Kick start your SXSW day by grabbing free breakfast at the Java Monster Café. Stop by to catch your breath and re-energize with a Java Monster while listening to a DJ mixin’ the beats.……
Kick start your SXSW day by grabbing free breakfast at the Java Monster Café. Stop by to catch your breath and re-energize with a Java Monster while listening to a DJ mixin’ the beats.……
More than a decade at Cedar Street, FILTER Magazine’s showcase is a SXSW landmark with some of the best music around. Doors open at 11am, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy the free BBQ and top acts showcasing at SXSW. …
The Direct-To-Fan model can generate revenue, but at the end of the day, many well-intentioned campaigns lose money or barely break even. Explore strategies that artists and managers can use to run more profitable D2F ca…
Presenters
, Jason Feinberg, Nicole Poulos, Parker Todd Brooks, Jason Spitz
This year, Doritos® is back, and with an even bolder take: Doritos’ larger-than-life vending machine is amped up to dispense one-of-a-kind interactive gigs that fans won’t find anywhere else in Austin, featuring top-notc…
The five separate royalty income streams that are essential to music producers, recording artists, and songwriters are: Music Publishing Royalties, Master Royalties, Sound Recording Royalties, Home Taping and Rental Roya…
Presenters
Ashley Calhoun, Lauren Danzy, Scott Cupolo, Travis McFetridge, Tiffany Almy
The Morning After at Haus of Hipstamatic—Austin (#MorningAfter) is a brunch experience that brings together live music, food, friends, and photos so you can relive the disaster/awesomeness from the night before, and prep…
"Hawking" is the extraordinary story of the planet’s most famous living scientist, told for the first time in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking’s private life, this is an intim…
The music industry continues to undergo big changes. In 2011, it was the cloud. In 2012, it was streaming. Technology is an enabler, but what really moves the needle is great music. Take an in-depth look at the new techn…
Presenters
Jessica Phelps, Maggie Vail, Richard Bengloff, Richard Laing, Molly Neuman
Artist managers know all about rabid fans. The good ones find ways to work directly with them that go beyond street team clichés. Fans wear animal costumes onstage, help determine tour routes and album track lists. They …
Intermediate
Presenters
Bob Johnsen, Mike Martinovich, Peter Katsis, Scott Booker
In a digital world of instant access, self-curated content and customizable everything, how can radio survive? Learn about the social relevance of radio, its importance to music discovery and how this original social me…
Presenters
Daniel Glass, David Field, Peter Gray, RedOne , Tom Poleman
Is the subscription music business model ultimately a positive or negative for music industry revenues, compared to the purchase model? Whichever side of the argument you land on, it's agreed that maintaining a healthy b…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Tudhope, Amanda Palmer, Darius Zelkha, JT Myers, Thaddeus Rudd
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
11:00AM -12:00PM
Richard Thompson broke musical ground as a teenager as guitarist for Fairport Convention, who defined folk-rock with their classic albums such as 'Liege and Lief' and their stunning performances. Dozens of albums have fo…
From montages to key scenes, main titles to end titles, original songs are written for film and television regularly, both by skilled songwriters and popular artists. The ability to capture the essence of a film (or mome…
Presenters
Amy Stroup, Christopher Mollere, Daniel Higbee, Josh Collum, Amanda Krieg
Sonos Studio@SXSW explores the intersection of music, art and tech. Daily programming includes: KCRW Live from 11a-2p. Concerts from 3-8pm includingPoolside, Allah-las, Robert Delong, Sir Sly, Thomas Dybdahl, Chali 2Na, …
StubHub is bringing SXSW to fans around the country with the StubHub app for iPhone and iPad. Take home the music of SXSW, discover the artists, find local tour dates and tickets, and sample tracks. Join us at StubHub Li…
Bootsy Collins and Chuck D embody the power of African-American music to move audiences and change culture. Bootsy and his teenage band The Pacemakers were hired by James Brown in 1970 where they both enlivened Brown's s…
In 1967, Milton Babbitt wrote a famous article "Who Cares if You Listen?" arguing that modern music had reached such a high level that laypeople were no longer qualified to appreciate it. The ensuing controversy raised …
Presenters
Graham Reynolds, Jane Siberry, John Murphy, Kevin Gant, Brian Felsen
Australia and New Zealand are extremely close geographically, yet their music creations are frequently very different. What is the impact of the comparative geographical isolation from the rest of the world? Examine the …
Presenters
David Fricke, Emma Swift, Iain Shedden, Simon Baeyertz, Stuart Coupe
Metal-loving gamer geek, Scott Weidemeyer, lives with his ornery grandmother and works a lousy job at a donut shop. But every Tuesday night, he is the omnipotent Game Master, guiding his role-players through a tabletop j…
Pug, a wisecracking 13 year old living on a dangerous Westside block, has one goal in mind: to join The 12 O’Clock Boys; the notorious urban dirt-bike gang of Baltimore. Converging from all parts of the inner city, they …
"LICKS" follows the story of a young man, D, as he returns to his Oakland neighborhood after serving two years in prison for a robbery gone wrong. In the days after his release, we are taken into D's world while he navig…
Each year, 60,000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city, collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a giant effigy in a ritual frenz…
It's Paste Magazine's 9th straight year of SXSW Dayparties! Plan on seeing the best up-and-coming bands, catching up with some beloved artists and enjoying some free beverages. Music on two stages, with big outside deck …
In "Maladies", an idiosyncratic drama from the internationally acclaimed painter, sculptor and filmmaker, Carter, Academy Award®-nominee James Franco stars as James, a former actor who along with his sister Patricia (Fal…
Rolling Stone returns to Austin with our Live Rock Room daytime parties, featuring some of the biggest names in town for SXSW. Curated by Rolling Stone editors, the Rock Room features 5 performance each day plus food tr…
Harry Connick Jr. stars as Michael Walker, who, as a child, wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the…
BrooklynVegan presents a series of day shows @ SXSW Music again this year - now at the former location of Emo's on 2 stages. Bands include METZ, Savages, King Tuff, Thermals, Shout Out Louds, Akron/Family, Orwells, Austr…
Momo: Vocal
Koharu: Accordion
“Charan-po-rantan” means sloppy or irresponsible in Japanese, and obviously the name of this free-wheeling sister duo is a wordplay of the phrase.
19 year old vocalist, Momo, and 23 …
The formation of Divine Fits can be traced back to Britt Daniel attending a Handsome Furs show in 2007, seeing Dan Boeckner milling around and looking like like the type of guy that would talk to strangers. Britt acted o…
A take-off on the original House of Vans in Brooklyn, HOV at the Mohawk brings the best emerging bands for four days at Austin’s most beloved venue – the Mohawk. Expect a range of acts on two stages thanks to Pitchfork,…
The newest addition to the SXSW Music Gear Expo, the App Annex is a place to showcase the most current and innovative music creation apps. From virtual guitars and drums to apps that allow users to DJ, mix and master the…
Are you performing at SXSW, but broke your last pair of drumsticks the night before your showcase? Did you leave an essential cable at home, or need your guitar set-up after unintentionally falling into your drummer’s ki…
RSVP Required for admission. Priority access for SXSW badgeholders and SXSW wristbands with SPIN RSVP.
RSVP at spin.com/SPINHouse2013
The SPIN House will be a new addition to Austin’s spring music ritual, showcasing e…
The 4th annual SXSW Music Gear Expo is a unique event where manufacturers can market, promote, and connect while having the opportunity to sell guitars, keyboards, amps, drums, effects pedals,
mics, DJ equipment, apps a…
The singles label is a cost-efficient way to get involved in the business of music, and an exciting entrepreneurial venture for everyone from hobbyists to brand marketers to major label imprints. Most agreements are non-…
Presenters
Andrew Schulenburg, Nate Nelson, Paul Sommerstein, Tom Clapp,
There was a time when artists working with brands was seen as a sell out. To be fair, many of the early sponsorship deals were badly planned and executed. Promoters too, have not always managed to marry live music with b…
Presenters
Anthony Flores, Doug Palladini, Matt Bennett, Nick Sabine, Joe Edwards
Current judicial law provides precedent which influences future behavior and assists resolution of future disputes. The most influential precedents of the recent past and litigations in process will be reviewed and anal…
In recent years numerous hot, new digital musicians, hip-hop artists, and DJs are emerging from across Africa, making a mark on the global music scene. They blend hip-hop, house, reggae and rock with various local musica…
As more and more music fans are turning to their mobile devices to listen to music, learn about their favorite artists and share their experiences, it has become increasingly important for app builders and developers to…
Beatles vs. Stones. Pop vs. art. Indie or mainstream. Rockist or poptimist. For decades, music culture and criticism has been built on such binaries, with artists trapped in the middle. This panel would explore why, in t…
Presenters
Lindsay Zoladz, Simon Vozick-Levinson, David Greenwald
Jim Dickinson, recording artist, producer, raconteur, Memphian and Mississipian, conservator of Southern music and World Boogie, gets the retrospective treatment from those who knew and worked with him in his many guises…
Presenters
Cody Dickinson, Jim Lancaster, Jody Stephens, Luther Dickinson, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, Mojo Nixon, Joe Nick Patoski
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. Online sign-ups for Mentor Sessions will close the day before they…
Presenters
Franz De Los Reyes, Glenn Max, Greg Johnson, Joan Myers, Marc Lipkin, Michael Goldstone, Nancy Fly, Shawn Nolan
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
12:30PM - 1:30PM
The new Music Licensing Pitch Sessions offer all registrants and artists direct feedback from licensing, sync, and music supervision experts. They will offer you a glimpse at the viability of licensing your music for dif…
The way music is promoted to radio (both terrestrial and Satellite) has changed. No longer is it about the major labels. Hear from the folks who helped create this tide change.…
Presenters
Bill McGathy, Danny Buch, David Hill, Garrett Capone, Joel Denver, Roxy Myzal, Mike Jacobs
The Zombies were one of the first and most influential of the first wave of bands to hit the U.S. during the British Invasion of the 1960’s, led by founding members Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent. Their music has had a p…
EDM is undoubtedly the acronym of the moment, with headlines in every major publication, countless new festivals and events springing up. It has even been said that EDM saved the music industry from rock music's sinking …
Presenters
Adellyn Polomski, Alex Chaykin, Danny Rogers, Marc Nicolas, Trevor Skeet, Sean Glass
The title song of Old Yellow Moon may be the concluding track on the first official album-length collaboration between Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, but it actually represents a starting point for this long-anticipa…
Bringing you 4 days of performances across 2 stages. Discover new music from the latest indie, rock, electronic, hip-hop, R&B, and americana artists. Check out pandora.com/SXSW to RSVP and see the current program line-…
PULENTA sounds elgantly designed, which pays homage and thaks the latinamerican musical wisdom, which amis to break away from conventional sound, rescuing instrumentations and genders that influence them, all on the basi…
John Tempesta, Drummer for The Cult, will be signing autographs at JHAudio's booth at the Music Gear Expo. Be sure to stop by JHAudio's booth to meet John.……
Leigh's 29th birthday party takes a sudden turn when she announces that the evening may be the last time her friends see her alive. A night of questions, coping and debauchery immediately follow.……
Leigh's 29th birthday party takes a sudden turn when she announces that the evening may be the last time her friends see her alive. A night of questions, coping and debauchery immediately follow.……
Based on his play, Neil LaBute's script follows a successful writer (Adam Brody) who, on the eve of his wedding, travels across the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for past relationship tra…
"Sound City" focuses both on the history of the legendary Van Nuys, CA studio for which it is named--where such artists as Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Fear, Johnny Cash, Rick Springfield, DIO, Nirvana, Rage Aga…
Since their humble beginnings in New York City in 2001, Improv Everywhere has grown from a small gang of restless jokesters into an internationally recognized prank collective and a viral video-making machine. From the N…
With all of the tools that are available via the web, artists and labels are making more mistakes than ever in the planning of their release strategies. Find out about effective, yet affordable, marketing, sales, and dis…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Pollock, Dana Meyerson, Joe Esposito, Sarah Landy, Vinny Rich
Can co-opetition really work? How is it achievable? The best path to fast-track growth has been through a strong connection to a market leader. This hook-up has been simplified through the use of API's (Application Progr…
Presenters
Barry Smith, Darryl Ballantyne, Deborah Sass, Marc Ruxin, Shane Tobin, Ted Cohen
Asian music companies were the fastest to adapt to the changes in the music business brought about by digital technologies. Broadband speeds are faster and services are more affordable than in most countries and this has…
Presenters
Bernie Cho, Carl Choi, Isaac Bess, Orbis Fu Chien Wen, Rob Campanell
In the ever-evolving music landscape, brand/band partnerships have become more important for all members of the value-chain. Find out what constitutes a successful partnership and the recommended best practices for ideal…
Presenters
Afdhel Aziz, Brad Haugen, Daniel Martinez, Scott McCune, Daniel Sena
If you’re looking for a story that best summarizes the last year in the life of Charles Bradley, you'd be hard pressed to find a better one than the night he and his band showed up in Utopia, Texas to play an outdoor sho…
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.…
Presenters
Isaac Heymann, Lawrence Gelburd, Marc Wilson, Michael Goldberg
Arts & Crafts is a premium, music-focused media and artist services company, offering expertise as an independent record label, management firm, merchandiser and publisher worldwide.
