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"In the decade since he won the 1997 DMC World DJ Championship at a prodigious 15 years of age, A-Trak has turned the art of turntablism back toward its original party-rocking focus - the dude can scratch and beat-juggle...

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Known internationally as a curator amongst the world’s most cutting edge DJs, producers, and musical movements Wesley Pentz (better known as DIPLO) has experienced a variety of successes. The last few years have been sp...

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AT&T is back and faster than ever with 4G LTE speeds. Stop by to charge your devices and test-drive the Samsung Galaxy Note, an all-in-one experience that simplifies your connectivity needs at SXSW. Austin Conventio...

Phone batteries fade. Laptop batteries wane. Your internal batteries need recharging, too. Come plug in at the NW corner of the Convention Center. Meet up with friends, record an interview, or just hang. Austin Conventi...

Dell delivers innovative technology and services that give you the power to do more this SXSW. Stop by to unwind, discover the latest from Dell and tell them how they can help you do more. Austin Convention Center: 1st ...

Come and enjoy free Java Monster drinks and complimentary breakfast from Monster Energy at the Registrants Lounge presented by MOFILM!...

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This is Red Light Management’s debut day party at South By Southwest. Join us for a one-of-a-kind mini-festival at the world famous Stubb’s BBQ in Austin, TX. You will experience two stages and 14 amazing bands, includ...

Complimentary rides around town! Yeah, we thought that'd get your attention. See a Chevy. Catch A Chevy. At the Convention Center or anywhere downtown 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Take a break, and let us do the driving. Sli...

Co-presented by the American Poster Institute (API) and SXSW, Flatstock 33 will display the works of more than 100 artists from across North America and the globe. The exhibition is free and open-to-the-public running Ma...

For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business. For t...

Eventbrite hosts this music and tech industry brunch at Austin favorite, Lambert’s. Come for the carving station, comfort food, and morning drinks; stay for the live music and massage chairs. Use your Eventbrite App to h...

After 10 years at Cedar Street, Filter Magazine’s party is one of the must-see staples of SXSW. Doors open at 11:00 am each day, March 15-17, so come to enjoy the free BBQ and top indie acts. Please arrive early for entr...

Michael Azerrad signs his book ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991’ at the SXSW bookstore...

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Hard Rock Hotels’ "The Sound of Your Stay" Music Lounge will be one of the hottest venues featuring performances by some of SXSW’s top acts. “The Sound of Your Stay” program is designed to provide hotel guests...

Dell delivers innovative technology and services that give you the power to do more this SXSW. Come by to check out the latest products from Dell, create your own t-shirt and enter for the chance to win a Fixie bike....

Returning for its third year as the exhibition for musicians and enthusiasts, The Music Gear Expo is a cornucopia of guitars, keyboards, amps, effects pedals, drums, mics, DJ equipment, mixing software, music education a...

A place for music enthusiasts, film makers and young professionals to engage in activities that showcase the latest 4G LTE devices and applications in a clever, yet meaningful way. Located on San Jacinto at 6th Street....

Explore the future of media, music, and technology with RootMusic, Gobbler, Heard, SUPERGOODMUSIC, and Devolver Digital. Charge your phone, swag up at the Artist Pit Stop (free BandPage upgrade, Gobbler subscription, and...

Join YouTube Presents and Google Music for "Live from the Lot" -- two days of live concerts atop a parking garage in downtown Austin. If you're a showcasing artist, stop by the Google Music artist lounge next t...

Meet fellow music managers from around the world at the business epicenter of SXSW – the Trade Show Meet Up Pavilion. Organized by SXSW and the Music Managers Forum (MMF-US), this dedicated meeting space gives managers a...

The Music Gear Expo Lounge presented by Klipsch is a great place to unwind away from the Gear Expo main floor. Comfortable furnishings provide a spot to relax and wi-fi makes sure you are still connected. Meet other gear...

Strait Music will sell strings, cables, drum heads and instruments and will have techs on hand to do guitar tune ups....

Mother Falcon is an orchestral band born in Austin, Texas who play a combination of classical and folk with the aesthetics and mentality associated with indie music. Led by Nick Gregg, the 22-member band is known for the...

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For their second year in a row, SXSW will host the Green Zone, a sustainable oasis located right amongst the bustle of downtown Austin at 7th and Red River St. Sponsored by Whole Foods Market for 2012, the transformed pa...

Bruce Springsteen's artistry has drawn worldwide acclaim and honors. His recordings include time-tested classics of rock and acoustic-based albums celebrating folk traditions. His live shows are fervent celebrations of t...

March 14th through the 18th Thrasher magazine and Converse present the annual Texas Death Match at the SXSW music fest. Serious mayhem awaits as the only bands that matter soundclash with some mini-ramp rippin’ at the Sc...

Discover music you'll love at the Pandora Discovery Den (Wed-Fri). Featured artists will cross genres from Rock to Hip Hop. Afternoon shows followed by DJ-hosted Casino Happy Hour from 5-7 with daily drink specials and p...

The FADER Fort happens yearly in Austin, showcasing celebrated innovators and emerging talents. The FADER has a 12-year history of predicting what’s next in music in culture, and over four days in March that prescience m...

Filter Magazine’s Culture Collide is a four-day international festival welcoming artists from 24 countries and counting, bringing their unique perspectives on music and culture to Los Angeles for a musical melting pot of...

Holger Peterson signs his book ‘Talking Music’ at the SXSW bookstore....

The Hype Machine is the world's music blog hub. Hype Hotel, presented by Feed The Beat, brings Hype Machine to life in Austin, making it the spot to hear the new music everyone is talking about. Featuring lineups curated...

Meet the Next Generation of Musicians from the Live Music Capital of the World. Featuring The Peterson Brothers and Casino. At rhe Austin Airstream Trailer....

Dubspot Class: Drum Programming w/ Native Instruments Maschine with Pat Cupo...

In the cold and dreary winter of 2009, alone in his bedroom and hidden from the darkness of the world outside Justin Paul Vallesteros had begun working on something that would change his life forever. What began as a cou...

S.O.Terik is a collective of like-minded individuals who came together to uplift and inspire the world through art, music, fashion and entertainment. Living by the motto, Peace is a Verb, S.O.Terik in conjunction with Fi...

Hoof it over to La Zona Rosa for The Warner Sound Captured By Nikon on Wednesday 3/14 and Thursday 3/15. We kick off each afternoon at 1:00 pm with intimate performances by fun., Kimbra, Crystal Fighters, LP, Geographer ...

Today, dance artists grace the covers of rock magazines and top the charts, commanding headlining slots at rock festivals. Electronic artists are becoming the modern day icons of rock's past. Why is this happening now? W... LEVEL: Intermediate

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At SXSW 2011, the Future of Music Coalition presented its multi-method research project, Artist Revenue Streams. For the past year, the project has collected data from thousands of US-based musicians and composers to bet... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Carrie Potter-Devening signs her book ‘For Music's Sake: Asbury Park's Upstage Club and Green Mermaid Cafe Untold Stories’ at the SXSW bookstore....

Life seldom runs in a straight line, even for artists and creative businesspeople. Enduring in music often leads to a 'second act' where reinvention takes people out of their comfort zone into new territory. Explore the ... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Demo Listening Sessions offer a unique opportunity for selected musicians to get direct feedback from music professionals - those who listen to demos as part of their job.... LEVEL: Beginner

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Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill, united as the Hobart Brothers & Lil’ Sis Hobart, will release their long-threatened debut album, At Least We Have Each Other, on Freedom Records in CD, LP and digital do...

In 1978, Congress passed legislation that allows authors to reclaim their copyrights after 35 years. You do the math. In 2013, this long unsettled question of whether sound recordings should revert from record labels bac... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Artists, songwriters, producers and labels discuss the process of making a record that stands above the rest. From thoughts about knowing when a song is good enough, to the philosophy on production and the recording proc... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Arists, labels, press, and brands can come together and network and discuss new opportunities during the Indie Label Meet Up. The Meet Up Pavilion provides a casual space for indie labels to operate at their own pace and...

Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sign-up begins half an hour before the mentor session. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. You can onl...

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Several schools across the United States provide training and formal degrees in music business. These programs have recruited top industry professionals to teach, lending their real world expertise and advise. These prog... LEVEL: Intermediate

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As the tide of social media changes abruptly, obsessive fans colonize social spaces and build communities to cater to their needs. Tumblr is a social blogging platform that in just over 4 years has become one of top 25 w... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Facebook and Twitter. Pretty much every panel at SXSW will be talking about them to some degree, and you know how valuable and vital they can be to a musical career and a musician's connection to fans. But just having an... LEVEL: Beginner

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When and how can artists use the names and likenesses of other artists? Join us as we examine the interaction between Trademarks, the Right of Privacy, and The Right of Publicity. We will take a look at bands such as Da... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Music has always been an important agent for social, political, and economic change in America. This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Woody Guthrie, whose Depression-era songs of protest still res...

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Dickies and Filter Magazine have teamed up again to bring you a stellar line-up of indie talent at Lustre Pearl on Rainey St. Performances will take place March 15th through the 17th. SXSW Badges welcome. Please arrive e...

Dubspot Class: Sound Design w/ Moog Minitaur & Voyager with Special Guest...

Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi ("I Am a Sex Addict") is out to ruffle some feathers with his latest documentary, in which he uses money from a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film making fun of the event....

The PureVolume House returns with the most eclectic after-hours lineup in Austin (again). In a brand-new, custom-built event space, the House will play host to performances from the top independent voices online: Stereog...

Comedian Rick Shapiro signs his CD ‘Unconditional Love’ at the SXSW bookstore....

Rock your faces. Remix the races. You're Welcome. Music, comedy, dialogue and dancing. 2:00-3:30 DIALOGUE AND MUSIC! Invincible, Negin Farsad, Tanene Allison, and Oliver Rajamani Join us for music, spoken word an...

Raheem Jarbo (AKA MegaRan) signs his book at the SXSW bookstore....

Martin Atkins signs his book ‘Tour: Smart’ at the SXSW bookstore....

SXSW Film head honcho Janet Pierson will be joined by SXSW Creative Director Brent Grulke and SXSW co-founder and Senior Director Louis Black to discuss this year's event with Indiewire....

Topspin, Fanbridge, Kickstarter, PledgeMusic, StageIt, and many other platforms are all built to help artists identify, and be supported by, their biggest fans. In this emerging age of the benefactor, what has worked so... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Representatives of three noted music analytics companies each present a 15-minute overview of their services: Buzzdeck, Next Big Sound, & MusicMetric. What do these measurements mean to musicians? How do analysts pro...

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New technologies affect the way guitarists learn, write, collaborate, and perform. Influential voices in the area of guitar apps explore the ways that players use them, and the ramifications of this emerging trend in mus... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Are you a songwriter, composer or all around musician? You may have music beds or tracks you worked on that could be perfect for television. Meet some of the major players in this world and find out how you can break int... LEVEL: Advanced

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When done right, artist-cause collaborations can raise vital funds, energy and awareness for an issue or non-profit organization, and can help to bring new audiences to musicians, while deepening the relationships artist... LEVEL: Beginner

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Did you know that the average NFL game uses 145 pieces of music? Music is already a huge part of sports across the globe, and it's growing with digital and mobile apps. Broadcasters, publishers, lawyers, teams and league...

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With record labels downsizing, managers are required to offer more services for their clients. As a result, many independent managers are choosing to partner with larger organizations. Can you stay out on your own and re...

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Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sign-up begins half an hour before the mentor session. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. You can onl...

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From album art to posters, video, and performance, the visual aspect of metal has always provided the much needed counterpart to the heaviest of genres. Brutal to gory, intense to stark, these images reflect, influence a... LEVEL: Beginner

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Renowned producers Kevin Augunas, Doug Boehm, and Clif Norrell have worked in the studio with some of the biggest artists on the planet, and they'll be sharing their experience with you. In this Shorties session, each wi... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Songs like "Crazy On You," "Magic Man," "Barracuda" and "Straight On" embedded Heart in the DNA of classic rock. Ann and Nancy Wilson were among the first women who worked as write...

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Content has been declared king for decades, but good content, alone, is no longer enough. In today's digital media age, artists must also have brands that are well-defined and compelling to achieve commercial success and...

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French-Mexican Andrea Balency was born in Paris in 1989 and after a thorough and classical education; she started composing music at the age of 17. Since then, her life experiences from both Argentina and Mexico - where ...

David Kusek signs his book ‘The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution’ at the SXSW bookstore....

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"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...

From the basement t-shirt line to the rapper-owned brands, fashion is intertwined with music from design to marketing to obsession. Tastemakers from many industries are present at SXSW, and fashion is no different. Bands...

Dubspot Class: Using Ableton + Livid’s CNTRL:R for Live Performance with DJ KIVA...

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 become ...

Stand Up! Records presents our first SXSW showcase with a comedic palate-cleansing for all you weary SXSW denizens who can’t remember if you saw The Blind Shake or The Black Swans, don’t know if you left your glasses at ...

Torreblanca Biography TORREBLANCA is a Mexican rock/pop/alternative independent band created in late 2007. They are a feisty young group of 5 musicians -very different from each other- however (yet), they comply in an ...

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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-songwr...

