There was a time when hip hop was needed, was necessary, when it was utilized as the only form of expression, the only voice, for an all too under appreciated and almost unknown culture. As the strength of its voice grew...
La Sera’s Sees The Light follows 2011’s masterful self-titled debut with ten new tracks of peppy break-up pop brimming with defiance and bitter sweetness. On album opener “Love That’s Gone,” the vocals and drum...
La Vida Boheme is a dance rock band which formed on the fierce streets of Caracas, Venezuela, only three years ago. Early in their career, the group won a “battle of the bands” contest and began to plug themselves in...
La Vida Boheme is a dance rock band which formed on the fierce streets of Caracas, Venezuela, only three years ago. Early in their career, the group won a “battle of the bands” contest and began to plug themselves in...
LADY LESHURR
Make no mistake about it, Melesha O'Garro is the complete package. It's very possible that you've heard her feature on Tinie Tempahs’s mixtape, ‘Sexy Beast Vol. 1’, or on the ‘female takeover’ rem...
Progressive, Avant-garde, Alternative, but always Rock.
Formed in early April 2010, LAGITAGIDA, is planning a global expansion.
LAGITAGIDA is a super-powered attack instrumental rock band.
This strange band name "LAGI...
Classic soul and R&B, jazz, and British invasion form the backdrop for the quirky and irreverent brand of pop for which Lake Street Dive has become known. Combine this with the unstoppable joy of their live shows and nea...
Lando Kal It’s quite telling that when Glasgow super label re-configured their various guises and re-launched as Numbers, their debut release was from the two members of Lazer Sword, a gargantuan solo split 12” from...
After both moving from Los Angeles to Austin in search of a greater music community, old friends Scott Graham and Todd Sapio, who literally bumped into each other in the middle of Sixth St. during South By Southwest, beg...
Please meet the beguiling Ms. Lanie Lane. Adding sass to the smoky, sultry sounds of a bygone era, Lanie Lane (pronounced “Lannie”) is an undeniable talent who draws on the past and plants it very firmly in the here ...
ABOUT LARKIN POE
(“The Band For All Seasons” by: Rebecca & Megan Lovell)
We are sisters. We are music lovers. We are storytellers.
Every since we were little girls, we’ve been awed by the power of a story well t...
The LaRues is not a throwback band. Instead, it pays homage to the influences of the Queens, Kings and Godfather of Soul, while making soul music that is fresh, original and undeniably hip-shakin'.
In 2010, Austin, TX...
Las Guitarras de España is a Chicago based world music ensemble with a Spanish guitar foundation. Members of the ensemble have visited over 30 countries to gather materials and collaborate with artists from such places ...
Since 2005, Maine’s Last Chance to Reason has been an ever-evolving musical force with one goal: to make challenging progressive music that moves people. After 2 releases and countless DIY tours, Last Chance to Reason ...
"The Last Skeptik's beats are expertly crafted" Q Magazine
"We Like" MTV.co.uk
"Awesome" Huw Stephens, BBC Radio One
"A rising star" The London Lite
"His beats are really really good" VV Brown
"I could listen to Sk...
Last Year's Men is a garage rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We've released a full length record on Churchkey Records entitled, "Sunny Down Snuff" as well as a split with the Reigning Sound on Vice/Scion A/V....
" A little Sensation" `(Groove Mag) "Brilliantly Composed" (Financial Times) , "A soothing Mix of Pop Massage and Synth Soul Meditation" (Rolling Stone)
Released in 2011 worldwide via Copenhagen based Fake Diamond R...
Back in 1995, Bay Area rap was at the big-ballin' peak of the mobb music craze, LA was chronically gripped in a G-funk indo smoke haze, Atlanta was enjoying its Southernplayalistic days, and NYC was entering a shiny-suit...
La Grande is the 3rd album by native Oregonian songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Laura Gibson. La Grande is a town just east of the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon, a place that “people usually pass through on t...
4 time Grammy nominated Lazee from Sweden is about to take the world by storm. He is unique as an artist. With an international class, attitude and widely genre sound makes Lazee different from most urban international a...
Lazerbeak is a thug. Do not be deceived by the nice-guy introductions backstage. Beak is responsible for some of the hardest lavabangers in hip hop, period. Catchy, rib-crushing, filthy.
In his basement workshop, Beak...
Five long time friends from Marfa, Tx. who have all been in bands before but never in a band of such magnitude. Lbs. has been a band for about a year, with driving guitar riffs and monster vocals, we feed off of one ano...
Le Blorr spawned from the sass of divas past and the acid trips of rock n' roll ghosts. The Florida based duo of Chris Hess and Adam Winn combine booty shakin psychedelic rock n' roll with a sense of grit and beauty that...
