From the belly of the Midwest came the birth of an Alternative/Hip-Hop artist named Manish Law from Wichita KS. Definitely a force to be reckoned with he is blending the sounds of melodic hip-hop with a rock/pop infusion and taking the Midwest by storm with his fresh sound. Influenced by such greats as Red hot Chilli Peppers, Devin the dude, Outkast and Eminem, Manish delivers a captivating flow with mesmerizing lyrics and versatile rap patterns. The self procalimed "Keeper of the Plains" is a Kansan at heart and lover of many music genres which allows him to let his "freak flag" fly. With 3 projects under his belt in the last 2 years respectively The ManLaw Mixtape, The Day of Wreckoning Album and The Manish Vlawg Mixta...
Across the winters of 2007, Joe Goodkin, Jay Marino, and Darren Garvey pieced together a group of recordings in a Chicago attic overlooking I-90, working around ten of Goodkin's orphaned acoustic demos. Quiet songs like Again and Again combine fingerpicked guitars with the sounds of highway traffic and trains to create a sonic bed for whispered lyrics fraught with pain and regret. Hope flickers on the ebullient Motown-influenced Turn, but by the album's closer, When You Left, the loss is fully realized and...
Esthema “plays at a truly world-class level, with authenticity, aplomb, and exuberance” writes Barry Cleveland in the April 2010 issue of Guitar Player Magazine about Esthema’s sophomore release, the Hereness and Nowness of Things. A World Fusion ensemble hailing from Boston, MA (USA), Esthema has been creating their unique sound since 2006 by fusing the Western sounds of Jazz, Progressive Rock, and Acoustic New Age music with the sounds of the traditional music of the Eastern European Balkan region and the Near & Middle East. The musicians that shape the sound of Esthema bring together both Western and Eastern influences, instruments, and concepts creating a musical tapestry that transcends genres and cultur...
Putnam Murdock got his start as a professional musician touring with the successful rock and roll band Chief Broom. With Murdock as front man, the group achieved a slot on the 1997 H.O.R.D.E. tour, appeared in festivals at Red Rocks Amphitheater, and sold out venues throughout the western U.S. Upon completion of this type of "music school of life" in 1999, Murdock attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he graduated with a songwriting degree in 2002. Since then, Murdock has been performing across the country with artists such as Reed Foehl (of Acoustic Junction), ...
The Stantons started life as a hybrid of country and indiepop in the winter of 2006. Marrying banjo, boy/girl vocals and various folk and alt.country-flavoured instruments to tales of school bullies, hallucinating murderers, repentant sinners and drowned childhood, their debut album Welcome To Stanton Country quickly gained praise from the likes of Is This Music?, The Daily Record, Radio 1 and The Skinny. Gigging with the likes of Monica Queen and Southern Tenant Folk Union at Tigerfest, El Rancho Relaxo, Leith Folk Club and Kelburn Garden Party helped spread the word and gain the band an enduring fanbase. Having gone through various personnel and instrument changes in the past couple of years, the new incarnation emerged blinki...
Moscow-born progressive singer-songwriter Olya wittily blends her Russian musical heritage with indie pop and Spanish-infused atmosphere into a unique sound, all her own. At the age of 7, she started singing in The Big Children's Choir of the Russian State Television and Radio touring around Europe and performing on Moscow's largest concert stages with some of the most prestigious orchestras. She now resides in NYC, performing in the city venues ranging from the live music clubs like Rockwood MusicHall and the Bowery Electric to Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. In the summer of 2010, she independently produced and published her debut EP "Carefully"....
Hailing from the heart of Chicago, Punch Cabbie is a band that stands for three things: Energy, Entertainment, and Action! With an open mind approach based largely on live performance and writing new music, Punch Cabbie has forged a sound all their own. Heavy ripping guitars set a path for the aggressive onslaught of vocals, pounding drums and driving bass. Its fast. Its fun. It makes you want to move! Practice like you play attitude shows in the energetic and sometimes off-the-wall stage presence. Punch Cabbie brings their own eclectic style to stage, featuring the melody of Metal, heavy beats of Hardcore, do-it-yourself of Alternative, and pop cynicism of Punk. This high-energy fusion of ideas results in a music experience unlik...