Founded in 2002 with the release of …
Imam Baildi is a very popular Southeast Mediterranean dish consisting of aubergine stuffed with onion, garlic, and tomatoes simmered in olive oil. It is a similar fine blend that brothers Lysandros and Orestis Falireas a…
A freewheeling conversation about the creative process, collaboration and the business of music with a group of incredibly talented people, whose sole flaw appears to be their annual willingness to be on this moderator's…
Presenters
Britt Daniel, Daniel Glass, Mac McCaughan, Matthew Caws, Karen Glauber
Selecting the perfect song to soundtrack a moment in a film, TV show or ad goes much farther than simply making a mixtape of pitched potentials. The winning track is at the center of a complex Venn diagram reflecting the…
Presenters
Lysandra Woods, Rachel Levy, Scott Cresto, Tyson McShane, Rebecca Rienks
This session will cover the role and impact of data science in music discovery for both independent and major labels. Hear how algorithms are predicting the success of an artist, what metrics are most effective at this, …
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. Online sign-ups for Mentor Sessions will close the day before they…
Presenters
, Alex Maiolo, Ami Spishock, Clay Pasternack, Jesse Barnett, Jordan Burger, Katy Wolaver, Rachel Barnhard
Artists have myriad questions when it comes to mastering their music. In spite of an overabundance of information, many find myths, half-truths, contradictions and misleading statements when researching the topic. Engine…
Presenters
Andrew Mendelson, Gavin Lurssen, Michael Romanowski, Joe Palmaccio
The uncertainty and costs of licensing / rights clearance at the intersection of music and tech significantly curtail innovation in the space. Creating a startup license regime where entrepreneurs have access to a pre-ne…
Presenters
Bill Wilson, Elliot Resnik, Jedd Katrancha, Stephen Sternschein, William Hart, Yi Ping Ho
Tumblr and Gap have partnered with FILTER Magazine to program back-to-back shows at Clive Bar on March 15th. Come party from the afternoon well into the night, in the way that only Tumblr knows how. The patio will be fil…
"We Always Lie To Strangers" is a story of family, community, music and tradition set against the backdrop of Branson, Missouri, a remote Ozark Mountain town that is one of the biggest tourist destinations in the United …
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Corey Taylor - lead vocalist and songwriter for global multi-platinum bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, best-selling author, Grammy winner and Oxford University speaker - will discuss how to embrace the chaos across the cre…
"The Punk Syndrome" is a documentary film about Finnish punk-rock band Pertti Kurikka’s Name Day, formed in 2009 by four developmentally disabled guys. The film follows the band’s journey from their rehearsal room to cul…
Enferno, a veteran club DJ, known for his live remix techniques will be at the Casio booth in Music Gear Alley on Friday, March 15th at 2:30 PM to sign autographs. Be sure to mark your calendar and stop by to meet Enfer…
Shipley will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music“ following his panel.…
Come over to Skype's Mobile Lounge/Live Nation House at The Belmont and tune in a high-def showcase of great artists with serious broadcast cred. Win music stuff, dive into food & drink specials and hear live what you’ve…
"Broadway" follows Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong from a punk rock concert at Madison Square Garden to the opening of his musical American Idiot on Broadway - only ten blocks away, but worlds apart. From behind the cur…
Dickies and FILTER Magazine have teamed up again to showcase a stellar line up of indie talent at Lustre Pearl on Austin’s historic Rainey St. Showcases will take place March 14th - 16th. SXSW Badges welcome. Please arri…
Come be the first people in the nation to watch the first episode of DIRECTV's new original series, ROGUE at the official Rogue Watch Party at SXSW. Doors open at 3, Screening at 4. Free drink tickets provided to the fi…
Sometimes the Brits are just on the cutting edge with everything from music to footwear! FILTER magazine is teaming up with legendary boot brand Dr. Martens to rock out at Bar 96 for two whole days! Share your style with…
To hear Pickwick tell it, their popular Myths 7-inch series was merely a group of rough sketches they’d been developing over the previous two years put to wax. That a CD collection of those “demos” held their hometown Se…
AUSTIN WELCOMES THE WORLD 2013 - The City of Austin proudly welcomes SXSW 2013 Showcasing artists from around the world to play Free and Open to the Public Showcases at their City Hall Plaza.……
Shout Out Out Out Out are a 6 member electronic music act based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Obsessed with analog synthesizers, their classic House, Techno, Disco, and Krautrock influences are worn on their sleeves. Sin…
Taylor will appear at the South by Book Store to sign copies of “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good” after his panel.…
With a growing demand for the latest music and news around the clock, Hip Hop blogs have become the go-to destination for most fans to consume information. Should that level of power and influence also come with great re…
Intermediate
Presenters
Al Lindstrom, Ashley Outrageous, B Dot, Elliott Wilson, Steve Raze, Nick Huff
The documentary Born in Chicago is the story of first generation blues performers who had made their way to Chicago from the Mississippi Delta and their ardent and unexpected followers – young white, middle class kids wh…
Beginner
Presenters
Barry Goldberg, Bill Bentley, Corky Seigel, Harvey Mandel, Nick Gravenites, Sam Lay
Over the last few years we've talked incessantly about how musicians can build sustainable careers by catering to diehard superfans. While this may work for cult fans, is the over-emphasis on superfans causing musicians …
In 2012, Pepsi re-ignited its marketing efforts around the voice of the now generation with Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry and others driving significant content and media exposure. How do these powerhouse brands decide what’s …
Presenters
Javier Farfan, Megan Healy, Paul Jankowski, Stalley , Bozoma Saint John
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
3:30PM - 4:30PM
We're constantly being told that the music recording landscape is changing, and that every artist is more empowered than ever since they own a computer. But what does this really mean for the quality and cost of recordin…
Presenters
Adrian Quesada, Dan Workman, Erik Wofford, John Congleton, Kevin Augunas, Larry Crane
60's legends such as Ringo Starr and Eric Burdon have embraced social media to engage with their audience like never before. Acts from the 90's such as Urge Overkill are self-releasing albums and re-launching their care…
Presenters
Beth Winer, Elizabeth Freund, Greta Morgan, Michael Allen, Emily White
Hear how the worlds of music and activism can work together in an inspiring, meaningful and productive way. Experts in the world of non-profit, artists and music industry professionals discuss how they have successfully …
Presenters
Brandon Deroche, Hillary Zuckerberg, Mike Mills, Mikel Jollett, Karen Scott
Being a young metal band can be a struggle anywhere, but imagine doing it in a country where simply getting guitar strings can take six months, internet access is largely forbidden, the average monthly salary is about $4…
Presenters
Alexander Sanchez Salazar, Michel Sanchez Salazar, Tracy Noelle Luz, David Peisner
Artist ticketing and scalping are hot button topics, but is artist ticketing truly possible? Many venues have exclusives with ticketing giants, so acts like Louis CK opting to do their own ticketing face major challenges…
Presenters
Bob Moczydlowsky, Richard Jones, Sam Hunt, Sharilyn Mayhugh, Gannon Hall
Dawes will appear at the South by Book Store to sign copies of “What Are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal” before her panel.…
AUSTIN WELCOMES THE WORLD 2013 - The City of Austin proudly welcomes SXSW 2013 Showcasing artists from around the world to play Free and Open to the Public Showcases at their City Hall Plaza.……
A self-described “American rock ‘n’ roll band,” Dawes represent everything pure and true about that fundamental delineation, four talented friends making music together, united by a shared belief in the power of their so…
Sitting on her bed in a run-down rest home, Dotty is desperate to send a text message to her daughter. When her morning cup of tea arrives, Dotty manages to rope someone else into her long battle with technology.…
Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sis…
Ellen is leaving because she can. Travel is the cancer of modern relationships.
Ellen needs to find her sad-sack of a boyfriend, Hamish, a nice leaving gift to try and help the mutual breakup feel a bit better. When Ham…
Santa Cruz Guitar Company is proud to present some of the finest SXSW talent on their acoustic Flatstock Stage from 4-6pm on Friday, March 15th.
4:00pm: The Austin Steamers
4:40pm: Blaudzun
5:30pm: Nicki Bluhm and The …
Allie leads an unfocused life with no job and a lame boyfriend. So it's no surprise when she hops on the next bus (well more of an RV full of karate rockers) to Texas after being attacked on the streets of New York. Seem…
"Mobile Homes" follows Ali, a young mother trapped in human trafficking. Constantly moving from city to city, she is transported with her 7-year-old son Alex. As she survives day to day, Alex explores mobile home sales-…
In the Weston’s 45-year marriage, John controlled his submissive wife, Sheila, until one day, she had finally had enough. After months of separation and in the heat of divorce, John has ignored all attempts to divide his…
Dotty
Directors: Mick Andrews, Brett O'Gorman
A stubborn old lady struggles to send a text message to her daughter.
Ellen is Leaving
Director: Michelle Savill
On the eve of departing overseas, Ellen makes the fateful d…
A child taxidermist, an outsider in his small town, is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful. But just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything.…
Tan Frío el Verano (Post Rock / Electronic / Shoegaze) ("Such Cold Summer") started out as a musical project by Daniel Mandino, Rafael García and Juan Rojas from Barquisimeto, Venezuela. After some elements changed, the …
With a hurricane threatening to destroy her way of life, "When We Lived in Miami" is a hypnotic short about the lengths one woman will go to keep her family from falling apart. Stylistically similar to Seimetz's critical…
"¡Cuatro!" is a unique, raw and unprecedented look inside the world of the multi platinum rock band Green Day. From the band’s home studio in Oakland CA, to various intimate live performances in New York City, Austin TX,…
When Patrick Moote's girlfriend rejects his marriage proposal at a UCLA basketball game on the jumbotron, it unfortunately goes viral and hits TV networks worldwide. Days after the heartbreaking debacle, she privately re…
"Finding the Funk" is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting with Funk's roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands of the '60s we travel to the Bay Area to celebrate Sly & the Family …
"Born In Chicago" is a soulful documentary film that chronicles a uniquely musical passing of the torch. It’s the story of first generation blues performers who had made their way to Chicago from the Mississippi Delta a…
Guitarist Phil X started demoing vintage guitars for Fretted Americana in 2008 using a little 1950's Magnatone Tonemaster accordion amplifier. Pretty soon the viewers of those demo videos started making more comments abo…
Record production can be timeless, and it can be quite specific to its time. What has changed in recording studios over the years? Our distinguished group of producers will share stories from the classic records they've …
Presenters
Hugh Padgham, Matt Noveskey, Richard Gottehrer, Richard James Burgess, Tim Palmer
AUSTIN WELCOMES THE WORLD 2013 - The City of Austin proudly welcomes SXSW 2013 Showcasing artists from around the world to play Free and Open to the Public Showcases at their City Hall Plaza.……
For those of us for whom music is a way of life as musicians or fans, what does this interesting time for the relationship between music, religion and spirituality mean for how we think about our own lives? And how can m…
Presenters
David Nantais, Merrill Wade, Monica Miller, Tom Beaudoin, Greg Garrett
Isa GT is a Colombian music-centric artist working out of East London’s electronic music scene. Drawing her influences from Cumbia, Champeta House, Baile Funk - and everything in between.
Isa has become a go-to in Londo…
Gone is the philosophy of "cast a wide net". A highly effective model where like-minded entrepreneurs are forming tight professional communities is burgeoning. By sharing resources, networks and knowledge, hyperconnector…
Presenters
Franki Chan, Laurel Stearns, Robbie Lloyd, Sam James Velde, Sara Qazi
Africa’s perceived need for aid and assistance has been a hot topic for decades. Less of a talking point is the wealth of opportunities that exist on the continent. Africa is home to the largest youth population in the w…
Presenters
Audu Maikori, Colin Gayle, Michael Ugwu, Ngozi Odita
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Witness a fast paced, hands-on demonstration of the steps involved in screen printing your own t-shirts. T-shirts have been a mainstay in the merch booth for years and are still as important as ever. Learn what it takes …
Many artists, managers and labels see streaming as stripping away the already beleaguered retail sales and leaving them with only fractions of pennies for their work. Meanwhile streaming services believe holdout artists …
Presenters
Emily White, Jon Maples, Richard Jones, Simon Wheeler
Therese Aune (NO) plays dreamy filmatic music, drawing inspiration both from pop music and classical minimalists. She is known for her atmospheric piano playing and powerful expressive voice. When performing, she is acco…
In June 2012, a blog post by musician David Lowery set off a firestorm. Written to an intern at NPR who admitted to not having paid for the 11,000 tracks in her collection, the post generated more than a million views in…
Presenters
David Lowery, East Bay Ray, Nakia , Daryl Friedman
The heavy metal boys' club has always made it a bit tougher for the so-called fairer sex to be accepted within the testosterone-fueled world of denim & leather, but women have been swinging guitars and screaming for veng…
Advanced
Presenters
Caryn Havlik, Laina Dawes, Mel Parsonz, Nathan Carson, Zeena Koda, Kim Kelly
With a style completely absent from the contemporary gospel arena (Gospel Jazz), the music and ministry of Aservant is guaranteed to bless and deeply impact the masses, while leaving them clamoring for more. He is gifte…
AUSTIN WELCOMES THE WORLD 2013 - The City of Austin proudly welcomes SXSW 2013 Showcasing artists from around the world to play Free and Open to the Public Showcases at their City Hall Plaza.……
The formation of Divine Fits can be traced back to Britt Daniel attending a Handsome Furs show in 2007, seeing Dan Boeckner milling around and looking like like the type of guy that would talk to strangers. Britt acted o…
Manzanas Malas, aka Los Bad Apples is a POP Band that fuses the sultry rhythms and vocal stylings of Latin music with the raw beats and rhymes of Hip-Hop & Cumbia. Their high-energy performances and unique sound earned …
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…
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…
"The Short Game" follows the lives of eight of the best 7-year old golfers in the world as they train for and compete in the World Championships of Junior Golf. The annual tournament held at golfing mecca Pinehurst, Nort…
Host Jake Fogelnest (Sirius XM) invites his favorite comedians and funny friends into his personal archives, a bounty of audio and video highlighting some of the weirdest, awesomest pop culture moments of the past few de…
Host Jake Fogelnest (Sirius XM) invites his favorite comedians and funny friends into his personal archives, a bounty of audio and video highlighting some of the weirdest, awesomest pop culture moments of the past few de…
Where lies that ineffable line that separates our past from our future? "Chiralia" is a film about the perplexing vastness of our experience as we drift in the imperceptible streams of time.The disappearance of a child t…
Cavalier
Director: Steven Schardt
An alcoholic father, recently served restrictive custody papers, kidnaps his son to go on a road trip.
Chiralia
Director: Santiago Gil
Around an isolated lake, the experience of a traged…
What could be easier than robbing a small bookie place on the outskirts of town? It’s during the year’s biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington’s Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash.…
Mitchell (Josh Duhamel) and Carter (Dan Fogler), life-long friends who have drifted apart, are on a road trip when their old pickup breaks down, leaving them stranded on an isolated desert road. Nobody can pick apart a m…
"Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker" explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever prod…
Hundred Visions is a two-guitar band from Austin, Texas. Sharing an affinity for glam rock and the SST catalog, they honed their spare approach to rock music in a hot garage in 2010, releasing their first EP Last Cab Fr…
Rising from the hippest rooms in downtown New York and the fashion runways of the world, Jeffrey Tonnesen has built a name for himself as an up-and-coming dance music producer and big room house DJ. His unique style and …
"I take walks a lot," says Jim James, "and as I walk, songs kind of build in my mind, and I start adding and subtracting things. So I had a full vision for a lot of the songs on this album before I even recorded one note…
Kaori Kawabuchi (Vocal/ Japanese sword performance)
Shuji Yamagiri (Vocal/Guitar)
Jack (Tsugaru-Syamisen)
Daisuke Kaminaga (Shakuhachi)
A band from Japan which creates an extremely original performance of beauty, p…
Kool & Together were an obscure R&B act from Victoria, Texas who earned a cult following years after their breakup for their tough, soulful mix of funk grooves and rock guitar. Kool & Together were formed in 1970 by brot…
LITE are a four-piece instrumental rock band formed in Japan in 2003. The band are known for their thrilling and emotional compositions, progressive, edgy riffs and complex rhythms. Their explosive live show and tireless…
Master Blaster Sound System is at the nexus of Cumbia Crunk, Roots Norteño and Deep Club tracks. South Texas Cumbia OG's Dj Dus, Brian Ramos, and Cecy Treviño are at the creative center of this brutal collaboration sever…
The life story of one of the most influential and controversial film directors in the history of Hollywood, John Milius. From his childhood aspirations to join the military to his formative years at the USC Film School, …
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The Stapletones are an outstanding group of musicians from church & secular groups who combine to make rootsy, uplifting Gospel collaboration of revival singing, blues playing & spiritual musicianship… the kind t…
“Luscious, luminous, lilting lullabies” is how the New York Times describes songs by Lucius, a five-piece band from Brooklyn, NY.
