AT&T is back and faster than ever with 4G LTE speeds. Stop by to charge your devices and test-drive the Samsung Galaxy Note, an all-in-one experience that simplifies your connectivity needs at SXSW.
Austin Conventio...
Canon is proud to be a part of the 2012 SXSW Film Festival by hosting a nine-day lounge at the Driskill Hotel for all to enjoy. The lounge is designed to celebrate Project Imagin8ion, the first photo contest to inspire a...
Complimentary rides around town! Yeah, we thought that'd get your attention. See a Chevy. Catch A Chevy. At the Convention Center or anywhere downtown 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Take a break, and let us do the driving.
Sli...
Complimentary rides around town! Yeah, we thought that'd get your attention. See a Chevy. Catch A Chevy. At the Convention Center or anywhere downtown 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Take a break, and let us do the driving.
Sli...
Phone batteries fade. Laptop batteries wane. Your internal batteries need recharging, too. Come plug in at the NW corner of the Convention Center. Meet up with friends, record an interview, or just hang.
Austin Conventi...
Dell delivers innovative technology and services that give you the power to do more this SXSW. Stop by to unwind, discover the latest from Dell and tell them how they can help you do more.
Austin Convention Center: 1st ...
Canon is proud to be a part of the 2012 SXSW Film Festival and inspire all filmmakers to imagine more. That was the story behind Project Imagin8ion, the first photo contest to inspire a Hollywood film. After receiving 96...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
Spike Lee's Original Kings of Comedy struck box-office gold in 2000. The Blue Collar Comedy Tour filled theaters for six years. And the Comedians of Comedy documentary – which debuted at SXSW in 2005 – turned Zach Ga...
Intermediate
Presenters
Eugene Mirman, Gary Gulman, Henry Owings, Jack Vaughn, Kristine Levine, Julie Seabaugh
How can you finance your album, tour, and other musical endeavors? As it has been done in public television and radio, through crowdfunding, the power of many small contributions can become significant. Artists are more ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ariel Hyatt, Billy Zero, Eleanor Whitney, Kevin Breuner, Brian Meece
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most win...
Director(s): Katie Dellamaggiore
Documentary Feature
101 min
What would it be like to listen to music all day and get paid for it? Believe it or not, this job exists. As the digital music revolution ensues, the "musicologist" has emerged as an influential member of the o...
Beginner
Presenters
Chris Steffen, Chuck Eddy, Joseph Keyes, Michael Addicott, Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Lots of music/tech startups venture to SXSW but very few get funded. What can you do to increase your odds, and how can you avoid the pitfalls which might prevent that from happening?......
Advanced
Presenters
Brian Zisk, Hany Nada, Larry Marcus, Patrick Mahoney, Peter Delevett
Girl Walk // All Day is a feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follow three dancers across New York City. They turn the city's sidewalks, parks, and stadiums into an evolving stage as a sto...
Director(s): Jacob Krupnick
Narrative Feature
75 min
Director Eva Stotz visited interesting people all over the world, whom she found through online host networks, emerging for a limited time in their everyday life. The film introduces a music-loving Tuareg in Mali, a wild...
A number of big media companies are breaking down the old walls and providing new platforms for emerging talent, exposing them to a wider audience, and making them a profit. Explore the different channels available to th...
Beginner
Presenters
Daniel Battison, Ian Rogers, Jose Cuello, Nikolas Gray, Glenn Peoples
With the explosion of smartphones and tablets, the undeniable next big wave is mobile. What is surprising (or not so surprising to veteran industry watchers) is that the music business is lagging behind retail, hospitali...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Graham, Gray Gannaway, Shane Tobin, Tricia Rice, Ted Verani
Developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, the company responsible for "An Inconvenient Truth", "Food, Inc.", and "Waiting for Superman", "Last Call at the Oasis&q...
Director(s): Jessica Yu
Documentary Feature
100 min
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
11:00AM -12:00PM
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sign-up begins half an hour before the mentor session. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. You can onl...
Beginner
Presenters
Leah Selvidge, Michael Starr, Nancy Fly, Shaun Barrett, Simon Henderson, Stuart Sullivan, Tom Windish, Valerie Denn
Ever wonder HOW that perfect song ends up in that perfect moment? How do the decisions get made and what can artists do to get ahead of the pack? Learn about the process of selecting songs for visual media from every per...
Presenters
Chris Budd, Joe Maggini, Joel C High, Niki Sherrod, Rebecca Rienks
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
11:00AM -12:00PM
Hear a variety of 15-minute "Shorties" presentations on the basics of surviving and succeeding as a band. To cap it off, a presentation of the Seattle Band Map, a visualization of the connections between the hu...
Beginner
Presenters
Horace Trubridge, Keith Whiteman, Nancy Prager, Trevor Gale
Seventy highschool students agreed to be locked down for 24 hours to write, shoot, and edit a short film. Come see the product of this madness screened at Vimeo Theater for The Austin School of Film's annual Youth M.A.F....
Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi ("I Am a Sex Addict") goes overboard. Told that he can do whateve...
Director(s): Caveh Zahedi
Documentary Feature
108 min
At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 songs – an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions...
Luca and Gustav have to decide: should they stay in Italy, or leave it, like so many of their friends have done already? Looking for reasons not to do the same, the two Italians jump into their old Fiat 500 and go on a e...
Director(s): Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi
Documentary Feature
75 min
"The Last Fall" is a coming of age sports drama about the difficulties an NFL journeyman faces when trying to transition to life after his playing days are over.......
Director(s): Matthew A. Cherry
Narrative Feature
98 min
Lost and Sound is a moving creative documentary, made by a partially deaf filmmaker. It weaves its way through a startling world of sound and silence, via the ears and brains of three extraordinary people as they try to ...
Director(s): Lindsey Dryden
Documentary Feature
76 min
Dell delivers innovative technology and services that give you the power to do more this SXSW. Come by to check out the latest products from Dell, create your own t-shirt and enter for the chance to win a Fixie bike.......
Returning for its third year as the exhibition for musicians and enthusiasts, The Music Gear Expo is a cornucopia of guitars, keyboards, amps, effects pedals, drums, mics, DJ equipment, mixing software, music education a...
A place for music enthusiasts, film makers and young professionals to engage in activities that showcase the latest 4G LTE devices and applications in a clever, yet meaningful way.
Located on San Jacinto at 6th Street.....
ASTRO
Renown Chilean band that stands out for its artistic quality and by creating a bold, energetic and highly interpretative live show.
Astro, formed by: Octavio Cavieres, Nicolás Arancibia, Daniel Varas and Andrés...
Explore the future of media, music, and technology with RootMusic, Gobbler, Heard, SUPERGOODMUSIC, and Devolver Digital. Charge your phone, swag up at the Artist Pit Stop (free BandPage upgrade, Gobbler subscription, and...
The Music Gear Expo Lounge presented by Klipsch is a great place to unwind away from the Gear Expo main floor. Comfortable furnishings provide a spot to relax and wi-fi makes sure you are still connected. Meet other gear...
Music and technology converge with music streaming. From social media integration to online video music supervision, online music is much more than background. Broadcasters, podcasters, programmers, music supervisors, de...
Music and technology converge with music streaming. From social media integration to online video music supervision, online music is much more than background. Broadcasters, podcasters, programmers, music supervisors, de...
Music and technology converge with music streaming. From social media integration to online video music supervision, online music is much more than background. Broadcasters, podcasters, programmers, music supervisors, de...
E.S.P., Love Inks’ first album, was conceived and recoded with strict, direct motives. No frills, tears through extravagant side roads, solos, certainly no jamming, and no extra instrumentation. That being said, the al...
E.S.P., Love Inks’ first album, was conceived and recoded with strict, direct motives. No frills, tears through extravagant side roads, solos, certainly no jamming, and no extra instrumentation. That being said, the al...
E.S.P., Love Inks’ first album, was conceived and recoded with strict, direct motives. No frills, tears through extravagant side roads, solos, certainly no jamming, and no extra instrumentation. That being said, the al...
PROVIDENCIA is a band from Medellin city wich emerged in 2001, working hard within the independent music scene in Colombia, making its lyrics, taking the reality of their environment. Taking as base language the Jamaican...
For their second year in a row, SXSW will host the Green Zone, a sustainable oasis located right amongst the bustle of downtown Austin at 7th and Red River St. Sponsored by Whole Foods Market for 2012, the transformed pa...
March 14th through the 18th Thrasher magazine and Converse present the annual Texas Death Match at the SXSW music fest. Serious mayhem awaits as the only bands that matter soundclash with some mini-ramp rippin’ at the ...
The Voice according to Austin : Meet cast members of NBC’s THE VOICE. Tje Austin, Lex Land and Jonathas Ojeda will appear at the Austin Airstream trailer.......
Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, "Wildness" is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar that has been home to Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-real...
Who's the only man to ever write songs for Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, John Travolta, and Kermit the Frog? That would be Paul Williams. A six-time Academy Award nominee (and one-time winner), Paul sits down with dir...
Demo Listening Sessions offer a unique opportunity for selected musicians to get direct feedback from music professionals, those who listen to demos as part of their job.......
This first session in the three part event takes a deeper dive into the economics of the music industry, including performance rights and understanding the various rights for master recordings and songwriting. We will al...
Beginner
Presenters
Jon Vanhala, Maurice Russell, Ted Cohen, Bill Wilson
Your band is ready for primetime, and you’re looking to play major festivals and venues. However, you know each of these is its own beast. Learn the best practices for making a love connection with the top festival and...
Intermediate
Presenters
Daniel Seligman, David Silbaugh, Jon Mcildowie, Nate Arling, Valerie Gurka, Panos Panay
In the pre-digital era, there were radio stations and music stores. In the digital age, all the traditional media channels and purchasing behaviors have changed. Music lovers want a mix of curated radio, streaming servic...
Presenters
Aron Levitz, Carl Rohling, Eric London, Peter Downton, Vickie Nauman
Many independent musicians are unaware of the plethora of arts-business services, programs, and resources that exist to directly support their artistic efforts. There are fundraising programs that offer a way to raise do...
When you're running your own show, you don't want to miss a thing. Being your own online manager comes with its own set of freedoms and challenges. If you're an artist, you want to make sure everyone knows about the musi...
Beginner
Presenters
Marni Wandner, Melissa Aubert, Todd Hensley, Elizabeth Leahy
Discover music you'll love at the Pandora Discovery Den (Wed-Fri). Featured artists will cross genres from Rock to Hip Hop. Afternoon shows followed by DJ-hosted Casino Happy Hour from 5-7 with daily drink specials and p...
Public broadcasters have long played a vital role in media, providing citizens with independent information through universal entertainment. Publicly-funded organizations like CBC and NPR have championed new music, suppo...
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Martin Atkins, author of 'Tour:Smart' and 'Welcome to the Music Business: You're Fucked,' is both extremely funny and very smart. If you or someone you know is a touring musician, Martin will arm you with strategy and ta...
Music-Related Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in Round One A to high profiled industry expert judges.
Finalists: Swarm.fm, 45Sound, VenLabs.Rexly
For more information about the SX...
Presenters
Amy Ray, Brad King, Jed Carlson, Larry Marcus, Sean Moriarty
The FADER Fort happens yearly in Austin, showcasing celebrated innovators and emerging talents. The FADER has a 12-year history of predicting what’s next in music in culture, and over four days in March that prescience...
24 years old. Chilean-northamerican. Singer, songwriter, composer, pianist, producer and writer. Independent musician, artist and entrepreneur. Founder of Fran Ltda, her own company from which she develops her projects ...
The Hype Machine is the world's music blog hub. Hype Hotel, presented by Feed The Beat, brings Hype Machine to life in Austin, making it the spot to hear the new music everyone is talking about. Featuring lineups curated...
Whatever happened to the Sugarhill Gang? I WANT MY NAME BACK highlights the rise and fall of former original members of the Sugarhill Gang, Master Gee and Wonder Mike . As original writers and rappers, Master Gee and W...
Dustin Wong's second LP Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, is a departure from Dustin's previous methods but more closely a distillation of his live show into recorded form. The pieces are so intricate and detailed ...
Dustin Wong's second LP Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, is a departure from Dustin's previous methods but more closely a distillation of his live show into recorded form. The pieces are so intricate and detailed ...
Dustin Wong's second LP Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, is a departure from Dustin's previous methods but more closely a distillation of his live show into recorded form. The pieces are so intricate and detailed ...
Hoof it over to La Zona Rosa for The Warner Sound Captured By Nikon on Wednesday 3/14 and Thursday 3/15. We kick off each afternoon at 1:00 pm with intimate performances by fun., Kimbra, Crystal Fighters, LP, Geographer ...
Nominated for Outstanding Debut at this year's BAFTAs, "Black Pond" tells the story of an ordinary family who are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langha...
Director(s): Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
Narrative Feature
82 min
Lawyers are not your enemy. They can protect your art through intellectual property law, ensure your future through contract law, and help you navigate immigration and customs laws. Come meet the entertainment attorneys ...
Lawyers are not your enemy. They can protect your art through intellectual property law, ensure your future through contract law, and help you navigate immigration and customs laws. Come meet the entertainment attorneys ...
Lawyers are not your enemy. They can protect your art through intellectual property law, ensure your future through contract law, and help you navigate immigration and customs laws. Come meet the entertainment attorneys ...
What would be the shortest route between Entre Ríos in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametri...
Director(s): Victor Kossakovsky
Documentary Feature
104 min
After a year of heartbreak and loneliness, Erin and Cal have forgotten enough of each other's flaws to get back together. They take what they hope will be a romantic camping trip in Sequoia National Park. Alone in the ma...
Director(s): Adele Romanski
Narrative Feature
80 min
From Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones, Elvis to Madonna, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, Bob Gruen has captured half a century of music through the eye of a lens. In this landmark documentary, G...
Director(s): Don Letts
Documentary Feature
104 min
Co-presented by the American Poster Institute (API) and SXSW, Flatstock 33 will display the works of more than 100 artists from across North America and the globe. The exhibition is free and open-to-the-public running Ma...
Many look at music publishing income as a source of survival in an industry ravaged by declining sales across the board, and for many songwriters, artists and musicians, music publishing income represents the only hope o...
Advanced
Presenters
Jessica Weiner, John Ashline, RICO Brooks, Travis McFetridge, Andrew Krents
A Texas college student flees the hypocrisy of his religious upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at 'the most godless campus in America.' Based on the New York Times bestseller by Donald Miller.......
Director(s): Steve Taylor
Narrative Feature
106 min
The mysterious Chet Faker shot to fame when his cover of 'No Diggity' went viral, reaching Number 1 on indie music aggregator, Hype Machine.
His fame grew rapidly and he was soon invited to perform on the UK's heralde...
Ticketmaster has said it will introduce dynamic pricing, allowing clients to raise or lower ticket prices based on demand, something more than 30 professional sports teams are already doing. But what does dynamic pricing...
This second session in the three part event takes a look at the “dos and don’ts” in licensing vast libraries of major content. Learn the third rails and how to manage navigating around the barriers to entry. This p...
The revolutionary promise of digital music became reality with the rise of Napster. The file sharing network pioneered a functional and comprehensive catalog of music with its enthusiastic users. Developed by then-teenag...
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-ol...
Director(s): Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Narrative Feature
93 min
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sign-up begins half an hour before the mentor session. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. You can onl...
