Presented by: Modern Outsider

Sincerity and raw emotion reverberate throughout Jess Williamson’s unhurried songs. Her songs tell stories, with the music persisting as a partner to lyrics that build haunting and specific, yet relatable, images. For…

Presented by: Modern Outsider

Named after the smaller, smoother waves looks for when he is surfing, Soft Swells is an upbeat, poppier take on indie music. You could attribute Tim “falling in love and finding true happiness” as the reason for the hope…

Presented by: Modern Outsider

- "Embraces" named one of the best songs of January 2014 by Esquire Magazine - Since 2006 — when Scott Butler, Landon Thompson and John Aldridge formed The Black and White Years — their sifter has been shaking beyond…

Presented by: Modern Outsider

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Presented by: Modern Outsider

Black Pistol Fire is a Canadian Rock and Roll duo that split’s time between Toronto, Ontario and Austin, Texas. Their wild and energetic rock-and-roll sound has been described as a mix of classic southern rock and garage…

Presented by: Modern Outsider

The Crookes are at the forefront of the latest wave of music to surface in the UK. They are four English Literature graduates whose music is bound with storytelling and tinged with nostalgia. Described by NYLON magazine …

Presented by: Carpark Records

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Presented by: Carpark Records

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Presented by: Carpark Records

GRMLN is the musical project of 20 year old, Yoodoo Park. He was born in Kyoto, Japan and moved to southern California at a young age (though he still goes back to Japan every summer). Yoodoo started playing music at the…

Presented by: Carpark Records

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Presented by: Carpark Records

Any great band evolves. And so even though TEEN had certainly made some excellent, acclaimed music in their first few years of existence, they knew they were still discovering their voice — in more than one sense of the …

Presented by: Carpark Records

From their start as a full band, Speedy Ortiz found a warm reception in the Bay State’s rock underground, from Boston’s basements to Western Massachusetts’ experimental scene. In March 2012, the band recorded and self-re…

Presented by: Carpark Records

Cloud Nothings was founded in the late 2000s in a Cleveland basement, the one-man recording project of Dylan Baldi. Now, two albums later and with two added members, Cloud Nothings' sound has evolved from the catchy pop …

Presented by: Exit/In

No Regrets Coyote is a band from the great city of Nashville Tennessee. For the past two years, and with great pride, they have been hitting eardrums across the town with pure hooks and pure volume. No shoes will be gaze…

Presented by: Exit/In

Nashville’s JP5 is the latest band fronted by Atlanta native Joseph Plunkett. It’s also his most fully realized, the product of a guy who knows what he wants: a great rock n roll band fragile enough to fall apart, but st…

Presented by: Exit/In

Bully is a Nashville quartet featuring Alicia Bognanno on guitar and vocals, Stewart Copeland on drums (not THAT Stewart Copeland), Daniel Severs on bass and Kyle Hunter on guitar. Twenty three year old Alicia is a self …

Presented by: Exit/In

Nashville, TN-based RI¢HIE is set to release their debut full-length album “Night Game” via Moutain Lion Island Records on February 25, 2014 - available for pre-order at http://myrichie.bandcamp.com/ Whether they’re p…

Presented by: Exit/In

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Presented by: Exit/In

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet." - Romeo and Juliet If Shakespeare was alive to get the led out, he would've listened to Diarrhea Planet, Nashville's favorite six…

Presented by: Crash Avenue

Vancouver's The Shilohs have in short order positioned themselves as a quintessential band's band. These four guys have the songwriting talent, chops and the oddball cool to make any gig memorable. Like the late greats b…

Presented by: Crash Avenue

Austin's garage outsiders, The Zoltars, formed in 2010 as a songwriting outlet for Jared Leibowich (AKA Jared Zoltar). Their first album, Should I Try Once More (Burger Records/ Sundae Records, 2012), was a triumph of m…

Presented by: Crash Avenue

There is a parallel metaphor of evolution one could use to describe Secret Colours since releasing their sophomore effort Peach earlier this summer. Two original members are all that remain of the sometime 6-piece band t…

Presented by: Crash Avenue

CHAPPO was born in the East Village of New York in 2009 and in a few short years has created an enthusiastic and rambunctious following. Splitting the difference between the guitar driven psychedelia of 60′s west coast r…

Presented by: Crash Avenue

The Oklahoma City band BRONCHO crafts sing-along anthems that combine punk and garage-rock. You could make all the likely comparisons to punk bands of the '70s — Ramones, Iggy Pop and The Stooges — or even bring up the n…

Presented by: Crash Avenue

He's from Memphis, equally steeped in Link Wray and Phil Collins. She's a small town girl from a "mostly cold and cloudy town in Michigan", who found her songwriting inspiration while living on a sailboat in the West Ind…