Sex Dream’s debut album has the capacity to be loved and listened to around the world. As a one man band, Benjamin Jameson has gathered fans from San Francisco to South East Asia and back in only a few months time. Now he is looking for a little press to help spread the word. The mission of Sex Dream is to make the world to lay together in a sonic nest soft enough to be jumped on from an airplane. Influenced by Joy Division, Sonic Youth, and My Bloody Valentine, Sex Dream currently records in Oakland and Martinez with the help of a couple friends. Sex Dream’s debut album is full of qualities that grow on the listener as well as sounds large enough to live in. Benjamin thinks of his re...
Thought Experiment is the debut solo release from singersongwriterand multi-instrumentalist Vanessa Cardui, bestknown as the lead singer and songwriter for Heroincredible(www.heroincredible.com). It is a complex exploration ofthe many faces of love, which defies genre classification anddisplays raw, naked emotional expression. The sound isintimate, acoustic and natural, though at timesexperimental, featuring a wide range of sounds fromguitars, mandolins and fiddles to pipes, bells, ocean drums,spoken word, and the movement of water.Vanessa Cardui’s solo material has been profoundlyinfluenced by the friendship and collaboration of othershining lights in t...
Until Dawn Band Biography If anyone thought that Hard Rock went out of style, they haven’t heard Until Dawn. Their intense energy, intoxicating guitar riffs along and their lively stage shows have been showing audiences that it is still okay to Rock! Originating from the remote northern depths of Fort McMuarry, Alberta, Until Dawn has shown that their location will not slow them down. Mixing the sound of modern and classic rock, brothers Luke and Deke Worrell, with Adam MacLeod and Steve White have created a sound appealing to b...
Mudvayne is an American metal band from Peoria, IL. The musical styles of their first two albums were highly innovative, combining various progressive metal elements with nu metal and were considered to be a math metal band for this sound, however the band’s later albums have adopted a more mainstream alternative sound. The band is best recognizable by their strong drumming, complex bass playing, heavy, gruff and usually angered vocals, strong, heavy guitars and riffs, complex time signatures and frequent rhythm changes. Mudvayne sold over 6,000,000 copies worldwide.Mudvayne’s first album, L.D. 50, was released in 2000. It received very positive critical acclaim, being most praised for its technical elements, which w...
Currently based in Brooklyn, Red Measure consists of core members Randall Suarez (guitar and vocals) and David Kanbergs (bass). Suarez began looking for likeminded musicians in 2008. After 2 years and many disappointments, he found himself exhausted. The musicians he was finding were unable to contribute to the music he was trying to create. In frustration, he posted an online ad “searching for someone interested in exploring a dark, strange approach to hypnotic rock music who is also not an asshole." The same week, Kanbergs posted a similar ad. As a result, the two made contact and quickly found that they shared musical ideals and aesthetics. With a sense of purp...
I am a songwriter from Brockton Massachusetts. I write an acoustic mix of soft rock, country pop and folk music. All my songs are written from my lives experiences good and not so good. Back in the late 70's I played the coffee houses and a few select single venues here and there but dropped out of the music scene to raise a family and join the service. No matter where I was I always had my acoustic and never stopped writing songs. Now I am looking to re-enter the music scene & pick up where I left off and hopefully get some positive feedba...
Jack Jeffery performs progressive and ambient music influenced by Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons, Brian Eno. Other influences are John Lennon, The Beatles, The Moody Blues, Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, and Kraftwerk. Jack's latest album, "The Constant That Remains," follows his critically-acclaimed first album "Passage to Agadir," and once again transports the listener through a compelling musical journey through ambient, psychedelic, electronic, acoustic, and folk rock soundscapes. Jack's music is available from CD Baby at http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/JackJeffery, iTunes, Amazon.com,...
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.)...
