Berlin Music Week welcomes you for a free breakfast and an opportunity to meet the event organisers For the latest information on Berlin Music Week 2013. Berlin Music Week will take place for the fourth time from Sept. 4…
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.……
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
11:00AM -12:00PM
Bands usually don't form with business in mind, but once a band starts packing rooms, business surely intrudes. The practical aspects of touring, recording and inter-band relationships can destroy the fun and creativity …
Brad Lunders is a teenager forcefully taken from his home in the middle of the night by his parents consent, to a harsh wilderness reform facility. There is no contact with the outside world and the retired war colonel i…
"Secret Fear" is an exploration of the conflicts between opposing archetypes and contrasting skin tones, black water and fire, claustrophobia, and the need for intimacy, love, death, repeat, in a rotating glass coffin.…
Shot in the Nickerson Gardens housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles, this film deals with themes of violence, camaraderie, and spirituality through the lens of magical realism.
Video courtesy of Warp Records…
This video stars Foster the People preparing for a sold out show, when the set collapses, "killing" all of them. The show must go on, so the record label hires some outside assistance to mechanically engineer the band to…
Image-based platforms have exploded in the past 18 months, as tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram change how we view and share items, and dominant services like Twitter and Facebook continue to adjust to meet this shift in …
Presenters
Dorothy Hui, Nate Auerbach, Shannon Schlappi, Vince Bannon, Scott Perry
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.…
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…
Babies are little people, but they are experiencing the world so much harder than everyone else. Pacified one moment, releasing harrowing screams the next. This film explores what might drive such conviction, visualizing…
You have an idea for a music app, and now all you need to do is talk to the labels about licensing their songs, build a back-end platform to host them, figure out how to make money, and avoid a lawsuit from the RIAA. Is …
Presenters
Cheryl Lucanegro, Cindy Charles, Eric Davich, Frank Johnson, Brian Hirsh
An increasing number of up-and-coming and established artists are writing original music for brands and advertisers. Though still suffering from more of a credibility stigma than composing for films, writing for brands i…
Presenters
Amos Newman, Gabe McDonough, Michael Fitzpatrick, Stephan Altman, Michael Frick
Music video for Killer Mike's "Regan" railing against the US government's dealings. The targets include the last five presidents, aliens, a killer robot, and Mike himself.…
Every word to "Magnolia" (188) was handmade using cardboard (discarded from grocery stores), hot glue guns, and paint pens. Random people in over 65+ locations and a handful of friends were used as rappers throughout the…
Director Peter Sluszka utilizes a medley of visual techniques in his music video for the U.K. based band Moones and their single "Better Energy". Shipwrecked on an iceberg floating in the frigid seas, the marooned band t…
Shakespeare's classic comedy is given a contemporary spin in Joss Whedon's film, "Much Ado About Nothing". Shot in just 12 days (and using the original text), the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a d…
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. The music of Muscle Shoals changed the world and sold millions of copie…
Bob Harlow gently and naturally captures life in a cinematic suburb of Philadelphia. Against a bleak but beautiful landscape, a group of characterful young men are modern day cowboys, riding horses through the towns run-…
A serial killer played by Jake Gyllenhaal travels through the hippest parties on a killing spree of Dalston hipsters. Amidst a world of unflinching ignorant hipsters, Jake navigates his way through East London house part…
In this comedy retro infomercial, Slugabed is selling his "Slugabed's Turbo Juicer 4000". This juicer and it's mini factory-like inner workings will transform your crushed audio-tapes through a stop-frame animated proces…
A beat is laid out, hesitantly moving along at first, then taking off, shimmering, turning darker, and then Sóley raises her voice. "Bad Dream" is phantasmagoric and haunting song, taken from the Icelandic singer Sóley´s…
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, …
The cloud contains more music than listeners ever dreamed possible, but there is peril in having so much music available: how do you decide what to listen to when you can sample everything? Without a guide, many recordin…
Presenters
Katie Schlosser, Maria Sciarrino, Max Weisel, Walter Gross, Tom Erlewine
Inspired by 80s fantasy movies and electronic music, Starcadian's debut music video is a love letter to VHS and childhood. "HE^RT" is the first part of an interconnected anthology that follows the voyage of a mysterious …
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…
Suburban Living is the project of 21 year old Wesley Bunch from Virginia Beach, Virginia. After self releasing a few singles on the internet in 2011, Bunch went on to produce his latest EP - "Cooper's Dream". His EP ha…
Suburban Living is the project of 21 year old Wesley Bunch from Virginia Beach, Virginia. After self releasing a few singles on the internet in 2011, Bunch went on to produce his latest EP - "Cooper's Dream". His EP ha…
Suburban Living is the project of 21 year old Wesley Bunch from Virginia Beach, Virginia. After self releasing a few singles on the internet in 2011, Bunch went on to produce his latest EP - "Cooper's Dream". His EP ha…
Seventy highschool students agreed to be locked down for 24 hours to write, shoot, and edit a short film. Come see the product of this madness screened at TBA for The Austin School of Film's annual Youth M.A.F.I.A. Progr…
This four-day show serves as a convergence point for all industries celebrated during SXSW. Hundreds of participating exhibitors and registrants come together to blur the lines between consumers, business, technology, me…
This four-day show serves as a convergence point for all industries celebrated during SXSW. Hundreds of participating exhibitors and registrants come together to blur the lines between consumers, business, technology, me…
This four-day show serves as a convergence point for all industries celebrated during SXSW. Hundreds of participating exhibitors and registrants come together to blur the lines between consumers, business, technology, me…
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in web music companies recently. The integration of social media & geolocation applications with devices, coupled with the low cost of entry thanks to the proliferation …
Presenters
, Chris Wiltsee, Ethan Kaplan, Paul Resnikoff, Todd Tate
Learn everything you should know about the UK music market, one of the most influential, creative and fast-changing musical environments in the world. Hear practical ideas for developing your act in the UK. Success in th…
Presenters
Amul Batra, Joanna Ashmore, Matt Wilkinson, Stephen Taverner, Jules Parker
There are two main characters, Wild Belle's, Natalie and her "little man". Set in a shanty town of Kingston, Jamaica the audience watches as Natalie struggles with her "little man's" womanizing, and her inability to unde…
Young Malawian William Kamkwamba teaches himself to build a power-generating windmill from junk parts, successfully rescuing his family from poverty and famine. He becomes an energy icon for the developing world and meet…
The singer told me he sings about a rough break-up: whatever you do to keep the relationship going, it's not going to work anymore. So that's how I decided to let him undertake a journey to the bottom of the ocean. A ver…
Terri Hooley is a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970s Belfast, who opens a record shop calling it "Good Vibrations". Through it he discovers a compelling voice of resistance in the city’s nascent underground punk sce…
Lensed in colour and b/w by Seamus McGarvey, the film explores Harry Dean Stanton’s enigmatic outlook on his life and his unexploited talents as a musician. “Putting the focus on the music rather than his person helped t…
When Dr. Lynn abandoned his terminally ill wife on her deathbed, he left his three children Susan, Christian, and Win essentially orphaned. Almost a decade later, on the eve of their annual family reunion, Dr. Lynn unexp…
Who doesn't love Halloween? All of Tony Phillips' (Tony Vespe) high school friends, apparently. It's senior year and they've now decided that they’re too cool for Halloween. When his older cousin (AJ Bowen) returns home …
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 …
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…
• @crewpeligrosos (Dangerous Crew) is the most interesting Hip Hop project in Colombia’s music scene. Born as an artistic alternative to violence in the streets on Medellin, from their neighbourhood "Aranjuez" their lead…
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 fourth and final round of “I Met My Agency @ SXSW”, held in the Meet Up Pavilion, brings together our participating agencies and innovative creative designers.
Current agency participants for SXSW 2013 include Duar…
The fourth and final round of “I Met My Agency @ SXSW”, held in the Meet Up Pavilion, brings together our participating agencies and innovative creative designers.
Current agency participants for SXSW 2013 include Duar…
The fourth and final round of “I Met My Agency @ SXSW”, held in the Meet Up Pavilion, brings together our participating agencies and innovative creative designers.
Current agency participants for SXSW 2013 include Duar…
Seattle folk-pop band Ivan & Alyosha are set to release their debut album "All The Times We Had" (Missing Piece Group/Dualtone) as a follow up to their well received 2011 EP "Fathers Be Kind". The EP won the band recogni…
Seattle folk-pop band Ivan & Alyosha are set to release their debut album "All The Times We Had" (Missing Piece Group/Dualtone) as a follow up to their well received 2011 EP "Fathers Be Kind". The EP won the band recogni…
Seattle folk-pop band Ivan & Alyosha are set to release their debut album "All The Times We Had" (Missing Piece Group/Dualtone) as a follow up to their well received 2011 EP "Fathers Be Kind". The EP won the band recogni…
NARIP Music Supervisor Sessions have sold out 2 years in a row at Berlin Music Week (2011, 2012) with Gary Calamar (True Blood, Dexter), Andrea von Foerster (Chronicle, Grey’s Anatomy), Angela Leus (Social Network, Pitch…
Shugo Tokumaru has wowed critics and fans the world over with a sound that draws as much from classic Beatles-esque melodies as his own unique spin on Japanese pop.
A gifted songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, To…
Music City is developing far beyond the major label country business. Artists are finding creative support and a business infrastructure that is unique. The panel will provide an in-depth discussion of why Nashville is t…
Presenters
Andrew Colvin, John Strohm, Paul Roper, Robert Clement, Howell O'Rear
Look at the inner workings of a multi-million dollar global recording, touring and merchandise business that is 100% artist controlled. Amanda Palmer raised a record-breaking $1,192,793 on Kickstarter from 24,883 fans --…
Presenters
Eric Sussman, Kendel Ratley, Martin Goldschmidt, Nicole St Jean, Vickie Starr, Amanda Palmer
The past decade has experienced the rise of Latino Urban culture into a notable crossover mainstream phenomenon. Key players of this movement will elaborate on what business models effectively set them on center stage. I…
Presenters
Angie Martinez, DJ Buddha, Fat Joe, Flavio Morales, Lonnie Limon
Creators from Europe do not always have the option to use Creative Commons. Only a few collecting societies do offer that. Actually, CC users are kept out of the market, simply because individual contracts don't allow fo…
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Learn tips and tricks on using Ableton Live and Moog Minitaur while recording audio. Course provided by NYC's electronic music production and DJ school Dubspot.…
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.……
What is your brilliant idea? Anyone can stand up and present an up to 1-minute pitch about their company or idea, to connect with others who might be interested in working with them. If you would like to participate, pre…
What happens when a multi-platinum, Grammy winning artist with a 4-decade career and two highly successful Nashville songwriters decide to form a band and put out their record independently? Kenny Loggins, Georgia Middle…
In the current climate of the music industry, international acts are finding it increasingly difficult to get signed by a label. Join us on a two day workshop where industry experts will give 30 minute lectures on the va…
Presenters
Carlos Alvarez, Claudia Alarcon, Emmanuel Zunz, Humberto Carmona, Michael Gitig, Moj Mahdara, Marissa Lopez
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 the…
Presenters
Alexandra Dunne, Amy Rosen, James Evans, Jessica Linker, John Shaw, Mara Schwartz, Russell Baltera, Stuart Sullivan
Explore how music and brands play together in an ecosystem that is mutually beneficial to all parties involved. With brands, music is really just beginning to get utilized in a more meaningful way. Look at the unique and…
Presenters
Adam Farrell, Javier Farfan, Jessica Dierauer, JT Griffith, Eric Johnson
Twenty-five years ago, music fans read song lyrics on the back of an album cover, or in the liner notes, while they listened to a new album The tiny size of CD booklets discouraged reading along. In today's digital envir…
Presenters
Chuck D, Darryl Ballantyne, Ralph Peer, Will Mills, Deborah Newman
This competition will be unlike any other. Eight music technology companies battle for taste-making, trend-setting attention, leading to a fireworks display of innovation. Connections will be made and careers launched. L…
Come check out really good music from the Netherlands including Jacco Gardner, Blauzun, & more. Free drinks and chance to win passes to Eurosonic-Noorderslag 2014.……
CUARTETO DE NOS
Uruguayan rock band.
“Cuarteto de Nos” is not a very normal band. They reached commercial success and transcended borders many years after having been a well kept secret in Montevideo, perhaps the mos…
Hurray for the Riff Raff is Alynda lee Segarra, a 25 year old Puerto Rican from the Bronx. After leaving home at an early age to travel the country, she eventually settled in New Orleans where she began to perform and re…
Hurray for the Riff Raff is Alynda lee Segarra, a 25 year old Puerto Rican from the Bronx. After leaving home at an early age to travel the country, she eventually settled in New Orleans where she began to perform and re…
Hurray for the Riff Raff is Alynda lee Segarra, a 25 year old Puerto Rican from the Bronx. After leaving home at an early age to travel the country, she eventually settled in New Orleans where she began to perform and re…
One of the most eccentric newcomers on the Rio de la Plata indie pop scene, Max Capote is a pioneer in exploring and reinterpreting various genres, and has developed a pop and vintage aesthetic that hovers between genius…
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-…
"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 …
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, …
Unique, uplifting and heartbreaking, "The Network" is the story of Afghanistan’s first independent television network – TOLO TV – and the family behind it. TOLO TV has grown to be Afghanistan’s largest and most successfu…
"Short Term 12" is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her cha…
Schedule the TIM TAM SLAM Sessions as your afternoon pick-me-up, meet the Aussies and enjoy the unique art of drinking coffee through a biscuit!
As the 6th largest recorded music market in the world, Australia is an eve…
Schedule the TIM TAM SLAM Sessions as your afternoon pick-me-up, meet the Aussies and enjoy the unique art of drinking coffee through a biscuit!
As the 6th largest recorded music market in the world, Australia is an eve…
Schedule the TIM TAM SLAM Sessions as your afternoon pick-me-up, meet the Aussies and enjoy the unique art of drinking coffee through a biscuit!
As the 6th largest recorded music market in the world, Australia is an eve…
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…
"Three Voices" weaves the intimate love stories of three women from different generations: a teenager, a middle-aged divorcée, and a ninety-year-old great grandmother. Through a careful exploration of space and color, in…
Bernice Stokes and Fontayne Gamble grew up the closest of friends. After high school Bernice got into social services and corrections work, Fontayne just got into trouble. Twenty years later Bernice is assigned as parole…
An eleven year old boy uses the discarded objects he finds around the windswept seaside community he has just arrived at to make a kite. Despite strong winds and a dogged persistence he can’t make the kite fly. He befrie…
Kelly, a female entrepreneur, gives personal advice and insight into business and beauty. She finds motivation in her personal experiences and in her role model Mary Kay.…
An elderly couple seeks to make their relationship more adventurous. When they find an abandoned trailer the couple decides that breaking and entering will be the perfect beginning to an adventure. Upon making the abando…
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.…
After the departure of friend and drummer Mortimus, Black Metal bandmates Borknarg and Absu begin to lose hope that "Necronomica" will ever achieve its place as the most evil band in the world. Borknarg hatches a plan to…
Indoor
Directors: Simon Atkinson, Adam Townley
An eleven year old boy, unable to fly his kite alone, befriends a peculiar girl who can not leave her caravan.