Presenters
Alexandra Dunne, Alicia J. Rose, Bart Day, Brett Williams, Marissa Lopez, Shawn Nolan, Trey Many
Monsieur Periné, more than a musical group, it’s a creative project that was born out of the artistic and rhythmic exploration undertaken by Catalina Garcia, Santiago Prieto, Nicolas Junca and Camilo Parra in 2007. To...
SXSW is known for screening some of the best music documentaries out
there, no surprise given the SXSW Music sidebar, and Austin's thriving
musical scene. At this Indiewire panel Amir Bar-Lev ("Re:Generation
Music P...
SXSW is known for screening some of the best music documentaries out
there, no surprise given the SXSW Music sidebar, and Austin's thriving
musical scene. At this Indiewire panel Amir Bar-Lev ("Re:Generation
Music P...
SXSW is known for screening some of the best music documentaries out
there, no surprise given the SXSW Music sidebar, and Austin's thriving
musical scene. At this Indiewire panel Amir Bar-Lev ("Re:Generation
Music P...
Max leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the fringe of suburban Arizona. Both fever dream and quiet trip, "PAVILION" creates a deep and ethereal world, showing us an innocent way of life coming ...
The PureVolume House returns with the most eclectic after-hours lineup in Austin (again). In a brand-new, custom-built event space, the House will play host to performances from the top independent voices online: Stereog...
Learn the strategies for using free content to promote and maximize alternative revenue streams - the positives, negatives, pitfalls, and the hard work it takes to be successful, even when you're giving it away.......
Intermediate
Presenters
Hank Shocklee, Julie Samuels, Karen Sandler, Paul Geller, Michael Petricone
On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. Shut Up And Play The Hits documents this once in a life time performance and paints an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates ...
Director(s): Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern
Documentary Feature
110 min
Social tips and tricks to build and maximize your audience from music industry professionals that have made The Roxy Theatre the biggest venue on Facebook, revitalized the famous Sunset Strip and created social marketing...
Intermediate
Presenters
Gretchen Fox, Nathan Levinson, Nic Adler, Kyra Reed
Music-related technology start-up companies pitch their products and/or services in Round One B to high profiled industry expert judges.
Finalists: Onesheet.com, ConcertCrowd, Audio Vroom, Ovelin
For more information a...
Presenters
Amy Ray, Brad King, Jed Carlson, Larry Marcus, Sean Moriarty
Upon becoming the father to triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology. Woven together with expert interviews and portraits of people who have intimate relationships with technology, "Welco...
Director(s): Avi Zev Weider
Documentary Feature
86 min
It is too easy to convince venture capitalists that all a music startup requires is capital to license music from the major labels, and then offer to get to profitability by including advertising in the stream. This lack...
Presenters
Anthony Batt, David Ewald, Jesse Von Doom, Rick Moody, Roy Christopher, Dave Allen
BIOGRAPHY
Teeth & Tongue is the musical project of New Zealand born, Melbourne based musician Jess Cornelius. Armed with an old 505 drum machine, keyboards and electric guitar, Cornelius weaves her songs through pared...
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...
The John Steel Singers are one of the most well-known alternative acts in Australia. With five members traversing across instruments like explorers, the Brisbane natives bring another dimension to the experimental pop ae...
Directors Martha Stephens ("Pilgrim Song"), Amy Siemetz ("Sun Don’t
Shine") and Meagan Griffiths ("Eden") will all be on hand to discuss
their films, and making it as a female director in ...
Directors Martha Stephens ("Pilgrim Song"), Amy Siemetz ("Sun Don’t
Shine") and Meagan Griffiths ("Eden") will all be on hand to discuss
their films, and making it as a female director in ...
Directors Martha Stephens ("Pilgrim Song"), Amy Siemetz ("Sun Don’t
Shine") and Meagan Griffiths ("Eden") will all be on hand to discuss
their films, and making it as a female director in ...
Voltaire Twins are a Perth-based indie dance quartet consisting of lead vocalists/synthesiser players Jaymes and Tegan, with drummer Matt and bass synthesiser player Jack.
The band’s latest single Animalia was launc...
A long over-due documentary film that tells the story of one of America's most important and influential Rock & Roll trailblazers - the original diva and guitar virtuoso who inspired such acclaimed artists as Chuck Berry...
When Robert's girlfriend dies in a car accident, he turns his grief against his younger sister Jo. Jo dives into a new hobby - ice hockey - where she gathers the strength to bring her brother back to the land of the livi...
Heimkommen (Coming Home)
Director: Micah Magee
When Robert's girlfriend dies, he turns his grief against his younger sister Jo. Jo plays ice hockey with the boys, hoping to gather strength to bring her brother back to th...
The future for artist revenue streams is in old standards and emerging media. New ways to earn from publishing and new platforms for licensing mean new avenues to thrive as an artist and to creatively integrate music int...
The future for artist revenue streams is in old standards and emerging media. New ways to earn from publishing and new platforms for licensing mean new avenues to thrive as an artist and to creatively integrate music int...
The future for artist revenue streams is in old standards and emerging media. New ways to earn from publishing and new platforms for licensing mean new avenues to thrive as an artist and to creatively integrate music int...
Improviser, composer, arranger, producer, musical conceptualist, comedy writer, vocal stylist, filmmaker, sketchpad artist, drama example, self-taught instrumentalist and bon vivant, R. Stevie Moore was born 1952 in Nash...
Improviser, composer, arranger, producer, musical conceptualist, comedy writer, vocal stylist, filmmaker, sketchpad artist, drama example, self-taught instrumentalist and bon vivant, R. Stevie Moore was born 1952 in Nash...
Improviser, composer, arranger, producer, musical conceptualist, comedy writer, vocal stylist, filmmaker, sketchpad artist, drama example, self-taught instrumentalist and bon vivant, R. Stevie Moore was born 1952 in Nash...
Bill finds himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems, in this third and final chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's "Everything will be OK" trilogy.......
Rocky and Lulu live in opposite sides of the planet: they bump into each other in ChatRoulette and decide to stay in touch. They get closer, but we find out more about them that they will never tell each other. It's a lo...
Director(s): Alexis Dos Santos
Narrative Short
24 min
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Learn the ins and outs of complex synth and keyboard setups with tips, techniques, gear walkthroughs and tone/sound design from synth master and electronic artist Seth Haley, a.k.a. Com Truise.......
Licensing a song to an ad, film or TV show could be one of the most lucrative opportunities an artist will experience in their career. The fees can be substantial, and there is always that elusive promise of promotion th...
Advanced
Presenters
Chad Jensen, Leah Streetman, Sharon Nortman, Eric Shaw
Local scenes have always spontaneously sprung up. But is there a formula to creating a relevant scene? The best scenes usually involve hands-on owners that care about the music (and marginal profits) and a group of music...
Beginner
Presenters
Ashley Knotts, Chris White, James Moody, Michael Slaboch, Nick Bodor
This third session in the three part event will discuss industry XML standards for content delivery, royalty reporting, metadata, best practices, and troubleshooting.
Digitalmusic.org's Music Startup Academy is designed...
Since the social media burst in 2004, Hip Hop Industry tastemakers and artists have embraced these platforms as an essential tool to connect with fans and to extend their brand. These early adaptors learned to engage fa...
Intermediate
Presenters
Devi Dev, Elliott Wilson, Justin Siegel, Karen Civil, Nicholas Adler, Ryan Ford
In the online age, video is more important than ever. As a result, production, marketing, and monetization of content, as well as the impact of social media on reaching new audiences, has all taken on new prominence.......
Presenters
Brandon Martinez, Matthew Mills, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Tom Biery, Andrew Hampp
Technology is fundamentally impacting live entertainment. In a landscape of increasingly fragmented music preferences, the ease of discovering artists/shows has increased, but the passion for attending a live performance...
Advanced
Presenters
Ashley Capps, Doc McGhee, Jared Siegel, Tony Grotticelli, Jordan Glazier
Making consistent money as a hip hop musician today still isn't easy. Experienced and respected hip hop artists and business owners will explore non-conventional (and sometimes not so sexy) ways for working artists in th...
Presenters
Brother Ali, Dessa Wander, Eric Larson, Jason Cook, Skyzoo , Kevin Beacham
In the seventies, Paul Williams wrote hits like “We’ve Only Just Begun” "Evergreen" and “Rainbow Connection." He starred in Battle for the Planet of the Apes and on Johnny Carson’s couch and then...
Director(s): Stephen Kessler
Documentary Feature
84 min
Facebook is launching a massive music integration, casting a spotlight on streaming music subscription service partners MOG, Rdio, Spotify & others. Leveraging a free model as a viral strategy and/or a trailing tool ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Billy Chasen, David Hyman, Ime Archibong, Rachna Bhasin, Eliot Van Buskirk
The Registrants Lounge presented by MOFILM, located on the corner of 4th and Neches right in front of the Austin Convention Center, is the meeting place for SXSW registrants to network and grab a drink.......
The Registrants Lounge presented by MOFILM, located on the corner of 4th and Neches right in front of the Austin Convention Center, is the meeting place for SXSW registrants to network and grab a drink.......
The story of the Alabama Shakes begins in a high school psychology class in Athens, Alabama. Brittany Howard, who had started playing guitar a few years earlier, approached Zac Cockrell and asked if he wanted to try maki...
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters follows the acclaimed photographer’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life. His photographs are lik...
Director(s): Ben Shapiro
Documentary Feature
77 min
King Kelly is an aspiring internet star who performs webcam stripteases. When Kelly's car - filled with illegal narcotics that she must deliver - is stolen by her bitter ex-boyfriend on the 4th of July, Kelly and her bes...
Watch five DJs battle it out real time to win the title of BigShot DJ of SXSW!
liveturntable.fm brings to the stage an evolution of social music listening and engagement with an in-real-life DJ Battle powered through tu...
"Sleepwalk With Me" is a comedy written by, directed by and starring comedian Mike Birbiglia, based on a true story he told in his one-man off-Broadway show and his first book. The film follows the journey of a...
Director(s): Mike Birbiglia
Narrative Feature
80 min
The Chris Gethard Show is billed as "the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City." It ran for over two years to sold out houses at the UCB Theater in New York, and now broadcasts live every We...
The Chris Gethard Show is billed as "the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City." It ran for over two years to sold out houses at the UCB Theater in New York, and now broadcasts live every We...
The Chris Gethard Show is billed as "the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City." It ran for over two years to sold out houses at the UCB Theater in New York, and now broadcasts live every We...
In this playful stopmotion animated musicvideo monsters move to the beats & melody of the music. The characters come into existance after a failure in a laboratory, from which they manage to escape and find their way...
A live action music video challenging viewers to play a game of Spot The Differences between two split screens while paying attention to the performance of emerging New West rapper Casey Veggies.......
Zach, a wealthy, alcoholic divorcee and father, is torn between his past love and present infatuation. His obsession for Rebecca, who he affectionately calls Crazy Eyes, seems to be driving him to the brink of madness an...
Director(s): Adam Sherman
Narrative Feature
95 min
"Empyrean" is a music video developed by Ganesh Rao and Jonny Greenwald at the Dept. of Visualization at Texas A&M University under the guidance of Professor Karen Hillier. The objective was to create a vis...
A girl enters a room and seduces her guitar. Around her neck she wears the religious 'Evil Eye' symbol. The evil eye is an icon that is superstitiously believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck for...
A mesmerizing music video that combines mural art, body painting, stop motion animation and live action cinematography to create a unique visual metaphor expressing the song's story of heartbreak. The video was awarded t...
This live music video was shot in unvarnished everyday space. Hawaaii sings at a laundry in a small town.The music flows through the washing and welcomes you with open arms.......
A young runaway yeti embarks on an adventure into the human world and along the way, makes an unexpected friend in Jon Hamm. Herman Dune's music video for "Tell Me Something I Don't know," is directed by Toben ...
The video begins by concentrating on the singer and explicit the polyphonic mechanism through which the base of the song is constructed. When the lyrics start, the video turns to a natural scene, more lyrical and organic...
The official music video for Kina Grannis' song "In Your Arms" is a three and a half minute piece of stop motion insanity using 288,000 jelly beans to create worlds that Kina travels through and interacts with....
Boxcar Fair follows a wandering explorer who stumbles upon a magical fair in the middle of a desert. Artist Tom Haney creates an array of intricate puppets to help illustrate the story. The entirety of Boxcar Fair was sh...
Director(s): Brock Scott, Tom Haney
Music Video
3 min
The definitive life story of Bob Marley - musician, revolutionary, legend - from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incre...
Director(s): Kevin Macdonald
Documentary Feature
152 min
In this music video for Porter Robinson's Spitfire, we emulated a videogame style paintball match shot in one-take with the Phantom Flex @ 1,000 fps. Dont forget to have a looksy at the chat box ;)
PS: The dog wasn't h...
Playing The Villain” video is horror inspired surprise in which three 'villainous' looking youths, out for some trouble, get unexpectedly assaulted by subwoofers when they attempt to steal a BMW from an estate! The vid...
Parix is depicted teenage procrastination. Whatever direction you move it hurts. And you ask yourself: Why am I here fucking up my life so crucially? Why can’t I do what’s best for me? Your mind is floating, but you...
Director(s): Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen
Music Video
03 min
Network with fellow female music professionals who have the drive and the ideas to create substantial art. Support and competition are not mutually exclusive. If only the strong survive, a strong network can help you thr...
Network with fellow female music professionals who have the drive and the ideas to create substantial art. Support and competition are not mutually exclusive. If only the strong survive, a strong network can help you thr...
Network with fellow female music professionals who have the drive and the ideas to create substantial art. Support and competition are not mutually exclusive. If only the strong survive, a strong network can help you thr...
A barrage of fanciful dance vignettes—from booty-bouncing YouTube stars and disco-ball ballerinas to musical comedian Reggie Watts and a sexy nun Rockette - the video allows Of Montreal's side project, Yip Deceiver to ...
Director(s): Brandon LaGanke, John Carlucci
Music Video
4 min
This Music Video for French electro sensation Yuksek, entitled, “Always On The Run,” follows a vicious posse, completely off the grid, taken right out of a Mad Max-inspired fashion editorial as they leave a path of a...
Pull up a front row seat with Tiger and Cy, two die-hard fans of 'America's Team', as they scramble to preserve their place in "America's Parking Lot". When the Dallas Cowboys move to the first stadium built fo...
Director(s): Jonny Mars
Documentary Feature
73 min
Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style that has yet to be copied. Their impact and influence can be heard in grou...
Director(s): Mandy Stein, Benjamen Logan
Documentary Feature
105 min
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which led to work designing some of the most iconic ima...
Director(s): Neil Berkeley
Documentary Feature
88 min
Now that cloud music is here to stay and we can choose from a plethora of new services, listen to a bazillion songs, any time from any device - what’s the catch? If you read the fine print, most services offer sweet de...
Intermediate
Presenters
Daren Tsui, Jackson Gates, Jolie O'Dell, Kevin Wortis, Mike McGuire
June 2011 marked the first time mobile users spent more time in apps than websites. The mobile ecosystem is quickly changing and is allowing fans to be active consumers wherever they are. From the studio, to the talent, ...
