Influenced by American old-time music and classic songwriters of the 60s and 70s, Leah Abramson (formerly of Dyad, The Crooked Jades, Octoberman) writes haunting folk-noir originals about truck drivers, lost love and old...
This third generation Austinite was front man, bassist and songwriter for Spirit on its '72 album, "Feedback". Ditto the Staehely Bros. album for Epic Records two years later. He wrote and performed on "Crazy Like A Fo...
Alice Russell Biography .this application i am coming with a joint project of me and Quantic and the combo barbaro, we worked together with the quantic sould orchestra a few years back and wanted to get in the studio aga...
Amy Bezunartea is a Brooklyn, New York based singer and songwriter whose debut album Restaurants & Bars was released on Kiam Records on November 2, 2010.
"Pure and honest" is a perfect description of the songs and the...
Andrew Belle is a new artist on the pop singer/songwriter scene. Residing in both Chicago and Nashville, he is currently touring clubs and universities across the country, and is also a member of the critically acclaimed...
Andy is one of the world’s finest solo acoustic guitarists and his cross-over success to more than 200 million Youtube viewers underscores his emergence as one of the most important and popular artists to surface in ye...
Andy is one of the world’s finest solo acoustic guitarists and his cross-over success to more than 200 million Youtube viewers underscores his emergence as one of the most important and popular artists to surface in ye...
Andy Suzuki & The Method are a band on the rise. What started as a half-Japanese/half-Jewish teenager with a smooth hint of R&B in his voice singing along to John Mayer, has evolved into a musical force. The band's combi...
Antonio Lulic is a rock-folk singer-songwriter from England’s fashionably impoverished North East. His deep and gravel-throated vocals combine with a powerful yet intimate lyrical style to deliver torrents of rootsy, p...
THE BELLE BRIGADE
Ethan Gruska — Vocals, guitar, piano
Barbara Gruska — Vocals, drums, guitar
Like many siblings, Barbara and Ethan Gruska had their ups and downs over their years growing up together in Los An...
Beth Rowley was born in Peru, raised in Bristol and after college in Brighton began a stunning career as a singer songwriter that saw her sign to Universal Music for the world, release her debut album ‘Little Dreamer...
Over the years Billy Harvey has been playing his own brand of Post Modern Pop, working not only as an artist but also as a producer (Charlie Mars, Bob Schneider, Slaid Cleaves, and Steve Poltz are among his credits).
A ...
Brandon Patton aka BL4k Lotus is a songwriter from New Haven, CT who has also toured as a bassist for MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, and Futureboy. His solo albums are known for their extreme ecclecticism, each one inha...
At some point in the early stages of an artist’s career, there’s inevitably that defining moment—an ultimate test of one’s fortitude and willingness to gamble on a dream—that either sends said artist back to th...
SHE won Budweiser’s Superfest Contest to open for Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton, and take home 30k (www.tesshenley.com). HE wrote and recorded an album in less than 100 hours with Grammy-award winning engineers(www.cars...
Carter Tanton's Freeclouds is arguably the long overdue follow-up to his former band Tulsa's 2007 EP I Was Submerged. Tulsa spent two years writing and recording their follow-up to the EP, but it was never released due t...
Cary Brothers is an indie singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who first gained national attention for his song "Blue Eyes" on the Grammy-winning "Garden State" Soundtrack. Brothers recently released his second album "Und...
Presented by: Davis McLarty Agency/Nine Mile Records
Sometimes you encounter a musical artist for a first time and find yourself
experiencing a warm sense of déjà vu – not a feeling that you’ve heard it all before, but a
feeling that you’ve reunited with a person...
At 26 years, Charlie has already spent almost half his life as a professional songwriter and frontman. Starting out as a beleaguered punk-pop heartthrob in multi-platinum act Busted, he broke free of the major label shac...
