A Chicago band known for its muddy work boots, anarchic stage shows and fondness for committing musical “pure butchery” (the New York Times’ words, not ours) may seem an odd match for the stylish craft and classici...
WALK THE MOON
Nicholas Petricca (vocals, keyboards) / Kevin Ray (bass, vocals) / Eli Maiman (guitar, vocals) / Sean Waugaman (drums, vocals)
This past June, Seattle news and culture blog Seattlest.com posted a revi...
Wallpaper. is, in many ways, Ricky Reed. The indulgent and ever-stylish frontman is more than just a sweet pair of shades and a gold-plated microphone. He’s a bona fide viral hustler, a disco ball-busting showman and a...
Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then — with each song — they pull off the scaffolding to...
Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then — with each song — they pull off the scaffolding to...
Warren Hood is an accomplished musician who plays violin, fiddle, mandolin, and composes and sings as well. He lives in Austin, Texas and performs with his local band, Warren Hood and the Hoodlums, in a blend of jazz/blu...
The Austin based Warrior Gospel Band is fueled by the fervor of the spirit and devotion to a wide ranging gospel sound. It's a potent combo of gospel quartet including rootsy guitar and vocals with soul and R&B inflected...
NPR The Austin 100: A SXSW 2012 Mix - Chosen Artist - Recommended
VICE: "An exciting listen" - Recommended
Pop Matters: "The spontaneous approach grants Phantom Limb a comfy simplicity and familiarity."
The Lin...
Spring 2010 saw the demise of Port O'Brien, and founding member/front man Van Pierszalowski needed a break from the hectic, wonderful mess that is touring. He stumbled into respite in Oslo, Norway, and spent some time aw...
Spring 2010 saw the demise of Port O'Brien, and founding member/front man Van Pierszalowski needed a break from the hectic, wonderful mess that is touring. He stumbled into respite in Oslo, Norway, and spent some time aw...
L.A.'s Wavves follow up their 2010 skuzz-pop masterstroke King of the Beach with Life Sux, the debut release from singer Nathan Williams' Ghost Ramp label. If the band's previous records were all about one man's self-loa...
L.A.'s Wavves follow up their 2010 skuzz-pop masterstroke King of the Beach with Life Sux, the debut release from singer Nathan Williams' Ghost Ramp label. If the band's previous records were all about one man's self-loa...
In the world of Hip‐Hop, the word “wax” has multiple meanings – all of which pertain to the true roots of
the culture. “Wax” as a verb means to speak enthusiastically, as ma...
In the world of Hip‐Hop, the word “wax” has multiple meanings – all of which pertain to the true roots of
the culture. “Wax” as a verb means to speak enthusiastically, as ma...
The Brick Squad Monopoly is headed west through Interstate Traffic. One of the most exciting, talked-about crews in Hip Hop, led by star rappers Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame is showing its California branches throug...
Wayne Kramer has lived a life of music and activism. He was the teenaged founder of Detroit's incendiary MC5. Long a respected film and TV composer, Wayne scored the comedy feature Talladega Nights for Sony Pictures and ...
Rise Ye Sunken Ships, the debut album from We Are Augustines, bowed into the Top 10 of SoundScan’s New Artists chart on the strength of its first week of digital sales. The physical album was released on August 23rd on...
America, we’d like to introduce you to an amazing new band called Serenades. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Serenades are the dynamic duo of Adam Olenius (Shout Out Louds) and Markus Krunegard, two of Sweden’s most hig...
We Are The In Crowd know that they have a lot to prove with the release of their first full-length album, Best Intentions - and that’s exactly what they thrive on. The challenges of being on the road for months at a t...
James Nee burst onto the scene developing a fanatic fanbase. Hailing from Virginia Beach, he wrote these touching songs after a breakup with mother nature......
