Having scalded listeners’ ears with sonic lava on Budos I and stung them with venomous frequencies on Budos II, The Budos Band delivered on their promise to spread the epidemic of “Budos Fever” far and wide with the rele…
If you’re looking for a story that best summarizes the last year in the life of Charles Bradley, you'd be hard pressed to find a better one than the night he and his band showed up in Utopia, Texas to play an outdoor sho…
In 2005, my friend Will, Matt, and I took a trip down south with the intention of filming a documentary about local musicians. A fortunate turn of events lead us to Como, Mississippi and eventually to the kitchen table …
“Vibe is a quintessential element in what I’m going for,” says Menahan Street Band co-founder, multi-instrumentalist and producer Thomas Brenneck. “Vibe, mood and emotion.”
Those three elements are all over The Crossi…
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have come a long way since their humble beginnings nearly a decade ago. On April 6th, 2010, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings marked history with the release of their fourth album, I Learned The …
Kick start your SXSW day by grabbing free breakfast at the Java Monster Café. Stop by to catch your breath and re-energize with a Java Monster while listening to a DJ mixin’ the beats.……
Kick start your SXSW day by grabbing free breakfast at the Java Monster Café. Stop by to catch your breath and re-energize with a Java Monster while listening to a DJ mixin’ the beats.……
More than a decade at Cedar Street, FILTER Magazine’s showcase is a SXSW landmark with some of the best music around. Doors open at 11am, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy the free BBQ and top acts showcasing at SXSW. …
This eye-popping film, stunningly edited from 20 years of verité footage, follows champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce and exposes the fatal allure of extreme sports. An escalating rivalry between Kevin and his nemesis Shau…
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…
In this psychological thriller, nineteen-year old Charlotte enlists the help of alcoholic ex-Marine Wayne to find her estranged sister who has gone missing deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Their search leads them to th…
With wry humor and affection, Simon Ennis’ "Lunarcy!" follows a disparate group of dreamers and schemers who share one thing in common: they’ve all devoted their lives to the Moon. From the former ventriloquist who’s mad…
It’s morning in Mexico. Buck is feeding his 7 dogs. Trailed by the pack, he picks up photos & reveals his past. Buck was born female yet always knew he was male. Even his parents raised him as a boy until puberty. That’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, …
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…
Dave Grohl's ascension to legendary status as one of the most beloved and respected figures on the international music scene goes back to his joining the DC-based punk rock band Scream at the age of 17. Three years and m…
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…
Driving through traffic at home is already stressful enough. Now imagine driving a car in a completely foreign country. Mirela, moving from Germany to India, Jake moving from the USA to Japan and South Korean Hye-Won liv…
Two lost souls. One last chance. Melanie's life in a seaside town is going nowhere until she meets Ray, back in town with a shady job to do. A moment's escape becomes a chance to save themselves, and each other. "Everyon…
"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…
Diana, a young, attractive teacher at a suburban Texas high school, is well-liked by her students and colleagues. Her life seems to be following the status quo, but in reality she’s having a secret affair with her studen…
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…
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 …
It’s the day before the trial starts. Fredrik packs a computer into a rusty old Volvo. Along with his Pirate Bay co-founders, he faces $13 million in damage claims to Hollywood in a copyright infringement case. Fredrik i…
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…
“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…
A take-off on the original House of Vans in Brooklyn, HOV at the Mohawk brings the best emerging bands for four days at Austin’s most beloved venue – the Mohawk. Expect a range of acts on two stages thanks to Pitchfork,…
The newest addition to the SXSW Music Gear Expo, the App Annex is a place to showcase the most current and innovative music creation apps. From virtual guitars and drums to apps that allow users to DJ, mix and master the…
Are you performing at SXSW, but broke your last pair of drumsticks the night before your showcase? Did you leave an essential cable at home, or need your guitar set-up after unintentionally falling into your drummer’s ki…
RSVP Required for admission. Priority access for SXSW badgeholders and SXSW wristbands with SPIN RSVP.
RSVP at spin.com/SPINHouse2013
The SPIN House will be a new addition to Austin’s spring music ritual, showcasing e…
The 4th annual SXSW Music Gear Expo is a unique event where manufacturers can market, promote, and connect while having the opportunity to sell guitars, keyboards, amps, drums, effects pedals,
mics, DJ equipment, apps a…
The Fab Four’s global influence from the 1960s to the present is immeasurable and is felt today as much as it was in 1963. Gain—or regain—an appreciation for the Beatles as musicians, composers and iconic figures of our …
Presenters
Bill Flanagan, Robyn Hitchcock, Rodney Crowell, Ron Sexsmith, Bob Santelli
At a radio station, the programming staff meets regularly to decide which new songs they're going to add to their playlist. At these "music meetings," songs are presented that many of the participants are hearing for the…
Presenters
Bruce Warren, Jessica Besack, Jim McGuinn, Liz Mozzocco, Norm Winer, Rob Reinhart, Sean Coakley
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
12:30PM - 1:30PM
The five goals of digital marketing are; Improving your social reach, increasing your fan engagement, identifying and engaging influencers, increasing lead generation, and applying analytics to know what works. Case stud…
EDM has exploded in the U.S.. After years of being a huge force in European music, what has made the music so popular here? Is it the fact that the industry has perfected tapping into the underground and bringing it to t…
Presenters
Ken Jordan, Lee Anderson, Michael Cohen, Richard Bishop, Tim Smith, Jeff Pollack
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…
"The close presence of the woman", Leonard Cohen, singer, songwriter, poet, novelist, unflinching sage and celebrated ladies man has said, was always "a very important element. The presence of the female voice allows my …
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
Bret Disend, Eddie Gomez, Heather West, Jesse Lauter, Josh Rabinowitz, Lisa Nupoff, Robert Vickers, Shaun Barrett
"Man, I wish this band had been recorded live because it was really a bad motherfucker," said Miles Davis, legendary trumpeter and bandleader, who managed to shift the course of music several times throughout his career.…
Beginner
Presenters
Bootie Brown, Imani , Meghan Stabile, Nell Mulderry, Vincent Wilburn Jr, Ashley Kahn
There are two main schools of thought about Big Labels/Big Management. It's either the 'they're corrupt dinosaurs and we don't need them' or 'I need someone to back me and make me a star'. If you believe the latter, how …
As was predicted from the earliest days of the internet, curation is becoming a bigger factor in the music marketplace both on and off line. Explore the process in which specific associations and gatekeeper on the landsc…
Presenters
Daniel Seligman, Johanna Rees, Ryan Schreiber, Steve Blatter, Mark Kates
Music is probably the most social form of entertainment consumption. We all know how important music taste is in communicating own identity, forming social connections and ultimately telling others what we're about. In t…
Beyond Spotify and Pandora, a new group of digital music companies are emerging. These companies are bringing together artists, content carriers and labels to create new user experiences, business models and opportunitie…
Presenters
Michael Cerda, Paul Resnikoff, Phil Lang, Tyler Lenane, Mike McGuire
Design-led music technology startup ROLI introduces the Seaboard GRAND, the first application of its breakthrough SEA Interface sensor technology.
The Seaboard is a radically new musical instrument that re-imagines the …
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-…
"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…
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…
"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…
Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sis…
A hybrid narrative film with doses of mockumentary, musical comedy and dance film, "Improvement Club" traces a rag-tag Seattle performance group’s attempt to expose the American Revolution’s fatal flaws. When the ensembl…
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, the rising American rapper/musician duo, will make an appearance at the Music Gear Expo Lounge - sponsored by Jam for iPhone.……
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…
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will headline this year’s festival, along with Brit-rocker Jake Bugg, Mercury Prize winners Alt-J, NYC MC Joey Bada$$ & more. Plan for an unforgettable musical lineup on 2 stages, free food, drink…
Jim is a painfully shy, socially awkward music savant whose inner demons get stirred up when he develops an obsession with Wendy, a young clinical social worker, who is drawn to Jim by her naïve desire to save people. Hi…
In Indiana, where life revolves around high school basketball, what happens to a community when their beloved team can no longer win a single game? Years ago, Medora was a booming rural community with a thriving middle c…
The parallel stories of two gay men in a small Texas town. There’s Gabe: a contractor who’s getting over an ill-fated affair with a married man and finds solace in the relationship he still harbors with his ex-wife, Shan…
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…
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…
Mobile technologies have enabled music executives to understand as never before how people are consuming music. What people are listening to is just the tip of the iceberg – now, labels can see where they are and even wh…
Presenters
Alex White, Brett Alperowitz, David Lowery, Marie-Alicia Chang, Will Mills
Flutter
Director: Dara Bratt
“Flutter” is a short observational documentary about an ordinary man obsessed with the extraordinary.
I Kill
Directors: David White, Paul Wedel
The kindest slaughter: a short documentary abo…
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…
When one takes a close look at the fields of economics and consumer psychology, it becomes clear that nerdy social scientists have plenty to say that is relevant to the music industry. It's entirely possible for musicia…
"Flutter" shares the life of John Bedford, 70's, who has been collecting butterflies his whole life. Extending beyond the exotic and gorgeous butterflies, this is the reflective and meditative portrait of a lonely man se…
In an ever changing music business, how does an artist, label, songwriter or publisher stay afloat financially, or better yet, make a profit? What are the new digital tools and services that really make you money? How d…
Presenters
Brandon Martinez, Melissa Goodman, Sara Walker, Sean Glover, Jeff Price
The days of exclusive distribution channels are gone. Today there are countless places to sell tickets through multiple channels and at different prices. Can going wide enhance your marketing reach and allow you to compe…
Presenters
Jim McCarthy, Larry Martin, Mark Achler, Barry Kahn
Decadent rock star, ’70s survivor, gypsy songbird, white-winged dove—the inimitable Stevie Nicks has entranced millions of fans worldwide with her poetic lyrics, sultry singing and featherand-lace style. In 2010 Nicks em…
It's 2013. The amount of options for bands is endless - do you use Pinterest or Google +? Bandcamp or Itunes? Should you try to be on every platform or focus on just a few? Although options are a great thing to have, the…
Presenters
Justin Cornwall, Matt Conn, Mike Wald, Nani Stoick, Zach Hinkle
Writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art. And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a…
"KRS ONE: Brooklyn to the Bronx" introduces the life and teachings of the legendary emcee, KRS ONE. On the road to becoming a Hip Hop pioneer, "KRS ONE" tells the story of his life as a young man living homeless on the s…
Music in videogames is now more vibrant than ever. As mobile gaming grows and console games diversify, game developers’ musical needs continue to evolve in exciting ways. Hear from artists, music supervisors, and indie a…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bill Elm, Kristy Gibson, Matt Riley, Raphaella Lima, Kyle Hopkins
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
Brett Williams, brian beck, Don DeBiase, Jo Lenardi, Jonathan Weiss, Leah Selvidge, Matt Hanks
What’s the secret behind the Muscle Shoals Sound, and what took place in the studios where world-famous artists such as Clarence Carter, The Rolling Stones, Cher and Paul Simon recorded hit records backed by the now lege…
Presenters
David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Spooner Oldham, Holly George-Warren
In the last twenty years, distribution channels have shifted to digital pipelines and consumer electronics devices have led to consumers wanting access to everything everywhere. Gone is the dedicated home stereo and list…
Presenters
David Chesky, Gunnar Larsen, Jason Rubenstein, Mike Jbara, Vickie Nauman
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Music Licensing Pitch Sessions offer all registrants and artists direct feedback from licensing, sync, and music supervision experts. Get a glimpse at the viability of licensing your music for different genres of film, T…
Kendrick is a young, black calf roper grafting through the local, all-white rodeo circuits of the southern United States. Soft spoken and gentlemanly, roping is Kendrick’s singular focus, his ‘good addiction’. He practic…
Depressed and frustrated with his life, Dr. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach. There, he undergoes a radical transformation into "SLOMO", trading his lab coat for a pair of roll…
Clive Davis, renowned record producer and music business executive, is currently Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Entertainment. Davis has won five Grammys, and worked with the biggest names imaginable in music from …
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…
Take a load off from your poster perusing to hear acoustic second plays from your favorite artists during this set brought to you by SXSW.