Beginner
Presenters
Aaron Ray, Ian Hogarth, Michael Paull, Michael Schneider
Developing your band from dive bars to a national act seems overwhelming — but building up your hometown base is the foundation of your entire career. Until you are generating a big buzz in your hometown, you aren't ye...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jackie Indrisano, Michael Bishop, susan scotti, Michael Creamer
Burlap and opals. Moonshine and macrobiotics. Shaken and soothed. How Suzanne Santo (vocals/banjo/violin) and Ben Jaffe (vocals/guitar) managed to reconcile not just polemics, but seemingly opposed realities for their se...
The IFC Crossroads House is back in Austin with a new location at Vice Bar (302 E. 6th Street). Join us for music, comedy, free food and drinks, giveaways and more! Check out ifc.com/sxsw for more details.......
It's become clear how powerful brand partnerships can be in the music business, but how do you make that work for your business when branding isn't your main focus? Many smart companies from booking to media to labels an...
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Hear four of Austin's marquee and most successful musicians discuss how they've managed to break out beyond the Austin scene, continue to make records, license their music, and grow their music - all without having to ge...
Presenters
Adrian Quesada, Alex Maas, Graham Reynolds, Jim Eno
Historically, a professional songwriter's most reliable customer had been the major label recording artist. Whether they landed an album track, a b-side or a coveted single, songwriters based in New York, Los Angeles and...
Intermediate
Presenters
Erik Eger, Evan Lipschutz, Gabe McDonough, Season Kent, Justin Kalifowitz
The Cowboys, the Grassy Knoll, J.R. Ewing, the Stanky Leg... Dallas, Texas, is known for lots of things. Progressive, forward-thinking hip-hop has, until now, not been one of them. That’s all starting to change, thanks...
The Cowboys, the Grassy Knoll, J.R. Ewing, the Stanky Leg... Dallas, Texas, is known for lots of things. Progressive, forward-thinking hip-hop has, until now, not been one of them. That’s all starting to change, thanks...
The Cowboys, the Grassy Knoll, J.R. Ewing, the Stanky Leg... Dallas, Texas, is known for lots of things. Progressive, forward-thinking hip-hop has, until now, not been one of them. That’s all starting to change, thanks...
In this demonstration by Pandora founder Tim Westergren and veteran Pandora music analyst Steve Hogan, witness a live track analysis as a song is added into the Music Genome Project. The Music Genome Project powers each ...
Music-Related technology start-up companies pitch their products and/or services in the final round to high profiled industry expert judges.
Finalists: TBA**
*The three finalists participating in this category will be ...
Presenters
Brad King, Hany Nada, Ian Rogers, Kristin Hersh, Sean Moriarty
"WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists" takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores e...
Director(s): Brian Knappenberger
Documentary Feature
89 min
Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks affair as told by the people involved: personal, moving and frequently h...
Director(s): Patrick Forbes
Documentary Feature
81 min
Sometimes, preconceived notions can be good; the comfort of expectations met is often a welcomed feeling. For the more adventurous among us, though, the best part of defined expectations and preconceived notions is havin...
Sometimes, preconceived notions can be good; the comfort of expectations met is often a welcomed feeling. For the more adventurous among us, though, the best part of defined expectations and preconceived notions is havin...
Sometimes, preconceived notions can be good; the comfort of expectations met is often a welcomed feeling. For the more adventurous among us, though, the best part of defined expectations and preconceived notions is havin...
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. SXSW is a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All are welcome to come to the Safe Ha...
In the small town of Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede was one of the most beloved and appreciated residents, so it came as no surprise when he befriended the town’s richest and meanest widow, Marjo...
Director(s): Richard Linklater
Narrative Feature
104 min
After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, h...
"Seeking Asian Female" is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds...
Director(s): Debbie Lum
Documentary Feature
80 min
"Amor Cronico" follows the flamboyant Grammy nominated Cuban-born and New York based singer CuCu Diamantes on her tour around Cuba. The film interweaves footage of live musical performances with a fictional lov...
Director(s): Jorge Perugorria
Narrative Feature
80 min
Musician, sign-painter, puppeteer, and actor David Liebe Hart has been a cult personality since 1988, when he first began producing The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Program on public access cable. After a stint...
Schiller said there is a watcher at the gate of the mind, and it is the watcher that prevents creativity, because creativity and insanity are almost the same thing.
The ventriloquist’s doll can kill off the watcher of ...
Director(s): Nina Conti
Documentary Feature
59 min
Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Ward, Hillfolk Noir’s peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music is filtered through a half-century of folk, country and rock ‘n’ roll and fe...
Mars Red Sky stoke the fire of a voodoo mass with their 70’s old school riffs and their psychedelic groove.
Julien Pras, well known for the pop magnificence of his studio session with Calc, was secretly dreaming of Bl...
Quiet Company
Quiet Company is from Austin , Texas — a city rich in musical diversity, enormous talent and
towering musical history—but the quintet brings their own unique brand of indie power pop that
sets them a...
Canailles started off in Parc Lafontaine during summer 2009. At first six musicians from really different backgrounds would meet up there to improvise their own versions of bluegrass, country and blues standards. Their l...
MonstrO will take you on a trip.
Their self-titled debut album for Vagrant Records twists and turns through a psychedelic hard rock haze that's as hypnotic as it is heavy. That heady combination is embodied on "Stallo...
Rusty Lazer is a DJ from New Orleans, Louisiana that specializes in the street music of his adopted home town.
Though known primarily as the live DJ and creative partner of gender-bending Sissy Bounce Rapper Big Freed...
Next up from the Norwegian folklore is ”Thale”, revolving the mythical hulder, a tailed, female forest creature. “Thale” is the story of a certain hulder, found by two crimes scene cleaners in a concealed cellar....
Director(s): Aleksander L. Nordaas
Narrative Feature
77 min
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...
Drawing comparisons from Townes Van Zandt to Tim Buckley to Otis Redding... Adam Faucett is most known for his powerful, almost operatic voice and intricate finger-picking.
The Arkansas native's sound has been descri...
Whether it’s in a big-budget action film, video game, advertising campaign, or handmade flipbook, animation is everywhere. In Drawing Inspiration, Vimeo taps its creative community to present a program focusing on all ...
CFCF, aka Michael Silver, has managed to build a world all his own since his debut LP ‘Continent’, an impressive collage of vintage electronic textures evoking grandiose landscapes worthy of a Michael Mann film. ‘T...
Children Of The Night (Better known under the acronym COTN) is a Queens based trio comprised of group members Nasty Nigel, Remy Banks and Lansky Jones. After tearing up some of the biggest venues New York City has to off...
"Girls Against Boys" is a character-driven, psychological thriller about two girls on a killing spree in New York. With edgy and ironic humor and a darkly meditative tone that is far more European or Asian than...
Director(s): Austin Chick
Narrative Feature
87 min
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared from his home in San Antonio,Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in Spain with a shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family are overjo...
Director(s): Bart Layton
Documentary Feature
95 min
The great Townes Van Zandt once said there are two kinds of music: "The blues and zip-a-dee-doo-dah."
According to this, Mirel Wagner's self-titled debut falls solidly into the blues category. "Songwriting can hardly...
The U.S. premier of the Multi-National tribute concert to the Greek Jewish vocalist Roza Eskenazi, the Queen of Rebetiko- the Greek Blues.
The 'My Sweet Canary' concert ensemble was established during the years 2009 a...
Prom Date grew up scattered across Louisiana’s swampy wilderness. After meeting through various friend-rock bands and electro-musical meltdowns, the quintet came together in Baton Rouge in 2010 to make some coherent no...
Sometimes inspiration is found in unexpected places. Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks -- and in the men and women who pick up our trash. She joins city sanitation workers on their daily ...
Director(s): Andrew Garrison
Documentary Feature
65 min
ZOROASTER’s heady mix of mammoth metal and psychotropic shoegaze has seen the trio hailed as "one of the U.S.'s most promising metal bands" and it has receiving shining praise for its explosive power, intriguing mystic...
jeremy malvin grew up in pittsburgh then moved to ann arbor to study percussion. now he just chills and makes beats in ann arbor when he isn't playing drums for stepdad.......
Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker) whiles away his days with a group of aging Brooklyn hipsters, engaging in acts of recreational cruelty and pacified boredom. De...
Director(s): Rick Alverson
Narrative Feature
92 min
What can we say about The Front Bottoms? We know we love them: a punk band that uses acoustic guitar, indie-rock dance grooves, Springsteen-y keyboard lines (this they might deny). It’s hook-filled… it’s anthemic...
btwn twitter and facebook Everyday is war against consumeristic suicide and soul sucking "entertrainment" . how i quit crack is contemptorary visual and sonic art// CREATING A MOVING BREAThING SINGING IMAGE, , but not a ...
In the late summer 1979, Joe "King" Carrasco formed a stripped-down four-piece combo to replace his Chicano big band, El Molino. Dubbed the Crowns, organist/accordionist Kris Cummings, bassist Brad Kizer, and drummer Mig...
In June 2011, The New Yorker called the band WORKOUT “a hyperactive rock monster” and compared their music to a love child of David Bowie and Roky Erickson. But all name checking and flattery aside, this isn’t quit...
ANDREW W.K. - The King of Partying
Andrew W.K.’s true will is to party. And when it's time to party, he will always party hard. His mission is creating energized joy, physical euphoria, loving fun, endless enthusia...
I'VE BEEN A BOUNCE RAPPER, EVER SINCE MAGNOLIA SHORTY WAS MURDERED, LIVING AND FINISHING WHERE SHE LEFT OFF. ALSO WAS A GHOST WRITER FOR MAGNOLIA SHORTY......
DJ/promoter Alex English is a mainstay on the New York club scene. The co-creator of Girls & Boys at Webster Hall, English (who hails from Houston, by the way) has booked everyone from Skrillex to A-Trak to Steve Aoki to...
French-Mexican Andrea Balency was born in Paris in 1989 and after a thorough and classical education; she started composing music at the age of 17. Since then, her life experiences from both Argentina and Mexico - where ...
Andy Suzuki & The Method are a band on the rise. What started as a half-Japanese/half-Jewish teenager with a smooth hint of R&B in his voice singing along to John Mayer, has evolved into a musical force. The band's combi...
Despite a childhood steeped in music, Brian Allen Simon only began to appreciate his dad’s records after he developed an obsession with hip hop in his teens and went to college to study music. After an intense love aff...
Antonio Lulic is a rock-folk singer-songwriter from England’s fashionably impoverished North East. His deep and gravel-throated vocals combine with a powerful yet intimate lyrical style to deliver torrents of rootsy, p...
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...
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...
Caged Animals is the bedroom psych-pop project of New Yorker, Vincent Cacchione. After being hit by a truck, while working as a weed-delivery man in Manhattan, Cacchione traded his mangled-car in for his first laptop, a...
Carletta Sue Kay are equal parts Marianne Faithful, Joanna Newsom and Emmylou Harris, coupled with the song writing styles of Stephin Merritt and Cole Porter. The music gravitates toward the sadder side of life, lamenti...
Ceschi (pronounced Chess-key) Ramos has been in a lot of bands.
There’s the experimental post-psych-rock-hop-jazz-fusion outfit Anonymous Inc. started in the mid 1990s with his brother David, the genre-defying latin...
The 22-year-old Cities Aviv — aka Gavin Mays — might be the most original and is certainly one of the most significant musicians to emerge on the Memphis music scene in the past year.
The Memphis native and Overto...
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...
On the fringes of the southwesternmost corner of culture and smart in these United States, Cuckoo Chaos is the Richard Nixon of disco dancing. Cuckoo Chaos is the Henry Ford of Dada. Cuckoo Chaos is the John The Baptist ...
d'Eon is a producer and singer from Montreal, Canada, making R&B with non-analog keyboards and synthesizers and unknown amounts of veiled religious subject matter. The music implies anxiety and dread through unresolved c...
DJ Grip, DJ Since, Young Spinna & DNSFAM official SXSW performers.
DJ Grip & Dollaz N Since BIO.
Born and raised in the Houston,TX DJ Grip grew up around music ever since he was a child. Being exposed to genres of mu...
Rising out of Nashville’s thriving independent music scene, the Farewell Drifters are an alt-folk band known for their 60’s era-inspired harmonies and adventurous musical energy. They have crafted a seamless blend of...
It's easy to get frustrated with 'labels' so excuse me as I throw some around trying to describe my new favorite band. What about just calling it fucking Rock ‘n’ Roll? Punk? Drunk? I mean, it's not about drinking - ...
From compulsive creator Brent Sluder, comes Field Dress. Played on vintage keyboards manipulated through pedals and samplers, often beyond recognition, and punctuated by mysterious vocals and hypnotic drum kit loops, F-D...
Taiwan's top punk band! One of the music festivals' most frequently invited bands!
Fire Extinguisher is a pop punk band from Kaohsiung. They sing with a lot of energy, enthusiasm, and dreams! The band's motto is neve...
Biography: Francis Mbappe < http://www.francismbappe.com/home.html >
A native of Cameroon, Francis Mbappe is an unstoppable natural musician who is releasing his third album under his name, after having graced the s...
Gemini Club, consisting of Dan Brunelle, Tom Gavin and Gordon Bramli, is a three-piece indie-electronic dance band hailing from Chicago, Illinois. Their unique live shows have been tearing up the scene for the last two ...
Get Cryphy is made up of Plain Ole Bill (DJ for P.O.S and Brother Ali), Jimmy2Times (Resident Rhymesayers Radio DJ), Last Word (DJ for MaLLy and M.anifest), and Fundo (DJ for Prof). Beginning in 2005 as a duo, Plain Ole ...
Prabir, Treesa, Matt, and Gregg are Richmond, VA's Goldrush. This band is a fun balance of orchestral based classical music being injected into some high octane pop and rock and roll. The influences of this band range ...
Presented by: The Agency Group/French Bureau Export
Oh My GUSH!
If you think Rock bands usually have just one frontman then think again! Gush are unexpected. They have four multi -instrumental frontmen. Four individual lead singers. Four creative energies: Yan, Xavier,...
Hello Caller is a five-piece indie folk rock band from Austin, Texas whose sound is constantly exploring the boundary between what is and isn’t meant to be pop music. Their unique blend of folk, 60’s pop, and indie r...
When it comes to ripping young metal bands, few—perhaps none—rip harder than HOLY GRAIL. Formed in Southern California in 2008 when vocalist James Paul Luna and drummer Tyler Meahl escaped from Pasadena metal squadro...
Javelin is a band/production duo consisting of cousins George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk.
They started working together in 2004, Providence, RI, and have long since moved operations to Brooklyn, NY.
In 2009 Javel...
Three years ago John Fullbright burst upon the Southwest music scene with a stellar live album recorded at the famous Blue Door in Oklahoma City. From his home in Okemah, Oklahoma, also the home of Woody Guthrie, John ho...
Some people prefer pop music that behaves like math: once a few familiar variables have been determined—female vocals or male? Acoustic guitar or electric? — the end result should be easy to predict, and always sound...
Le Fleur formed in 2005 out of friendship and a shared love for making music. A year later, Le Fleur recorded their first album "Truce" which was self released as a six song EP. Then in late 2009, Le Fleur released the...
Presented by: Cucu Diamantes & Andres Levin/Music Has No Enemies
MANEJA BETO
ESCANTE CALLING
AUSTIN, TX- The “Indie En Espanol” group Maneja Beto needs to be included in the international discourse of good music, so rather than bore you with hype and why you should finally pay...