Bill German signs his book ‘Under Their Thumb: How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It)’ at the SXSW bookstore....

Consumers are discovering new music and artists from ads on TV. Getting your song into a national commercial can kick start a career, take an emerging artist to the next level, or even create a hit, just like heavy rotat... LEVEL: Advanced

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The Registrants Lounge presented by MOFILM, located on the corner of 4th and Neches right in front of the Austin Convention Center, is the meeting place for SXSW registrants to network and grab a drink....

In George Orwell's seminal novel, Animal Farm, the animals rebel against the farmers, taking over the farm to build a utopian society. But the dream devolves into a nightmare as the pigs gain power and build a more oppre... LEVEL: Beginner

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Practically every region of the country has been affected by the prolonged economic downturn, and musicians are feeling the pinch. Arts budgets are being slashed. Yet there is also an increased awareness in policy making... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Erik Hawkins of Berkleemusic (a.k.a. electronic music artist and composer, Erik Hawk) will be discussing song production workflow in Propellerhead’s Reason software. Throughout the presentation, he’ll be sharing general ... LEVEL: Intermediate

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When it came time to record Delta Spirit’s third album, the band members knew one thing: It was time to shake off the stylistic labels that have shadowed them since they formed in San Diego, CA, in 2005. Though lyricists...

There is now some real competition in the cloud services marketplace, and while good value, ease of use, beauty of the interface and breadth of the catalog are all important factors in winning over users, a powerful disc... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Steven Greenberg discusses the unique life of his song 'Funkytown.' From its genesis in a Minneapolis studio, to its rise to worldwide hit status under the moniker Lipps Inc., and to its long afterlife in numerous movies...

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The artist's image matters. Whether on stage, in photo shoots, videos, status updates and tweets, people are interested in the look of a musician, and form their opinion of the music in conjunction with the visual cues p...

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KORG Class: Music production and sound design with Korg's new flagship product KRONOS. With Jae Deal, who represents a sub culture of musicians that back the A List artists in the music industry, and have roots are in Hi...

Metal music and culture has, from the beginning, intended to push the boundaries of socio-political-religious discourse and sound ever-darker and ever more extreme. But where has that put the genre, and where does it go ... LEVEL: Beginner

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The UK is one of the most creative and fast-changing musical environments in the world. Success here can often be the springboard you need to lead to worldwide acclaim. Adele, Coldplay, Taio Cruz, The Killers and Kings o... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Van Toffler, President of Viacom's Music & Logo Group, is responsible for all the music services, including MTV, MTV2, VH1, VH1 Classic, CMT and CMT Pure Country, their affiliated screens and digital services; and Lo...

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Rocking dance and stand-floors since 1996, DJ Jester the Filipino Fist has toured with Kid Koala, MGMT, Grand Buffet, Of Montreal, and Third Eye Blind. His sound is very Texas: hot, spicy, and eclectic. For years, Jester...

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The IFC Crossroads House is back in Austin with a new location at Vice Bar (302 E. 6th Street). Join us for music, comedy, free food and drinks, giveaways and more! Check out ifc.com/sxsw for more details....

Featuring buzzy bands, Thursday through Saturday. Doors at 5pm!...

Australia is a country every artist wants to tour. Find out how the Australian music industry works; the key radio stations, blogs and print media, and the touring circuit. Who are the key promoters? When is a good time ... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Music photographer Bob Gruen signs his book ‘Rock Seen’ at the SXSW bookstore....

How do professionals generate cash for songwriters? How do you find projects that need material? How do pros contact decision makers? How do final decisions get made? Who cuts the checks? How does the money get distribut... LEVEL: Intermediate

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What's the latest on the anti-piracy front? Why did the efforts to pass SOPA and PIPA meet unprecedented resistance? If the government can prosecute Megaupload under existing laws, do we need more regulation? Can the gul...

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In this hour-long discussion highlighted by performances, BMI songwriters John Doe, Todd Snider and Jesse Malin reflect on the art of songwriting, from influences and inspirations to process and playing. A rare opportuni...

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As we continue to make deeper moves toward an entirely digital music future, finding the music that you love is not as simple as tuning to a radio station. Digital curators have emerged to share their expertise via blog ... LEVEL: Beginner

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What types of digital music consumers exist in the marketplace today? How can musicians reach them? Defining behaviors group digital music consumers by their musical tastes and interests, their sharing, listening and lea... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Working musicians want to know how to tap into the potentially lucrative licensing market, so we've gathered three renowned players to discuss different aspects of licensing, geared towards helping musicians. From basics... LEVEL: Intermediate

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What goes into creating an arena sized tour? Who designs the stages and how are all the visuals pulled off? Stage dive into the creative process behind designing a tour from concept to concert.... LEVEL: Advanced

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Islam impacts American culture in profound ways. Cultivating identity and political progression and reform, Hip Hop is, arguably, an integral force in the American Muslim identity. Non-Black American Muslims from immigra... LEVEL: Intermediate

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Witness live critiques of band websites. Reviewing panelists will be ruthless and leave all diplomacy aside. The site's design, organization, content and functionality will be assessed. How does the website fit with the... LEVEL: Intermediate

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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 dru...

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...

M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion “I can trace all my songs to a specific moment,” M. Ward told a New York Times writer in February of 2009, as he was about to release, Hold Time, his acclaimed third release for Merge Re...

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POLIÇA began as a collaboration between fellow Gayngs' members Channy Casselle and Ryan Olson in June of 2011. By July they had completed 11 songs, made the key additions of drummers Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson, ...

The Union Line formed just after finishing high school in sunny San Juan Capistrano, CA. Shortly after forming, in 2010 they released their first EP "Cernido Sondidos" on RCA's Back Seal imprint. Later that year they hit...

The Copper Gamins area garage musical outfit originating in Zinacantepec MX, Mexico. The duo consists of guitarist/vocalist J. Carmen and drummer Claus Lafania. The Copper Gamins gave their first show one year and som...

BOAN is the new post Medio Mutante project featuring Mariana Saldana (//TENSE//, MM) and Jose Cota (SSLEEPERHOLD, MM) with audio production by Michael Stein (SURVIVE). Inspired by ACID, NewBeat, Post Apocalyptic Dreams,...

A global citizen with a globally minded focus, Chief Boima is an electronic musician/DJ, cultural activist, and writer currently based in New York. He is a member of the Brooklyn based music, arts, and culture collectiv...

Born in Los Angeles.Jason Justice "CID" (Child In Disguise) Influenced by Funk, Sound Design, Anime , and Circuit bending....

Daniel is a songwriter and filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec. He was born in 1979....

Since releasing their self-titled debut in 2007, Boston's The Grownup Noise have evolved into a rousing indie- pop outfit, bridging the gap between americana and indie, who've shared stages with everyone from comedian Pa...

Raised by Nanjing intellectuals, Rebuilding The Rights Of Statues frontman Hua Dong was exposed to rock music at an early age and began writing songs and playing instruments in his teens. After a few years spent studying...

26 year old. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She started to play in the year 2007, and has released one album called “Atardecer” (Sunset/ Independent, August 2009). Her songs are composed in guitar in t...

Songwriter Django Haskins has spent the past fifteen years shaping a landscape of lush, literate rock. He is the driving force behind the Durham, NC band The Old Ceremony, who are currently finishing up their fifth studi...

Say Hi is a rock n' roll band from Seattle, WA. The 7th record, "Um, Uh Oh," is out now on Barsuk records....

Minneapolis/St. Paul based energetic, garage, punk, noise Japanese duo the Birthday Suits formed in spring of 2005 and released their debut album Cherry Blue later that year. After the release of Cherry Blue, it did not...

Austin troubadour Alejandro Escovedo’s journey has taken him from Texas to California to New York and back again to Texas, encompassing a breadth of music as varied as the many bands he was part of before embarking on a ...

Singer and producer Alvin Risk's talents have earned him instant recognition amongst the dance music Illuminati. Since posting his first songs just months ago, he has already garnered support from artists like Skrillex, ...

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...

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BORN SEPTEMBER 7, 1988 ON THE SOUTHSIDE OF CHICAGO IT WASN'T ALWAYS EASY FOR BIG KANNON (DAJUAN WILSON). WITH THE STRUGGLE OF HIS CHILDHOOD AND THE UPS AND DOWNS OF DEALING FAMILY PROBLEMS HE NEEDED A WAY TO RELEASE HIS ...

Busy saving the city from the brick wall arm crossing and the casual head nods, Brooklyn's own Body Language has risen from the DIY venue basements armed with the kinetic dynamite you would expect from the name. Their or...

The Bombettes formed in 2005 and play catchy punk rock with influences from the 60s. They have toured both Europe and USA, they’ve played at clubs, garages, squats, pubs as well as bigger arenas. With their catchy tunes ...

BORIS McCUTCHEON Boris McCutcheon lives off the grid in northern New Mexico, on the High Road to Taos, writing when he can catch a break from pruning fruit trees, chopping cords of wood, and managing the local acequia...

Harkening back to punk rock’s glory days of the 70s, Oklahoma outfit BRONCHO captures the aggression, DIY authenticity and youthful exhilaration of a bygone era and then drags it by the hair into the Here and Now, creati...

I have a huge interest for all things related to music. So much in fact, that through it I discovered my passion for other fields, and eventually led me to pursue a TV and radio dj career. At an early age, I began my mu...

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 you’ve ...

“It couldn’t be more bombastic and EPIC if you handed it a flag and shot a flare over its head into the vast and EPIC night sky” -Artrocker After a month long residency in London complementing a full UK tour wowing ...

After leading several popular ‘80s cult bands in and around his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas, Chuck Mead landed on Nashville’s Lower Broadway where he co-founded the famed ‘90s Alternative Country quintet BR549. The band...

Confidence isn’t always born of experience, as seen by the forceful debut by Los Angeles band Cold Showers. Combining influences of late 1970s post-punk with a sonic exploration closer to something from Neu!, it is the c...

Los Angeles is a trip. And currently the musics emanating from this West Coast dreamland are spinning heads like no others. Diva Dompe is central to this L.A. renaissance, having founded the fabulously costumed trio Blac...

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 2010′s Club DJ of the Year! It’s no question that when DJ Hella Yella is...

Since 2006, Devin Booze and Sarah Reynolds have been actively recording and performing as EAR PWR, a project crafted around Booze’s instrumentation, Reynolds’ lyricism, and the two’s creatively synergetic interplay. Booz...

Developing their own sound and twist on modern hip hop, psychedelic and soul Electric Wire Hustle’s unique sound challenges genre boundaries and preconceptions.The music of New Zealand’s EWH reaches forward while refere...

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...

Combining soft harmonies, comforting guitar chords and toe tapping beats for irresistibly catchy songs that will have you jumping out of your seat - Family Of The Year (FOTY) - Joe Keefe (vocals, guitars), Sebastian Kee...

Fiawna Forté is a propelling force of musical nature that blends the traditions of rock and roll, blues and indie sensibilities with everything else that crosses her path. Running (barefoot)ahead of this ...

Hailed as “one of the best young bands in America,” Filligar is the rock n’ roll quartet comprised of the three Mathias brothers—Johnny, Pete, and Teddy—and their lifelong friend Casey Gibson. Drawing comparisons to a “y...

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Four blood brothers creating infectiously catchy rock n roll laden with synth textures, dynamic rhythms, contemplative lyricism and luscious guitars. That’s the genius of Saskatoon’s post-pop rockers Foam Lake. Equally a...

Cathy Guthrie and Amy Nelson, also known as Folk Uke, have been writing and performing together for over a decade. Folk Uke is a unique amalgam of angelic harmonies often wrapped around edgy, surprising lyrics. Folk Uke ...

The Gabriel Santiago Quintet has been performing extensively in the United States and in Brazil, supporting the album “Gabriel Santiago”, released in 2008 (Brazil) and 2009 (USA). The Quintet recently toured in the Unite...

The King Of In Between is the work of a mature artist and the distillation of Garland Jeffreys’ long career dedicated to addressing socially conscious themes across a broad range of musical styles. He’s been called an ed...

GOLD BEACH Initially hailing from the Houston area, the principle songwriters of Gold Beach, Tony Daugherty and Michael Winningham, grew up on the same street. The two relocated to Austin and put the band together, w...

Grandchildren is a six-piece electro-acoustic orchestral pop band from Philadelphia, PA. Since its beginnings as a solo recording project that fused folk songs with globally sourced sampled beats and epic arrangements, t...

The paths of Amélie Nault and Olivier Beaulieu first crossed in Quebec City, where the pair enjoyed revisiting classics from their idols. The inseparable duo began to lay the groundwork for an as-yet amorphous musical pr...

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Joe Volume is a singer, songwriter and producer from Mexico City. He is 24 years old and has 1 EP and 3 LP´s, all of them produced or co-produced by him. Volume has played with the most important Latin American acts and...

JOSEPH LEO BWARIE is the not to be missed new artist at SXSW®. Joseph Leo Bwarie will perform with his live band in a first ever showcase performance of his debut solo album "Nothin’ But Love." Bwarie's Capitol Records...

It all started with myth, not history… She was born sometime in August, 1920 in the Valley of Pachacutí in the region of Tarapacá under the name Pharaoh Koralle Esperanza del Carmen Pantic. Her parents were rom musical ...

