The Ben Baxter Band is a four piece band from Austin, Texas that spans genres from rock and soul to blues and funk. Their songs reflect a background of artists like Bill Withers, The Doobie Brothers, Creedence Clear Wate…

ERIN IVEY WILL BE APPEARING WITH TOSCA STRING QUARTET at her official SXSW 2013 showcase Tuesday, March 12, 9pm at The Parish Underground. Erin Ivey is Austin's Urban Folk darling, known for musical adventurousness th…

Born in 2010, The Carper Family has brought together three of Austin's most talented young country and bluegrass singers and pickers... Melissa Carper [vocals, bass], Beth Chrisman [vocals, fiddle], and Jenn Miori [vocal…

Ruby Jane is a 17 year old singer, songwriter, guitar, and fiddle playing prodigy. The fiddle has been addicted to Ruby Jane since she was 2 years old. She was the youngest ever invited fiddler on the Grand Ole Opry. S…

Joe Banfi is a boy with a guitar but he’s more than just a lonesome acoustic troubadour. He’s not just a singer-songwriter, either, nor is he simply a musician with a voice. Here is someone whose intention it is to have …

Washington Post "Austin-based La Snacks sound like they might be slackers. That's not a bad thing, mind you. The band's casual songs aren't packed with effects or a bevy of sounds to try to convince you of its members…

Presented by: Saddle Creek

Jake Bellows is the frontman of Neva Dinova, with which he released three proper full-length albums in addition to a split with Bright Eyes. Neva Dinova has toured the world as headliners and supported bands such as Deat…

Presented by: Saddle Creek

Dear Reader, We are UUVVWWZ, an avant-blues quartet from Lincoln Nebraska, comprised of Teal Gardner, Jim Schroeder, Dustin Wilbourn, and David Ozinga. We have been playing as UU for five years and have put out one al…

Presented by: Saddle Creek

Chris Senseney and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney (The Good Life, Bright Eyes, She & Him) formed Big Harp in December 2010, after a three-year whirlwind that saw the two meet, have a baby, move halfway across the country, get…

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Presented by: Saddle Creek

Hailing from America's center, Omaha-based Icky Blossoms formed in the blizzard of 2011 through friendship, trials and a mutual desire to make art and new music. A brainchild born from the boredom of sitting still. Guita…

Presented by: Saddle Creek

Harouki Zombi, the brainchild of Nina Barnes (of Montreal) and Orenda Fink (Azure Ray), is a self-described "entertainment for the fallen empire." The duo is set to release their first collaboration, Objet Petit A, on…

Presented by: Arts & Crafts

I Can Chase Dragons! is the solo project of Julio Gudiño, lead singer from Mexican band The Plastics Revolution, who is currently based in Boston. With an expansive sonic palette, his music could be described as sampl…

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In the year 2003 Movus was formed in Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico by Esteban Testolini, Pablo Crespo, Russel Ruvalcaba, José Luis DOmínguez (Chelis) and Raul Andreu (Rulo), now they are an active band in the world´s under…

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In 2008, Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink moved from San Francisco to Toronto, irreversibly altering Snowblink from a whimsical warm-weather band touting four male backup singers (two of whom were Andrew and Ben of MGMT) …

Presented by: Arts & Crafts

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GOLD & YOUTH is a band based in Vancouver and Toronto who write songs tinged with nostalgic desire. Their music evokes memories of neo-noir Los Angeles, cinematic haze and midnight solitudes. Debut album BEYOND WILDE…

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THE DARCYS are an art rock band from Toronto. Their self-titled Arts & Crafts debut was produced by Murray Lightburn of The Dears and released on October 25, 2011 as a free download and on limited edition vinyl. It is th…

Presented by: Audible Treats & The Vinyl District

A rooftop overlooking Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. A fleabag motel on the banks of the Susquehanna River. A bus winding through sleepy Chicago suburbs. A book-filled bedroom. A sculpture garden in Washington, D.C. These …

Presented by: Audible Treats & The Vinyl District

“…a sound that simultaneously stimulates and satisfies…” – My Old Kentucky Blog Boy+Kite released their debut album Go Fly the summer of 2011, although the band started in 2009 when the two main members Beth & Darvin …

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Since the mid 90s, The Linus Pauling Quartet has been playing their particular brand of Texas stoner metal/garage psych infused with their obsessions for drugs, beer, sci-fi/fantasy, and the mighty Bongs of Power. Over …

Presented by: Audible Treats & The Vinyl District

Love As Laughter began as a bedroom cassette project by Sam Jayne in the mid 90's during the last days of Lync, Jayne's chaotic youth core band that is still heralded today as a highly influential and potent part of the …

Presented by: Audible Treats & The Vinyl District

In 2004, just as fall arrived in Los Angeles, Ryan and Aaron Baggaley packed up their Venice apartment and left town. After years of playing guitar on their own, the brothers started in together with an aim to make music…

Presented by: Audible Treats & The Vinyl District

The band was conceived during a homecoming of sorts—not in the heat of a romantic dalliance, but a brotherly collaboration. Prodigal sons returned and found themselves playing proud papa to a Sad Baby Wolf. It was au…

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It started with a want ad, plastered across the board of a post-industrial space near Brooklyn’s infamously filthy Gowanus Canal. The request? Quite simple: “Robert Smith / Emily Haines, where are you?” The sort of thing…

Presented by: Get Hip Recordings

Spearheaded by singer/songwriter/guitarist Ben Glover and drummer King Louie Bankston, the group play delta psychedelic music influenced by Syd Barrett and the 13th Floor Elevators, delivering odes to dissociation, time …

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The splendour of The Ripe lies in the contradictory traits which they embellish. While purveyors of a heady mix of the best of the golden era of the sixties and seventies, their sound in contrast, is contemporary. Their …

Presented by: Get Hip Recordings

At long last, SUBSONICS have descended again upon the denizens of the steamy rock’n’roll jungle with their first album in five years, "In the Black Spot" (Slovenly Recordings 702-112)! Subsonics have been called the "Bes…

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Presented by: Get Hip Recordings

The Mullens have been in existance since 1995. The band was formed by frontman Tim Stile and guitarist Matt Mayo in East Dallas. The Mullens have toured extensively and released four full length LP's, all on Pittsburgh…

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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 Brubeck went to college, …