At the center of Lucius are the “alluring and magnetic” (Seventeen) singers-in-unison,…
Rooted in the city of Hearne, Texas, Natori Blue-Smith was known for her angelic voice. The city believed that she would be a name sought after and remembered among the greats. With her firm upbringing in her grandfather…
“Dave, tell ‘em about your wrestling record”
“Three wins, sixteen defeats. Beat the same kid twice. Lost to the state champion in six seconds”
Clearly, the Turbo Fruits are not athletes. They are, however, a rock n…
A rooftop overlooking Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. A fleabag motel on the banks of the Susquehanna River. A bus winding through sleepy Chicago suburbs. A book-filled bedroom. A sculpture garden in Washington, D.C.
These …
Alyssa Graham is taking a trip down the river road, part conceptual and part reality—it’s a journey into the heart of America. Last fall she and her musical/spiritual accomplice Doug Graham drove down the middle of the c…
Calvin Love’s music—the way it sounds—gives away the process responsible for its creation. Its sparse musical landscape is populated by thin guitars, electronic drums, and occasionally vintage synthesizers, which add a w…
Frontier is Kevin Ireland (bass), Mike Tsoulos (drums) and Stephen Wessley (guitar). The three met at University of Chicago in the late 1980’s. They burst onto the Chicago music scene of the 1990’s with a legendary Gra…
Golden Bloom has always been known for their sharp melodies, vivid guitar work, and intelligent, energetic songwriting; pop music that wasn’t afraid to ask listeners to think, as well as dance. Shawn Fogel launched Golde…
Wild Records is an LA indie music label comprised of young, Hispanic musicians, and run by Irishman, Reb Kennedy. Wild is an unconventional family, reminiscent of the early days of Sun Records, all of its musicians write…
With the release of her debut album 'Dream Life', Mary Epworth has emerged as one of the UK’s most exciting talents. The album’s success in blending 1960s West Coast psychedelia with gospel and dream pop has gained Mary…
Samantha Glass is the music alias of Madison, WI artist Beau Devereaux. Devereaux combines the use of drum machines, keyboards, bass guitar, vocals, and more to create a trance inducing type of electronic rock.
Golde…
Trapper Schoepp has the ear of a troubadour, the eye of a journalist and the heart of a young poet. He began writing songs at a tender age with startling facility, distilling rock, folk and country traditions into tunes …
Chris Spivey and Nu Destiny is comprised of 15 singers and musicians from the Austin, TX area, who have come together to show people that unity does make a difference.
With a sound resembling some today’s gospel grea…
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Having been together for just over one year, Feathers has already performed at All Tomorrow's Parties (Minehead, UK), Fun Fun Fun Fest, Austin Psych Fest, SXSW 2011, F1 Austin Fan Fest, as well as a sold out show with Ro…
California has a new sweetheart. Hailing from Oakland, CA., Lil Debbie is a rapper and tastemaker who's been making waves with her infectious music and unique sense of style since her emergence in late 2011. Mentored b…
Hailing from the windy streets of Chicago, Nylo is an emerging electro-‐R&B singer/songwriter composed of liquidly Wurlitzer’s, soulfully sparse 808’s, and fragile falsetto confessions.
Nylo found her love for music …
VietNam make their long-awaited return with a new album, An American Dream, released on Mexican Summer this Feb of 2013. Micheal Gerner, the creative force behind VietNam, is back onstage for the first time in five year…
"…The Ultimate Party Starters…" (Q Magazine)
3421 is a live dubstep, bass and glitch due based in Haifa - the northern capital of Israel who have been working and performing since 2009. The band use an acoustic drum s…
For as long as I’ve listened to music, I’ve been planning the soundtrack for the movie of my life. “Comfortably Numb” scores a pitch black drive through the woods in a 280ZX. A hand selects “Into the Mystic” on a jukebox…
“Amtrac, the solo project of Kentucky's Caleb Cornett,
has just the right mixture of pop and cutting-edge sonics to break through the void. On ‘Came Along,’ Amtrac guides a rapid, crunchy beat and electric piano figure…
BERNHOFT “SOLIDARITY BREAKS"
Often described as one of the most talented voices in the country, Bernhoft has built his career step by step. From small roles as a child on stage in the Norwegian Opera, via success with…
Distorto-pop trio - armed with cassette tapes - sets out to waft distorted echoes and reverb throughout the atmosphere. Debut EP - "Into the Sea" - proudly taints the glitz of their home city, Dallas, Tx, with a unique w…
Bloody Knives is an industrial/shoegaze band from Austin, Texas consisting of Preston Maddox (bass, voice, keyboards, samples, programming), Jake McCown (Drums, noise, programming, art), Kim Calderon (sound manipulator) …
Cloud Nothings is a rock band from Cleveland, OH. Dylan Baldi is the band's lead singer and songwriter. The group has released two full-length albums and a compilation album on Carpark Records, in addition to various sin…
Chico Mann, a time-travelling multi-instrumentalist-producer who with drum machines, synthesizers, and guitars has singlehandedly filled the 30+ year gap between afrobeat, afrocuban, freestyle and electronic music while …
Conjunto Los Pinkys are a Texas-style dance band that plays down-home conjunto music. Dubbed by many as the Buena Vista Social Club of Austin's conjunto music scene, Conjunto Los Pinkys, like the music they create, are a…
The Cy Dune story starts with a songbook. This particular book had a 100 songs written in 20th century american visionary long hand over 5 years after leaving home and traveling the world in what some might call the cont…
Producer/DJ DallasK has come a long way since his fourth grade self was “buying Ibiza trance mixes.” ”Once I started hearing the new wave of electronic music like MSTRKRFT and Justice, that’s when I decided that this was…
Declan O’Rourke was a latecomer to the Dublin singer-songwriter scene. But, in his mid-twenties, within months of discovering Dublin’s bustling songwriter open-mic circuit, O’Rourke found himself in the mix with the like…
DJ Axis Powers (AKA Markus Hrdina) hails from New Jersey and is a
founding member of Brooklyn-based rock band, Shinobi Ninja, and the
Stone Cutters DJ crew. With over six years in the DJ battle scene,
Axis establishe…
DREAM AFFAIR first came to fruition in Philadelphia in early 2009, the product of some years of teenage collaboration between Hayden Payne (vocals, guitar, electronics) and Bryan Spoltore (bass). Abby Echiverri (vocals, …
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The Dunwells: two brothers, two cousins, and a best mate, debuted their unique trademark sound that blends Celtic and American folk, rock, blues, pop and soul, on BLIND SIGHTED FAITH released in August 2012 on Playing In…
Eby es un grupo de rock popular mexicano, formado a finales del 2006 en Santa Clara Ecatepec, Estado de Mexico. Con un sonido que incorpora recursos pop retro, editan dos discos: "Welcome!" (2009) y "Simpático" (2012).……
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Band name: ESCAPE
Nationality: Cuban
Date of birth: 2000
Place of birth: Havana, Cuba
Genre: Metal | Hardcore | Industrial
Lyrics: #rebellious #revolutionary #social
Escape play punishing metal/hardcore/industria…
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FINE TIMES
The feline theme running through the debut album of band Fine Times is an apt metaphor for grace. However, the band wasn’t always as light-footed as they are now...
When Matthew Moldowan and Jeffrey Josi…
When the brotherhood of Flagship gathers together to innovate more of their intricate, ethereal diacoustics, it’s a virtually effortless endeavor. Their sound is visionary and vivid, much like the minds and hearts behind…
Flying Turns is a 5 man vinyl DJ crew from Austin, TX. United in 2010 under the banner of disco, house, and donuts, Flying Turns are known for rocking unconventional venues ranging from Ethiopian restaurants to furniture…
Newly signed to Independent Powerhouse Fearless Records- Forever The Sickest Kids will release there Fearless debut 3rd studio album on June 25th-to support the album the band will be apart of the Vans Warped Tour all su…
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James "GO DJ JB" Nelson was born in Opealousas, La. and developed a love of music at an early age. JB was just 7 years old when he realized he wanted to be a Dj listening to WGCI, Chicago's radio station, where he heard …
Born from the simplicity of emotive choruses and lush electronic ornaments, Goldroom has transformed into a fascinating tale of modern music culture; a nostalgic romance of tropical textures and soulful rhythms.
After…
Heathered Pearls is the alias of Polish-born Jakub Alexander, music curator of the IS050 Blog, and founder of Moodgadget Records. Jakub has been DJing over a decade sharing residencies early on with globally recognized D…
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Immanu El (post/indierock) from Gothenburg, Sweden, started as a musical experiment in 2004 by 16-year-old Claes Strängberg and his twin brother Per. The ambition has always been to create something captivating and beaut…
IO ECHO is IOANNA GIKA and LEOPOLD ROSS. While MINISTRY OF LOVE will be IO ECHO's first official full length release, over the past year the band have already scored the Harmony Korine+James Franco film collaboration ‘R…
Isaac Delusion are two Paris-based multidisciplinary artists who are continually exploring new musical landscapes. From deep to high pitches, L.’s distinctive voice allow him to find the right tone and create his own ide…
Islet are an experimental and psychedelic group from Wales with a vision of limitless possibilities through the simple joy of exploration.
Their explosive live performances are marked by the refusal to stand still, r…
Born in Bristol UK, Jamie N Commons moved to Chicago with his family
when he was six and it was there that he developed a deep love for the
American music. The first gig his father took him to was the Allman
Brothers:…
JDH from Brooklyn, NY runs the FIXED parties along with his partner Dave P, which have been running for over eight years. In 2012 he supported Simian Mobile Disco on their US tour, and in the past, has toured with Soulwa…
TIMES TEN is a one-of-a kind, 10-piece powerhouse of an ensemble, featuring the original music of long time Austin saxophonist/composer Dr. John Mills. The band is a celebration of the extraordinary --- pushing the envel…
The group is family-oriented that have been priviledged to sing and perform all over the United States, Canada & the Bahamas. They have been on BET, The Church Channel and other televised shows as well as have been a fa…
LA CHIVA GANTIVA starts in Brussels with a group of Colombian percussionists playing together for around 10 years.
LA CHIVA GANTIVA plays traditional Caribbean instruments such as «la tambora», «el alegre», «el llama…
(From the Ground Control Touring Website)
Without a distinguishable understanding of the pop and intensity, a silent video of a Lemuria show would appear to be that of a blistering hardcore trio. To the viewers surpri…
The Lost Brothers first met in an old dusty library in Liverpool, England in 2007. From their first encounter, they noticed they had a lot in common. They both come from Ireland (Oisin Leech from Navan, Mark McCausland f…
Made up of Ally Young and Lee Newell, Lovelife formed after the duo met with a stroke of strange symmetry, in the midst of failed relationships and freshly cut projects. Finding a mutual inspiration and resilience the du…
- Based in LA
- previous releases on Numbers, Innovative Leisure, Monkeytown, Rush Hour.
- co-runs Icee Hot records with cool buds of his
- 1/2 of lazer sword
- nice DJ, good selections. risky!
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“Good music”, says Luke Sital-Singh, “should lock your feet and jaw to the floor”. On the evidence of the four beautifully crafted tracks that have emerged so far, such a feat should not be a problem for the hotly-tipped…
"A sign of our times, Marcelo Fruet is difficult to be pigeonholed as an artist. I like to see him as a rocker that makes Brazilian music (or what was once agreed to be called MPB). However, the density and the melanchol…
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In the span of its ten songs, the Jeff Trott (Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow) produced Rule The World traverses varying themes of heartbreak, regret, young love, desperation and, ultimately redemption. "Run From You", the alb…
MikeQ [Fade To Mind|Qween Beat|Mad Decent], Is an American Artist and is one of the leading figures of the US's long-running (but still largely underground) ballroom/vogue-house culture. Based in New Jersey, the 27 year …
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5 childhood friends from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, augmented by 3 mid-western transplants, The Mowgli's are a quintessential California band. Inspired by the magnetism of San Francisco, the grind of Los Ang…
Mystery Skulls is really the nom de plume of Los Angeles based electronic artist Luis Dubuc. Formerly from Dallas, Texas, Dubuc sounds like Prince fronting Daft Punk, mixing his inspirations of '90's R&B and New Jack Swi…
Paper Lions are an indie rock band from Belfast, PEI whose music shines with sunny melodies and tales of lost youth. Equally influenced by the clear voiced harmonies of the Beach Boys and the clanging guitars of modern r…
“Phranchyze is quite literally battling his way to national prominence. The 26-year-old local rapper, otherwise known as financial adviser J.J. Shaw, is an emerging star…” (Austin Powell of Austin Chronicle)
Phranchyz…
The beginning of Pirates Canoe was when Sara, a Buddhist monk/mandolin player, happened to walk into a baseball bar in the middle of Kyoto, Japan. That’s where she met Kanako, carrying a fiddle case and drinking beer. Th…
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The Roosevelts are a pop/rock duo from Austin, TX. The EP "Cold Sheets" was just recorded with producer Dwight Baker (Kelly Clarkson, Bob Schneider, Alpha Rev), with drummer JJ Johnson (John Mayer, Derek Trucks), bassis…
The Mississippi septet Rosco Bandana are the product of teenage rebellion and its consequences; of lost love, false starts and, above all, lasting friendship. They're what happens when a group of kids take a chance on a …
Having spent over a decade in the music industry performing with Alternative/Indie band, Mae, lead singer Dave Elkins has embarked on an entirely new artistic endeavor. Under the name Schematic, Elkins has already releas…
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Born from an impromptu jam at a Halloween party in 2009, Skating Polly is a punk/rock/pop duo made up of stepsisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse. On their forthcoming sophomore album Lost Wonderfuls (produced by Exene…
Meet me in the middle of the night
Let me hear you say everything's alright
Let me smell the moon in your perfume
— “Romeo’s Tune”
Singer-songwriter Steve Forbert had his first major hit in 1979 when he was only 25…
Simply stated, Striking Matches, made up of Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis, came to Nashville to play music. Sarah, a Philadelphia native and Justin from Atlanta met when a professor at Belmont University paired them …
"I've always been drawn to outsiders," says this classically trained musician and artist who grew up on both coasts, many parts in between, and now calls northern California home. Discovering Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle,…
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Somewhere between the rich, percussive instrumentation of Daphni, and the layered synths and ear for a hook of M83 resides Tropics, aka Southampton, UK artist Chris Ward. Producing, singing, and playing all instruments h…
Tulsa is the world´s capital of petroleum but it is also the world´s capital of the lack of love and/or affection. Tha band, having as front woman Miren Iza proved with their previous album "Solo me has rozado" (Subterfu…
Oakland, California’s Tumbleweed Wanderers combine soul, folk, and rock and roll to create a hugely dynamic musical experience. They weave through their shows with smooth transitions, bringing the listener from dark chao…
"Twenty Feet from Stardom" follows several diverse and gifted backup singers living in the shadows of superstardom. These singers belong to the first family of American voice and represent a range of styles throughout la…
Satellite towns tend to breed big ambitions. Perched on the hills above Manchester, Macclesfield’s principle claim to fame comes in the cult of Ian Curtis. That classic example of the ‘just out of the city’ boy reinforce…
Although the Magnolia Housing Projects have long been demolished, a light post still stands at the corner where youth like Vockah Redu (Javocca Davis) gathered to rap and create beats. The light post marks one of the bir…
Bio
Teal Collins (The Mother Truckers) and Barbara Nesbitt (Tim Flannery & The Lunatic Fringe) met at a mutual friend’s gig in Austin and decided to get together to sing a song or two. By the time they reached the first…
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…
Yotam Ben Horin is best known as the lead singer, bass player, and primary songwriter for Israeli punk rock band Useless ID (Fat Wreck Chords). With Useless ID still completely intact and several records under his belt (…
ZEALE is an emerging Hip-Hop/Indie artist from Austin, Texas.