Stop by for a set by Luke Sital-Singh at 2:30pm and stick around for He’s My Br…
Cayucas: Pronounced "ky-yook-us", it's the (slightly misspelled) name of a sleepy little seaside town in San Luis Obispo County, California. That town, Cayucos, has hardly changed in the last 50 years, a far cry from the…
The Crystal Method, one of America's best known electronic artists with a career spanning nearly 20 years, two Grammy nominations and a platinum selling album, Vegas, under their belts, will be signing autographs at Casi…
Dickies and FILTER Magazine have teamed up again to showcase a stellar line up of indie talent at Lustre Pearl on Austin’s historic Rainey St. Showcases will take place March 14th - 16th. SXSW Badges welcome. Please arri…
Sometimes the Brits are just on the cutting edge with everything from music to footwear! FILTER magazine is teaming up with legendary boot brand Dr. Martens to rock out at Bar 96 for two whole days! Share your style with…
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…
Official SXSW Beer Sponsor Miller Lite will be kicking off its partnership with Fox Pictures “The Internship” at SXSW. Miller Time is about celebrating great friends with a great beer. That’s what SXSW is all about. We’l…
Noisey presents Brisk Bodega. A daytime hip-hop inspired show with upcoming artists live on the VICELAND courtyard stage. Featuring The Underachievers, 100’s and special guests. Free for all with RSVP to vice.com/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.……
Recent years have seen a resurgence of rock poster design. This time around, the poster is both advertisement and artifact, acting as a unique artistic interpretation of a band's music and limited edition merchandise. To…
Presenters
Ahmed Bautista, Geoff Peveto, Luke Drozd, Shepard Fairey, Crispin Parry
Artists make difficult choices in deciding where they fall in the copyright debates. They must strike their own balance between seeing copyright as a way to make money and not wanting to alienate their fans. What measure…
Presenters
Andrew Bridges, Karen Thorland, Kristelia Garcia, Wendy Seltzer, Margot Kaminski
The image of a black woman singing metal rock lyrics or riffing on a lead guitar is rare. The American music world is still at a loss on how to promote these women in a society where the categorization of music is still …
Presenters
Kudisan Kai, Laina Dawes, MilitiA
, Stefaniah McGowan, Sheila Jackson H
You understand the basics of the music business, but are now faced with deciphering the legal wording of contracts. Go through the ins and outs of recording, publishing, management, and distribution agreements. Understan…
Independent record labels are a volatile proposition, relying on the taste and business prowess of their proprietors, and based on artists who can be fickle if not downright perverse. Add in the recent losses in sales of…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Swanson, Josh Rosenfeld, Matthew Kaplan , Pat Carr,
Hear about the trials, tribulations and aftermath of band warfare from defendants and plaintiffs willing to share behind-the-scenes details of their high profile legal battles with former band mates. Discover the ramific…
Beginner
Presenters
, East Bay Ray, Joe Escalante, Neville Johnson, Matthew Belloni
How do consumers receive and experience music? The EMI Million Interview Dataset is the richest and largest music appreciation dataset ever released publicly; a massive, unique, rich, high-quality dataset that contains i…
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Kickstarter seems like the EASY button for funding your project. It isn't. Only 50% of Kickstarter projects are funded and there is no margin for error - or a learning curve - the remains of your failed projects will app…
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Burdon is one of the most prolific and distinctive voices in rock and roll. Burdon has released nearly 50 records in 50 years, as front man of The Animals and WAR and as a solo act. In…
Hailing from Compton California, Kendrick Lamar has revitalized the West Coast rap scene and the hip-hop game. Making his start in 2003, K.Dot released a string of mixtapes and two acclaimed independent albums, 2010's Ov…
Facebook and Twitter aren’t going to sell out your tour. Fewer stages and higher prices make it hard to get on the road. Since there’s no single solution to your tour marketing strategy, what is the right recipe? With th…
Presenters
, Dawn Gates, Jamie Loeb, Jon Romero, Ashley Capps
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…
Clive Davis, renowned record producer and music business executive, will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of his instant New York Times Bestseller “The Soundtrack of My Life”.…
In Karachi, Pakistan, a runaway boy's life hangs on one critical question: where is home? The streets, an orphanage, or with the family he fled in the first place? Simultaneously heart-wrenching and life-affirming, "The…
"Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker" explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever prod…
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.……
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 …
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…
Panache Booking is a boutique talent agency with offices in Brooklyn and San Francisco that represents over 120 artists from all over the world including Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, The Bug, Mikal Cronin, William Tyler and …
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…
It's pretty cool that your smart phone/laptop/tablet can work pretty much anyplace in downtown Austin, but how does SXSW do it? Where does all of the bandwidth and WiFi come from? Who are the Wizards of Right Round that…
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, …
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 …
Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. No one knew the pair were really Scottish, with fake US accents and made up identities. When their promising Scottish rap act was branded “the rapping P…
Jim and Dave are brothers. They haven't seen each other in years, but when their father unexpectedly dies, they're forced to travel down to Branson together to redeem their inheritance; the family's lake home. Upon arriv…
"Reincarnated" follows Snoop Dogg on a spiritual journey as he immerses himself in Rastafari, explores musical and religious histories deeply rooted in Jamaica, and reemerges from his experience as "Snoop Lion". Recordin…
"After" is a film about contemporary life in Auschwitz. In an observation from dusk till dawn, it portrays the theatre of everyday life around the grim confines and captures the energies and activities of a world fascina…
A short-film about the events in our lives that we choose to remember and episodes we conveniently ignore. The documentarian uses a box of mementos left behind from a failed relationship to explore the feelings of nostal…
After
Director: Lukasz Konopa
‘After’ is a film about contemporary life in Auschwitz. In an observation from dusk till dawn, it portrays the theatre of everyday life around the grim confines and captures the energies and…
For most people, sleep comes naturally, but for others, the night turns into an ongoing struggle to drift off into oblivion. This film explores what it’s like to be awake involuntarily and the feelings that accompany the…
"In Hanford" is artist Chris Mars's fantastic exploration of real incidents in Hanford, Washington, where the local environment was poisoned as a result of cold war era nuclear arms manufacture.……
A short documentary film contrasting the northern lights of Canada's north with the harsh landscapes and decaying manmade debris littered around Churchill Manitoba. The film touches on the regenerative power of nature an…
"The Other Dave" tells the story of David Manning, whose life was changed the day he was struck by lightning. Now fully disabled, the story centers on the changes in Dave after the lightning strike, primarily his new alt…
Far away from any other urban centers, Itapuã is a small community with the characteristics and rituals of everyday life. The location, which sheltered 1,454 people and has more than 70 years of existence remains with on…
Latin artists face cultural barriers in bringing their music to international audiences. How can we build better bridges between cultures? What impact do matters of language have? Which musical genres translate well, and…
Presenters
Claudia De Heredia, Gabriela Urquiza, Roger Macin, Valerie Miranda, Ahmed Bautista
Austin Convention Center Artist Central in Ballroom E
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Learn tips and tricks for synthesis and sampling techniques using Native Instruments Komplete. Course provided by NYC's electronic music production and DJ school Dubspot.……
Following the SXSW panel “Infamous Band Disputes and How to Avoid Them, presented by LegalZoom”, at the Austin Convention Center, head to the IFC Crossroads House for the LegalZoom Happy Hour. DJ Car Stereo Wars will be …
In 1998 Shawn Fanning, a teenage hacker and programmer, created the code that would become the basis for all peer-to-peer file sharing. Shortly after, Fanning and his business partner, fellow teenage hacker Sean Parker, …
Presenters
Alex Winter, Bill Flanagan, Chuck D, Elizabeth Brooks, J Keyes, Marc Cimino, Paul D Miller (aka DJ Spooky)
AUSTIN WELCOMES THE WORLD 2013 - The City of Austin proudly welcomes SXSW 2013 Showcasing artists from around the world to play Free and Open to the Public Showcases at their City Hall Plaza.……
The 2011 Bonnaroo performance by the polyglot Tuscan artist Jovanotti (nee Lorenzo Cherubini) won over American live music fans, critics and industry alike. Among those taken by Jovanotti’s artistry and charisma was the …
Lissie is Laurel Canyon prettiness stewed in campfire and bourbon with a big old voice to match. She caught everyone’s attention with her 2009 EP “Why You Runnin” and again with her 2010 album “Catching a Tiger.” Paste M…
The most exciting development in the concert business is the proliferation of music festivals in America. Popular in Europe for years, multi-day events are expanding notably in the US. Get into the nuts and bolts of runn…
Presenters
Bryan Duquette, Charlie Jennings, Jonathan Fordin, Meelo Solis, Todd Sims
New Orleans roots music is one of America’s most enduing regional styles. The city’s brass band, funk and traditional jazz sounds continue to be a wellspring of inspiration and grounding for musicians of many genres, and…
Presenters
Ben Jaffe, Jan Ramsey, Lefty Parker, Truth Universal, Wild Wayne, Scott Billington
What role does music play in a successful advertising campaign? What opportunities are there for artists beyond the licensing of their existing tracks? Industry insiders discuss how music in advertising impacts both the …
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…
Songwriters, recording artists, publishers, record companies, musicians and performers share in the billions of dollars being generated from music being performed and sold worldwide. Royalty and deal making experts take …
The US remains one of the only countries in the world in which the owners of recordings are not compensated when those recordings are played on the radio. Broadcast radio maintains that they are providing free exposure f…
Presenters
Bruce Reese, Curtis LeGeyt, David Macias, Mike Huppe, Glenn Peoples
Stevie Nicks is in the middle of a whirlwind of activity this year. She is the subject of the documentary "In Your Dreams" telling the story of her latest album of the same title, including collaborations with Dave Stewa…
The last decade has seen small group video chat become commonplace. Now, new technologies allow people to create massive online video chat engagements. These new platforms allow you to create VIP backstage experiences at…
Beginner
Presenters
Dan Charnas, Evan Lowenstein, Matt Howe, Steve Gottlieb, Ted Cohen
"Kelly + Victor" is adapted by Kieran Evans from the acclaimed novel by Niall Griffiths, and shot in Liverpool. It is a raw, compelling, passionate love story set against the backdrop of a highly cinematic Liverpool, t…
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…
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.……
In a village, a mysterious calamity strikes: spring doesn't come. The cycle of nature seems to be interrupted. When the annual bonfire celebrating the end of winter fails to burn, the seeds don't grow and the cows refuse…
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…
For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, “brotherhood” is literal: they’re all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago’s South side on …
Loud Village is known for throwing some of LA’s best comedy and music parties, and this year, they’re doing both in Austin. Come join in on the fun as they proudly present their SXSW party with friends from both worlds.
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Loud Village is known for throwing some of LA’s best comedy and music parties, and this year, they’re doing both in Austin. Come join in on the fun as they proudly present their SXSW party with friends from both worlds.
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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 …
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…
"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 …
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 …
"Reality Show" is a darkly comedic satire that follows the exploits of reality TV producer Mickey Wagner and his amoral attempt to re-invent the reality genre. Mickey's revolutionary idea is to pick an average family and…
Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning... During a night of partying, the girls hit a roadblock when they are arrested on drug cha…
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…
Formed in 1971 by three African-American brothers in Detroit, Michigan, Death is now widely acknowledged as being one of the first punk bands. After years of silence, Death’s moment finally arrived following unexpected d…
Recently relocated to Oakland, CA from his native Connecticut, DJ Halo has been a DJ/Turntablist for about 15+ years. But if asked Halo would consider it 4 years less as he had significant rehabilitation from a serious a…
Filmed over the course of six months, this film tells the incredible story of three young women: Nadia, Masha and Katia. As members of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, they performed a 40 second "punk prayer" insi…
Braids, the Canadian experimental pop group who released Native Speaker in 2011, have reinvented themselves in the making of their second full length. Countless late-night drives have steered their attention towards new …
Presented by: The Muscle Shoals Showcase presented by Cherokee Lair Productions and 6 Degrees of Muscle Shoals
Born out of modern rock and southern soul, The Valley Roots combine the best of the old school Muscle Shoals sound and twist it into southern rock n' roll with a unique Alabama rhythm.……
Justin Porter, aka Dat Boy Supa is an Austin based hip hop artist. Raised on the Pleasant Grove streets in Dallas helped him form a uniquely explosive and earnest voice in Texas hip hop. A versatile voice for years now, …
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…
Nobody Beats The Drum are in the front line of Dutch electronic dance music. The three-piece electro outfit consists of Sjam Sjamsoedin, Jori Collignon, and Rogier van der Zwaag sharing the stage. While Sjam and Jori pro…
With an early introduction to the world of house and music production at the age of 13, PrototypeRaptor (aka Jonathan Paulsen), now 22, has been a relatively unknown yet consistent force in the realm of electronic music.…
Rickolus is a self-taught singer songwriter from Jacksonville Beach Florida. Born Richard Colado, Rickolus has spent over ten years fine tuning his ability to craft witty, artful tunes, which are an energetic and though…
Khaleel is a unique and exciting new voice bubbling out of the Houston, TX hip hop scene, and making a statement seldom heard from the 3rd Coast. Coming from the Missouri City area of Houston, a deep interest in hip hop’…
Presented by: Check Yo Ponytail/Mad Decent/Fool's Gold: Super Party
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…
We've played with Red Fang, Skeletonwitch, Truckfighters, The Sword, Torche, Gypsyhawk, EYE, Totimoshi, blah blah blah. Imagine Black Sabbath in a steel cage match with Motorhead and Phil Lynott was the guest referee.……
Performer, Composer, Arranger, Writer, and Producer Terry Waldo will be performing between sets at the Tompkins Square SXSW showcase !
“Terry Waldo, ragtime pianist nonpareil and eminent scholar of the form, is musica…
Presented by: The Muscle Shoals Showcase presented by Cherokee Lair Productions and 6 Degrees of Muscle Shoals
When you hear people speak of Muscle Shoals music be it past, present, or future- they often liken the dedication of the musicians to a common element: "There's something in the water". Well in this case, it's not only i…
In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leaders to dramatise their role in genocide. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journe…
Denver band Air Dubai is more than the sum of its parts. It’s not about the exciting combination of eclectic genres or even the explosive onstage energy. The group’s appeal lies in its member’s passion for the music they…
It’s not easy to fuse a connection between the heartstrings and the hipbone, to bridge the emotional intensity of a singer-songwriter and the effortless swagger of a born rocker. But that’s exactly what California-bred, …
Bagheera is the brainchild of 20 year-old Aidan Kennedy, who resides in Houston, Tx. Blending the sounds of Chill Wave, House, and Disco, Kennedy has put his own signature sound on the map with his very first release on …
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…
“We don’t look at ourselves like a DJ group,” declares Danny D’Brito of Brass Knuckles. “We look at this as a band.”
Truthfully, the Miami trio—D’Brito, Tony Livadas, and Anthony Pisano—is unlike any other outfit in ele…
"Adrienne Rich may be one of the more influential figures in contemporary American poetry, but until Martin Crane of the Austin band Brazos fell under the spell of her poem "The Observer," she's never been known as an in…
Brothers in Law is a three pieces band born from a real relationship connection. Funny enough their music is much more powerful than their (almost) blood connection. Nicola and Giacomo at the guitars and Andrea at the (s…
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…
Uploading bootleg edits of Jeremih and 2 Chainz, and doing an official remix for Lana Del Rey, Cashmere Cat quickly gained thousands of cat-loving listeners online and support from DJ´s like Diplo, A-Trak, Hudson Mohawke…
The New York Times described Cheyenne’s 2010 debut, Before Lately, as “sweet without being cloying, weary without hopelessness,” noting the vast space between notes, yet lack of air. Before Lately was a slow-burning, int…
After landing on Nashville's Lower Broadway in the 90's, Chuck Mead co-founded famed Alternative Country quintet BR549. The band's seven albums, three GRAMMY nominations and CMA Award for Best Overseas Touring Act would …
COBY BROWN – FRENCH EXIT
Brown’s latest, French Exit, marks a seismic sonic shift for the LA based singer/songwriter.
