Presented by: Yours Truly

"Once in a while an artist comes along and shows so much heart, versatility and just genuine talent, that they're impossible to ignore. Therefore it's been no surprise to see Deniro Farrar flooding the pages of the inter...

Charlotte NC

Presented by: Yours Truly

"When I begin to explore and to build a song through a series of pedals, I begin with the tuner. It helps keep my guitar's pitch consistent. An octave pedal and the distortion pedals allows me to change the textures and ...

Brooklyn NY

Presented by: Yours Truly

Bay Area funk sorcerer B. Bravo has assembled a crew of intergalactic badmen to form The Starship Connection - a synthesizer funk / future bass quartet co-piloted by producer and synth wizard Teeko (synths &talkbox), fea...

San Francisco CA

Presented by: Yours Truly

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 re...

Wellington NEW ZEALAND

   

Presented by: Yours Truly

Huntsville, Alabama's G-Side are ushering in a new era of Southern rap. Two of the hardest-grinding MCs in the business, ST 2 Lettaz and Yung Clova witnessed immense struggle firsthand and have worked ceaselessly to carv...

Huntsville AL

Presented by: Yours Truly

The 22-year-old Cities Aviv — aka Gavin Mays — might be the most original and is certainly one of the most significant musicians to emerge on the Memphis music scene in the past year. The Memphis native and Overto...

Memphis TN

Presented by: Suicide Squeeze/Scopitones

The Pinky Piglets started life in 1998 as ‘Minami Band’… and enjoyed instant success, being in demand for Japanese festivals and playing at local clubs. In 1999 they went on to win the ‘golden award’ at the You...

Tokyo JAPAN

 

Presented by: Suicide Squeeze/Scopitones

On Visits, Tammar pulls off a pretty incredible trick with each and every one of its post-punk anthems, probably something of which the band doesn’t take much note. They mine the classic sounds of paranoia, malaise and...

Bloomington IN

   

Presented by: Suicide Squeeze/Scopitones

The Wedding Present has had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles… not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. Formed in 1985 by David Gedge, they have been record...

Brighton UK-ENGLAND

Presented by: Suicide Squeeze/Scopitones

The music of Cotton Jones speaks of transition: the passage from one form, state of mind, style or place to another. Songs become doorways to the past, or windows that open on some unnamed future, where innocence can sti...

Cumberland MD

 

Presented by: Suicide Squeeze/Scopitones

The Coathangers were a band before they were musicians. The Atlanta quartet started out as an excuse to hang out and play parties. Their jokey attitude ran deep, right down to their name—a self-admittedly crude abortio...

Atlanta GA

   

Presented by: Suicide Squeeze/Scopitones

THIS WILL DESTROY YOU began in earnest during the mid-00’s in San Marcos, TX. In many ways, the initial sound of the band was the logical destination point for four friends (Christopher Royal King, Jeremy Galindo, Raym...

San Marcos TX

 

Presented by: The Lexington

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". ...

Leeds UK-ENGLAND

Presented by: The Lexington

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 sophom...

Toronto ON CANADA

   

Presented by: The Lexington

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...

Oslo NORWAY

   

Presented by: The Lexington

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 ...

London UK-ENGLAND

 

Presented by: The Lexington

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...

Austin TX

   

Presented by: The Lexington

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...

Cardiff UK-WALES

 

Presented by: Bright Antenna

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 �...

Nashville TN

Presented by: Bright Antenna

Beware of Darkness is a bold, new power-trio of old souls, pissed at life in a modern age. They are ready to frighten your children, sleep with your daughters, and make you shake, scream, and contort like it’s a Depres...

Los Angeles CA

Presented by: Bright Antenna

Over the past several years The American South has been teeming with innovative music and Charlotte North Carolina’s songbird, Drake Margolnick is poised to be the next to carve his name in the bark. Without flinching ...

Charlotte TN

Presented by: Jail Guitar Doors

"English Teeth are a raucous British Invasion style rock band with plenty of energy and a fantastic live show. Teeth's three EP's -- rather shockingly -- manage to bottle the testosterone-driven rock nicely. There's some...

Austin TX

Presented by: Jail Guitar Doors

Wayne Kramer has lived a life of music and activism. He was the teenaged founder of Detroit's incendiary MC5. Long a respected film and TV composer, Wayne scored the comedy feature Talladega Nights for Sony Pictures and ...

Los Angeles CA

Presented by: Jail Guitar Doors

For his third full length album as The Nightwatchman (and the fourteenth album of his illustrious career), guitar superhero Morello switched up his style. Since 2007, he has used the moniker for his alter ego as a solo f...

Beverly Hills CA

Presented by: Red Ryder

Deleted Scenes will release Young People’s Church of the Air on Sockets Records on CD (Sept. 6) and LP (Sept. 20). This second album builds on the “thoughtful existentialism and strange, drowsy downers“ of their 20...

Washington DC

Presented by: Red Ryder

If you're not familiar with the back-story of Savoir Adore, what began as a 48-hour challenge between two best friends blossomed into one of Brooklyn's most exciting and unique young bands. With an experimental approa...

Brooklyn NY

 

Presented by: Red Ryder

New Wild Everywhere is the follow-up to Great Lake Swimmers’ critically acclaimed, Polaris Music Prize shortlisted and Juno nominated 2009 album Lost Channels. Their fifth album in just under a decade, this new collect...

Toronto ON CANADA

   

Presented by: Red Ryder

LOST LANDER As Geoffrey Chaucer was a forester/poet and Norman Jolly was a forester/cricketer, Lost Lander’s Matt Sheehy is a forester/songwriter. Sheehy’s day-to-day workplace is the mighty wooded expanse of the...

Portland OR

 

Presented by: Red Ryder

Listeners everywhere are having a very emotional response to Dark Dark Dark's music. Their sophomore album, titled Wild Go, is ambitious and layered, welcoming and familiar, and reminds us to seek out the wonder and mag...

Minneapolis MN

Presented by: Red Ryder

Dear Reader, I once came very close to dying (bug-bite, failed organs), and though my life was spared thanks to thanks to modern medicine and a kidney given to me by my father, nonetheless I live with a persisting sen...

Portland OR

 

Presented by: Red Ryder

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 di...

Brooklyn NY