At 26 years, Charlie has already spent almost half his life as a professional songwriter and frontman. Starting out as a beleaguered punk-pop heartthrob in multi-platinum act Busted, he broke free of the major label shac...
Conner Youngblood hails from Dallas, TX, is 21 years young, and currently attends Yale University. His music is a mixture of electronic and acoustic sounds- synthetic yet organic. Influences range from bluegrass to dubst...
Honest, sometimes a little dark, and riddled with self-deprecating humor – traits that led themselves well to his songs. Songs that, like Cory, are original and unpredictable, prompting one music critic to note that ...
Once a mere fresh faced folk singer from Vancouver, Canada, Dan Mangan now stands at the world’s doorstep. The evolution of Mangan’s music is instinctively in line with its breadth and sincerity. As his art has devel...
Once a mere fresh faced folk singer from Vancouver, Canada, Dan Mangan now stands at the world’s doorstep. The evolution of Mangan’s music is instinctively in line with its breadth and sincerity. As his art has devel...
Dear people interested in the life events of the Danny Malone:
While in a self-induced drug coma, a skinless tiger came to me. He told me to go back to my world, to find a man named Danny Malone. He said Danny had somet...
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 an...
Please allow David Garza to reintroduce himself.
Get the head rockin’ with Shed Light, the best of this multi-instrumentalist’s 21st-century music. It’s sure to be in heavy rotation alongside his Deep Ellum-ins...
Presented by: The GRAMMY Museum's Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute
Please allow David Garza to reintroduce himself.
Get the head rockin’ with Shed Light, the best of this multi-instrumentalist’s 21st-century music. It’s sure to be in heavy rotation alongside his Deep Ellum-ins...
Please allow David Garza to reintroduce himself.
Get the head rockin’ with Shed Light, the best of this multi-instrumentalist’s 21st-century music. It’s sure to be in heavy rotation alongside his Deep Ellum-ins...
I’m a wandering man, got no money in the bank, got no wife at home watching children”. Nothing could more accurately depict the adventurous, carefree spirit of singer-songwriter David Ramirez. Uneasy with being in on...
Singer-songwriter Diane Birch took half her lifetime, and traveled across the globe, to get to America, where she literally found her voice and made her remarkable debut, Bible Belt. Though only in her mid-twenties, Birc...
Ed Sheeran is blessed – he seems to know exactly where he is going, and exactly how to get there. Where countless others fail to make an impression amid today’s information overload, Ed’s music and talent cut strai...
Ed Sheeran is blessed – he seems to know exactly where he is going, and exactly how to get there. Where countless others fail to make an impression amid today’s information overload, Ed’s music and talent cut strai...
Ed Sheeran is blessed – he seems to know exactly where he is going, and exactly how to get there. Where countless others fail to make an impression amid today’s information overload, Ed’s music and talent cut strai...
Hi, I am an artist from Brooklyn and have released 2 records on Verve Records, the latest being "The Other Side Of Zero." I guess my band sounds somewhere between Joan As Police Woman and Sara Bareilles. I am in the proc...
Elle King sounds like Billie Holiday having a shot of whiskey with Johnny Cash. She loves banjos and hobos. Born in Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, Elle retains her roots in a style that blends those worlds of both grit and...
Elle King sounds like Billie Holiday having a shot of whiskey with Johnny Cash. She loves banjos and hobos. Born in Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, Elle retains her roots in a style that blends those worlds of both grit and...
Emily Wells has long been turning heads with her unique songcraft. The performer, producer and songwriter trades in a striking mix of classical instrumentation, folk rawness and hip-hop production anchored by her hauntin...
emma louise is one of those people who were born to play music. She was the one who avoided maths and science classes to teach herself guitar and write songs in the high school music room. It paid off. At age 16, Emma’...
emma louise is one of those people who were born to play music. She was the one who avoided maths and science classes to teach herself guitar and write songs in the high school music room. It paid off. At age 16, Emma’...