While 2008’s Stars & Curses, written after a bout with cancer, was a love letter to being aliv…
Named to the Chicago Tribune's "50 Most Significant Songwriters in the Last 50 Years," Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt has been rapidly ascending from underground cult hero to being widely recognized as …
4 French guys. 10 years. About 350 gigs throughout France, Canada, Ireland, Germany, Spain etc. 3 albums and 2 eps.
These are the current facts and figures of one of the most rocking and active independent rock band …
When you hold the kind of resume that Jessica Dobson does, you have options. You can continue to parlay your role as an established touring musician into enviable gigs that will earn you a paycheck, or you can choose to…
DJ Amen is not only one of the Bay Area's hottest DJs, he is also one of the most influential tastemakers in California. With a knack for discovering hot new records/talent, Amen is a driving force in West Coast music. H…
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.…
DRGN King began as an unlikely pairing. Before the inception of DRGN King, Dominic Angellela, vocalist and principle songwriter, could be found on a different Philly stage every night. Involved in everything from America…
“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…
Erin McKeown is an internationally known musician, writer, and producer. With 8 full length albums, 3 live albums, 2 EPs, and numerous soundtracks to her credit, she has spent the last 12 years crafting a reputation as a…
Esprit De Corps is a new, Los Angeles-based music group focused on creating reggae/soul music with an 80’s-style influence. Taken literally, the term “Esprit De Corps” refers to the ability of a group to maintain pride, …
Filligar is a touring rock quartet hailed as "one of the best young bands in America”. The lineup – three Mathias brothers and Casey Gibson – remains unchanged since the band’s early days recording and performing as teen…
“Gypsyhawk is four metal dudes playing rock and roll and bringing the party every time they get on stage,” states guitarist Andrew Packer, and there is perhaps no better way of surmising the spirit and sound of the Pasad…
This is not only Harry Taussig's first SXSW appearance - it is the American Primitive guitar legend's first public performance EVER !
Released as a short-run private press LP in 1965, 'Fate Is Only Once' has long been…
Heathered Pearls is the alias of Polish-born Jakub Alexander, music curator of the IS050 Blog, and founder of Moodgadget Records. Jakub has been DJing over a decade sharing residencies early on with globally recognized D…
Hexvessel is a psychedelic folk-rock band from Finland that was founded by Englishman Mat McNerney after he moved to Helsinki in 2009.
Fusing late 60s and early 70s English folk/psych with Finnish nature mysticism, the…
International sensation HOTT MT (Hour Of The Time Majesty Twelve), is an experimental post-pop collective based in Los Angeles, CA. HOTT MT is the result of an ongoing curiosity project between Queen Ashi Dala and Spooky…
Brooklyn's Hunters music is charged with wild energy -- led by
singers/guitarists Derek Watson and Isabel Almeida. Their guitar melodies and vocals, witch switch rapidly between singing and talking, have been said to …
I Can Chase Dragons! is the solo project of Julio Gudiño, lead singer from Mexican band The Plastics Revolution, who is currently based in Boston.
With an expansive sonic palette, his music could be described as sampl…
Jack Wilson grew up in Austin. He took off to Seattle for five years and studied at the feet of Josh Tillman and co., The Moondoggies, The Maldives, and K Records artists, like Karl Blau, Kimya Dawson, LAKE. Toured with …
The Jade Idol is a no-bullshit combo that takes classic early r&r/r&b influences straight to the garage; raw, loud, and honest.
Formed in 2009 and fronted by Bob Bleed, late of Milwaukee garage namesake Bleed, the ban…
Presented by: Americana Music Association/Pandora (Badges and Wristbands Only)
With his last two albums, 2006’s Grammy-nominated People Gonna Talk and 2008’s The Hard Way, James Hunter delivered a classic yet perpetually modern brand of rhythm and blues that captivated listeners across generations …
Presented by: Check Yo Ponytail/Mad Decent/Fool's Gold: Super Party
The popularity of bass-heavy dance music is spreading like wildfire across the world, with many producers crafting their own styles of dubstep, grime and garage. In the city of San Francisco, CA DJ/producer Kastle has cu…
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 Cuneta Son Machín” is a group of Nicaraguan musicians that decided to come together in the year 2009 and create a band that merges Nicaraguan and Latin American popular music (son de toros, son nica, cumbia, merengue…
Little Lo is an independent folk-rock sextet hailing from Austin, Texas. Their songs can best be described as swells; ranging from hushed whispering and strumming to anthemic shouts and trills (and back again) in the cou…
The Longshots are a 4-piece garage rock n' roll band from Ft. Worth, Texas. Comprising of three main writers/singers. Joey Gorman-gtr/vox, Alex Zobel-lead gtr/vox, Jake Paleschic-bass/vox, with Kris Luther on drums. The …
There’s a violence to the countryside, encapsulated in the sumptuous prose of D.H Lawrence’s in which metaphors engorge and heighten into states of pure ecstasy. A fantastic and virulent strain of writing which, thanks t…
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…
Psychedelic Soul, sometimes called black Rock, is a sub-genre of Soul music, which mixes the characteristics of Soul with Psychedelic Rock. It came to prominence in the late 1960s and continued into the 1970s, playing a …
Naia Kete, is a neo-soulful reggae pop artist whose music is a personal, emotional and political soul-trip. A mix of musical styles that is grounded, articulate and emotive. Her unique sound and compelling songs would fi…
Napszyklat - (Robert Piernikowski, Marek Karolczyk) - Band from Poznan, Poland. They create experimental music on the border of electronics, noise and acoustics. Napszyklat’s music has different sources like hip-hop, co…
New Ivory is a three-piece band hailing from London. They’re made up of Mickey (vocals , lead guitar ), Alessandro ( bass ) and Andy ( drums ). They formed a band in 2008 and played several gigs across Europe. In 2010 th…
Conectado con el universo y las melodías así vive NICOLAS SANTOS un joven bogotano que desde temprana edad supo que el arte de hacer música sería su más ferviente pasión.
Influenciado por bandas como Pink Floyd con la…
DJ/producer Oro11 is co-founder of the equatorially inclined Bersa Discos label, renowned Tormenta Tropical parties, and half of the burgeoning Banana Clipz production outfit collaborating with artists such as Delorean, …
Hear ‘Musings of the Tide’ NOW: https://soundcloud.com/pageants/musings-of-the-tide/s-ID8c9
“Musings of the Tide,” reveals Pageants in all their fuzzy, melancholy finery… Coleman’s vivid lyrics give her trio’s songs …
Panorama is a band from Medellín-Colombia that debuted with a self titled work published on the independently and later with “Head & arm - Sonic360". This production was characterized for the exploration of sounds and s…
Patrice Pike burst on to the music scene as the electric front woman for the seminal Austin jam band Sister Seven. She co-founded the band almost immediately upon leaving the high school for the performing and visual art…
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 Protomen are more than just a band... They are messengers, riding atop an Iron Stallion on their way to deliver the most vicious rock 'n' roll fable that the world has ever known. With several planned albums, and a …
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…
Quaker City Night Hawks' brand of hard rock n' roll is bred from Texas boogie, Memphis soul and heavy blues. Their music is southern rock right out of '75, played with the fervor of a sermon crackling out of the radio in…
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…
Set apart from other up-and-coming West Coast bass music producers by his extensive world-touring history and performance experience, Russ Liquid brings a much needed injection of melody and emotion to the thriving dance…
With Little Mountain, Said The Whale has crafted its most adventurous effort yet; venturing into everything from soaring, horn-laden cabaret ("The Reason") to jaggedly syncopated rock ("We Are 1980") and effervescent gui…
Though they’re from Omaha, Nebraska, Satchel Grande sounds like they’ve lived the majority of their lives on Mars, or The Mighty Boosh’s Old Gregg’s lair. Yes, Satchel Grande has an electronic sound that’s more Breakbot…
“(Sidney York’s) sound blends Metric’s indie guitar pop and the sexy playfulness of Hawksley Workman” – CHARTAttack
Part glitzy pop, part avant-pop, and part fun” (More Than a Feeling), Sidney York is the long-distanc…
SOUNDS UNDER RADIO's second full-length album Where My Communist Heart Meets My Capitalist Mind takes the bands creation of vast soundscapes to a new level with a dynamic confluence of pop anthems that push against progr…
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…
In a tucked away forgotten tank factory in Southern New Hampshire – amidst a flurry of flying electrical sparks, and ungoverned volume knobs – Supermachine started to coalesce and take shape. Constructed from pieces brou…
Tiago Iorc is a Brazilian musician, singer-songwriter and recording artist. As a child he lived in England and in the United States — this would later determine his choice of singing and writing in English. He started pl…
From its inception, Valleys has been always changing. From the quiet and exploratory preliminary years to the stormy experimentation of recent works, the duo has always had one foot in the pop realm and the other in the …
Vintage Trouble formed in 2010 out of the ashes of a few other bands, and not by chance, Ty Taylor (vocal) and Nalle Colt (guitar) teamed up with drummer Richard Danielson and bassist Rick Barrio Dill. They entered The B…
With their soulful four-part harmonies, poetic lyrics and indelible melodies, it’s easy to see why the Atlanta Journal Constitution would hail von Grey as “nothing short of stunning.” They sound like they were born to pl…
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…
Conceived in the early months of 2012, Wishes is the brainchild of twin soul-stirrer Akwetey of New York band Dragons of Zynth. Akwetey explains Wishes as a 'lab' created to unearth a few more D.O.Z song ideas while twin…
If you could bottle the spirit of THE ENEMY and flog it Coventry, UK might just have an export to rival their proud motor industry heritage.
Frontman Tom Clarke, bassist Andy Hopkins and drummer Liam Watts are back wi…
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…
BLKHRTS are a force of nature. Their live show is like a hurricane slamming into a shoreline at a thousand miles an hour or an avalanche triggered by barbaric yawp. King Foe, one third of the Velociraptor-voiced Denver r…
GSA awards "Midwest Club Dj Of the Year of 2012" and Shadyville Dj Sean Mac is a nationally known and one of the most notable DJs in Chicago.
"Mixtape Mercenary" Dj Sean Mac started spinning in his mother's basement a…
From his (recent) beginnings as a dorm-room producer at Georgia Tech, uploading tracks to Soundcloud as a hobby, to being the first signing to Wolfgang Gartner’s Kindergarten Records, Ralf Popescu never imagined that ele…
AbdeCaf is the alphabet inverting, recording and performing moniker of 21 year old, Ukrainian born, and Miami based producer Rostislav "Steve" Vaynshtok. Following in the footsteps of producers like Flying Lotus, Clams C…
Cayucas: Pronounced "ky-yook-us", it's the (slightly misspelled) name of a sleepy little seaside town in San Luis Obispo County, California. That town, Cayucos, has hardly changed in the last 50 years, a far cry from the…
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 …
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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…
Some compare them to OutKast, others may see a bit of UGK and some say they are resurrecting the sounds of Bone Thugs N Harmony! No matter how you hear it; Dallas/Fort Worth's Twins Kendrick and Cameron is on the rise...…
Presented by: Flowerbooking, Inc (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Scott Lucas is best known as the singer/guitarist for two-man, Chicago rock band Local H. For his solo records, he plays with a collective of musicians -- the Married Men -- which sometimes numbers as many as seven and i…
AroarA is a new duo featuring andrew whiteman (Broken Social Scene, Apostle of Hustle) & ariel engle. they will be performing 'faux-folk' songs from their album "In The Pines" using cigarbox guitars and a roland 404 samp…
Ricky Fontaine and Walt Live are iNDEED―a fusion of rhyme and rhythm marinated in southern funk.
A former horn player from just outside Mobile, Alabama, Walt Live transposed his saxophone cool over to the piano's k…
Child Actor's dreamily powerful blend of electronics, R&B and indie rock emerged fully formed in early 2012. By the end of the year, they had signed to rising indie label Fake Four Inc., made half a dozen music videos, r…
The success of regional Hip-Hop is only as strong as the sum of its parts. For Houston, Texas the reputation of its rappers slants in favor of pimped out rhymes in the name of the late DJ Screw. For Dustin Prestige, his …
Presented by: Check Yo Ponytail/Mad Decent/Fool's Gold: Super Party
One of the world’s most universally respected DJ duos, L.A. natives and childhood best friends Classixx have headlined everywhere from the famed Paris Social Club to New York’s Webster Hall, touring constantly since the …
Hot Sugar makes thrilling, addictive electronic music out of sounds he generates from the world around him. That means there's some very weird, unusual and downright dangerous source material, but more on that later.……
Joey Bada$$ is an 18-year old artist from Brooklyn, NY with a unique vision and perspective that seems to be going extinct in the modern musical landscape. A member of the burgeoning hip hop collective Pro Era, Joey and …
A native of the turbulent Southside of Chicago, Latonya Sampson “Runway Bella”, is a young lady who is determined to share her story through music. From her fresh image to her soulful sound, the 21 year old artist prese…
"Sake-Bomb" is a cocktail created by dropping a shot of sake into a pint of beer. It's also a comedic road movie about a sarcastic Asian American and his Japanese cousin. Sebastian is a bitter, self-deprecating wannabe I…
Presented by: The Muscle Shoals Showcase presented by Cherokee Lair Productions and 6 Degrees of Muscle Shoals
Tonya S. Holly has created a blues/country sound mixed with a splash of rock and roll that echoes the heritage of her musical family. Her songwriting skills were honed by both of her parents and from growing up surrounde…
Daystar Peterson dubbed Tory Lanez was born on July 27, 1992 to the parents of Sonstar Peterson and Luella Peterson in Toronto, Canada, At the very young age of 11,Tory discovered that his mother was ill with a rare dise…
It's seldom an artist can move between two mediums and still maintain an intense amount of intrigue and support from fans. Time and time again, we have seen one art form fail for the sake of another. When referring to Tu…
VINNY CHA$E
CHEER$ CLUB
Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Vinny Cha$e first started in the music industry by directing music videos and shooting hip hop documentaries on household name artists. He personally shot …
Presented by: The Warner Sound Captured by Nikon (Badges and Wristbands Only)
When you think of Palm Beach, Florida, what comes to mind? Palm trees swaying gently in the balmy breeze? Scantily-clad bikini buxom babes rollerblading down an infinite slab of coral-colored concrete? How about anthemic…
Over the past few years , The Doppelgangaz have gone from obscurity (Orange County, New York) to taking their unique sound all over the world. They have managed to do so while still having time to write, produce, dumpste…
"Thanks for coming, man. Want some bum juice?"
"What the fuck is in this shit?"
"Tampico and Everclear. It's pretty gross."