Michael Guy Bowman is a musician who contributes to soundtrack to Homestuck, part of the on-going multimedia web comic MS Paint Adventures. He joined the project in 2009 when Homestuck was conceived by Andrew Hussie to i...
If you see Miracles of Modern Science loading their classical instruments into a New York rock club and mistake them for another band’s string section, they don’t mind. It makes for a bigger surprise when you hear wh...
The Pinky Piglets started life in 1998 as ‘Minami Band’… and enjoyed instant success, being in demand for Japanese festivals and playing at local clubs. In 1999 they went on to win the ‘golden award’ at the You...
RADAID is a fusion music group originally from Guadalajara, Mexico. With over ten years of experience, the band has been characterized by merging music and instruments from different parts of the worldlike India, China, ...
Since quitting her job as a full-time audio engineer, self-described "post-brontosaurus indie folk/crunk" sinner/songwriter Rebecca Loebe has played an average of 150 shows per year in almost 40 states of the US and in E...
Roll the Tanks may be the most ambitious band in LA. In a scene with bands on every corner, the Tanks guys set out to get the world to notice their Replacements-y, Kinks influenced rock and roll sound by building a studi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
With a voice that straddles seamlessly the worlds of close fragility and far reaching intensity, there is nary a person on the planet that doesn’t fall immediately entranced when they hear it. The Canadian/Swedish band...
Wallpaper. is, in many ways, Ricky Reed. The indulgent and ever-stylish frontman is more than just a sweet pair of shades and a gold-plated microphone. He’s a bona fide viral hustler, a disco ball-busting showman and a...
James Nee burst onto the scene developing a fanatic fanbase. Hailing from Virginia Beach, he wrote these touching songs after a breakup with mother nature......
Wheelchair Sports Camp, the Denver based pseudo hip-hop band is a combination of beats, drums, a saxophone, and DJ. The band unknowingly started in the summer of 1997 when Kalyn moved back from Burbank, CA to her Denver ...
Nate Nelson, a native of Athens, Georgia, has been making music since he was fifteen. He has released and toured with two previous records (Random Acts in 2004 and Knobs Have Turned in 2007). He has contributed to countl...
Wonder Villains are Eimear Coyle, Cheylene Murphy, Ryan McGroarty and Kieran Coyle. They live in Derry, N.Ireland. Fresh out of high school (The girls got their A-Levels results in the Summer) the band have embarked upon...
Wonfu was officially formed on the eve of
Christmas 1998. Since then, the band has
been consistently playing various large-size
music festivals, including Spring Scream,
Formoz Festival and Hohaiyan Rock
Festival, a...
Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers are a folk-rock-soul sextet of pan-Scottish provenance. Singer and guitarist Ali Downer assumed the moniker 'Woodenbox' , in a nod to influences such as King Creosote and ‘Bonnie’ P...
The duo of brothers, Andy and James Ralph, bashes, crashes, strums and shouts their way through songs that are scummy cement floor odes to real life, sung through aquarium glass to the prettiest girls they’ll never mee...
Four years ago Wymond Miles, guitar player and songwriter in San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys, began writing solo material thematically based on the concepts of eschatology, anthroposophy, and Hermetic symbolism. Draw...
You Can't Win, Charlie Brown is a Portuguese band formed in early 2009 by Afonso Cabral, Salvador Meneses and Luís Costa, but quickly turned into a 4-piece with the addition of David Santos (a.k.a. Noiserv) to the band'...
The Young Evils are Troy Nelson (guitar/vocals) and Mackenzie Mercer (vocals) with: Cody Hurd (guitar), Michael Lee (bass) and Faustine Hudson (drums). The Seattle-based band self released their debut album, “Enchanted...
Habibi is the brainchild of Rahill Jamalifard and Lenny Lynch. Together, the two Detroit natives started the all-girl, Brooklyn-based project in the spring of 2011. Growing up with the harmonious sounds of Motown and the...
“Foot stomping, heart racing, exciting music...” As this fan attests, there’s something about dueling fiddles, vigorous guitar playing, and an air-tight rhythm section that compels your body to move. Tastefully pai...
The colloquialism “caddywhompus” is defined by such adjectives as “uneven,” “crooked” and “out of whack”—a list which could, in some instances, allude to the mind-bending sounds of the experimental nois...
3 independent hip-hop groups (Southern Made Click, Fiyah Boy Ent. & Throwed House Click) came together to form their own label DIE SLO ENT. We're focused on promoting innovation & creativity in hip hop -- not just in Aus...
MTV Made’s Award winning indie star Maya Azucena has a progressive yet accessible style, transcending genres and trends. Like Lauryn Hill, The Roots, Corinne Bailey Rae, or Cee-lo Green, she embodies a singular and fin...
G. Green is and has been the musical project of a one Mr. Andrew Henderson. He released a 7" in 2009 as a solo weirdfolk project under the G. Green moniker. He drafted a band at the end of 2009 and the lineup has gone ...
L.P. is an incredible artist and songwriter from New York City now living in L.A. Recently signed to Warner Brother Records, she has created a strong buzz in the LA music scene playing sold-out residencies at the Soho Ho...
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...
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...
Presented by: The Agency Group/French Bureau Export
When Frederic Riviere says something along the lines of “the sun and the sea are really important to me,” it’s easy to think, ‘Oh great, another chillwave artist who enjoys long walks on the beach and sitting on ...
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, shacks built on stilts over the ocean bay. When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, hundreds of fam...
Director(s): Annie Eastman
Documentary Feature
75 min
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...
Hosted by Nick Turner and featuring Todd Barry, Brendon Walsh, Kristine Levine and DC Pierson; presented by event producers Brown Paper Tickets and comedy site The Spit Take.......
Huntsville, Alabama's G-Side are ushering in a new era of Southern rap. Two of the hardest-grinding MCs in the business, ST 2 Lettaz and Yung Clova witnessed immense struggle firsthand and have worked ceaselessly to carv...
This fall, Nick Turner made his television debut, performing stand up on "Late night with Jimmy Fallon." In January, he was nominated for "Emerging Comedian" and "Best Host" at the ECNY Awards. Nick also performed at ...
With over 400 shows under our belts, We've traveled to Europe, Hawaii, and everywhere in between during these last three years, capturing hearts and accolades along the way. It began with our first album, "We Are The O'...
It is 1996. You are in a rusted-out Corolla with a crossfader apoxied to the dashboard. Killsadie, De La Soul, and Lifter Puller are maxing out the speakers. The window does not go down, no AC. He is singing, and smiling...
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
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I was actually inspired by my honeymoon. My new bride and I had very little money to spend on a post-wedding trip and I had coincidentally been asked by some friends in the band Bad Books to do a short tour in the Northe...
Dat Boi T, Born & Raised In Houston, Texas In The Neighborhood Of Second Ward. The 27 Year Old Hispanic Rap Artist is affiliated with the Legendary Screwed Up Click Founded By The Late Great DJ Screw (RIP). He is known a...
DC Pierson is one-fifth of the sketch comedy group DERRICK and co-wrote and co-stars in their film MYSTERY TEAM. He is the author of the novel THE BOY WHO COULDN'T SLEEP AND NEVER HAD TO. He co-hosts a weekly stand-up ...
Toronto based producer extraordinaire Fresh Kils, and Halifax Hip Hop megatron, Uncle Fester, are The Extremities. The duo have distilled their highly anticipated sophomore LP into a tight, well crafted ten song album sh...
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...
Tom Holroyd also known as Comic Strips is an Electro House producer hailing from Pittsburgh, PA. Debuting at the young age of 18, now at the age of 19, is currently making a mark on the dance music community. Known for...
Edie Sedgwick formed in 1999 when El Guapo bassist Justin Moyer and ex-Panoply Academy Glee Club drummer Ryan Hicks wrote a number of songs about celebrities. After releasing one eponymous record on Mud Memory Records an...
Last Year's Men is a garage rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We've released a full length record on Churchkey Records entitled, "Sunny Down Snuff" as well as a split with the Reigning Sound on Vice/Scion A/V....
Lazerbeak is a thug. Do not be deceived by the nice-guy introductions backstage. Beak is responsible for some of the hardest lavabangers in hip hop, period. Catchy, rib-crushing, filthy.
In his basement workshop, Beak...
MIRROR MIRROR, the New York based duo of David Riley and Ryan Lucero, bring their avant-pop explorations to RVNG Intl. with the release of their second full length album, Interiors.
Recorded in two parts, Interiors fe...
Neil Blumofe is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, a growing congregation of 640+ families. Rabbi Blumofe also creates, produces and performs in a live music series for KUT radio entitled the Art o...
The neighborhood molester couldn’t be bothered to abduct her children because they’re too fat. Her sex life is an exotic journey akin to “going around the world in 80 men.” And you really don’t want to know wha...
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...
"Robert DeLong seems like one of those kids beamed here from a future world where all threads of music have been stitched together into some kind of vibrant cloth. His hybrid of electronica samples from pop, folk, house,...
Terrible Twos formed in 2004 in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Quickly moving to the city and helping form a new wave of damaged punk with their contemporaries Human Eye, Tyvek, Frustrations and the like. They relea...
For 2:54, everything comes from somewhere deep inside; that shared sisterly bond between Hannah and Colette Thurlow that manifests in their matching, messy hand gestures, the mirroring tattoos down their right arms, and ...
A riot in a petting zoo, awkwardly captivating and viciously enticing - that is the mesmerizing musical experience of Acollective.
With a seemingly infinite arsenal of genres and musical instruments, this energetic Te...
Presented by: Cucu Diamantes & Andres Levin/Music Has No Enemies
Alex Cuba is a rebel. "When it comes to creativity, I need to go to places I've never been before," he says. With the wanderlust of a world traveler, the Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter explores new sonic spaces on Ruid...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“Carolyn Wonderland is the real deal! She’s an amazing guitar player. And damn, can she
sing.” – Los Angeles Times
On ‘Peace Meal’ (9.27, Bismeaux Records), “blues guitar goddess” (NY Post) Carolyn
W...
“Back in the old days,” muses resilient troubadour Chris Smither, “writing new songs and making new albums were just chores. My priority was, and still is, performing live. I guess I still write the songs and make ...
Clare and the Reasons call Brooklyn home, but after touring around the world extensively for their first 2 albums, they needed a new setting, one that would make them see and hear differently. In 2011, for 8 months, they...
Computer Magic is the solo project of 21-year-old blogger/DJ Danielle Johnson (she goes by Danz). She moved from Rock Hill in upstate New York (population: 1,056) to New York City in 2008 to attend Hunter College. Danz s...
The acoustic-electric sibling duo Dva was founded in the spring of 2006 in small town near to Hradec Kralove. Now they operate in Pardubice and Hradec Králové. They characterize themselves as Pop of non-existent radios...
Sonically expressive, dark and moody, catchy and up-beat are words to describe this Danish Nu Gaze/Noise-pop foursome.
Since 2006, hailing from Copenhagen, The Foreign Resort has intricately balanced an international ...
Like the historical strike-it-rich locations that give them their name, so too have Australian outfit Gold Fields quickly proven themselves to be an exciting prospect of musical wealth. Their frantic dance-pop and anthem...
The thing about traveling is that you always end up back where you started. Ashes to ashes and all that big-picture stuff.
For Hey Marseilles, travel is as much a state of mind as location of body. This is a seven-pi...
Singaporean singer-songwriter Inch Chua is moving to Los Angeles. The SXSW 2010 invitee set to begin work on the follow-up to her acclaimed “Wallflower” record. Chua has opened for Katy Perry and Vampire Weekend in h...
To explain why he isn't afraid of naming his second album “ 13 ,” Spanish rocker Javier García brings up something Stevie Wonder used to say, “When you believe in things that you don't understand and you suffer, t...
Since its beginnings, Jerusalem has performed highly approachable country-fried psych that goes over well in a variety of venues; still, rather than surrounding itself by similarly styled outfits, the band has consiste...
Progressive, Avant-garde, Alternative, but always Rock.
Formed in early April 2010, LAGITAGIDA, is planning a global expansion.
LAGITAGIDA is a super-powered attack instrumental rock band.
This strange band name "LAGI...
Led Er Est are an analog electronic trio from Brooklyn and now based part in Austin. Born out of the Wierd Records scene on the lower east side of Manhattan, the band began recording together in 2007. They have released ...
Lightouts
Critical Praise for Lightouts:
"'The Eloise Suite' is a three-minute 120 Minutes jammer owing to some Berlin-era Bowie chime-rock—and it now comes with a music video that can be best described as 'Kubri...
Mansions on the Moon is the latest collaboration of the Los Angeles based trio, Lane Shaw, Ben Hazlegrove and Ted Wendler. Mansions on the Moon signature sound is a combination of harmonic, ethereal vocal arrangements a...
Marcus Foster could have had it easy. He could have dropped names; doors could have flung open. Had he pursued the frequently garish route of your usual Next Big Thing contender, he'd have got it quite easily, T4 special...
Max Gomez got his start as a working musician at age 15, singing both original music and country and blues classics in bars around his hometown of Taos, NM. He studied blues artists like Robert Johnson and Big Bill Broo...
Michael Logen comes from the small Victorian town of Lewisburg, PA but moved to Nashville right after high school and has stayed since.
Currently working on a studio project with Grammy Award Winning Producer, Jacquir...
Micky and the Motorcars, with their own band of Americana rock, bring an optimism and integrity a band only acquires when its been performing so long the only thing left to tell is the truth.
Eight years and five albums...
In music there are those special artists that seem to transcend genre and defy categorization. From time to time one hears a voice that can stop you dead in your tracks and shake your very foundation to the core. Mike ...
Mike Lawrence is a comedian born and raised in South Florida. He began doing comedy as a way to escape the dullness of his job at the McDonald's Drive-Thru, and quickly fell in love with it. He moved to New York in 2007,...
MilkDrive, the Austin alt-folk-progressive acoustic string band, released its debut studio album in April 2011, ROAD FROM HOME, produced in Nashville by Bil VornDick (Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, Bob Dylan, Ralph Stanley)....
"...YEAH, WELL, NOW THEY SOUND LIKE BOB DYLAN, THE STONES, STOOGES, NEIL YOUNG, WAYLON JENNINGS... WELL, EVEN WILLIE. I GUESS THEY’VE BEEN AT IT FOR A COUPLE YEARS NOW. BACK IN SUMMER OF 09, BACK WHEN I MET EM, WEZ AND...
NEW CASSETTES is a five-piece band from Northampton, England who delivers a fresh blast of modern rock that is artful, edgy and infectious. Evoking a fascinating blend of classic indie rock, pop and new wave, yet thoroug...
Ever since moving operations from his parent’s basement in Tacoma, Washington to Brooklyn, 20 year old Brad Oberhofer has been carefully honing his own brand of bedroom pop, which is as affecting and genuine as it is n...
The musical partnership that started between Alex Crawford and Paul Baker, AKA The Others, a number of years ago has proved to be an endlessly creative and fruitful one that has continued to herald exciting results both ...
Based in Denver, CO, Egedy resides in the notorious rave-punk-house Rhinoceropolis. Thanks in large part to Pictureplane's legendary shows at Rhino, his raging club night, "Real is a Feeling", and his constant stream of...
RACES exists as a result of artistic rebirth and personal rediscovery, but it all starts at a point in Wade Ryff’s life where motivation was at its most scarce. Disillusioned with music, beset with the bitter ending o...