Le Fleur formed in 2005 out of friendship and a shared love for making music. A year later, Le Fleur recorded their first album "Truce" which was self released as a six song EP. Then in late 2009, Le Fleur released the...
“How many of ya’ll are familiar with the League of Extraordinary G’z?” was the question posed by Bavu Blakes, indie rap veteran and reigning godfather of the Austin Texas Hip Hop scene, as he stood on a dimly lit...
“How many of ya’ll are familiar with the League of Extraordinary G’z?” was the question posed by Bavu Blakes, indie rap veteran and reigning godfather of the Austin Texas Hip Hop scene, as he stood on a dimly lit...
An unlikely story stands behind the man known to many as ‘Lecrae’. From the south side of Houston, to a leader in the movement of urban reform, a rocky road provides a window into the grace he experienced through out...
Led Er Est are an analog electronic trio from Brooklyn and now based part in Austin. Born out of the Wierd Records scene on the lower east side of Manhattan, the band began recording together in 2007. They have released ...
Led Er Est are an analog electronic trio from Brooklyn and now based part in Austin. Born out of the Wierd Records scene on the lower east side of Manhattan, the band began recording together in 2007. They have released ...
Who is Lederhosen Lucil? She's the brainchild of multi-disciplinary artist Krista Muir who is currently based out of Montreal. Lucil is a fauxvarian pop princess who has descended on earth in her many-themed "hosen" to b...
Lee was born and raised in the small town of Wilson, North Carolina,one of 4 children. He spent his adolescence years singing in church and listening to R&B Artists such as James Brown, The Temptations, Eddie Floyd, Oti...
Lee was born and raised in the small town of Wilson, North Carolina,one of 4 children. He spent his adolescence years singing in church and listening to R&B Artists such as James Brown, The Temptations, Eddie Floyd, Oti...
Presented by: Girls Rock Camp, Maurices & PlayNetwork
Some things are eternal. Love songs. California sunsets. The ukulele.
Leftover Cuties embody all of that goodness on their debut album Places To Go. Produced by Tony Berg (Bob Dylan, Michael Penn, Jesca Hoop), the el...
In the two years since his debut, Leif has played the Montreal Jazz Festival with Daniel Lanois, toured the UK with Sam Amidon, played every major festival in France, and toured incessantly across North America. He's als...
When Lera Lynn takes the stage, there is an undeniable feeling that she is something different – something special. Her sultry voice has a way of wrapping around melodies, enveloping the listener in her lyrics, rife wi...
Les Jupes are a new band from the centre of Canada versed in expansive musical landscapes, sharp lyrics and an observer’s eye for the world. They are four Anglos with a French name making big, broad and determined mus...
Austin/Brooklyn-ite, Leslie Sisson, is the female vocalist and guitarist in The Wooden Birds while also moonlighting in Matt Pond PA. Her past includes time in Western Keys, Black Lipstick, The Killing Fields, Pavo, Tanw...
Hailing from Los Angeles, California, Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the electro-based sonic diary of founding member, Mike Lee. They first entered the music scene with the release of the Movement EP, which included ...
• 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...
Old friend, ‘tis been nigh on to ten or eleven years since Austin¹s Li¹l Cap¹n Travis shoved its splintered craft off on a treacherous audio odyssey of country-style portions. 2012 finds LCT once again hunkered dow...
Library Voices are a seven-piece pop collective from Regina, Saskatchewan that blends tremolo soaked guitars with analog synths, vintage organs, circuit bent electronics, accordion, saxophone, strings, theremin, Tenori-o...
Library Voices are a seven-piece pop collective from Regina, Saskatchewan that blends tremolo soaked guitars with analog synths, vintage organs, circuit bent electronics, accordion, saxophone, strings, theremin, Tenori-o...
The debut full-length album by LIGHT ASYLUM has been a long time coming, but not without rabid anticipation. As their self-released In Tension EP circulated and resonated with new leagues of listeners worldwide, the repu...
The debut full-length album by LIGHT ASYLUM has been a long time coming, but not without rabid anticipation. As their self-released In Tension EP circulated and resonated with new leagues of listeners worldwide, the repu...
The debut full-length album by LIGHT ASYLUM has been a long time coming, but not without rabid anticipation. As their self-released In Tension EP circulated and resonated with new leagues of listeners worldwide, the repu...
The Lighthouse and the Whaler is a band from Cleveland, Ohio, with what MTV describes as "really cool melodic folk-rock... and a live show you've got to check out for yourself." Inspired by a theme from Moby Dick, the ba...
Lightouts
Critical Praise for Lightouts:
"'The Eloise Suite' is a three-minute 120 Minutes jammer owing to some Berlin-era Bowie chime-rock—and it now comes with a music video that can be best described as 'Kubri...