Often playing chemistry with the genres of Hip Hop, Indie Rock, and EDM. ZEALE seeks to create a hybrid of music with depth.
ZEALE recently toured with…
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, DJ Steph Floss made his dream of becoming a DJ a reality in 2002 at the Ohio State University.
Although he's the resident DJ for 6 nightclubs throughout the week in Cleveland, he also has mont…
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Striving to stand out in an over-diluted genre of music in an already over saturated
industry leaves a lot to be desired and could be described as an uphill battle both ways. For Houston native Roosh Williams, the simpl…
Grupo Fantasma has been praised as one of the most important independent acts in the Latin genre and has continually defied expectations to create one of the most unique musical voices to come out of the United States in…
Joe Banfi is a boy with a guitar but he’s more than just a lonesome acoustic troubadour. He’s not just a singer-songwriter, either, nor is he simply a musician with a voice. Here is someone whose intention it is to have …
"You know how some kids, at the age of 4, stand in front of the mirror and sing knowing that one day, they'll be a star performer...yeah...not me...I, and probably no one around me back then, would believe that at 23, I'…
Jonny Fritz (formerly Corndawg) is a country singer, not a singer-songwriter. Born in Montana and raised in rural Virginia, Jonny dropped out of school in 2001 and toured solo for many years on his motorcycle, going on t…
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San Francisco electro/boogie producer Loose Shus first EP was released in 2009 by Plant Music out of New York City, he then went on to do remixes for artists such as Jupiter and Mayer Hawthorne. Loose Shus was featured …
Sean Nicholas Savage is driven by the magic of the voice. Originally hailing from Edmonton, Canada but now a fixture of the Montreal music scene, Savage uses his instrument to effortlessly express both the strength and f…
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If you've ever wondered how a song is made, you might want to ask Southern California singer/songwriter Tori Kelly. All you would have to do is take a seat in the music studio and sanctuary she built in her bedroom and w…
A self-described ‘old soul’, Tyler Lyle’s lyrics carry the weight and understanding that go far beyond his twenty-six years. A Transplant fom Atlanta, GA to Santa Monica, CA, Tyler Lyle has self-released four independent…
Where the Pacific collides with California and breaks at the foot of Americas smog capital/culture factory, Alexander Spit (government name Alexander Manzano) thrives in a creative haze, currently perfecting the hyper-bl…
FKi, comprised of Raye Rich and 1st Down, is a hip hop duo out of Atlanta, GA. Not only are they artists they are highly acclaimed producers.
FKi began to get their productions placed with various artists, such as Tra…
White Poppy is the experimental pop project of Canadian musician and artist Crystal Dorval. Dorval self produces and records all the music for White Poppy at her makeshift home studio in Vancouver BC.
Not Not Fun reco…
“…a sound that simultaneously stimulates and satisfies…” – My Old Kentucky Blog
Boy+Kite released their debut album Go Fly the summer of 2011, although the band started in 2009 when the two main members Beth & Darvin …
In the years since signing with Paw Tracks in 2009, Mississippi native Dent May has made music that balances saccharine pop sincerity and campy affectation. His debut LP, The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnific…
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Jigg a.k.a J-I-Double-G is an artist on the rise from Miami, FL making a major impact on the music industry both on the street and virally. After releasing the highly anticipated mixtape HighGrade in the spring of 2011 J…
Mikal Cronin's self-titled debut from 2011 was all about endings: the end of college, the end of a serious relationship, and the end of his time in Los Angeles, where he grew up. So it's no surprise that his sophomore re…
Bad Ingredients, Biram’s fourth full-length for Bloodshot Records, is a decidedly different record for those who have been following SHB’s road-driven career. Recorded at Biram’s home studio in Austin, Texas and mastered…
DyMe-A-DuZin is the epitome of a rising star. Since emerging onto the music scene, the 20-year-old rap phenom has garnered the attention of hip-hop aficionados and music execs alike. The Brooklyn emcee wrote his first so…
UK-based singer-songwriter Ed Tullett’s music has been described as “19 year old melancholy.” But that’s not saying his music is sad or depressing. The “melancholy” represents Tullett’s reflectiveness, youth, and poetic …
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The 2011 Bonnaroo performance by the polyglot Tuscan artist Jovanotti (nee Lorenzo Cherubini) won over American live music fans, critics and industry alike. Among those taken by Jovanotti’s artistry and charisma was the …
Formed in 1999 by Royal Conservatory of Music trained musicians Jesse Matthewson, Shane Matthewson, CA, and long-time friend Darryl Laxdal (bass), the group released several demos from 1999 to 2003, leading to the relea…
People believe in Kristen Kelly. Candid and down to earth, with a room-filling smile and a voice that echoes the heart of what she sings, Kristen laughs as she describes her music as “a little more grease than polish.” A…
COME FLY WITH US!
(Reuters) These are some of the interesting things you’ll see on your next long distance flight, courtesy of My Education:
-Bukowski’s gin-soaked bars, where Mickey Rourke orders more libations fo…
Mike Perry & Austin Keultjes -- are scholars of every genre they borrow from. Leaning heavily on the ideals and aesthetics of modern rap and its sub-genres, especially Footwork, they cast a wide net into the sub-bass he…
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Will Brennan is a 23-year old hip hop artist from West Palm Beach, FL. His musical influences are as diverse as the area he hails from. Growing up between the electronic clubs on South Beach and the traps and trunks of R…
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BIO
“Young, black and famous, with a new bitch and some leather. Chuck Taylor’s that look old, but they brand new as this money.”
Bold and unfiltered. His presence is a demeanor only obtained through real experiences…
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Andy's new solo album, Superconductor, has people calling her a refreshing songbird with a bright funk soul. Even her peers can't stop singing her praises. Says R&B vocalist Ledisi, “After eight bars of her first song, '…
Fatima Al Qadiri is an artist, musician, and performer based in New York. Al Qadiri produces music under her name and as Ayshay, her releases include WARN-U (Tri Angle), Genre-Specific Xperience (UNO NYC) and most recent…
Ghost Beach are the latest pop pioneers to set the internet ablaze. Less than a year old, the New York-based duo of Josh Ocean and Eric "Doc" Mendelsohn have already perfected a retro-future aesthetic that sounds like th…
Hundred Waters was woven together under the spell of a viscous Floridian summer, from a home on its own in the woods amidst a city. The music sets sail into ancient seas, subtly shifting through worlds of howling silence…
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Miloh Smith, the young songstress/MC presents born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Miloh uses her unique tone and sick melodies blended fused with hip hop/soul to create incredible music for all to enjoy.……
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Hamilton-based Monster Truck is one of the biggest groundswell stories in Canadian rock this past year with two singles from The Brown EP reaching Top 10 on Canadian Rock radio, a 2013 JUNO nomination for “Breakthrough A…
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In early 2012 a mysterious band appeared online. The group, The Neighbourhood, revealed no biographical information, no photos and no backstory, offering only a moody track titled “Female Robbery.” Fans and the press wer…
From constant tour dates, to growing press with the likes of Vogue,
Page 6, Cosmopolitan, US Weekly, and OK Magazine, to a national
single release featuring Shwayze that received repeated airplay on
BBC Radio One, Sil…
ST 2 Lettaz born Stephen Harris has been around the music world for the past decade. One half of the hip hop duo G-Side he has emerged in 2013 on his path to his first debut album, The G...Growth and Development. The alb…
ANITA WILSON Worship Soul
BIOGRAPHY
With her debut project, Anita Wilson joins the rich musical heritage known as the Chicago sound, while simultaneously heralding a new style in today’s gospel music---Worship Soul.…
The Mallard are an inside-out-echo-laser-garage-psych-rock trio from San Francisco. Their home fried songs harness the naked abandon of 70’s punk (think earliest wire meets syd barrett era pink floyd), but inject the for…
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Orthy makes the kind of music you can’t help but fall in love with. A native of Austin, the singer and multi-instrumentalist continues a rich tradition of adventurous music that has long emanated from the Texan capital. …
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Miami's avant-dance duo Afrobeta have been tearing up dance floors since 2006. Their most recent release "Wig Party" ranked #29 on CMJ's RPM top 50 of 2012 chart and top-ranked at #8.
"Wig Party" is available for free…
This London based band was formed in 2009 by Paul Lisak, and soon released their debut EP, "It Happens All The Time". The band have toured Spain, France, Slovakia and more recently the Ukraine and Poland (including Przys…
Most folks, as soon as they hear Ashley Monroe, instantly recognize one thing: she’s the real deal. Her songs resonate so profoundly because they reflect the experiences of an artist who, although she is just 26, has alr…
Bestial Mouths formed in Los Angeles, California in 2009. Drawing from a large base of influences including the early industrial, synthpunk, and goth scenes of the late 70’s and early 80’s, founders Lynette Cerezo and Ch…
Beware of Darkness is a bold, new power-trio of old souls, pissed at life in a modern age. They are ready to frighten your children, sleep with your daughters, and make you shake, scream, and contort like it's a Depressi…
Joe Lewis is stuffed into a van with his six bandmates and one stranger, as they hurtle across Texas to a gig in Marfa. Most of the guys are sleeping now, content in the knowledge they’ve just made the record of their li…
BLAUDZUN - HEAVY FLOWERS
Critics consider him one of the best kept secrets in European indie
pop. But that won't be for too long. Holland based singersongwriter
Blaudzun will make his debut in the US. Set for release
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Braille is the house music alias of the multi faceted Praveen Sharma. He is the founder of Percussion Lab and current resident alongside Nooka Jones and Dave Q. Praveen is also one half of acclaimed electronic music duo …
Monika Brodka, the sprite‐like vocalist BRODKA, launched onto the Polish music scene with a bang as the winner of Polish Pop Idol in 2004 at the young age of 16. Since her debut, Brodka has released three LPs ‐ all of wh…
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Friendship is at the heart of one of the best albums of the year.
Brother-‐acts like the Louvins, the Everlys, the Delmores, and others have created some of our most memorable music, but every once in awhile that same …
It is hard to write a biography for someone whose story (or at least a version of it) is very well known. There doesn’t appear to be much to tell beyond the obvious, the redundant restatement of what everyone has already…
Like the album's cloudy cover, Dog Bite's Carpark debut, Velvet Changes, captivates with its prettiness and welcomes return visits thanks to its alluring mysteriousness. The project of Atlanta’s Phil Jones, Dog Bite’s dr…
Brooklyn based Duane Harriott's has been releasing raw disco-jackin edits on the acclaimed Chicago based stilov4music label since 2008;
Released under various monikers (Devin Dare, Bim Marx) his acclaimed production…
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Since they were founded in Belo Horizonte/Brazil by the guitarist Alan Wallace in January 1995, the members of Eminence have been riding high in the local Undergroundscene. Through a large national following as well as t…
FIELDED explores the many moods that can be created through experimentation with voice as leader rather than follower of the amplified instrument. She moves from dark to light and back to dark - a church chorus, cacophon…
One of the most important band of Techno Brega scenario. The Pará-based group Gang do Eletro was founded by DJ Waldo Squash and singer Marcos Maderito, and came to public attention in 2008. While focusing on life in the …
Ginger & The Ghost are two visual artists who have transformed their imagination into song.
Hiding away in a converted water tank / studio in the New South Wales hinterland, the duo were able to find the freedom to cr…
Grandchildren is a six-piece electro-acoustic orchestral pop band from Philadelphia, PA. It began as a solo recording project that fused simple folk songs with sampled beats and evolved into a 6 piece pop-orchestra known…
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HANNI EL KHATIB – HEAD IN THE DIRT (INNOVATIVE LEISURE)
When Hanni El Khatib started out, he was just a skater kid playing the world’s worst guitar and singing by himself. Inspired by a long line of determined do-it…
Born and bred in New York City, Hollis Brown embarked on a pilgrimage to Nashville to capture their authentic sound. They shacked up for two weeks in the backyard cabin/studio of producer Adam Landry (Deer Tick, Middle B…
Horse Opera. A national touring honky tonk country band from Austin, Tx.
www.horseoperamusic.com for more info, videos, calendar, etc...
Horse Opera formed under the leadership of frontman/guitar player/songwriter, …
THE HOWLIN’ BROTHERS DELIVER
BRENDAN BENSON-PRODUCED HOWL
(ON HIS OWN READYMADE RECORDS LABEL),
THEIR FIRST NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELEASE
Genre-busting first-quarter 2013 release
features guest appearances…
"If you invited the Black Keys and the White Stripes to gather round the barbie and threw on a few slabs of Deep Purple and AC/DC marinated in Chicago blues, the taste would be something like the one served up by tJackso…
To raise the new, one must raze the old. For the better part of the past decade, Los Angeles producer/DJ Jerome Potter has utilized his creative efforts toward LOL Boys, a collaborative project that was sparked via an on…
Austin musician Jess Williamson creates raw and intimate songs, rooted in a folk tradition, and strengthened by her unique voice and poetic lyrics. Williamson primarily plays the banjo, employing a combination of three f…
Detroit native and self-made, self-taught artist Jessica Hernandez has collaborated with veteran industry giants like Grammy Award-Winning Producer Milo Froideval and Grammy Award-Winning Mixer Tchad Blake.