RUTHIE FOSTER “LET IT BURN”
Those who have followed Ruthie Foster’s eclectic musical history know that she can burn down any stage with her combustible blend of soul, blues, rock, folk and gospel. And when Gramm...
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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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.......
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 ...
On Visits, Tammar pulls off a pretty incredible trick with each and every one of its post-punk anthems, probably something of which the band doesn’t take much note. They mine the classic sounds of paranoia, malaise and...
Artist Information
Biography
Tango in the Attic were formed in 2008 at Edinburgh university by five friends that have grown up together.
The band take influence from best pop, avant-garde and east coast garage music...
New album: Goddess Galactic is the 18th idie release by Texas native and Austin Hip Hop Ambassador Tee-Double.
On September 30,2010 The Austin City Council and Mayor Lee Leffingwell proclaimed "Tee-Double Day" in Tee-...
What’s the first thing you think of when someone mentions Thee Oh Sees? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, melody-maiming John Dwyer careening across your cranium, rounded out b...
Tiago Iorc (pronounced ee-ork / born November 28, 1985) is a Brazilian musician, singer-songwriter and recording artist. As a child, Tiago lived in England and in the United States — which later determined his choice o...
Torreblanca
Biography
TORREBLANCA is a Mexican rock/pop/alternative independent band created in late 2007. They are a feisty young group of 5 musicians -very different from each other- however (yet), they comply in an ...
With her warm, guileless vocals and earnest, evocative songwriting, Tristen has emerged as a truly individual talent, bridging genres and emotions to create a distinctive sound all her own. The Nashville-based songstres...
Presented by: The Agency Group/French Bureau Export
The Two Self Titled Debut on iTunes since 01.24.2012.
"Jarre's guitar is as smooth as any familiar rock 'n' roll riff, Starck's raspy voice gives their music its magnetism"
The New York Times
"So intimate it fee...
UZOY (pronounced uzi) is a Nigerian-American female rapper and producer from the southeast side of Houston, TX. She began writing music in high school as a hobby and soon began to record her first songs.
Her passion f...
Vintage Trouble
Live-wired, straight-shootin, dirty-mouth'd,
pelvis-pushing juke music
Vintage Trouble, based in Los Angeles, is the brainchild of Ty Taylor (vocal) and Nalle Colt (guitar). Co...
Will Sexton, whose writing credits range from work with Waylon Jennings and Stephen Stills to Joe Ely and Bill Carter, is shaped by the unique diversity of the Austin music scene. Fate and his own sheer talent placed hi...
Willy Mason was just 19 when his first album was released, a record that propelled him to critical acclaim and showed a young man with a tremendous, broad-oaked voice, a great songwriting talent, and a peculiar wisdom be...
Ultimate self-starters The Xcerts released their critically acclaimed debut album ʻIn The Cold Wind We Smile’ in 2009. In 2010 the band were invited to New York by super producer Mike Sapone for album number ‘Scatte...
A gorgeous, messy cluster of melody and jangle, Young Orchids' songs are instantly accessible, yet somehow left-of-center. Drawing inspiration from the timeless sounds of early rock n' roll and doo-wop, combined with the...
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” ...
Dark Time Sunshine is comprised of Onry Ozzborn of Grayskul (Rhymesayers) and producer Zavala. Onry and Zavala first met and collaborated while working on mutual friend and rap artist Sleep's 'Hesitation Wounds' in 2009 ...
Dessa’s first full-length record, A Badly Broken Code, introduced her to a national audience as a rapper, a singer, and a potent, imaginative lyricist. It earned a binder of superlative reviews from sources like NPR, T...
Natives are a psychadelic punk group based out of Louisville, KY. Made up of former members of prominent Louisville bands Enkindel/The Enkindels, Invaders and Ten to Midnight, Natives just released their debut EP, Loose ...
Twin Peaks is a collaboration between Halifax MC, Ghettosocks, and Toronto MC, Muneshine – Two of Hip Hop's most handsome devils, Ghettosocks & Muneshine, have conjoined to form the inimitable rap duo known as Twin Pea...
Everyone can now make music. The increasing access to music related technology and the liquid flow of music and information is a blessing to aspiring musicians, but a curse to those who have to sift through the terrible ...
After the tragic death of a newly arrived Ex-pat, ESL kindergarten teachers Simon and Darin, steal the corpse in order to perform the final rites for the fallen stranger. Their quest for the perfect burial spot becomes a...
Director(s): Mark Jarrett
Narrative Feature
115 min
Henrik is in deep trouble. His girlfriend has split, drug and alcohol abuse have gotten the upper hand, and he's deeply in debt. When everything is most dire and his woes seem wholly insurmountable, a door to new life is...
Director(s): Christian Sønderby Jepsen
Documentary Feature
86 min
Where dirty blues and beats collide: Meet ZZ Ward, a singer/songwriter whose artistry spins on a luminous axis of voice and soul. Raised in Roseburg, Oregon, ZZ learned from her father who wrote songs and played harmonic...
Expect no gimmicks from San Francisco-bred emcee, DaVinci. Though his upbringing in the historic Fillmore District is a far cry from its jazz heyday, he represents a new generation of post-Reaganomic crack-era rap, whose...
Spring 2010 saw the demise of Port O'Brien, and founding member/front man Van Pierszalowski needed a break from the hectic, wonderful mess that is touring. He stumbled into respite in Oslo, Norway, and spent some time aw...
CJ HILTON COLD SUMMER
The son of a gospel vocalist, Baltimore, Maryland native CJ Hilton comes by his talent naturally. Growing up, the 21-year-old singer honed his enormous talent singing in church. Skipping the tradit...
“I don’t sound like anybody; I sound like HoodStar Chantz”
Hailing out of Fifth Ward area in Houston,Tx HoodStar Chantz is an artist determined not only to be the next best thing out of Texas but in music peri...
After trying everything to get his wife Audrey (Olivia Munn) pregnant, Tommy Macklin (Paul Schneider) realizes to his horror that he may be “shooting blanks.” Terrified that his marriage may fall apart, Tommy recruit...
Director(s): Jay Chandrasekhar
Narrative Feature
93 min
“Degenerate Art” tells the story of glass pipe-making from the origins of the “color-changing” pipe, to the radical emerging art movement it has become today. Despite federal laws, pipe-makers have created a whol...
Director(s): M. Slinger
Documentary Feature
74 min
Presented by: The Agency Group/French Bureau Export
Housse De Racket are the French duo Pierre Leroux and Victor Le Masne. Starting out as in-demand session musicians with Air and Phoenix the boys were simultaneously making their first steps as Housse De Racket. Recent si...
From Harlem by way of Jersey, Things started taking off musically for Kyle Rapps when he dropped "Love, Love" featuring KRS-One and Homeboy Sandman. He followed that acclaimed XXL and 2Dopeboyz posted single with his...
Nola Fam {formally known as Nola Boyz} all born and raised in New Orleans, L.A (Downtown) Q and Mani the first two original members who started the group in 2007 first met in high school (Fredrick A. Douglass). Both memb...
"Searching for Sugar Man" tells the true story of the greatest '70s US rock icon who never was, how he was rediscovered in a far off land and finally became the legend he always deserved to be. It is a story of...
Director(s): Malik Bendjelloul
Documentary Feature
85 min
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...
May, a high-strung and overly meticulous nurse, must return to Los Angeles to retrieve bone marrow for a transplant. Soon after her trip begins, her world turns upside down when past and present collide and she runs smac...
Director(s): Ernesto Foronda, Silas Howard
Narrative Feature
87 min
Danish indie band Choir Of Young Believers made their debut in 2007, with the EP “Burn The Flag”, which earned them heavy airplay and great reviews in their homeland. Other highlights of 2007 included a memorable per...
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...
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...
In 2011 Cassian became one of Australia's busiest exports, clocking up some serious miles and gaining invaluable experience performing all over the world in clubs from LA to Rome, Warsaw to Mallorca & Vancouver to Singap...
Artist Bio: Chokeules
Chokeules ("choke-you-leez") is Toronto's worst kept secret. Best known for his time with veteran hip hop outfit Toolshed, the prolific emcee has exploded onto the scene since he relocated from L...
Ed Sheeran is blessed – he seems to know exactly where he is going, and exactly how to get there. Where countless others fail to make an impression amid today’s information overload, Ed’s music and talent cut strai...
“When it comes to dirty, sleazy garage-n-roll, I can only think of a few French bands. But if there was only one, it would be the infamous Magnetix. It's their unique blend of trashy 50's surf and garage that you can't...
Action Bronson is a dynamic 27 year old queens breed Albanian beast of a rapper. Bronson a relative newcomer to the sport of rap has in only 1 years time put out 1 mixtape and 2 complete records. His 1st album Dr.Lecter ...
ATASH is a brotherhood of musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds. The band’s sheer diversity reminds us that we are all bearers of unique cultural traditions rooted in different geographical places. Yet the buddin...
With their sleeve-length tattoos and stevedore swagger, one might mistake the members of The Drowning Men for blue-collar dockworkers in their hometown of Oceanside, CA. Perhaps they were longshoremen in another life, bu...
emma louise is one of those people who were born to play music. She was the one who avoided maths and science classes to teach herself guitar and write songs in the high school music room. It paid off. At age 16, Emma’...
Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. ...
Director(s): Bobcat Goldthwait
Narrative Feature
100 min
KPAUL and PIMPIN PEN are maternal cousins that have been making quality music since 1999 as V.I.P. They were signed to a label Mentally Twisted Records in early 1999 then later that year dropped consitant hits earning th...
"WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines" traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, W...
Director(s): Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Documentary Feature
65 min
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...
Cecil Otter is a compelling musician for the same reasons he’s good with cards. The technique runs on charm, patience, intuition, and precision.
Cecil is one of the founding members of Doomtree. As an emcee he’s a...
I'VE BEEN A BOUNCE RAPPER FOR 3 YEARS NOW, AND I PERFORMED AT SXSW LAST YEAR WITH BIG FREEDIA & KATEY RED AT VARIOUS SHOWS. I'VE WON RAP BATTLES AND RECEIVED AWARDS FOR BEST NEW ARTIST AND ARTIST OF THE YEAR. I LOVE TO E...
Carrying Lightning
“Let’s not give away what all the songs are about,” requests Amanda Shires via email — shortly after an hour-long interview discussing exactly that. “I think I prefer for the listener to ...
Amen Dunes, the solo project of Damon McMahon, began with recordings made in the fall of 2006 in upstate New York. Those tapes were initially put on the shelf as personal recordings never intended for release. The follow...
The Apache Relay was formed by chance in a Nashville college dorm when Michael Ford Jr. (vocals, bass) met Mike Harris (guitar, vocals). Ford Jr. happened to be looking for some musicians to help perform his own music li...
Quirkabilly and Turbopolka:
Attwenger Kicks Out the Alpine Austrian Jams
The Austrian duo Attwenger turn Upper Austrian folk music and wry local wisdom into madcap backbeats and funky, flaring accordion. It’s The...
Bruno loves his wife Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark ...
Director(s): Christoffer Boe
Narrative Feature
83 min
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...
Cairo Knife Fight is a duo of a singing, looping, keyboard bass playing drummer and a two amped, steroed guitarist. It's a ferocious noise for just two men and in the two years since forming Cairo Knife Fight has perform...
Having signed to Bella Union records, Belfast’s Cashier No.9 released their critically acclaimed debut album, “To The Death Of Fun”, in June 2011
Is there a Belfast sound? Van Morrison… Stiff Little Fingers...
At 26 years, Charlie has already spent almost half his life as a professional songwriter and frontman. Starting out as a beleaguered punk-pop heartthrob in multi-platinum act Busted, he broke free of the major label shac...
“When I first played the electric guitar, it felt like a lightning bolt,” says Julia Pierce, lead singer and guitarist of the LA based, all girl, rock band Cherri Bomb. “I was instantly struck by the idea of starti...
“The hardest-working motherfucker in Chicago” — Stool Pigeon
“Chrissy Murderbot is about to be kind of a big deal.” — The Onion AV Club
“a virtual walking encyclopedia of the last 30 years of dance music...
At just 22 years old, Indiana’s Haley Fohr has already undergone the sort of transformation that scarcely strikes musicians two or three times her age. The release this year of Portrait, her third solo album as Circuit...
‘The Wild Youth’ is the new EP from 21 year old Elena Tonra aka Daughter.
A collection of four dark, ethereal & beautiful new songs, ‘The Wild Youth’ showcases a young musician experimenting delicately with a...
Pregnant by music? On her 15th birthday, Rachel, a young Mormon girl from a fundamentalist Utah community, discovers a forbidden cassette tape with rock music on it. Having never heard anything like it, she has a miracu...
Director(s): Rebecca Thomas
Narrative Feature
96 min
Eliza Gilkyson is a politically minded, poetically gifted singer-songwriter, who has become one of the most respected musicians in folk and Americana music circles. The Grammy-nominated artist has appeared on NPR, Austin...
FEATHERS comes after a sequence of bands for lead singer Anastasia Dimou. (Her previous band Cruel Black Dove who released two EP's drew high praise from the likes of NME, The Fader and The New York Post.) Moving to Aus...
Dynamic, quirky and highly energetic indie rock trio Finn Riggins has made a name for itself around the West and the greater US as road warriors from the oft-overlooked state of Idaho over the last several years. Since t...
FOY VANCE – 2011
Some hail him as the new Van Morrison, which is praise indeed, so I was very
interested to see what all the fuss was about when he blew in to do his only
London gig at the Union Chapel.
F...
Fuelled by a passion to create memorable, melodic pop music with interesting and intelligent lyrical content, French Wives see 2012 as the year for them to fully break through. Having spent nearly all of 2011 preparing t...
Sensual, provocatively percussive pop comes naturally to Friends. But you may be surprised by “I’m His Girl” – the second single from the Brooklyn newcomers – and just how cool and pop it is. As rapturous as B...
Close your eyes. Okay, no wait — open them because you need to keep reading — but close them in spirit. Now pretend fun. is not a band, but an amusement park. Just replace the guitar with a log flume and the percuss...
"In Ya Neck!" is the debut release by Austin, TX based guitar/drum duo The Ghost Wolves. Captured almost entirely live, with no digital trickery, it is a raunchy, uninhibited rock & roll piece from top to bottom. The Hou...
The Good The Bad hail from a nuclear bunker in Copenhagen, Denmark. Perhaps due to this strange setting and a little too much radiation they have found a sound which literally electrifies everything in its wake.
Oozin...
While I.U.D.M. has enjoyed a reputation as the most successful rock band in Israel for nearly two decades; earning no less than 5 platinum or gold selling albums-a best selling double live CD and DVD; charting a scores o...
The James Arthur's Manhunt LP was a record I wish people would have talked about more, including myself. Great record, great band, great dude. JA always seems to be standing just slightly in the shadows, out of the spotl...
They say the world is spinning around
I say the world is upside down
With a legacy stretching back nearly 50 years, the Honourable Jimmy Cliff is still standing as one of the prime movers and continuing shapers of mo...
With over 49 million views, Julia Nunes is best known for her charming, comical, and downright creative YouTube music videos. From originals that she writes to songs that she likes, the singer-songwriter wins over all sh...
Ki:Theory (a.k.a. Joel Burleson) is a recording artist and producer who specializes in genres of electronic and indie/alternative rock. He and his band have toured nationwide US, Canada, Japan and Korea including dates ...
