

 

Presented by: BreakOut West

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...

Edmonton AB CANADA

 

Presented by: Canadian Music Week

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...

Ottawa ON CANADA

   

Presented by: Canadian Music Week

This is the opposite of an overnight success. In keeping with a modern world there is no story of a massive radio hit. No magic record contract signed to a major label to bring the music to the masses, no shout outs from...

Victoria BC CANADA

 

Presented by: Canadian Music Week

After almost ten years as a band and four albums to its credit, Cuff the Duke has made … a concept record. The Toronto roots rockers wouldn’t call it that (there are no suites about dragons here), but there it is, 10...

Toronto ON CANADA

   

Presented by: Canadian Music Week

Award-winning Canadian band Arkells are a five piece rock band from Hamilton, Ontario. In 2008 they released their first full-length record titled, Jackson Square. The debut album sold over 20,000 copies in Canada and t...

Hamilton ON CANADA

 

Presented by: Canadian Music Week

Young Empires play Haute Rock/World Beat. Since their inception two years ago, this Toronto 3-piece have played over 100 shows around the world, supporting acts like Chromeo, Foster the People, Jamiroquai, and Bag Raider...

Toronto ON CANADA

Presented by: Canadian Music Week

“Down With Webster is the most amazing, creative and innovative band. They’re the illest group I’ve ever seen live.” – Timbaland “Down With Webster are one of the best live bands I’ve seen in a long, ...

Toronto ON CANADA

 

Presented by: Halifax Pop Explosion

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...

Halifax NS CANADA

   

Presented by: Halifax Pop Explosion

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...

Halifax NS CANADA

 

Presented by: Halifax Pop Explosion

After a series of disfiguring rearrangements and amputations, Seth Smith and Nancy Urich ripped out the heart of their band and split for the country. After some time, they learned to forget about the city and to get by ...

Halifax NS CANADA

 

Presented by: Halifax Pop Explosion

Following a year of performances across Canada, UK, USA and Europe, with an appearance on David Letterman topping it all off, Nova Scotia rock scrappers Wintersleep met up with producers Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian) &...

Halifax NS CANADA

 

Presented by: Halifax Pop Explosion

“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...

Saskatoon ON CANADA

Presented by: Halifax Pop Explosion

With a carnival spectacle of a live show, Halifax's symphonic-pop poster boy Rich Aucoin is a musical mastermind. Sing your swelling heart out, dance among a cloak of confetti, just don't stop the sonic alchemy. Part ...

Halifax NS CANADA