The bands…
Full of soulful urgency and longing, of lost sailors, cruel pirates and creeping inevitabilities, the new solo album by Jon Langford travels o’er the seas and malls, from the pubs of Wales to the swamps of the settled li…
JOSY: the guiter-less-organ all girl band from Tokyo
Mami : keyboard
Non : bass
Nanohana : drums
Kumi : vocal/keyboard
With an estatic love for the Doors and MGMT, these four girls first met each other at a …
Kim Janssen (yaen-sen) grew up following his folks all around Asia and recorded his first record in an old trainstation in Massachusetts with Marla Hansen (Sufjan Stevens, The National) singing and playing viola.
Kim’…
Krief - Hundred Thousand Pieces
Writing intensely personal music is nothing new for Montreal's Patrick Krief, either as a solo artist or as the longtime guitarist for The Dears, but even Krief himself was taken aback …
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La Santa Cecilia consists of accordionist and requintero Jose Carlos, bassist Alex Bendana, percussionist Miguel Ramirez, and lead vocalist La Marisoul, whose captivating voice sings about love, loss and heartbreak. Thei…
The Last Bison is anything but typical. The seven-member ensemble led by Ben Hardesty has seemingly risen from the marshes of southeastern Virginia to captivate the national music scene with a rare blend of folk that is …
The Lighthouse and the Whaler is a band from Cleveland, Ohio, though its name alludes to the waters off the coast of Massachusetts. Inspired by a theme from Moby Dick, the band's name alone is enough to make underpaid Li…
LIVIDS?
A marrow-rattling new buzz-punk stuporgroup from Brooklyn
and parts nearby, featuring screamer, Eric Davidson (New Bomb Turks);
git-slinger Jami Wolf (Shop Fronts, Zodiac Killers); lead guitar boy
wonder, Da…
Zach Williams, the Lone Bellow’s lead singer and principal songwriter, can pinpoint just about exactly when the Brooklyn-based group serendipitously willed itself into being. It was around 9 a.m. one morning in 2010, at…
- Based in LA
- previous releases on Numbers, Innovative Leisure, Monkeytown, Rush Hour.
- co-runs Icee Hot records with cool buds of his
- 1/2 of lazer sword
- nice DJ, good selections. risky!
- animated gif blog
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Malina Moye
Flipping a Fender Stratocaster upside-down, acclaimed singer/songwriter/lefty guitarist Malina Moye fills a void in the entertainment industry. Described as a modern day renaissance woman, she’s a quadrupl…
Manic Sheep is a band which formed in 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan. The band most lineup consists of Chris Lo(vocals, bass, synths), Scott Hsieh (guitar) and Jocelyn Kang (Drum).The original member was five, their earlier musi…
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…
Maximum Hedrum is the new project of producer, composer, director, and DJ Sam Spiegel. The group’s unique electronic-funk hybrid features Sam Spiegel, the vocals of Derrick Green from the seminal heavy metal band Sepultu…
"Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss " is the debut rap release from New York based self described "Acid Punk Rapper" Mykki Blanco. "This mixtape is a reflection of the lifestyle that my peers and I are living right n…
Established in 2011, founded by Dustin Doering, Jonathan Baugh, Justin Green and Tito Sopena, O Conqueror can best be described as "tender," "introspective," and "packed with emotion."
O Conqueror has been said to so…
A la orilla del mar, con el sol radiante y la brisa cosquilleando ¡se armó la mojiganga! La rumba chocoana y el porro, anfitriones, decidieron invitar a la cumbia, al vallenato, al bambuco, la salsa y a otros muchos más…
"Pumcayó" is Spanish for "thump! (it/he/she) fell". The music crafted by the quintet touches on contemporary folk acts like Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear, with occasional nods to progressive rock. The disparate musical st…
“He was all over the stage, driving the crowd into a frenzy, grinding sounds from his guitar with the back of his hand, the ceiling beams, the mic stand. His extended solos were soul-dripping, finger-flailing explosions …
Since forming in 2007, The Revivalists have rightfully earned their reputation as the next breakout band from the music capital of New Orleans. The group’s blend of soulful, syncopated rock and earnest songwriting comes …
Roadkill Ghost Choir is an indie folk-rock band from Deland, Florida. Brothers Andrew, (vocals, guitar), Maxx (drums) and Zach (bass) Shepard make up half the band while Kiffy Meyers (pedal steel, banjo, guitar), Joey Da…
'ACES stunned me. The instrumental introduction made me think of the
Black Keys ... then in came the vocals reminiscent of Brandon Flowers.
Dare I say it, this sounds like a commercial single.' Paul Gambaccini
'Soun…
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Sahara Smith is a natural. Or as the Austin Chronicle observes, “She's the real deal all right.”
Don’t take our word for it. Listen to her debut album on Playing in Traffic Records, Myth of the Heart, and you’re bound…
Making sizable impacts in the production world with releases on Palms Out Sound, Trouble & Bass, and known for his cli- matic, full-throttle DJ sets, Sam Griesemer aka Samo Sound Boy has built an esteemed reputation …
You hear the distinct vibration of your mobile phone. A text message from a new crush. Do you text back? Do you wait? Is it stalking or does it just show that you’re keen? Everyone has been there, taking those first step…
“You only choose from what you could get, your life is a show and the star's nearly dead”-
We all make choices in our life, but in the end, all roads seem to lead to one eventual truth; Sarai knew she was a musician th…
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,…
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New Chain is the debut long-player from New York's Small Black. Richly coloured and thickly layered, it is an absorbing, eclectic and obsessive body of work. The Brooklyn group have succeeded in melting together locked a…
Born 1983. Tallahassee, Florida.
In the last few years, Morgan Sorne has written over 80 songs. The first 13 were released in 2011 in his debut album, House of Stone, and he’s working on releasing more this year on…
Soul Khan is a Brooklyn-based MC and member of the hip hop collective Brown Bag Allstars. His distinctive baritone voice, lyricism, and personality take you on a journey in every song. Whether it’s spitting about pop c…
Between 2006 and 2011, Chapel Hill’s Spider Bags toured the U.S. in a countless crisscross, sharing stages with Reigning Sound, King Khan BBQ Show, The Golden Boys, and Titus Andronicus to name just a few. After releasin…
Track Dogs - Rock with a box and a bugle!
Named after the maintenance teams that work the NYC subway system Track Dogs are a four piece acoustic act based in Madrid, Spain.
Made up of two Irishmen; Garrett Wall (V…
Volta Bureau is an electronic music group formed in Washington, DC consisting of Will Eastman, Outputmessage (Bernard Farley) and Micah Vellian (Miguel Lacsamana). Bernard and Miguel first meet as roommates, with Will co…
Presented by: Time Out North America (Badges and Wristbands Only)
With a name like “Walk Off The Earth,” you might say this band sounds otherworldly. In fact, it’s very much grounded in reality.
"We wanted to come up with a name that would make people forget about their problems, no…
Women, death, beards, skulls & whiskey, the dark matters ground through stomach-churning guitars and ugly drumming to produce the trademark lo-fi blues-stoner-punk sound that has made the Sheffield/Leeds duo make a name …
Presented by: Beatroute Magazine / WinnieCooper.net / Light Organ
After debuting with Tic Toc Tic in 2009, The Zolas scaled the precipice of cult status across Canada, thanks to a loyal fanbase carried over from Zach Gray (vocals, guitar) and Tom Dobrzanski’s (piano) earlier years as L…
fo/mo/deep = An Eclectic Groove Oriented – Funky Jazz Collective.
Best known for their sizzling live performances, the fo/mo/deep groove is rooted in the experimental school of the 70s…a time when jazz, soul and funk …
If you haven’t heard the buzz yet, let it be known that Chicago native Rockie Fresh isquickly becoming your next favorite rapper. Only 21-years-old and starting his music career just a few years ago, this young up-and-co…
Majical Cloudz is music and performance. Rooted in solo material recorded between rural Ontario and Montreal, Devon Welsh joined with Matthew Otto in February 2012 to bring the project to the stage.
Their performance is…
Rites Wild is one of the solo monikers of South Australian-born musician Stacey Wilson. Wilson is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, visual artist, graphic designer and owner of record label ‘Heavy Lows’. Wilson also pla…
Breaking up is hard to do. Desperate and lonely, Stan (Michael Stahl-David) learns that his ex, Cathy (Ashley Bell), will be in Austin for the weekend and hops on a flight to the Lone Star State in hopes of “accidentally…
Formed by writer Rina Durante in 1975, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino is regarded as Italy’s leading and longest-standing traditional music ensemble, hailing from the Salento, the heel of the Italian boot, in Puglia.
…
Cory Chisel is an old believer. You can hear it in his music – there’s a wisdom beyond his years in that voice. You can see it in his story – the son of a preacher, sheltered from pop music, raised on hymns and Johnny Ca…
Dusty Oliveira, known as EL DUSTY, has been at the forefront of the new cumbia scene. Working out of his studio in Corpus Christi, Texas, both behind the turntables and the mixing console for some of the most successful…
Before sunrise on August 29, 2005 Nolan (Paul Walker) arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife Abigail (Genesis Rodriguez) who has gone into early labor. What should be one of the happiest days of Nolan’…
Presented by: The Grammy Museum - Musical Milestones: 50 Years of The Beatles
Fresh off a headlining show at London's Royal Albert Hall, Ron Sexsmith returns to SXSW in support of his latest release, Forever Endeavour. Following the Bob Rock produced Long Player Late Bloomer - and the documentary …
The Staves are English sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor, whose unique vocal harmonies and haunting melodies have already seen them tipped for success by The Guardian, iTunes, Time Out, The Times, Nylon,…
Hailing from Montreal, QC, Charlie Darker is poised to take over. Yes, he's received accolades from some of the top producers in the industry, including Tiësto, Hardwell, Zedd, Porter Robinson, and Madeon. Yes, at only 2…
Since the mid 90s, The Linus Pauling Quartet has been playing their particular brand of Texas stoner metal/garage psych infused with their obsessions for drugs, beer, sci-fi/fantasy, and the mighty Bongs of Power. Over …
Man Without Country are a Cardiff-based duo in their early twenties. Formed in 2007, their sound encompasses glacial guitar ripples spliced with electronic ambience and synth-pop pulse, yet with the ability to morph into…
Trends in music are cyclical. Every few years something comes along that borrows just enough from the past to make the new exciting again. Scorpion Child produce a sound that hearkens back to when guitar rock ruled the a…
Chris Cohen is a 37-year-old native of Los Angeles currently residing in the farmlands of Vermont. He is the child of a former music business executive and a former Broadway actress. His resumé of prior musical projects …
The self proclaimed ‘Realest Outta Alabama’, KD has established himself as one of the rising stars of rap’s new underground. Born and raised on the Westside of Birmingham, Alabama’s largest city, KD’s deep Southern root…
For The Orwells, Remember When will be an introduction of sorts—the 12-track rat-race shows the band’s repertoire of pranging riffs and sneering, snot-nosed vocals. The tracks are a walloping war-cry from a generation th…
Jim and Dave are brothers. They haven't seen each other in years, but when their father unexpectedly dies, they're forced to travel down to Branson together to redeem their inheritance; the family's lake home. Upon arriv…
Presented by: Live Nation (Badges and Wristbands Only)
From panoramic vistas from the peaks of stately Yorkshire ridges to drug-running ranches in the deserts of Texas, The Chevin are a band steeped in natural grandeur. They’re a band who grew up relishing the magnificent sw…
Presented by: Raw Power Management & The Agency Group
Japan – November 2006. CROSSFAITH are born.
Unique in their home country of Japan, CROSSFAITH combine metalcore, hardcore, samples and electronica to create groundbreaking music that transcends genres. Their 2009 debu…
Presented by: The Grammy Museum - Musical Milestones: 50 Years of The Beatles
Please allow David Garza to reintroduce himself.
Get the head rockin’ with Shed Light, the best of this multi-instrumentalist’s 21st-century music. It’s sure to be in heavy rotation alongside his Deep Ellum-inspired …
Over the past few years , The Doppelgangaz have gone from obscurity (Orange County, New York) to taking their unique sound all over the world. They have managed to do so while still having time to write, produce, dumpste…
Originally from Chicago, Houses is Dexter Tortoriello and Megan Messina. They formed in 2010 after a 3 month stint in Papaikou Hawaii living off the land . With no modern conveniences the couple worked for meals during …
KADAVAR are the new sensation within the extraordinarily vital Retro Rock / Doom / Psychedelic Rock genre. The Berlin based trio consists of Wolf (vocals / guitar), Mammut (bass) and Tiger (drums). Together they revel in…
Nearly three years on from his breakthrough album Here’s To Taking It Easy, Phosphorescent returns to the fray with his most stunning record yet: Muchacho . During the last album’s ‘cycle’, one could almost hear jaws hit…
Presented by: HS8 Agency with Gold Gang & AllHipHop.com
Discovered by the one and only Q-Tip, Spree Wilson is proving to be a truly singular artist in his own right. Presented by Converse, his debut album The Never Ending Now is a voyage through genre and style that shows off…
Set in the Texas Hill Country, THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE is a portrait of the Sutton family: Diane, while ignoring her own health issues, is caregiver to her son August, who has cerebral palsy, and her husband, who is in the…
On the heels of three well-received singles comes Ride Your Heart, the bombastic debut album by LA band, Bleached, out April 2 via Dead Oceans. Sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin match their ability to blend a mix of fre…
Presented by: Collective Status Boutique & Rocksmith
“You just don’t become a leader in one year. You’re prepped for it. When you’re at your lowest—but you got that faith—that gives you motivation. And when you have that motivation, that’s what makes you a leader,” says La…
Chicago’s explosive Outer Minds have finally come to the surface after simmering in the underworld in several different incarnations over the past few years, and with unbelievably great results. Sharpening their sound in…
With nearly two dozen albums to his credit, singer, composer and accordionist Celso Pina is known for his pioneering experimentation with the tropical style, the Mexican version of cumbia popular since the 1950s. He's be…
Presented by: Shout It Out Loud Music vs. Learning Secrets
Cinnamon Chasers is the electro/nu-disco moniker of producer Russ Davies (son of Dave Davies from legendary 70’s Rock band The Kinks), described by one of the biggest dance music stores - Juno as "a fusion of Aeroplane, …
Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. No one knew the pair were really Scottish, with fake US accents and made up identities. When their promising Scottish rap act was branded “the rapping P…
Guardian Alien is a raw psychedelic band that employs heavy poly-rhythmic drumming, dense drones, exotic instrumentation, and a generous amount of extremely virtuosic shredding. The band was started by multi instrumental…
Presented by: The Grammy Museum - Musical Milestones: 50 Years of The Beatles
JENNY O- AUTOMECHANIC
Automechanic is the appropriately titled debut full-length by Los Angeles
artist Jenny O. A great distance from her Long Island, New York beginnings
on the now critically praised EP "Home," Jen…
Hailing from the windy streets of Chicago, Nylo is an emerging electro-‐R&B singer/songwriter composed of liquidly Wurlitzer’s, soulfully sparse 808’s, and fragile falsetto confessions.