FOY VANCE – 2011
Some hail him as the new Van Morrison, which is praise indeed, so I was very
interested to see what all the fuss was about when he blew in to do his only
London gig at the Union Chapel.
F...
Holcombe Waller is a composer, singer, and performing artist based in Portland, Oregon. He is a 2011 USA Berrester Fellow in Music as well as a 2008 Mapfund grantee, among other awards, and is known for his folk-inflect...
Burlap and opals. Moonshine and macrobiotics. Shaken and soothed. How Suzanne Santo (vocals/banjo/violin) and Ben Jaffe (vocals/guitar) managed to reconcile not just polemics, but seemingly opposed realities for their se...
Burlap and opals. Moonshine and macrobiotics. Shaken and soothed. How Suzanne Santo (vocals/banjo/violin) and Ben Jaffe (vocals/guitar) managed to reconcile not just polemics, but seemingly opposed realities for their se...
Presented by: Montreal International Jazz Festival
Montreal singer-songwriter Ian Kelly started singing in cover bands at age thirteen. It wasn’t long before he learned to play guitar and started to create his own musical world. “When you don’t have cash for new CD...
Originally from Bulgaria, but based in the UK for the past 9 years, Ilona has had a life that makes her unlike many others. With a rich blend of backgrounds and influences to draw on, combined with her passion for music ...
Singaporean singer-songwriter Inch Chua is moving to Los Angeles. The SXSW 2010 invitee set to begin work on the follow-up to her acclaimed “Wallflower” record. Chua has opened for Katy Perry and Vampire Weekend in h...
The psychedelic explorations and folk troubadour inclinations of young Californian J Irvin Dally are informed equally by his nomadic trajectory and his introspective clarity. Dally lived in a variety of climates througho...
Jake Newton was raised in the Mountains outside of Yosemite National Park. He grew up playing music with his family, and lived the childhood of a dreamer, surrounded by nature; head in the clouds. There was one stop ligh...
From his days fronting seminal hardcore trio Heart Attack and infamous glam punks D Generation to nine years on the road as a solo artist and with his band, The St. Marks Social, Malin has cultivated a devout fan base. H...
Jesse Thomas is a redheaded firecracker from Kentucky, whose whiskey soaked soul drips into every song that she sings. She released her first full-length album, War Dancer, on Valentines Day.
In late 2008, with no mon...
Singer-songwriter Jillian Edwards hails from Texas, but she now calls Nashville home. A graduate of Baylor University, her crystalline, breezy soprano and intelligent, heartfelt songwriting have been steadily attracting ...
Presented by: The GRAMMY Museum's Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute
Jimmy LaFave
Biography
The attraction of singer/songwriter Jimmy LaFave's music lies in his voice and vision that strikes responsive chords at the heart of folk, blues and American roots rock & roll. His discography ...
This songwriter can sing like an angel and write convincingly of God, honesty, love and all the good things in life. Her childlike acceptance and faith in people is obvious in her musical language and, as a muralist, her...
John Evans has had a busy year: He landed two songs in Country Strong which starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw, one song "Christmas In Texas" in the final episode of Friday Night Lights, two co-writes on Hayes Carll'...
Three years ago John Fullbright burst upon the Southwest music scene with a stellar live album recorded at the famous Blue Door in Oklahoma City. From his home in Okemah, Oklahoma, also the home of Woody Guthrie, John ho...
“Though the sound is bigger than a folk record, the dark lyrics are wrapped in familiar Americana. The instrumentation is meticulous—nothing sounds out-of-place, especially the aching pedal steel, which is used with ...
“Though the sound is bigger than a folk record, the dark lyrics are wrapped in familiar Americana. The instrumentation is meticulous—nothing sounds out-of-place, especially the aching pedal steel, which is used with ...
After cutting his teeth recording a critically-acclaimed album with Chrissie Hynde and fronting UK band Grace, JP Jones has made his debut solo album. As Son of Jack, Cariad (Welsh for ‘love’ or ‘darling’) flouts...