Kelly
Directors: Nathan Honnold, Alex Zhuravlov
Kelly, a fema…
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…
As new business models of digital music consumption grow and new services keep launching where does the artist fit in? The headlines all scream about what the artist makes on this service or that. But does the artist hav…
Presenters
Eric Garland, Jeff Price, Trevor Skeet, Scott Reilly
BAJOFONDO
Biography
Even though Bajofondo has been a pioneer in what has been known all over the world as “electronica tango”, the group doesn’t consider that this definition is appropriate for their music. It’s…
"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…
Calling all actors! Get ready for the first ever SXSW Casting Calls - a daily series hosted on Next Stage. This new series puts the casting process in the spotlight for all to see. Whether you're an experienced or aspir…
Calling all actors! Get ready for the first ever SXSW Casting Calls - a daily series hosted on Next Stage. This new series puts the casting process in the spotlight for all to see. Whether you're an experienced or aspir…
Calling all actors! Get ready for the first ever SXSW Casting Calls - a daily series hosted on Next Stage. This new series puts the casting process in the spotlight for all to see. Whether you're an experienced or aspir…
Bringing together a killer audio system like DTS and an amazing personal radio app like Slacker together with FILTER magazine to create a SXSW showcase seemed like a match made in heaven! Reap the benefits of three compa…
Expert Networking Sessions bring you face-to-face in a small intimate setting with top executives, music buyers and music supervisors who can help take your career to the next level. This intimate format is designed to …
Selling music to young women has followed the same patterns since The Beatles -- isn't it time for that to change? Teenage girls know what they like and why they like it, and their reasons might surprise you if your firs…
Presenters
, Danielle Strle, Lindsay Gabler, Megan Westerby, Rae Votta
Macbeth and FILTER Magazine have teamed up to showcase an incredible line up of indie artists at Lustre Pearl on Austin’s historic Rainey St on March 13, 2013. SXSW Badges welcome. Please arrive early for entry.……
14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out—camera in hand—on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that s…
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
Dan Coleman, Jenni Sperandeo, Ken Weinstein, Kevin Wommack, Matt Hickey, Neeta Ragoowansi, Steve Nice
Music recognition technology has been with us for around for a decade. We can use a cell phone to identify a track in a few seconds. We know that digital fingerprinting technology is powerful and has many potential uses.…
Presenters
Chris Woods, Lynne Lummel, Mark Gordon, Mark Flashman, Peter Bradbury
Heated discussions in the music business surround the topic of subscription music, and the effect on the bottom line of the rights holder, artist and songwriter. One side of the aisle claim that on-demand streaming serv…
Presenters
Adam Rabinovitz, Brian Slagel, Christina Calio, Dan Kruchkow, Steve Savoca, Antony Bruno
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
2:00PM - 3:00PM
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 music business has changed...and keeps changing. Some of the most successful folks building, investing in, and using the tools that are making a real impact in the day to day lives of musicians will discuss what it t…
Presenters
Brian Zisk, Genevieve Jewell, Josh Deutsch, Katie McMahon, Chris Wiltsee
How are artists relying on their cliques to get noticed amongst the the clutter in hip hop culture?Look at past and present influential crews from the perspectives of those who cultivate, manage, brand, and expose these …
Presenters
Jamal Henderson, Jeff Tammes, Karen Civil, Terrance Henderson, Tiffany Hardin
The Suzan are a pop-rock band from Tokyo, Japan. Formed in 2004 by sisters Rie (keyboards and vocals) and Saori (guitar and vocals). Soon they added school friends Nico (drums) and Ikue (bass) where their sound has been …
Actor and 30 Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto discusses ARTIFACT, a film about the making of the band's album This is War and their subsequent battle with label EMI, documented in his directorial debut film showing at…
This competition will be unlike any other. Eight music technology companies battle for taste-making, trend-setting attention, leading to a fireworks display of innovation. Connections will be made and careers launched. L…
BOY - a contagious confection that has spread across the internet like wildfire. The Hamburg-based duo gets your toes tapping, mind playing, feet moving, emotions travelling, head thinking, hips jerking. But above all, t…
“Drunk History” is moving to COMEDY CENTRAL. Join the cast and other special guests as they bring their drunken and often incoherent narration of historical moments to Next Stage at SXSW!…
“Drunk History” is moving to COMEDY CENTRAL. Join the cast and other special guests as they bring their drunken and often incoherent narration of historical moments to Next Stage at SXSW!……
“Drunk History” is moving to COMEDY CENTRAL. Join the cast and other special guests as they bring their drunken and often incoherent narration of historical moments to Next Stage at SXSW!…
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.……
“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…
Join us at the SXSW Green Music Stage Presented by Brita® featuring Allen Stone, Ben Sollee, and Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real at IFC Crossroads House to celebrate eco-conscious bands and fans! Experience great musi…
What are the top 'need to know' issues about the US music market from an international perspective? Experts define and discuss cultural and business matters that impact the globe.…
Presenters
Adam Lewis, Brooke Just-Olesen, Portia Sabin, Richard Bengloff, Steve Ferguson, Sybil Bell
Your biggest selling point is you! To find success with your fans and target audience, you have to focus on a cohesive story and be able to employ the resources at your disposal to build your online brand – the brand of…
Presenters
Allison Shaw, Gabe Spierer, Jonathan Kalter, Liz Leahy
No area of cultural activity is more in need of citizen archivists than music, where entire scenes come and go in the blink of an eye, exiting before documentation of their existence can be thoroughly captured. Artists a…
Presenters
Ben Blackwell, Ken Shipley, Spott Philpott, Butch Lazorchak
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’…
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Take a unique look into the process of how music supervisors make decisions related to music placements in film and television. Three music supervisors will be paired with an artist, and together they present a short pie…
Presenters
Andrea Von Foerster, Marc St Louis, Matilda Perks, Michael Hill, Jon Bartlett
For four decades--as a songwriter, musician and producer (and New Wave flag-bearer)--Nick Lowe has exerted an influence that cuts across generations and genres. His embrace of various strains of roots music, humor, inimi…
Beginner
Presenters
Bill Bentley, Chris Stamey, Kathy Valentine, Ron Sexsmith, Scott McCaughey, Rob Seidenberg
Now that Universal Music Group has bought the storied EMI major record label, the major label market is more consolidated than ever. What does this mean for online music services that depend on sound recording licenses t…
Presenters
Charles Caldas, Lita Rosario, Paul Geller, Vernon Brown, Jodie Griffin
The internet has had a profound effect on all aspects of the music industry and education is no different. Explore different business models in online learning and evaluate the key components to creating a high value onl…
Beginner
Presenters
David Butler, Matthew Sandler, Mike King, Gregory Gordon
Key contributors to the indispensable soundscape of the Cirque experience offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the global theatrical phenomenon. From their origins in Montreal to their domination of the Las Ve…
Presenters
Benoit Jutras, Guy Dubuc, Marc Lessard, Nick Littlemore, Gavin Whiteley
Jim James has spent the better part of almost two decades as the lead singer and songwriter of My Morning Jacket. Through six studio albums, My Morning Jacket has grown into one of the most acclaimed rock and roll bands …
As music start-ups become bigger (or become part of bigger organizations through an acquisition) the very foundation of the company become under threat: an agile work environment, close relationships with the users, a st…
What is home? And how do we find it? TINY follows one couple's attempt to build a Tiny House from scratch with no building experience, and profiles other families who have downsized their lives into houses smaller than t…
Seize the mic! District Karaoke, Washington, DC's first-and-only social, team-based karaoke league, is hosting a karaoke competition. DK invites YOU to register as a performer - and when the competition comes, everyone i…
Presenters
Christopher Doorley, Geoff Harcourt, Mary-Alice Farina, Jesse B Rauch
Want to learn more about the Reeperbahn Festival?
4 – 5 pm: Q & A for the Oceanic & North American Music Industry
5 – 6 pm: Q & A for the Brazilian Music Industry
Only by registration: reeperbahnfestival.eventbrite.com……
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.……
Years before the Beats arrived in San Francisco, the city exploded with artistic expressions – painting, theatre, film, poetry. At its center was the groundbreaking filmmaker and poet James Broughton. “Big Joy” explores …
A brand new comedy from Working Title and the writer of "Borat" and "Bruno" that lifts the veil on the realities of the first year of marriage. Starting where other romantic comedies finish, "I Give It A Year" asks what …
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…
Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, "Artifact" gives intimate access to singer/actor Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they battle their label in a brutal lawsuit and record their album …
"Dog Flesh (Carne de perro)" deals with a complex period in the life of Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man who is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past. The story is that of a man searching fo…
Stale sounds of the suburbs send a teenager out with a sound recorder in search of better ones. Listening with this device he begins to build his own soundscape and drift away from his surroundings. His dependence on the…
Rachel and Anita, a young Manhattanite couple, are visiting Anita's parents on the Indian reservation she grew up on, for the first time as a couple. Anita, estranged from her parents, wants the fact that they are a coup…
"The Other Shore" follows world record holder and legendary swimmer Diana Nyad as she comes out of a thirty-year retirement to re-attempt an elusive dream: swimming 103 miles non-stop from Cuba to Florida without the use…
55 years ago Pete Seeger didn't name names at the McCarthy hearings and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Out on appeal, blacklisted, watched by the FBI, he buys an old camera. With his wife Toshi, they start filming …
"#PostModem" is a comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. It's the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity, as told through a …
"Sequin Raze" - starring Anna Camp (Mad Men, True Blood), Ashley Williams and Frances Conroy(Six Feet Under) explores the twisted mental anguish of ‘Goldberg’, a jaded, once-feminist producer on a hit reality show, as sh…
The Audition
Director: Celia Rowlson-Hall
A young woman auditions for the role of "Clipboard Woman".
Black Metal
Director: Kat Candler
After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, the actions of one fan creat…
When Ron, a high powered hedge fund manager, finds out that his biggest investor may be pulling out of the fund, his world begins to collapse on him, as he juggles fatherhood, his ex-wife, and one very big secret.…
The Gang of Four's song from 1979 dramatized a person's lack of an authentic relationship with his culture. Last year in New Orleans, a second line in memory of "Uncle" Lionel Battiste seemingly included as many photogra…
Beginner
Presenters
Alison Fensterstock, Brian Boyles, Erika Goldring, Louis Michot, Alex Rawls
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 his Nonesuch debut, Devendra Banhart chose the title Mala, literally the Serbian word for “small,” but used colloquially in Eastern Europe as a term of endearment—“like sweetie pie,” Banhart explains. It was a placeh…
Musicians rely on engineers to understand today's hardware and software, and to record great sounding songs. How important are engineers in today's DIY recording climate? How do artists and engineers collaborate in the s…
Once upon a time, terrestrial radio was the only game in town and they do not pay performance royalties. With the advent of online and satellite services, we’ve amassed a patchwork of legacy policies that create a compl…
Presenters
Chris Harrison, Julia Betley, Patrick Reynolds, Patrick Laird, Erin Griffith
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Biosensors are now able to measure crowd motion, mood and more. Whether it be live or for streaming digital media, biosensors allow performances to adapt to audiences so that no two are alike, but each is perfect for the…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jesse Israel, Ken Hertz, Marco Della Torre, Paul D Miller (aka DJ Spooky)
Music tech startups are springing up right and left, with some industry watchers proclaiming a glut of companies and over-funding that will end in a shakeout. But select music tech startups with truly innovative business…
Elections are exciting but the policy process never ends. From effective copyright enforcement to protecting and growing the noncommercial radio infrastructure, to facilitating a competitive broadband marketplace, to ret…
Presenters
, Jacqueline Charlesworth, Jessica Rosenworcel, Michael Bracy
The rise of electronic dance music into the mainstream proves the music industry's resilience with a powerful, socially engaged community and sold-out arena shows. What are the secrets to success in building community, e…
Presenters
Drew Best, Julie Kim, Mike French, Nic Adler, Jaime Sarachit
Depeche Mode's enduring appeal has led to sales of over 100 million records in their career spanning thirty years. From their genre-defining debut to their newest album "Delta Machine," the band pairs forward-looking mus…
Presenters
Andrew Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Jason Bentley, Martin Gore
This competition will be unlike any other. Eight music technology companies battle for taste-making, trend-setting attention, leading to a fireworks display of innovation. Connections will be made and careers launched. L…
What will a recording contract look like in ten years time? Will artists still need managers? Will we be able to stream music in our cars and on the subway? Will piracy still be throttling the industry? Is a one-stop sho…
Presenters
, Ian Moss, Jo Dipple, Keith Harris, Horace Trubridge
The majority of music used on television, in brand commercials and on digital websites comes from music libraries and not artist catalogs. Writing for a music library allows composers and artists to build their compositi…
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Taylor, Chris Douridas, Gooding , Joey Peters, Steve Knill
This competition will be unlike any other. Eight music technology companies battle for taste-making, trend-setting attention, leading to a fireworks display of innovation. Connections will be made and careers launched. L…
Chris Strachwitz is a detective of deep American music, music that’s the antithesis of the corporate “mouse music” dominating pop culture. Since 1960, he has been the guiding force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, brin…
Catch an extended 45 minute Q&A with Arhoolie Records founder and president, Chris Strachwitz moderated by Texas writer, Joe Nick Patoski after the Alamo Ritz Screening of "This Ain't No Mouse Music!" on Wednesday, March…
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.……
There are an estimated 2.4 million lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans over the age of 55. LGBTQ seniors are 5 times less likely to access social services than their heterosexual counterparts, half as likely to have heal…
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…
“Our procedure has been always haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream.” - Justice Learned Hand.
In 1986 Michael Morton’s wife Christine is brutally murdered in front of their only child…
A man falls into the Bosphorus on a snowy night. His son, Mete is dragged into a half-hearted pursuit through claustrophobic Istanbul. Faced with the depression of his mother, he discovers some not-so-conventional means …
Too happy-go-lucky for the earnest fans of roots music, too plaid and pragmatic for the hippies, too old and hairy for the mainstream, too young to be called legends. Sound like friends of yours? For nearly two decades, …
"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…
Matthew Hawtin is visual artist and DJ who lives in Windsor, Canada. He started DJing in the early 1990's alongside his brother Richie Hawtin when they would throw warehouse parties in Detroit, USA. While Rich would play…
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outsp…
"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…
You Me & Us is a two-piece band out of Palm Springs, California that play fuzzy tunes soaked in sweet sounding relatable remarks.
"This band reminds me of what I loved about The Breeders the first time I heard them. C…
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…
Shark? is a social utility that connects beer to your face and if you're lucky maybe even a girl, but most likely a PA to your foot and fuzzy memories of midnight tacos. Debut album True Waste available on Old Flame Reco…
"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…
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 …
With a delicate balance of fragility, strength and sass, Hawaiian born singer/songwriter Anuhea blends engaging lyrics, acoustic soul, pop, rap and reggae into a style that has earned her a reputation as Hawaii's #1 fema…
The Beaumonts play Honky-Tonk music with dirty words. We love pills, hate jail, and have a fancy wardrobe. Our latest record, Where Do You Want It?, will be out in February on Saustex Records. We don't write very good bi…
Our show will be called Mukunda, named after our last CD, and will last between 30 and 40 minutes.
In our performance, the audience will be able to appreciate a blend of our traditional Uruguayan music (Candombe) and…
Ginny Blackmore, a singer who writes songs so searing they hit your soul instantly. Her debut single, "Bones," written in a painful moment of her love life, drastically altered Blackmore's journey, transforming a 27-year…
Japandroids is a two piece band from Vancouver, BC. This ‘band’ started in 2006 and consists of Brian King and David Prowse. Originally intending to be a trio, the boys decided to forego the logistical nightmare of havin…
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Emotional. Hypnotic. Infectious.
These are some of the words used to describe the music of Kevin Lester. His emotionally driven songs are born from the personal complexities of life’s journey, distinctly influenced b…
MARSHALL FORD SWING BAND
Represented the Great State of Texas at the 2010 World Expo – Shanghai China
Also for The State of Texas on Tour visiting over 10 State Fair 2011-12
Featured Artist on 2011 Elko NV The Nationa…
The Mastersons.
Husband and wife, singing and playing together.