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...

“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, over a...

"Maus Haus used to be known as San Francisco’s own vintage synth-collecting, guitar-hating weird dudes. Well, they still are, sorta, but now they might do an entire album with only guitars. With a standout set at this pa...

Dispossession is the second full length from Brooklyn’s Mike Wexler, and his debut for Mexican Summer. An artist who defies easy categorization—a songwriter/guitarist without a traditionalist bone in his body, with an e...

Folk rockers Milo Greene are staying busy this fall. The California group are touring with The Civil Wars, Grouplove and Belle Brigade over the next few months as well as recording their yet-to-be-named debut album, set ...

A new breed of dark rockers is subtly taking over, stealing the hearts of a dedicated legion of fans, with a blend of intense melodic metal and a penchant for the macabre. Already fan favorites in the scene, Pennsylvania...

Four gentlemen from Barcelona who met at the university, where they studied cinema, and came to the brilliant idea to form a band. We don't know if they would have been geniuses in the science of cinema, we do know that ...

While calling to mind the vast and oftentimes desolate American landscape, the folk tales of MUSIKANTO hold their own within the rich tradition of American music. The Chicago-based songwriter grew up listening to his fat...

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 traditional fo...

We are a Colombian band that has been writing music for about 2 years and has been playing live shows for about 8 months. We have a broad sound that can pass through a number of musical genres such as folk, punk or danc...

"Primitive Weapons, a N.Y. quintet featuring Long Island hardcore scene vets who like plowing Deadguy and AmRep into dark sludge and doom, follow a self-titled 2011 7" with a frantic, but spacious debut LP, The Shadow Ga...

Los Angeles, CA - February 22, 2012 - Reptar today announced that their debut full-length album, Body Faucet, will be released on May 1st via Vagrant Records. Produced by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Was...

Sarah Jaffe – Suburban Nature If there is one thing that Sarah Jaffe will never have to contend with it is the idea that she is a female singer for females. There was once a time that being a female singer meant you ...

Secret Walls is the World’s premier live art battle, first hosted in Shoreditch London in 2006. Secret Walls offers young and aspiring artists a creative platform - allowing them a chance to showcase their work on a glob...

If you believe that music is humankind’s universal gift to itself and that it has been passed on over thousands of years from generation to generation in all of its various mind expanding shapes and that it is holy and b...

Artists take on pseudonyms for a multitude of reasons, but in Zach Saginaw’s case, those reasons run deeper than most. Zach records under the name Shigeto. It’s his middle name; it’s also his grandfather’s name, a tribut...

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SISU (pronounced “see-soo”) is from Los Angeles, California, and upcoming full-length Blood Tears is their first proper collection of songs. Led by Sandra Vu, the quartet is completed by Ryan Wood, Nathanael Keefer, and ...

The Brooklyn five-piece embraces an indie pop sound rich with echo pedals, tribal beats, electro-acoustic soundscapes and classical orchestrations. The band is fronted by new-classical composer Grayson Sanders, whose voc...

Naeem Juwan AKA Spank Rock comes from the wall-sweating, pipe-bursting, hip-grinding basements of the Baltimore Bass movement. After spending some time at Drexel University in Philly he linked up with the Diplo-powered ...

Inspired by the music he grew up listening to as a child, from the Rolling Stones (the only CD's his mum ever has in her car) to The Style Council, Elvis Costello and The Ronettes, it's all "just about love really". ...

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The Strange Familiar, lead by Kira Leyden (vocalist, keyboard) and Jeff Andrea (lead guitarist) garnered early critical success with their Top 10 iTunes hit "Courage Is" (featured as the promo theme on ABC Family's The S...

Supreme Dicks put out one single in their career. It was a double B-side. Maybe they had a sense of humor, but in hindsight it's hard to tell. Falling somewhere between Captain Beefheart, Throbbing Gristle and SALEM in ...

Portland, Oregon duo Kevin O'Connor and Lisa Molinaro create lush and evocative instrumental soundscapes under the name Talkdemonic. Formed in 2003, Talkdemonic began as Kevin's pursuit for new frontiers in percussion an...

THEESatisfaction are Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White. Stas was born and raised in Tacoma, Cat in Seattle and Hawaii. The pair live/laugh/love/dance and create in Seattle, WA. They write, produce and perform their...

Winnipeg Manitoba is equal parts an arts town and a party town. Tim "Co-op" Hoover is a dj, producer, promoter, and entertainer whose work has both a sense of humour and a sense of wonder. For over a decade, he has been ...

It's funny. The Tontons don't have a readily available mainstream band to make an off-the-cuff comparison, so in this space we won't tell you they sound like Indie Flavor Of The Week or Noted And Weighty Classic Rock Nam...

A punk rock freight train, in a thunderstorm, on a full moon, on Halloween, in a burst of blood and flame... without being overly dramatic its hard to ignore the virginal excitement of this outfit. Turbogeist have blaze...

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...

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...

Yearbook Committee started as a recording project in a garage and quickly turned into a monster. A collective of sorts. No lead singer. No sole songwriter. Just a group of musicians with one common goal; to write, record...

It’s 12:40 a.m. on a Saturday night, drinks are being poured and your living room is starting to look like Studio 54. Better hope you’ve got Zak Waters’ on the stereo. Oozing with confidence, sex appeal, and a Jackson...

After a thirteen years old career, including: seven albums, five Maxi LP's and hundreds of live concerts throughout the world, you would think you knew all about ZENZILE. However, those who have followed this band since ...

Chief Fuzzer is a three piece, slightly psychedelic hard rock band stationed in San Marcos, Texas. They recently signed with Saustex Records and expect to release a vinyl EP and full-length CD in February of 2012. The b...

Whimsical, haunting, dreamlike music that eschews the traditional formulae, Cheyenne Marie Mize presents a rainbow of juxtapositions. Her 2010 debut, Before Lately, has been described as rugged and gentle, spacious and i...

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"Nick is one of the most versatile producers I know ... taking everything from house to drum and bass to moombahton and putting his own forward-thinking spin on it. Not genre bound, just music bound." - Skrillex In h...

Sara Beck, better known by her stage name, Pink Nasty is an American singer-songwriter. She is from Wichita, Kansas and currently lives in Austin, Texas. Pink Nasty has released three full length albums. She performs wit...

RUTHIE FOSTER “LET IT BURN” Those who have followed Ruthie Foster’s eclectic musical history know that she can burn down any stage with her combustible blend of soul, blues, rock, folk and gospel. And when Grammy Awar...

Where dirty blues and beats collide: Meet ZZ Ward, a singer/songwriter whose artistry spins on a luminous axis of voice and soul. Raised in Roseburg, Oregon, ZZ learned from her father who wrote songs and played harmonic...

Cold Fronts are four piece rock and roll band from Philadelphia. Sounds like The Strokes/Television. Just recorded a five song EP in New York City in the old Strokes studio (Is This It? Room On Fire). Been a band less th...

Showman extraordinaire and outlaw troubadour Henry Wagons is building a worldwide reputation with his twisted take on the classics of Americana country. Like a mischievous child of Cash, Orbison and Presley, with his dis...

All too often when people think of Little Rock, Arkansas, the first thing that comes to mind is HBO’s award-winning 1994 documentary Gang War: Bangin’ in Little Rock. Not any more. With the Rock on his back and a Razorba...

Slugbug is the tape name of Texas person Paul D. Millar. He has been making tapes since he was a tiny horrible man. Now a regular sized horrible man, he aims to amuse/horrify audiences with his manic New Wave influenced ...

The focal point of Yellow Ostrich's magnificent debut the mistress is Wisconsin native Alex Schaaf's voice. On the mistress it gets looped and layered, stretched and manipulated; it's stacked up several high and, most of...

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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-inspired ...

Born Stacey White On November 8th 1990 & As Part Of The Brick Bandits Later Down The Line In Life, Which Include The Likes Of Tim Dolla, Dirty South Joe And Dj Sega, Dj Sliink's Records Have Been Obliterating Club Sound...

Films of Colour crashed through the doors of the music world with their debut single Actions, released on tastemaker Label Fandango/Fierce Panda and were described by head honcho Simon Williams as the best band he's sign...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_(rapper) Harold Michael Simmons II (born September 17, 1988), better known by his stage name Future (also known as Future the Artist and Future the Unknown), is an American rap...

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...

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Spoek Mathambo is the stage name of South African musician (Singer-Rapper-Producer-DJ), Nthato Mokgata. At the vanguard of a new wave of African artists, Spoek is hitting the world hard with his take on Afro-futurism. Hi...

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With influences from the heyday of the 60's and 70's, their sound is equal parts infectious-pop and dark-stomping-blues, combined with their own blend of hope, disappointment, grit, and wit. In 2005, when Dave Vicini ...

After making a name for himself for the better part of a decade on the alt-comedy scene in N.Y.C., Andres du Bouchet has been working in late night television since 2007, and is currently based in L.A. where he is a staf...

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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. The references to Muddy Waters being as deep as W...

Born amongst the steel mills of Massillon, Ohio, Kyle Myricks earned his nickname, Stallion, because of the grit and determination that characterized his youthful athleticism. Later, Stallion was shortened to Stalley, a...

The Blind Shake is a trio of detuned, garage-stomp noisemakers from Minneapolis, MN. They are known for their explosive live shows and collaborations with psych legend Michael Yonkers. The band's full length album "Se...

SIRsir AKA Lucas Silveira is a Sao Paulo-based producer doing all kinds of distorted, glitchy, psychedelic, phat-bass-driven electronic danceable music. While not sticking to any styles, SIRsir agressively transits betwe...

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Amoral – ”Classic Rock of the 21st Century”! Amoral is a band established by founders Ben Varon and Juhana Karlsson in Helsinki, Finland in the late 90's. The band's production can be classified as technical, progres...

Avalanche City is the brainchild of Dave Baxter, a musician whose background stretches across many genres and influences, culminating in a sound that is an impressive and eclectic range of various instruments, melodies a...

Bad Weather California’s new LP Sunkissed is their 2nd full length album and debut for Akron/Family’s Family Tree Records label. The album was recorded in Detroit at the home studio of engineer Chris Koltay, produced by ...

BAMBARABANDA is a unique group, one that synthesizes an authentic approach infused with a strong cultural identity, nourished by musical traditions of the Andean regions of Colombia and South America in a fusion of unive...

Bass Drum of Death is a band from Mississippi. John plays guitar and sings and Colin plays the drums. Together they make blown-out, blazing songs. John was Fat Possum’s worst employee 3 years ago. He wrote and recorded t...

In a night that will combine the best of SXSW 2012 film and music, an all-star group of musicians will gather at Austin’s historic Paramount Theatre on March 15th to celebrate the Big Star legacy through a complete perfo...

**** (4/5 stars)- Mojo "...a gorgeous sounding record" - Pitchfork "an artful intentionality to it all... a terrific album."-- Paste Ohio has long been a breeding ground for strange beauty. Visionary natives inc...

#1 Rock Album in Spain 2011 (Ruta 66 Magazine) 'In The Land Of Silver Souls', Krian Music Group/BCore Disc #1 Rock Album in Spain 2009 (Ruta 66 Magazine, Mondosonoro Zarata) 'Rising Mountains', BCore Disc Pitch...

Capybara is bent on making authentic music in spite of the odds. In early 2009, four lifelong friends slipped away from jobs and leases in Portland, Brooklyn, and Kansas City to form a band in a frozen pueblo in Taos, Ne...

Love and family have always been sources of inspiration for critically acclaimed singer/songwriter/musician Carrie Rodriguez, but never have they featured so prominently than on her brand new release Love & Circumstance,...

Hailing from Winnipeg and Montreal, Chic Gamine’s wall-of-sound harmonies and hip-shaking beats could be straight out of Motown, before you throw in the curveball of French pop and four rotating lead-singers. By all the ...

New York City songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling has announced the details of his long-awaited debut album, Songs of Praise & Scorn, which will see a release on February 21st via Brooklyn imprint Mecca Lecca Recording ...

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Soul-folk singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dan Dyer rose to prominence in Austin, TX during the late 90s as frontman of the much heralded blues-rock outfit, Breedlove. For his debut solo album, "...Of What...

Dry the River Since forming in spring 2009, Dry The River have toured extensively in the UK and Europe promoting their “careful mix of emotive, lilting folk and upbeat, impassioned rock’... NME. Based in a shared...

DZ DEATHRAYS are an Australian indie/thrash/punk 2-piece that have been creating a stir on the international scene. They graced the stage of SXSW in 2011 and are returning with a bucket load of accolades. They were recen...

Exit was born in the mid-1990s out of Austin, Texas' Ben Londa's love of electronic music, particularly the ambient soundscapes of Global Communication and early Projekt Records releases. Meshing electronics with guitars...

Green Corn Revival formed in the spring of 2009. Jared Deck (lead singer/guitar) enlisted longtime friends, Ryan Houck (lead guitars, steel guitar) Natalie Houck (lead singer, percussion), and Kenny Holloway (drums) to ...

Guards was formed in New York City when Richie James Follin returned from a European tour to a recording studio with nothing in it but a broken electric 12 string guitar and an omnichord. He wrote and recorded a few song...