When they started in 2009, seeing FIDLAR meant showing up to a house party and eventually h…
Fungi Girls formed in Cleburne, Texas in 2008 when the members were just in their teens and are now based out of Fort Worth, Texas. Throughout the years, their sound has floated through different genres, including shoega…
Miloh Smith, the young songstress/MC presents born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Miloh uses her unique tone and sick melodies blended fused with hip hop/soul to create incredible music for all to enjoy.……
Born and raised in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, TOKiMONSTA (Jennifer Lee) was an unfocused pupil of classical piano. However, she has come to use this background to create vast textural soundscapes by utilizing liv…
Hailing from Providence RI and formed in 2006, Howl is a thick, sludgey doom metal band made up of Vincent Hausman, Josh Durocher-Jones, Robert Icaza, and Tim St. Amour. After graduating together from Rhode Island School…
Karma's approach and out of the box method has made it quite difficult to place her in any one type category which is simply perfect for Karma who chooses to create her own lane. While every other artist is out there cla…
Emerging on to the underground Houston scene in 2007, Rai P has been making a name for himself and his promotional company ever since he enrolled at UH. Rai P can be best known for his collegiate parties and nightlife ev…
Louder than a garbage truck and not nearly as full of shit, this Philly duo hit's harder than most sextets. "Now we’ve got this bluesy lo-fi twang filling our ears, done up with the necessary thud and crunch to keep our…
Simply put, Alice Gerrard is a talent of legendary status. In a career spanning some 40 years, she has known, learned from, and performed with many of the old-time and bluegrass greats and has in turn earned worldwide re…
Anna Lunoe
Since blazing a trail from Sydney to LA in 2012, Anna Lunoe has found herself in the eye of an American dance music storm. In under a year on US soil she has performed raging shows across the country, domin…
The creative voice of Night Beds, Winston Yellen, hails from Nashville by way of Colorado Springs. The 23 year-old songwriter boasts a new, great American voice with a specific brand of intimate thirst that few musicians…
Presented by: The Muscle Shoals Showcase presented by Cherokee Lair Productions and 6 Degrees of Muscle Shoals
We are Jamie McFarlane, Rob McFarlane, Justin Holder, Chad Burdine, & Zach Walton. We play music. We write songs. We sing songs.
Our Pop's were preachers and we grew up in the Bible-belt but they aren't going to be pu…
Aisha Burns is from San Antonio, Texas and began playing violin at age 10. She moved to Austin when she was 18, and in 2006 joined folk rock outfit Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band, her first musical endeavor outside t…
Call it cliche but sometimes a musician’s inspiration can be broken down simply. Some are inspired by fame and money and some just want to tell their story to everyone. The latter is the best way to describe 25-year-old …
Born in a small Sichuanese city, Baishui is a composer and self-taught musician who plays guitar, piano and many traditional Chinese instruments. His earliest original compositions and performances were influenced by Eur…
Nick Scalise and Gregory Shanahan are in Bestfriends. The young pair has big plans to push the post-disco envelope as far as humanly possible.
The Chicago-based duo composed all the music and played all the instrument…
Bhi Bhiman is an American original, and yet he seems transported from an era when songs were more important than the pretty faces that delivered them. His rich, bellowing tenor can soothe or explode at a moment’s notice.…
Presented by: Dickies (Badges and Wristbands Only)
It is rare to find an artist who has both age and wisdom on his side. At just 24 years-old, Big K.R.I.T. possesses the musical intuition of an old soul. Hailing from Meridian, Mississippi, K.R.I.T. (born Justin Scott) gr…
Bird Bankin Boi born and raised in the Chicago Englewood area started taking over the game at an early age. His unique style and sound gained him national attention appearing on the Apollo in Harlem, New York as a conte…
Presented by: Americana Music Association/Pandora (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Friendship is at the heart of one of the best albums of the year.
Brother-‐acts like the Louvins, the Everlys, the Delmores, and others have created some of our most memorable music, but every once in awhile that same …
While The Cadillac Black might be a brand new band – a little over a year old as of this writing – native Nashvillians Jaren Johnston, Neil Mason and Kelby Ray have been friends and musical co-conspirators for as long as…
CAPSULA has just released in Spain their new CD where they re-recorded the entire David Bowie classic album, "Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars". Here is a link to a music teaser video sampler -http://youtu.be/mka…
Carrie Rodriguez
At each stage of Carrie Rodriguez’s career—as a fiddler, singer, and songwriter—the Austin, Texas, native has learned the importance of letting go. That was certainly true when it came to recording he…
CAVE PAINTING are moving into 2013 with a busy schedule of releases and select live shows.
They have prepared a special package for ‘Rio’ - their second UK single of the year. It follows the first, ‘Leaf’, which ga…
Cinemacinco is music mestizo folk to the world. Is contemporary Colombian sound synthesis. Their debut album is entitled "Republic of Joy". Is a festival of colors, tastes and smells different on songs such as "Campesino…
Although best known as the Guitarist for the super group HeadCat (a band he formed with Lemmy from Motorhead) and Slim Jim Phantom from Stray Cats) and his dynamic "Whitestripes of Country” duo THE LONESOME SPURS. Danny …
Aaron Bergunder started playing electronic music years ago under the moniker KaraokeMF to make silly remixes of his more focused rock band, Colourbook. While it began as more of a joke, as time went on KaraokeMF grew int…
Dusted (Brian Borcherdt from Holy Fuck & Leon Taheny)
Debut LP 'Total Dust' Out July 10th On Polyvinyl/Hand Drawn Dracula
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After six years of constant Holy Fuck touring, Brian Borcherdt
emerged from the tangl…
Fear of Men was born when Jess (Vocals+ Guitar) had been writing and home recording ambient songs as soundtracks to short films and Daniel (Guitar) attended an exhibition of her work. The two began swapping mixtapes and …
Gepe is the alias of Daniel Riveros, Chilean musician surprised the press and public after the successful release of their first album "Gepinto" (Quemasucabeza, 2005). The album featured a new reading of folklore through…
Great Divide music is influenced by the traditional roots of blues, soul, funk, country or otherwise, good ol-fashioned rock & roll. Think Motown meets Muscle Shoals, stoppin' off at Stax Records on the way up to Levon's…
‘With a name like the Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer, you might be forgiven for thinking that the Vancouver-based duo is some sort of concept group, based on a hypothetical love story between Captain Ahab and Lizzie Bor…
Hashback Hashish is the stage name of Ashish Sachan, an incredibly creative and persistently innovative DJ/ Producer, based in Delhi, India. Beginning by experimenting with the fascinating music scene in Perth regularly,…
Like all great love stories, Hunter Valentine’s began in a dark, crowded bar when girl met girl and an unbreakable bond was forged over cheap beer and rail whiskey. Armed with a fake ID and a king’s ransom in talent, Kiy…
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…
Coming to the attention of 4AD after a clutch of demo tracks went online early in 2012, Indians emerged in a fittingly understated manner, and with Somewhere Else, has made both an assured and majestic debut album.
I…
Intergalactic Lovers are Belgians with a nose for stunning pop music. Their debut ‘Greetings & Salutations’ received unanimous high praise from both press and public earlier this year and the singles 'Fade Away', ‘Delay’…
JMSN is 25 year old Christian Berishaj. A Detroit native who now makes his home in Los Angeles, CA. Writing songs from a young age he was introduced to Pro-Tools via the Digi 001 at the age of 12 and has never looked bac…
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…
Biography
Kamp! has been around for a while having grown a massive domestic popularity in their native Poland and a niche global fanbase thanks to their smooth synth pop, that brings the new-wave feel to the retro chic …
Brooklyn-based quartet, Lake Street Dive enjoyed a whirlwind end to 2012 when their video for "I Want You Back" became an internet phenomenon landing half a million views. It all started with an admiring tweet from Kevin…
Lean Hounds formed in Austin, Tx in January 2010 and began playing shows just two months later. Lush synth sounds and layered rhythms help to set them apart from other like minded bands. Singer, David Shackelford's vocal…
The formation of Luder harkens back to 2006, when Small Stone Records undertook the task of issuing the lost recordings of a band called Slot after the untimely passing of its founding member and guitarist, Billy Rivkin.…
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David Constantine Brooks was raised in an area known as "Cuban", a micro ghetto within the heart of Kingston, Jamaica's Cassava Piece community. His grandmother gave him his first musical experience at a young age, bring…
Born Adrian Michna, DJ/producer Michna combines instrumental hip-hop, electro, and IDM. Starting out his musical career as a trombonist on the N.Y.C. circuit, playing ska music in the Lion's Den and CBGB before he was ol…
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Hotly tipped Danish songstress MØ aka. Karen Marie Ørsted is stirring up a buzz throughout the global blogosphere these days. Tastemaker media such as Pitchfork, The Guardian, Fader, Hypetrak and NME wrote about her and …
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…
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I was born. I did some shit... mostly in Brooklyn. Drank some 40's fucked some ho's, oh and I rap. You might have heard of me, maybe you haven't... fuck you either way.……
New Beat Fund birthed when a piggy bank with the words “New Beat Fund” encrypted on it was catapulted into the facade of a corporate building. No joke. Somewhere in that transaction it became apparent a jar full of “fuck…
Glen and Ely played together in Trumans Water from '91-'93. Glen walked up to O at an Olivelawn show 20 years ago and asked if it was ok to tape his set. Jason (from Vytear) recorded Octa#grape in August '12 and joined…
There's nothing typical about Pacific Air. Even while growing up in Southern California, brothers Ryan and Taylor Lawhon didn't learn about music via the usual staples, but rather through their mother’s unconventional ta…
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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…
Pink Dollaz hails from Inglewood, California. Comprised of teen rappers Nilla, Cammy B, Cee Cee and Reese, they are on a mission to prove that female MC’s can make music just as good as males. The group is inspired by mu…
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.……
“The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts” – Aristotle
The pedigree of Pushmens parts are impressive to begin with. This in turn makes the ‘whole’ a brutalizing result with years of experience, style and attitu…
Quiet Corral is a six-piece band from Lawrence, Kansas. The band incorporates folk and pop elements into their music to create a distinct sound. With four-part harmonies, electric guitars mixed with acoustic instruments,…
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…
There is a stillness between kissing lips that belies the beating hearts connected to them, a calm in the simple gesture that holds tumultuous emotions close, keeping their caprice from pulling you apart. For the past th…
Location: Victoria, Seychelles ,Mahé Seychelles
Indian Ocean, East Coast of Africa
STAGE NAME: Raspyek
NAME: Tony
SURNAME: Joubert
DATE OF BIRTH: 03.01.1977
PLACE OF BIRTH: Beirut /Lebanon
NATIONALITY: Citizen…
RDGLDGRN (pronounced red gold green) have already distinguished themselves in the DC music scene. Their highly stylized sound (that Go Go drum beat- a distinct DC rhythm) takes hip-hop infused punk and indie rock to crea…
Born in London in 1953, Robyn Hitchcock has written & recorded over 500 songs, including: 'Where Are The Prawns' 'I Wanna Destroy You' 'The Cheese Alarm' 'Sometimes A Blonde' 'No, I Don't Remember Guildford' 'To Be Human…
Ruth Moody is a two-time Juno Award winning singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Founding member of the internationally renowned, Billboard-charting trio The Wailin' Jennys, and former lead singer of the Canadian r…
The Sam Willows is a celebration of life, a melting pot of sounds from dirty blues to gospel-funk, pop-rock to indie-folk, and random images of cats. Born out of a need to make unadulterated, unbound music, the quartet o…
The emotive atmospherics of Nashville’s Satellite have resonated deeply with fans and critics alike. The alternative rock quartet blends boldly vulnerable lyrics with anthemic but finely textured pop. The group’s debut E…
The Sheepdogs built their name on hard work and determination. Having funded their first three albums and early years of touring on their own, this rock and roll band’s momentum began to build exponentially with the rel…
Detroit’s masters of heavy soul, The Sights, are a five-piece rock ‘n’ roll band renowned for both their incendiary live shows and acclaimed song-writing. Think Big Star & Badfinger fronted by Steve Marriott and you’ll g…
Combining an array of meticulously tweaked polytemponic beats, explosive basslines, and soaring melodies, Sugarpill fluidly melds sounds into a crunked-out speaker shaking musical escapade. The Sugarpill sound and live …
TOY is a Korg Delta led five-piece formed in 2010. It consists of Tom Dougall (Vox/Guitars), Dominic O’Dair (Guitars), Maxim Barron (Bass/Vox), Alejandra Diez (Synthesizers/Modulation) and Charlie Salvidge (Drums/Vox). T…
TRAILS AND WAYS are an Oakland four-piece, currently surfing a wave of breakout singles and readying their debut LP for a 2013 release. T&W makes brazilian shoegaze, drawn from the pull of bossanova, the crisp production…
Somewhere between the rich, percussive instrumentation of Daphni, and the layered synths and ear for a hook of M83 resides Tropics, aka Southampton, UK artist Chris Ward. Producing, singing, and playing all instruments h…
Writer-producer-vocalist WALL appeared on the scene at the end of last summer with her debut single 'Magazine', which proved a triumph for both artist and newly formed BCS Records. Finding themselves championed on blogs …
I met William Tyler on the Exeter line out of London, and never such an autodidact had I met. He’ll tell you about James Kunstler, about Rudy Wurlitzer, about how Michael Cimino got a raw deal with Heaven’s Gate. We were…
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 …
Billy Woods is a rapper who defies easy categorization; he claims Washington D.C. as his hometown but has spent much of his life in New York City. He was born in the U.S. but spent much of his childhood in Africa and the…
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…
New Chain is the debut long-player from New York's Small Black. Richly coloured and thickly layered, it is an absorbing, eclectic and obsessive body of work. The Brooklyn group have succeeded in melting together locked a…
Chevy Who? Chevy Who?” might just sound like a lyric from Wiz Khalifa’s 2011 hit “Taylor Gang,” but there was a point when this was a very common question asked.
Pittsburgh, PA also known as “The Steel City,” is not y…
Evy Jane is the project of Vancouver-based musicians Evelyn Mason and Jeremiah Klein. Drawing from UK bass, R&B, and psychedelia, the partnership yields beat-smart, hyper-textural pop.
Both Mason and Klein have been i…
Revenge of the Nerds is a group/writing collective from Los Angeles, California that
consists of three members: David Randall, Kyle Coleman and Ramir Vincent. This
childhood trifecta grew up inspired by the music of th…
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…
Nevermind the constant threat of a cease and desist letter, when Carrie Brownstein tells you that your band name is weak, you change it. But it isn’t as simple as a name change for Philadelphia’s minimal noise pop duo Re…
"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…
Each Other do not write songs that tell you things. They are full of
ideas, fill you with ideas, but don't mean to curb your own burgeoning
experience. The melodies never betray a certain mood, never end at the
ending…
• Liber Teran is one of the most relevant mexican musician at the mexican contemporary music.
