“Though the sound is bigger than a folk record, the dark lyrics are wrapped in familiar Americana. The instrumentation is meticulous—nothing sounds out-of-place, especially the aching pedal steel, which is used with ...
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 firs...
Mister Loveless are a 4-piece rock band founded in 2003 by high school friends, Rob Miller and Charlie Koliha in a sleepy suburb of San Francisco called, Walnut Creek. Loveless (as those familiar with the band refer to t...
Beach Fossils is a Brooklyn-based group, formed in early 2009 by Dustin Payseur. After signing to Captured Tracks and quickly pulling together a live band, they took off playing countless shows across the U.S. gathering ...
Erin Barra
presented by Heard Entertainment/RootMusic
Showcase
Club 606
12:30AM - 1:10AM
Presented by: Heard Entertainment/RootMusic
An artist with intense drive and determination, Erin Barra is a young, emotive singer-songwriter and performer whose talent belies maturity far beyond her years.
Brilliantly blurring pop, soul, funk, electronic, rock ...
“With the band’s catchy, emotive sound — equal parts dusty alt-country and lovelorn late ’90s alt-rock — we’re surprised debut EP track ‘Let Back’ isn’t as big a hit as ‘Pumped Up Kicks’.” –L.A....
Wheelchair Sports Camp, the Denver based pseudo hip-hop band is a combination of beats, drums, a saxophone, and DJ. The band unknowingly started in the summer of 1997 when Kalyn moved back from Burbank, CA to her Denver ...
From Harlem by way of Jersey, Things started taking off musically for Kyle Rapps when he dropped "Love, Love" featuring KRS-One and Homeboy Sandman. He followed that acclaimed XXL and 2Dopeboyz posted single with his...
Soul Khan is a Brooklyn-based emcee from the underground hip hop group Brown Bag Allstars. His first album in November 2010, Soul Like Khan, was downloaded over 50,000 times, charted on CMJ charts, and garnered a ground...
In recent years, hip-hop and electronic music have inched ever closer
to each other, cross pollinating healthy scenes for a fresh sound that
is winning over countless fans of both genres. Yet few rappers have
effortle...
Kosha Dillz, born Rami Matan Even-Esh, has earned the title of the "hardest working man in hip hop" by his peers recently. From breakfast freestyles on morning shows with tap dancers, to performing at over 150 shows a ye...
BLAQSTARR
Blaqstarr, the Baltimore born DJ, producer, and artist extraordinaire, is a talent that comes around once in a lifetime. Writing, producing, and arranging all his material, Blaqstarr’s worldly sound has no b...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 sett...
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...
GRACE WOODROOFE
Album: Always Want, January 24, Modular
With her uniquely warm, husky, and sometimes mournful voice, Grace Woodroofe is about to make a special mark on the music scene. At just twenty-two years of...
Raised in Detroit, MI and now a resident of Los Angeles. JMSN wrote, produced and mixed his debut album †Priscilla† which has been released to rave reviews. A journey through the repercussions of a failed relationshi...
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...
Chad Valley are the personal outpourings of one Hugo Manuel, the balearic inclined vocalist of Oxford's Jonquil and founder member of the Blessing Force collective.
Taking a more electronic approach to sunset vibes, H...
“Everyone becomes sea urchins and rats at night,” says PAPA's Darren Weiss, laughing slyly. “It’s the nature of being young.”
Like with an inside joke you know, you smirk along, succumbing to a moment of reve...
Stout Cortez is Justin Hunter Scott's electro diversion from everything that sucks. Over time the project has shifted from electro-pop with hints of house and r&b to something darker and deeper. But don't be confused -- ...
What's in a name? Oakland, CA's Mwahaha answers that question with a smirk, but the sounds that emanate from their forthcoming debut album are no joke. Psychedelic ebb & flows, electronic undercurrents, and elated pop f...
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,...
My Best Fiend
Warp Records
While the five members of My Best Fiend live in Brooklyn, the music they create resides somewhere else entirely: in a spacious, dreamlike world all its own, by turns unsettling and upliftin...
Kwes.
“Driving past a music instrument shop in my granddad’s car. Friday evenings at my grandparents with chip-shop food and toys to hand, watching Top Of The Pops…the two-tier Yamaha Electone organ at their ...