Whether Kissy Sell Out is DJing to a packed out crowd, mixing avant garde new sounds on his weekly Radio One radio show, producing his own material or remixing for others, the results are always the same: Exhilarating. I...
Classic soul and R&B, jazz, and British invasion form the backdrop for the quirky and irreverent brand of pop for which Lake Street Dive has become known. Combine this with the unstoppable joy of their live shows and nea...
Presented by: Cucu Diamantes & Andres Levin/Music Has No Enemies
Known for her striking voice and magnetic performances, Mexican-American singer and composer Lila Downs (Oaxaca, México) has created one of the most singular explorations of Mexican roots music on both sides of the bord...
Mari, Matt, and Jake Abdo, are the siblings who are LYNHURST. The band is named after the South Minneapolis Park and neighborhood where they grew up. After a year of touring, writing, and recording, LYNHURST delivers a 5...
Marit Larsen
Marit Larsen is about to release her third solo album, Spark. Here is the story of her continuing success in Norway and Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Larsen has released two previous solo albums, ...
The Mastersons.
Husband and wife, singing and playing together.
And they’re each deft instrumentalists, and they’ve spent years playing in others’ bands before coming together as a unit. They’re bound by music ...
Muchachito Bombo Infierno después de grandes giras sólo o con su númerosa banda en España y actuar en los principales festivales europeos, se presenta por primera vez en NY y en SXSW
Muchachito, compositor e int...
The Non is a high-energy experimental quartet that shares musical touchstones with bands like Battles, Grizzly Bear, and The Octopus Project. The Non has been around for 6 years, and in the last three they have been play...
Oh Mercy, headed by songwriter Alexander Gow, are a young indie pop band with serious talent. Debut 'Privileged Woes' won the Australia Music Prize in 2009. New album, Great Barrier Grief, recorded by Mitchel Froom, debu...
New York City’s Outernational has released "Todos Somos Ilegales: We Are All Illegals", a name-your-price 18 track genre-bending bilingual cinema-in-sound mixtape album featuring collaborations with Tom Morello (Rage A...
Pets With Pets say.. “Australia is a very ancient land. A wise old man man who on occasion loses control of his bladder, in a purely geological sense. It is an isolated land in the antipodes, when Europeans first came ...
POLIÇA began as a collaboration between fellow Gayngs' members Channy Casselle and Ryan Olson in June of 2011. By July they had completed 11 songs, made the key additions of drummers Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson,...
Princeton is a minimalist pop band from Los Angeles, California. They are releasing their 2nd full length album, 'Remembrance of Things To Come' on Hit City USA and Easter Everywhere Records on February 21. After the rel...
When Revolvr pulls the trigger, you feel it. Revolvr a.k.a. Touvan Sughiarto officially entered the electronic music world in 2011. Collaborating with Donald Glaude, he dropped an incendiary and infectious remix of Scoot...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore met while studying philosophy in college. The two agreed that upon graduating they would sell their collective possessions and leave behind their lives in Denver. They planned to buy a smal...
-TITA LIMA - POSSIBILIDADES (POSSIBILITIES)-2010 by LABEL A www.myspace.com/titalima
Possibilidades hit the top 5 chart on KCRW radio in August 2010.
“It seems as if she is singing into your ear. A voice so expe...
Music had always proved to be a huge influence in young Tom Jordan’s life, while classmates were still listening to playground tunes Jordan had a mature ear, captivated by the tunes of AC/DC.
Tom was influenced to ...
ANDY WHITE & EDWIN WHITE, THEY ARE THE BROTHERS FROM FLORIDA: AMERICA’S FINAL FRONTIER. WHILE NOW SEPARATE LIVING IN MONTREAL & NYC THEY CONTINUE TO CREATE MUSIC ALL THE FUCKING TIME. THEY DON’T WANT ANYTHING. BOOGIE...
Total Unicorn harvests raw astronoble vapors to imbue communal thoughtspace with its peculiar halation. Between composer, Lyman Hardy III (Unicorn Orange Venti), and visualist, Stephen Hal Fishman (The Microcorn), floats...
20 years after riots ripped through Los Angeles, "Uprising" documents how hip hop forecasted – and some say ignited – the worst civil unrest of the 20th century. The film revisits the riots in gripping deta...
Late night bike riding in Stockholm and endless love for retro synthesizers inspired Ester Ideskog, Sweden, to compose synth heavey electro pop hits under her new alias Vanbot.
Vanbot has been making music since the ear...
From coast to coast and beyond, the electronic music spectrum has shifted radically to the low end, generating ribcage-rattling blasts from the underground on up. Tucked away in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the Boul...
Warren Hood is an accomplished musician who plays violin, fiddle, mandolin, and composes and sings as well. He lives in Austin, Texas and performs with his local band, Warren Hood and the Hoodlums, in a blend of jazz/blu...
America, we’d like to introduce you to an amazing new band called Serenades. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Serenades are the dynamic duo of Adam Olenius (Shout Out Louds) and Markus Krunegard, two of Sweden’s most hig...
The Wedding Present has had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles… not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. Formed in 1985 by David Gedge, they have been record...
Will Dailey & The Rivals pave a new path with their upcoming full length self titled album and first for Universal Republic Records.
Breaking from an approach they employed on their last series of recordings, Will Da...
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...
Bespeak the antithetical glory of nature and man,
born anew from the womb of sound:
With Drums, Bass, Guitar, Guitar to liberate the air
of mundane chords and strings from under the ground
U-N-D-E-R-T-H-E-G-R...
Full bio can be found via the EPK hyperlink.
Maybe you know her independent hit singles Cameo Lover and Settle Down, which won her 1st place in the Pop Category of International Song writing Competition;
or you’re...
Brought together by the power of the internet (and perhaps a touch of musical providence), Cincinnati-based computer programmer int eighty and Manchester-area graphic designer c64 have been rocking the more studious side...
Few bands today embrace their own individualism to ultimately craft something truly unique and genre defying regardless of its sales potential. Enter the Chicago-based NACHTMYSTIUM who embrace the true spirit of individu...
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...
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...
Austin troubadour Alejandro Escovedo’s journey has taken him from Texas to California to New York and back again to Texas, encompassing a breadth of music as varied as the many bands he was part of before embarking on ...
BIOGRAPHY
It doesn’t happen often. But every once in a while a young artist comes along who has the chops, vision, range and creative conviction to change the game. Miguel is among that chosen few. The “e-clectr...
Jacques Greene hails from Montreal, Canada. His focus is glistening house music with the perfect balance of reverence and idiosyncrasy, and an unashamed devotion to R'n'B. Releases on LuckyMe and NightSlugs have announce...
Joe Wengert is a comedian living in Los Angeles. As a stand up he has performed in Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, and New York City.
He is a regular performer at the UCB Theater and can be seen in shows such as ...
The music of Korallreven is constructed along a simple philosophy: to create sounds that capture both the essence of a spiritual experience and the freedom of experimentation. Born in the South Pacific and illuminated by...
CHAPTER 24 are Claire Smith (vocals), Joe Green (guitar), Mel Stark (bass) and Mark Castro (drums) from London. Mel and Claire got bored back in their school days and decided to start a band with Joe, and after eventuall...
Los Angeles born, New York City based DJ/Producer Clockwork has been churning out heavy hitting tracks since 2009. He was one of the many 18 year olds circling the dance blogosphere from their bedrooms, but his innovativ...
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College, from his real name David Grellier, is a French electronic music composer born in 1979 in Nantes. At the end of the 90s, he purchased his first computer, with which he realized numerous demos influenced by artist...
Gerald G was born in Compton, California, yet moved to Austin’s historic Eastside when he was merely 4 years old.Gerald G established Monsta Entertainment in 2003 as his self-owned vehicle for business ventures done on...
Marriage is Nate Cross, Alex LaRoche, Mike Kanin, Greg Piwonka, and Jeff Piwonka.
The band formed in 2010 after Nate, Greg, Jeff, and Mike went looking for a singer. They got more than that when Alex joined and began...
With mainstream appeal, surgical precision, and unshakable crew love, Mike Mictlan is an unparalleled force in the underground. His live show is a spectacle of sweat and laughter and fury and communion. You could search ...
Many young musicians have parents who are less than supportive when artistic aspirations are announced. It’s understandable. After all, becoming a doctor, lawyer or accountant are safe career bets. Donning a guitar, wr...
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, ...
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...
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...
Greil Marcus liked to refer back to “The Old, Weird America” when discussing a certain famous set of recordings that emanated from a Woodstock cabin basement. ALLAH-LAS sound like the Old, Weird Los Angeles: Strains ...
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...
Kurt Braunohler has done many things. He's been on the TV on shows like Delocated, The Heart She Holler, Bob’s Burgers, Comedy Central Presents, Jon Benjamin Has a Van, Assy McGee, Human Giant and too many other shows ...
The Cadillac Black Bio
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The Cadillac Black like to refer to their sound as "Country Fuzz". Its a little bit country, a little bit rock & roll & a whole lot of whiskey soaked fun.
On ...
Gifted new artist Devin will make his Frenchkiss debut on November 15 with the three-song EP You’re Mine. After hearing a track Devin recorded in his home studio, Frenchkiss label owner Syd Butler caught Devin’s comp...
Mannie Fresh is known to fans and throughout the music industry as an amazing producer, artist, and entertainer but he started out as one of the best DJs in New Orleans and he is now returning to his musical roots. The ...
River City Extension will release their sophomore album, "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Anger," on June 5 via XOXO Records / Anchor & Hope Music. The eight-member Toms River, New Jersey, band recorded the 14-track al...
Even after the disaster that was "Shortcut to Memphis", The Golden Boys are still a stunning example of rock'n'roll from the heart. Separate The Golden Boys and you get 5 destructive tornadoes of law defying drunkenness ...
Austin, TX based Rattletree Marimba is the culmination of a 20 year journey by founder Joel Laviolette into the heart of traditional Zimbabwean trance music.
Living with his teacher in the high-density suburbs of Ch...
With a gritty, down and dirty flow that puts him in easy company with East coast greats like Method Man and Redman, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire evokes the days of mid-'90s hip-hop. Based out of New York, eXquire has a style...
The Brick Squad Monopoly is headed west through Interstate Traffic. One of the most exciting, talked-about crews in Hip Hop, led by star rappers Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame is showing its California branches throug...
Agridoce is the new project of Brazil's most important new generation rock artist: Pitty. Joined by the guitarrist/singer Martin, a longtime music partner, they've recorded their first album this year, in a one-month-iso...
ANAIS MITCHELL
YOUNG MAN IN AMERICA
In case you haven't met her, Anaïs Mitchell is not a man. She's a woman, quick to laugh and to cry, a fan of Jane Austen and miniskirts. She came of age reading the diaries of Ana...
Anna Ihlis is a swedish singer and composer who started her singing at the early age of three, since then her voice has taken her through all different kinds of music genres. Folk, jazz, and classical and now she has end...
ANTHM found his “come up” through hard work and perseverance. Growing up, he never knew his father, but was raised by a strong, single Ethiopian mother who taught him that nothing in life is handed to you. Ant took t...
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.....
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...
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 ...
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...
CHALIE BOY
Biography
Texas may be known as the Lone Star State, but the southern hotbed has been responsible for birthing dozens of rap stars. While Houston, and even Dallas, has gotten a majority of the national spo...
Guitarist Chris Forsyth's hypnotic compositions assimilate minimalism and psychedelia with art rock, folk, and blues influences. He has toured throughout Europe and the US, sharing stages with such like-minded artists a...
The music of Cotton Jones speaks of transition: the passage from one form, state of mind, style or place to another. Songs become doorways to the past, or windows that open on some unnamed future, where innocence can sti...
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Cuban born with French, Spanish, African and Chinese heritage, CuCu Diamantes came to New York with music in mind. After finishing ‘fine arts’ studies in Havana and Rome, CuCu felt the pull of the Manhattan’s uniqu...
Dead black hearts is a 5-piece indie rock band based in Austin, TX. They take musical influences from Wolf Parade, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, The Flaming Lips, and Bright Eyes. After releasing their first EP, 'Five Gallant...
Music history is rich with rock bands fronted by dynamic duos. Looking to carry on this yin and yang tradition are singer Emily Armstrong and female guitarist Siouxsie Medley, who front Los Angeles’ Dead Sara — an el...
DEADMAN can best be summed up by the mythological story of the Phoenix; a great bird that burns fiercely to ashes from which a new, stronger life emerges. But let's start at the beginning....
At the turn of the cent...
Dry the River
Since forming in spring 2009, Dry The River have toured extensively in the UK and Europe promoting their “careful mix of emotive, lilting folk and upbeat, impassioned rock’... NME.
Based in a sh...
Emily Wells has long been turning heads with her unique songcraft. The performer, producer and songwriter trades in a striking mix of classical instrumentation, folk rawness and hip-hop production anchored by her hauntin...
Emperor X is a pop/noise/folk music project headed by American songwriter and sound artist C. R. Matheny. A former high school science teacher, he dropped out of a graduate physics program in 2004 to focus on music. Over...
A musician with gripping, powerful vocals that delivers energetic yarns about love, the government and the apocalypse, to name just a few. A true Renaissance man, he has mastered numerous instruments including acoustic, ...
“(…) while the biggest buzz around the festival was for Montreal trio Half Moon Run.”
Mark Monahan, Director of the Ottawa Bluesfest, interviewed by the Ottawa Sun
"Their minimal but textured rock had real dy...
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Music is the story of her life, a family affair. The story of a Berber girl born in Morocco. Her father was in the army and her mother a housewife. She grew up to the sound of divas - raï and châabi, like Cheikha Rimit...
Horse Thief is a psychedelic folk rock band based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The band is formed of four guys who feel there’s a void in the current music scene that needs to be filled. “Our music is about more than ...
Originally from Bulgaria, but based in the UK for the past 9 years, Ilona has had a life that makes her unlike many others. With a rich blend of backgrounds and influences to draw on, combined with her passion for music ...
The Los Angeles-based electronic-music Don known as Kraddy has always brought the undiluted sound of the underground to new audiences. From his work as a founding member of the infamous Glitch Mob to his groundbreaking s...
Lee was born and raised in the small town of Wilson, North Carolina,one of 4 children. He spent his adolescence years singing in church and listening to R&B Artists such as James Brown, The Temptations, Eddie Floyd, Oti...
Los Rakas, the Bay Area via Panama duo comprised of cousins Raka Rich + Raka Dun, has taken the Latino hip-hop world by storm. Known for their fresh mix of hip-hop, plena, reggae and dancehall music with both Spanish and...
M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion
“I can trace all my songs to a specific moment,” M. Ward told a New York Times writer in February of 2009, as he was about to release, Hold Time, his acclaimed third release for Merg...
New York was wearing on Kyle Wilson, lead singer & songwriter for the Brooklyn-based quintet Milagres. So he took off, away from the city and his band and his issues… all the way to the coldest, most remote part of Bri...
In recent years, hip-hop and electronic music have inched ever closer
to each other, cross pollinating healthy scenes for a fresh sound that
is winning over countless fans of both genres. Yet few rappers have
effortle...
To quell the myths and misconceptions surrounding the Austin, Texas two-piece Not in the Face is not an easy task, as their truth is often much stranger than their fiction…
The Men
Jonathan Terrell (vocals, guitar...