• He was the lead singer of Los de abajo with them he performed around the World playing in Europe, Japan, Australia, USA …
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Forming (ca. 2009) from mists of solid-state polished chrome out of cavity closets, Mood Rings fought against the constraints of modern/shit desk programs to create a new name for themselves in the basements and damp sec…
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Oliver have found the beating heart inside the dance machine. Whether moving bodies at the world’s biggest electronic festivals, or hand-crafting digital gems in the studio, the producer / DJ duo of U-Tern and Oligee are…
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…
Christmastime is looking swell for pretty, unassuming real-estate-agent Suzanne Barrington: she just sold a house to a nice swinger couple; her weatherman husband Jeff scored a sweet new job; and her favorite holiday is …
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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…
What do you get when you mix the wit of Sean Price, the comedic approach of DOOM, the unorthodox delivery of the late ODB, the lungs of B-Real, and the life experience of a group home resident hailing from the gritty Chi…
"The Best Bar Band in America”
The Chicharones have toured the world, solo and with live bands, and perfected their sound, with over a decade spent in airplanes and in crowded tour vans, fighting to make so…
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DyMe-A-DuZin is the epitome of a rising star. Since emerging onto the music scene, the 20-year-old rap phenom has garnered the attention of hip-hop aficionados and music execs alike. The Brooklyn emcee wrote his first so…
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Beanz and Kornbread sounds really good right about now. And much like a plate of the Southern favorite side dishes, theres pretty much never a moment when this duo of talented producers/musicians ever dont sound as good …
Brooklyn by way of Chicago based DJ and producer, Brenmar, represents a strange musical paradox. Somehow defying the odds, he marries the artificial gloss of commercial R’n’B with the urban grittiness of underground styl…
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…
The bar is three customers deep and the bartenders are in the weeds at the greatest cocktail party since before Prohibition. Two bartenders try to achieve their dreams through bartending. An injured Marine turns his goal…
The underground collective known as M|O|D stands apart from many other up-and-coming electro-producers today. M|O|D is made up Arnold, REWROTE, LiL TExAS, C.Z., and Yung Satan, each of whom has their own distinct sound w…
Upon release from prison, a solitary man known only as “the Rambler” embarks on a mysterious journey en route to reconnecting with his long-lost brother. Traversing treacherous back roads, lost highways, and isolated sma…
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Shonna Tucker and Eye Candy
Shonna Tucker grew up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, listening to the same salty-sweet mix of soul and country that made up the Arthur Alexander and James Carr singles recorded there decades be…
"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…
“Amtrac, the solo project of Kentucky's Caleb Cornett,
has just the right mixture of pop and cutting-edge sonics to break through the void. On ‘Came Along,’ Amtrac guides a rapid, crunchy beat and electric piano figure…
King Midas Sound, Techno Animal/Ice/God (with Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu), Razor X Productions (with The Rootsman & various M.C’s), Pressure, Ladybug, the man behind Pathological Records, compiler of various compi…
Formed in 1999 by Royal Conservatory of Music trained musicians Jesse Matthewson, Shane Matthewson, CA, and long-time friend Darryl Laxdal (bass), the group released several demos from 1999 to 2003, leading to the relea…
Sometimes you just know. Its not scientific, it’s not mathematics, it’s not even tangible. But sometimes you just know when the next hip-hop superstar arrives. In the five years since he decided to professionally pick u…
'Ugh, I am so bored,' says Jenny. 'Any ideas?' asks Martin. The four twenty-somethings look around their apartment for inspiration on a sunny afternoon. Suddenly Craig jumps up and screams, 'Holy cow, I've got a terrific…
Combining a daunting array of musical styles and influences to produce a signature sound that is not quite maestro, not quite emcee, this group of two classically trained violinists and their Band is redefining the music…
Disturbed by a dream, a man awakens to realize his unconscious has called his self-awareness into question. When confronting himself, misfortune brings the temporal world into perspective.…
On its surface "Cats" is a short film about a master dog groomer trying to impart some grooming wisdom on his bored apprentice. It is when his apprentice's mind begins to wander, that the film transforms into something m…
It’s a typical night of babysitting little Lucas – tuck him in, turn on his nightlight, check the closet for the boogeyman. Helen convinces Lucas it’s safe to close his eyes and drift off to sleep, but little does she kn…
The Girl is a newly single dancer that is tasked to watch her best friend's house. After deciding the place needs a clean, she cranks up the tunes and decides to show off her nifty moves. And that's when things get rea…
Late Christmas Eve a young man is awoken by his beautiful wife urging him to open a gift. But the gift comes with a challenge that could cost him everything. The debut film of writer/director Owen Egerton features haunti…
"Hell No" is a short movie trailer that explores what would happen in horror movies if smart characters made quality logical decisions. Spoiler alert: everyone lives.…
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Joey Bada$$ is an 18-year old artist from Brooklyn, NY with a unique vision and perspective that seems to be going extinct in the modern musical landscape. A member of the burgeoning hip hop collective Pro Era, Joey and …
In the wake of the South by Southwest Music Festival, everyone is asking--who will be the next big artist to blow up out of Austin, TX? The answer lies in 23-year old KJ Hines, who hails from the suburbs of the Capital C…
The Apocalypse
Director: Andrew Zuchero
Four uninspired friends try to come up with a terrific idea of how to spend their Saturday afternoon. The Apocalypse.
BOY FRIENDS
Director: Hugo Vargas-Zesati
A man disturbed by a…
Set during the summer of 1988 in suburban Ohio, Harold's family is crumbling. His angsty son wants nothing to do with him, his daughter detached from reality and his wife has fallen out of love with him. The only thing k…
If you haven’t heard the buzz yet, let it be known that Chicago native Rockie Fresh isquickly becoming your next favorite rapper. Only 21-years-old and starting his music career just a few years ago, this young up-and-co…
Hannah is caught between her husband and a new lover. What began as an impulsive tryst has grown into something enduring and malignant. Her efforts to sever it grow increasingly desperate, then unspeakable. Picture a fox…
Montreal's Suuns possess a rare trait in rock music: restraint. They use it like an instrument, which makes their debut full-length Zeroes QC as unsettling as it is wonderfully exasperating. It's immediately apparent in …
Situation living in Hong Kong, China nowadays.
Here comes the end
Our land is brutally torn apart by conglomerates
Redevelopment swept across the city
Their thriving business had left us homeless
Is the world going to en…
Jesse Boykins III is a singer / songwriter with a timeless sound. He is the creator of a new approach to music he calls “World Soul” in which he shares a point of view that crosses all genres, generations and cultures.
…
Third Root is a hip-hop collaborative based out of San Antonio, Texas that focuses on fusions among Black and Chicana/o culture and identity. Third Root consists of hip-hop music artists and writers Charles Peters (Easy…
Emerging from the ether as mysterious as he is imposing, Berkeley, CA rapper 100s makes his debut with the project 'Ice Cold Perm'.
Merely a reckless young black man in the eyes of a broken society, 100s has taken it …
In just a year or so, soulsters Fitz & the Tantrums went from the living room to the main stage. The recipe for meteoric success? Six killer musicians, five dapper suits, irresistible songs, some serendipity and one vint…
Far far away in deep auditory space, Heyoka has been abducted, cosmically mind probed, upgraded and reconfigured in an extra terestrial lab on a planet known as Marklar. Fortunately he has returned almost entirely unharm…
Aoife O’Donovan
When USA Today predicted that Aoife O’Donovan would soon become “the newest darling of the Americana set”, it had already been true for quite some time. Aoife is renowned for her ability to breathe mag…
How does the story start and where will it end? Re-birth and re-discovery have been common themes to describe the inside psyche of Matt Drenik’s Battleme. 3 years ago Drenik was the lead singer of Austin, TX based psyc…
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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…
On the heels of three well-received singles comes Ride Your Heart, the bombastic debut album by LA band, Bleached, out April 2 via Dead Oceans. Sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin match their ability to blend a mix of fre…
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Everything they see is upside down. How else do you explain Bonde do Rolê? They turn Brazilian folk songs into dance tracks, and they make rockabilly replays into haunting taunts. In 2007, when their debut album With Las…
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Brandon Jenkins is what we call in the Business a Triple Threat. not only is he the most hailed writer of the Red Dirt movement writing more than just hit songs, but Red Dirt Anthems that captured the spirit of his gener…
Crafting dreamy synthpop since 2010, Brothertiger, AKA John Jagos, aims to capture the beauty and awe of life in his music. He released his first full-length, Golden Years, with great success on Mush Records in 2012, and…
'Earning Keep' as an album and concept came to be over a three year span. Even as Christopher Smith was recording and touring in support of 2010's 'The Beckon Call', the catalyst of change, a greater departure and band b…
Sonically drawing from groups like The National, Mazzy Star and Fleet Foxes, Daltonians is a new Brooklyn based trio. The brainchild of multi instrumentalist Julie Jay, the band consists of Julie on lead vocal and guitar…
R. Cole Furlow and his band make beautifully angsty music as Dead Gaze. Rooted deeply in pop hooks and wall of sound, shoegaze weirdness. His songs are bursting with warped emotion, fucked up vocals and thick riffs with …
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…
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 …
Eliza Gilkyson is a politically minded, poetically gifted singer-songwriter, who has become one of the most respected musicians in folk and Americana music circles. The Grammy-nominated artist has appeared on NPR, Austin…
"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…
Photo by Darin Back
Carley Wolf's grandfather, Frank "Papa Pancho", was a Texas Ranger in the early 1900's. Riding on horseback in a beautiful wide brimmed hat, he was not famous for what he did carry - a Colt .44 "Pe…
Early life
Leonard L. Harris was intrigued by hip-hop at an early age. It seemed to parallel street life & the OG's he witnessed being successful in his 87th Street, south side of Chicago neighborhood. To young Leonard,…
Hands can be so many things: welcoming, scolding, loving, clenched into a fist. With Hands as your name, you have to both capture emotion and prove that the music you create with your own is worthy of the moniker. Luckil…
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…
Henry Wagons, recently named one of Melbourne’s Top 100 Most Influential People, is unanimously lauded as one of Australia’s greatest and most entertaining performers. Along with his rare charisma he offers heavy doses o…
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…
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),…
LEOGUN IS:
Tommy Smith – Guitars & Vocals
Matt Johnson – Bass
Mike Lloyd - Drums
You've got to be bold to make it rock 'n' roll.
LEOGUN singer and guitarist Tommy Smith might characterize it as "cheeky", but it …
LITE are a four-piece instrumental rock band formed in Japan in 2003. The band are known for their thrilling and emotional compositions, progressive, edgy riffs and complex rhythms. Their explosive live show and tireless…
Singer Steven Battelle "For me there is a huge difference between being in a band and BEING a band. The latter of which means your general well being, where your whole existence is in fact a tapestry woven with the thre…
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…
Founded in 2006 by Mangham Parker, the Low Lows are named after the final recording of NYC noise-pop trio Parker & Lily. They have released two full-length albums and one EP (Fire On The Bright Sky, 2006; Elizabeth Pier,…
Mikal Cronin's self-titled debut from 2011 was all about endings: the end of college, the end of a serious relationship, and the end of his time in Los Angeles, where he grew up. So it's no surprise that his sophomore re…
"New Frontier" on Compass Records, April 2013.
"Inside Out" on Compass Records released 2009
"…The New Hip features some deft singer-songwriter vocal change-ups, as well as
musically witty instrumentals that cross o…
Nobody Beats The Drum are in the front line of Dutch electronic dance music. The three-piece electro outfit consists of Sjam Sjamsoedin, Jori Collignon, and Rogier van der Zwaag sharing the stage. While Sjam and Jori pro…
Ola Podrida started in Austin in 2006 as a home recording project for film composer David Wingo before growing into a full five-piece band upon Wingo's move to Brooklyn shortly after completion of the debut self-titled r…
Independent Brooklyn-based trio Pearl and the Beard is Jeremy Styles (guitar/vocals), Emily Hope Price (cello/vocals), and Jocelyn Mackenzie (percussion/vocals). All individual songwriters, they collaborate to create th…
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…
PULENTA sounds elgantly designed, which pays homage and thaks the latinamerican musical wisdom, which amis to break away from conventional sound, rescuing instrumentations and genders that influence them, all on the basi…
"Their music will completely set you on fire if you’re a fan of Arcade Fire, The Mekons, The Pixies and The Decemberists. With eclectic instrumentation, strong, anthemic guitar based melodies and harmonies that are sure …
Ray Wylie Hubbard writes the kind of songs that make you want to ride along no matter where he’s going, because you know it’s gonna get strange somewhere along the way. Anyone who’s followed him over the long and winding…
“He was all over the stage, driving the crowd into a frenzy, grinding sounds from his guitar with the back of his hand, the ceiling beams, the mic stand. His extended solos were soul-dripping, finger-flailing explosions …
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Richard Thompson’s latest album, Electric, produced by Buddy Miller, comes in what is arguably his most creatively productive period in a career that stretches back some 45 years, back to his emergence as a teen guitaris…
"Music as exciting to watch being made as it is to hear...these Canadians own a sound that's at once incredibly intricate, and simply enjoyable" - Consequence of Sound (Best of CMJ 2012 feature)
"Royal Canoe have est…
SCANNeRS --- the story so far…
SCANNeRS was formed seven years ago in London’s Camden Town. Having written several albums worth of songs and getting frustrated with not being able to move on they decided to make th…
Seams is a British electronic producer living in Berlin hailing from Hampshire. He began releasing his own music in 2010.
His music has been compared to the likes of Fourtet, Gold Panda, Nathan Fake and even Kraftwerk…
Forming in New York City, Semi Precious Weapons quickly developed a cult-like following with their songs, live performances, and visual style. SPW played sold out shows in the city, promoted warehouse parties, and became…
"There's a place for us scattered and uprooted peoples," says Sinkane mainman Ahmed Gallab, "a place we can all know as home, with elements of all our homes." That place, as it turns out, is Mars.
On one level, Mars …
You should never take it too easy with this band. You should not fall for the temptation of lending more attention to Sizarr’s biographical buzz than to their now finished, phenomenal debut. Sure, when it all started wit…
“Everyone are you feeling bad today, ‘cause maybe you should be a little happier,” Asya (“Asy”) Saaverda raps in “Rad,” a song she wrote before hitting her teens, which Cat Power would go on to cover in her live sets. As…
In 2008, Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink moved from San Francisco to Toronto, irreversibly altering Snowblink from a whimsical warm-weather band touting four male backup singers (two of whom were Andrew and Ben of MGMT) …
So the Portuguese have this saying: saudade, a single word that summarizes an entire state of being, a lingering sense of longing for lost love and sepia-toned snapshots of yesterday. The way Solid Gold sees it, saudade …
Somebody's Darling is a Dallas based roots-rock band that just released its sophomore album "Jank City Shakedown" on Sept. 4th, 2012. The album, which was recorded with Grammy-award winning engineer Stuart Sikes, is evid…
" I do think Titi Robin is one of the world’s great musicians and visionaries."