And they’re each deft instrumentalists, and they’ve spent years playing in others’ bands before coming together as a unit. They’re bound by music and …
THE WATERBOYS
Formed in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1983, for three decades now The Waterboys have provided a thrilling conduit for the questing spirit of Mike Scott and a fluid cast of fantastic musicians. From “The Wh…
The brainchild of novelist and performer Neal Pollack, Austin's The Neal Pollack Invasion appeared suddenly 10 years ago and disappeared just as suddenly. With the re-release of their album, they're hoping to appear agai…
Sweet Talk are an Austin based quartet fronted/founded by former Uptown Bums guitarist/vocalist Stephen Svacina, who a few might know from his additional guitar work alongside Mark Ryan in Denton, TX’s Mind Spiders. Fla…
Valentino Khan is a music producer & DJ from Los Angeles, CA.
He has produced music for multi-platinum hip hop artists B.o.B, T.I and 2 Chainz . He also has EDM releases on Ultra Records, Mad Decent and Dim Mak Record…
Not to be hyperbolic, but this screening is an absolutely-must-seize opportunity to watch some of the planet’s best videos back to back to back to back, with barely a few seconds in between to catch your breath, soothe y…
You Won't is the Boston-based duo of Josh Arnoudse and Raky Sastri, fast friends ever since they squared off in a fierce but poorly executed sword-fight in 1999. The Massachusetts natives collaborated on a litany of non…
To say that Family of the Year has accomplished a lot in a short amount of time would be an understatement.
The list of artists that FOTY has played with over the years is notable - fun., Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe…
Presented by: NPR Music (Badges and Wristbands Only)
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
PUSH THE SKY AWAY
FEBRUARY 2013
"I don't know, this record just seems new, you know, but new in an old school kind of way" Nick Cave
"Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of…
sodapop is shaun koplow, head architect and manager for the anticon record label – a lover of cats, coffee, and certain collectables. alongside with matthewdavid, sodapop has hosted a number of events under the name “cal…
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…
Recognized by The New York Times for his "exquisitely sensitive playing" and “stunning agility,” GRAMMY nominated mandolinist Avi Avital is one of the world’s most exciting and entrepreneurial young musicians. He is deep…
Ben Aqua is an artist and musician based in Austin, Texas. Born in Brooklyn, New York, his visual work has been exhibited internationally and published in Rolling Stone, NYLON, SPIN, NME, Flaunt, OUT, ARKITIP, XLR8R, Bea…
Hailing from New Orleans, LA, Waggoner has called Nashville home for 6 years. She has released three albums independently. Her debut release was an EP titled Fresh Pair of Eyes (2007) called "[O]ne of the most exciting r…
The Burning of Rome mastermind Adam Traub is a Southern California native who grew up in the sun-bleached city of San Diego. Those formative years were also spent glued to a piano, with a guitar close by.
At age 11 he…
Santa Barbara natives Ethan and Josie aka CANDYLAND began producing their own original songs back in April of 2012. After becoming the first act to win back-to-back Beatport remix contests (Skrillex "Make it Bun Dem" & B…
Chelle Rose is a native East Tennessean who resides in Nashville. She recorded 'Ghost of Browder Holler' in Austin, Texas with Ray Wylie Hubbard at the helm. The critically acclaimed album was released on Lil' Damsel Rec…
Brooklyn troubadour Chris Mills has been hailed as "genius!" by the UK music press and as "the best songwriter we have in Gotham today" by big city scribes here at home. He has opened for and/or toured the world with act…
We've never met another man, in four-plus years of doing Daytrotter, quite like Christopher Denny. The Arkansas native is a riddle some days. He's a weirdo some days. He's a sweetheart some days. He's a mad man and a com…
The Computer Club sound first emerged from the studio of Gigantor in 2007 when his single “Load Rocket” started gaining artist acclaim and making noise in the blog circuit. The song, one of the first completed by Giganto…
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…
Daniel Mustard is a New York City based Singer/Songwriter. His music is a product of unlikely circumstances- for years, Mustard was a homeless street musician busking on the streets of Greenwich Village, battling alcohol…
Named after the Jean-Luc Godard film, Los-Angeles based garage pop outfit Détective was initially conceived as a studio project by James Greer, former member of Guided By Voices, and Guylaine Vivarat, a long-time member …
Dinos Boys formally emerged from Brooklyn, NY in 2011 by Danny Song with members from the Stalkers and Nightbirds. Then had put their first song on a compilation with Oops Baby Records. Soon after Danny would move back…
Born in Eastern Iowa, Jordan Roseman moved to Evanston, Illinois in his early teens where he completed grade school and went on to high school. Afterwards, he attended the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana attainin…
Notion is the co-founder of musicnmind,
based out of Austin, TX,
responsible for countless independent concerts
with the best of local and national touring acts.
Chances are, you've seen DJ Notion, even if you don't …
Sub.mission Dubstep // CandyGrind // Beta Nightclub
Dodger created a name for himself spinning Drum & Bass at parties around the state and later becoming one of the first to push the emerging sound of Dubstep, here …
What began as a group of friends with a love for the bass heavy, harmony laden roots reggae sound of the '70's, evolved into the current DON CHANI sound. The music stays true to the reverb washed records of the era, whil…
Dragons of Zynth's frontmen, Aku and Akwetey, are twins and were raised in Cleveland, OH. The group first won notice with the demo recording of their first single "War Lover" in 2004. The band gained attention early on f…
Ean Golden is a world renowned DJ and pioneer who has helped create the digital dj movement that is sweeping the world. He has shaped the emerging industry through his product designs, community building and revolutionar…
In 2008, Pamela Sepúlveda began composing songs for what became his solo project Fakuta.
Deployed pop songs warm and spacious atmosphere, subtle rhythms and sometimes more powerful. In sum,
hits a world constructed fro…
“Overflows with emotion… spectacular” The Guardian
“Heart-flipping” Pitchfork
“Extraordinary” PopJustice
“Cathartic pop for when you’re feeling abandoned” The FADER
“Dark and beautiful” This Is Fake DIY
“A formidabl…
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…
It’s been a crazy ride so far for New York’s FIGO. The group, which doubles their live electronic punk rock carnage with a strictly bangers DJ and remix crew, has rocked crowds across North America, Europe, and Asia, tou…
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…
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…
Guantanamo Baywatch was started by Jason Powell and Chevelle Wiseman in Portland about 4 years ago to an immediately enthusiastic reception, released a very well received and now out-of-print LP on Portland's awesome Hov…
Fresh off their appearance on TBS's Conan, Michael Garner and Dan Chang have a busy couple months ahead of them. In between their KROQ presented residency at LA's Bootleg Theater, they'll be making stops in Austin for SX…
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…
Jaill is an indie rock band from milwaukee wisconsin, playing songs about stuff, most recently supporting their second Sub Pop release titled Traps. Just like their live show, it's very good.……
Jake Bellows is the frontman of Neva Dinova, with which he released three proper full-length albums in addition to a split with Bright Eyes. Neva Dinova has toured the world as headliners and supported bands such as Deat…
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:…
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…
Having first met JFK in 2008 as neighbors living a few steps away on a stretch of Clinton St. at the heart of Columbus' own Washington Beach.
Within ten minutes of introductions followed, almost immediately, by coughi…
K-X-P are the trio: Timo Kaukolampi (electronics, vocals and the ‘K’), Tuomo Puranen (bass, keyboards and the ‘P’), and alternating drummers (the ‘X’ – for the mystery) Anssi Nykänen and Tomi Leppanen.
Born from the ash…
Kid Karate are vocalist/guitarist Kevin Breen and drummer Steven Gannon.
The band’s musical aesthetic is based around Breen’s thunderous guitar-work and atypical howl, and Gannon’s primal drumming style. These element…
Knifight is a five-piece indie-electronic band with an incredibly energetic live show that plays gripping electronic, post-wave pop songs that include synthesizers, electric guitar, bass, drums and group vocals. Influenc…
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…
Having formed over a mutual love of North American alternative rock, the 5-piece outfit consisting of Sarah Hall (vocals), James Hall (guitar/keys), Graeme Martin (guitars), Mark Brown (bass) and James King (drums); bega…
Straight up, soju-fuelled blues rock from the Republic of Korea, Lowdown 30 is a simmering Seoul trio known for throwing down searing guitars, throbbing bass, and pounding beats.
/MEMBERS/
YOON ByungJoo - Guitars &…
Luke Winslow-King (born March 12th 1983) is a guitarist, singer, composer, and lyricist known for his slide guitar work, and interest in pre-war blues and traditional jazz. Winslow-King’s work consists of an eclectic mix…
Born and raised on the island of O’ahu in Hawai’i Mike Love is first and foremost a father, a husband and a son. A vegan and spiritual person, but not religious. Music has been an integral part of Mike's existence since …
Formerly known as Follow That Bird, Mirror Travel is Lauren Green, Paul Brinkley, and Tiffanie Lanmon. The three piece underwent a name change in late 2012 and, with this, bring forth their first first 7" in two years on…
Presented by: Enabler PR (Badges and Wristbands Only)
From the damp and misty woods of New Hampshire emerges the second full length from psychedelic jam warriors MMOSS. The minute we heard the band's 2011 debut on Burger Records they immediately rocketed to the front of our…
Presented by: Tucson Music Factory / Hotellounge (ICA)
Naïm Amor is a french born, Tucson Arizona based musician and composer.
Shortly after moving to Tucson from Paris in 1997, Naïm formed the “experimental avant pop” AMOR BELHOM DUO with drummer Thomas Belhom. They put…
I have been into electronic music since 1991. Been DJing since 1995, back then for little more than a cab ride home. Grew up in London, UK promoting parties and earning my rites of passage. I relocated to Amsterdam in 20…
PSYCHIC FRIEND
MY ROCKS ARE DREAMS
(Dangerbird Records)
Will Schwartz and the piano go way back, to when he was nine. "I've been attracted to the C chord and to A minor since I was a kid," he says. "I learned to pla…
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…
Multi-instrumentalist Spanish musician trained in classical music since he was 8, he finished his studies when he got a scholarship at the Welsh College Of Music And Drama (Cardiff, Wales, UK). In almost a decade of musi…
Richard Henry is a dj with an ear for beats from all over the globe. He's been collecting tunes since an early age from Flea Markets to local record stores in search of a different sound adding to his large record collec…
RL SHINE
The Flush/Stankonia, HU$TLER, Stateside Music Authority, @RLshinemusic // Atlanta, GA
Kristen Sheehan, aka RL SHINE has quickly become known as ATL"s "First Lady of Bass". She is commonly referred to as the "H…
Presented by: Normaltown Records (An Imprint of New West Records)
Ronnie Fauss grew up in the brutal Texas heat where 95 degrees often constitutes a nice night, and where a man may seek relief through the nearest watering hole or under the chords of a freshly-tuned guitar. Possessing a…
The elusive Sam Doores & Riley Downing with the backing band The Tumbleweeds are a honky-tonk, old country-blues, early R&B, and gospel-influenced New Orleans band. The band has toured the U.S. and Canada, often performi…
Icelandic singer-songwriter, Asgeir Trausti, may only be 20 years old but last summer he already made his mark on the Icelandic music scene with his two singles, Sumargestur and the smash-hit Leyndarmal. Both singles bel…
Ski Lodge is an indie/pop band formed by Andrew Marr in early 2011 and based out of New York City. It's music about forgiveness, youth, love, fear, sadness, and everything else.……
Southern Hospitality is a London-based, globally respected DJ collective, club promotions brand, record label and music website. Across the hip-hop, pop and electronic music worlds, Southern Hospitality has become renown…
Strange Names is a Minneapolis pop duo comprised of Brooklyn native Liam Benzvi and Minneapolite Francis Jimenez. The two began writing and playing music in 2010, creating some internet buzz from the US and UK. They have…
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 …
James House had found success penning hits for major country ,rock and pop artists, but in 2009, he decided it was time to make an album that draws from his passion for blues, alt county and rock.
House's songs have b…
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Coming off a national tour and their first full-length effort, Twin Peaks have been making a buzz in Chicago's music scene lately. Recognized initially for their raucous and sweaty live shows, their debut "Sunken" manage…
After forming Wampire, Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps steadily began to make a name for themselves in the same Portland, OR, scene that has produced labelmates STRFKR as well as Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It makes sense, th…
We are the Warrior Spirit Band, formed in 2009 by SSG(ret) Paul Delacerda. We are the first nationally recognized wounded warrior band, comprised of combat wounded veterans from Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. We travel t…
Prepare to have your mind melted at an exclusive sneak preview of "Ghost Ghirls," a new comedy series executive produced by Jack Black premiering on Yahoo! Screen this summer. The watch party will be followed by a cast a…
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 …
Some wild extremes make up the whole that is Wolf + Lamb. Extrovert and introvert, vegan and carnivore, cancer survivor and social saboteur - you'd expect no partnership like this could last for long. But for over a deca…
Inspired by the Herman Wouk novel of the same name, Youngblood Hawke was born out of late night creative musings between longtime friends Sam Martin and Simon Katz. Exhausted by two years of touring with their former ban…
Born into the beloved arms of St. John, Zach Winters grew up like a shoot on the Great Plains of Oklahoma. The strings of his heart were strung by the angels of hip-hop and tuned by the fingers of our world's folk music…
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 …
EDF, a native of Houston, TX, might be a Texan musically, but mentally he takes global approaches to his creativity. His influences include musicians such as DJ Screw, John Coltrane, Pimp C of U.G.K., Pharrell, Prince, B…
Presented by: International Hip Hop: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
With three critically acclaimed self-produced albums, numerous collaborations as a producer, remixer and featured artist, six Greek Video Music Awards nominations (Best Hip-Hop Video 2006/2008/2009, Best Video of the Yea…
The Lost and Nameless Orchestra is a prime example of evolution in progress. With roots in traditional music paired with an emphasis on original songwriting, this four-piece ensemble has grown from its origins in fiddle…
Luke Duke, born Lucas Edward Blair, was born in Galveston , TX on September 8, 1987 , raised in Texas City, TX. Listened to all different kinds of music growing up from heavy metal ,to hardcore hip hop. Was the "class cl…
Though Lushlife describes himself as a “bedroom composer”, the em-cee/producer has been quietly crafting a catalog of sweeping full-lengths that do nothing to betray the dimensions of his small South Philly workspace. Hi…
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…
The story of Rough Francis starts in Detroit, Michigan in the early 70's. Three African American brothers—Dannis, David, and Bobby Hackney play in a funk band called Rock Fire Funk Express. The brothers quickly abandon f…
In 2011, the Pernikoff Brothers released their self-produced debut album “On My Way” (named Top 10 CDs of 2011 in PlaybackSTL), toured the country, making appearances at the Austin City Limits, CMJ & Sandestin Music Fest…
Talk about a tumultuous decade. Since 2001, Steven Stubblefield of Starlings, TN has seen it all: epic natural disasters, personal demons, nervous breakdowns, the death of a mentor and friend, the severing of a great mus…
Young Nick is an up and coming Austin artist on the rise. Nick first started working on his craft over lunchroom battles while residing in Reston VA. A military brat, he got a chance to move around and study the differen…
West Bend is a Southeast Wisconsin town where the Milwaukee River shifts directions, angling to suddenly head West. It’s also the home of Blessed Feathers, a duo that began when Donivan Berube’s life similarly altered co…
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…
Glitz is a San Francisco rock quartet featuring members of Personal & the Pizzas, Apache, Hunx & His Punx, Impediments and Wild Thing. Their tenure in those flag-bearing Bay Area groups lends each player undeniable virtu…
It's 2013 and the Hickoids have been raising hell off and on for parts of four decades now. Reinvigorated and slimmed down to a touring act featuring original members Davy Jones (guitar) and Jeff Smith (vocals), Rice Moo…
On their first album in nearly five years, A Life Once Lost, which is now basically comprised of original members Robert Meadows (vocals) and Douglas Sabolick (guitar, bass on this record) along with new drummer Jordan C…
“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,…
ONE4ALL is a multi-instrumentalist producer hailing from the hills outside of Austin, Texas. His widespread affection and knowledge of music has allowed him to collaborate layers of sound that ultimately result in a poly…
With an impressive international career, PEDRO MENENDEZ is an outstanding composer blending jazz, classical and South American rythms. Master himself of many instruments, the result is an innovative Latin fusion concept …
The MC known as Playdough is a rare story in Texas hip-hop. While much of the state is populated by artists who are content to achieve regional fame, and boast about it as if they have taken over the world – this is Texa…
Kicking down doors in TX is one of Austin's own... SERTIFIED, founder of Die Slo Entertainment, brings with him hard lyrics, slick rhythm patterns & a straight forward delivery that will not only have you bobbin your hea…
A room full of music and people isn’t so strange. The trick is filling the spaces in between. When truth finds a melody, strangers disappear, and suddenly everyone belongs. And Chris Carrabba knows how to fill a room bet…
Combining an array of influences and a diverse musical background, Two Fresh’s sound is difficult to describe but impossible to ignore. Built on a foundation of instrumental hip hop, their music seamlessly incorporates e…
SKATERS formed in late 2011 after Singer Michael Cummings and Noah Rubin (The Dead Trees, Adam Green, Little Joy) spent a year trading demos back and forth from Los Angeles to London with Guitarist Joshua Hubbard (The Pa…
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…
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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…
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Duologue release their new double-A side single, Underworld/Zeros, on the 29th October 2012 through Killing Moon Records. It precedes the release of their debut album, due out in February 2013.