"SOUTH BY SARAH WEST...in tribute to Hip-Hop"
Austin, TX March 1, 2012- Sarah West (ISW Cypher) is proud to partner this year with presenter's The Source Magazine and All About Us Records to bring you this Official SXSW...
We Were Evergreen are an alternative indie-electro-pop band from France. The Parisian trio were born in 2008, after a new year's resolution that, for once, actually stuck. Brought together by a shared fondness for all ki...
Following closely in the footsteps of The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetpacks are yet another hugely talented young Scottish band added to the FatCat roster. The 4-piece came to our attention wh...
Following closely in the footsteps of The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetpacks are yet another hugely talented young Scottish band added to the FatCat roster. The 4-piece came to our attention wh...
The Wedding Present has had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles… not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. Formed in 1985 by David Gedge, they have been record...
The Wedding Present has had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles… not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. Formed in 1985 by David Gedge, they have been record...
The Wedding Present has had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles… not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. Formed in 1985 by David Gedge, they have been record...
History of Artist
Surrendering all Praises, Glory, and Honor to God almighty! Through His Son, and my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ for allowing me, Wesley Bray, to be used as an instrument of Praise. I have been wor...
Western Tink & Beautiful Lou of MOBBIN NO SOBBIN (CENTRAL / CENTRILL , TEXAS). Mobbin No Sobbin - keep moving foward in life, dont cry about it. 2 artist from the state where every things bigger, who truley look at music...
Wet Hair is Shawn Reed, Justin Thye, and Ryan Garbes, the two remaining members of Raccoo-oo-oon that stayed in Iowa City after the band’s end. Reed also runs Night-People Records, which Garbes often contributes to. We...
What Made Milwaukee Famous has been a stalwart of the Austin music scene since their inception in 2003. The three original members, Michael Kingcaid (vocals, guitar, keyboards), John Farmer (bass), and Jason Davis (guita...
Wheelchair Sports Camp, the Denver based pseudo hip-hop band is a combination of beats, drums, a saxophone, and DJ. The band unknowingly started in the summer of 1997 when Kalyn moved back from Burbank, CA to her Denver ...
Wheelchair Sports Camp, the Denver based pseudo hip-hop band is a combination of beats, drums, a saxophone, and DJ. The band unknowingly started in the summer of 1997 when Kalyn moved back from Burbank, CA to her Denver ...
Formed in Austin, WHEELER BROTHERS have emerged as one of the most exciting bands breaking out of Texas. The five-piece act composed of Austin natives combines the gutsy indie vibe of the modern central Texas music scene...
With their steady ebb and flow of warm, effects-laden sounds, northern California’s Whirr (Formerly Whirl) give the sounds of 90s shoegaze a widescreen update for the post-millennial era. The young sextet’s walls of ...
The Whiskey Daredevils are one of the planet's finest country punkabilly bands. Since 2004 when former members of The Cowslingers decided to continue playing their mashed up country/rockabilly/americana/punk sound, the ...
Hatched in the twilight months of ought nine, these five young men came from all corners of the US looking to do one thing: knock the dust off roots music.
A freewheelin', trashgrassin', folk tornado, the Whiskey Shiv...
LA-based WHISPERTOWN is the latest iteration of the unique vision of Morgan Nagler (songwriter, lead vocals, guitar). What was once The Whispertown 2000 has morphed into a less structured version of itself, with Nagler...
Following the release of their debut ep earlier this summer Los Angeles’ five-piece White Arrows are set to make their British live debut and release their first single, ‘Get Gone’. It is a groove-soaked, synth’...
Following the release of their debut ep earlier this summer Los Angeles’ five-piece White Arrows are set to make their British live debut and release their first single, ‘Get Gone’. It is a groove-soaked, synth’...
Genre:
grunge, punk, trashy, provocative
Female lead singer Gao Xiao-gao is getting pretty famous within Taiwan's and China's indie scenes for being outrageous on stage, including showing up for one gig wearing a nud...