Charlie Gillet, BBC-London, 2009
"Titi Robin is probably one of the best known French composer musician in the crossover world music sty…
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…
Lionel Williams (aka Vinyl Williams) is a Los Angeles based artist and musician. His collage art & psyche-pop music fuses vast landscapes, multi-religious symbolism, and the supernatural into a paradoxical whirlpool of "…
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…
Jesse Taylor, Michael Wilson, and Jesse Carmichael have known each other since they were 14 years old. This recent musical collaboration started in early 2012. They wrote a couple songs and played a show and people seeme…
Windy City Press Release
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Formerly known as AsotoUnion, the Seoul-based band Windy City was formed by front man Kim Ban Jang in the summer of 2004. The band …
Tearing through the speakers like a swamp monster summoned from some dark cosmic
morass, Texas riffmasters Wo Fat unapologetically blast out a southern fried, bluesinfused
version of Psychedelic Doom, conjuring up visi…
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You are currently reading about Frightened Rabbit. They are a band who live in Glasgow and have done for some time. They record in bedrooms, cupboards and kitchens. Anyone can be in Frightened Rabbit. They have played so…
Los Angeles-born DJ/Producer Clockwork is no stranger to the world of electronic music. The young producer was one of the many 18 year olds circulating the dance music blogospehere with various bootleg remixes. But in 20…
The all-acoustic Gonzalo Bergara Quartet plays a modern variant of 1930s Django Reinhardt-inspired gypsy jazz. Composer and lead guitarist Gonzalo Bergara mixes a cascade of arpeggios with the sounds of Paris and his nat…
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"Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've been known to pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue
Now how about you?"
The legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Se…
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The Ghost Wave sound finds itself somewhere between the Flying Nun bands of the 80s, the British explosion of the 1960s and the wayfaring dubs of Lee "Scratch" Perry. Sunny, loud, and laid back...……
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‘Before we started work on this album, we'd found a new sense of clarity and confidence, not only as a band, but from a personal point of view. We've healed some of our demons, not all of them, but the outcome is that we…
louis logic splashed onto the indie rap scene "party foul" style in 1999 with the drinker's anthem "Factotum". He spawned a laundry list of collaborations with artists like Jedi Mind Tricks, MF DOOM, Malik B of the Roots…
Chaka Mpeanaji (formerly known as Jbro) and Tiger Lily are an award-winning husband-wife hip hop duo that operates from a boundless space and time. Their music and work, crafted from the funk, the SOURCE, and the gods of…
Robert DeLong is the perfect artist to bring electronic dance music to Glassnote, home of Mumford & Sons, Two Door Cinema Club, Phoenix and more. A one-man futuristic dance party with beats as cerebral as Orbital and clu…
Yung Nation is a 18 year old hip-hop duo from Dallas, Texas formed
by Brandon Reed (B. Reed) and Kendall Johnson (Lil Faime). Yung
Nation’s energy, creative rhyme scheme, unpredictable flow, and
their indefinable voca…
ChoZe is a new breed of artist in Atlanta Ga . Born in New York but gives his mixture of style of music to planting roots in such states as Texas , South Carolina , & Los Angeles. Daunting the title Founder of Daily-Fres…
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 …
At only 19, Chance The Rapper has generated a buzz larger than many recording artist his senior. Since the Spring 2012 release of #10Day Chance has made several radio appearances including Chicago’s WGCI and POWER92, eac…
Brooklyn's Hunters music is charged with wild energy -- led by
singers/guitarists Derek Watson and Isabel Almeida. Their guitar melodies and vocals, witch switch rapidly between singing and talking, have been said to …
N.E.P.H.E.W is not just a name; it’s a philosophy, an outlook, an approach, and a way of life. Born and raised on Chicago's South side (Wild 100's) neighborhood, the 26-year-old Chicago artist describes his music as hip-…
An emerging music pioneer of the new D-town (Dallas) sound is producer/ artist Fat Pimp. Mr. Rack Daddy was born in Houston but later relocating to Duncanville, a suburb of Dallas. Fat Pimp, given his moniker by a high s…
Schooled in the bay, tested in New Orleans, G-Eazy isn’t a stranger to paying dues. His live shows have turned heads from the smallest of Midwest clubs all the way up to arenas on dates with Lil Wayne, Big Sean, A$AP Roc…
Royal Thunder is an Atlanta based, four-piece, progressive rock/metal, alternative band founded by lead guitarist Josh Weaver in 2006. After going through some lineup changes, Mlny Parsonz (bass/vocals) joined the group …
STEFisDOPE is a Hip-Hop/Reggae artist that was born in Jamaica & raised in South Florida. His diverse upbringing is reflected in his music. Whether he's rhyming with witty & fly Hip-Hop lyricism or reflecting his Jamaica…
…"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…
As a kid, ENFERNO spliced together tracks from his favorite cassette tapes to create seamless mix tapes. Soon after getting his first DJ setup, ENFERNO (also a trained pianist) practiced for hours a day, and played local…
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…
Young students huddle together on a bench in the glaring sun, clutching their white canes, listening for the signs that can let them put together the puzzle of their existence – they are the blind children and young adul…
"Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss " is the debut rap release from New York based self described "Acid Punk Rapper" Mykki Blanco. "This mixtape is a reflection of the lifestyle that my peers and I are living right n…
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…
Sofia, Bulgaria. In a city where only 13 ambulances struggle to serve several million people, three paramedics face Kafkaesque situations. Struggling against an avalanche of absurdities in a crumbling medical system, the…
Daniel Bachman is a 22-year-old musician born and raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has been playing what he describes as "psychedelic appalachia" since he was a teenager, releasing small run editions of tapes, CDs …
Dallas Green, perhaps better known as the man who writes, records, and performs under the moniker of City and Colour, is undeniably one of the biggest groundswell stories in Canadian music.
With 3 JUNOs under his belt…
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…
Origin: Gary, IN, USA
Born in Gary, Ind., Brittanie K’la Buggs had dreams bigger than the confines of her small town - even if it is the childhood home of Michael, Janet and the rest of the Jackson siblings. So, almos…
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One would be hard-pressed to find another independent rapper more courageously accomplished than Lecrae, lyricist and co-CEO of Reach Records. Truly self-made, the Houston, Texas native has done what the average music ar…
ST 2 Lettaz born Stephen Harris has been around the music world for the past decade. One half of the hip hop duo G-Side he has emerged in 2013 on his path to his first debut album, The G...Growth and Development. The alb…
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 …
Carrying Lightning
“Let’s not give away what all the songs are about,” requests Amanda Shires via email — shortly after an hour-long interview discussing exactly that. “I think I prefer for the listener to decide for…
American Sharks are a fast heavy stoner fuzz band from Austin, TX. In 2012 they released their debut single "Indian Man" on 7 inch titled "VVeedVVizard" via Pau Wau Records. Their unique blend of punk rock and metal la…
FRENCH DJ/PRODUCER.
It's been a while Arno is sharing his passion for electronic music with clubbers worldwide (France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Turkey, Spain, Canada...).
Producing and remixing o…
Vintage with a Vengeance
Autosalvage returns…Vintage with a Vengeance! After forty-odd years, and from several lifetimes of musical experiences, the band is back ‘by popular demand’ (and acclaim on NPR’s Fresh Air). The…
The best music is music that can make you think as well as feel, sounds that are as visceral as they are cerebral. And the best love songs are those that acknowledge that the power of human sexuality can be just as terri…
Unlike the mass of young country singers cropping up today, Ben Dukes is not concerned with pandering to the pop-country vibe. His lyrical content and style bend much more to the outlaws of old, and honky-tonkers like H…
Black Lillies front man Cruz Contreras knows a thing or two about the road.
His band was conceived upon it, during that year he spent driving a truck after losing both his wife and his old group, Robinella and the CCs…
Winnipeg indie pop outfit Boats makes impossibly hooky pop songs about death, being old, girls, glowing bears and escaping the spectral plane of existence and reappearing at a football game — all of which can be found on…
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…
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…
Power diva Clairy Browne and her harmonising girl group The Bangin’ Rackettes formed in 2009 over a mutual love of nineties dance videos, early rhythm n’ blues records and big hair. They teamed up with a group of lovable…
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Clayton Colvin is a native Muscle Shoals musician who left the area in 2005 to expand his music to a wider audience. His current Austin based band BUGGABOO has been together one year and is having great regional success…
An enigma of individuality, Danielle Johnson aka Danz aka Computer Magic is her own sound. Fueled by an obsession with music stemming back to growing up in the Catskills of New York, music has always been her mainstay.
…
D E N A is Denitza Todorova, a Berlin-based songwriter and vocalist hailing from Bulgaria – the southeastern corner of the Balkans. Since moving to Berlin in 2005, she’s been seriously honing her self-composed beats and …
Dikes of Holland is a 5-piece garage punk band from Austin, Tx. Our latest record "Braindead USA" was released in late 2012 on Screamers Records (Paris France). Now if you don't mind my cat Ignatius would like to say a…
"The Chicago duo of Jeremiah Chrome and Brandon Boom start with the music of their namesake producer The-Dream, filter it through a variety of electronic influences, and distill it into a swirling, sultry mass of dark im…
Before the world ever heard the name ELZHI, the young artist was sitting in the back of classrooms thinking of rhymes and spitting verses, while his friend Fes banged out beats on lunchroom tables and battled rival emcee…
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The title song of Old Yellow Moon may be the concluding track on the first official album-length collaboration between Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, but it actually represents a starting point for this long-anticipa…
Ester Rada * The new soul of the Middle East
Ester Rada’s cross-cultural sound is a deep reflection of the Israeli born Ethiopian’s heritage. Growing up in a highly religious Jewish family- and growing up in more th…
Evy Jane is the project of Vancouver-based musicians Evelyn Mason and Jeremiah Klein. Drawing from UK bass, R&B, and psychedelia, the partnership yields beat-smart, hyper-textural pop.
Both Mason and Klein have been i…
Hailing from the bohemian college town of Athens, Georgia, Futurebirds play laid-back country-rock with an atmospheric, psychedelic twist. The group began turning heads with the release of a self-titled EP, whose backwoo…
The Gar was founded in Beijing, China, in 2007 with Zhan Pan on vocals and guitar, Wen Jie on bass, and Wang Xu on drums. In the beginning, they followed conventions, sang in Chinese, and didn’t mess around with form. Ho…
Boris Gladkikh, aka Gladkill, has been on a meteoric rise in the electronic music scene since he first began playing live in 2009. Through his tremendous work ethic and tireless touring schedule, Gladkill has already pla…
“Gregory Alan Isakov’s This Empty Northern Hemisphere was one of the finest albums of the year. Its melancholy poetics and lush, languid melodies stir me. He churns up his own musical atmosphere, ruled by the moon and th…
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 …
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The Ballad of El Molino Continues
Joe "King" Carrasco is a Texas dreamer, which means the wild thoughts that gallop around his fevered brain are in greater relief and deeper Technicolor than the visions of other mortal…
The Kids From Nowhere is an international experiment in American music, based in Israel. Members include singer/songwriter Zach Wheat (Texas), drummer "Element" Yves Elisee Akowendo (Côte d'Ivoire), bassist Elad Avni (So…
Leigh Nash has been performing since her high school days growing up in New Braunfels, TX. It was there that she met guitarist Matt Slocum and Sixpence None The Richer came to fruition. Following four album releases, mul…
First french band spotted at 93 Feet East in London by Steve Hewitt (drummer & songwriter in the mutli million selling PLACEBO), the young indie pop band came back from a show at KOKO for club NME magazine in London & ha…
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…
Fiercely contemporary yet rich with classic influences, Mount Moriah’s Miracle Temple sports bigger arrangements, louder guitars, bolder vocals, and more soulful rhythms than their acclaimed self-titled debut. Through th…
“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…
Echo Park's NO began as a home recording project in July 2011. In a small house on Mohawk Street a group of friends began building something to represent their collective ethos of searching for the more authentic element…
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…
Detroit-based emcees Mister and Blaksmith have symbiotically stitched together keen, canny rhymes that vary in shades, inflected their own personal influences, but wrapped and worn together upon the same quilt.
The d…
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 …
Pink Nasty is Sara Beck. Pink Nasty is from Wichita, KS. Pink Nasty has three albums--the sloppy alt country monster mash of "Mule School" (2003) recorded in North Dakota/Kansas, the neurotic pop rock epic "Mold the Gold…
Puerto Candelaria has had more than one million people attend their concerts during 16 international tours, which took them to more than 40 cities in Central America, South America, Europe and Asia.
In its history of…
Ray Bonneville is a Canadian born, Austin based singer, songwriter, guitarist and harmonica player, who is known for his "loose, darkly funky vibe" (All Music Guide).
His Red House release Goin' By Feel was named on…
It’s hard to pinpoint the moment that songs are born, the day casual hummers become singers or scribblers become songwriters. Rayland Baxter certainly can’t, and he wouldn’t want to. Though he grew up in Nashville to the…
Call it Gospel Funk! Or, Psychedelic-Gospel-R&B. In truth, the sound of The Relatives is so much more. Formed in 1970 by veteran Dallas Gospel singer Rev. Gean West and his brother Tommie, The Relatives’ sound bridges th…
Since their formation in 2008, Set It Off has already released three EPs and a full-length, signed to Equal Vision Records, toured non-stop, and shared the stage with the impressive likes of My Chemical Romance, A Day To…
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…
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…
Spires That in the Sunset Rise have been unsettling and thrilling audiences for over a decade now with their brand of sonic alchemy. Combining traditional acoustic instruments like cello, spike fiddle and banjo with elec…
"Kel Tamasheq" est le quatrième disque de Terakaft. Il est d'abord un hommage au peuple touareg qui souffre depuis la décolonisation (Kel Tamasheq signifie “Les Touaregs”, ou, pour être tout à fait exact, “Ceux qui parle…
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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/…
YOUNG DREAMS
Having a vision, getting it done.