Duologue’s cerebral exper…
The Jacuzzi Boys are guitarist/vocalist Gabriel Alcala, drummer Diego Monasterios, and bassist Danny Gonzalez, three dudes from Miami Florida, bright as neon and fun as hell. After forming the band in 2007 and accruing a…
Kab Tha Don began rapping in the 8th grade, recording his first song “Bring the Pain” in the 9th grade in which he put on cd's and sold at school, this was the beginning of fire to wood, he sold out. Kab continued record…
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)…
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…
It takes a lot of guts to pull the plug on a successful musical formula and dive headlong into the unknown. I'm not advocating anyone cut Rayon Beach open to find out exactly what I'm talking about --- then again, can I …
Rush Midnight is the solo project of Russ Manning, former Twin Shadow bassist and smooth music provocateur.
In the midst of a demanding touring schedule with Twin Shadow and endless nights on the road, Russ recorded …
Social Studies is a five piece live hip-hop band from Phoenix, Arizona. SS combines live drums, keyboards, turntables, and vocals to create a unique and sensational live show worth seeing. SS has been working hard record…
Want to know why they call DJ Hella Yella the Yella Hulk? Just ask the Southern Entertainment Awards and the Austin Chronicle who both voted him as Club DJ of the Year! It’s no question that when DJ Hella Yella is behind…
Snak The Ripper raps with a voice as raw and honest as his material. In just three years, Snak has gone from rock-bottom anonymous, to internet superhero. Snak has garnered millions of YouTube views, solo tours across Ca…
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, …
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…
Ane Trolle Biography
Based on her previous involvement in numerous musical constellations, singer Ane Trolle has proved to be one of the strongest and well-acclaimed voices on the Danish music scene.
Past
Gifted wi…
4 piece indie/rock band from Istanbul
After being formed in 2011 their success didn’t go unnoticed and they performed at dozens of live shows including The Newcomers Festival, where they were pointed out as a promisin…
BILLY BRAGG
It was thirty years ago today when the Saturday boy from Essex who would become Britain’s foremost political singer-songwriter released his first record, the mini-album Life’s a Riot With Spy Vs Spy. It co…
Bird Peterson, or Texas born Andrew "There Will Be Booty" Hoke, is just what the doctor ordered. He prides himself as the Elegant Gentleman King of Hot Jams, and retains this title by his own doings. He's a scholar in th…
The Black Drawing Chalks is a Brazilian independent band, that plays Rock! Strong and fast Rock n' Roll.
Rock for rocker. With a lot of influences, ranging from the music of the
70's, Stoner Rock, updates to rock produ…
Carsie is a young singer-songwriter who grew up in rural Virginia and now splits her time between Philadelphia and New Orleans. Since 2006, when she began touring full-time, Carsie has toured extensively throughout the U…
Christian Webster, commonly known as “Chris Webby,” is a 24
year-old hip-hop artist from Norwalk, CT that has been deemed an
innovator and pioneer of new school hip-hop. Webby, first began
honing his lyrical abilities…
Goth girls to survivalists, bovines to bibles, antique pistols to vintage motorcycles: Alberta-born honky-tonker Corb Lund’s songcraft covers it all. From a rustic retreat deep in the Rocky Mountain forest, Cabin Fever, …
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 …
Dan Croll is a fabulous new solo artist with enough facets for a whole band. He's the electro boy with links to the folkie scene (Communion Records included one of his tracks on their recent New Faces compilation), a mul…
Deco is a DJ and producer based in Los Angeles, California. He owns and operates Deceast, one of America’s premier underground record labels exploring the deeper shades of bass music. Influenced by everything from southe…
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“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…
Dj Duffey is a young female DJ from Dallas Tx. Her very first time Spinning liver was in August. She is a young DJ on the rise and preforms in clubs in Dallas four times a week. Her style is mostly hip hop with a little …
Danish/American band Gliss makes a huge departure from their old sound on the new record Langsom Dans which is gathering comparisons to Beach House, Crystal Castles and Lower Dens. The LA based trio, consisting of Victor…
What does it sound like to be in love?
Gold-Bears formed in 2010 when Jeremy Underwood recruited a few friends to play songs he’d stockpiled since the demise of his former band, Plastic Mastery (555 Recordings/Magic Mar…
Even after the disaster that was “Shortcut to Memphis”, The Golden Boys are still a stunning example of rock’n'roll from the heart. Separate The Golden Boys and you get 5 destructive tornadoes of law defying drunkenness …
Inexplicably named after geriatric Korean swingers scandalously joyriding in an old school Hyundai sedan, Goonamguayeoridingstella (aka 'Goonam') is a trippy-hippy, retro-electro rock act whose cosmic booty jams provide …
When Garage-Rockers Harlem went on hiatus, Curtis James O'Mara's creative appitite did not relent. What else is an artist to do? He started Grape St., gathering a slew of friends from the Austin music scene to round out …
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…
Widely tipped as a “band to watch” on the strength of an acclaimed EP, some high profile film and TV placements, and a series of hypnotic live shows, High Highs are set to deliver on their early promise with a debut LP i…
Holy Esque are a 4 piece from Glasgow. After forming in March 2011 and posting a few demos online, word spread rapidly about the enigmatic band's intense sonic morass of distortion and atmospheric soundscapes, landing th…
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…
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…
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In the wake of a relentless 4-year touring cycle with White Lies, and after a fortuitous meeting of minds between bassist/songwriter Charles Cave and Stockholm-born singer Rosanna Munter, K.I.D.S. enter the music scene a…
Karim Ouellet was born in Senegal, but has lived in Canada, Senegal, Rwanda and Tunisia during his youth. He now lives in Quebec City. His music is a brilliant mix of raggae, hip-hop, folk, rock and pop. Multi-skilled an…
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, simply known as Kendrick Lamar, is an American rapper. He hails from Compton, California, currently signed to Top Dawg, Aftermath, and Interscope. Lamar is a member of hip hop supergroup Black H…
Steve and Mark, lead vocal and guitar respectively, met in the school choir at the tender age of 7. Growing up minutes apart in the Dublin suburb Swords, they remained friends through their adolescence, both picking up g…
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Some day in the not too distant future, America will dip its corners deeper into the ocean, the waves ever grinding at its shores as tectonic plates shift and sink. The effect of melting icecaps on the beaches of her nat…
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Lilly Hiatt’s an old soul, a young woman wise beyond her years. Listen. You’ll hear.
Hiatt’s songs back equal measures edge (“3 Days”) and energy (“Big Bad Wolf”) with stunning lyrical elegance. Clear evidence: The Nash…
The three friends known as Little Daylight, who peppered 2012 with some of the year’s most infectious remixes, have finally stepped to the fore. Today Little Daylight has debuted their first original song, “Overdose”, al…
Love Inks is a desert pop group from Austin, Texas. With a sound anchored via Sherry LeBlanc's simple yet poignant vocals, Love Inks is minimalism at its best; imbued with raw emotion, sexuality and splashes of electron…
MARMALAKES is a rock band from Austin, TX. Dynamic and lyrically-attentive, their songs carry folk-pop sensibilities. Since 2008, they've released 3 EPs and a 7-inch.
They have played with Shearwater, Sondre Lerche a…
The Memories are four (4) lovey dovey stoner sweeties. Formed in the summer time 2010 by Rikky Gage and Kyle Handley of infamous party nomads White Fang. After releasing and selling all 200 copies of the first edition of…
"This is modern Dubstep/Bass music, whatever you want to call it, done aggressively and soulfully and it's done with real class, style and songwriting." - Skrillex
MONSTA have been described as having the melodic synt…
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 …
The timeless themes of the classic country duets have now been revived and revisited by My Darling Clementine, the husband and wife duo of Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish.
King, the former leader of U.K. Alt Cou…
Formed in 2006 by their father Courtney Panton Sr. in their hometown Brooklyn New York, New Kingston a group of 3 brothers blends Reggae with R&B & Hip-Hop to create their New York meets Jamaica sound. Their latest album…
Since the early nineties Zurich composer and pianist Nik Bärtsch
proceeds with the work on his RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC - mostly
with the zen-funk quintet RONIN founded in 2001 together with
Kaspar Rast (drums), Björn Meye…
Oh No Oh My formed in Austin, TX, in the fall of 2004 by recording a series of demo songs. Led by the success of these demos, including a song called “Walk in the Park”, the band quickly gained a small following in just …
Raised in a Pentecostal church in Purcell, Oklahoma, Parker Millsap is no stranger to the spiritual power of music. The 19 year‐old and his best friend since 8th grade (and upright bassist), Michael Rose perform with a v…
After nearly two years of work, The Pass have finally readied "Melt," Their second full-length record. Mixed by Alex Aldi (Passion Pit, Holy Ghost), the album heralds a new era for the band- one steeped in their experie…
"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…
Moving the Ancient Forward~
Rattletree Marimba loves to make you dance. It is our passion and our calling. We are excited to be in the forefront of a new era of live Electronica. Merging Dubstep, Glitch, and Downtempo…
An exploding industry without rules! Backyard filmmakers with zero budget and a surplus of dreams! Unchecked global piracy! The race to control media consumption! Videotape changed the world and laid the foundation for t…
Salesman, saljan, transaction. Acid Americana, desert-electro, post-gospel.
We love being alive, let madness go in certain directions which we know to be useful and then work it over by playing and saying what we feel…
The road that led Shiny Toy Guns into the abyss — and now, triumphantly, back from it — was fraught with peril, full of steep grades, twists, potholes, detours and dead ends. That the Los Angeles-based quartet has emerge…
This is the tale of Sutter Keely - high school senior, effortless charmer and would-be master of never worrying about the future – and of how he unexpectedly falls in love and also comes to terms with the fear, beauty an…
SuiseiNoboAz started 2007 Summer.
The torio band from Takadanobaba Shhinjuku Tokyo.
They have appeared on various events including large-sized festivals(FUJI ROCK, ARABAKI, etc...)in Japan, and on overseas artist's Jap…
Maggie? Rainbow? Leeward and Mary cannot even agree on their three year old daughter’s name anymore. Mary is a hardworking nurse who dreams of only one thing: changing her life around. She resents her husband for being a…
Armed with a “voice you just need to hear" (BBC London) and an irresistible blend of snaps, claps, and golden trumpet peals, Tara Priya combines vintage soul, poetic lyrics, and a dash of pop to provide relief from today…
If there’s a certain youthful diffidence surrounding the remarkable Tom Odell it’s tempered with a sense of self-awareness which totally belies his mere 21 years on this planet. A beguiling mixture of idealism (he wants …
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…
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transcription of organ music (AKA Damon Bird) records and performs simple bittersweet alternative folk songs that creak and roll through heart and history. Whether taking the form of a bare-boned, elegiac tale perambulat…
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I am fortunate to come from a family inclined towards the Arts. My parents recognised my musical aptitude at an early age and had me classically trained in piano since the age of 6.
I picked up percussive guitar at ag…
Dear Reader,
We are UUVVWWZ, an avant-blues quartet from Lincoln Nebraska, comprised of Teal Gardner, Jim Schroeder, Dustin Wilbourn, and David Ozinga. We have been playing as UU for five years and have put out one al…
Vance Joy has an original voice which at first he kept to himself. Feeding on a diet of The Pogues, Paul Kelly, and whatever else was playing, he cut his teeth performing at open mike nights in Melbourne. It is folk mus…
Booming sounds to fit the equally young & cool appearance that is Young Von. Party, Ratchet, Trill, & Vonathon! You ever heard $prite Remix on wax? SNOB!!! HOUSTON oozes out of my music! SWAG! Moves like Jagger, Sounds l…
Writers love phrases with multiple meanings; they’re so much handier than mere single-idea word strings. That’s why it’s so perfect that The Trishas’ first full-length album, High, Wide & Handsome, kicks off with a track…
Quickly becoming regarded as one of Texas’ brightest new acts, Crew54 is determined to make their way into the game. Combining raw reality lyrics with soul driven banging beats, G-christ and M.O.S. deliver a high energ…
New London, Connecticut, might not be the first city that comes to mind as a breeding ground for talented lyricists, but Hayze, still in his late-teens and hailing from the northeast city, is looking to change that. Disc…
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Noah Jeffries-Guitar, harmony vocals
Dennis Ludiker-Mandolin, harmony vocals
Brian Beken-Fiddle, lead vocals
Matt Mefford-Double Bass
Jazz-grass band MilkDrive features award-winning instrumentalists Brian…
Franny Glass is the stage and recording name of uruguayan singer-songwriter Gonzalo Deniz (Montevideo, 1986). His first record, Con la mente perdida en intereses secretos, was released by Deniz himself in 2007 and nomina…
“I don’t sound like anybody; I sound like HoodStar Chantz”
Hailing out of Fifth Ward area in Houston,Tx HoodStar Chantz is an artist determined not only to be the next best thing out of Texas but in music period. With…
Chicago emcee, ShowYouSuck is breaking boundaries between genres & cracking the music mold by creating a style that is truly his own. Melting; Punk, Based, Trill, rap with a touch of wit. ShowYouSuck puts his mark on the…
Compiled from over 28 hours of personal videos shot by The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne on his iPhone, A Year in the Life of Wayne's Phone, is the world's first vertical iPhone movie.…
Dubbed, “Chew it up, Spit it out, Rock and Roll”, Cheers’ is a raw, rootsy, psychedelic pop rock quartet from Philadelphia, PA. With a live show channeling David Bryne, animal of the muppets, and far-out impulses equival…
In the hands of producer Djavan Santos, a.k.a. D33J, what should be computer-quantized or staid is given light and life. Aquatic textures overlap with bedroom clicks, muffled vocals & vacuous guitar to form hazy late ni…
With a sound that evokes the dreamlike natural wonders of their homeland, duo the Holydrug Couple are a part of the burgeoning psychedelic rock scene rising out of Chile. Based in Santiago, members Ives Sepúlveda and Man…
Austin, Texas band Moonlight Towers (taking its name from the tall vintage streetlights that illuminate Austin’s nights) is a genuine band that does what comes naturally: writing, recording and playing real rock n’ roll …
It was only last year that Sam Margin was sitting in his bedroom in the rural New South Wales town of Menangle waiting for his younger brother Elliott to come home from school and work on a new song he’d just written. Af…
Bursting on the scene in early 2012, fueled by a relentless buzz on the internet, Travi$ Scott has become one of the most sought after producers in Hip Hop. Hailing from Houston, TX originally, Scott now calls Los Angele…
The Blue Umbrella
Director: Saschka Unseld
It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters. And in th…
Apache is coming on strong as Omar "Apache" Hernandez commands his Guitar Army. Three shredders deep and a thunderous rhythm section, Apache weaves together a sound known as "Tomahawk Rock".
