Presented by: Tucson Music Factory / Hotellounge (ICA)

Naïm Amor is a french born, Tucson Arizona based musician and composer. Shortly after moving to Tucson from Paris in 1997, Naïm formed the “experimental avant pop” AMOR BELHOM DUO with drummer Thomas Belhom. They put…

Presented by: Tucson Music Factory / Hotellounge (ICA)

transcription of organ music (AKA Damon Bird) records and performs simple bittersweet alternative folk songs that creak and roll through heart and history. Whether taking the form of a bare-boned, elegiac tale perambulat…

Presented by: Tucson Music Factory / Hotellounge (ICA)

L’Ancolie grows in the gardens of melancholy. In Morin Heights in the great Canadian outdoors, you can find its red and yellow flowers. It is at Morin Heights in August 2010 that Fredda’s album fully bloomed as an ode to…

Presented by: Tucson Music Factory / Hotellounge (ICA)

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Presented by: Tucson Music Factory / Hotellounge (ICA)

Marianne Dissard's signature fierce and melancholy French Chanson, tinged by Tucson's latin brass, gets re-interpreted live by Seattle pop/hip-hop producer Budo (Rhymesayers, Grieves & Budo). The chanteuse's third album,…

Presented by: Tucson Music Factory / Hotellounge (ICA)

Josh Haden, son of bass-playing jazz great Charlie Haden, founded Spain in Los Angeles in 1993. Their debut, The Blue Moods Of Spain, was released on Restless Records in 1995.  Born from the same L.A. alternative rock sc…

Presented by: Hybridity / Boompa / Hidden Pony

With Little Mountain, Said The Whale has crafted its most adventurous effort yet; venturing into everything from soaring, horn-laden cabaret ("The Reason") to jaggedly syncopated rock ("We Are 1980") and effervescent gui…

Presented by: Hybridity / Boompa / Hidden Pony

Aaron Bergunder started playing electronic music years ago under the moniker KaraokeMF to make silly remixes of his more focused rock band, Colourbook. While it began as more of a joke, as time went on KaraokeMF grew int…

Presented by: Hybridity / Boompa / Hidden Pony

'Earning Keep' as an album and concept came to be over a three year span. Even as Christopher Smith was recording and touring in support of 2010's 'The Beckon Call', the catalyst of change, a greater departure and band b…

Presented by: Hybridity / Boompa / Hidden Pony

Evy Jane is the project of Vancouver-based musicians Evelyn Mason and Jeremiah Klein. Drawing from UK bass, R&B, and psychedelia, the partnership yields beat-smart, hyper-textural pop. Both Mason and Klein have been i…

Presented by: Hybridity / Boompa / Hidden Pony

The Belle Game´s debut album, Ritual Tradition Habit, begins with bashful guitars, a soft wave of cymbals, and a pair of ambiguous phrases. `Ritual´, a sweetly haunting soundscape, lasts only a few moments before fleshin…

Presented by: Hybridity / Boompa / Hidden Pony

With dub techniques & hip-hop aesthetics as his foundation, Michael Campitelli navigates numerous modes of funk – hypnotic & cavernous one minute, then rhythmically venomous the next, the neck-snap quotient with Calamalk…

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Bloody Knives is an industrial/shoegaze band from Austin, Texas consisting of Preston Maddox (bass, voice, keyboards, samples, programming), Jake McCown (Drums, noise, programming, art), Kim Calderon (sound manipulator) …

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Manic Sheep is a band which formed in 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan. The band most lineup consists of Chris Lo(vocals, bass, synths), Scott Hsieh (guitar) and Jocelyn Kang (Drum).The original member was five, their earlier musi…

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Brooklyn dream pop outfit Heaven initially formed in late 2010. Matt Sumrow (Dean and Britta, The Comas, Ambulance LTD) and Mikey Jones (The Big Sleep, Swervedriver, Snowden), galvanized by sessions backing Adam Frankli…

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Summer Flake is from Adelaide, Australia. It sounds like harmony-filled, lo-fi, melodic, garage, guitar pop. Summer Flake is the umpteenth musical project for multi-instrumentalist Steph Crase, but the first one that …

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Featured new artist in Filter and Under the Radar Magazine! NIGHTMARE AIR is a rock trio from Los Angeles, California, fronted by the dynastic duo Dave Dupuis (guitar, vocals) and Swaan Miller (bass, vocals). The …

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We all met when we were forced to ride through a haunted house in the same trolly. By the end of the ride we had written and recorded our first 7''. We spent some time up in Montreal recording our first album in thee…

Presented by: Nine Mile Records

Tearing up the lost highway from Oxford, Mississippi's Sweet Tea Studios comes the I Can't Wait EP, the sophomore offering from Memphis’s folk pop trio, Star & Micey. Produced by Dennis Herring (Elvis Costello, Counting …

Presented by: Nine Mile Records

Anders Parker was the main force behind experimental indie-rock band Varnaline. He has also released four critically acclaimed solo albums and most recently has been a part of the Woody Guthrie project New Multitudes wit…

Presented by: Nine Mile Records

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Presented by: Nine Mile Records

Ken Stringfellow is co-founder of The Posies, one of the most critically acclaimed power pop bands of the '90s. Stringfellow has also been a member of Alex Chilton's Big Star, toured frequently as a member of R.E.M., and…

Presented by: Nine Mile Records

Dana Falconberry suffuses the majesty of nature in the orchestral pop-folk she elegantly crafts in Leelanau, her inaugural release on Oakland, CA's Antenna Farm Records. Citing influences ranging from the prints of arti…

Presented by: Nine Mile Records

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, devourin…