Hey Chica! is a band from Guadalajara, Mexico. They have been playing 3 years being four members and now they're a five piece band. In 2007 they released an EP "Do you really believe?" in which their songs presented more...

With surf guitars, ‘verbed-out vocals and danceable ‘60s drum breaks, Hooded Fang is a veritable garage rock riot. Released just nine months after their critically acclaimed debut LP, Album, support for their sophomore ...

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Boasting scene veterans from bands such as Garrison, Thursday, Texas Is The Reason, and Milhouse, I Hate Our Freedom blare through ten songs in less than 20 minutes. Stripped of its niceties, Seriously immediately grabs ...

Il abanico is an Indie/Experimental band created in 2010 by Nicolás Losada (guitar) and Juliana Ronderos (Voice). They expose their personalities with innovative melodies, an upbeat rhythm section and unorthodox guitars....

The Danish tech metal band, THE INTERBEING, originated back in 2001 when vocalist Dara Toibin, guitarist Torben Pedersen and bassist Jacob Aa. Hansen shared a vision to develop an innovative soundscape influenced by seve...

Jack Wilson - BIOGRAPHY -- self-titled album Austin, TX-based Jack Wilson's self-titled, debut full-length bridges the gap between the folk-rock of Seattle (where he began his career as a full-time musician) and the...

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Johnny Nicholas bio Texas bluesman Johnny Nicholas’ new album may be entitled Future Blues, but its roots lie in the past, specifically in the venerable traditions of country blues; acoustic music; Texas soul; and th...

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Jonny Corndawg is an infectious songwriter and burgeoning country star that worships the altar of Waylon Jennings, Billy Joe Shaver, and Michael Hurley. Born in Montana, raised in rural Virginia and now residing in Brook...

Born in Dakar, Senegal, into a travelling family, Karim Ouellet spent parts of his formative years growing up in Canada, Senegal, France, Rwanda and Tunisia before settling in Quebec. A versatile and hands-on musician, O...

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....

A group shrouded in almost complete secrecy, The M Machine continue to reveal themselves across some of electronic music's biggest stages. After summer gigs at EDC, Electric Zoo, and Global Dance Festival and opening sl...

Malford Milligan’s powerful, raspy voice and riveting stage presence have drawn comparisons to such soul icons as Otis Redding and Al Green. With his nationally acclaimed band Storyville, he recorded 3 CDs for Atlantic R...

Motion City Soundtrack just finished recording their 5th full length album. The band co-produced the album in their hometown of Minneapolis MN with producer Ed Ackerson (Polara, BNLX) at his Flowers Studio. The new album...

While so many modern indie bands champion analog recordings, vintage gear, and vinyl pressings, Joel Schneider (vox/guitar) and Ethan Jacobsen (drums) do so without pretense. The duo, who go by the moniker My Goodness,...

For us Nico Vega is a way of life. We are 3 people who play music together. We write as a band and help each other develop our ideas. The root of the music is the relationship between us. Nico Vega is about collaboration...

Any number of bands cite 60’s Texas psych as an influence, but rarely does a group actually capture what made those bands special. Following their debut EP also on Trouble In Mind, The Night Beats have expanded on the be...

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, ...

Orthy makes the kind of music you can’t help but fall in love with. A native of Austin, the singer and multi-instrumentalist continues a rich lineage of adventurous music that has long emanated from the Texan capital. Or...

“I definitely wanted to make a pop album where every song was good, catchy and people can dance to it,” says Chris Glover aka Penguin Prison, who’s goal is to have people dancing all over the world, much like his funk-fo...

It is not so much a sound as a spirit. You don't need to name it to know it or to trust it. Peter Wolf Crier's second album Garden of Arms is a document that paints a vivid portrait of all the pain and beauty of growth. ...

Drawing from a collective mine of times and spaces, Prince Rama (made up of sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson) takes the threads of ancient symbolism and ritual and weaves a surreal universe that is wholly their own. Thei...

Punch Brothers: Punch Brothers are the New York City-based quintet of mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Gabe Witcher. Their new album Who’s Fe...

It’s not uncommon to form a band while in college, and that is exactly what Quilt did. Its primary members, Shane Butler and Anna Fox Rochinski (as well as Taylor Mcvay—who plays on much of the record, but has since left...

RADAID is a fusion music group originally from Guadalajara, Mexico. With over ten years of experience, the band has been characterized by merging music and instruments from different parts of the worldlike India, China, ...

Every once in a while, a band comes along that stands apart from the rest. There’s something immediately familiar but undeniably new, absolutely their own, and exciting in every way. That band is The Rassle. With t...

ROBOTS DON’T SLEEP Hailing from Berlin, producer Robot Koch is not only the mastermind behind his band Jahcoozi (Bpitch Control), he also produces and performs as a solo artist under his own name and works as a songwr...

Enchanting from the off, their eponymous debut is set to become a real cult classic, crossing secret paths between pastoral psych collaging and knowingly meticulous folk composition in the flicker of a hare's whisker. Wi...

The Scoundrels are Bianca Bananas (vocals), Steve DeZarn (guitar), Antonio Mojica (bass), Luis Mendez (drums), and the newest member, Brandon DuVall (trumpet/ keyboard). They are a pure rock n’ roll band out of the fabu...

The duo met in Brooklyn drawn together out of desperation to make music outside the indie band mediocrity. Secret Music began when Chase demoed an early version of “Top Drop” to Daniel with nothing but a raw Casio keybo...

The Sidekicks have been a band since the members were 15, quite literally learning how to play their instruments by playing together. The result has been a musical and personal relationship that has inevitably transforme...

Soccer Team is comprised of Ryan Nelson & Melissa Quinley, friends who met years ago when working together at Dischord Records in Washington, DC. Slowly discovering numerous shared tastes in music, art and popular cultur...

San Francisco’s The Soft White Sixties are a hard-driving, original Rock & Roll band that delivers R&B grooves and pop hooks with the transformative power of raw Soul. They have been described as "a perfect mix of on ...

The Soldier Thread is an indie pop-rock quintet hailing from Austin, Texas. Having been only patched together since late 2007, the ensemble has already undergone quite an alteration in style. Todd Abels (guitar, keyboard...

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...

On the surface, TacocaT may seem to be all about tacos, cats, fluorescent highlighters, reverb, great hair, gum, and tambourines, but that's just to throw you. That's frosting. Through clever social and political comment...

Taken by Cars is a Filipino band that first appeared in the Manila gig circuit around 2007, gradually but successfully building a fiercely devoted following of indie music fans, friends, and peers in the local band scene...

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...

Trixie Whitley delivers emotionally compelling, heart-on-her-sleeve songs fueled by a passionate honesty and her searing guitar and piano. Her magnetic presence and stunning voice captivated audiences worldwide in 2011 ...

Most people do not take vacations often enough, some not at all. Quality vacations let us recapture that feeling of childlike exploratory freedom, which we seem to experience less and less frequently as we age. We can ha...

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 t...

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"...

Yukon Blonde are road warriors. The young band spent the last year and a half raking in tour milage throughout cities in North America and Europe. Highlights of the journey include over 30 nearly sold out shows with Goo...

What Comes After It's not clear if Adam Levy, frontman and creative force behind The Honeydogs, meant the title of their 10th studio release (and first full-length effort since 2006) as a statement or a question. The ...

The appeal of a modern, on the rise indie band like Jukebox the Ghost is simple: They write catchy songs. On top of that, they’re dynamic, skilled musicians. The band’s records are carefully structured, yet wildly divers...

New York four-piece Deadbeat Darling is spending time on both sides of the pond. After selling out some of NYC's most prestigious venues over the course of the last 3 years, the band was signed by UK label Spearhavoc Rec...

When Trevor McFedries, a country kid from Iowa, realized the college he received a football scholarship to was not helping him achieve his goals, he decided to pack his bags and head to LA. A few too many nights out on ...

Jessi Klein is a comedian who's written for SNL, Michael and Michael Have Issues, and other really mind exploding programming. She's had her own half hour standup special on Comedy Central and has appeared on CNN, VH1 an...

Charli XCX Nuclear Seasons If you don't know Charli XCX yet, give it five minutes. The teenage prodigy's about to explode into 2012. Armed with a rampant imagination, a plethora of dark, emotive pop songs, and backe...

The Mowgli’s are a Southern Californian band with a Southern Californian soul. The seven-piece started in a garage in the San Fernando Valley where many of them grew up. They’re bound together by an intricate social web ...

At a towering 6’7”, the Philadelphia-born Ray Benson is considered a giant in the industry. However, it’s his contributions to music history, not his height, that have made him a dominant figure on the music scene since ...

“ZONA TANGO is a galvanizing force blending electronic, jazz and traditional styles. Lead by Argentinian pioneer Pedro Menendez, this Buenos Aires band went beyond the limits of tango. "Folclore Elektronico" is their new...

Airbird is the solo project from Joel Ford, bassist of Tigercity and one half of Ford & Lopatin. After a split-cassette release with Megafortress on The Curatorial Club, Ford releases Airbird’s first single, City Vs. Mou...

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-inspired ...

Like most of us, Brent Knopf watches a lot of YouTube videos, only he’s not watching kittens playing piano. Rather, his tastes err on the more experimental side of things—like people who make perpetual motion machines...

BIOGRAPHY Teeth & Tongue is the musical project of New Zealand born, Melbourne based musician Jess Cornelius. Armed with an old 505 drum machine, keyboards and electric guitar, Cornelius weaves her songs through pared...

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In the year of the saxophone, Santa Barbara's Gardens & Villa give us the flute. And along the way, G&V effectively wipe clear the vaseline from the murky bedroom funk of recent days. G&V bang out instant classics -- eac...

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 borde...

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. From he...

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...

Playdough is no kid’s toy. From die hard fans to people who have stumbled onto his music, Playdough is always a crowd favorite. He recently released his album "Hotdoggin" and is showing off what's gotten him so much resp...

Live music in the purest and most powerful sense of the word. A melting pot of songs with special Nairobi spice, that never fails to bring fans to their feet. Sauti Sol are a magnetic, magical experience to behold.   T...

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 quite the ...

The four members of YAWN come from the underbelly of Chicago, with roots in neighborhoods like Little Lebanon, Baghdad Row, and Polski Park. Having grown up together both figuratively and literally, their hearts remain e...

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Sound Remedy....Hailing from Chicago Sound Remedy is business student turned producer. After growing up in a family of classically trained musicians i have always aspired to find my place in music, while bringing a new a...

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’-laden s...

Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12’-overrun apartment in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synth obsessive, Com Trui...

Self-proclaimed “trash poet” John Wesley Coleman III incorporates indie rock slack with witty storytelling in his music. Hailing from Irving, TX and living much like a drifter in East Austin, Coleman started engaging him...

Upon arriving in Austin, TX in 1990 from New York City, Michael Fracasso was promptly voted Best New Artist in Music City Texas ‘Insiders’ poll and was able to record his first CD, Love & Trust which features a duet with...

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Who are your top 10 female rappers? If you can even name 10 you’d put in a list of favorites, then you’ve got a great ear, and a great memory. Fact is, today’s Hip Hop ‘femcee’ movement is all but lost in a world of larg...

Today Orgasmic and Teki Latex, the two public faces of the label, unite to form the SOUND PELLEGRINO THERMAL TEAM and they are ready to take that movement to a club near you. Even though their teaming up behind the turnt...

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The Act Rights are an Austin based band that was formed at the dawn of 2010 as somewhat of a new years resolution. What started out as renditions of songs by artists ranging from Junior Wells to the Sonics soon became so...

One of the leading names of Chile's new vibrant pop scene, Alex Anwandter has just released one of South America's most critically-acclaimed 2011 albums, "Rebeldes" (Rebels). 80's-influenced pop, current chilean house an...

Greil Marcus liked to refer back to “The Old, Weird America” when discussing a certain famous set of recordings that emanated from a Woodstock cabin basement. ALLAH-LAS sound like the Old, Weird Los Angeles: Strains of t...

Amy Ray has been making her solo music in between Indigo Girls' records and gigs for the past 12 years. She started an indie label, Daemon Records in 1989. After releasing over 40 records by her favorite artist, in 2000 ...

Award-winning Canadian band Arkells are a five piece rock band from Hamilton, Ontario. In 2008 they released their first full-length record titled, Jackson Square. The debut album sold over 20,000 copies in Canada and t...

Albums that are determined to become legendary milestones seem to be appearing less frequently during the 21st century. With the immediacy of the Internet, as listeners, we consume a bigger number of projects than we did...

Brooklyn's Bit Funk is an indie dance mainstay and Hype Machine chart topper, with songs featured everywhere from Treasure Fingers' DJ crate to the soundtrack for CW's Vampire Diaries. Appearing on major labels from Def...

BLACK TAXI is one of NYC's most prominent live acts, smashing an anything-goes punk ethos together with pop sensibilities, unparalleled energy, and brilliant songwriting. The result is a raucous stage show, heavy on har...

Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel Bobby Whitlock is perhaps most well known for being a member of the band Derek & The Dominos, recording and co-producing one of Rock and Rolls most important records in history “Layla and Ot...