An evening of psychedelic funkyness, mexicans turning electronic sounds into digital soul, and vice versa, as you dance. This is White Ninja.
We will provide the grooving beats, the quirky arrangements and the smooth ...
After spending the better part of two years on the road (including festival stops at Lollapallooza, Glastonbury (UK), Sasquatch, Monolith and tours with The Walkmen, Spoon, Richard Swift, The Cribs, White Denim and Tokyo...
After spending the better part of two years on the road (including festival stops at Lollapallooza, Glastonbury (UK), Sasquatch, Monolith and tours with The Walkmen, Spoon, Richard Swift, The Cribs, White Denim and Tokyo...
After spending the better part of two years on the road (including festival stops at Lollapallooza, Glastonbury (UK), Sasquatch, Monolith and tours with The Walkmen, Spoon, Richard Swift, The Cribs, White Denim and Tokyo...
WHITE RING are a duo that dwell on the outskirts of pop music. Bryan Kurkimilis and Kendra Malia met on the internet in 2007 and started an email correspondence and exchanged ideas. Growing up in the age of the internet ...
Nate Nelson, a native of Athens, Georgia, has been making music since he was fifteen. He has released and toured with two previous records (Random Acts in 2004 and Knobs Have Turned in 2007). He has contributed to countl...
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...
Wild Child, indie-folk pop band from Austin, Texas, began as an acoustic duo consisting of Kelsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins singing ukulele love songs written and shared over red wine and old photographs. The two met ...
The Wild Feathers came together in 2010 in Nashville, TN. Jeff Sosnow an industry veteran knew all the band members personally and thought they would get along and complement each other. In the winter of 2010, they moved...
With a collection of songs that web male-female vocals of couple Zahira Gutierrez and Cody Swann, as well as pop-infused percussion and string work, Wild Moccasins, a quintet of 20-somethings from Houston, TX, offer a so...
Reviewing a recent show in London, a UK music blog wrote that the Wilderness of Manitoba displayed "a natural, unique sound that proves the creativity of this modern folk outfit and the places they are leading the genre"...
Will Dailey & The Rivals pave a new path with their upcoming full length self titled album and first for Universal Republic Records.
Breaking from an approach they employed on their last series of recordings, Will Da...
Will Sexton, whose writing credits range from work with Waylon Jennings and Stephen Stills to Joe Ely and Bill Carter, is shaped by the unique diversity of the Austin music scene. Fate and his own sheer talent placed hi...
William Elliott Whitmore
Field Songs
Anti- Records
A man armed only with a banjo and a bass drum can be a formidable force, especially if his name is William Elliott Whitmore. On the new Anti- Records album FIELD S...
Willie D (born Willie James Dennis in Houston, Texas, U.S.) is an American rapper who gained fame as the lead member of the pioneering rap group from Houston, Geto Boys. Despite his reputation for being a hardcore artist...
Willy Mason was just 19 when his first album was released, a record that propelled him to critical acclaim and showed a young man with a tremendous, broad-oaked voice, a great songwriting talent, and a peculiar wisdom be...
Willy Mason was just 19 when his first album was released, a record that propelled him to critical acclaim and showed a young man with a tremendous, broad-oaked voice, a great songwriting talent, and a peculiar wisdom be...
Willy Mason was just 19 when his first album was released, a record that propelled him to critical acclaim and showed a young man with a tremendous, broad-oaked voice, a great songwriting talent, and a peculiar wisdom be...
WIM have emerged on the scene out of relative obscurity. There have been whispers about them for years following their wondrous live shows; and now their haunting tunes will bring them into the limelight. Now Modular is ...
Starting with their self-titled debut in 2005, Winterpills have built a vibrant career with their exquisite chamber-pop songs that The Washington Post called “densely packed but hugely evocative, tiny bombs of feeling ...
Following a year of performances across Canada, UK, USA and Europe, with an appearance on David Letterman topping it all off, Nova Scotia rock scrappers Wintersleep met up with producers Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian) &...