A cornerstone artist on the…
Musicians often claim they are “giving themselves” to their listeners, but it’s rarely as true as on Ben Sollee’s fourth album, Half-Made Man, a revealing, deeply moving album that explores a man trying to figure himself…
It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters. And in the midst, two umbrellas—one blue, one not—f…
Churchwood for the past four years or so has been playing what has been variously described as "dystopic blues," "fragmented blues-rock," and "Dada swamp." All veterans of the Austin scene, Joe Doerr provides the surre…
For sixteen years cicadas live underground. They emerge for one glorious night to live out their lives in hope of finding happiness and maybe... love. They gather for the grand cicada party at the castle, knowing that wh…
Born in Detroit to Argentine parents, Diego Garcia traces his diverse roots on his debut solo album, ‘Laura.’ Garcia was inspired by the loss of love and the classic troubadour movement. “Artists like Sandro, Roberto Car…
Dj Rapid Ric has been DJing for 16 years, in over 36 countries, and has been producing for artists like B.O.B. Ric resides in Austin, Texas but owns & engineers at his nearby Houston locale, DMG Studios. www.whutitdew.…
Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson) work together at a craft brewery. They have one of those friendships that feels like it could be something more. But Kate is with Chris (Ron Livingston), and Luke is with Jill …
Love and a severed foot, at the end of the world. "The Event" is based on a poem by Tom Chivers and was commissioned by Random Acts for Channel 4 in the UK.…
New Orleans' long history of political dysfunction and complicated racial dynamics gets a new lease on life when Stacy Head, a polarizing white woman, wins a seat on the city council after Katrina. Four years later, she …
Set in a crumbling black-and-white futuristic metropolis, void of creativity and color, the city is traversed by The Gold Sparrow and her nefarious side kick, The Ring Leader. Together they scour the gray-scale streets, …
"I Am Divine" is the story of Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, from his humble beginnings as an overweight, teased Baltimore youth to internationally recognized drag superstar through his collaboration with filmmaker J…
Manchester’s soulful chanteuse, Josephine, has created a self-reflective debut album which illustrates the many different sides of a fascinating character. Vocally, her prowess recalls ‘the Queen of gospel’, Mahalia Jack…
The Killing Floor combines the best of British and American rock music to form a truly unique sound that's raw, powerful and impassioned. Displaying tight musicianship, strong songwriting, and spot on rhythms, TKF delive…
Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.…
Nubes en mi Casa started playing in 2007. That first year they recorded their first album which was released by mexican indie label Molecula Records. A few months later, they were chosen by 'Myspace Mexico' as "Band of t…
Fifty-something Willy returns to the naturist community where he spent his youth to visit his sick mother. When she dies shortly after he arrives, Willy is confronted with the choices he made in his life. In confused sad…
For more than 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate directly with the outside world. Until Now. These are the actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynic…
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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…
Throughout Richard Nixon’s presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later…
Hailing from Birmingham, Peace are a young four-piece pointing the way for a new generation of British guitar bands. Their debut release, EP Delicious, has a sense of adventure and playfulness that led it to enter the UK…
Filip Nikolic and Jeffrey Paradise are good friends who are inspired by California, mezcal, dancing, good food, and friends. Filip is a Danish producer now living in LA who plays bass in Ima Robot; Jeffrey throws the inf…
A journey through time & space, and the fight for existence. A dark premise contrasted with the divine imaginary creates a hypnotic ride of tone and emotion. Only "in-camera effects" were used to capture "Sci-Fly". The …
It's just another boring day in the the most boring job in the world. Even the robots doing the jobs are bored. They'll do anything to get out of it, even take one of those over sized 'You're leaving' cards around the fa…
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SHI 360 is anything but your typical hip hop artist. Hailing from the Middle East, this MC is spreading unity and awareness through his music and tours worldwide.
Growing up in a North-African home has influenced his mu…
Born In Brooklyn's East New York Neighborhood and Raised In Queens, Spit Gemz had to learn from an early age how to hold his own. In his formative years, he was uprooted from his life in Brooklyn at the young and vulnera…
An enigmatic phone call from a psychic, catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected. One sister believes the claim, and the other staunchly oppos…
“ Nosaprise is one of Houston’s most prolific artists “ - Houston Press
"He takes two completely different genres and combines them into something astoundingly epic and refreshingly original."- CMJ
Houston’s own No…
UZOY (pronounced uzi) is a Nigerian-American female rapper and producer from the southeast side of Houston, TX. She began writing music in high school as a hobby and soon began to record her first songs.
Her passion f…
We express our experiences as a shared unit , through music and an agreement of sound. No one always gets along, but with lows come highs and fighting always has an end. we accept struggle and are passionate about the li…
Craze's life is a legacy of rags to riches, geek to chic, no-name to world fame. He never had it easy from fleeing battle in Nicaragua at the age of 3 to a geeky adolescence to Hurricane Andrew hitting Miami in 1992 nor …
Andy Stott made his debut for the Modern Love label in 2005 with the 'Replace EP' - a 4 track exposition of his uniquely slanted production style taking in Chi-Town and Motor City influences with an obtuse genetic code a…
BASS DRUM OF DEATH
It’s been a little more than a year since John Barrett and his punk band Bass Drum of Death put out their debut album—a year that took this kid from a sleepy Mississippi hometown (where the bars cl…
Deniro Farrar is an enigma. Born in Charlotte, N.C. and thanks to word of mouth, he has risen to critical acclaim on the biggest and most influential music publications, with no publicist. He has travelled the country hy…
NATALIE MAINES MOTHER COLUMBIA Though it's been seven years since Natalie Maines released a new album, her first steps back into the studio were extremely cautious. "When we started, we weren’t necessarily making a reco…
“I am your friendly neighborhood rebel. I may have planted the Molotov and I’m by any means necessary, but you can still come over and watch the game,” says Curly Castro. The charismatic Brooklyn native who has called Ph…
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Electronic hip hop quartet Ain't No Love has been making noise in the Toronto/Montreal music scene for the past year. Comprised of two MCs (1990 & Beanz), one innovative producer (Liam Clarke of Love Thy Brother) and an …
Allah Las met while working at the biggest of all the L.A. Record stores, but they became a band in an even more rare and special space—a California basement, dug out somewhere between the mountains and the beach. They …
Hailing from Sydney, Australia, but now based in the US, Andy Clockwise has become one of the most compelling artists in music today. His most recent release, 2011’s The Socialite, propelled him to a new level of success…
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Audacity spent three years on relentless touring, working up and scrapping (except for a few rare 7"s) what could have been an album all its own and even serving as backing band for both glam-garage savant King Tuff and …
“I don’t think it’s possible for me to write in a major key,” says Katie Stelmanis, co-founder and lead singer of Toronto trio Austra. “I don’t know why. It doesn’t seem to factor in my brain.”
It’s not like the longt…
Bastille have moved away from the common output being churned out by indie bands to create pop songs that are absorbing and genre defining without ever being formulaic. The origins of Bastille lie in the creative mind of…
Chris Senseney and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney (The Good Life, Bright Eyes, She & Him) formed Big Harp in December 2010, after a three-year whirlwind that saw the two meet, have a baby, move halfway across the country, get…
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With rare objection, Café Tacuba is credited far and wide as the preeminent band to have arisen from the rock en español movement of the early '90s. The Mexican four-piece unfortunately isn't well characterized by the ro…
Caveman—a five-man vibe collective from NYC—released their first album in 2011. As first
albums go, CoCo Beware was something akin to a moody statement of intent, a blueprint for
a band quickly learning how to create h…
From the house that brought you Avicii, comes Cazzette. The Swedish DJ duo is currently tearing up clubs worldwide with “Beam Me Up (Kill Mode),” a club banger with a hard-charging kick drum, an epic vocal track and dub…
CHRISTOPHER REES - MUSIC - BIOGRAPHY
Christopher Rees is a solo artist, singer, song writer, multi instrumentalist, band leader, producer and record label director. He performs with a full band and in a solo capacity.…
CHURCHILL
CHANGE EP
Tim Bruns - lead vocals and rhythm guitar / Tyler Rima - bass / Bethany Kelly - vocals and keys / Joe Richmond - drums / Mike Morter - mandolin, banjo, lead guitar, uke and crowd pleasing
Churc…
What started in 2010 as a track collaboration between Bassist/DJ/Producer, Félix Pacheco and Saxophonist/Flutist, Joe Woullard (from Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears), snowballed to a full-on music project with collabora…
"In the past few years, Content has been an integral part of the dubstep scene in London - not to mention further afield throughout Europe.
Content's mixing skills & stage presence has seen him grace the decks at some…
The sounds of dirt pouring out of old souls that were sold for the sake of rock n' roll. Space rock n' roll. Whatever it is, you can't help but to feel your ears being dipped in nostalgia then taken to another dimension…
From the classic rock echoes that hang heavy like the reefer smoke in the rafters of Detroit’s Cobo Hall, to the soul reflected in the alleys and small faces of London’s Heavy Load scene to the exile off Main Street, few…
…"Now's the time for believing.." begins the chorus of "Born Again", the first single from DIANA. On a surface level, the song floats by on a cloud, the bass keeping you buoyed while the synths elevate you into an opiate…
DJ DiBiase || "The Million Dollar DJ" … This Plainfield, NJ native has developed a unique appreciation for all types of music and represents the Atlanta, GA music scene hard. Currently, You can find DiBiase rocking the n…
Selected Press:
"BAIT AN ORCHARD" LP (2012, ROTTED TOOTH)
“Bait An Orchard” is proof positive that these dudes are fuckin’ shit up in the best way possible. At times, thunderous toms and commanding vocals lead the …
At times, it’s easy for The Eastern Sea to forget that Austin, Texas is home. While the band’s roots are firmly planted in the Texas Hill Country, their dynamic prose-pop travels from location to location, effortlessly m…
“There’s a certain kind of female that occupies a space in which she’s perpetually young and girlish but also wise and worldly. Goldie Hawn is one, and so is Jena Malone. When they’re young, they’re playful but seem ahea…
Technological advancement is the ultimate wrecking ball. First, video killed the radio star. Then, the internet killed the traditional music industry. And now technology is about to put its shit-kicker through the ide…
Presented by: Tucson Music Factory / Hotellounge (ICA)
L’Ancolie grows in the gardens of melancholy. In Morin Heights in the great Canadian outdoors, you can find its red and yellow flowers. It is at Morin Heights in August 2010 that Fredda’s album fully bloomed as an ode to…
"We're only interested in making music you can fight or strip to..."
Daniel Disaster and Pete Heartless, production duo behind Heroes x Villains, begin as two punk kids from the depths of the Dirty South, notorious fo…
ABX (pronounced like three consecutive letters) and STV SLV (pronounced “steve sleeve”) are collectively known as The Hood Internet. For the past five years, the duo have been chewing up the indie, pop, rap and R&B lands…
Presented by: Pandora (Badges and Wristbands Only)
It would probably be easier if we told you what Hopsin doesn’t do, but Hop is an MC, producer, director, actor, and editor. And his journey has been anything but painless.
Stuck in special education classes, Hopsin did …
Ivan & The Parazol is a Hungarian rock’n’roll band. Formed in 2010, the group consists of five members. Their 21. century beat music incorporates influences from the the 60’s-70’s new wave genres.
The garage rock band’…
Hailing from Providence, Rhode Island, John McCauley started Deer Tick in the winter of 2004 as a drum and guitar duo. After touring around the United States extensively and a few DIY releases, Deer Tick released its fir…
Familiarizing oneself to The Kickback may seem like an exercise in confronting consistent sets of seemingly opposing ideas: A band that prides itself on its love of Muppet Christmas specials and youthful naiveté but has …
About a decade ago, Californian Mario Hernandez (of Ciao Bella and From Bubblegum to Sky) was sitting on a Stockholm couch, casually drinking a really good cup of coffee when a friend put on the Back to Mono box set and …
“How many of ya’ll are familiar with the League of Extraordinary G’z?” was the question posed by Bavu Blakes, indie rap veteran and reigning godfather of the Austin Texas Hip Hop scene, as he stood on a dimly lit stage i…
The title of LEE BAINS III AND THE GLORY FIRES' debut album comes from Bains mishearing an old hymn as a child. In the soft accents of his elders around Birmingham, Alabama, "There is a balm in Gilead" sounded a lot like…
Born out of intense personal hardship, Les Rav is the musical brainchild of Lauren Bruno, an energetic and waifish young woman who’s cheery demeanor hardly belies the haunting ethereal quality of the melodies she compose…
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…
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 …
"Mika Karni joins the text of Shir ha Shirim, a singing-yearning for love in the language of the Bible, void of the usual Biblical analogy of Lover-Israel vis a vis God, but rather in it's simple human situations. The so…
In the year 2003 Movus was formed in Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico by Esteban Testolini, Pablo Crespo, Russel Ruvalcaba, José Luis DOmínguez (Chelis) and Raul Andreu (Rulo), now they are an active band in the world´s under…
“Nobody ever paid money to see Harry Houdini escape being buried alive” says My Jerusalem founder and singer Jeff Klein. “They wanted the small chance of seeing him killed by the weight of the earth on top of him.”
Be…
Powered by raw vocals, razor guitars, and sharp suits, Korea's premier punk brigadiers < No Brain > have notched 3,000+ shows in over 15 years to stomp up K-Pop charts and march across Korean Music Award red carpets with…
NO CEREMONY/// are an electronic three-piece from Manchester, UK.
Their idiosyncratic sound, typified by chiming pianos, distorted synths and pounding kick drums, deftly explores the musical space between euphoric wa…
No Regular Play are a duo equally at home in the rehearsal rooms of Julliard as in the main room of Fabric. Emotive and unapologetically organic, their fluid approach unites more than a lifetime of influences.
Their …
OK SWEETHEART is the recording project of singer-songwriter, Erin Austin. Reminiscent of all the good things from mid-century pop, her well crafted simplicity pulls influence from classics such as Harry Nilsson, The Bea…
Born in 1987, Ólafur hails from the suburban Icelandic town, Mosfellsbær, just a few kilometres outside of Reykjavík. He has immersed himself completely in a world of delicate symphonic compositions generating near weigh…
PAWS live in Glasgow, with members respectively from Tain (Highlands of Scotland), Edinburgh, and Glasgow. The band is made up of Philip, Joshua and Matthew.