Like a wildflower of positive energy spreading its seed through song, Bergen collective Young Dreams are coming for the head and the heart. An album of stirring, symp…
Somewhere in between late-night loft parties and off-kilter art installations sits the production of David Ertel and Ben Borden, otherwise known as Solar Year. Praised for their forward thinking and to-the-point pop prod…
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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 …
It's no easy thing to carve a true niche in the current musical climate. With attention spans shorter than ever, the demand for a constant “something new” is a pressure that makes many acts crumble before they fulfill th…
Useless Eaters is a Nashville based project fronted by 22 year old Seth Sutton. Originally growing up in the Memphis garage rock scene, Seth conceived Useless Eaters at age 17 and has released 4 LP's and a dozen singles …
LOS ANGELES, CA Partnerships born out of a Craig’s List ad rarely end well, and being dubbed the “best band in Los Angeles” by Perez Hilton can be a dubious distinction—unless you’re talking about Capital Cities. Ryan Me…
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Originally from Chicago, Houses is Dexter Tortoriello and Megan Messina. They formed in 2010 after a 3 month stint in Papaikou Hawaii living off the land . With no modern conveniences the couple worked for meals during …
LOUDPVCK: a musical collaboration between Kenny Beats and Ryan Marks
Kenny Beats
Though he has studied music seriously since age 9, Kenneth Blume began producing his sophomore year in High School. He began to take hi…
For Sean Falyon, being everywhere means more than showing up at every show or party he hears about. Sure, the Philadelphia MC has made his name by remaining ubiquitous since his 2004 migration to Atlanta, but Falyon’s co…
Justin "BeatKing"Riley (born November 24, 1984), is a producer, rapper, and songwriter. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, he enrolled in schools known for musical prestige, and was first exposed to music as a child, pla…
"Austin-based trumpeter, composer and band leader Jeff Lofton is a veritable jazz virtuoso,” writes NPR affiliate KUT 90.5 FM / KUTX 98.9 in Austin. “Comparisons are frequently made to Miles Davis - and rightfully so. Lo…
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Born and raised in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, TOKiMONSTA (Jennifer Lee) was an unfocused pupil of classical piano. However, she has come to use this background to create vast textural soundscapes by utilizing liv…
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One of the most unique elements about THE KID DAYTONA is his combination of New York City hip-hop style with his own distinct vernacular and lingo. Daytona combines all elements of pop musical genres from hip-hop, jazz, …
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RiFF RaFF aka JODY HiGHROLLER, the 25 year old phenomenal Phenom born in Sweden, then raised in the USA in Texas, Arizona, and now Hollywood, is a lucrative luxury outlandish non-comparable Neon Icon. He has emerged fro…
Fresh on the scene and he’s already taken the fashion and hip hop worlds by storm! Pulling from a multimedia and performance art background, Zebra Katz brings a slo-mo dark delivery to his rhymes, which are set over a mi…
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…
THE BLANK TAPES is the moniker of Los Angeles & San Francisco based musician & artist, Matt Adams, who has produced over 10 albums of 1960's psychedelic-surf-pop-folk-rock on an old 8 track cassette tape recorder in vari…
VOGUE, MTV UK and Seventeen Magazine have all recognized KimberlyNichole for her sense of style, stage presence and captivating voice. An “avant-rock n soul, tutu-clad”, song stylist and songwriter, Nichole hails from Se…
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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…
Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his abandoned house and find another collection of mysterious VHS tapes. In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be …
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The Fiddleworms play potent music that ferments in the mud of North Alabama. They are folk rock, Americana & jam all mixed up together, to create a new millennium dose of the Muscle Shoals Sound.
Fiddleworms are Russe…
With their fifth full length studio disc and first for Razor & Tie, Atlanta’s post-hardcore giants Norma Jean have delivered what many will come to regard as the heavy music album of 2010. Building on the sonic bedlam th…
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 …
Brooklyn by way of Chicago based DJ and producer, Brenmar, represents a strange musical paradox. Somehow defying the odds, he marries the artificial gloss of commercial R’n’B with the urban grittiness of underground styl…
Lawless Inc. recording artist Katie Got Bandz dropped her first single "I Need A Hitta" in the summer of 2011, making her one of the premiere females in Chicago's "drill" rap scene. The debut of her mix-tape "Bandz and H…
MARCUS MANCHILD
As the new school trailblazer for Houston’s burgeoning Hip-Hop revival, Marcus Manchild is on a mission. The skateboard swag rhymespitter grew up on the Southwest side of Houston, raised on local cele…
Fresh for 2013, TOMMIE SUNSHINE & DISCO FRIES hit the ground running with the follow up to their collab debut ‘Don’t Look Back’, this time enlisting the vocal talents of FOOLS GOLD artist KID SISTER in ‘Cool Without You’…
When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the entire city is destro…
Fungi Girls formed in Cleburne, Texas in 2008 when the members were just in their teens and are now based out of Fort Worth, Texas. Throughout the years, their sound has floated through different genres, including shoega…
One of the first female MCs to bless the mic with lyrics that embodied both piercing sexuality and brutal storytelling, Memphis' Lola "Gangsta Boo" Mitchell exploded onto the music scene as one of the original members an…
Nuyorbalkan: New York Gypsy All-Stars Jump the Turnstiles of Balkanalia, Turkish Roots, and Gypsy Soul with Funky Refinement
A Greek bassist ducked into a little bar in New York’s Alphabet City and heard the Eastern M…
The Soft Moon was never intended for the public's ears, but you found it, were drawn in by its danger, and insisted that others hear. Oakland's Luis Vasquez began the project in order to better know his own self. He'd ho…
The Michigan four-piece blends angular post-punk, rock and the balladeers of yesterday, mastering the art of mature indie- pop while still winking at youth’s never-ending need to wave a flag of revolt. The result is a mo…
Luther Dickinson was born in western Tennessee to parents Mary Dickinson and famed Memphis producer and musician Jim Dickinson. The family moved to the north Mississippi hill country in 1985, where Luther and his brothe…
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Smoke DZA was born February 8, 1984 at Harlem Hospital in New York City and has lived in New York all his life. The son of two Guyanese immigrants, Smoke was exposed to music at home by his father and fell in love with h…
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…
Three college friends go to the biggest party of the year, each looking for something different: love, sex and a simple human connection. When a supernatural phenomenon disrupts the party, it lights a fuse on what will b…
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“I suppose it's never enough / you get what you want, then you want what was / but I’d rather worry about my existential crisis / laying on a beach where the sun sets the nicest” – “Get That”
!!! wi…
Half Greek, half Latin, the words pulled together loosely mean “the beginning of something new.” At least that’s how lead singer Casey McPherson describes the name of the group he fronts. It’s also an apt description of …
In the fall of 2010, armed with nothing more than their iPhones, the New York quartet, boarded a crowded New York City B train for an "impromptu" performance of their single, "Take Me Out". A captivated subway car watche…
Chris Baio, a passionate lover of dance music with eclectic taste and no allegiance to genre, plays bass in Vampire Weekend. Before that, he ran a radio station, threw basement shows and DJ'd parties at Columbia Universi…
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…
The Belle Game´s debut album, Ritual Tradition Habit, begins with bashful guitars, a soft wave of cymbals, and a pair of ambiguous phrases. `Ritual´, a sweetly haunting soundscape, lasts only a few moments before fleshin…
Bernie Worrell: How many artists can say they were in on the ground floor of an honest-to-Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame supergroup, all while inventing a completely original and uncanny sound and, in the ensuing years, buildi…
Bill was one of the founding members of the band SOUND TEAM and current leader of Sunset (formerly {{{Sunset}}}). His own material pursues experimental approaches to folk / pop / ambient.
Bill has been writing and pla…
Billy Joe Shaver has written songs that became country standards during the '70s and his reputation among musicians and critics has remained legendary throughout the ensuing decades.
All Music Guide lists 23 albums, f…
Nevermind the constant threat of a cease and desist letter, when Carrie Brownstein tells you that your band name is weak, you change it. But it isn’t as simple as a name change for Philadelphia’s minimal noise pop duo Re…
Though England is his place of birth, the songs found on Bobby Long’s forthcoming sophomore album, Wishbone, are redolent with pieces of Americana. They were composed in New York City, a place he feels more at home than …
The Brooklyn based electro-dance quartet, Body Language will be kicking off the new year in true Body Language fashion. Fresh off the success of last year’s Social Studies LP—which earned the approval of everyone from N…
BONAPARTE
"You could say we are from Germany, Switzerland, USA, France, Mexico, Persia, Israel, New Zealand or Canada – But we sound like something else!" After month on a road-trip across europe, BONAPARTE - swiss va…
With her Red House Records debut release, Call It My Garden, Carrie Elkin has emerged as one of the defining new voices in the world of Texas singer-songwriters, being celebrated by Texas Music Magazine as one of their a…
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…
Purveyors of fine Cologne stomp since 2007, Coma knows how to incite a crowd. It's the sort of knowledge that you don't learn simply as you go along, it's something you already bring to the table, and in Coma's case, tha…
• @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…
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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…
Only one DJ in the world can claim to have a global following of millions, while never having left the United States. The story of DJ BL3ND is like none other. It began with his humble upbringing in Los Angeles, Californ…
Indie pop outfit The Elwins have been garnering a healthy amount of attention of late thanks to their bouncy brand of ‘60s-tinged rock music and quirky, creative nature. Heralded by outlets from Exclaim! to the CBC as an…
They met. They fell in love. They wrote songs.
They fought. They made up. They broke up. They wrote songs.
At a time when for most it would be the end of a relationship, for Australian band The Falls this feels like …
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 …
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Flosstradamus spent the last 8 years breaking new sounds around the globe and becoming club kings in the process. But how do they keep doing it? J2K and Autobot’s knack for flipping your favorite tracks in unexpected new…
FUCK ART, LET’S DANCE! are quite simply white boys providing the very best fidgety tunes. Romeo Sfendules (Guitar) and Tim Hansen (Drums) operate as a highly motviated and brilliant team behind the dynamic, inspired and …
Schooled in the bay, tested in New Orleans, G-Eazy isn’t a stranger to paying dues. His live shows have turned heads from the smallest of Midwest clubs all the way up to arenas on dates with Lil Wayne, Big Sean, A$AP Roc…
GOLD & YOUTH is a band based in Vancouver and Toronto who write songs tinged with nostalgic desire. Their music evokes memories of neo-noir Los Angeles, cinematic haze and midnight solitudes.
Debut album BEYOND WILDE…
Golden Bear is from Austin, TX. They released their most recent album, "Alive" in late 2011. Produced by Austin's Producer of the Year, Danny Reisch, “Alive” provides a healthy dose of pop and heavy progressive rock, sui…
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…
Highasakite Launches The In and Out of Weeks EP
Their First International Release on Propeller Records
Highasakite Makes Indie Pop With a Twist -
A Sparkling Cocktail Combining 60s American Rock,
Norwegian Folk Mus…
Western Canadian band Imaginary Cities’ debut disc Temporary Resident is so fully realized that it’s surprising to learn that happenstance first brought primary songwriters Mari Sarbit and Rusty Matyas together in Winnip…
Muscle Shoals, Alabama native Jason Isbell has been honing his much touted songwriting craft for several years now. He has released three studio albums and a live album all highlighting Isbell's Southern roots, effortles…
Jonny Fritz (formerly Corndawg) is a country singer, not a singer-songwriter. Born in Montana and raised in rural Virginia, Jonny dropped out of school in 2001 and toured solo for many years on his motorcycle, going on t…
With the 10th anniversary of one of his most beloved albums '1972', Josh finds himself in a reflective mood with his songwriting on his new opus, 'The Happiness Waltz'. Pairing up once again with producer Brad Jones (wh…
Kinski is a four-piece rock band from Seattle, WA. The band follows their instincts to explore pathways from visceral guitar rock, to sonic and heady avant-psych rock, and sparse, atmosphere-bending instrumentals. Curren…
LORD FOWL is a hard rock quartet that has been tearing up rooms all over New England with their upbeat 70’s styled riff rock and feel good heavy psychedelic music. Starting in 2006, this close group of friends has playe…
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…
Staking his claim on an otherwise untapped fusion between soulful, heartfelt composition and earth-shattering sound-design, Danny Beall aka NiT GriT has long been a uniquely identifiable figure in the North American bass…
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…
NZCA-LINES is a suave, synth-pop sensation that combines pop melodies with R&B beats, lush arrangements and multi-layered harmonies.
Produced by Charlie Alex March and mixed by Ash Workman (Simian Mobile Disco Club,…
"PC Worship are a self-proclaimed "mutant soul band" that skirts in and out of musical generalization and re-focuses creative energy on human psychosis and regenerating pieces based on varied human emotions / interaction…
Peggy Hsu (Chinese name “Xu Zhe-Pei”, born on February 2, 1981) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, music composer and music producer. She is also the founder and lead vocalist/keyboardist of the band “Le Cirque”.
Pegg…
Pokey LaFarge is a musician, songwriter, entertainer, innovator and preservationist, whose well-rounded arsenal of talents has placed him at the forefront of American music. Over the last decade, Pokey has won the hearts…
Presented by: Check Yo Ponytail/Mad Decent/Fool's Gold: Super Party
'Pacifica' - the new album
#1 Album of The Year - Daily Telegraph
#1 Album of The Year - Herald Sun
#1 Album of The Year - Courier Mail
#1 Album of The Year - Adelaide Advertiser
Electronic Album of The Year - Sydne…
“Austin's finally given birth to the who's next on its songwriter roots trail paved by kitchen-sink bands such as Shearwater, Okkervil River, and Li'l Cap'n Travis…” Jim Caligiuri, Austin Chronicle.
San Saba County st…
Scott Lucas is best known as the singer/guitarist for the two-man, Chicago rock band Local H. But recently, he has broadened his musical scope and greatly expanded his lineup, pulling together a collective of musicians -…
Sea Wolf, September 2012
Alex Brown Church covers a lot of geography in his music. As Sea Wolf, his songs weave vivid imagery and lush orchestration into narratives illuminating the emotional diaspora of life, love, l…
Mike Perry & Austin Keultjes -- are scholars of every genre they borrow from. Leaning heavily on the ideals and aesthetics of modern rap and its sub-genres, especially Footwork, they cast a wide net into the sub-bass he…
Telekinesis is the songwriting vehicle of Michael Benjamin Lerner, whose music splits the difference between summery indie rock and buoyant power pop. Based in Seattle, WA, Lerner handled most of the instrumental duties …
Tim Easton is a singer/songwriter from Akron, Ohio who lives in Nashville, TN. In February 2013, he finished recording a new album produced by BRAD JONES/ROBIN EATON, who produced his debut, SPECIAL 20.