The latest OCTANT LP contains music performed by hand-built digitally controlled and solenoid actuated instruments. Steam, bellows, and clockwork would seem to be appropriate tools for the ghostly powers directing this o...
Pond was born under a mulberry tree in Daglish, Western Australia, by Joseph Ryan, Nick Allbrook and Jay Watson. Under the mulberry tree they conceived the idea of an album of tropical psychedelic idiocy that they perfor...
Drawing from a collective mine of times and spaces, Prince Rama (made up of sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson) takes the threads of ancient symbolism and ritual and weaves a surreal universe that is wholly their own. Thei...
Prizehog, a three piece band from San Francisco, has been playing music since 2006. They have played in basements, houses, venues and festivals with such bands as Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, Phil ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Inspired by italo, electro and the 80s new wave movement, Teeel aka Jim Smith credits his sound to marathon movie watching and being an obsessive gear head. Creating music in a 10×10 teal painted room, stacked with vint...
Teitur has just released his new album in North America, "Let the Dog drive home", and completed a 6 week solo tour there.
On the new record he opted to give his songs a much more of an American influence, which led ...
Loud, hairy, and unpredictable, Three Blind Wolves are four young Glaswegians delivering country rock with a razor sharp edge. Drawing influences from Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival and even Led Zeppelin, the b...
Torro Torro is the Toronto based production duo of Mike ("Digits") and Yo Ev. The duo masterfully create an identifiable brand of contemporary party music, influenced by hip hop, electronic dance music and tropical riddi...
“’Pure Country Soul’ is about right,” reckons Reid Morrison of Treetop Flyers, whose beautifully tangled roots soak up a timeless musical current. “We’re not full-on country or Southern rock or soul. We have ...
A punk rock freight train, in a thunderstorm, on a full moon, on Halloween, in a burst of blood and flame... without being overly dramatic its hard to ignore the virginal excitement of this outfit. Turbogeist have blaze...
Six Shooter Records’ Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet tie the musical knot with the debut of their new band, Whitehorse, marrying their talent and chemistry on stage as a smoldering duo. Gutsy and resolute in their p...
Having spent his youth in various bands xxxy finally decided to hang up his guitar and mic and began producing electronic music fuelled by his love at the time of drum and bass and techno. Through the influential record ...
Twenty-two year old Trevor Powers, whose musical venture is called Youth Lagoon, has had a long year. Not because he’s been endlessly touring or pursuing some wild dream, but because of life – the life of a kid going...
Zola Jesus is an internationally acclaimed electronic performance and recording artist from rural Wisconsin. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Zola Jesus has toured with Fever Ray, the xx, and performed on M83's most r...
Shake Down, the new album from up-and-coming San Antonio-based quartet Hacienda, will be released June 19 on Collective Sounds. The Dan Auerbach-produced LP is band’s third full-length release and follows their aclaime...
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...
The story of the Alabama Shakes begins in a high school psychology class in Athens, Alabama. Brittany Howard, who had started playing guitar a few years earlier, approached Zac Cockrell and asked if he wanted to try maki...
Some metal bands barely last 10 years, much less 15 years. If a band does get to the decade-and-a-half mark, they're usually sputtering out or are teetering on their last, diseased and ready-to-give out legs. Rare is the...
We've been around for 5 or 6 years. We are a two piece. Shawn Walker plays drums, Jesse Bottomley plays guitar. We've put out a smattering of stuff. Some of it on Learning Curve records, some of it as collaborations with...
Bay Area emcee Kirby Dominant and Canadian producer Factor have both been at it for a decade plus, putting out consistent quality material on their respective fronts. In 2001 they found common ground, began recording tog...
Austin, Texas trio Pure X play languid, dreamy, noise pop that floats on a raft of thick, distorted guitar sounds, carried along by a current of simple but determined rhythms. The members of Pure X first met when they we...
The Airplane Boys bring a unique energy and excitement back to the stage. This Toronto-based duo is on the verge of something big. Their band is a fresh sound on the scene, a trail-blazing cutting-edge movement for the...
The west coast MC called Medaphoar is known lately by the first three letters of his name: M to the E to the D. Three short letters for a long-awaited, full-length album which arrived at long last in 2005.
Why the hol...
Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer started Royal Baths without a plan in mind but soon the foundation for their writing found inspiration from Cox’s interest in the alternate and open tunings of delta blues, their shared fasci...
Tycho is the music project of San Francisco artist and producer Scott Hansen. As Tycho, Hansen blends swirling melodies into vaguely triumphant arcs that crisscross between stuttering beats and vocal samples, creating ro...
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 ...
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...
Originally from Aurora, CO, Dan Soder started doing stand up at 21 while attending the University of Arizona. After two years of playing clubs and casinos all over the southwest, Dan decided he'd had enough of extreme he...
Beyond the real deal is the unreal deal, and therein lies Feeding People, a band of teenagers making some of the heaviest psychedelic around decades after the 13th Floor Elevators declared their hallucinatory sense of pu...
Slacker Radio and New York’s iconic Gotham Comedy Club present The Laugh Button Live, a stand-up showcase hosted by Dan Soder and featuring Amy Schumer, Robert Kelly, Doug Benson and Gary Gulman.......
“How many of ya’ll are familiar with the League of Extraordinary G’z?” was the question posed by Bavu Blakes, indie rap veteran and reigning godfather of the Austin Texas Hip Hop scene, as he stood on a dimly lit...
A man is on a holiday in the woods with his wife and two kids when they are surprised by the arrival of an uninvited guest. Suddenly, he experiences a time lapse. Before he understands what’s going on, he finds himself...
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...
"A blazing, Southern-fried garage punk sound that makes his band one of the Volunteer State's about-to-be-favorite sons." SPIN
"With his influences grounded in the classics—the Beatles and the Rolling Stones (not t...
Random, aka Mega Ran, Big Ran or Random Beats. Teacher, Rapper, Hero.
Born Raheem Jarbo in Philadelphia to a southern mother and African father, Random’s songs are filled with all of the heartache, pain, triumph, tr...
From the bluesy swagger of the album opener “Hollywood Hollows” to the soaring, Washington Irving inspired anthem “Equestrian,” it is evident that MIRRORS, the debut full length from U.S. Royalty, is an album of ...
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YELLE is a French dance-pop act founded in 2005 and fronted & named by Yelle, nee Julie Budet.
First official single, "Je Veux Te Voir" a rather obvious slam of French rapper Cuizinier, was posted on MySpace in 2006 a...
L.A.'s Wavves follow up their 2010 skuzz-pop masterstroke King of the Beach with Life Sux, the debut release from singer Nathan Williams' Ghost Ramp label. If the band's previous records were all about one man's self-loa...
The heartbeat that sparks the third song on 1, 2, 3’s debut LP isn’t just a flutter effect meant to set a melancholic mood. It literally symbolizes the start of a new life. Or in the case of Nicolas Snyder and Joshua...
World War II did not end with complete defeat for the Nazis – some of them managed to utilize their secret technologies to flee to the dark side of the Moon.
There, deep within their swastika fortress, Schwarze Sonne,...
Director(s): Timo Vuorensola
Narrative Feature
93 min
As Kevin Devine started work on his sixth solo album, Between the Concrete & Clouds, he decided to make some fundamental changes. The first notable difference was the way he structured his day when he woke up each mornin...
Kosha Dillz, born Rami Matan Even-Esh, has earned the title of the "hardest working man in hip hop" by his peers recently. From breakfast freestyles on morning shows with tap dancers, to performing at over 150 shows a ye...
P.O.S built his reputation as an innovator, with an unlikely punk rock past and expressive, honest content. He re-earns the accolades with every release. He manages to capture his charisma on his records; they’re drivi...
Travis Porter is a triple threat for hip hop.
Comprised of three unique 20-year-old MCs—“Strap” (Harold Duncan), “Quez” (Donquez Woods), and “Ali” (Lakeem Mattox)—the Atlanta rap trio is packing club-rea...
J. Pinder has accomplished an extraordinary amount for such a
young artist. He has worked with the cream of Seattle hip hop (Jake
One, Vitamin D, Kuddie Fresh) and he has worked with characters
such as Guilty Simps...
Boston's Gary Gulman has appeared on just about every television show a young standup comedian can appear on, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Late Show with David Letterman. His brand of clever, original...
Charged with murder and likely going to jail, crime boss Reg Bellavance is out on bail and wants to skip town with his son. The only problem is that the money he had stashed away for just such an occasion has gone missin...
Director(s): Steven C. Miller
Narrative Feature
87 min
Koldo and Clara are about to celebrate the most important day of their lives: their wedding. Everything appears to be running smoothly and the bride, the groom and their families are enjoying a wonderful day in the count...
"Any other artist, dead or alive have ever made anything like this. It´s totally original! Agnes Mercedes creativity and very own expression is so great that one wonders if she is mad or brilliant, but however that may ...
ANDREW W.K. - The King of Partying
Andrew W.K.’s true will is to party. And when it's time to party, he will always party hard. His mission is creating energized joy, physical euphoria, loving fun, endless enthusi...
Apache Dropout is a full on lysergic boogie trio from Southern Indiana. They've self-released a handful of recordings while touring the sub-U.S. during the past couple years. Their debut self-titled LP was released in ea...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
The Coathangers were a band before they were musicians. The Atlanta quartet started out as an excuse to hang out and play parties. Their jokey attitude ran deep, right down to their name—a self-admittedly crude abortio...
In the cold and dreary winter of 2009, alone in his bedroom and hidden from the darkness of the world outside Justin Paul Vallesteros had begun working on something that would change his life forever. What began as a cou...
Seductive firebrand rock n roll band, The Dandies were formed by talented brothers Adrian Weber (Vocals / Guitar) & Eric Weber (Lead Guitar) whose roots are in Baltimore, USA and Swiss friend Fabian Voirol (Drums). In 20...
The Devil Whale is a five piece semi-pro rock band from Salt Lake City that specializes in long drives and short songs.
In 2011, the band self-released their second full-length album (“Teeth”) while also playing ...
DJ DUS has taken the principals of 1970’s era Jamaican
soundsystems, a producer’s approach to developing new
material and a DJ’s skill behind the turntables to develop a
unique and inspired mix of cumbia, hip h...
Django Django Biography 2011
It's not for anyone else to decide what other young men and women should get up to in the sanctity of their own bedrooms. That said, it's heartening to know that not everyone using the ter...
THE DUNWELLS – BLIND SIGHTED FAITH
Utterly natural. There’s no more fitting description for both the music of The Dunwells as well as the story of their magical rise from the pubs of Leeds, England to an American ...
DURAN is a solo project, it has a new sound called chirripop, this style of music includes electrocumbia,
dance hall. R&B, rock & trip hop. However, the lyrics have a particular style full of street and raw
elements, e...
Enjambre is a contemporary rock ensemble, their sound has sparkles of the sixties and seventies, South American ballads, a touch of nostalgia, and climatic moments, all this wrapped up into a rock and roll context. Enjam...
Grey Filastine is an audio-visual artist born in Los Angeles, based in Barcelona, and often nomadic. He composes a dense transnational bass music that collides the lowest frequencies of dubstep with the highest-level bea...
Name: Freedy Johnston
Birthplace: Larned, Kansas
Home: New York City; Madison, Wi.
Some facts:
- Freedy first came to SXSW twenty years ago to promote his Can You Fly album.
- Since then he has made five records...
Gt//Sachio Yoshizawa
Dr//Ryo Inoue
From Shibuya, Tokyo and Kashiwa, Chiba!
Since 2008
::discography::
"GAGAKIRISE//JUIICEBOXXX split EP"(cd/2010)
"Gentlemen GAGA"(cassette tape/2010) out of stock!
"Black ...
If you're listening at all, you'll never shake the sound. It's honest - real music played by real people. The melodies will inspire, the words may haunt, and the rhythm will undoubtedly have you miles away from your chai...
Brooklyn-based trio, A Great Big Pile of Leaves got their start in 2007 when guitarist/singer Peter Weiland and drummer Tyler Soucy took time from their prior projects to start writing material of their own. The first s...
BIOGRAPHY
IGYOT is without a doubt, one of the absolute heavyweights on the thriving Copenhagen indie scene.
The band is a veritable all-star team of acclaimed musicians from the Copenhagen indie, jazz and underground ...
Singer-songwriter Jillian Edwards hails from Texas, but she now calls Nashville home. A graduate of Baylor University, her crystalline, breezy soprano and intelligent, heartfelt songwriting have been steadily attracting ...
Normally associated with his peers in techno from Detroit, Europe and elsewhere, John Tejada has embraced electronic music as a personal frontier, expanding on his resume as a techno recording artist as producer, remixer...
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...
Full bio can be found via the EPK hyperlink.
Maybe you know her independent hit singles Cameo Lover and Settle Down, which won her 1st place in the Pop Category of International Song writing Competition;
or you’re...
Lionel Richie
BIO
Lionel Richie proves that you can go home again with his new album, Tuskegee, a collection of 13 of his international hits performed as duets with today’s country music superstars, and it feels even...
Individually and collectively, M.A.K.U SoundSystem (M.A.K.U) has been searching for a musical voice, experimenting in jazz, rock, hip-hop, and folklore. After a year of trying to build M.A.K.U and delving into individual...
Mahogany is an electric music-based multidisciplinary media ensemble currently working in Philadelphia, New York, and other locations. A combination of vocals, cello, massed guitars, pianos, melodicas, sequencers, synthe...
Miike Snow is – are – in a playful mood. The second, somewhat orchatronic, album by the three-headed-band with the one-man-name and mysterious Jackalope symbol is called Happy To You. Why?
“It’s a sign in t...
Nathaniel Rateliff toured relentlessly in 2010 and 2011 supporting his Rounder Records debut “In Memory of Loss” - headlining shows and performing at major festivals throughout USA, Canada, UK and Europe. Earlier thi...
Neon Trees
Tyler Glenn – Vocals/Keyboards
Chris Allen – Guitar
Branden Campbell – Bass
Elaine Bradley – Drums/Backing Vocals
Any conversation with Neon Trees’ Tyler Glenn is likely to be heavy on the ...
The seeds of New Moods sprouted a couple years ago in small house on the outskirts of Bushwick. After hours of overhearing his housemate artist/vocalist Billy Jones (Other Passengers) feverishly writing and recording rou...
PAPER DIAMOND
Forward is not just a direction, it's a way of life for Colorado based producer Alex B who is rolling out big tunes under the new guise of Paper Diamond. The new project finds the trusted producer moving i...
The irresistible, magnetic vocal harmonies of The Pierces - Alabama-bred, New York-based sisters Allison and Catherine -take a giant step forward as the two singer-songwriters become the newest members of the Mercury Rec...
After surviving many adventures in a wide variety of locales, Ponderosa rises to the pinnacle of their profession, promoted to Admiral's of the Fleet, knighted as Knight's Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and named ...
Hypnotic, elusive New York experimental rock band Psychic Ills took shape in 2003, when they pressed their own 7" and started playing shows. They’ve remained ambiguous and often hard to classify through the years as t...
Ray Wylie Hubbard writes the kind of songs that make you want to ride along no matter where he’s going,
because you know it’s gonna get strange somewhere along the way. The references to Muddy Waters
being as deep ...
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It’s one of the lost classics of the ‘60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion. The album is Cold Fact, and what’s more intriguing is that its maker – a sha...
Sick of Sarah
2205
“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...
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...
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...