Phillip first met Joshua at their high school in Tain, and …
Protistas began during the spring of 2008 with Alvaro Solar (vocals and guitar) and Andres Acevedo (drums, vocals). Later joined Julian Salas (guitar, vocals), Alejandro Palacios (bass and trumpet) and Greg Sebastian (ke…
The album marks the band’s first outing as a four piece with members Wes Miles on vocals, Milo Bonacci on guitar, Mathieu Santos on bass and Rebecca Zeller on violin forming the core of the group. Beta Love’s songs are i…
RUN DMT’s sound reflects a torrid love affair with heavy basslines, thunderous beats, and haunting melodies. Formed in Austin, TX in the summer of 2010, RUN DMT approached heavy bass music without borders; touching on Du…
Shinyribs Russell is known as the front man of the Austin TX musical combo, The Gourds. Born in Beaumont TX, raised in The Church Of Christ he found his calling in biker bars of Louisiana at the tender age of seventeen p…
The mystery and dark intrigue surrounding the cooperative works of
David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti has mesmerized and haunted many a subconscious over the years. There’s something unique about the pairing of Badalame…
So Cow is a three-piece from Ireland. They're two LPs and several 7"s deep into a career playing often-sweet, often-visceral noise pop. They've toured with Shonen Knife, The Wedding Present and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists …
Patience. There’s a pregnant pause at the beginning of So Many Dynamos’ video for “Matter of Fact”, a new song from their much-anticipated LP set to be recorded this August, that may seem unsettling for fans of the St. L…
“Iceland’s new dark pop princess.” MTV Iggy
Iceland’s Soley Stefansdottir, or just Soley, has caused quite a stir in 2012. Since her first solo release ‘Theater Island EP’ in 2010 and the follow-up album ‘We Sink’ in…
It's funny. The Tontons don't have a readily available mainstream band to make an off-the-cuff comparison, so in this space we won't tell you they sound like Indie Flavor Of The Week or Noted And Weighty Classic Rock Nam…
In a world ruled by fabricated pop-music, reality TV talent and flavor-of-the-minute hipster bands, it’s rare to find an act that exudes the essence of rock while maintaining integrity and original thought, but every so …
Singer/songwriter Colyn Cameron of Wake Owl has been immersed in the world of music for the past ten years. Now based in Vancouver, BC and Portland, OR, Colyn was originally born and raised in southern California. “In th…
Presented by: Normaltown Records (An Imprint of New West Records)
White Violet is the project of Nate Nelson and Vaughan Lamb. The act is based in Athens, GA and just released its debut, Hiding, Mingling, on Normaltown Records, an imprint of New West. Nelson has toured and recorded wit…
Presented by: DTS/ Slacker (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Willy Moon doesn’t like to waste time. His debut album, Here’s Willy Moon, is less than 29 minutes long. Only one of its 12 songs lasts more than three minutes and not a single note is squandered. No bets were hedged dur…
Who, in her right mind, drops out of graduate school, chucks a mortgage-paying day job and empties her savings account to launch a music career at the ripe age of 26 — within weeks of writing her first song?
BettySoo,…
CAMPO is a musical project and band created by musician and producer Juan Campodonico.
The project mixes indie pop, electro, folk and rock with tango, cumbia and 50´s and 60’s latin music, blending them into an update…
DJ Yoda
“Q-bert is universally acknowledged as the best scratcher in the world,” says DJ Yoda – AKA Duncan Beiny - undoubtedly also at the top of that field, “I remember cutting out this interview with Q-bert from an…
This duo is known for hardcore and highly conceptual hip hop, in the New York tradition. Double A.B.'s intricate lyrics and twist-ending tales flow smoothly over Dub Sonata's futuristic yet gritty soundscape.……
Basically, we are all responsible for the preservation of our personal joy; but happiness is different. Joy is not circumstantial, happiness is. You can be depressed and still have joy. You can be suicidal and still have…
Deniro Farrar is an enigma. Born in Charlotte, N.C. and thanks to word of mouth, he has risen to critical acclaim on the biggest and most influential music publications, with no publicist. He has travelled the country hy…
Eddi Front is the moniker of Ivana Carrescia, a Nevada-born, New York-based singer/songwriter. Her debut EP came out on 5th November 2012 via Best Fit Recordings. Her sound has been compared to Emily Haines, Lucinda Will…
Hector’s Pets make catchy pop songs for deadbeats and derelicts. Fuzzy dry lo-fi garage power-pop gems of storytelling and rambling consta-party ooh-la-las and background surf-and-beater-sports-car choruses.……
Not long ago, the members of Motive were shredding through jazz lead sheets and getting carted across the U.S. and Europe to showcase their young talent. Nowadays, Motive populates a different scene. These Seattle transp…
“When fedora-wearing, experimentation-loving punk rockers get fed up with the status quo, anything can happen...” – Austin Chronicle
Macabre + Cabaret = Macabaret. It's a word that had to be coined, because how does …
Nerves Junior is a Louisville, Kentucky four piece that focuses on blending dark electronics and sharp guitar, drums, and vocals that spread into lush soundscapes. The music of Nerves Junior teeters on the fine line betw…
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard (Badges and Wristbands Only)
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…
Selebrities are a Brooklyn-based three piece lauded for their signature brand of new wave, romantic pop. With material that’s woven around the themes of emotional intimacy, overcoming obstacles, urban living, heartbreak …
L.A.'s Wavves follow up their 2010 skuzz-pop masterstroke King of the Beach with Life Sux, the debut release from singer Nathan Williams' Ghost Ramp label. If the band's previous records were all about one man's self-loa…
In less than a year, Amherst quartet California X have emerged from basements and punk practice spaces of Massachusetts as one of the tightest new garage punk bands in the Northeast, teetering between various pockets of …
"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: Consequence of Sound/Shea Stadium: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
Evan P. Donohue and Hodan Dickie originally started Diarrhea Planet as a noise project. The next year, they invited Casey to play drums with them playing guitars and no bass. Diarrhea Planet was born. Eventually, they al…
Muneshine is an MC/producer/DJ/engineer originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, now based in Toronto, Ontario.
Recent Notable Achievements:
- Invited to contribute to the 80th Anniversary Glenn Gould Variations (h…
Bursting out of London’s underground music scene with its thrilling world of pirate radio, crude DJ set ups, improvised studios, and bleeding edge beats come Rudimental (Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden, Amir Amor and Leon Roll…
Snow tha Product, a native of California, but resident of Texas, is an underground phenomenon and sensation taking the scene by storm in a way that has put male MCs on alert. She’s a beauty and a beast – looks and lyrica…
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…
The Copper Gamins bring a bracing yet warm blast of freshness,
inspiration and imagination to the indie music world from south of the
border. The two-man guitar/drums duo bred in the mountains of Mexico may reflect th…
Since their first jam together in a small, dirty rehearsal space somewhere in the suburbs of Manchester, the three talented musicians soon found a unique style, "…mixing driving riffs with electronic samples and pulsing …
Houndmouth are a collaborative folk/rock band from the lowland plains and farmlands of Indiana and Kentucky. Their poetry emphasizes foolhardiness, and their soulful harmonies carry far. Once a folk duo, Katie Toupin and…
In The Valley Below is a new musical pairing delivering hushed swirls of male and female vocals forged with dark stories of brooding riddles and romance. Currently based in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, Angela Gail …
The dark rock group Junius recently released their highly anticipated sophomore full-length, Reports from the Threshold of Death, on Prosthetic Records. With their last album, The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist, Junius exp…
Mompox began in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the summer of 2008 with an objective in mind: to create a band of several singer-songwriters in which 50's American pop and 60's psychedelic rock can be mixed together with mod…
“From Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine, people know my name,” says Wais P in a rehearsed delivery. The emcee is not talking about his Rap career, which spans back to the glory years of Roc-A-Fella, where Wais’ and his…
Trevor Powers, whose stage name is Youth Lagoon, began writing his debut albumThe Year of Hibernation in 2010. Based around the idea of psychological dysphoria, Powers tried to document the trailsof his mind through son…
Presented by: International Hip Hop: SXSW FREE SHOW!!!
Emicida grew up in the northern area of the city of Sao Paulo, listening , at home, mostly to hip hop music. His carreer as a MC started in 2006, when he sang his first rhymes in freestyle battles (improvised rhymes) und…
Labeled as one of Houston’s best kept secrets, Mookie Jones, who has been met with critical praise by industry insiders, has remained relatively low-key in the public eye. Until now. At just 20 years old, the rapper - b…
NEW ORLEANS-- A staple in the New Orleans Hip Hop community, Truth Universal has been a leader on the southern Hip Hop scene for more than a decade. While he calls the flourishing New Orleans Hip Hop underground home, Tr…
Brooklyn born DJ and producer SicksentZ isn't exactly surprised by today's explosion of hiphop and edm into the forefront. An always left-thinking product of two DJ parents, his musical diversity is evident in his person…
50 Carrot, one of if not Leeds most recognisable producers, gaining support by the scenes biggest and most influencial artists, he's made a big impact on the Dubstep scene in the little time he's been involved, playing o…
With a four star review in Rolling Stone, A.J. Croce’s Cage of Muses is a shining milestone on the circuitous road that the singer-songwriter has traveled - from his debut as a jazz influenced blues-based artist to his e…
Brooklyn’s Ambassadors have become something to talk about in Norfolk, VA thanks to Norfolk’s 96x, who championed the band’s debut single “Litost”
early on. The station ranked the song #1 in 2012, beating out the likes …
In November 2009, the members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band. For two years, brothers Keith, Steven, and Michael Jeff…
This band is called Bad Cop, from Nashville, Tennessee, and at the center of it are the things that make all great rock bands the way they are: tight musicianship, remarkable songwriting, and above all, the ability to pu…
Unassociated with any known musical genre on planet Earth, A Band Of Bitches arrives as a group consisting of unknown entities who appear to come from another planet (with a vast trajectory that has perhaps taken them fa…
"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…
5 piece hard rock band from Atlanta, GA. We like Cheap Trick, the Nerves, Dwight Twilley, Van Halen, the Dictators, Alice Cooper and Tom Petty. We have songs about feet, shampoo, calendars, aliens, dog food, girls, bab…
BIG BLACK DELTA - BIOG 2012
Jonathan Bates isn’t one for straight lines. The conversation about his band—one-man outfit Big Black Delta—is filled with twists and turns, punctuated with talk of cats (he owns two), alie…
Black Pistol Fire is a Canadian Rock and Roll duo that split’s time between Toronto, Ontario and Austin, Texas. Their wild and energetic rock-and-roll sound has been described as a mix of classic southern rock and garage…
Bronze Nazareth, hailing from Detroit, MI (via Grand Rapids, MI) was picked up as a Wu Tang producer in 2002 by RZA. Making his debut on RZA’s “Birth of a Prince” album. In 2005, Bronze introduced a younger generation t…
The Calm Blue Sea’s lushly textured sound is a study in contrast. The Austin, Texas band’s music, like its oceanic name, is at once beautiful and violent, transcendent and triumphant. With songs structured by minutes rat…
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…
Winsome, wicked and witty, Chic Gamine embody the ‘60s girl-group vibe all grown up and living in a new century. Wall-of-sound harmonies, hip-shaking beats – these women could be straight out of Motown, before you throw …
ADVENTŪS is the Latin word for arrival. And so Cody Canada and The Departed emerge with their first original album. Upon the disbanding of Cross Canadian Ragweed, The Departed took root; Cody Canada and his long time Rag…
Presented by: Normaltown Records (An Imprint of New West Records)
Daniel Romano is making country music. He recently released his new album, Come Cry With Me, which will be released on Normaltown Records later this year. The new project follows two critically acclaimed records Sleep Be…
We are the kind of band that has one simple goal in mind and that is to release honest music. Our sound intertwines melody with atmosphere, movement, and poetry. At the core of everything it's the song that is the most…
Diamond Rugs is a collaboration between John McCauley (Deer Tick), Robbie Crowell (Deer Tick), Ian Saint Pé (The Black Lips), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Hardy Morris (Dead Confederate) and Bryan Dufresne (Six Finger Satel…
A respectable example for how destiny takes it’s toll - whilst most do not receive enough, this 23-year old does not know where to with all the gifts. She is gorgeous, talented, and has a name, which makes even Welsh duc…
Rocking buffets and dancefloors since 98 , Sean Cee is that guy.
He placed 3rd in the 2013 NW regional Red bull Thre3style competition and his latest mix Geo Metro was featured as " Pick of the week" on Mixcrate.com
S…
"Drilling, screeching, rasping sounds, distortion and ominous
drumbeats, inspired by 'sado-masochism' and 'confusion' from two
former Texas Altar Boys"……
Eagulls music draws from the palette of genres such as early punk through to post punk and shoegaze all the while sitting comfortably in non of the afore mentioned.
Whilst still a relatively new band in both the dura…
Presented by: Enabler PR (Badges and Wristbands Only)
"Föllakzoid was born in Santiago, Chile product of a trance experience between friends. Sort of a soul abduction in wich we’ve been living since 2008. About where we come from, we believe that there is some sort of gravi…
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard (Badges and Wristbands Only)
In May 2011, Foxygen's Sam France and Jonathan Rado nervously handed off a CD-R of their homemade mini-opus Take the Kids Off Broadway to producer and visionary Richard Swift after his performance in a Lower East Side cl…
Remember when hardcore bands sang about important topics and cared about what they said? Well, some still do and, sometimes, you have to look around the world to find them. THE GEEKS is that band. Prior to 2005, THE GEEK…
GHXST is a New York based noise grunge trio composed of Shelley X, Chris Wild and Nathan La Guerra. With influences such as the Jesus and Mary Chain, White Zombie, and Sonic Youth, they evoke the rockin' 90s with a new k…
Half Moon Run is a talented young band from Ottawa, Ontario and Comox, British Columbia. It was in a practice studio situated in Montreal’s Mile-End district, through the hardships of time constraints and flat-lined bank…
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…
Canadian based producer Knight Riderz is producing forward thinking bass music at a variety of tempos. Releases forthcoming and already out on ESL, Muti Music, True Movement, Seclusiasis, Made In Glitch, Formation UK, an…
Mariachi, no longer a profession pertaining only to men. Meet Las Coronelas. These beauties will perform a show like nothing you've ever seen. Founded by singer/violinist, Vanessa del Fierro, Coronelas is a ten member, …
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…
Forget that they have a Fiddle and Accordion up front. Lost Bayou Ramblers' 2012 "Mammoth Waltz" broke ground by taking Cajun music and turning it into something accessible and danceable to all. Adding in special guest…
Lydia Loveless
Bloodshot Records recording Artist
“If you believe in Rock ‘N’ Roll, you pray for people like Lydia Loveless.”--PopMatters.com
"Her defiant tone is matched by songs that put country and punk on equa…
Reggae Texas
It has always been one of those quirks of Texas to attract wildly divergent representatives of humanity who promptly meld their individual talents, heritages, traditions, and experiences into that equally d…
member:
junya kishino (gt/vo)
keika kishino (dr/cho)
shimpei watanabe (vo/syn)
shingo nakagawa (ba/cho)
the mornings are Tokyo based 4 piece Avant-hardcore band. Formed in 2003 by university colleagues,
their music…
Brothers Juan Conchas and Fernando Conchas, known as the Electronic Dance Music duo OMG & ShockWave. Started their musical careers back in 2004 producing Hip Hop and Pop music as the Production Duo (Ace and Wan-C "Justbe…
Two and a half years ago, Erin Fein began to pen a series of songs that would become the music of Psychic Twin. These songs emerged as intensely personal, nervously rhythmic, and indebted to the ‘80s new-wave of her yout…
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 …
Tanner Ross::::::
Part time engineer, big wave surfer, deep sea diver, Street Fighter champion and member of the Wolf + Lamb family. T.Ross grew up in NJ and now lives on Mars. On the weekends Ross returns to Earth to…
Leaving the lonely nighttime streets of London for the mountainous landscapes of Austria, multi-instrumentalist and producer SOHN (pronounced Sonn) draws his inspiration from the dichotomy that exists between the two. Re…
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…
Last autumn 'Peregrine', an early demo from a Medway six-piece Story Books, caught the attention of indie luminaries Radio 1’s Huw Stephens and XFM’s John Kennedy.