Twenty-four year-old Toronto singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Lights has been crafting her own unique synth-pop-rock since she was 14. On the strength of her 2008 self-titled EP, Lights won the 200...
Presented by: Cucu Diamantes & Andres Levin/Music Has No Enemies
Known for her striking voice and magnetic performances, Mexican-American singer and composer Lila Downs (Oaxaca, México) has created one of the most singular explorations of Mexican roots music on both sides of the bord...
Presented by: The GRAMMY Museum's Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute
Known for her striking voice and magnetic performances, Mexican-American singer and composer Lila Downs (Oaxaca, México) has created one of the most singular explorations of Mexican roots music on both sides of the bord...
Lily & The Parlour Tricks dive deep into the well of musical Americana and resurface with a wild brew. Lily's songwriting influences range from 1940's cornerboy songs to 1960's psych-pop to 19th century murder ballads, w...
Formed in 2009 at the University of Texas at Austin, line upon line percussion has set out to expand their repertoire through the commission of new works. The group's first disc, released in August 2011, contains four pi...
Lionel Richie
BIO
Lionel Richie proves that you can go home again with his new album, Tuskegee, a collection of 13 of his international hits performed as duets with today’s country music superstars, and it feels even...
2011 and 2010 have already been momentous years for The Lions Rampant, after an European/American tour; the release of three 45's, a full length, and three music videos; they've just announced the addition of lead Soleda...
Lisa O’Neill is rapidly emerging as one of the truest contemporary Irish folk voices – unashamedly true to her roots and with a voice so distinctive you might only fail to recognize it if Stevie Nicks ever relocated ...
The world at large got its first glimpse of Lissy Trullie by virtue of an arresting image taken by Ryan McGinley for his groundbreaking 2002 Whitney Museum exhibit, The Kids Are Alright. A young Lissy, balancing brashnes...
The world at large got its first glimpse of Lissy Trullie by virtue of an arresting image taken by Ryan McGinley for his groundbreaking 2002 Whitney Museum exhibit, The Kids Are Alright. A young Lissy, balancing brashnes...
As a weather pattern forms its shape and sound out of the unknown and invisible into something tangible and rare, so does the dirty blues force “little hurricane”. This storm began when CC hung up her chef knives for...
As a weather pattern forms its shape and sound out of the unknown and invisible into something tangible and rare, so does the dirty blues force “little hurricane”. This storm began when CC hung up her chef knives for...
As a weather pattern forms its shape and sound out of the unknown and invisible into something tangible and rare, so does the dirty blues force “little hurricane”. This storm began when CC hung up her chef knives for...
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...
Little Roy has announced details of the release of his album, Battle For Seattle, through Ark Recordings on Monday 5th September 2011. A collection of 10 songs recorded by Nirvana in a reggae style, the album is the brai...
LITTLE SCREAM’S MUSIC is—like her moniker—full of perfectly satisfying contradictions. It is at once familiar and completely distinct; effortlessly absorbing multiple genres into a sparkly and cohesive landscape. F...
Watch five DJs battle it out real time to win the title of BigShot DJ of SXSW!
liveturntable.fm brings to the stage an evolution of social music listening and engagement with an in-real-life DJ Battle powered through tu...
They're not saying that they've been everywhere or done everything, but Lo-pan can tell you it's a pretty amazing planet we live on here, and a band would have to be some kind of fools to think we're alone in THIS univer...
Presented by: Tormenta Tropical vs. Mixpak vs. Body High
LOL Boys, along with a growing number of new school producers, are encroaching on uncharted sounds in today's dance music scene: a fair bit of latin beats, a lot of house, and an inability to name exactly what it all mig...
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...
Chronicles of train terrorism, space expeditions, criminal infamy, and monsters under the bed are just a few of the themes you’ll hear on Loquat’s third full-length album, We Could Be Arsonists. Recorded at Fantasy S...
Lorn hails from the future of music as do his Brainfeeder & Ninja Tune contemporaries, however this young artist also forges a connection between the current exploding beat scene and its roots in the experimental scratch...
Our sound is raw and itchy like love making on a bad day
GOD was kind enough to put us all living creatures in here to eat each other in an endless armament race, till we all become mass destruction weapons...
I've b...
Los Po-Boy-Citos are New Orleans best, and only, boogaloo band:
*2010 Gambit Weekly Best of the Big Easy WINNERS (Best Latin)
*2009 Gambit Weekly Best of the Big Easy WINNERS (Best Latin Band)
*2008 OffBeat Best of ...
Los Rakas, the Bay Area via Panama duo comprised of cousins Raka Rich + Raka Dun, has taken the Latino hip-hop world by storm. Known for their fresh mix of hip-hop, plena, reggae and dancehall music with both Spanish and...