Kat Edmonson will self release her sophomore album Way Down Low on Spinnerette Records April 10. The native Texan makes not only her songwriting debut on the record but also co-produces the album. The album was recorded ...
Kat Edmonson will self release her sophomore album Way Down Low on Spinnerette Records April 10. The native Texan makes not only her songwriting debut on the record but also co-produces the album. The album was recorded ...
Keaton Simons knows how to captivate an audience with his bluesy, soul-bearing songs, masterful guitar playing and authentic voice. Keaton has worked as a writer, musical director, singer, bassist and guitarist with nota...
Not really being from anywhere has it's benefits. There is a refreshing perspective that comes when there is no one place you call home.
Born in Hong Kong and having grown up between Ireland and Boston to an Irish fat...
Presented by: Daniel Johnston "Space Ducks" Launch Party
Kimya Dawson is a Grammy winning, platinum selling singer songwriter most widely known for her work on the JUNO soundtrack and her former band, The Moldy Peaches. She has released 6 solo albums, including a children's...
One-fourth of critically acclaimed LA band The Rescues, singer-songwriter Kyler England strikes out into bold new territory with Electric Hum, a solo collection of 10 emotionally charged songs and a vivid sonic palette e...
• When you think “singer songwriter,” fierce is not a word that often comes to mind. But there is something slightly fierce about the opening seconds of Lex Land’s new album “Were My Sweetheart To Go”. It’s...
Slovakian male&female duo of songwriters Longital invite comparisons to Nordic brethren Sigur Ros, playing bowed guitars and singing in an exotic language. The similarities end there, however.
Schooled as a jazz musi...
L.P. is an incredible artist and songwriter from New York City now living in L.A. Recently signed to Warner Brother Records, she has created a strong buzz in the LA music scene playing sold-out residencies at the Soho Ho...
L.P. is an incredible artist and songwriter from New York City now living in L.A. Recently signed to Warner Brother Records, she has created a strong buzz in the LA music scene playing sold-out residencies at the Soho Ho...
“When I was a teenager,” Madi Diaz recalls, “my dad and I would hang out in the living room and learn songs by bands like the Eagles and Alice in Chains. We’d pick parts to harmonize and sing our way through them...
“When I was a teenager,” Madi Diaz recalls, “my dad and I would hang out in the living room and learn songs by bands like the Eagles and Alice in Chains. We’d pick parts to harmonize and sing our way through them...
At just 19 years old, Mariah McManus has been charting her fate for years, honing her musical skills at the age of 13, when she and her older brother, Aaron were gifted a set of musical instruments from their father that...
Max Gomez got his start as a working musician at age 15, singing both original music and country and blues classics in bars around his hometown of Taos, NM. He studied blues artists like Robert Johnson and Big Bill Broo...
Presented by: The GRAMMY Museum's Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute
Max Gomez got his start as a working musician at age 15, singing both original music and country and blues classics in bars around his hometown of Taos, NM. He studied blues artists like Robert Johnson and Big Bill Broo...
Meiko (pronounced MEE-ko), is an American singer/songwriter, born and raised in Roberta, GA and currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. She independently released a self-titled album in 2007, and her sophomore effort, tit...
Melissa Ferrick is a music icon with a voice that’s instantly familiar & comfortable. Her impressive career longevity as a predominantly independent artist is virtually unheard of and speaks to her talent and the world...
Michael Logen comes from the small Victorian town of Lewisburg, PA but moved to Nashville right after high school and has stayed since.
Currently working on a studio project with Grammy Award Winning Producer, Jacquir...
Singer-songwriter Mike Rocket will be making his SXSW debut this year, performing the first set of the entire music festival! Rocket has been consistently rocking the New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia areas for ove...
The Milk Carton Kids, a harmonizing, minimalist duo, use two guitars and two voices to create a new combination of back-porch Americana and classic folk. Relying on compelling narrative, the seamless interplay between th...