New West Reco…
Known predominantly for his work as the frontman of Clone Defects and Human Eye, Timmy Vulgar has spent over a decade being the definition of punk rock. He is also a 2010 Kresge Artist Fellow who was awarded for a “creat…
Bursting forth from Canada’s capital, native Producer/DJ crew A Tribe Called Red is making an impact on the global electronic scene with a truly unique sound. Made up of three members – two-time Canadian DMC Champion DJ …
Tyler Bryant was born to play music. The 21-year-old guitar prodigy has been playing since he was six and was bred on the roughneck blues of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
At age 11, Bryant’s pare…
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…
The moniker “White” first appeared several years ago during the No Beijing movement, when Zhang Shouwang, frontman for the popular group Carsick Cars, formed the guitar sextet White Ensemble for a performance at the Chin…
Sadistik is not just another rapper, he is an artist in the most honest sense of the word. Hailing all the way from the scenic gloom of Seattle, Washington, Sadistik has quickly gained the hearts and ears of listeners by…
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 …
Chevy Who? Chevy Who?” might just sound like a lyric from Wiz Khalifa’s 2011 hit “Taylor Gang,” but there was a point when this was a very common question asked.
Pittsburgh, PA also known as “The Steel City,” is not y…
Rising Los Angeles rock band Dead Sara have recently signed to Epic Records. As they gear up to release their second single “Lemon Scent,” which they will perform in an episode of CW’s The Vampire Diaries airing March 21…
Los Rakas is comprised of cousins Raka Rich + Raka Dun, pioneering Panamanians by way of the Bay Area on the frontier of new Latin urban music. Known for their fresh mix of hip-hop, plena, reggae and dancehall music with…
Presented by: The Muscle Shoals Showcase presented by Cherokee Lair Productions and 6 Degrees of Muscle Shoals
SCM Electrix is an Indie Rock band from Alabama whose energized songs amplify the sounds of the sky and the earth.
They released the EP; Endless Psychedelia in spring of 2012 and their songs have been described as an…
Presented by: Flowerbooking, Inc (Badges and Wristbands Only)
Seams is a British electronic producer living in Berlin hailing from Hampshire. He began releasing his own music in 2010.
His music has been compared to the likes of Fourtet, Gold Panda, Nathan Fake and even Kraftwerk…
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…
Presented by: Peter Rosenberg Presents: The New York Renaissance
A raunchy, cylinder-shaped ginger of Eastern European ancestry might not be the first dude you'd peg for rap stardom, but that's exactly the mantle Action Bronson is on the verge of possessing. Over the last two years, t…
When it comes to Paul Couture, he’s no amateur to music. He stays busy touring and traveling around the country working with top notch artists that you’re probably playing on your IPod right now. This producer, song wri…
Hot Sugar makes thrilling, addictive electronic music out of sounds he generates from the world around him. That means there's some very weird, unusual and downright dangerous source material, but more on that later.……
Germany born, Compton, CA raised 26 year old artist Problem is on the fast track to stardom with a string of hits that has Complex Magazine naming him one of the 2012 "10 LA Rappers To Watch Out For.”
Not only is Pr…
Over the span of his 25 year music career, native Texan and Austin resident Elias Haslanger has carved a unique and distinguished place in jazz history as a saxophonist, composer and band leader whose playing and writing…
When it comes to Hannibal Leq, his presence is immediately felt when he walks into the room with strong energy of experience, respect, and influence. Leq has been an emcee for more than 13 years whose influences range fr…
Yes, it’s true.
Yes, it’s true. The Polyphonic Spree began July 15, 2000 as one man’s desire to hear a sound he dreamt about; before most bands over the last decade, that are often compared in sound and vision to th…
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…
It was a century ago when I first saw Akron/Family perform, in the tiny back room of a bar in Brooklyn that held perhaps 20 people. Akron sat in chairs on a small stage festooned with red velvet and small theater light b…
King Midas Sound, Techno Animal/Ice/God (with Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu), Razor X Productions (with The Rootsman & various M.C’s), Pressure, Ladybug, the man behind Pathological Records, compiler of various compi…
Heralded by the Village Voice as “one of the best live dance acts on Earth,” THE CRYSTAL METHOD—who is Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland—have been known for over a decade for their enduring dance floor anthems (“Now Is The T…
Over the course of nearly 15 years and an incalculable amount of tour miles, New Orleans' own Goatwhore have inadvertently established themselves as one the most diligent and consistently ferocious bands of the 21st cent…
Brooklyn selector Dubbel Dutch is impervious to the crutches of genres, though a student of many of them. An accomplished producer of cosmic tone poems and club anthems from the abyss, many claim his now classic Throwbac…
Presented by: Two Chord Touring - A Davis McLarty Company
Claude Bernard, Jimmy Smith of the Gourds along with Mark Creaney (gourds sound tech.) and drummer Dave Pennington are The Hard Pans. Put together Dec. 2012. Showcasing songs from past projects(the Tiny's, Slo-Red, Olde …
TOY is a Korg Delta led five-piece formed in 2010. It consists of Tom Dougall (Vox/Guitars), Dominic O’Dair (Guitars), Maxim Barron (Bass/Vox), Alejandra Diez (Synthesizers/Modulation) and Charlie Salvidge (Drums/Vox). T…
Presented by: Check Yo Ponytail/Mad Decent/Fool's Gold: Super Party
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…
Balmorhea (pronounced BAL-MORE-AY) is a six-piece instrumental group from Austin, TX. Founded by Rob Lowe and Michael Muller in 2006, the band has produced five full-length albums, including Stranger, which was released …
Arabia Mountain, the sixth studio album and fourth Vice Records release by the Black Lips, finds the hell-raising Atlanta quartet digging deep into the roots of their exposed-nerve sound and simultaneously exploring surp…
Man... Bios kinda suck.
I've been doing these things for so long now, that I feel like just when I have written the mother of all things informative and maybe funny, I go and record a new record. Why does shit always…
With dub techniques & hip-hop aesthetics as his foundation, Michael Campitelli navigates numerous modes of funk – hypnotic & cavernous one minute, then rhythmically venomous the next, the neck-snap quotient with Calamalk…
Carsick Cars, described as “a nervy, consonant euphoria” by Jon Pareles from New York Times, consists of Zhang Shou Wang on vocals, guitar and loops, He Fan on bass and Monkey on drums. Their first CD was recorded in th…
Cartright, forming originally in Denton TX summer of 2006, is Ben Cartright (guitar, vox) with brothers Louis Cornetti (bass), Nick Cornetti (drums) and Joe Cornetti (keyboard). They have been building and destroying th…
Dale Watson is a honky tonk hero and country music maverick, a true outlaw carrying on where Waylon Jennings left off. A member of the Austin Music Hall of Fame, he stands alongside Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Ge…
THE DARCYS are an art rock band from Toronto. Their self-titled Arts & Crafts debut was produced by Murray Lightburn of The Dears and released on October 25, 2011 as a free download and on limited edition vinyl. It is th…
Hailing from New Zealand’s iconic music city Dunedin, founding Die! Die! Die! members Andrew Wilson and Michael Prain originally cut their teeth in local scene noise bands.
In 2013, having spent the better part of a …
Presented by: Space City Beat Battle: HOU DAT (SXSW FREE SHOW!!!)
Birthed in Cleveland, Ohio, North America. In Houston, Texas, North America. Living Out Of Sight & Out Of Mind. Coming Down & SippinG Daily. Beating Down Yo Block Making Fridgeratiors Fall. Hit Me Lets Work.……
The world knows Luca Venezia as a globetrotting DJ/producer and the founder of Brooklyn, New York’s Trouble & Bass label. As Drop the Lime, he’s been fearlessly casting spells over clubs and festivals around the world fo…
‘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…
Generationals are a duo from New Orleans that write short tight pop and rock tunes generally intended for dancing. Their third full length record will come out in 2013.……
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…
Hess Is More will perform at SXSW in TRIO format.
Hess Is More TRIO:
Lovely Liar - Vocals
Rasmus Bille Bahncke - SH101 & Laptop
Mikkel Hess - Dums, Bass & Vocal
Hess Is More
Let's make the fine arts more p…
Rising Texas star Hudson Moore's career has already been a virtual whirlwind since it began in 2010. The 22-year-old Ft. Worth native has headlined the world's largest honky-tonk, Billy Bob's Texas, and has performed for…
Brent Walsh vocals, guitar Ian Pedigo guitar Chris Hinkley bass Blake Dahlinger drums
“We don’t want people to just listen to our music on a surface level. We want people to dive into the songs and dissect them and to r…
COUNTRY TORCHBEARERS JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS RETURN ON MAY 14 WITH DARK AND DIRTY MILE
CO-PRODUCED BY SHOOTER JENNINGS
“…a newly invigorated and steadily striking force.” - New York Times
“...there might be h…
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…
Johnnyswim is a Los Angeles based, Nashville born duo comprised of Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano. The stunning and original sound of this new vocal duo began in a record deal gone bad. Though he’d given up on a career …
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…
King Louie Bio
At the end of the day, there is only one-way to create a real musical following: Make good music. Lawless INC. recording artist King Louie has built his buzz from the ground up in Chicago and is transit…
La Sabrosura Dura is a band of latin fusion music. It draws inspiration from the latin sounds of different times and places in Latin America and some of the black music in North America, such as funk. This unique mixture…
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…
Jeff McIlwain has been producing his visceral, melodic strain of abstract electronic music as Lusine for over 10 years now. Originally a Texas native, McIlwain met Shad Scott while living in LA and put out his self title…
There’s little doubt that Marnie Stern lives up to her reputation as “the lady who shreds,” but for Marnie, shredding is not enough. After putting out three critically-acclaimed albums, Marnie could have gotten away with…
Presented by: Americana Music Association/Pandora (Badges and Wristbands Only)
The Mavericks are back. The country-steeped garage band with a Cuban American lead singer, emerged from Miami with their sultry debut that was equal parts innocence, intensity and vintage influences. But time has a way o…
Usually, it’s that you’ve either never heard Myka 9 or you’re given to making fantastic claims about the man and about his virtuosity. Superlatives adhere to Myka, yet he is absurdly under-known for an artist of his stat…
In an era of social media and self-involvement, Noah Gundersen is in many ways the antithesis of his time.
Noah's newest EP, called Family, pays homage to the people who have shaped his life. "Family comes in many fo…
The Old Ceremony draws plays lush, literate rock. With eight years of touring the US, Canada, and Europe and five albums under their belt, the Durham/Chapel Hill, NC band occupies its own darkly lit corner of the musical…
“The Texas Hill Country west of Austin has offered me a refuge from touring and the "road" for more than twenty years now. While recording and touring with my bluegrass band for Compass Records and with Tony Rice for Ro…
Chris Reed, also known as Plastician (formerly Plasticman), is a bass music DJ predominantly known for Dubstep and Grime from Thornton Heath in the London Borough of Croydon, UK.
Plastician is unique in that he is res…
The completely unique Brooklyn bhangra band Red Baraat are making a sound no one else in the world is. A fusion of North Indian bhangra with hard driving New Orleans' brass, go-go, jazz, and hip-hop, Red Baraat has been …
Great pop music can be many things, it can be escapist, euphoric, it can be about love and loss. It can also be about the everyday, the magic in the mundane, the soundtrack to real life - a modern urban folk music.
It…
Though they’re from Omaha, Nebraska, Satchel Grande sounds like they’ve lived the majority of their lives on Mars, or The Mighty Boosh’s Old Gregg’s lair. Yes, Satchel Grande has an electronic sound that’s more Breakbot…
The Sheepdogs built their name on hard work and determination. Having funded their first three albums and early years of touring on their own, this rock and roll band’s momentum began to build exponentially with the rel…
WALK WITH ME presents that last recordings done by original drummer Lloyd Knibb who passed away shortly before this album saw release. The 11 tracks on this album are a tribute to all the members who have passed on over …
In June 2010, My Education found themselves in the midst of a West Coast tour with three days to kill in Salt Lake City. Luckily, guitarist Brian Purington had been in touch via email with Ryan Stanfield, the bassist of …
Stephan Jacobs has established himself as one of the most exciting young producers in the electronic dance music scene. With a tremendous work ethic and an ability to captivate large crowds during his speaker-shaking liv…
When you think of Palm Beach, Florida, what comes to mind? Palm trees swaying gently in the balmy breeze? Scantily-clad bikini buxom babes rollerblading down an infinite slab of coral-colored concrete? How about anthemic…
Montreal's Suuns possess a rare trait in rock music: restraint. They use it like an instrument, which makes their debut full-length Zeroes QC as unsettling as it is wonderfully exasperating. It's immediately apparent in …
T Bird and the Breaks are one of those gangs of people who could have easily banded together to steal hubcaps or hustle you out of your last dollar in a game of street craps. Lucky for all involved, they chose to make mu…
Triana Park is one of the most interesting musical phenomenon from The Baltic States, that has done a lot of unusual shows in television, different types of live concerts and open-air festivals. Music reviewers have desc…
“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…
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…
“I have to make something that’s never been made before; have to make the best thing that I’ve ever done in my life - otherwise it gets stagnant or worse,” says producer/DJ Wolfgang Gartner. Whether or not his progressiv…
"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…
Dubbed “Krautrock Guerilla”, the Berlin-based trio Camera has
played several times with Krautrock legends Michael Rother (NEU!, Harmonia, Kraftwerk) and Dieter Moebius and performed at the German Film Prize and Echo Awa…
Hieroglyphics, also known as the Hieroglyphics Crew and Hiero, are an American underground hip hop collective based in Oakland, California. The collective was founded in the early-1990s by rapper Del tha Funkee Homosapie…
Wallpaper represents the eccentric everyman, a blue collar pop band for the other 99%, a twerking class hero who might ACTUALLY show up at your house party - THAT is Wallpaper.……
In the past year, Brooklyn DJ/producer Dre Skull has done an incredible amount. He executed and produced an entire album with dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel; called Kingston Story, the record shot to the top of dancehal…
Presented by: Peter Rosenberg Presents: The New York Renaissance
Joey Bada$$ is an 18-year old artist from Brooklyn, NY with a unique vision and perspective that seems to be going extinct in the modern musical landscape. A member of the burgeoning hip hop collective Pro Era, Joey and …
Presented by: The Muscle Shoals Showcase presented by Cherokee Lair Productions and 6 Degrees of Muscle Shoals
The world moves fast and slow under the green light of the bright corporate star. The modern times continue. The prayers and curses that were once known as songs continue to rise from the meditations of our hearts, and o…
DJ Kentaro returns in August 2012 with his new album 'Contrast', his first since 2007's 'Enter'. One of the world's top turntabalists (receiving top marks and winning at the DMC's no less), 'Contrast' sees Kentaro reinfo…
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