Ashira is a person who happens to write mostly poetry in either Hebrew or English and then memorize and perform it for gratefully blown-away audiences from Jerusalem, Israel to Austin, Texas and any number of spaces and places in-between including the greater Washington D.C. area where she currently resides and has most of her life, avoiding government politics while overwhelmedly aware of them and incorporating the world’s goings-on in prosaic poems, spiritually-awakened paintings, and the other necessary simplicities of life which vary according to the season to include gardening, cooking, ...
nard Maxwell (born June 7, 1982 in Omaha, Nebraska), is an American rapper/producer/songwriter and current president and CEO of Psquared Media and sole artist for Phat Phuk Records. He is more commonly known as El Genius, Ill Villan, and Max Atomz the Mad Scientist. He is regarded as one of the most prolific and successful Omaha emcees in recent history and is known for his sharp lyricism, witty metaphors, extremely adaptive flow as well as outstanding freestyling ability. He entered the small but very talented arena of Omaha emcees in 2006 after serving 4 years in the United States Army with the release of El Genius Presents…”The Long Ride” on Phat Phuk Records now Psquared Media. Currently, El Geniu...
Yassassin are a four piece band based in London with their roots firmly placed in rock. Made up of Tony Kubik, Gordon Taggart, Ant Crockett and Jamie Salisbury, they combine innovative, catchy songs with tight, high powered and energetic filled live performances guaranteed to get you off your seat! Don't miss out on a chance to see some of the finest rock in London town......
Experimenting in October 2010. The Ekuba Project emerges as a fusion of electronic music. Combining various styles and instruments of the genre to achieve a mix compact and innovative. Tito Couso a Cuban Systems Engineer is responsible for this. Fascinated by electronic music seeks to promote the development of this genre as well as innovative in it....
When the earth becomes without form and void the muse moves effortlessly through the thick smog of mechanized mishap. Though the malady floods the face of the deep, she swims through polluted streams, separating the survivors from the sickened. The Mock sun, phantom of the sacred Star, shines ̶ and she knows her work is approaching its end. In other words, we are an intricately woven web of fluidly eclectic guitar experimentation and spacey vocal harmonies forming the psychedelic soundtrack to a lucid dream....
Vajra was formed by composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist, Annamaria Pinna during her self imposed exile in India. The child of a former monk, and a school teacher, Annamaria was encouraged to learn about the world around her and to question her assumptions. Fueled by her insatiable curiosity of life, death and experience, Annamaria believes that there is divinity in creativity. She began playing violin at age 6 and flute at age 9. She wrote her first lyrics at age 10, and went on to study music theory at Juilliard. Annamaria has a neurological condition called synesthesia, where she attaches color and shapes to sound. The debut album,‘Pleroma' will be released in 2012. Pleroma explores paradoxes (east vs west, soft vs ...
Boston based singer/songwriter Xenia Dunford's music is an eclectic mix of jazz, indie, and pop. Imbued with subtleties from a variety of genres, Xenia Dunford's music epitomizes her passion for jazz. Xenia's love of jazz began at a young age while studying voice and continued on as she took her musical endeavors to the collegiate level. In addition to her vocal studies, Xenia taught herself how to play the piano and dove head first into the songwriting process where she found her niche. Xenia Dunford's unique and catchy songwriting skills are matched by a voice with an unmistakable presence and a style of playing that is all her own....
Tangent Transmission is the conglomerate formation of musicians Conor Cruz, Dugan Cruz, Kirby Shaw, and Sam Sobo. After forming in the summer of 2009, Tangent Transmission has stopped at nothing to saturate Southern California with their exciting and eclectic sound. The foursome has played in well-known Los Angeles venues such as The Whisky a Go Go, House of Blues, and The Roxy. In the studio, the boys crafted "Pull" their first full length EP, produced by Grammy-winner Matt Hyde (No Doubt, Jonny Lang), Receiving high acclaim for their performances and recordings alike, Tangent Transmission was honored with the Artist of the Year award in the All Indie Magazine music awards. All Indie's radio host Mikeyy Jayy desc...
This City Awaits is a unique, alternative rock group, which, having formed in March 2010, has accomplished many career-changing goals that bands set for themselves.In May 2010, This City Awaits began playing live shows and sharing the stage with notable bands such as Spoken, Skillet, House of Heroes, etc., Later that year they started writing and recording their debut album “Code Red: Urgency” at Middle Coast Studios with their producer, Nathan Ivey. The album will then be successfully released on Itunes on June 7th, 2011, and since finishing the work for the album, they have been on tour promoting themselves at local and regional shows, capturing the attentions of such magazines as HM, Out...
Much like when you need a breathing space, The Intermission is a break from continuity.Formed in 2009, this young power trio got together to play that kind of sound that takes you back to the basics, creating this intense “noise” that may sound raw but doesn’t lack sophistication.After releasing in 2010 a self-produced five-song digital demo, they started working on what will soon be their first studio album: “How To Lose Yourself”Also self-produced, with this first record the band wants to let people know who they really are on their own words.For the mixing of the album, they contacted Ryan O. Joh...