Belgian singer-songwriter Milow (born Jonathan Vandenbroeck) is one of Europe's most extraordinary contemporary DIY artists. This dynamic young man has played over 400 shows in twenty different countries over the last fo...
Biography
Sprawled out on sleeping bags with his brothers, Nano spent “camp out” nights lying on the living room floor, entranced by the strumming of a Martin guitar and his mother’s voice. The songs were traditio...
Presented by: La Banda Elastica/The Latin Recording Academy
Who is Natalia Lafourcade?
Artworks respond to a sum of experiences that inspired their creation. An artist endows them with his/her perceptions and reflections – consciously or unconsciously– through ideas that bec...
Who is Natalia Lafourcade?
Artworks respond to a sum of experiences that inspired their creation. An artist endows them with his/her perceptions and reflections – consciously or unconsciously– through ideas that bec...
Hi. My name is Nick Jaina.
Why do people write bios about themselves in the third person? Generally it’s so that the press can copy and paste paragraphs into a story and not have to write anything original. It feel...
NIVE NIELSEN – SHORT BIO
If you got a team of the greatest children’s book writers in the world together, they couldn’t invent Greenlandic folk pop singer Nive Nielsen. In her case at least, band bios are simply...
The latest OCTANT LP contains music performed by hand-built digitally controlled and solenoid actuated instruments. Steam, bellows, and clockwork would seem to be appropriate tools for the ghostly powers directing this o...
Peter Bradley Adams was formerly one half of the duo, Eastmountainsouth, signed by Robbie Robertson (of The Band) to DreamWorks Records in 2002. Since then, Adams has released four solo records: "Gather Up", "Leavetaking...
Rayland Baxter is a gentleman, a singer of song, a teller of tale, a picker of strings, a thinker of things. Born in the untamed hills of Bon Aqua, Tennessee, he tells a story unlike any other, a story that is true and f...
Since quitting her job as a full-time audio engineer, self-described "post-brontosaurus indie folk/crunk" sinner/songwriter Rebecca Loebe has played an average of 150 shows per year in almost 40 states of the US and in E...
The Record Summer (TRS) mixes the lush arrangements and vocal style of Sufjan Stevens with Shoegaze atmospherics, equally inspired by Midlake and The Cure.
Singer and songwriter Bret Rodysill moved to New York at 19. ...
Right Away, Great Captain!
ANDY HULL knows the fears that accumulate with miles, having spent the last two years on the road as the front-man for MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA. It is with those fears that he has channeled the ...
The music of Brooklyn singer/songwriter Rosi Golan has a knack for great hooks and contemplative lyrics as well as "makes us believe even more in the clanging of our gears and the quickening of those strange little hear...
The music of Brooklyn singer/songwriter Rosi Golan has a knack for great hooks and contemplative lyrics as well as "makes us believe even more in the clanging of our gears and the quickening of those strange little hear...
SAHARA SMITH – MYTH OF THE HEART
Sahara Smith is a natural. Or as the Austin Chronicle observes, “She's the real deal all
right.”
Don’t take our word for it. Listen to her debut album on Playing in Tr...
If a Beatle was left in the desert at age 3 and raised in El Paso - you might have Salim Nourallah...Nourallah is a North Texas music scene fixture. After gaining initial acclaim with the Denton-based Nourallah Brothers ...
With her vibrant voice and honest songwriting, Schuyler Fisk (SKY-ler) draws legions of fans to her music, both onstage and online, where she enjoys an active grassroots following. Her anticipated debut album THE G...
Sharon Van Etten came to Brooklyn via Jersey via Tennessee via Jersey. Along the way, she sang in choirs, rejected her school’s music program, worked at an all-ages venue, trained as a sommelier, and got a full time jo...