Nylo found her love for music …
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For Sean Falyon, being everywhere means more than showing up at every show or party he hears about. Sure, the Philadelphia MC has made his name by remaining ubiquitous since his 2004 migration to Atlanta, but Falyon’s co…
Presented by: Bond Music Group/Aerobic International
Soon to be legends, SLDGHMR has taken a blend of french electro, disco and techno and created something much bigger. About to release their new album RESET, you can expect to see laser vests alongside a crazy set.
…
Presented by: Collective Status Boutique & Rocksmith
“Doughbeezy is a fireball emcee with an immediately recognizable pinched-together voice and an unconscionably fun flow. He rocketed from obscurity to ubiquity these past 18 months by multiplying a natural talent for perf…
WHITE LUNG BIOGRAPHY
White Lung is a punk band from Vancouver, B.C. compromised of Mish Way (vocals), Grady Mackintosh (bass), Kenneth William (guitar) and Anne-Marie Vassiliou (drums). They have released four 7-inche…
"It really is an amalgamation of all things trippy and offbeat. I've listened a dozen times now and each time I find another little sonic nugget tucked between the crunching beats. It's like The Adamski Kid made music ou…
With the breakthrough release of 2011’s *Fela Soul*, Amerigo Gazaway’s sophomore effort was declared “a virtual web hit” (MTV) seemingly overnight. As the creator of one of the year’s most buzz-worthy independent releas…
Presented by: Danny Rose Agency/Park the Van Records & Management
Hollywood, Florida is not your typical beach town. The buildings, diners, and of course the beach appear frozen in the 1950’s. Probably a result of the town’s population boom happening in that era, a current drive down t…
"Look at me trying to build up a wall, I won't stop til it's twenty foot tall.", Bombay Show Pig - On A Plane
Right off the bat, the spirited on-stage chemistry between Mathias Janmaat and Linda van Leeuwen became so…
Presented by: Beatroute Magazine / WinnieCooper.net / Light Organ
The Boom Booms are a Vancouver-based six-piece indie band whose music is a mash-up of pop, hip hop, reggae, soul, and funk. Since their 2007 launch, The Boom Booms have built a loyal fanbase that stretches across genera…
THE BOTS just finished their 2012 European Tour! They also recorded several new tracks in London UK for their much anticipated new album due out this year!
UPON return, THE BOTS will gear up for some exciting local li…
Man... Bios kinda suck.
I've been doing these things for so long now, that I feel like just when I have written the mother of all things informative and maybe funny, I go and record a new record. Why does shit always…
In July of last year China Rats, an unheard of band from Leeds in the UK, were booked to play the tiny Villa Camp stage at massive European festival BENICASSIM the night before the start of the main festival. The result …
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 abortion …
Miranda Lambert opened for him. Lady Bird Johnson enjoyed his music. From the East Texas woods to your front porch. Country Willie Edwards brings you songs of trains, women, zombies and smoke-filled bars. Legendary is ju…
"Eccentric, Contagious, Electrifying. These are some words you could use to describe American electronic artist Daedelus (Alfred Darlington).
To experience Daedelus in all his unbridled splendor is only achievable over…
Presented by: Playing In Traffic: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
"I grew up in a house where speakers blasted female-fronted bands like Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Joan Jett, Stevie Nicks, and Debbie Harry. I always admired the way those artists made the statement that a chick could be in…
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, The…
Presented by: Dickies (Badges and Wristbands Only)
DIIV is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece.
Inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIIV created instant v…
Ed Kowalczyk, the legendary lead-singer and songwriter of the multi-platinum rock band, LIVE, left the band in '09 to pursue a solo career and open a new chapter in his already illustrious career. With over 20 million al…
Based in Austin, Texas, Edison Chair (Martin Aker - bass, Wes Armstrong - drums, Will Bryant - keys/guitar) craft direct songs with colorful, vocally-embellished arrangements; think Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers gettin…
Presented by: Readymade Records presents ABKCO Records Recording Artist
Eric Burdon has one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in rock and roll.
A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 1994, and hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Voices of All Time, Burdo…
The genesis of the evitaN project is rooted in the traditional spirit of Native Tongues; the movement, the message and the music. Andres "Dres" Titus of Black Sheep, and Jarobi White of A Tribe Called Quest, have joined …
Danish singer/songwriter and producer Fallulah released her debut album ”The Black Cat Neighborhood” in 2010 and instantly rocketed into stardom in her native country of Denmark with her original and ground-breaking indi…
Of the many words that one might choose to define FETSUM’s long awaited debut, perhaps the most accurate is ‘global’. It’s an adjective that not only summarises the sound that he has fashioned since he first started writ…
"Thanks for coming, man. Want some bum juice?"
"What the fuck is in this shit?"
"Tampico and Everclear. It's pretty gross."
When they started in 2009, seeing FIDLAR meant showing up to a house party and eventually h…
Singer-songwriter born in the Kansas Territory before the turn of the century. Migrated to New York City, where he recorded several records for Bar None and Elektra Records. He has contributed music to several films, inc…
The music of Gemini Club relies heavily on science and technology, but it’s human chemistry that has sent the Chicago-based electronic trio into orbit. Ever since Dan Brunelle, Tom Gavin and Gordon Bramli got their head…
With a robust early following and organic online buzz, Giraffage offers a fresh, sample-rich sound of dreamy pop beats, sensual synths and lush experimental electronica. The creation of 23 year-old Charlie Yin of San Fra…
Led by enigmatic brothers Todd and "E" Fink, The Giving Tree Band are making their way to the head of a classy class of young American songwriters and performers. The Finks extended their brotherhood to all 7 members an…
“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…
Brooklyn dream pop outfit Heaven initially formed in late 2010. Matt Sumrow (Dean and Britta, The Comas, Ambulance LTD) and Mikey Jones (The Big Sleep, Swervedriver, Snowden), galvanized by
sessions backing Adam Frankli…
I Can Chase Dragons! is the solo project of Julio Gudiño, lead singer from Mexican band The Plastics Revolution, who is currently based in Boston.
With an expansive sonic palette, his music could be described as sampl…
It would be reasonable to suspect a band who borrowed their name from the works of Friedrich Nietzsche might just be yet another pretentious act arriving on the scene but, when it comes to the rock and rhythm duo IAMDYNA…
Band member
vocal&guitar:watanabe satoshi
Drums&chorus:iwanaka hideaki
Bass&chorus:nishi tsukasa
CD Release
Mini Album[FIRING DEVICE] 2007/09/05 ON SALE
Mini Album[Boost the Edge] 2009/03/11 ON SALE
Single[スパイダ…
Jason D. Williams has spent a lifetime behind the piano connecting with country and rock 'n' roll greats while creating a persona that's 100 percent original. After decades of being celebrated for his take-no-prisoners a…
Presented by: New West Records (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Over thirty-five years after the release of his debut album, John Hiatt remains one of America’s most respected and influential singer-songwriters. According to Relix Magazine “… John Hiatt’s star has never shined more b…
KaiL Baxley grew up in the small backwater town of Williston in Barnwell County, South Carolina, the birthplace and stomping grounds of the late great soul legend James Brown, with whom KaiL shared an unlikely friendship…
A talented keyboard player with a soft spot for vintage synths, Stephanie Brown a.k.a Lips performed extensively in her native New Zealand with some of the nation’s most successful artists before moving to New York in 20…
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Lissie is Laurel Canyon prettiness stewed in campfire and bourbon with a big old voice to match. She caught everyone’s attention with her 2009 EP “Why You Runnin” and again with her 2010 album “Catching a Tiger.” Paste M…
Singer and songwriter
With a repertory which includes tangos, waltzes, milongas, milongones and song writing, an extensive local and international professional background, a personal performing style, and great stage be…
WHO: Well, ya see, that depends on who's askin'. Nobody likes a squealer and snitches get stitches, am I right?! We got four masked men: Blue (self-described “hopeless romantic” and probably the brains behind the oper…
Middle Class Rut
Zack Lopez- Vocals/Guitars Sean Stockham- Vocals/Drums
The path to success is rarely short or simple to traverse. It takes time to get where you’re going, and it’s usually the journey there that …
Presented by: Unblock the Rock : Cuban & Latin American Metal
Real rock is hard and loud. Real Rock has substance. Real Rock cannot be meaningless. Real Rock is not harmless. The drummer has to hit the drums hard. Guitars and bass must be aggressive, distorted and loud. That’s the…
Nonesuch Records releases How I Knew Her—the label debut from Nataly Dawn, the California-based singer/songwriter of the duo Pomplamoose—on February 12, 2013. The album—comprising 12 autobiographical, introspective songs…
The sound of Nautiluss is subtle but organic, intriguing but heavy. It’s also the creative brainchild of Graham Douglas Bertie. Moving away from the brash sounds of his former band Thunderheist (Big Dada), his desire for…
Nuyorbalkan: New York Gypsy All-Stars Jump the Turnstiles of Balkanalia, Turkish Roots, and Gypsy Soul with Funky Refinement
A Greek bassist ducked into a little bar in New York’s Alphabet City and heard the Eastern M…
Pájaro
Andrés Herrera, AKA Pájaro, is a mythical figure in the musical world of Seville in Southern Spain. One of the city’s legendary characters, at a very young age he joined one of Seville’s most celebrated bands, …
Panorama is a band from Medellín-Colombia that debuted with a self titled work published on the independently and later with “Head & arm - Sonic360". This production was characterized for the exploration of sounds and s…
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PYYRAMIDS is the dark and mysterious union of two beautifully creative minds joined together from great distance. Improbably comprised of Tim Nordwind and Drea Smith – he from the indie rock band OK Go, she from the elec…
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Age: 22
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
My sound/style is comparable to: southern 808's and slow tempo infused with a raspy voice, dense lyrics and very original/eclectic sample selection.
My Goal In hip-hop is to: remai…
With Little Mountain, Said The Whale has crafted its most adventurous effort yet; venturing into everything from soaring, horn-laden cabaret ("The Reason") to jaggedly syncopated rock ("We Are 1980") and effervescent gui…
From his humble beginnings a decade ago as a teenager in Halifax- pumping out mixtapes from his bedroom and earning a loyal following already back then- Skratch Bastid has slowly been spreading his skills and name around…
The Soul Rebels formed when Lumar LeBlanc and Derrick Moss, originally members of New Orleans’ iconic Dejean’s Young Olympia Brass Band, decided they wanted to play the new, exciting music they were hearing on the radio …
Brooklyn's TEEN came together when Teeny Lieberson, formerly of Here We Go Magic, left her post in the latter band in order to make music with her sisters Katherine and Lizzie and their longtime friends Jane Herships and…
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Biography
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs makes music at the central point between pop, electro, house and melodic, tuff rave – and his debut album ‘Trouble’ is just more proof that…
It’s not easy to stand out in the proliferating indie rock cliché – a cesspool of mediocrity and forced emulation. Turtle Giant gives any reference of cliché a roundhouse kick to the face.
Formed in 2009, Turtle Gian…
Tying Tiffany has always searched for a sincere and original approach to the various forms of art to which she has always been attracted. And for this reason she chose to attend the Padova Art Institute which allowed her…
Arriving out of seemingly nowhere, he’s one of those names that you could have easily slept on. One day he’s off at school playing local parties under a different moniker, and the next he’s off earning his way to the for…
You could call the musical marriage of Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland a star-crossed creative partnership. The husband and wife duo behind Whitehorse defies the math of one plus one with their inventive, expansive ne…
Widowspeak is an American band comprised of Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas, known for its dreamy, western-tinged take on rock and roll. The outfit formed in 2010 and released two singles in 2011 (Harsh Realm, Gun …
Ricky Young, Joel King, Taylor Burns and Preston
Wimberly, grew up steeped in music; playing solo gigs, touring with local bands and working at venues. The four guys came together in Austin in 2010 through coincidence, …
A folk band from the Crossroads of America, Yearbook Committee started as a recording project in a garage and quickly turned into a monster. A collective of sorts. No lead singer. No sole songwriter. Just a group of musi…
"...he's a rapper for whom content is style, whose subtle poetic gifts are dependent on the seeming veracity of the concrete heart of the stories he tells." - PITCHFORK
Boldy James, the blue-collar Detroit rapper …
"Founded in Montreal in 2010, around the songs of Pat Gregoire as a
collection of veterans and dilettantes, pat JORDACHE metabolizes
avant-saxophony, disco, fusion hackery, etc. A score for a decadent
time with an amb…
Kristian Terzic Band is playing original jazz-fusion instrumental music and band members are very talented Croatian musicians: Kristian Terzic - Piano & Keyboards / Luka Veselinovic - Bass / Adriano Bernobic - Drums / Br…
Weyes Blood is the mysterious ghost folk project of Natalie Mering. Weaving sound textures with delicate folk songs, Weyes Blood is truly bridge music, combining the sonic influences of tape experimentation with the anci…
A raunchy, cylinder-shaped ginger of Eastern European ancestry might not be the first dude you'd peg for rap stardom, but that's exactly the mantle Action Bronson is on the verge of possessing. Over the last two years, t…
A self-described “American rock ‘n’ roll band,” Dawes represent everything pure and true about that fundamental delineation, four talented friends making music together, united by a shared belief in the power of their so…
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If you could bottle the spirit of THE ENEMY and flog it Coventry, UK might just have an export to rival their proud motor industry heritage.