Bandleader Brad Register had already endured the crucible of being in a near-breakout act with Summerbirds in the Cellar. With major league accolades and heavyweight supporters, he got closer to the promised land than mo...
Thomas Dolby was an indelible part of the electronic music landscape on both sides of the Atlantic in the ’80s. The Zelig of synthpop, he was seemingly there or thereabouts at all points of that crucial decade. He enjo...
Born São Paulo (SP), singer Tiê, 31, released in April, this year by Warner Music Brasil her second CD, “A Coruja e o Coração”(The Owl and the Heart) , produced by Plinio Profeta.
After the opening with minima...
Todd Snider: Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables bio
Todd Snider is on the happy back end of happy hour at a favorite East Nashville bar,
talking about his new album Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables. “This record doesnʼt
...
Valerie June
Roots/Americana/Singer-
Songwriter
Hers is a twilight voice, a liquid silk from the heart of Tennessee. It is tailor-made for lullabies and lyric blues; and so, for that matter is Valerie June's spir...
Following the release of their debut ep earlier this summer Los Angeles’ five-piece White Arrows are set to make their British live debut and release their first single, ‘Get Gone’. It is a groove-soaked, synth’...
WITCHBURN
Heavy, down tuned, southern fried, whiskey soaked sabbra cadabra. Their live show pulsates with seething and sultry, sweaty energy. Bringing as much groove as brutal thunder, the music is like a hammer straigh...
Yung Nation is a 18 year old hip-hop duo from Dallas, Texas formed by Brandon Reed (B. Reed) and Kendall Johnson (Lil Faime). Yung Nation’s energy, creative rhyme scheme, unpredictable flow, and their indefinable vocab...
Alberta Cross
More than clever verses and catchy choruses, truly timeless albums offer listeners the keys to another world; they catapult you into another frame of mind and jostle your soul along the way. The members ...
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...
Like dirty ghosts, Allyson Baker and Carson Binks, two Toronto expats, rose from the ashes of their old San Francisco-based band Parchman Farm and formed Dirty Ghosts in 2006, a stripped down form of gritty garage and ps...
Established 2008, Mustard Pimp are the french dynamic duo: Baron and eKa. Baron started 9 years ago DJing mostly acid and techno stuff, whilst eKa was the guitarist in a french metal band. They started to make divers...
Nguzunguzu's (prounounced en-goo-zoo-en-goo-zoo) bubbling, otherworldly productions stitch percussively forward experimental sounds into a club-friendly framework. Alongside kindred spirits in the Fade To Mind crew (King...
Amy Schumer’s blend of wholesome, girl-next-door looks and edgy comedy has
earned her a rapid rise in the comedy world. She shot to the forefront of the comedy
scene as the stand out of Comedy Central’s Roast of Ch...
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...
A Generational shift has taken place in Hip Hop over the last few years ushering in a strong
youth movement. Fresh faces, new voices, and a renewed energy is what the audience is
gravitating towards. It is easy for an...
Wings and teeth. No two symbols could've been better chosen to represent Minneapolis rap stalwarts Doomtree. The endlessly innovative crew/label has defied categorization from the start, leaving behind convention for wha...
With a heavy-handed approach and a sound that crashes like thunder, HIGH ON FIRE has put the power back in 'power-trio'. Less a band than a supersonic exercise in conquest by volume and sheer heaviness, the band has burn...
Forwards ever, backwards never. In a perfect world, those four words would tell you everything you need to know about Sacramento thrash-punk juggernaut Trash Talk. But in a perfect world, these four furious scions of gui...
Bryce Case, Jr. (b. August 23, 1982), otherwise known as YTCracker (pronounced "whitey cracker"), is a former cracker most known for defacing the webpages of several federal and municipal government websites in the Unite...
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...
Doughbeezy was born in Cleveland, OH and moved to the Southeast side of Houston, TX at the age of 13.
In 2003 he hooked up with a classmate and recorded his first track.
Through features, youtube clips and local pe...
Punk / Garage from Chicago Il. Featuring members / ex-members of the Baseball Furies, Tyrades, White Savage, Ponys, Bare Mutants, Luster King, Tight Phantomz, and France Has The Bomb.......
Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, a bandleader. He co-founded both Ghostly International and its dancefloor offshoot, Spectral Sound. He’s had remixes ...
ALO, or Animal Liberation Orchestra, formed in the late 1990s while the band members were students at UC Santa Barbara, and has been touring and releasing albums steadily with this lineup since 2002. There’s a universa...
Andrew Bird first picked up a violin at age four and proceeded to spend his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear. As a teen, Bird mastered the sounds of early jazz, country blues andgypsy mus...
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...
Founded by three teenagers in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1982, Corrosion of Conformity began as an underground band and went on to transform heavy music, challenging boundaries and serving as what Decibel Magazine called...
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The Octopus Project plays loud, colorful music. The Octopus Project likes to put on intense live shows. The Octopus Project has 4 records and many EPs, collaborations, singles, etc. under its belt. The Octopus Project...
Robert Kelly has overcome many hardships in his life, all of which have made him the actor/comedian he is today. From his early days as a kid growing up in Boston in and out of Juvenile Hall, Kelly's unique, honest take ...
Mobb Deep Bio
The packed house at Times Square’s Best Buy Theater erupted through the rafters as Mobb Deep stormed the stage on May 12, 2011. The sold-out show was a homecoming celebration for Prodigy, the more outs...
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...
MARCUS MANCHILD
As the new school trailblazer for Houston’s burgeoning Hip-Hop revival, Marcus Manchild is on a mission. The skateboard swag rhymespitter grew up on the Southwest side of Houston, raised on local celeb...
Right Away, Great Captain!
ANDY HULL knows the fears that accumulate with miles, having spent the last two years on the road as the front-man for MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA. It is with those fears that he has channeled the ...
Hailing from North Oakland, California, Squadda B and MondreM.A.N. of Main Attrakionz have been rapping together for most of their young lives. Early on, a shared love of rap music led them to put school on the back-burn...
The Ortiz brother's Amplified Heat is a Rock and Roll power trio from Hell by way of Austin, Texas. Like their hot sauce, Amplified Heat is not for the faint of heart. They like it loud, fast and raw... no bullshit, just...
Once you find out that Astronautalis was born to a Texas train man with a nose crooked from bar fights and a pretty Kentucky girl who ran away from home at 17 to become a photographer, it becomes clear that he didn’t s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
Cadence Weapon continues to firmly establish his legacy as a sonic pioneer while constantly pushing the rap and electronic music envelope. Following his critically-acclaimed, Polaris Music Prize nominated albums Breaking...
January 24, 2012 – Toronto, ON) Two-time JUNO-nominated CANCER BATS will release their fourth full-length album Dead Set On Living, on April 17, 2012 through Distort Inc. in Canada. Once again utilizing the legendary V...
Love and family have always been sources of inspiration for critically acclaimed singer/songwriter/musician Carrie Rodriguez, but never have they featured so prominently than on her brand new release Love & Circumstance,...
The rootsy trio began when Jazz Mills (T-Bird and the Breaks) got together with Jesse Plemons to write their first song. The collaboration took off and before long the pair was drawing major buzz at SXSW. Daniel James (f...
David Vandervelde appeared before us one hot summer day like a dynamo. The sound we heard coming through in stereo was that of our coming-of-age years screaming back at us - a faithful reminder that our beauteous days of...
Hour Magazine wrote that “Delhi 2 Dublin is the United Nations of rock ‘n’ roll”. They are a Vancouver based band that plays an energetic mash-up of Bhangra, Celtic, Dub Reggae and Electronica with global rhythms...
Let's be clear: the dance music revolution taking place isn't led by European 'superstar DJs' and Las Vegas-style VIP 'clubs'. The real sea change is happening at street level, spearheaded by next generation homegrown st...
Emerging from Brooklyn via Florida in 2009, The Drums initially caught the ear of the indie world with their Summertime! EP. It was an escapist collection of beach pop fantasies; tracks suffused with a wistful, longing n...
Sludge Meditation.
No practice.
We'll play anywhere.
We have releases on Not Not Fun, Monophonus Press, and For Noise's Sake.
We have more shit recorded. You should put it out.......
Good music emancipates the listener. Boring jobs, troubled relationships, rush hour traffic… such mundane prisons are no match for the liberating power of a fantastic pop song. Think of Stuck On Nothing as one giant st...
San Antonio’s Girl In A Coma have left a permanent tattoo on the hearts of music lovers with their piercing songs and nuclear performances. They’ve blazed a singular trail since Nina Diaz joined the band at age 13 an...
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...
Japanther is an art project, circa 2001, They've collaborated with a variety of artist including Penny Rimbaud, Dan Graham, Eileen Myles, VEKS, robbinschilds, Dawn Riddle, Claudia Meza, Todd James, Devin Flynn, Ninjasoni...
The Great Despiser, the new album from celebrated singer-songwriter Joe Pug, will be released April 24 on Lightning Rod Records. This is the follow-up to Pug’s critically acclaimed full-length debut, Messenger (2010), ...
Kasabian
First things first: Kasabian have created a monster with ‘Velociraptor’. It’s only fitting that the band’s fourth album is named after one of the most fearsome creatures to ever walk the earth.
“...
La Vida Boheme is a dance rock band which formed on the fierce streets of Caracas, Venezuela, only three years ago. Early in their career, the group won a “battle of the bands” contest and began to plug themselves in...
The evolution of the Lost Bayou Ramblers music continues to excite, challenge, and redefine both genre expectations as well as cultural preconceptions. With hundreds of shows, five albums, and a Grammy Nomination behind ...
MC Lars makes intellectual indie hip-hop music backed by live instruments and video projection screens. He has been touring non-stop since 2003 and has built a loyal fan-base by opening for acts like Snoop Dogg, Nas, Gy...
The Men are a punk quartet from Brooklyn, NY. Their latest album, "Open Your Heart", was released on March 6th via Sacred Bones. It is their 3rd full length. Last year's full length, "Leave Home", received massive critic...
Unconcerned with a world obsessed with categorization as a means of definition, Tigran aka MiM0SA crafts music for its own sake, defying expectations with genre bending soundscapes. MiMOSA recently released his album San...
MORNING PARADE ANNOUNCE ASTRALWERKS DEBUT WITH SINGLE “HEADLIGHTS” TO BE RELEASED MARCH 13TH, 2012
LIVE DATES CONFIRMED AS SPECIAL GUESTS OF THE KOOKS IN ADDITION TO SXSW PERFORMANCES
SET TO COLLABORATE WITH ...
Motion City Soundtrack just finished recording their 5th full length album. The band co-produced the album in their hometown of Minneapolis MN with producer Ed Ackerson (Polara, BNLX) at his Flowers Studio. The new album...
Considered one of the cornerstones of today’s Russian electronica, Mujuice splices together pieces of found sounds, electronic glitches and layers of acoustic material to create a dense matrix of melodies and ambiances...
Any number of bands cite 60’s Texas psych as an influence, but rarely does a group actually capture what made those bands special. Following their debut EP also on Trouble In Mind, The Night Beats have expanded on the ...
Octo Octa is a Brooklyn based artist making Deep House/Tech House/Bass music. Has had releases on 100% Silk and has just finished a collaboration EP with LA Vampires. New original 12" EP soon to come on 100% Silk.......
Here’s the situation. In Nashville, there’s an old, decrepit plantation house where three bedraggled but refined, white gentlemen drop beats, craft wordplay, design artwork, and arrange orchestral maneuvers in the da...
In the last 12 months The Parlotones have:
- released the platinum selling “Stardust Galaxies” which won Best Rock Album at the 2010 SAMA’s
- released the platinum selling, live recording of their show at The...
Austin, Texas is known for its laid back, bohemian yet ultra committed music scene--something Austin native Patrice Pike immediately conveys. She's been a professional musician and songwriter since she was sixteen, but h...
This 19-year-old talent has been touted by his peers (read Tiësto, Skrillex and Deadmau5) as one of the nu-breed saviours of electronic music, and having only experienced the limelight for just a few months, his achieve...
Megan James and Corin Roddick formed their "future pop" project Purity Ring only a year ago, but the duo have been musically active on their own for much longer. Originally from Edmonton, 23-year-old vocalist and trained...
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...
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...
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...
THIS WILL DESTROY YOU began in earnest during the mid-00’s in San Marcos, TX. In many ways, the initial sound of the band was the logical destination point for four friends (Christopher Royal King, Jeremy Galindo, Raym...
Loud, hairy, and unpredictable, Three Blind Wolves are four young Glaswegians delivering country rock with a razor sharp edge. Drawing influences from Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival and even Led Zeppelin, the b...
Titus Andronicus is a rock and roll band from Glen Rock. There are five people in the band. Titus Andronicus take their name from a minor Shakespearean tragedy, not, as many people believe, from some sort of killer robot...
Unknown Mortal Orchestra was initially conceived by New Zealand native, Ruban Nielson, to release some tracks via a Bandcamp page to promote his limited addition vinyl in 2010. He pieced a band together, with a skilled p...
Venus X is an artist and producer born in Harlem to Dominican-Ecuadorian parents. She grew up in Washington Heights and has made a name for herself in NYC's underground music and art scene. She is the most loved and most...
Following closely in the footsteps of The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetpacks are yet another hugely talented young Scottish band added to the FatCat roster. The 4-piece came to our attention wh...
Wet Hair is Shawn Reed, Justin Thye, and Ryan Garbes, the two remaining members of Raccoo-oo-oon that stayed in Iowa City after the band’s end. Reed also runs Night-People Records, which Garbes often contributes to. We...
Starting with their self-titled debut in 2005, Winterpills have built a vibrant career with their exquisite chamber-pop songs that The Washington Post called “densely packed but hugely evocative, tiny bombs of feeling ...
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Yan Wagner is a young French-American artist. He was born and still lives in Paris but made his first solo appearances during an extended stay in New York City in 2008-2009.
He writes and performs all his songs, mergi...
“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...
Eve 6
Max Collins – Vocals and Bass
John Siebels – Guitar
Tony Fagenson – Drums
Eve 6 weren’t even legal drinking age when they were presented with their first platinum record. Thus, life came hard and fa...
CHRISTEENE has been characterized as being a sexually infused sewer of live rap and vile shamelessness, capable of adapting amazingly well to all styles of music.
Attempts at gathering personal information on CHRISTEE...
Born and raised in Houston, Texas (Southside) and killing with some of the illest bars in the rap game. He’s better known as Killa Kyleon. Receiving his name Kyleon from Houston underground legend Big Pokey and being a...
What’s the first thing you think of when someone mentions Thee Oh Sees? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, melody-maiming John Dwyer careening across your cranium, rounded out b...
Born and raised in the Fillmore District of San Francisco, Andre Nickatina has been a Hip-Hop/Rap luminary since the release of his critically acclaimed debut, “The New Jim Jones.” A favorite at public venues and on ...
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...
Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12’-overrun apartment in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synth obsessive, Com Tr...
Wugazi is a labor of love by Cecil Otter & Swiss Andy. A year’s worth of cutting up every imaginable Fugazi record and trying out every Wu-Tang acapella they could get their hands on, resulted in Wugazi: 13 Chambers (a...
For the past few years, Puffy Areolas have been fritzing synapses and scorching the landscape with their corroded psych / hardcore scree. Enlightened by the most unhinged charters of Acid Archives and Killed by Death alu...
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...
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