Austrian duo Reinhard Rietsch and Markus Wagner, otherwise known as Camo & Krooked have quickly become one of the hottest production outfits in Europe. Working together since 2007 they were soon being hailed as “one of t...

CHAPPO plays an electric blend of psychedelic pop that carries a natural warmth and carefree youthful reminiscence. Their nostalgic sounds tend to transport you to a parallel universe, much like the theme from many of th...

The Chicharones, formed at South by Southwest in 2001, are composed of songwriters Sleep and Josh Martinez. Since releasing their 2006 opus When Pigs Fly (Camobear Records/Bella Union), they have toured the world, collab...

Called "...one of the funniest and most cogent people you're ever going to witness" by the Austin Chronicle, Chris Cubas is a favorite of the Austin comedy scene. Hailing from upstate NY, Chris has made a splash Austin ...

A junkyard band with a heart of dirt, smoke, and wires; The Curious Mystery involves slowburn psych and garage experimentalism. Since 2009 the mysterians have released two full length albums on K Records: Rotting Slowly,...

Icelandic musician Snævar Njáll Albertsson is the mastermind behind Dad Rocks!, the solo project of the singer who initially rose to prominence with the Danish band Mimas. Dad Rocks!, however, is quite different: the gui...

With Whistle Tips, Brooklyn, NY quartet Dinosaur Feathers flee from the tropics of their debut, 2009’s Fantasy Memorial, and push themselves into hitherto unexplored and ultimately rewarding new territories. Once tethere...

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Let's be clear: the dance music revolution taking place isn't led by European 'superstar DJs' and Las Vegas-style VIP 'clubs'. The real sea change is happening at street level, spearheaded by next generation homegrown st...

Austin, TX, 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 Throw...

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Since releasing The Beginning EP in 2003, the Nashville-based combo, The Features, have established themselves as one of the most exciting and imaginative bands working today. The first signing to Kings of Leon's label, ...

Former Thieves have been a band characterized by their hard work and grueling tour regimens in their seemingly short life span. But, that's about to change with their debut full length on No Sleep Records. Coming from th...

The King Of In Between is the work of a mature artist and the distillation of Garland Jeffreys’ long career dedicated to addressing socially conscious themes across a broad range of musical styles. He’s been called an ed...

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What’s in a name? With the band Glambilly, exactly what it says: Music with genuine roots that truly rocks with balls, flash, sass and style. Hailed by the Austin Chronicle as “wicked cool” and “pure rock-roots, not the ...

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Hands is an Indie Rock band out of Los Angeles consisting of four members: Geoffrey Halliday, Ryan Sweeney, Sean Hess and Alex Staniloff. Each member has distinct strengths and disciplines that coalesce into a truly uniq...

The angular, intricate, and intelligent compositions of Hospitality signal a sophisticated new pop voice. Singer Amber Papini's idiosyncratic songwriting and incisive lyrics coupled with the band's rich arrangements on t...

Honing the restless energy of the city that never sleeps, Imagine Dragons’ sound is both anthemic and eccentric. By way of Vegas, the quintet's first release on Interscope/KidInAKorner Records will drop in February of 20...

From Norman, Oklahoma – the city that birthed crazy bands (and crazier band names) like the Flaming Lips, Starlight Mints, and Evangelicals – comes 23-year-old indie/pop/whatever singer and songwriter Jacob Abello. Okay,...

Japanese Gum is an experimental psychedelic Italian duo originally from Genova born in the spring of 2005. The band consists now of Davide Cedolin, Paolo Tortora, with some live collaborators and performers. JG music i...

Jennifer O’Connor’s fifth album, I Want What You Want, almost didn’t get made. After parting ways with Matador Records in the spring of 2009 after two albums (“Over The Mountain, Across The Valley, and Back to the St...

The Hipster Orchestra is the ultimate marriage of high and low brow culture. Hipster songs meet high style when they’re combined with intelligent re-works and arranged for a string ensemble. The Jingle Punks Hipster Orch...

Jonquil are, as of 2011, four men from Oxford – Hugo Manuel, Sam Scott, Robin McDiarmid and Dominic Hand – and 'Point Of Go' is their third (and yet, in a way, their first) record; an evolution, a transformation and a ne...

There's a new ghoul haunting parties worldwide - a diamond-eyed skull slapped to turntables. Grinning off sweat-drenched t-shirts and gleaming from 20-foot neon screens. It's the bony mascot of Kill The Noise, the buzzin...

There is only one Krista Muir. She lives in a world of surrealism, cuckoo clocks and antique lampshades. Her multilingual pop albums have taken her around the world since 2001 and led to collaborations with prolific arti...

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...

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 music...

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 ...

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...

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Austin’s vibrant scene has become a destination for emerging stand-ups, producing original voices who have helped shape the comedy landscape. Featuring Brendon Walsh, Mike MacRae, Nick Mullen, Cody Hustak, Martha Kelly a...

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Magic Wands are a two-piece from either Los Angeles, CA or Nashville, TN. They’re not really sure. Currently, however, they do know that they are drifting across the country bringing a “wall of white guitars” and “unapol...

The Mastersons. Husband and wife, singing and playing together. And they’re each deft instrumentalists, and they’ve spent years playing in others’ bands before coming together as a unit. They’re bound by music and an u...

The Melismatics' new album "MANIA!" was produced by Jon Auer of The Posies and Big Star, along with Ed Ackerson (Motion City Soundtrack, Golden Smog, The Replacements) and was mixed by John Fields (Jimmy Eat World, Roone...

Music comes not from lesson or rote but the open soul. Celeste Griffin, Monarchs' lead singer, began her music education in the piano at age eight. It lasted less than a year. With little to no formal training, it was on...

Mr. Bleat is the character responsible for collecting the ideas of four colombian musicians and give them a voice in the format commonly known as rock quartet. Playing since 2007 He's interested in raw sounds, is an ally...

After last years' run of critically acclaimed singles ("Knuckle Sandwich", "Knick Knack", "Scarred for Life", "Learn the Language"), Brooklyn's Mr. Dream presents its debut album TRASH HIT. It's an ambitious rock record...

One glorious day some years back, a teenage high school dropout Nikki Lane (née Nicole Lane Frady) packed a trailer with her worldly possessions. With one hand firmly gripping a steering wheel and the other flipping the ...

NOAH D - PERSPECTIVE San Francisco based Noah D (aka Noah Dickinson) is regarded as one of today’s top dubstep DJs and producers. His diverse sound can simply be described as heavy hypnotic bass music. With over 10 ...

Palomar is a three-woman, one-man outfit that hails from Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Since their inception in 1998, Palomar has released four internationally beloved full-lengths and one EP. Sense & Antisense (out 1/24/12), ...

Captivating bedroom pop with a karaoke video/soft haze filter on it that collapses the textural dimensions of music to an appealing, shiny finish. The music of Part Time owes a debt to ‘80s movie scores, neon lights, fog...

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A remarkable Oslo trio centred round the rich, haunting songs of Turid Solberg (pronounced Tue-rid). These sophisticated pop tunes hit you straight away in both the heart and the hips with their frank lyrics, giant chor...

Prime Ministers is a Rock Band, who will perform as showcasing artist at SXSW. Formed in 2008 by "E", Chimo, Perico and Pala, the band achieved success on LatinMTV, becoming one of the most prominent un-signed bands on t...

Megan James and Corin Roddick formed their "future pop" project Purity Ring only a year ago, but the duo have been musically active on their own for much longer. Originally from Edmonton, 23-year-old vocalist and trained...

Jazz sensibility with future dancefloor orientated grooves, deep funk, tough drums and tropical rhythms. Will Holland, aka Quantic, is one of the most talented and prolific artists in the world of alternative dance mus...

Sarah Siskind has been called "the best female singer/songwriter in America today" (Steve Binder, legendary TV director/producer) and “an artist you must hear now” by Spin Magazine. She has toured with Bon Iver (he has a...

Shakey Graves is being hailed as the best damn one man show in Austin. His set involves a hand made suitcase kick drum and feverish finger picking which follows in the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Leo Kottke and Michae...

”A Study in Coordinated Whiplash” wrote The New York Times October 2008, after one of SHINING’s pounding concerts in Manhattan. Norway's NRK Lydverket were equally impressed with SHINING after their performance in Oslo a...

I present to you,Shinyribs, the living embodiment of the tension between two opposing truths, The Father Of Secular Gospel, A walking talking Conflicted Juxtaposition, The Laziest Man In Show Buisness, Mr. Cold Fusion, T...

Siôn Russell Jones is a singer/songwriter from Cardiff, Wales. He has a unique and infectious vocal backed up by intricate guitar melodies and cracking choruses. In October 2010, Siôn released his debut album 'And Sudden...

“Sounds like King Crimson jamming to tracks from Physical Grafitti” - Classic Rock Magazine “A three-note riff heavy enough to raze skyscrapers, to level cities, nay, to crack the earth” - The Line of Best Fit “The alb...

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THEESatisfaction are Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White. Stas was born and raised in Tacoma, Cat in Seattle and Hawaii. The pair live/laugh/love/dance and create in Seattle, WA. They write, produce and perform their...

With their fifth full-length album, In Waves, Trivium make a crucial statement. It's a statement about writing their own rules about what it means to be a contemporary metal band. It's a statement that encompasses bou...

Two Cow Garage's newest album, “Sweet Saint Me”, picks up where their previous, “Speaking In Cursive”, left off but the album seems more focused and the songwriting could not be better. The album mixes rockers and acoust...

After a two and a half year break, the San Francisco guitar-drum duo TWO GALLANTS began touring again which took them across North America, through Europe and even to East Asia for their first ever shows in South Korea a...

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...

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...

The 25-year old Wichita, Kansas native is a fresh face to the music industry, but has been working towards becoming a household name for nearly 5 years. Currently signed to Warner Bros. Records, since 2006, XV has releas...

This is a beautiful story. Three vagabonds travel across the world with no direction home, record music whilst on the road, meet up in New York City, and form a band. Drawing a symbiotic balance from the soundtracks o...

Nick Mullen is a comedian. Originally from DC, Nick developed his act in Austin, where he was a 2 time finalist in the Funniest Person in Austin contest as well as a 2010 Best of Fest performer at the Detroit Internation...

Inspired by the Herman Wouk novel of the same name, Youngblood Hawke was born out of late night creative musings between longtime friends Sam Martin and Simon Katz. Exhausted by two years of touring with their former ban...

Colin has begun recording his 3rd full-length album and has the wind in his sails. With his 2010 release Goodnight Lane, Uncut Magazine called Colin "a surefire star in the making." Mojo described him as "a West Texan Ni...

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...

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 the...

Soft Metals is a multi-disciplinary electronic duo from Portland, Oregon now residing in Los Angeles, California. Its members Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall were brought together through a common love of 1970s and 80s synt...

It's not just great song writing, warm guitars, a nut-tight rhythm section, and the occasional blues harp riffs that make The Stone Foxes' so good; the Bay Area band consisting of brothers Shannon and Spence Koehler, Aar...

FELIX CARTAL / BIO: 2012 marks an important year for Felix Cartal, as the first single off his sophomore album has demonstrated, his sound has matured into simply put: memorable music. This single, titled, "Don't Turn...

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A native of St. Louis, Mike MacRae began performing at the legendary (read: “closed”) Houston Laff Stop in 1999 and soon developed his trademark style of blending obscure impressions into straight stand-up. Mike’s telev...

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 ...

Baloji rhymes in a intensely personal way about his life between the two poles of Belgium and Congo. He was born in Congo but grew up in Belgium. That complex identity has lead him to make some very rich music. The album...

One of the first Christmas presents that Brad and Andrew Barr received were two pairs of red boxing gloves. They set up a makeshift ring in their basement in Providence, RI and hung a bell from the water pipes. When the ...

Most people assume that when a band makes it—that is, reaches a critical mass of listeners, where shows across the country get packed, where the big festivals come calling, where placement on year-end lists seems preempt...

DevilDriver tear their way through heavy metal again with Beast, the band's fifth album for Roadrunner Records, which is an exorcism of animalistic, primal hooks, thunderous percussion and propulsive thrashing. While man...

Based in Minneapolis, Howler are Jordan Gatesmith (vocals / guitar), Ian Nygaard (guitar), France Camp (bass), Max Petrek (keyboard) and Brent Mayes (drums). What started as a side project for Jordan Gatesmith in 2010, ...

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Though now splitting her time between Miami and Brooklyn, XLR8R’s “artist to watch” Jubilee will always be Brooklyn’s bass sweetheart. Known for her rambunctious combination of upfront bass music, UK house, and tropical ...

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Pop music is a ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ world. A starburst of YouTube notoriety and then oblivion. Or at least it is for most. But when your journey has been as long and extraordinary as Nneka’s – when you’ve trave...

“Real music is crash protected,” state the liner notes of Black Radio, a future landmark album by the Robert Glasper Experiment that boldly stakes out new musical territory and transcends any notion of genre, drawing fro...

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"Shannon McNally is one of the more interesting singer songwriters to emerge in first decade of the 21st century." Stereophile Shannon McNally in the crux of a prolific phase. In 2010 she released the highly accl...

Boasting an almost Google-proof name, Teengirl Fantasy is the project of Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi. Weiss and Takahashi, who craft an atmospheric yet driving sound -- borrowing from deep house, shoegaze, and other s...