Fast approaching 18 years on the Texas music scene, Los Skarnales was started in 1994. The band rose out of the ashes of local punk rock band Desorden with help from original members Felipe Galvan and Jose Rodriguez. Alw...
“Foot stomping, heart racing, exciting music...” As this fan attests, there’s something about dueling fiddles, vigorous guitar playing, and an air-tight rhythm section that compels your body to move. Tastefully pai...
The evolution of the Lost Bayou Ramblers music continues to excite, challenge, and redefine both genre expectations as well as cultural preconceptions. With hundreds of shows, five albums, and a Grammy Nomination behind ...
Lost in the Trees
A Church That Fits Our Needs
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Lush clusters of piano, a mysterious sound that might be something being unwrapped, or paper crush...
LOST LANDER
As Geoffrey Chaucer was a forester/poet and Norman Jolly was a forester/cricketer, Lost Lander’s Matt Sheehy is a forester/songwriter. Sheehy’s day-to-day workplace is the mighty wooded expanse of the...
A Lot Like Birds is a post-hardcore band from Sacramento, CA, known for their tendency to flawlessly blend a wide array of genres; from ambient soundscapes to aggressive punk-fueled anthems to unpredictable prog-rock fre...
Love Inks is a minimalist pop band from Texas. Their sound is imbued with raw emotion, sexuality, and splashes of electronic colour. Focus is placed primarily on the voice, which is direct and honest.......
Love Inks is a minimalist pop band from Texas. Their sound is imbued with raw emotion, sexuality, and splashes of electronic colour. Focus is placed primarily on the voice, which is direct and honest.......
The Love Language, initiated by Stuart McLamb, is a fortunate by-product of the North Carolina native’s rudderless mid-20s, where a tempest of breakup, inebriation, and incarceration found the abandoned songwriter emba...
Out with the new, in with the old - that was the recording methodology behind Ohio alt-rockers Lovedrug's new full-length album WILD BLOOD. Having spent all of 2010 focused on writing new material, pausing only to play ...
If the Pixies and the Black Lips got drunk at a party and then had a relationship that spawned a musical child it just might sound like The Lovely Bad Things. Anchored in heavy bass, thick drum lines and post punk guitar...
Adelaide’s iconic Lowrider are a testament to the fact that the most integral part of being a successful band is making good music. With no gimmicks, special effects or record label backing, this foursome managed to bu...
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...
Women & Work is a love letter from Lucero to its hometown, Memphis, Tennessee. “Having a band in Memphis puts you in a tradition,” says Lucero frontman Ben Nichols. “We started at punk rock shows, not necessarily p...
Women & Work is a love letter from Lucero to its hometown, Memphis, Tennessee. “Having a band in Memphis puts you in a tradition,” says Lucero frontman Ben Nichols. “We started at punk rock shows, not necessarily p...
About Us
Early collaborators Marques Nash (Vocals, Piano and Shago Elizondo (Guitar and Backing Vocals) and Andy Morimoto (Bass) formed the original foundation in December, 2006….it wasn’t until the addition of Je...
“Growing up, I had nobody to mentor me. I had to learn things the hard way,” Lucky says to me as we drive in the rain to pick up his four-year-old son. Jermy Tassin, better known as Lucky Lou, is an aspiring rapper a...
"Tuesday, March 15, 2011: Somewhere above the Southern United States, en route to Austin, Texas. Over the next five days, I'll hear dozens of bands from all over the world perform at theaters, nightclubs, restaurants, ga...
Lumerians is a San Francisco Bay Area based quintet. The group is notable for performances characterized by what the SF Weekly described as "transcendent live video projections." The band's sound was influenced by groups...
"Wesley Schultz, 9, who wants to be an artist, said, 'I spend a lot of time on my drawings and it turns out good 'cause I've been practicing a lot.'" -The New York Times, 3/15/92
Twenty years ago, Wesley Schultz saw t...
"Wesley Schultz, 9, who wants to be an artist, said, 'I spend a lot of time on my drawings and it turns out good 'cause I've been practicing a lot.'" -The New York Times, 3/15/92
Twenty years ago, Wesley Schultz saw t...
Lunice Fermin Pierre II has taken over the asylum because his sound is crazy, his vibe is inconceivable, and his appeal boundless.
In a little over a year, Lunice had managed to cap...
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...
Blessed with a commanding, blast-it-to-the-back-of-theroom voice, the 21-year-old Lydia Loveless was raised on a family farm in Coshocton, Ohio—a small weird town with nothing to do but make music. When she got older, ...
Mari, Matt, and Jake Abdo, are the siblings who are LYNHURST. The band is named after the South Minneapolis Park and neighborhood where they grew up. After a year of touring, writing, and recording, LYNHURST delivers a 5...
