Presented by: Music From Ireland

Kid Karate are vocalist/guitarist Kevin Breen and drummer Steven Gannon. The band’s musical aesthetic is based around Breen’s thunderous guitar-work and atypical howl, and Gannon’s primal drumming style. These element…

Presented by: Music From Ireland

Steve and Mark, lead vocal and guitar respectively, met in the school choir at the tender age of 7. Growing up minutes apart in the Dublin suburb Swords, they remained friends through their adolescence, both picking up g…

Presented by: Music From Ireland

So Cow is a three-piece from Ireland. They're two LPs and several 7"s deep into a career playing often-sweet, often-visceral noise pop. They've toured with Shonen Knife, The Wedding Present and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists …

Presented by: Music From Ireland

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Presented by: Music From Ireland

Dublin-based DELORENTOS are currently being hailed as one of Ireland’s finest and most imaginative bands. Suffice it to say the band’s self-released third album (and third consecutive Top 10 album), Little Sparks has …

Presented by: Music From Ireland

Funeral Suits are a four-piece from Ireland consisting of Brian James, Mik McKeogh, Greg McCarthy and Dar Grant. The music they make is expansive without being overblown, heavy without being menacing and all the more thr…

Presented by: Kill Rock Stars

International sensation HOTT MT (Hour Of The Time Majesty Twelve), is an experimental post-pop collective based in Los Angeles, CA. HOTT MT is the result of an ongoing curiosity project between Queen Ashi Dala and Spooky…

Presented by: Kill Rock Stars

Weatherbox is from San Diego, CA.……

Presented by: Kill Rock Stars

Hands can be so many things: welcoming, scolding, loving, clenched into a fist. With Hands as your name, you have to both capture emotion and prove that the music you create with your own is worthy of the moniker. Luckil…

Presented by: Kill Rock Stars

Winnipeg indie pop outfit Boats makes impossibly hooky pop songs about death, being old, girls, glowing bears and escaping the spectral plane of existence and reappearing at a football game — all of which can be found on…

Presented by: Kill Rock Stars

Kinski is a four-piece rock band from Seattle, WA. The band follows their instincts to explore pathways from visceral guitar rock, to sonic and heady avant-psych rock, and sparse, atmosphere-bending instrumentals. Curren…

Presented by: Kill Rock Stars

There’s little doubt that Marnie Stern lives up to her reputation as “the lady who shreds,” but for Marnie, shredding is not enough. After putting out three critically-acclaimed albums, Marnie could have gotten away with…

Presented by: CD Baby

Thematically, a lot of the new Wilderness of Manitoba album, Island of Echoes, is about the past year or so and all of the songs come from that timeframe. There wasn’t a lot of downtime for the Toronto-based band as they…

Presented by: CD Baby

The Shivers are troubadours of rock and roll from Queens, New York featuring Keith Zarriello on guitar and vocals and Jo Schornikow on piano. Rehearsing out of a church in Flushing, their music exists in intimate spaces,…

Presented by: CD Baby

“Gregory Alan Isakov’s This Empty Northern Hemisphere was one of the finest albums of the year. Its melancholy poetics and lush, languid melodies stir me. He churns up his own musical atmosphere, ruled by the moon and th…

Presented by: CD Baby

SHOES Shoes, the trailblazing pop rock band from Zion, Illinois, who in the 1970s pioneered the home-recording DIY boom of the ’90s and beyond, released their latest album of all new songs, Ignition, in 2012. Ignitio…

Presented by: CD Baby

Wildlife Control is a band. They record albums and play shows. They are brothers Neil and Sumul Shah, who grew up making music and shooting hoops in the rolling hills and industrial decay of rural northeast Pennsylvania,…

Presented by: CD Baby

Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the indie/electro sonic diary of founding member Mike Lee. Their 2009 self-titled debut LP was an exploration of indiepop melodies, electro beats, and shoegaze guitars. The lead single …

Presented by: Requiemme Mgmt Music

OKAPI SUN BIO Dallas: Vocals, Keys, Strings, drums Leo: Vocals, Keys, Guitar, Drums ELECTRONIC TRIBAL DANCE PARTY The OKAPI SUN will rise in Austin Texas this March as the duo makes its SXSW debut with an officia…

Presented by: Requiemme Mgmt Music

The Creepy Creeps are not just a band, they are a phenomena. With their most recent release on the oldest surviving surf label in the world, “Dionysus Records”, they will have you hanging ten and praying to the gods of …

Presented by: Requiemme Mgmt Music

The Tijuana Panthers got their name from the little black ceramic panther that was a present from their neighbor Max Baker—yes, the Max Baker who they named their first album after, and who deserves a bio all his own—and…

Presented by: Requiemme Mgmt Music

With the addition of samples, a couple guitars, and live traps backed by programmed beats, Hills Like Elephants announces their presence on the national scene with a dance-friendly re-imagination of indie rock, lo-fi dis…

Presented by: Requiemme Mgmt Music

Gram Rabbit Riding high off the buzz of their National Ad campaign with Fruit of the Loom, Gram Rabbit is set to hit the road with L.A.'s "Spindrift" in support of their upcoming new release, "Brasied & Confused". Th…

Presented by: Requiemme Mgmt Music

id Congo Powers is the stage name of Brian Tristan (born March 27, 1959, La Puente, California),[2 an American rock guitarist and singer, best known as a member of The Gun Club, The Cramps and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds…

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El Vez is the Latin sensation that is sweeping the Nation and the world, following successful tours in Australia, Germany, Spain, Norway, Holland, Austria, England, France, Belgium, Canada and more. A modern multicult…