"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...

Martha Kelly is a stand-up comic living in Austin, Tx. She has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Comedy Central's Premium Blend. Her dog was recently diagnosed with la...

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Raised on a diet of Terrence Mckenna,The Beatles, Syd Barrett, Nirvana, and Turkish psychedelic music, GARDENS is part of the new sound of Detroit. Formed by Matthew Mueller, Jeffrey Thomas, Julian Spradlin and Vincent ...

With sophisticated savvy and singularity, the Los Angeles quartet Saint Motel has built a formidable reputation on the back of inventive indie pop and wildly fun live shows. Mixing blistering pep with unique flair and ro...

"Fresh Millions music makes you feel that there is a rush to get to wherever this is playing, as if there's an endless string of possibilities awaiting you if you were to do so." -daytrotter.com Run by perfection-o...

There is a powerful harmony in Grimes. It is a project which is both musical and visual, embodying the arts of 2D, performance, dance, video and sound. Claire Boucher weaves these together to a strong rhythmic effect, “t...

Formerly known as "Many Styles", the artist I Am Many, is like nothing you've ever experienced, his live shows are one of a kind as he himself is "one of a kind" His self titled debut "Many Stlyles" was released in ...

Joel Rafael first began performing in showcases and small clubs around Los Angeles, San Diego and the Inland Empire in California. He formed a duo with San Diego-based Rosie Flores in 1978, enjoying standing-room-only c...

The Riverboat Gamblers have been rocking heads for the last decade. The band was formed in 1997 in the town of Denton, TX. The band features Mike Wiebe (the Rookie Sensation) on vocals, Fadi El-Assad(Freddy Castro ) on g...

Hip Hop is just a hobby for some but for Smoke DZA, it is a way of life Born and raised in Harlem, NY, DZA (real name Sean Pompey) was raised surrounded by music, though it wasn’t necessarily hip hop, “My first e...

DJ on Eminem's Shade 45, JAMN 94.5 (Boston), In Video Games - Grand Theft Auto IV & Midnight Club, Tour DJ for Q-Tip, Nas & many more...Producer for Eminem, Jadakiss, Bun B, Nas, Styles P, Saigon, Freeway, Freddie Gibbs,...

After getting his start in Omaha, NE, Cody Hustak relocated to Austin, TX in search of more stage time and opportunities. Since then, Cody's patient delivery of well crafted one-liners has made him an Austin favorite, le...

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Almost a year ago, Moe Green released Rocky Maivia: Non-Title Match, earning the Vallejo, California native strong reviews and high acclaim, as well as a coveted Show & Prove feature in XXL Magazine to go along with his ...

Singer and producer Alvin Risk's talents have earned him instant recognition amongst the dance music Illuminati. Since posting his first songs just months ago, he has already garnered support from artists like Skrillex, ...

Saskatchewan-born, Brooklyn-based folk troubadour Ana Egge isn't your run-of-the-mill alternative-country singer. Using unique production and rock-based chord progressions, Egge has made a name for herself as a Gillian W...

French-Mexican Andrea Balency was born in Paris in 1989 and after a thorough and classical education; she started composing music at the age of 17. Since then, her life experiences from both Argentina and Mexico - where ...

Since Aristotle, man has organized his knowledge vertically in separate and unrelated groups---Science, Religion, Sex, Relaxation, Work, etc. The main emphasis in his language, his system of storing knowledge, has been o...

Brendan Benson Late afternoon, Miami, and Iggy Pop and I were standing watching for a manatee that occasionally swims up along the river at the end of his garden. Pop was bare-chested in cerise trousers, talking about...

Originally from Philadelphia, PA, Brendon Walsh established himself in comedy in Austin, TX. In 2004 he won the “Funniest Person In Austin” contest and that same year also appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” as his ori...

CFCF, aka Michael Silver, has managed to build a world all his own since his debut LP ‘Continent’, an impressive collage of vintage electronic textures evoking grandiose landscapes worthy of a Michael Mann film. ‘The Riv...

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After two releases on Paper and Plastick, Lansing MI's Cheap Girls are releasing their debut album on Rise Records in February of 2012. The band's indie rock sound is quite different than the normal Rise Records act. C...

Elizabeth Harper, a former drama major from Los Angeles, had been writing delicate, wistful songs of longing and detachment for several years when she met musician & psychoanalyst-in-training Mark Richardson in 2009 and ...

I know a couple of things about Colleen Green. One thing that's for sure: she's a songwriting phenomenon. She sings lovely, catchy, fuzzy songs that range from 80s pop goulash to psychedelic drone; from 90s power punk...

Possibly the hottest new band on the British scene, THE DEFILED are now ready to show the rest of the world why metalheads up and down the UK are flocking to their shows and have nominated them in the Metal Hammer Golden...

DURAN is a solo project, it has a new sound called chirripop, this style of music includes electrocumbia, dance hall. R&B, rock & trip hop. However, the lyrics have a particular style full of street and raw elements, e...

Sometimes, listening to Exitmusic, it's hard to tell exactly whether the goosebumps you're getting are from the parts that are chillingly beautiful and melodic or the ones that are aching and guttural. Or further, the on...

Fiction are a four-piece band from London, formed in 2009. Members Mike Barrett (vocals, keys, drums), James Howard (vocals, guitars, drums), David Miller (vocals, bass) and Nick Barrett (guitars) coalesce to create ...

The Figgs started in 1987 in Saratoga Springs. They have been working ever since. With Over ten records and dozens of singles, comps and other releases. The Figgs have worked for years as Graham Parker's backing band and...

Freshkills’ first self-released EP, Here For the Backlash, was a sharp stick in the eye for snarkier-than-thou internet hype mongers. The band built a tight local following on the backs of two LPs (2006’s Creeps and Love...

2011 has been a large one for Futurebirds. In its third year as a band, the Athens-based outfit has released two well-received EPs, Futurebirds EP and Via Flamina; road-dogged the nation with acts such as Drive-By Trucke...

“I want to make soulful music from outer space,” singer Mike Deni of Geographer says. Backed by cellist Nathan Blaz and drummer Brian Ostreicher, both graduates of the Berklee School of Music in Boston, the band aptly n...

On a hot July night in 1999, five grown men dressed as old ladies crossed 11th St in San Francisco and hit the stage at the Paradise Lounge. 12 years, 7 Jack Endino produced albums, 2 European tours, more than a few beer...

He's My Brother She's My Sister's unique yet familiar sound exudes the earnestness of folk, the colorfulness of glam rock, the infectiousness of pop, the innovation of indie rock, the rawness of blues, the theatrics of c...

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Brimming with confidence and creativity, Arrow sees Heartless Bastards pushing their distinctive sound forward with their most eclectic, energetic collection thus far. The album – the Austin, Texas-based band’s first re...

A lot has happened to Hellogoodbye since the Huntington Beach, California-based act released their breakthrough album Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! back in 2006. Over the past four years the band have parted with...

Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill, united as the Hobart Brothers & Lil’ Sis Hobart, will release their long-threatened debut album, At Least We Have Each Other, on Freedom Records in CD, LP and digital do...

“One hundred days” was the commitment made after four twenty-somethings met in the San Francisco in 2005. And, for 100 days the four young musicians - that would later name their band by the same name - spent night and d...

Influenced by the sounds of Classic Country, 1960's Rock 'n' Roll, and master songwriters like Townes Van Zandt and Neil Young, Hurray for the Riff Raff has deep roots in the landscape of America. Alynda Lee Segarra, a ...

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’s, mi...

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The Jessie Rose Trip is a Manchester trio fronted by enigmatic sylph singer song-writer and musician Jessie Rose who, with her stunning soulful pipes and heavy blues guitar riffs, has won rave comparisons with everyone f...

Jim White: The Facts Jim White’s sixth studio album, Where It Hits You, will be released through Yep Roc Records on February 21, 2012. Where It Hits You follows Jim's critically lauded 2010 side project, Sounds of ...

www.youtube.com/jordancookofficial Canadian born Jordan Cook has electrified audiences all over the world. Cook has been seen showcased at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he was the first Canadian rock artist t...

Juan Cirerol is a multi-instrumentalist born in Mexicali, Baja California. He studied classic guitar since he was 13th in the UABC. He left the university in order to find his own personal sound. He already played in dif...

......File under: Garage rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Alternative... JUNEBUG SPADE, a quirky line-up of musicians led by frontman Peter Anthony Seay II, are known more for their off-beat musical sensibilities than for conventi...

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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...

The music of Korallreven is constructed along a simple philosophy: to create sounds that capture both the essence of a spiritual experience and the freedom of experimentation. Born in the South Pacific and illuminated by...

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Moja Adrenalina is first polish band to work with one of the most important and infuential producing duet in modern alternative music – Ross Robinson and Steve Evetts. New album demonstrates conventionally named by music...

Throughout history, individuals have been playing with the delicate balance between polarities. Often, the combination of two opposites makes for a harmony previously unknown, a sum greater than its parts. Motopony is th...

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Paula & Karol If you don't know much about the band, Paula & Karol may seem like a Canadian girl and a Polish guy who got together to write a few happy folk pop songs on a few folky instruments. But the real Paul...

Peaking Lights, the husband and wife duo of Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis have channeled a rich background of a lives dedicated to music, touring, and pushing artistic broundries into a band that reflects their relationshi...

PLAINS is the brainchild of Michael McGinnis. Born and raised outside of Chicago - McGinnis began making his own music in earnest just a few years ago when he moved to Miami to sleep on couches and work as a studio rat. ...

Punch Brothers: Punch Brothers are the New York City-based quintet of mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Gabe Witcher. Their new album Who’s Fe...

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...

"...sharp-dressed tracks marked by unique characters and a sense of tuneful theatricality.” - The Globe and Mail "Oh my holy synthesizers, coupled with falsettos reminiscent of Beck from his Midnight Vultures days..."...

RUTHIE FOSTER “LET IT BURN” Those who have followed Ruthie Foster’s eclectic musical history know that she can burn down any stage with her combustible blend of soul, blues, rock, folk and gospel. And when Grammy Awar...

Samo Sound Boy is a Los Angeles based producer and DJ whose powerful live sets, and original productions have brought him to the forefront of today's forward-minded club scene. Having earned his chops DJing at Fugees ...

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EST. 2004 Scooter Brown started out as an acoustic duo after lead singer Scott Brown returned home from serving 4 years in the United States Marine Corps and 1 tour of combat in Iraq. Scooter Brown as they are known...

Set Your Goals is an American punk rock band from Walnut Creek, CA (an affluent town in the East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Area), formed in 2004. Their musical style typically employs a combination of pop punk an...

Sleepy Sun- Spine Hits- Biography 2012 by Charles Saufley The band of brothers known far and wide as Sleepy Sun don’t sit still for long. Though they remain real and spiritual citizens of the Northern California hive ...

SLOW CLUB Paradise Like all good clichés, there's more than a seed of truth to be found in the saying: “a band has a lifetime to make their first record”. So what happens when that band comprises of just two of you, ...

NPR – World Cafe: Next: “a historical yet entirely contemporary work.” All Music: ★★★★ “Canary is a true find from a band that’s quietly created one of the most powerful albums of the year.” Paste Magazine: 8.4 “Es...

Born amongst the steel mills of Massillon, Ohio, Kyle Myricks earned his nickname, Stallion, because of the grit and determination that characterized his youthful athleticism. Later, Stallion was shortened to Stalley, a...

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Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore met while studying philosophy in college. The two agreed that upon graduating they would sell their collective possessions and leave behind their lives in Denver. They planned to buy a smal...

Titus Andronicus is a rock and roll band from Glen Rock. There are five people in the band. Titus Andronicus take their name from a minor Shakespearean tragedy, not, as many people believe, from some sort of killer robot...

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Uncle Skeleton is the brainchild of Ross Wariner – once best known as half of the Nashville, TN band Kindercastle. Finding himself with a overflowing myriad of ideas and an overactive drive to try them all out, Pancho Ch...

VAN WILKS Band is a three-piece power blues rock trio based out of Austin, Texas that has been playing locally and worldwide since the mid 70's. Awards include the Austin Chronicle Hall of Fame, numerous Best Band award...

Late night bike riding in Stockholm and endless love for retro synthesizers inspired Ester Ideskog, Sweden, to compose synth heavey electro pop hits under her new alias Vanbot. Vanbot has been making music since the ear...

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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...

“If we cannot yet reconcile all opinions, Let us endeavor to unite all hearts.” -Robert Owen, 1832 YACHT is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Marfa, Texas and Portla...

Faith is something that MC, producer and Interdependent Media (iM) owner Evan "TRUTHLiVE" Phillips understands. Living through three heart surgeries, “Live truth. Truth life,” has become his motto and is evident in every...

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...

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Imagine Kanye West being born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi. Now imagine him being produced by Organized Noize. That imagery would create music almost identical to the Crooked Letter state’s next hip-hop heavyweigh...

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Housemeister never sleeps.Playing everywhere and every weekend ever since '97, the legendary DJ has cultivated his own brand of rave around the world: relentless, hardcore, dirty dancefloor ecstasy. Hands in the air, bo...

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...