Fast-forward to summer 2012 – and that same song wi…
Suite 709 is a Mo-town influenced Soul/Indie Pop group based in Austin, TX. Recently featured in Rolling Stone and Billboard Magazine, the band's latest independent release, "Night & Day" debuted at #13 on the R&B/Soul i…
Icelandic Singer-Songwriter, Svavar Knútur, has seen his star rising steadily in the past couple of years. A troubadour of humble beginnings and rural upbringing, Svavar Knútur's music tells stories of love, tragedies, s…
We’re from Scotland, we sound like this:
http://soundcloud.com/tangointheattic
We look like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoNcHSWInxk
We socially network here and occasionally here:
http://www.facebook.co…
2007 - Present, "Ciao Means Forever"
Sometime in 2007, Tiga achieved Full Online Consciousness. This has given him the ability to speak directly to you through the computer, a miracle you will only now come to fully a…
By the beginning of 2010, the Trews were feeling a little lost.
The band had been on an upwardly mobile streak since “Not Ready to Go” first came pumping out of Canadian radio back in 2003. They wasted no time piling …
With bittersweet melodies that make their way through chaotic soundscapes emerges Turbina, a band from Mexico City that reinvents itself through the album named
“Leti’ Hum Eek’ – Inda Jani – Mish Masadi”.
This materi…
The mysterious ƱZ came up on the soundcloud scene about 4 months ago, with the amazing ŤɌ∆Ҏ ᶊῌῗ† series.
With huge support from DJ's worldwide, the likes of Diplo, Flosstradamus, JWLS, Toddla T, Baauer, and Craze to nam…
Vaudeville Smash began with 3 brothers, an intense love of the good music and a desire to the give the kids something they'd never seen or heard. The enigmatic, energetic and all-embracing Melbourne band built their repu…
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…
Warren Hood is an accomplished musician who plays violin, fiddle, mandolin, and composes and sings as well. He lives in Austin, Texas and performs with his local band, Warren Hood and the Hoodlums, in a blend of jazz/blu…
It seems odd that the four-piece Wax Idols reside in Oakland, California. Especially considering the fact that the band’s sophomore LP "Discipline & Desire," out March 26th on Slumberland Records, embodies a dark, full, …
“Long, Hard Road,” the first song on the Wheeler Brothers’ first album and a title that gives you a pretty good indication of where this Austin, Texas five-piece feels most comfortable. Indeed, although they’re five-time…
Hatched in the twilight months of ought nine, these five young men came from all corners of the US looking to do one thing: knock the dust off roots music.
A freewheelin', trashgrassin', folk tornado, the Whiskey Shiv…
Ultramarine is the name and colour of Young Galaxy's fourth LP, the first album they have made away from Montreal, across the sea, all together. Like 2011's Shapeshifting, Ultramarine was made with electronic producer Da…
Zorch are Zac Traeger (keyboards, omnichord, vocals) and Shmu (drums, omnichord, vocals) they currently reside in Austin, TX.
Their debut full length album will be coming out on Sargent House in 2013.……
The new face of the music industry is not only an unduplicated persona, but the connection between the hood and politics. He is NOT a “rapper” but the humble TRUTH hip hop has been waiting for. Possessing a hip hop flavo…
HEARTTHROB
By Tom Perrotta
It’s hard to have a long career in pop music. Just ask all the one-hit wonders and sophomore slumpers, all the sure things who turned out to be yesterday’s news. It’s hard to keep a band t…
Her voice is a flash to the heart. With her three albums, Still the Unknown (2008) and Illustrated Songs (2011), Postales (2012) and the EP, A Good Old Christmas (2010), we can give account of that, for the stunning, swe…
Kosha Dillz is the internet generation's version of an underground rapper - an unsigned artist with over 8 years behind mics that includes collaborations with RZA, Kool G Rap, Matisyahu, Wax and more. Known for his unca…
"Como si Caetano hubiese nacido anteayer y David Byrne fuera latino de verdad" Jaume R. Salas (El País, España)
“Martin shared stage with Caetano Veloso, Charly García, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Arnaldo Antunes, Kiko Ve…
This newest love/hate letter from Atlanta's Tiger! Tiger! features 15 new songs that capture the shifting moods of a waterfront tavern with floors of sawdust and broken teeth. Cut Them Where They Bleed (March 13th, Chick…
Bryant Dope is a 19 year old upstart emcee from Queens, NY who'se garnered significant buzz in a short amount of time. With this buzz Bryant is set out to make sure the historic hip hop breeding ground of Queens does not…
Japanther is an art project established circa 2001 by Ian Vanek and Matt Reilly while attending Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
The duo have often been known to collaborate with a variety of artist including but …
Roge represents the new generation of artists of the Brazilian Popular Music movement. His sound is the carioca face of Brazil. He plays a groovy kind of samba and moves effortlessly from bossa nova to samba to reggae wi…
As Unknown Mortal Orchestra, New Zealand by-way-of Portland songwriter and guitarist Ruban Nielson marries psychedelia with sharp soul touchstones. Timeless pop hooks are produced with a soft buzzsaw edge so that the eff…
Antwon is a new breed of rapper/musician that’s part of the new more eclectic style of Hip Hop embracing Internet culture and flourishing amongst the blogosphere and file-share sector. He hails from San Jose, CA, backed …
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The So So Glos are a punk rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. The band consists of Alex Levine (vocals, bass), Ryan Levine (guitar, vocals), Matt Elkin (guitar, vocals) and Zach Staggers (drums, vocals). They have t…
Torro Torro is the Toronto based production duo of Mike ("Digits") Gonek and Evan "Yo Ev" Norton. The duo masterfully create an identifiable brand of contemporary party music, influenced by hip hop, electronic dance musi…
Ol’ Dirty chose his moniker because there was no father to his bastard style. Young Fathers earn theirs by making something so fresh it doesn’t yet have a name. These are three fellas from Edinburgh who’ve been working t…
The beauty of energetic MC from Hiram Clarke, TX is the internal passion and honesty in his music, which brims to the top with every hook, verse, and performance. Music has always been an ingredient of Chris “Propain” D…
BOY - a contagious confection that has spread across the internet like wildfire. The Hamburg-based duo gets your toes tapping, mind playing, feet moving, emotions travelling, head thinking, hips jerking. But above all, t…
When Garage-Rockers Harlem went on hiatus, Curtis James O'Mara's creative appitite did not relent. What else is an artist to do? He started Grape St., gathering a slew of friends from the Austin music scene to round out …
From the singular mind of horror maestro Rob Zombie comes a chilling plunge into a nightmare world where evil runs in the blood. "The Lords of Salem" tells the tale of Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie), a radio station DJ living…
Formed in early 2008, POWER TRIP is a crossover band from Dallas, Texas in the vein of late 80’s thrash, heavy metal, and hardcore punk. Wiorshippers of the perfect riff, they are Influenced primarily by Bay Area thrash,…
Quincy Jones Presents:
NIKKI YANOFSKY
She has collaborated with everyone from Herbie Hancock to Wyclef Jean, will.I.am, Marvin Hamlisch, Jon Hendricks, Jesse Harris, Ron Sexsmith, K'naan, Elton John, Jason Mraz, Phil…
The Thermals are a post-pop-punk trio from pre-Portlandia-Portland, Oregon. The band was formed in 2002 and has released records on the classic Northwest labels Sub Pop and Kill Rock Stars. Their newest, soon-to-be-rel…
Dwight Conroy Farrell, internationally known by the stage name Count Bass D, is a recording artist, songwriter and instrumentalist. He is considered to be a legend on the Akai MPC series drum machines. His production st…
The concepts and ideology of the SubKulture Patriots were created by Brian Tanton aka "The Brain". In November of 2010 he linked up with HBZ aka Boo Radley from the critically acclaimed Spin Alley. RuDi Devino a founding…
Lauded for their charming, inventive style, indie pop group, Les Mentettes, has shared the stage with Pulp (UK), Of Montreal (USA), Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family (France) and Moreno Veloso (Brazil). They’ve been prais…
Lisa Johnson is one day shy of her sixteenth birthday. And she will be forever. She and her family are dead and doomed to repeat that fateful last day before they were all killed in 1985. Only Lisa has “woken up” and rea…
LAS ARDILLAS features members of Davila 666 and actually predates them as the stomping ground where they sharpened their punk chops long before hitting the festival circuit. Praised for their sonically, daring traveling …
Perfecting the blend of glitter and grime that earned Bare Wires a soft spot in the hearts of the bubblegum-popping, foot-stomping masses, Matthew Melton joins with bassist Chase Asmussen, guitarist Rob Good, and drummer…
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…
Introspective post-modern rock striped with moody guitars and smokey vocals, 3rd Line Butterfly is a Seoul-stationed quartet that sublimely soars with velvety sounds from the Korean underground.
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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…
“New Jersey-born Alex Bleeker is an old soul. For his sophomore album, How Far Away, he lets that come into play fully. Over 11 tracks, he deals with the autumnal phase of lost love, the point after the grieving subsides…
The Amplified Heat approach to rock and roll music is just straight and true. No special effects, no stunt doubles, no gimmicks. Just three brothers collectively creating a sound, an image, a feeling, an experience that …
Andrew Combs is a songwriter, guitarist, and singer who lives in Nashville. His music is equal parts rough-and-tumble '60s Chicago blues, Planet Waves-era Dylan, and vintage Nashville folk. His band’s live show was once …
Formed in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland by Tim Wheeler (vocals and guitar), Mark Hamilton (bass) and Rick McMurray (drums), Ash released their first studio album ‘1977’ and were then joined by Charlotte Hatherley (guitar…
There is a war now. The message has been sent through short wave in code. The Besnard Lakes twisting chronicle, or fever dream, of spies, double agents, novelists and aspiring rock gods has turned violent. Loyalty, disho…
With a big-as-the-room persona, an ability to rock the doors off the most jaded of clubs, the heart to hold a room completely still with just his guitar, and a genius for arrangement, Bobby Bare, Jr. and his band of merr…
CHRIS STAMEY’S NEW RELEASE, LOVESICK BLUES, DUE OUT
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
dB’s founder, esteemed songwriter and Southern alt-pop godfather hits a creative high with intimate, expansive new set
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — “Thi…
“The hardest-working motherfucker in Chicago” — Stool Pigeon
“a virtual walking encyclopedia of the last 30 years of dance music” — XLR8R
“If anyone shows the world that dance music truly is in a state of permanent…
Civil Twilight is a mystifying blend of atmospheric sounds with swirling guitars and hazy story¬telling centered on the struggles and triumphs of human existence. Three parts South Africa and one part Nashville, Steven M…
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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 …
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Since their modest beginnings as four guys who drove around southern California with their gear in their cars, practicing wherever they could steal a space, Cold War Kids have always exhibited two qualities in their musi…
Colin Gilmore grew up in Lubbock, Texas, spending many nights as a child in nightclubs like Stubbs, where he witnessed songwriters like Joe Ely, Terry Allen, and his own father, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, bring the stage to li…
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Peter William Nelson (better known by his stage name Copywrite, also known as Copywrite 78, C-write, or Copy) is an underground hip hop artist from Columbus, Ohio. His a…
Dedo Caracol it's an alternative rock band with slight touches of progressive rock and folk. We have played on the main night clubs and festivals in Mexico City, as well as in the cities of San Francisco CA. and Fresno C…
Dublin-based DELORENTOS are currently being hailed as one of Ireland’s finest and most imaginative bands.
Suffice it to say the band’s self-released third album (and third consecutive Top 10 album), Little Sparks has …
The Dirty River Boys are paving their own road as they travel it. They are a testament to the idea that “if you can dream it, you can do it,” moving with determination ever closer to the light. Above all is their belief …
"To transcend // to expand love // to stay ancient while fresh" is the mission of Brooklyn artist Doe Paoro. Her music reveals itself as a form of mystic R&B. Paoro released her debut album, "Slow to Love," in February 2…
‘Harley Streten has produced an LP that’s scarily close to perfect. Streten’s achieved something rare here: music with mass appeal, but with nothing derivative or by-numbers about it.’ 4.5 stars, Rolling Stone
“Flume’s…
Ghost to Falco is essentially the brain child of Portland, OR resident, Eric Crespo. Beginning in late 2001 as a solo project incorporating swirls of electric guitar loops, antique analog synthesizer sounds, and field …
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“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other
tongues.”
Back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, one of the highest compliments you could pay a rocker was
to say that he or she “had a lot of soul.…
The Freedom To Fail marks an exploration into new territory for 20-year Austin veteran Guy Forsyth. Rather than focus his efforts solely on making an album that embodied the energy surrounding he and his band’s dynamic l…
Hector Guerra´s style is a mixture between traditional latin music such as cumbia, salsa, banda music, and andin music, together with urban music such as hiphop, dancehall, reggae, and electronic.
An MC and Hispanic-…
Hailing from America's center, Omaha-based Icky Blossoms formed in the blizzard of 2011 through friendship, trials and a mutual desire to make art and new music. A brainchild born from the boredom of sitting still. Guita…
From the Ozark Mountains of the Missouri countryside to the concrete jungles of New York City, Israel Nash Gripka presents a musical tradition that reveals both the American fabric and all that rests beneath those weathe…
Jack Carty failed in love, and he will tell you the truth about that, but it seems to be working for him. At just 25 years of age he has released two critically acclaimed albums and one E.P. Made “Album of the Year” list…
What does post-punk soul look like? Six and a half feet of raw emotion and
sweat, with one leather boot planted in gutsy R&B, the other in taut minimalist
grind. Snarling at the crowd beneath an afro pompadour, while i…
Jennifer Sullivan is a must-hear singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist musician from Texas. She recently moved to NYC to produce her debut album with the help of a sponsorship with Converse. An enthralling and th…
Singer, songwriter, and natural history enthusiast Jenny Owen Youngs grew up in the forests of northern New Jersey and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. After self-releasing her first album Batten the Hatches in 2005, You…
If there is one person, who has been causing a stir on the international club circuit recently, it is Barcelona's John Talabot. Already his debut “My Old School“ (which is meant literally by the way) on Permanent Vacatio…
‘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…
Kassidy are made up of Barrie-James O'Neill, Chris Potter, Hamish Fingland and Lewis Andrew and formed in summer 2008. The four members came together through house parties that took place in Hamish's flat in Glasgow wher…
Loco Dice is widely considered to be one of the cornerstones of the
electronic music community, both a lynchpin for and driving force
behind house & techno music for well over a decade. Through a finely-
balanced comb…
The singer-songwriter and body percussionist Lu Horta was a part of the creation of the body percussion group Barbatuques. Parallel to her work with Barbatuques, she knows how to shine on her own on stage. In 2003 she re…
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, a duo from Seattle, Washington, have emerged as a premier national hip-hop group known for their electrifying live shows, expertly crafted music, and innovative music videos and media. After year…
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Marianne Dissard's signature fierce and melancholy French Chanson, tinged by Tucson's latin brass, gets re-interpreted live by Seattle pop/hip-hop producer Budo (Rhymesayers, Grieves & Budo). The chanteuse's third album,…
Post hardcore band from Egypt.
The sound of the heavy hardcore riffs verses the oriental melodic violin lines gives the band a dramatic original sound.……
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…
Nightmare & The Cat are a Los Angeles based five piece and the brainchild of ex-pat British brothers Django and Samuel Stewart. Along with Californian natives Claire Acey (LA), Spike Phillips and Scott Henson (SF) the gr…
If Parenthetical Girls have learned anything over the course of their bewilderingly unorthodox discography, it's that they are—for richer or for poorer—a necessarily singular pop group. It's a peculiarity that they've le…
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…
Piñata Protest is an accordion fronted punk rock band from San Antonio, Texas that fuses the raw essence of South Texas conjunto with the warp speed tempos and attitude of punk rock to create an infectious and bracing So…
plaided is veronika eberhart and julia mitterbauer who are having playdates in vienna (austria) since 2009.
they change instruments, invite guests on stage, play shows in different countries and different line ups, rel…
Wit. Flow. Drive. These are the monikers that describe Hip-Hop soul artist, Promise. He seamlessly blends conceptual songwriting and potent lyrical content with a focus on life, love & the consciousness of mankind.
