Presented by: Scottish Music Industry Association

Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers are a folk-rock-soul sextet of pan-Scottish provenance. Singer and guitarist Ali Downer assumed the moniker 'Woodenbox' , in a nod to influences such as King Creosote and ‘Bonnie’ P...

Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND

 

Presented by: Scottish Music Industry Association

Artist Information Biography Tango in the Attic were formed in 2008 at Edinburgh university by five friends that have grown up together. The band take influence from best pop, avant-garde and east coast garage music...

Glenrothes UK-SCOTLAND

 

Presented by: Scottish Music Industry Association

Fuelled by a passion to create memorable, melodic pop music with interesting and intelligent lyrical content, French Wives see 2012 as the year for them to fully break through. Having spent nearly all of 2011 preparing t...

Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND

 

Presented by: Scottish Music Industry Association

Loud, hairy, and unpredictable, Three Blind Wolves are four young Glaswegians delivering country rock with a razor sharp edge. Drawing influences from Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival and even Led Zeppelin, the b...

Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND

 

Presented by: Scottish Music Industry Association

Django Django Biography 2011 It's not for anyone else to decide what other young men and women should get up to in the sanctity of their own bedrooms. That said, it's heartening to know that not everyone using the ter...

London UK-ENGLAND

Presented by: Scottish Music Industry Association

Following closely in the footsteps of The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetpacks are yet another hugely talented young Scottish band added to the FatCat roster. The 4-piece came to our attention wh...

Edinburgh UK-SCOTLAND

Presented by: BMI

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...

London UK-ENGLAND

   

Presented by: BMI

Please allow David Garza to reintroduce himself. Get the head rockin’ with Shed Light, the best of this multi-instrumentalist’s 21st-century music. It’s sure to be in heavy rotation alongside his Deep Ellum-ins...

Austin TX

Presented by: BMI

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...

Los Angeles CA

 

Presented by: BMI

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 ...

Nashville TN

 

Presented by: BMI

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...

New York NY

Presented by: BMI

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...

Austin TX

 

Presented by: Girls Rock Camp, Maurices & PlayNetwork

Some things are eternal. Love songs. California sunsets. The ukulele. Leftover Cuties embody all of that goodness on their debut album Places To Go. Produced by Tony Berg (Bob Dylan, Michael Penn, Jesca Hoop), the el...

Venice CA

 

Presented by: Girls Rock Camp, Maurices & PlayNetwork

Sydney Wayser is a French-American, New York-based singer-songwriter who plays guitar, piano and children's toys. Wayser grew up in Los Angeles, California, while spending her summers in Paris. The Louvre and the Oranger...

Brookyln NY

   

Presented by: Girls Rock Camp, Maurices & PlayNetwork

D E N A is the music project of Berlin-based song writer and vocalist Dena Todorova. Born and raised in Bulgaria, she moved to Berlin few years ago, where she focused on writing and working on music. Dena stepped int...

Berlin GERMANY

   

Presented by: Girls Rock Camp, Maurices & PlayNetwork

When Mexican vocalist Ximena Sariñana (hi-MEN-a sa-rin-YAH-na) released her debut solo album, Mediocre, in 2008, Rolling Stone gave it four stars and praised it as “one of the strongest debuts from a female singer-son...

Mexico City MEXICO

Presented by: Girls Rock Camp, Maurices & PlayNetwork

The story of the Alabama Shakes begins in a high school psychology class in Athens, Alabama. Brittany Howard, who had started playing guitar a few years earlier, approached Zac Cockrell and asked if he wanted to try maki...

Athens AL

 

Presented by: Girls Rock Camp, Maurices & PlayNetwork

San Antonio’s Girl In A Coma have left a permanent tattoo on the hearts of music lovers with their piercing songs and nuclear performances. They’ve blazed a singular trail since Nina Diaz joined the band at age 13 an...

San Antonio TX

 

Presented by: Get Hip

Nervebreakers are a late seventies / early eighties Texas punk band considered by many to be the first of their kind in the southwest. Like many others of this genre, they started out as a high school garage band doing s...

Dallas TX

 

Presented by: Get Hip

With boundless musical imagination, The Ripe has sprung forth from it's roots in power-pop, folk, garage, and psychedelia while still being nurtured by contemporary sounds and influences. Born in 2007, the Austin, Texas ...

Austin TX

 

Presented by: Get Hip

Killer punk-rock/garage-psych quartet from Toronto, Canada "With props from King Khan and melodies nicked straight from Cramps HQ... what they do... they do with dirt-rock aplomb." -NME......

Toronto ON CANADA

 

Presented by: Get Hip

For over 6 years now, The Higher State have crafted and honed their own unique musical signature: a combination of 60's-style garage psychedelia and folk punk, meshed with full-on vocal harmonies and incisive, thought-pr...

Sandgate UK-ENGLAND

   

Presented by: Get Hip

The Ugly Beats formed in January 2003. Before striking their first note, the band promptly wound the clock all the way back to 1966 and has left it there ever since. Armed with Paul Revere, Ventures and Easybeats recor...

Austin TX

Presented by: Get Hip

Rock icon and cult favorite Paul Collins got his start with Peter Case and Jack Lee in 1974. Their band The Nerves toured with The Ramones and recorded a song called “Hanging On The Telephone.” The song would later b...

New York NY

 

Presented by: Get Hip

AUTHORITIES The Authorities formed in Stockton, California, a nasty working class port city, on the San Joaquin River. The town was known for a couple of jazz guys – Gil Evans grew up there, and it’s where Dave Br...

Vancouver BC CANADA