Sharon Van Etten came to Brooklyn via Jersey via Tennessee via Jersey. Along the way, she sang in choirs, rejected her school’s music program, worked at an all-ages venue, trained as a sommelier, and got a full time jo...
Sofia Talvik is the next rising star from the Sweden. She’s emerged like a Lady of the forest bringing a new interesting side to folk music. Where other artists surrender to the mainstream, Sofia makes her own pa...
To suggest that Steve Poltz isn’t normal is about as safe a statement as one could make. You would basically require the powers of the Hubble space telescope to locate Steve Poltz from any region of normalcy.
For musi...
Austin native Suzanna Choffel gave the songs on her new album, STEADY EYE SHAKY BOW, time to mature and build character, like fine wine, before she stepped into the studio to record. The result is 10 elegant tracks that ...
Presented by: Girls Rock Camp, Maurices & PlayNetwork
Sydney Wayser is a French-American, New York-based singer-songwriter who plays guitar, piano and children's toys. Wayser grew up in Los Angeles, California, while spending her summers in Paris. The Louvre and the Oranger...
Sydney Wayser is a French-American, New York-based singer-songwriter who plays guitar, piano and children's toys. Wayser grew up in Los Angeles, California, while spending her summers in Paris. The Louvre and the Oranger...
Sylvie is an anglo-american folk singer/songwriter who currently lives in Italy. She has released 2 albums in the USA on Cheap Lullaby Records (Joan As Policewoman, Teitur etc) and her third album produced by long-time c...
„The American Recording“ – what is kind of the title of this text was my
suggestion for the album title as well, because I think it’s a brilliant one
which really fits to the music on one hand and as the album ...
Teitur has just released his new album in North America, "Let the Dog drive home", and completed a 6 week solo tour there.
On the new record he opted to give his songs a much more of an American influence, which led ...
Tim Foljahn is a Michigan-born, New York-based singer-songwriter/guitarist who has more than likely played on one of your favorite records.
Some highlights from the tip of his iceberg-sized resume: He was the guitaris...
Todd Snider: Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables bio
Todd Snider is on the happy back end of happy hour at a favorite East Nashville bar,
talking about his new album Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables. “This record doesnʼt
...
Tori Vasquez is an amazingly gifted singer-songwriter from West Texas. She was born in Shallowater, Texas and raised in a family of musicians and songwriters. At the age of 21 she has already found her voice and is writi...
With her warm, guileless vocals and earnest, evocative songwriting, Tristen has emerged as a truly individual talent, bridging genres and emotions to create a distinctive sound all her own. The Nashville-based songstres...
Twilite is a Polish band formed in 2006. Best description of their music would be singer-songwriter, but there's two of them, sometimes three, sometimes four. The core of the band is always the same: two acoustic guitars...
Six Shooter Records’ Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet tie the musical knot with the debut of their new band, Whitehorse, marrying their talent and chemistry on stage as a smoldering duo. Gutsy and resolute in their p...
Presented by: Girls Rock Camp, Maurices & PlayNetwork
When Mexican vocalist Ximena Sariñana (hi-MEN-a sa-rin-YAH-na) released her debut solo album, Mediocre, in 2008, Rolling Stone gave it four stars and praised it as “one of the strongest debuts from a female singer-son...
When Mexican vocalist Ximena Sariñana (hi-MEN-a sa-rin-YAH-na) released her debut solo album, Mediocre, in 2008, Rolling Stone gave it four stars and praised it as “one of the strongest debuts from a female singer-son...
When Mexican vocalist Ximena Sariñana (hi-MEN-a sa-rin-YAH-na) released her debut solo album, Mediocre, in 2008, Rolling Stone gave it four stars and praised it as “one of the strongest debuts from a female singer-son...
Yael Kraus - Bio
Yael Kraus is an Israeli singer-songwriter, based in NYC. She has been performing and recording since childhood.
Kraus opened for Suzanne Vega and performed with Faun Fables, Jewlia Eisenberg of Charmi...
