Along with like-minded Texans Fergus & Geronimo and Teenage Cool Kids, Houston’s Young Girls make tuneful, polaroid-quality garage pop that feels impassioned and sincere without losing a certain tongue-in-cheek self-awar…

The Rite Flyers, from Austin Texas practice several styles all loosely orbiting the same power-pop nucleus: snappy electric rockers, plaintive acoustic odes and fuzz-clouded squalls. Songs that positively vibrate with t…

Tyler Demorest, Danny Schnair, and Matt Cohen, known collectively as Kiven, hail from the smog-swept city of Los Angeles. While their musical influences have undoubtedly come from a wide array of musical and artistic spe…

Western Medication formed in December 2011 in Nashville, TN. After sticking Justin Landis with hundreds of acupuncture needles, his doctor warned him in a thick Chinese accent, “No more western meds!” A decade of masking…

Conveyor is a Brooklyn-based music project spawned by the fated juncture of a wandering tarot of musicians in Gainesville, FL. Was it kismet or perhaps a primordial summon which led these gentlemen purveyors of sound to …

While pioneering the genre of ballroom rock, the band has continually won fans over with their emotionally-driven yet upbeat songs that playfully strike a balance between the alternative and organic. With a revitalized s…

You Me & Us is a two-piece band out of Palm Springs, California that play fuzzy tunes soaked in sweet sounding relatable remarks. "This band reminds me of what I loved about The Breeders the first time I heard them. C…

Dragons of Zynth's frontmen, Aku and Akwetey, are twins and were raised in Cleveland, OH. The group first won notice with the demo recording of their first single "War Lover" in 2004. The band gained attention early on f…

Il Pan Del Diavolo is a folk'n'roll duo formed by Pietro Alessandro Alosi (guitar, kick and vocals) and Gianluca Bartolo (guitar and vocals). The group was born in Palermo in 2006 and began playing live with energetic a…

Ivan & The Parazol is a Hungarian rock’n’roll band. Formed in 2010, the group consists of five members. Their 21. century beat music incorporates influences from the the 60’s-70’s new wave genres. The garage rock band’…

Vaudeville Smash began with 3 brothers, an intense love of the good music and a desire to the give the kids something they'd never seen or heard. The enigmatic, energetic and all-embracing Melbourne band built their repu…

plaided is veronika eberhart and julia mitterbauer who are having playdates in vienna (austria) since 2009. they change instruments, invite guests on stage, play shows in different countries and different line ups, rel…

If you’re not having fun at a Pinstripes show, brothers and sisters, check for a toe tag. Your autopsy may already be in progress. Winners of the 2007, 2009, and 2010 Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best World Ban…

Real life rock and roll music.……

Brothers in Law is a three pieces band born from a real relationship connection. Funny enough their music is much more powerful than their (almost) blood connection. Nicola and Giacomo at the guitars and Andrea at the (s…

Glen and Ely played together in Trumans Water from '91-'93. Glen walked up to O at an Olivelawn show 20 years ago and asked if it was ok to tape his set. Jason (from Vytear) recorded Octa#grape in August '12 and joined…

“Everyone are you feeling bad today, ‘cause maybe you should be a little happier,” Asya (“Asy”) Saaverda raps in “Rad,” a song she wrote before hitting her teens, which Cat Power would go on to cover in her live sets. As…

Dikes of Holland is a 5-piece garage punk band from Austin, Tx. Our latest record "Braindead USA" was released in late 2012 on Screamers Records (Paris France). Now if you don't mind my cat Ignatius would like to say a…

Since their first jam together in a small, dirty rehearsal space somewhere in the suburbs of Manchester, the three talented musicians soon found a unique style, "…mixing driving riffs with electronic samples and pulsing …

Hailing from New Zealand’s iconic music city Dunedin, founding Die! Die! Die! members Andrew Wilson and Michael Prain originally cut their teeth in local scene noise bands. In 2013, having spent the better part of a …

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LITE are a four-piece instrumental rock band formed in Japan in 2003. The band are known for their thrilling and emotional compositions, progressive, edgy riffs and complex rhythms. Their explosive live show and tireless…

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Islet are an experimental and psychedelic group from Wales with a vision of limitless possibilities through the simple joy of exploration. Their explosive live performances are marked by the refusal to stand still, r…

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Women, death, beards, skulls & whiskey, the dark matters ground through stomach-churning guitars and ugly drumming to produce the trademark lo-fi blues-stoner-punk sound that has made the Sheffield/Leeds duo make a name …

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It would be reasonable to suspect a band who borrowed their name from the works of Friedrich Nietzsche might just be yet another pretentious act arriving on the scene but, when it comes to the rock and rhythm duo IAMDYNA…

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Brothers Joe and David Stark teamed up to form the stripped down rock and roll duo Baby Bee in the fall of 2011. After recording an independent 7 song EP with producer Dave Cobb, the brothers quickly began earning a loya…

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Teen Runnings are a band of Shota Kaneko from Tokyo, Japan, their members are Shota Kaneko (guitar/vox), Masato Watanabe (bass) and Masashi Takahashi(drums). The band's major musical influences go from 60's surf, Psyche,…

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Hawk Eyes consist of Paul Astick (vocals / guitar), Rob Stephens (guitar), Ryan Clark (bass) and Steve Wilson (drums). They released their new album ‘Ideas’ through Fierce Panda Records earlier this year to critical accl…

This is The Futures League. They play Rock n' Roll. Jon sings and plays guitar, Jack plays guitar, Scott plays bass and John plays drums. Their self-titled debut EP was released on 11/20/12 consisting of 5 songs that …

Everybody relieves stress in their own ways, and Meat Market found an outlet by playing house parties. From there, the music expanded as well as the ideas and audience. After forming in Santa Cruz the boys moved back to …

The title of LEE BAINS III AND THE GLORY FIRES' debut album comes from Bains mishearing an old hymn as a child. In the soft accents of his elders around Birmingham, Alabama, "There is a balm in Gilead" sounded a lot like…

Fueled by a summer spent living in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, far removed from the insular peninsula of Halifax, KESTRELS' guitarist/vocalist Chad Peck wrote a record that thoroughly mines out concepts of nostalgi…

The Suzan are a pop-rock band from Tokyo, Japan. Formed in 2004 by sisters Rie (keyboards and vocals) and Saori (guitar and vocals). Soon they added school friends Nico (drums) and Ikue (bass) where their sound has been …

Language Room is an indie/alternative/rock band from Austin, TX. The band has been together since 2007. They released a self-titled debut album in 2010, an EP entitled 'Skin & Heart & Lungs' in 2012, and are currently wo…

Rock ‘n’ roll, direct and with no qualifiers, is Lions In The Street’s business. What sets the Vancouver band apart from the defanged mainstream is that their modern denim-and-leather heaviness is anchored in the raucou…