Frontman Tom Clarke, bassist Andy Hopkins and drummer Liam Watts are back wi…
Leif Vollebekk spent two years searching for perfect takes. This search took him from his home in Montreal to a studio in Manhattan, from a farmhouse in Woodstock, NY to a mansion outside Paris, and the result is a dusty…
For a band with so little pretense, sometimes it can be easy to forget just how much the respected DC quartet Lionize has accomplished since their inception in 2004. From being the first band to play both Bonnaroo and t…
Love As Laughter began as a bedroom cassette project by Sam Jayne in the mid 90's during the last days of Lync, Jayne's chaotic youth core band that is still heralded today as a highly influential and potent part of the …
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Nina Diaz, lead singer for the San Antonio band Girl in a Coma, has been hailed by NPR as “one of the two or three most exciting, scary-good vocalists in rock today.” At age 13 Nina’s vocal and songwriting skills impress…
RiFF RaFF aka JODY HiGHROLLER, the 25 year old phenomenal Phenom born in Sweden, then raised in the USA in Texas, Arizona, and now Hollywood, is a lucrative luxury outlandish non-comparable Neon Icon. He has emerged fro…
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‘BONES’ was released on Monday 6th February 2012 on Play It Again Sam
Strength comes from our bones – the knowledge that, deep down, nothing is impossible. 'Bones', the stunning new album from Young Guns, captures exa…
Uploading bootleg edits of Jeremih and 2 Chainz, and doing an official remix for Lana Del Rey, Cashmere Cat quickly gained thousands of cat-loving listeners online and support from DJ´s like Diplo, A-Trak, Hudson Mohawke…
HAERTS is a band from New York hailing from Germany, England, and the United States. The group consists of Nini Fabi, Ben Gebert, Garrett Ienner, Derek McWilliams, and Jonathan Schmidt. The band's first single, Wings, wa…
Allow us to introduce the US debut of 24-year old Dutch multi-instrumentalist Jacco Gardner - prepare to have your minds blown. After releasing a criminally limited 7-inch in Europe earlier in 2012, Gardner returns with …
Ronald Coleman, aka DJ OG Ron C, began his DJ career at parties in his northside neighborhood of 5th Ward in Houston, Texas, while a freshman in high school. In the 12th grade he got a job on the first street team for Ho…
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"Alexandra Starlight bears the lucky distinction of being as captivating as she is talented. Her singing style rivals the greats like Tina Turner and Janis Joplin. And she's got the swagger of a thousand men.”- Guitar Wo…
By breaking through heartache, David Ramirez has gone on a search for understanding. The Austin resident and frequent traveler to clubs, theaters and listening rooms all over the country, has come to a phase in his creat…
Ladies and gentlemen…
From the band that’s been both accurately and inaccurately labeled just about everything this side of Top 40 comes a true-to-form rock-n-roll record. Scratch that, true-to-form is not Deer Tick’s…
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…
There are always a few naturally resourceful people who refuse to be intimidated or excluded from making their own wild racket in public. As METZ, Alex Edkins, Hayden Menzies and Chris Slorach play like one brutally heav…
The productions and remixes of Mexicans with Guns -- an alias of San Antonio, TX-based polyglot Ernest Gonzales -- fall somewhere between post-dubstep and experimental hip-hop, pitting deep bass probes and insolent percu…
The emotive atmospherics of Nashville’s Satellite have resonated deeply with fans and critics alike. The alternative rock quartet blends boldly vulnerable lyrics with anthemic but finely textured pop. The group’s debut E…
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This will be a show case presented by the DJ Michael "5000" Watts of the Swishahouse & Mike Jones of Ice Age Ent. This will be the 1st show that these guys did a show together in almost a decade. Also there will be perfo…
"Kel Tamasheq" est le quatrième disque de Terakaft. Il est d'abord un hommage au peuple touareg qui souffre depuis la décolonisation (Kel Tamasheq signifie “Les Touaregs”, ou, pour être tout à fait exact, “Ceux qui parle…
TODAY IS THE DAY has toured the world with Motörhead, Helmet, The Melvins, Morbid Angel, Converge, Napalm Death, Neurosis, Eyehategod, Unsane, Coalesce, and many more. Steve Austin has also made a name as a producer, hel…
Daz-I-Kue a Londoner now Atlantan resident and a member of the world respected production crew Bugz In The Attic, who have remixed the likes of Macy Gray, Soul II Soul and 4 Hero, seen widely as one of the pioneers brok…
A new leader of the Brooklyn pack, FAMILY combines lush classic rock flavor with modern progressive heaviness on its astonishing debut album, Portrait.
The balance Family strikes is one perfected by precious few bands…
Following 2011's impressive City Wind and Droptop EPs (released on Templar and Silverback, respectively), Grown Folk locked itself in the studio, cooking up a batch of songs that combine the rich melodic sensibilities of…
From his (recent) beginnings as a dorm-room producer at Georgia Tech, uploading tracks to Soundcloud as a hobby, to being the first signing to Wolfgang Gartner’s Kindergarten Records, Ralf Popescu never imagined that ele…
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“Good music”, says Luke Sital-Singh, “should lock your feet and jaw to the floor”. On the evidence of the four beautifully crafted tracks that have emerged so far, such a feat should not be a problem for the hotly-tipped…
Brooklyn's Hunters music is charged with wild energy -- led by
singers/guitarists Derek Watson and Isabel Almeida. Their guitar melodies and vocals, witch switch rapidly between singing and talking, have been said to …
Kidnap Kid finds himself alongside the top names in the newly emerging UK “Future Bass” scene. Originally picked up by Sheffield imprint Squelch and Clap and recently signed to Black Butter, Kidnap Kid (aka Matt Relton),…
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Se formaron el 13 de marzo de 1993, en Ciudad de La Habana. Cuba.
BIOGRAFIA.
La idea surge el 13 de marzo de 1993 y no es hasta el 4 de julio del mismo año que se forma la banda, con los fundadores Lázaro Antonio C…
Archie Pelago is a production and live performance trio based in Brooklyn, NY. Formed in late 2010, the trio of Hirshi (trumpet/DJ),
Cosmo D (cello/Ableton) and Kroba (sax/Ableton) combine their varied backgrounds in ja…
A few things you need to know about Jason Brody, the mind and voice behind At Sea: He’s a native New Yorker who everyone assumes is from California. He spent years battling stage fright (though now you’d never know it). …
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In the fall of 2010, armed with nothing more than their iPhones, the New York quartet, boarded a crowded New York City B train for an "impromptu" performance of their single, "Take Me Out". A captivated subway car watche…
The Austin Steamers is a star-studded group of Texas gentleman that know their way around the strings and can sing a few harmonies besides. The band formed in December 2011 and has been doing a Friday night residency at …
Brothers Joe and David Stark teamed up to form the stripped down rock and roll duo Baby Bee in the fall of 2011. After recording an independent 7 song EP with producer Dave Cobb, the brothers quickly began earning a loya…
"Not Quite Yours" is the follow up to Barcelona’s 2009 debut LP Absolutes which was released through Universal/Motown Records. Lead vocalist Brian Fennell and drummer Rhett Stonelake were looking to push the band in a ne…
Hearkening back to the sounds of early nineties college radio is bearhug, a five-piece from Sydney, Australia. Jesse Bayley (guitar), Mitchel Cumming (bass), Nicholas Mabbit (drums), Ryan Phelan (vocals, guitar), and Kyl…
As so often happens, a chance meeting, a random jam, results in something far more than just the forging of a new friendship. So it happened for Nick Milwright and Damian Cazaly, who after a fortuitous encounter in 2005…
Blue Hawaii, Arbutus Records and many of their Montreal counter-parts all began with the same breath in early 2010. To date they’ve released an 8 song EP: in May of that year,Blooming Summer (Arbutus Records 2010) was re…
“I know people think, ‘Oh great, another guy with an acoustic guitar,’” says Charlie Mars. “What I really want is to say to them, ‘Not so quick. Just one minute. That’s not what this is.’”
Charlie Mars has been a j…
Cherub is a sexy electro-pop duo that is the dance love-child of 80’s funk and pop-music from the future. The members of Cherub, Jordan Kelley and Jason Huber, share a love for honest original music and vibrant live per…
Chihiro Yamazaki + Route 14 Band is the new-generation instrumental group fromed withRoute 14 Band, who have done many works on the music field as producing music and music events, and Chihiro Yamazaki a.k.a anna,who pla…
Cory Chisel is an old believer. You can hear it in his music – there’s a wisdom beyond his years in that voice. You can see it in his story – the son of a preacher, sheltered from pop music, raised on hymns and Johnny Ca…
The Crookes consist of George Waite, Daniel Hopewell, Russell Bates and Tom Dakin.
The Sheffield-based newpop dreamers have announced their umpteenth tour of a sizzingly busy career. The past three years have seen them …
In the years since signing with Paw Tracks in 2009, Mississippi native Dent May has made music that balances saccharine pop sincerity and campy affectation. His debut LP, The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnific…
Desert Noises is Kyle Henderson, Tyler Osmond, Patrick Boyer, and Brennan Allen, four adventurers from Utah Valley, UT. Ask about their recent musical influences, and you’ll extract a litany on the riches of Tom Petty, F…
DWNTWN is a dreamy synth-pop trio with catchy melodies and glistening electronic production that includes Jamie Leffler (lead vocals), Robert Cepeda (guitar, backup vocals, keyboard), and Jerrod Bettis (drums). The band…
THE FLATLINERS are a punk/rock band from Toronto, Ontario (Canada). Currently celebrating their 10 Years at Sea, they've been playing music before they were old enough to drive. They've been touring since before they wer…
Fol Chen (Asthmatic Kitty Records) present songs of malaise and miscommunication set to dark pop and glitch-riddled chamber funk. Since the band’s inception, Fol Chen has remained a mysterious entity– its membership disg…
The phrase “Long Live All of Us” is the title of Glossary’s seventh full-length album, but it’s also meant as an all-inclusive homage to humanity. Frontman Joey Kneiser says, in light of all the bad things happening in t…
Born from the simplicity of emotive choruses and lush electronic ornaments, Goldroom has transformed into a fascinating tale of modern music culture; a nostalgic romance of tropical textures and soulful rhythms.
After…
Gripin was formed in the year 2000 and has 4 band members. Birol Namoglu on vocals, Arda Inceoglu on bass and keyboards, Murat Basdogan on guitars and Ilker Balic on drums. They compose and write all their own music whic…
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Hannah Georgas is a Vancouver- based singer who balances the nuanced depth of classic female songwriters who came before her with tightly constructed electronic based pop.
When Hannah started out in the Vancouver musi…
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He’s My Brother She’s My Sister seem to invite a broad range of colorful words to describe their music and performances: “flamboyant folk,” “psych-acoustic,” “estranged and glamorous” and “vaudeville-y.” No doubt this is…
Holy Balm are a three piece dance act from Sydney, Australia. Their debut album, 'It's You', was released on Not Not Fun in 2012, and will be touring the USA throughout March 2013 to launch it. Their sound has been desc…
Jesca Hoop has lived all over the map, and her rich life experience is reflected in her distinctive voice and natural gift for inventive song craft.
Hoop learned to sing at an early age, harmonising with her musical M…
Born into a family with generations-old roots in rural Florida, JJ Grey was raised with a combination of backwoods wisdom and old-school blue-collar values. He heard music at barbeques and in local juke joints, all the w…
Joey Bada$$ is an 18-year old artist from Brooklyn, NY with a unique vision and perspective that seems to be going extinct in the modern musical landscape. A member of the burgeoning hip hop collective Pro Era, Joey and …
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‘Before we started work on this album, we'd found a new sense of clarity and confidence, not only as a band, but from a personal point of view. We've healed some of our demons, not all of them, but the outcome is that we…
Kevin Bowe is a Minneapolis based guitarist/writer/producer, he has earned 3 platinums and songs on 2 Grammy winning albums working with Jonny Lang, Paul Westerberg, The Replacements, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, The Meat Puppe…
Las Cafeteras sprouted in 2005 as students who enjoyed free Son Jarocho classes at the Eastside Cafe in El Sereno, Los Angeles and were inspired to utilize teachings of Son Jarocho as a tool to build autonomy, community …
Described as The voice of 2013 by The Evening Standard, the classically trained, singer songwriter’s music fuses orchestral soul with velvety harmonies and emotional vocals giving nods to Nina Simone, George Gershwin and…
· Mexican Psychedelic Pop Rock band
· 5 Albums and 13 Videos
· With Tours in México, USA and Spain
· Winners of an ARIEL and a Mayahuel for Best Music for a film “TEMPORADA DE PATOS”
· More than 50,000 followers in T…
Lord Huron is a musical and visual project created by Ben Schneider. Originally a solo project, collaborators now include Mark Barry (percussion, vocals), Miguel Briseno (bass, percussion) and Tom Renaud (guitar, vocals)…
modern love.
an album.
a collection of songs.
short stories. tied together.
peoples stories. about love.
about faith in others. or loss of faith in others.
everyone i know was going through personal relationship…
Mister Loveless are a 4-piece rock band founded in 2003 by two high school friends, Rob I. Miller and Charlie Koliha, in a sleepy suburb of San Francisco called Walnut Creek. Mister Loveless grew from an angular, post-pu…
"Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss " is the debut rap release from New York based self described "Acid Punk Rapper" Mykki Blanco. "This mixtape is a reflection of the lifestyle that my peers and I are living right n…
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Phil Manasala - Guitar
Tastemaker publications like Alternative Press, Outburn and the
UK's Big Cheese have put them on the cover. Kerrang! placed singer
Austin Carlile amongst the Top 25 living rock stars. Of Mice & …
Yannick Ilunga is a 21 year old born to an Angolan Mother and a Congolese Father who currently lives in South Africa. We found him there making some of the most beautiful and original electronic music we've heard in a lo…
Plastic Flowers is a dream pop duo formed in January 2011 and consist of George and Anjel.
Their ever growing love for ambient music led to composing and home-recording, using distorted guitars, synthesizers, drum mac…
The Preservation is a blend of harmonies, driving guitars, bouncy pianos and an amalgam of American music that has come to define Austin bands in the past decade. With a repertoire that is clearly influenced by early 60'…
Much is often made of the relationship between artist and place. A common consideration for sure, yet it seems foolish to appraise any artist without considering the effect of his location on everything from his unique w…
Rhye is the product of two synced paths crossing at the right time and place. The two artists who comprise Rhye had been fond of each other's work for some time, and it was when one member was working on a remix for the …
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Richard Thompson’s latest album, Electric, produced by Buddy Miller, comes in what is arguably his most creatively productive period in a career that stretches back some 45 years, back to his emergence as a teen guitaris…
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Growing up in the hustle and bustle of Atlanta, Georgia to a single mother was not all peaches and cream. However, it is the belief of Scotty that each aspect of his life has gotten him to the place he is at today; on th…
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…
Siddhartha it´s a music act from Guadalajara, Mexico. Ex-Former drummer from Zoé, one of the most important Rock-Alternative Bands in Mexico. Now since 2008, Siddhartha has released 2 solo albums and he has been nominate…
London, ON's Single Mothers has made a compelling case for how red flags, stacked odds and strike outs can somehow inspire a collective recklessness to keep at it. Known for their dangerously explosive live show and the …
Skinny Lister are not your average, modern day, gentrified English folk group. Fronted by Dan Heptinstall and Lorna Thomas; a vocalist with a lusty cackle and flirtatious presence, the London based five-piece hail from a…
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Meet me in the middle of the night
Let me hear you say everything's alright
Let me smell the moon in your perfume
— “Romeo’s Tune”
Singer-songwriter Steve Forbert had his first major hit in 1979 when he was only 25…
To suggest that Steve Poltz isn’t normal is about as safe a statement as one could make. You would basically require the powers of the Hubble space telescope to locate Steve Poltz from any region of normalcy.
For music …
Summer Flake is from Adelaide, Australia. It sounds like harmony-filled, lo-fi, melodic, garage, guitar pop.
Summer Flake is the umpteenth musical project for multi-instrumentalist Steph Crase, but the first one that …
Supersubmarina is a Spanish band created back in 2007. From the begining it had a really good acceptance in the local indie scene, from both, media and audience.