Jim Perkins always loved to sing and wherever there was music was where he had to be. He began playing guitar and writing songs in college and that's when the music bug bit him. He was consumed by an overwhelming yearning to perform, no matter how large or small the crowd, from friends to complete strangers. (Now some of those strangers have become good friends...he even married one.)...
Combining a densely layered three‐guitar attack with raw, nervy vocals, Mittenfields have drawn comparisons to some of the best indie rock acts of the 1990s. Far from an exercise in pure nostalgia, however, the DC‐based ensemble has crafted its own unique sound combining elements of indie rock, shoegaze and noise pop. Singer/bassist Dave Mann formed Mittenfields in 2008 with guitarist Sam Sherwood. After adding wunderkind math‐rock drummer Brian Moran to the mix, the lineup of the band was completed with the arrival of guitarists Donald Seale and Michael Ball in late 2010. The quintet quickly headed into DC’s ...
HARD HITTING TEXAS ROCK THAT STAYS CRUNCHY IN MILKStumbleweed County's sound is a mix of Blues and Rock. With Chris Barham's smokey vocals, Phillip Vaughn and Kenneth Bellamy's blistering lead guitar. John...
Steve Harris was the singer of the popular Dallas, TX based band Cold Ethyl in the 1990's but like so many others in the early 1990's, saw his rock n roll career cut short by the emerging Seattle Grunge wave. Although it was discouraging, Steve never completely left the music business. He became a club owner, a writer and part time performer for many years until everything changed in August of 2008. Steve was one of the many singers considered to replace the departed Scott Weiland in the super group Velvet Revolver. However, he and Kerry Plummer had been writing and putting together Hillbilly Vegas for 8 months by then and suddenly Steve was no longer in the mood for Modern Rock. He returned to his roots and decided to focus solely on Hillb...
The idea of June rises in us much like summer comes on to schoolchildren and fills their nights with wonder and infinite longing. There's something sublime in the architecture of the month, something that stirs the imagination and whets the palate. We make plans in June. We set forth and leave the shore. Guitarist/composer Mark Yodice has been making and arranging music since he learned to play at thirteen. His newest collection of original material, ...of Raging Waters (released under the pseudonym the June Rise), marks the arrival of a serious force in the landscape of contemporary instrumental music. Yodice was born in Queens and lived on eastern Long Island for ...
Although he learned piano, guitar, and saxophone at a young age, John O (as his friends call him) was more into playing dress-up with his cousin Lisa while dreaming of a life beyond the Toronto suburbs where he was born. Of course, being the only kid on the block that wanted to pair a ballerina tutu from the tickle trunk with hockey gloves didn’t always make things easy. As he explains, “when I was in high school I never really identified with that macho jock attitude but because I played on the basketball team I couldn’t hang with the goths and punks either. Let’s just say I spent alot of time alone trying to figure myself out.” After leaving home for th...
Sometimes, listening to Exitmusic, it’s hard to tell whether the goosebumps you’re getting are from the parts that are chillingly beautiful and melodic or the ones that are aching and guttural or the ones that are creepily sparse and disembodied. The New York City duo – Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church -- doesn’t care when the chill runs down your spine, they just hope their music provokes some k...
After three groundbreaking albums over the course of a decade, the internationally acclaimed electronica project Shpongle has returned from what fans feared was the end of the project when Nothing Lasts…but Nothing is Lost, their third album, was released. Not prepared to leave us hanging, electronic music pioneers Simon Posford and Raja Ram have continued to push the envelope and break boundaries to create yet another sonic masterpiece: the much-awaited fourth Shpongle album, Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland. There are languages here that Shpongle fans will know and love as much as their previous work, and yet there are some massive leaps forward in terms of production techniques, sonic trick...
Wait for Green was formed in 2006 at Florida State University by original founding members Drew Dockerill (Lead Vocals/ Guitar) and AJ Larson (Bass). The band would combine funk, reggae, jazz, and alternative rock to create the signature Wait For Green sound. After playing numerous shows in the college town of Tallahassee, FL the band started to garner the attention of the 40,000 plus student population in the area, and in 2009 played sold out shows with Slightly Stoopid, Reel Big Fish, and The Wailers. Later that year the band was asked to play Sunfest held in West Palm Beach, FL along with an all-star lineup including 311, Slightly Stoopid,UB40, Pepper, Pennywise, Citizen Cope, G. Love, and many ...
Elie Small started playing guitar when he was six and began writing songs before he could play any real chords.His first professional album, In Time was recorded in Nashville under the direction of producer Joe McMahan and engineer Adam Bednarik and included members of Lambchop among the musicians contributing to it. ...