…
Berlin:Detroit - a musical alliance that resonates deeply with electronic music lovers around the world and has done for the past two decades. Add Belfast to this equation and you have Irish duo Psycatron who have droppe…
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…
Kid Face, the third full-length album from Samantha Crain (Ramseur Records, February 19, 2013), is a revelatory song cycle as expansive as the wide-open spaces of the 26-year-old artist’s native Oklahoma, and as intimate…
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…
As a band, Six60 originally formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 2008. Inspired by the vibrant culture of soul, rock and bass heavy electronica that defined late 2000s student life down south, they began jamming out at thei…
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…
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/…
TRUTH
(Deep Medi, Tempa, Artikal, Black Box, Boka, Wheel & Deal, Aquatic Lab, Get Darker)
Sonic architects of songs with an emotional heft as heavy as the subwoofer rupturing basslines that underpin their work, Tr…
“Songs that balance sweet pop hooks with snarling heaviness, equal debts to punk, stoner, shoegaze and alt rock, insane guitar abuse/heroics and an audience awestruck and won over.” – Chromewaves.com
"This band is fu…
“(The Virgins are) making reliably honest, memorable music…their next album is definitely something to look forward to.” —Rolling Stone
Cult Records is set to release Strike Gently, the long-awaited second full length…
Part men, part machinations; the four soul filled androids known as WAR PARTY have somehow sssslithered their way through the time/space continuum. Now back from the 1960s with the tiny heart and pistol grip of Phil Spec…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtgkJYtktJk
Yokozuna is a hard rock duo formed in 2004 by brothers Arturo (guitar, vocals) and Jose Antonio Tranquilino (drums, piano, armonica and vocals). Their sound is heavy and raw …
The Cowboys, the Grassy Knoll, J.R. Ewing, the Stanky Leg… Dallas, Texas, is known for lots of things. Progressive, forward-thinking hip-hop has, until now, not been one of them. That’s all starting to change, thanks to …
Old friend, ‘tis been nigh on to ten or eleven years since Austin¹s Li¹l Cap¹n Travis shoved its splintered craft off on a treacherous audio odyssey of country-style portions. 2012 finds LCT once again hunkered down in …
For two decades, The Woggles have marched forth from Georgia like Sherman in reverse, leveling nightclubs with their hip-shaking, windshield-steaming garage rock fusillade” (Austin Chronicle). Combine a whole lot of 60’s…
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• @crewpeligrosos (Dangerous Crew) is the most interesting Hip Hop project in Colombia’s music scene. Born as an artistic alternative to violence in the streets on Medellin, from their neighbourhood "Aranjuez" their lead…
One of the most eccentric newcomers on the Rio de la Plata indie pop scene, Max Capote is a pioneer in exploring and reinterpreting various genres, and has developed a pop and vintage aesthetic that hovers between genius…
Sometime in the spring of 2012 the musicians that would go on to form the Chicago & Minneapolis based trio ON AN ON found themselves at a tipping point. The three of them—Nate Eiesland, Alissa Ricci, and Ryne Estwing—had…
Sky Ferreira. Act like you don’t already follow her on Twitter – as if you haven’t Googled her, or checked her out on Wikipedia. Now check again. Before you can hit refresh, there might be another paragraph. She's co-wr…
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…
The Death Set, from Brooklyn, originally hails from The Gold Coast, Australia. It was here where Johnny Siera met co-founding member Beau Velasco in 2005. Drawn to one another’s reckless care of music, the duo united to …
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 …
Nipping at the ragged heels of their eagerly devoured Sod in the Seed EP, WHY? at last unleash their fifth long-player, a meticulous work of morbid fascination and offbeat romanticism dubbed Mumps, etc. Though there is a…
Like the mythological 12th Planet (popularized by controversial author Zecharia Sitchin), our 12th Planet flies perpendicular to the system. His beats are off axis and his subsonic frequencies send you into your own orbi…
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…
By encompassing supreme turntable skills, the ability to connect with any crowd, and a strong marketing finesse, it’s no surprise why DJ Smallz is considered to be one of the nation’s premier DJs, leading him to the type…
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Stagnant Pools are Bryan and Douglass Enas, two brothers (21 and 22) from Bloomington, Indiana. With just one guitar and a drum kit, they make music which the Chicago Reader described as "Drone-heavy, slate-gray art-roc…
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alt-J (∆)’s name takes a little explaining. Pronounced “alt-J”, the delta sign is created when you hold down the alt key on your computer keyboard and punch ‘J’ on a Mac computer. The symbol has a deeper meaning for the …
“…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 …
Boulder, Colorado's CALL OF THE VOID (Gordon Koch - Drums, Alex Pace - Bass, Steve Vanica - Vocals, Patrick Alberts - Guitar) formed in late 2011 and play the aural equivalent of getting repeatedly kicked in the teeth by…
CHVRCHES are Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and Lauren Mayberry - three distinct
individuals bearing three distinct personalities on a consummate whole.
Combining indie sensibilities and aesthetics with barbed pop hooks a…
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"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…
LOS VIGILANTES from San Juan, Puerto Rico are an explosive four piece band filled with fuzz guitars and catchy vocal arrangements bringing back a combination of 60’s rythms with droopy 50’s doo-wop back up vocals that wi…
North Mississippi Allstars formed in 1996; the product of a special time for modern Mississippi hill country blues. Brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson soaked up the music of their father, Memphis legend Jim Dickinson, an…
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…
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…
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…
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Another week, another accolade - that seems to be the motto 360 lives by these days.
The past 12 months have seen him notch up a Top 5 ARIA single and album, 10 ARIA nominations for 360/Falling & Flying, a 4 x platinu…
“When I write a song,” says Mikel Jollett, co-founder and creative driver of the Californian five-piece The Airborne Toxic Event, “I’m trying to get down an emotion, a scene or a setting. Everything important that happen…
Meet ALPINE
Adding colour to Melbourne’s musical landscape, Alpine formed in 2009 and have gone from strength-to-strength ever since.
Fusing synths with honeyed harmonies, hypnotic rhythms and bright beats, Alpine…
Raleigh, NC – In the business of music, many are called and many may try, but few cross the threshold of being able to say they are truly committed for the long haul. With the upcoming release of their latest studio alb…
"There are voices that serve as a bridge from the past to the future and act as soul connectors, and as a people we need them to keep singing. These voices open hearts with this rare, one in a million quality. Amy Speace…
2012 Latin Grammy nominated band, Bareto, was born in 2003 as an instrumental group. In 2005, an EP called Ombligo was released. The following year Bareto released its first LP, Boleto, with original songs that combined …
The 2012 NPR Band to Watch return in 2013 prepared to release their first new album since 2010 on Modern Outsider Records. The album was produced by Danny Reisch at Good Danny's in Austin, Tx.
The first offering, titl…
Harkening back to punk rock’s glory days of the 70s, Oklahoma outfit BRONCHO captures the aggression, DIY authenticity and youthful exhilaration of a bygone era and then drags it by the hair into the Here and Now, creati…
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…
Today, Caspa is viewed globally as one of the key players in the most explosively exciting genre of youth music to emerge in recent years. If you don't know Caspa you don't know bass. With an epic list of tour dates taki…
Charli’s live performances, like her music, are raw but multi-layered, sometimes stark but with a beating human heart. All pop is here, from Siouxsie to Spiceworld, The Knife to Nirvana. To achieve her intricate, post-a…
This is COIN. We met in Nashville and decided that everything is too serious; so, we started a new project. Some people call it swirly indie party pop. We just want to make music people can dance to. Drawing cereal coffe…
DASH RIP ROCK
Dash Rip Rock is the legendary New Orleans trio known for their high-octane roots rock. SPIN says Dash Rip Rock is “undeniably the South’s greatest rock band.” The New York Times calls Dash Rip Rock “ski…
Hour Magazine wrote that "Delhi 2 Dublin is the United Nations of rock 'n' roll". The band challenges the definition of urban music and drags it to the intersection of Bhangra, Celtic, Dub Reggae, Rock and Electronica. S…
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…
Donna Missal writes music and sings it too. Currently residing in Brooklyn where she is also recording her debut EP, expected to be released March 2013. She is planning a tour with her writing partner and guitarist Ken D…
Fresno is the one of the most popular brazilian rock bands. Featured on the biggest brazilian music festivals, the band (now 13 years old) is starting to take its first steps abroad. The band is known by its sharp guitar…
Funeral Suits are a four-piece from Ireland consisting of Brian James, Mik McKeogh, Greg McCarthy and Dar Grant. The music they make is expansive without being overblown, heavy without being menacing and all the more thr…
Award-winning trio Galaxy Express formed in 2006 in Seoul, South Korea and immediately began attracting attention with their tightly wound blend of garage rock, punk, and psychedelic sounds and explosive performances.
…
Harouki Zombi, the brainchild of Nina Barnes (of Montreal) and Orenda Fink (Azure Ray), is a self-described "entertainment for the fallen empire."
The duo is set to release their first collaboration, Objet Petit A, on…
Having spent nearly two decades creating uniquely affecting music defined by deep personal sentiment and attracting listeners across musical genres, Hayden now signs to Arts & Crafts for the release of his seventh full-l…
Brimming with confidence and creativity, Arrow sees Heartless Bastards pushing their distinctive sound forward with their most eclectic, energetic collection thus far. The album – the Austin, Texas-based band’s first rel…
Over the past few years, Heaven’s Basement has earned the title of one of the UK’s most promising hard rock acts thanks to their relentless touring schedule and high energy shows. The band has built their reputation on …
"We're only interested in making music you can fight or strip to..."
Daniel Disaster and Pete Heartless, production duo behind Heroes x Villains, begin as two punk kids from the depths of the Dirty South, notorious fo…
Hurray for the Riff Raff is Alynda lee Segarra, a 25 year old Puerto Rican from the Bronx. After leaving home at an early age to travel the country, she eventually settled in New Orleans where she began to perform and re…
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),…
Steve and Mark, lead vocal and guitar respectively, met in the school choir at the tender age of 7. Growing up minutes apart in the Dublin suburb Swords, they remained friends through their adolescence, both picking up g…
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…
LE MATOS is a Canadian trio from Montreal. Their music is a powerful dancemachine, mix of pop melodies and melancholic new wave, inspired by movie soundtrack composers such as Vangelis or Carpenter and electronic artists…
On their first album in nearly five years, A Life Once Lost, which is now basically comprised of original members Robert Meadows (vocals) and Douglas Sabolick (guitar, bass on this record) along with new drummer Jordan C…
Los Angeles’ Local Natives will release their sophomore album, entitled Hummingbird, on Frenchkiss Records/Infectious Music on January 29th, 2013 (out in Europe January 28th).
Much has happened between the band’s cri…
"Mahogany never fall back on atmospherics alone. As gorgeous as these sounds are, they always seem to have a place within the greater plan of the song"
— Pitchfork
"International collective Mahogany offers danceable …
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…
Formed at the edge of the new millennium, Maserati is as sleek, sexy and sophisticated as the legendary Italian sports car it takes its name from. It is fitting, then, that the band has dragged the glory years of psyched…
The Estonian producer debuted in 2011 with a series of downloadable one-track singles on the Plasmapool label, beginning with “The Electric Dream,” “Milky Way,” “Super Meat Freeze,” “Lick the Rainbow,” “A New World” (for…
Presented by: Normaltown Records (An Imprint of New West Records)
Born from the rolling thunder of the Tennessee mountains, and once spread across the tri-state area, NEW MADRID is glad to finally call Athens, GA home. The band, settled in a big red barn just outside of Athens, are tak…
Presented by: Enabler PR (Badges and Wristbands Only)
If it was ever true (and it probably wasn’t), that whole idea of a slacker persona existing in the Pacific Northwest has gone stale. Just ask Nü Sensae, the Vancouver-bred punk trio who can’t seem to sit still.
Since …
When they first met at a dive arcade in Koreatown Los Angeles, Eddingtonn "The California Cowboy" spoke on only one topic:
"The house fly has compound eyes, meaning one "eye" is composed from many,many small little ey…
Hailing from the Z area of Planet Peelander (but now based in New York City by way of Japan), action comic punk band Peelander–Z has been vacationing on Earth long enough to make six albums and tour the land at a practic…
If you’re not having fun at a Pinstripes show, brothers and sisters, check for a toe tag. Your autopsy may already be in progress.
Winners of the 2007, 2009, and 2010 Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best World Ban…
Artist, DJ, conceptualist and ambassador, more than anyone else in modern electronic music, Richie Hawtin has relentlessly proved himself to be a true innovator. The one-man mogul behind acclaimed Techno imprints Plus 8 …
Defying monotony is the reason ROYAL BANGS exist. In recording their third album, Flux Outside, the band has proven their ability to challenge the tediousness that consumes the music industry today. With the new album …
Quincy Matthew Hanley better known by his stage name Schoolboy Q is an American hip hop recording artist signed to Top Dawg Entertainment and Interscope Records. Hanley is a member of hip hop supergroup Black Hippy, alon…
SHOOTER JENNINGS BIO
"Shooter Jennings is the most dangerous, most deceptive artist in the overall country music world right now" -Trigger, SavingCountryMusic.com
Make no mistake about it, Shooter Jennings has neve…
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…
Presented by: Tucson Music Factory / Hotellounge (ICA)
Josh Haden, son of bass-playing jazz great Charlie Haden, founded Spain in Los Angeles in 1993. Their debut, The Blue Moods Of Spain, was released on Restless Records in 1995. Born from the same L.A. alternative rock sc…
Growing up in and around Sydney’s southern beaches isn't easy. As a general rule you have three options: You can surf, become a DJ or leave. Shitty choices if all you like doing is playing guitars and pounding drums. Wit…
Austin-based indie rock band Uncle Lucius is set to release its new studio album, “And You Are Me,” on August 28, 2012. Recorded in Austin and Nashville, “And You Are Me” finds Uncle Lucius stretching their musicianship…
Ladies and gentlemen, quite possibly the best live rock band on the planet. We've seen them a hundred and sixty seven times, and the Waco Brothers never fail to entertain with their train wreck approach to country. Subtl…
Weekend is a 3 piece band originally from San Francisco/Oakland, CA area that formed in 2009 and released a full length and and EP with Slumberland Records to critical acclaim. They recently moved to New York City in the…
“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…
Though NYC clubkiller Harry Rodrigues aka Baauer hasn’t been on the scene long, the amount of buzz the 23-year-old has been able to build in such short time is strikingly impressive, going from SoundCloud’s best kept sec…
For mercurial L.A. music-maker Will Wiesenfeld, Baths has been a long time coming. The 21-year-old has spent the better part of his days living amidst "pleasant" and "unremarkable" in the suburbs of the San Fernando Vall…
CUARTETO DE NOS
Uruguayan rock band.
“Cuarteto de Nos” is not a very normal band. They reached commercial success and transcended borders many years after having been a well kept secret in Montevideo, perhaps the mos…
Dwight Conroy Farrell, internationally known by the stage name Count Bass D, is a recording artist, songwriter and instrumentalist. He is considered to be a legend on the Akai MPC series drum machines. His production st…
It’s been a crazy ride so far for New York’s FIGO. The group, which doubles their live electronic punk rock carnage with a strictly bangers DJ and remix crew, has rocked crowds across North America, Europe, and Asia, tou…
Rich Terfry is Buck 65. He's from Mt. Uniacke, Nova Scotia, which qualifies technically as the middle of nowhere. When he started making music, he was terrified that his friends would find out about it and kick his ass. …
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…
Filip Nikolic and Jeffrey Paradise are good friends who are inspired by California, mezcal, dancing, good food, and friends. Filip is a Danish producer now living in LA who plays bass in Ima Robot; Jeffrey throws the inf…
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