BIOGRAPHY It doesn’t happen often. But every once in a while a young artist comes along who has the chops, vision, range and creative conviction to change the game. Miguel is among that chosen few. The “e-clectric” ...

Shinobi Ninja is a Brooklyn-based party rock circus with an explosive live show. The band's music mashes up the sounds of 311, The Beastie Boys, Sublime, and Rage Against the Machine. This year, Shinobi has completed t...

Cleopatra Records electrorock/dubsteb artist Blackburner has just been tapped to support MINISTRY on its summer 2012 national tour. Blackburner is a bold new force in electronic music, combining the heavily twisted an...

Alberta Cross More than clever verses and catchy choruses, truly timeless albums offer listeners the keys to another world; they catapult you into another frame of mind and jostle your soul along the way. The members ...

Muldrow, a prolific vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist, comes from a musical family. Her father, the late Ronald Muldrow, was a jazz musician and her mother, Rickie Byars-Beckwith, a singer with the Pharoah San...

2012 is destined to be another big year for dnb artist High Contrast as his fourth artist album, “The Agony & The Ecstasy"”, is unveiled. Alongside the music, High Contrast is also an avid filmaker, he recently directed,...

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 ...

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From the minds of Paul Provenza and Troy Conrad… SET LIST is back from sold-out shows at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, and a regular run in London. Top comics are given a never-before-...

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Troy Conrad and Paul Provenza’s acclaimed show puts a spin on the traditional stand-up showcase: comics are handed never-before-seen topics as they step up to the mic, promising an improvised and completely unpredictable...

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Toddla T Biography 2011 Do U Know Toddla T? In 2007 Toddla T (aka Tom Bell) was working in a shoe shop in his hometown of Sheffield, then just 19 and living at home with his parents, he DJ'ed at weekends and ...

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 revea...

Outer Minds have finally come to the surface after simmering in the underworld in several different incarnations over the past few years, and with unbelievably great results. Sharpening their sound into a legion of 60s p...

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Since ancient times, the elders have taught us that a man is not merely someone who is born a male. It is he who rises to the occasion of protecting his community — he who assumes the responsibility of setting a righte...

mpending Doom are back with their third and most impressive album There Will Be Violence. Since the release of Nailed. Dead. Risen. in 2007 the band has refined their style to an almost polished sheen; and if their previ...

Nico has spent his youth wandering. The Chilean-American artist was born in New York, but raised between Santiago and SoHo. At seventeen, he began releasing music on the Brooklyn imprint Wolf + Lamb, and was catapulted i...

Roge represents the new generation of artists of the Brazilian Popular Music and his sound is the face of Brazil. He moves from bossa nova to samba and reggae, with the property of who composes for himself, proposing to ...

Shiny Toy Guns is an alternative/electronic band which formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The band consists of Carah Faye Charnow (vocals), Chad Petree (vocals, guitar), Jeremy Dawson (synth, bass)...

For such a young band, New York Rivals has been making some major waves. Formed in September 2011, the east-coast quartet (with Josh Moran on vocals and guitar, Erik Rudic on lead guitar, Nash Breen on some thunderous dr...

Agridoce is the new project of Brazil's most important new generation rock artist: Pitty. Joined by the guitarrist/singer Martin, a longtime music partner, they've recorded their first album this year, in a one-month-iso...

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...

Meet ALPINE. Phoebe Baker (vocals), Lou James (vocals), Timothy Royall (keys), Phil Tucker (Drums), Ryan Lamb (Bass) and Christian OʼBrien (Guitar). Adding colour to Melbourneʼs musical landscape, Alpine formed in 2009 a...

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...

Ariane Moffatt is an adventurer. The Montreal singer-songwriter’s illustrious career is marked by curiosity ¬– sonic, musical and emotional – and it’s contagious. She has built a devoted following in Quebec over the past...

ASTRO Renown Chilean band that stands out for its artistic quality and by creating a bold, energetic and highly interpretative live show. Astro, formed by: Octavio Cavieres, Nicolás Arancibia, Daniel Varas and Andrés N...

AUDREY HORNE’s vocalist Toschie refers to his band’s typ of Rock’n’Roll as “in-depth entertainment”. The band’s name already alludes to the fact that the Norwegian squad is more than just a plain dog and pony show outfit...

B. Bravo adds a touch of love to every funked-out late night synth groove he gets his hands on. Hailing from California under the influence of west coast G-Funk, Roy Ayers and Herbie Hancock, he's pioneering a new sound ...

Camp Radio's new album is 'Campista Socialista': Think summertime power pop music with garageland guitars and Sebadoh'd bass lines filling out songs that will keep you humming all day. The lyrics are as hooky as the REM-...

Canalón de Timbiquí honors the richness of its land. Its music is born in the mines, on the banks of the river, in the jungle and in the resistance of the blacks. The group is musicaly directed by the teacher Elizabeth (...

Was there chamber pop after the Beatles and Bee Gees and before Belle & Sebastian? The missing link is Cardinal's self-titled debut. The album's release in 1994, which seemed to come out of nowhere, with its layered text...

“Carolyn Wonderland is the real deal! She’s an amazing guitar player. And damn, can she sing.” – Los Angeles Times On ‘Peace Meal’ (9.27, Bismeaux Records), “blues guitar goddess” (NY Post) Carolyn Wonderland reache...

“My brothers and I were surrounded by music growing up,” explains Kamtin Mohager, the genre-jumping singer/multi-instrumentalist behind The Chain Gang of 1974. “Not Beatles albums or anything like that; more like the Per...

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Austin’s outlaw country heroes Crooks have big things on the horizon. The “must-see Austin band” (MTV Hive) will release their new full-length album ‘The Rain Will Come’ this April, featuring guest appearances from accor...

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When it came time to record Delta Spirit’s third album, the band members knew one thing: It was time to shake off the stylistic labels that have shadowed them since they formed in San Diego, CA, in 2005. Though lyricists...

Jackson, Mississippi native Dent May grew up singing in local church groups, acting in school plays, and performing at nursing home gigs with a recorder choir. In high school, he wrote synthy power-pop with his band The...

DJEDJOTRONIC Djedjotronic (Jeremy Cottereau) discovered electronic music through Warp and UR a decade ago. Jeremy started his career meeting the now famous Popof, releasing several collaborations and touring together un...

BIOGRAPHY DOPE D.O.D. To say that 2011 has been quite a remarkable year so far for Dope D.O.D. would be an understatement. The career of the Dutch hip hop crew has skyrocketed since the start of the year after releasi...

THE ETTES return with Wicked Will, the fourth LP (and first local Australian release) from the rowdy and relentless Nashville, TN garage rock trio of Coco Hames (vocals, guitar), Jem Cohen (bass) and Poni Silver (drums) ...

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good ...

24 years old. Chilean-northamerican. Singer, songwriter, composer, pianist, producer and writer. Independent musician, artist and entrepreneur. Founder of Fran Ltda, her own company from which she develops her projects ...

Sensual, provocatively percussive pop comes naturally to Friends. But you may be surprised by “I’m His Girl” – the second single from the Brooklyn newcomers – and just how cool and pop it is. As rapturous as Blondie’s b...

Future Unlimited are a duo from Nashville for whom the particulars of their unusual bond have led them to create a thoroughly studied modern futurist bent on the music they love. For Future Unlimited, the 80’s is not me...

Over the last year and a half, Gauntlet Hair has seen its noise-pop anthems released on 7"s by tastemaker labels Forest Family ("I Was Thinking..." b/w "Our Scenery") and Mexican Summer ("Out, Don't..." b/w "Heave") resp...

The growlers are a rock and pop group formed in long beach California in 2006 who are yet to became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music. During their yea...

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The Hickoids Hell, let’s just cut to the chase right at the outset. The Hickoids defy easy and neat description, or even messy description, though “messy” was often applied to the band’s members and their shamelessly...

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...

Hailing from the streets of Brooklyn, HULL has yet again emerged with a creation to outlive the ages. Hard at work since the release of their debut album, Sole Lord, in 2009, ideas were envisioned and the mighty wind of...

Imaginary Cities was born in a Winnipeg club called The Cavern, in between sets. This new group, founded in a chance meeting, is fast becoming one of the world’s brightest new bands. Their debut album, Temporary Residen...

“McPherson is a singer/songwriter in the truest sense, and his original tunes are a cut above the average retro-rockabilly artist both melodically and lyrically.” “Signs & Signifiers paints a picture of McPherson as a ki...

Like the Velvet Underground, their most obvious influence, the chart success of the Jesus and Mary Chain was virtually nonexistent, but their artistic impact was incalculable; quite simply, the British group made the wor...

They say the world is spinning around I say the world is upside down With a legacy stretching back nearly 50 years, the Honourable Jimmy Cliff is still standing as one of the prime movers and continuing shapers of mo...

JD’s notes on KEEPER why are we so tired we must’ve slept too long how could we know how sick we were when we were both too sick to talk silence makes the heart grow colder though we knew it didn’t matter how ...

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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...

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...

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 ...

Marcus Foster could have had it easy. He could have dropped names; doors could have flung open. Had he pursued the frequently garish route of your usual Next Big Thing contender, he'd have got it quite easily, T4 special...

There's country. There's alt. country, and then there's Marvin Country. It's a magical place, way off the map, populated by back-porch philosophers, hobos, brokenhearted lovers and spacemen, and presided over by the man ...

Miike Snow is – are – in a playful mood. The second, somewhat orchatronic, album by the three-headed-band with the one-man-name and mysterious Jackalope symbol is called Happy To You. Why? “It’s a sign in the studi...

Folk rockers Milo Greene are staying busy this fall. The California group are touring with The Civil Wars, Grouplove and Belle Brigade over the next few months as well as recording their yet-to-be-named debut album, set ...

Oh No Oh My is a four piece indie-rock band based out of Austin, Texas. Members include Daniel Hoxmeier, Joel Calvin, Greg Barkley and Tim Regan; all of whom are multi-instrumentalists. An active band since 2005, the...

This 19-year-old talent has been touted by his peers (read Tiësto, Skrillex and Deadmau5) as one of the nu-breed saviours of electronic music, and having only experienced the limelight for just a few months, his achievem...

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R. Ring is Kelley Deal and Mike Montgomery. It is voices, guitars and keys. It is sparse, chaotic, abrasive and lulling, often within the same song. It is new. It is, at the very least, a stark departure from the mus...

RAC is a group of producers who create re-interpretative rock/electronica/dance remixes for musical artists. RAC strives to maintain a style of remixing that strays from the "club mix" archetype, creating new incarnation...

Before the Grey Hairs, REKS was just a teenager who fell in love with the Hip-Hop movement. Little did he know, one day he would experience working with and alongside some of those legendary hip-hop icons. Born Corey Isi...

Makin hits since 2007, Ringo Deathstarr is a Trio composed of Elliott Frazier, Alex Gehring, and Daniel Coborn. Screaming quietly out of Austin Texas, this gang has just finished a year of album releases and world touri...

In the five years since Said The Whale formed, the band's hook-heavy, pop-rock sound has propelled them to successes that include a nationally televised documentary, a JUNO Award victory, and a seemingly endless series o...

The music of Seapony is refreshing in its simplicity. Most songs on Go With Me use no more than three chords, with an average running time around two-and-a-half minutes. In lieu of a human drummer, the Seattle trio entru...

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SLUGABED – BIOGRAPHY 2012 Blending influences both classic and contemporary, from the outermost reaches of dubstep, hip hop and beyond, Slugabed has received unanimous praise for his first Ninja Tune releases since si...

Naeem Juwan AKA Spank Rock comes from the wall-sweating, pipe-bursting, hip-grinding basements of the Baltimore Bass movement. After spending some time at Drexel University in Philly he linked up with the Diplo-powered ...

Punk Rock band formed in 2006. Two years later released for free download, Johnny Yen EP, achieving a considerable amount of downloads. In late 2010 The Suicide Bitches successfully opened for Stone Temple Pilots's show ...

Sundress is an American Psychedelic-Pop band, formed in Denton, Texas in 2010. Sundress was created by principle members Ryan McAdams, bassist Drew McCary and guitarist Kennon Talley. After several names, due to legal m...

Melbourne born, London based, The Temper Trap return to the live front in wake of their self titled sophomore album, due for worldwide release this June. The bands 2009 breakout release "Conditions" has now scanned over ...

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It would be hard to find a character in rock and roll who has played the part better than Tommy Stinson. From his beginnings as bassist of the legendary Replacements to his current tenure with Guns N’ Roses and Soul Asyl...

“Supercharged songs with a hooky playfulness and white-knuckle power…”—Esquire “Lit up and charged…four-part harmonies that are close to being crystalline.”—Daytrotter On April 10 Thirty Tigers/RED will release Tra...

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...

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...

Zechs Marquise, the El Paso, TX quintet are back with their sophomore album Getting Paid, bringing an intensified swagger to the band's multifaceted psych-prog haze for their most aggressive and versatile effort to date....

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 their day jo...

Silent Diane is a electronic duo forged out of Christine Aprile and Malcolm Elijah's angular and warped pop sensibilities. The group uses analog synthesizers, electro acoustic elements, moody movements, pulsing drum mach...

Cymbals Eat Guitars released their debut album Why There Are Mountains in 2009, receiving a response that far exceeded the band’s expectations. Two years have gone by since that early hype cycle began, and a lot has chan...