Since then they have played over 250 gigs in venues and t…
When Adam McHeffey (guitar, banjo, vocals) first heard Kari Spieler (guitar, vocals) in 2009, she was playing a cover of the Jackson 5's “I Want You Back” in their college co-op, where Adam volunteered.
"I thought she…
Vintage Trouble formed in 2010 out of the ashes of a few other bands, and not by chance, Ty Taylor (vocal) and Nalle Colt (guitar) teamed up with drummer Richard Danielson and bassist Rick Barrio Dill. They entered The B…
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The Dunwells: two brothers, two cousins, and a best mate, debuted their unique trademark sound that blends Celtic and American folk, rock, blues, pop and soul, on BLIND SIGHTED FAITH released in August 2012 on Playing In…
In 2004, just as fall arrived in Los Angeles, Ryan and Aaron Baggaley packed up their Venice apartment and left town. After years of playing guitar on their own, the brothers started in together with an aim to make music…
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BLUE SKY RIDERS
(Kenny Loggins, Georgia Middleman, Gary Burr)
The creative spark that eventually evolved into Blue Sky Riders was struck when two veteran singer/songwriters worked on their first song together. When K…
One of the world’s most universally respected DJ duos, L.A. natives and childhood best friends Classixx have headlined everywhere from the famed Paris Social Club to New York’s Webster Hall, touring constantly since the …
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“From glam to gunk this Ohio trippy man can be found making his home recordings that range from Peter Koppes to Slade. Or just at home resting with…
“Gentle, folky, confidential tone, undershot by a coolness of intelligence and self possession” 4/5 The Daily Telegraph
(Pop CD of the Week)
“A bewitching one-off talent” Daily Star
“Dark-hearted pop songs that striv…
Bloomington, IN’s Murder By Death released their sixth full-length album and Bloodshot Records debut Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon on September 25th, 2012.
Known for their uniquely brooding sound that frequently conjures …
Wardell (formerly Brother/Sister) is a band that was formed by one brother and one sister who met during a play date set up by their parents. One's black and one's white. They remain brother and sister. They make the kin…
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Yip Deceiver, born out of Athens, Georgia, is the collaborative effort of producer/songwriter Davey Pierce and accountant/vibes manager Nicolas "Dobby" Dobbratz. What had been a solo studio project for Pierce became a ba…
Deradoorian is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter hailing from Northern California. As a child, she focused on classical piano, which became the catalyst for her exploration in other genres of music. At age …
Destruction Unit are an American band formed in the desert of Tempe, Arizona. Dug up from the sonic landfills of the cosmos, these radical desert dwellers have built a reputation for both mesmerizing and terrorizing crow…
GATO 6, Austin's premiere Latin Jazz band, is a high powered, all-star ensemble that performs George's original music which draws on his myriad world music and jazz influences. The band features locally, nationally and i…
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Grip Plyaz has been referred to as 'More Hood Than Hipster' or the perfect balance of hood meets hipster (for lack of a better term). Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, Grip Plyaz's music is club-ready, laced with southern…
King Midas Sound, Techno Animal/Ice/God (with Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu), Razor X Productions (with The Rootsman & various M.C’s), Pressure, Ladybug, the man behind Pathological Records, compiler of various compi…
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Midnight Magic: An ensemble bonded by the unwavering desire to make you, the listener, and the rhythm become one; the secret love children of Donna Summer and George Clinton serving up an orgasmic feast of funk, disco, e…
Originally hailing from Denver, Colorado, Pictureplane (real name Travis Egedy) was a driving force in making the city one of the most influential DIY towns in the world; thanks in large part to Pictureplane's legendary…
“Live music has so much potential for greatness,” expresses HRVRD vocalist Jesse Clasen. “To me, a studio recording is a snapshot of where a song is at that moment, and it should always continue to evolve and take on new…
King Louie Bio
At the end of the day, there is only one-way to create a real musical following: Make good music. Lawless INC. recording artist King Louie has built his buzz from the ground up in Chicago and is transit…
A more charismatic, enigmatic nomad of a furioso frontman/artist/guitar legend could not be imagined. You can’t make this shit up.
Grinning gold teeth behind blonde shades, in black, skeletal denim, with a studded “KI…
Mondo Generator started in 1997, before frontman Nick Oliveri joined Queens Of The Stone Age. After hooking up with former Kyuss guitarist Josh Homme to form QOTSA, he put Mondo on ice until 2000, when Southern Lord rele…
ST 37
Since their formation in January of 1987, Texas psych rock legends ST 37 have released 4 LPs, 2 double LPs, 6 CDs, 4 7” 45s, 7 CDRs, 3 double CDRs, 5 cassettes, and appeared on 37 compilations an…
Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät is a punk rock group from Finland. Formed in the end of 2008.
Three 7" vinyl releases, one cassette release and one album ("Kuus kuppia kahvia ja yks kokis", both CD and LP). Labels: Airiston …
Born and raised in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, TOKiMONSTA (Jennifer Lee) was an unfocused pupil of classical piano. However, she has come to use this background to create vast textural soundscapes by utilizing liv…
Still Music is based in Chicago, IL, and is the brainchild of Jerome Derradji. Now in its eigth year, Still Music has been instrumental in the worldwide proliferation of some of America’s freshest underground dance music…
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Two9 is a rap collective based out of Atlanta, GA. Consisting of Key!, Curtis Williams, Retro Su$h! (Jace and Ceej), and FatKidsBrotha (Jesus and Dav.E) the group took the internet by storm releasing it's highly acclaime…
Beautiful vampire Djuna (Josephine de La Baume) tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia), but eventually gives in to their passion. When her troublemaker sister Mimi (Roxa…
The completely unique Brooklyn bhangra band Red Baraat are making a sound no one else in the world is. A fusion of North Indian bhangra with hard driving New Orleans' brass, go-go, jazz, and hip-hop, Red Baraat has been …
One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, "You're Next" reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home-invasion horror. When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reu…
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4×4, The 4onthe…
Influenced by the romantic movement of the seventies, Agrupacion
Cariño jumped to fame in 2010 as they musicalized the television
series "Soy tu fan". With a diverse selection of genres, the group
provokes immediate…
Alba Lua (from Paris and Bordeaux, in France), explain their name as ʻa Spanish-Portuguese association that means the "moon of the dawn"- it describes that moment when something appears in some place where it shouldn't, …
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ANCESTOR - Biografía
ANCESTOR es una banda de Black Metal de Cuba. Formados el 3 de febrero del año 2005, en La Habana por el bajista Joel Kaos junto al guitarrista Luis Dakkar, la alineación original quedaría co…
Aoife O’Donovan
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BOAN [bohn] - is an American synthpop/wave duo based in Austin TX. Jose Cota (ssleeperhold, Medio Mutante) a Los Angeles native, and Mariana Saldana (//TENSE//, Medio Mutante) a Houston native, use analog and digital s…
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As much as the story behind Brendan Benson’s fifth solo album is the story of making a record, it is also a story of finding a family — of love, marriage, the birth of a son, and of another kind of family too: one made u…
Meet Brownout - the hardest working band in show business today. For those who haven’t yet heard, Brownout has gone from the alter-ego of Austin, Texas’ Grammy award winning Latin ensemble Grupo Fantasma to a full-blown …
Buffalo Killers are an American rock band comprising brothers Zachary and Andrew Gabbard with Joseph Sebaali. Quickly signed to Alive Records after sending a burnt CD with just their telephone number and name on it, thei…
Carolyn Wonderland has never forgotten where she came from. On her new album Peace Meal (Bismeaux), she brings the hard-won lessons of her own blessed life together with stories from some of the world’s best-known and mo…
Momo: Vocal
Koharu: Accordion
“Charan-po-rantan” means sloppy or irresponsible in Japanese, and obviously the name of this free-wheeling sister duo is a wordplay of the phrase.
19 year old vocalist, Momo, and 23 …
CHRISTEENE is 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 CHRISTEENE concerning age, origin, ra…
CINE is about a lot of brazilian energy and happiness on the stage. Their songs is are pop, eletro, rock that has been awarded twice by VMB and the last DVD "As Cores" (The Colors) got award in nov'12 by an important en…
Cisco Adler is a Singer/ Songwriter/ Producer with Top 40 hits and a worldwide community of fans. He is also the head of the record label that is re-writing the rules of the game. Entertainment marketing and the music bu…
Cuchillo were formed in 2005 by Israel Marco and Daniel Dominguez in the city of Barcelona. Following their acclaimed debut ("Cuchillo"
Sinnamon, 2008), voted best national album of 2008 by Go Mag magazine and among the…
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D E N A is Denitza Todorova, a Berlin-based songwriter and vocalist hailing from Bulgaria – the southeastern corner of the Balkans. Since moving to Berlin in 2005, she’s been seriously honing her self-composed beats and …
EL MATO UN POLICIA MOTORIZADO is an indie rock band from La Plata, Argentina. Formed by Santiago Motorizado (bass and vocals), Dra. Muerte (drums), Pantro Puto (guitar), Niño Elefannte (guitar) and Chatran Chatran (keybo…
Somewhere in the world between technicolored soul and 60's rock-n-roll, Emily Bell, described as “Austin's answer to relevant retro,” sonically fits on her own planet. Raised by the queens of musical theater and toughene…
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In just a year or so, soulsters Fitz & the Tantrums went from the living room to the main stage. The recipe for meteoric success? Six killer musicians, five dapper suits, irresistible songs, some serendipity and one vint…
Georgia Fair
Playing music together since they were teenagers living on Sydney’s North Shore banging out Nirvana covers. “We were young kids letting out a bit of rage,” Ben laughs. Soon they both found themselves lean…
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After countless tours across their native Canada, the infectious spirit of Hey Ocean! has made quite an impact on their fervent fan base.
"We've gotten a lot of marriage stories from fans," smiles bassist and vocali…
Il Pan Del Diavolo is a folk'n'roll duo formed by Pietro Alessandro Alosi (guitar, kick and vocals) and Gianluca Bartolo (guitar and vocals).
The group was born in Palermo in 2006 and began playing live with energetic a…
Born in Bristol UK, Jamie N Commons moved to Chicago with his family
when he was six and it was there that he developed a deep love for the
American music. The first gig his father took him to was the Allman
Brothers:…
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DJing since 2004, Sushon started to make his name on London's underground scene around the time G…
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BONAPARTE
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Inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIIV created instant v…
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Debut album BEYOND WILDE…
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I am Dive is the name Esteban Ruiz (Seville, 1979) and José A. Pérez (Sev…
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grind. Snarling at the crowd beneath an afro pompadour, while i…
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The movement known as Lance Herbstrong.
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Mike and the Moonpies are a prime example that classic country is still going strong in 2012. Their regular appearances at Austin’s White Horse are already legendary, and they have quite a cultural melting pot (no pun i…
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Danish singer/songwriter Naja Rosa's sound may be reminiscent and with the spirit of the Rock-ish Blues 60s and 70s, but unmistakably renews a classic blend of rhythms to make them relevant to new ears of today. Similar …
For a long time if you wanted to hear the most exciting new band in Britain, you knocked on a tall black door off the Lambeth Road. An aging British Rail building - part art studio happening, part squat – Studio 180 was …
We all met when we were forced to ride through a haunted house in the same trolly. By the end of the ride we had written and recorded our first 7''.
We spent some time up in Montreal recording our first album in thee…
Roaring out of the southern Indiana foothills comes Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band playing a brand of Americana and Blues that stands alone - Delta blues and hillbilly fervor combine with musical acuity sharp as razor w…
Sepalcure’s combination of love for bass and 90s house acapellas is the culmination of a cathartic two week collaboration between Travis Stewart (Machinedrum) and Praveen Sharma (Praveen & Benoît). Their mix of tribal du…
In 2008, Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink moved from San Francisco to Toronto, irreversibly altering Snowblink from a whimsical warm-weather band touting four male backup singers (two of whom were Andrew and Ben of MGMT) …
Solange’s latest release, “Losing You” off her upcoming EP: True, with collaborator Dev Hynes, is reflective of her journey as an artist, bringing listeners a fresh new sound, “with a breezy fusion of singer-centric R&B,…
Sonido San Francisco’s the sound of a small latin town invading the big city, guacharaca and güiro sharing frequencies with the synthesizer, the electricity of a bass following the precise tempo of a computer, tropical r…
THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN
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“I wanted to try to actually be a real live person, rather than just singing songs about them.”
Having grown up in Falls Church, VA, Thao Nguyen first picked up a guitar a…
The product of a move from South Carolina to Berkeley, CA and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, Toro Y Moi’s third full-length, Anything in Return, puts Chaz Bundick right in the middle of the producer/…
Bursting forth from Canada’s capital, native Producer/DJ crew A Tribe Called Red is making an impact on the global electronic scene with a truly unique sound. Made up of three members – two-time Canadian DMC Champion DJ …
What Made Milwaukee Famous has been a stalwart of the Austin music scene since their inception in 2003. The three original members, Michael Kingcaid (vocals, guitar, keyboards), John Farmer (bass), and Jason Davis (guita…
Xander Harris is an electronic artist based out of Austin, TX. Ready to pay tribute to early Industrial music,
horror soundtracks, synthesis, techno, and 90s television, the project began in 2009 poised to make a
mark …
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XXYYXX is the name of Orlando, FL’s 17 year old producer, Marcel Everett. Marcel works out of his bedroom creating harmonious music that provokes emotion and transmits vivid images of peace and still sadness. His …
Rowdy power pop revivalist Brendan Benson adds record label proprietor to his résumé with the release of Young Hines' full-length debut, Give Me My Change. The inaugural release for Benson's Readymade Records introduces …
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Biography
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs makes music at the central point between pop, electro, house and melodic, tuff rave – and his debut album ‘Trouble’ is just more proof that…
Xaphoon Jones is 22 years old and from Philadelphia.
He's perhaps most known for producing the early mixtapes and debut album of rapper Chiddy Bang, but his unique production style has slowly filtered onto our radar t…
Fat Tony stands at the forefront of new generation of young rappers who get it themselves—a DIY hustler who's built his burgeoning career on a foundation equal parts smarts and swagger. The Houston MC owns the mike with …
London based, Belfast-born blogger-production-dj duo Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson need little by way of introduction. Their 'Feel MyBicep blog" is the go-to place for tastemakers world-wide for lost and forgotten disco…
Arabia Mountain, the sixth studio album and fourth Vice Records release by the Black Lips, finds the hell-raising Atlanta quartet digging deep into the roots of their exposed-nerve sound and simultaneously exploring surp…
We are The Dollyrots. We're a rock and roll band from Los Angeles. Lead singer Kelly Ogden is a sweetheart who brutalizes her basses and sings like a thousand angels descended from Heaven. Guitarist Luis Cabezas writes w…
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The hip hop sweetheart of the deep south, DJ Speakerfoxxx and her "Dopegirls" brand boldly intertwine genres of hip hop, trap, snap, down South, East Coast, dope boy anthems, dancehall and electronic music. Sex appeal, a…
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