Following a year of performances across Canada, UK, USA and Europe, with an appearance on David Letterman topping it all off, Nova Scotia rock scrappers Wintersleep met up with producers Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian) &...
Wiretree began as the solo recording project of singer-songwriter Kevin Peroni. After releasing the LP "Bouldin" in 2007, Peroni recruited other band members solidify the project. The group released their sophomore effor...
Wishes and Thieves is a New York based Alternative-Pop group that came together in the fall of 2010. Starting as the project of long-time friends Joe Higgins (bass) and Mike MacAllister (guitar), they sought to create m...
WITCHBURN
Heavy, down tuned, southern fried, whiskey soaked sabbra cadabra. Their live show pulsates with seething and sultry, sweaty energy. Bringing as much groove as brutal thunder, the music is like a hammer straigh...
Tearing through the speakers like a swamp monster summoned from some dark cosmic morass, Texas riff-masters Wo Fat un-apologetically blast out a southern fried, blues-infused version of Psychedelic Doom, conjuring up vis...
We are Woe, Is Me from Atlanta, GA! Some good ole’ boys from down South. We aim to connect with our fans, without our number[s] we would be nothing.......
Wonder Villains are Eimear Coyle, Cheylene Murphy, Ryan McGroarty and Kieran Coyle. They live in Derry, N.Ireland. Fresh out of high school (The girls got their A-Levels results in the Summer) the band have embarked upon...
Wonfu was officially formed on the eve of
Christmas 1998. Since then, the band has
been consistently playing various large-size
music festivals, including Spring Scream,
Formoz Festival and Hohaiyan Rock
Festival, a...
Wood & Wire is one of the most promising new bands on Austin's bluegrass and acoustic scene. Mixing in elements of Americana and swing, its healthy dose of original music and traditional bluegrass tunes keep audiences ri...
Jackson, MS based, Wooden Finger began as a collaboration between Matthew Magee and Allison Jenkins. Their diverse musical backgrounds resulted in 2006 debut LP All This Time...Still We're Lost, which was a haunting bl...
Presented by: Team Clermont/Fire Records/Critical Heights
James Jackson Toth, known to the world as Wooden Wand, is a maverick, good-hearted troubadour whose blend of smoky Americana has been garnering plaudits for the last decade. Unafraid to mix psychedelic workouts with swee...
Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers are a folk-rock-soul sextet of pan-Scottish provenance. Singer and guitarist Ali Downer assumed the moniker 'Woodenbox' , in a nod to influences such as King Creosote and ‘Bonnie’ P...
In June 2011, The New Yorker called the band WORKOUT “a hyperactive rock monster” and compared their music to a love child of David Bowie and Roky Erickson. But all name checking and flattery aside, this isn’t quit...
In June 2011, The New Yorker called the band WORKOUT “a hyperactive rock monster” and compared their music to a love child of David Bowie and Roky Erickson. But all name checking and flattery aside, this isn’t quit...
Wretched is a melodic death metal band based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, blending the sounds of European and American Metal. Wretched entered the studio to record with Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me) to push...
The duo of brothers, Andy and James Ralph, bashes, crashes, strums and shouts their way through songs that are scummy cement floor odes to real life, sung through aquarium glass to the prettiest girls they’ll never mee...
Wugazi is a labor of love by Cecil Otter & Swiss Andy. A year’s worth of cutting up every imaginable Fugazi record and trying out every Wu-Tang acapella they could get their hands on, resulted in Wugazi: 13 Chambers (a...
Wussy are a four-piece rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio fronted by ex-Ass Ponys frontman Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker. The two began performing together in 2001 as a result of Cleaver's stage fright when asked to perform...
Four years ago Wymond Miles, guitar player and songwriter in San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys, began writing solo material thematically based on the concepts of eschatology, anthroposophy, and Hermetic symbolism. Draw...