“Every rapper that’s actually good at what he does is an intellectual,” says a laid back Shawn Chrystopher from his hotel room in NYC’s Times Square. “Wayne is an intellectual, Jay of course is a intellectual, listen to ...

Producer, DJ, vocalist and multi instrumentalist Son Of Kick is making waves with his bumping, super-charged live set. A bass-feast packed full of electro, dubstep, heavy grooves and the insanely unpredictable. Catch h...

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Forged from a history of hardship and partying, Prof’s music and career reflect the dichotomy that his life has been. His music documents everything he has experienced; from adversities as a child, like his father settin...

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Hysterical Their first new album in more than three years, Hysterical marks a major milestone in the continuing evolution of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Born out of an intensely collaborative ...

Dre Skull is a Brooklyn-based producer and DJ whose boundary-pushing conceptual attitude towards music and culture has been receiving critical acclaim since 2007. His worldwide tours and collaborations with artists as fa...

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 ...

Patrick Watson first broke through to audiences in 2006 with his album Close to Paradise. The album went gold in Canada and won numerous awards, including the Polaris Prize. It saw international release in September 2007...

With the mighty new From Africa With Fury: Rise, Seun Anikulapo Kuti returns with his hybrid of Afrobeat touchstones and contemporary cues. As with his previous efforts, Seun heads up Egypt 80, the extraordinary combo fi...

As any cool kid of the 90's, Strip Steve grew up with Offspring, the passion more or less regular of skateboard, and the art of turntablism. Few scratches and a failure in a rap band after, he remembered how much A...

Lawrence, Massachusetts rapper Termanology is best known for his singles with the legendary DJ Premier of Gang Starr (Watch How It Go Down, So Amazing & How We Rock f. Bun B). He has also collaborated with many of the be...

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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 job ...

France’s Joachim Garraud has seen the future and it has it’s roots in the past. The highly successful French producer/performer/DJ’s career has long been intertwined with chart-topping global superstar David Guetta. T...

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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...

Here’s an unlikely recipe: Take classic emcee skills coupled with evolving lyrics, add pop sensibility with a dose of rock dynamics and stir. What you get is something the literary legend surely never thought he’d be a n...

One of today’s fastest-rising folk/alt-country troubadours, Adam Arcuragi, has been reeling in addicted fans on both sides of the Atlantic, with the music that some call “Death Gospel.” Born in Georgia, Arcuragi [pronoun...

ALO, or Animal Liberation Orchestra, formed in the late 1990s while the band members were students at UC Santa Barbara, and has been touring and releasing albums steadily with this lineup since 2002. There’s a universal ...

ANDREW W.K. - The King of Partying Andrew W.K.’s true will is to party. And when it's time to party, he will always party hard.  His mission is creating energized joy, physical euphoria, loving fun, endless enthusiasm...

A heartfelt fusion of R&B, Pop, and Hip-Hop, Aziatix is comprised of Boston native Eddie Shin, Los Angeles native Nicky Lee, and New York native Flowsik. Just shy of 1 year together, they released their debut EP in M...

BIG SEAN BIOGRAPHY Some may call it luck, but for Detroit based MC Big Sean, his chance meeting with Kanye West in 2005 was the exact moment when his hard work finally started to pay off. After rapping for the mult...

Playing music with a sense of urgency and sophistication well beyond their years, it is tempting to place bets on just how far their remarkable talent will lead this band. In the autumn of 2009, Cole Woods and Alannah Wa...

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In 2009, Cleveland’s Dylan Baldi began writing and recording lo-fi power-pop songs in his parents’ basement, dubbing the project Cloud Nothings. His music quickly started making the Internet rounds, and fans and critics ...

Cro-Mags are a hardcore punk turned crossover thrash band from New York City. The band, which had a strong cult following, released many records, their first two considered the most influential. With a skinhead backgroun...

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ABOUT THE BAND: A taste of rock n’ roll Dance Laury Dance was born in 2007 from the combined talents of Lap (drums), Max Lemire (vocals), Blake (guitar), Harry (bass) and Dagger Pat (guitar). Right from their very fi...

Wings and teeth. No two symbols could've been better chosen to represent Minneapolis rap stalwarts Doomtree. The endlessly innovative crew/label has defied categorization from the start, leaving behind convention for wha...

Enjambre is a contemporary rock ensemble, their sound has sparkles of the sixties and seventies, South American ballads, a touch of nostalgia, and climatic moments, all this wrapped up into a rock and roll context. Enjam...

EPMD is an American hip hop group from Brentwood, New York. The group's name is a concatenation of the members' name "E" and "PMD" or an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars", referencing its members, emcees Eri...

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Forget the secret identities and fabricated back stories, Flight Facilities are a Australian based production duo who combine the blissed out pop production of Quincy Jones, the dancefloor hedonism of Daft Punk and the i...

Future Of The Left’s upcoming album, The Plot Against Common Sense, will be the group’s third full-length release. Teased with the Polymers Are Forever EP released in late 2011, this album will expand on the band’s razor...

Golden Bear formed in 2002. They have released three LPs and one EP. They are true Rockers. Here are some things people have said about their newest album, "Alive": "A full-fledged power-pop epic." - MTV.com...

Ever-evolving and perpetually defying convention, Gossip is back with their fifth studio album, A Joyful Noise, set to be released on May 22. A Joyful Noise was produced by pop genius Brian Higgins (Kylie Minogue, Pet S...

One of roots music’s most fervent leaders, Texas greats, The Gourds will be showcasing their Vanguard Records debut, Old Mad Joy, on March 15th at Antones. Produced by Larry Campbell at the historic Levon Helm Studios a....

If you're familiar with bluegrass music, then you're tuned in to some of what Greensky Bluegrass does. They're also known to throw a great party, rock n roll, and (if the critics are to be believed) they have great songs...

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Owing much to their southwestern roots, Guns of Navarone craft a brand of melody-driven alt-country and Americana rock that would've fit comfortably among the forebears of the genre. Formed in the spring of 2009, the qu...

ABX (pronounced like three consecutive letters) and STV SLV (pronounced “steve sleeve”) are collectively known as The Hood Internet. For the past three years, the duo have been chewing up the indie, pop, rap and R&B land...

“I got laid off from my job at the end of last year and decided I needed a change. My girlfriend put in her two weeks and we moved out to a little cabin in Papaikou, Hawaii. It’s a pretty remote place outside of Hilo (i....

San Francisco Bay Area-based power quintet Howlin Rain's third album The Russian Wilds passionately protests the currently popular notion that heroically conceived and executed rock music is a thing of golden ages passed...

Jon Langford is best known for the music he creates with the Mekons and the Waco Brothers, but he’s also gained increasing acclaim for his visual art over the past decade. Nashville Radio, his first book + CD of painting...

Jonathan Wilson Gentle Spirit “Gentle Spirit” is not simply the name of the debut solo album by songwriter/musician/producer, Jonathan Wilson, it represents the ethos of the artist himself. Warm, supple melodie...

Bio: Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds new album Gorilla Rose Gun Club co-founder. Gunslinger for The Cramps. Six-string stylist for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. The legendary Kid Congo Powers titles his new album ...

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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 drumbeat linge...

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...

Born Travis Stewart on March 4th 1982, Machinedrum has produced and composed a commanding series of releases under various aliases since his first independent project in 1999. Covering an astonishing variety of styles wi...

Hmm, where should we start here? The part where Miniature Tigers stay up all night with Neon Indian, fine-tuning the laser-like synths of their new single, “Gold Skull?” Yeah, that sounds about right. “I won’t forge...

Monsieur Periné, more than a musical group, it’s a creative project that was born out of the artistic and rhythmic exploration undertaken by Catalina Garcia, Santiago Prieto, Nicolas Junca and Camilo Parra in 2007. Today...

Household Management is proud, honored, and extremely elated to announce the addition of Current #1 Chart Topper on Beatport’s Overall Chart, MORD FUSTANG, to our roster!! Mord, hailing from Estonia, has stormed on to...

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 become ...

Neon Indian is the brainchild of Alan Palomo, who's 2009 debut record Psychic Chasms not only earned the 20 year-old a spot on numerous year-end lists, but assisted the forming of a genre that, though known by a few name...

Niki & The Dove / press bio 2012 You wouldn’t have thought Niki & The Dove came fifth in the BBC Sound Of 2012 poll because they visit exhibitions of 19th century Russian art, but it’s actually a very important reason...

Over the past few years, LA' s Nite Jewel has honed its pop-funk craft across releases from Italians Do It Better, Mexican Summer and LA's own Gloriette Records. In that time, Ramona Gonzalez's airy but often distant voi...

OK SWEETHEART -- A group reminiscent of all the good things from mid-century pop with roots in Tulsa, OK is currently based out of New York City. Their well crafted simplicity has been compared to the writing of Harry Ni...

Oneohtrix Point Never is Daniel Lopatin, a US native whose work has brought him to the forefront of the modern electronic composition scene. Though Lopatin’s rise felt meteoric following his 2009 double-disc anthology R...

in 1982, Pat Todd led the Lazy Cowgirls from obscurity in Indiana, to infamy in Los Angeles. As frontman and songwriter, the Lazy Cowgirls toured the world and put out albums for 20+ years. The Cowgirls called it quits i...

Patrick Sweany likes the spaces in between. On a given night (or on a given album) he'll swing through blues, folk, soul, bluegrass, maybe some classic 50s rock, or a punk speedball. He's a musical omnivore, devouring...

A-List: A Review It was a pleasure to hear and review this fine freshman production effort by virtuoso trombonist Reggie Watkins, a musician with a full arsenal of tools at his disposal: an extensive (but not overly u...

Rock the Cause - Minnesota Remembers Vic Chesnutt Live with Special Guests Official SXSW Showcase. Georgia's late songwriting hero Vic Chesnutt made a lot of friends in the Twin Cities music scene early in his career,...

The artistic style of Roger Sellers is widely accessible. Imagine folk-dance-americana-electric-symphonic fusion, where Philip Glass, Sufjan Stevens, and Joanna Newson all groove to late night ambient house music in Geor...

Say Anything has been making odd, unclassifiable indie rock music since they were 14 or 15 years old, playing strangely literate and loud rock, characterized by what one might imagine if Larry David fronted a Fugazi cove...

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I met Sherman when he wasn’t much more than a charming, but intimidating borderline music bully that rode my bus in high school and taunted me for wearing a Muddy Waters t-shirt that first and fateful week of 9th grade (...

Spanish Moss And Total Loss, Shout Out Out Out Out's third full length album since forming in 2004, is their most melodic, textured, and interesting record to date. The new album shows Shout Out Out Out Out growing as so...

In 2006 a loose collection of musicians began to evolve into a quartet of performers who turn heads for their wild live performance, genre-bending sound, and unique aesthetic. In 2008, the group recorded their eponymous ...

Straddling a bass heavy club sound that also encompasses leftfield rock music and global beats, Sinden is renowned for his genre-blending DJ sets, cracklin’ hot radio show, his banging remixes, a hugely successful projec...

What exactly is it about Skindred that makes them so unique, so unto themselves both musically and spiritually? Is it their origins on the mean streets of Newport, Wales? Is it their dancehall roots? Is it their punk, DI...

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Florida as of late, has churned out dozens of young bands trying to gain recognition, but none have broken out quite as well as Orlando's Sleeping with Sirens. Influenced by metal bands like Drop Dead Gorgeous and rock b...

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Torreblanca Biography TORREBLANCA is a Mexican rock/pop/alternative independent band created in late 2007. They are a feisty young group of 5 musicians -very different from each other- however (yet), they comply in an ...

"He's finally getting his shit together." --friend of Matt Oliver...

Cheeky, charming and touchingly direct, Melbourne foursome Twerps have risen from humble beginnings to become international lo-fi pop champions. Formed in 2008, Twerps were supporting the likes of Deerhunter (USA), the ...

A quest for knowledge, quest to see / all these things inside of me / looking in, there’s something wrong / I must set out on my own If there is any hope that Rock N Roll can change the world, as Valient Thorr believe...

Grammy Award-winning artist, Van Hunt, just released his fourth studio album, 'What Were You Hoping For?," which has been described as "[A] spare but dizzyingly vibrant meld of day-glo psychedelic soul laced with glammed...

The Brooklyn based dance-rock band released their fourth album, "Diamonds and Death", in the fall of '11. They've played all over the world and return to SXSW after a handful of years not playing ...

Twenty-two year old Trevor Powers, whose musical venture is called Youth Lagoon, has had a long year. Not because he’s been endlessly touring or pursuing some wild dream, but because of life – the life of a kid going to ...

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Now situated in Los Angeles, The Peach Kings draw their sound and inspiration from the smoky smooth crackle of blues, folk, and soul vinyls as well as the hypodermic tones synthesized in various beat laboratories across...

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The River City Tanlines (the name being a play on the concept of a "farmer tan") is a three-piece rock band from Memphis, TN. Together since late 2004, the band has toured extensively in North America and Europe playing...

Buraka Som Sistema (Portugal) Back in 2006 when four buddies got together to play music at a small club in the center of Lisbon, little did they know they would end up becoming part of a very select group of intern...