Jonathan Richman was born May 15th 1951 to a Jewish family in Natick, Massachusetts. He began playing music and writing his own songs in the mid-1960s. In 1969 he moved to New York City, where he spent time living on the couch of The Velvet Undergrounds manager and working odd jobs while trying to break in as a professional musician.... read full bio
This American alternative rock band named because of their short amount of time to record their first album. Two talented songwriters Brian Desveaux and John Hampson formed Nine Days. The two performed in many local bands together in New York. They were able to release three independent albums in the early 90s. They gained most of their recognition for... read full bio
Raw, beautiful, and wildJoules Graves music is vibrant and deep, with a natural folk wisdom. She uses drums, guitar and sometimes just her voice. She was born in Missouri, and eventually came to live in Washington. This is where Joules Graves developed her own voice, and taught herself to play guitar, living in a cabin out in the woods. She... read full bio
Intimate can be loud. Rambunctious can be endearing. Heartfelt can be lighthearted. POWERS introduced themselves to the world on that premise. And it listened. Their rompin bursting single, ""Beat of My Drum"" shot up to the top of the Hype Machine popular page instantaneously after its summer release, and found itself on top of Spotify's viral charts and iTunes Emerging... read full bio
The Montreal, Quebec-based indie rock group TOPS is from Canada. The synthpop ensemble Silly Kissers, which included Jane Penny, David Carriere, Riley Fleck, and recording artist Sean Nicholas Savage, disbanded in 2011, and this led to the formation of the band. The band's current members are Penny, Carriere, Fleck, and Marta Cikojevic. A well-known character in the Canadian independent music scene,... read full bio
Michael Hearne is an acoustic musical guitar genius. Michael has been playing music since the 1970s in Dallas, Texas. His musical talent was very apparent as a young kid, and by the age of seven Michael was able to get his hands on a guitar. By the age of 12, Michael was playing regular gigs at parties and local homespun... read full bio
Having toured nearly non stop for ten years as frontman for The Academy Is..., William Beckett has built up an incredibly dedicated and supportive fanbase around the world. Though massively proud of the band's accomplishments and experiences together, their eventual disbanding as a group in late 2011 allowed for Beckett to begin the next era of his career, as a... read full bio
A unique collective of four distinct voices and musical backgrounds, Blame Sally has forged a compelling and original sound that has earned the band the well-deserved reputation as Bay Area phenomenon. The San Francisco Chronicle raved that Blame Sallys music recall(s) the artful romanticism of Jane Siberry, the rich folk harmonies of the Indigo Girls, and the percolating soulfulness of... read full bio
LEOGUN - [leo-gun] 1) A three-piece band from London, surging with a mix of blues, soul and a whole lotta rock & roll. With bite your head off" choruses and a hunger to groove, LEOGUN mixes the musicality and heart bleeding emotion of The Raconteurs with all the sexual prowess and break-neck attitude of Queens of The Stone... read full bio
In Nashville, there’s an old, decrepit plantation house where three men exercise their creative rivalry for all it’s worth, collaborating under the moniker of Paper Route. Having toured relentlessly and won hearts and minds with their debut album Absence (2009), Paper Route have now seen fit to go for broke on the possibility that epic earnestness, lyrical depth, and poetic... read full bio
Jeremy Enigk is an American singer/songwriter who is most famously known for his work in his band Sunny Day Real Estate. Jeremy was born in Seattle and grew up playing the guitar. His first solo record, Return of the Frog Queen, was released in 1996. In the mid 1990s, Enigk broke away from his Sunny Day Real... read full bio
Superheaven, which was formerly known as Daylight, began writing their first songs which would end up on their Demo and later on an EP called Sinking, which was self released on Get This Right Records. From there the band began with a small 2 week tour throughout the east coast and mid west. Later that year, the band went on... read full bio
Nick Santino is most famous for being the lead singer of popular pop-rock band, A Rocket To The Moon. The band broke up in 2013 and Nick Santino started his own solo project. His solo project was first known as Nick Santino & The Northern Wind but more recently he changed it to just Nick Santino. He has released 2... read full bio
Chuck Ragan is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the guitarist and vocalist of the band Hot Water Music. Ragan has also released a variety of solo material, including a series of 7-inches on No Idea Records, a live album and three studio albums on Side One Dummy Records. He is also the author of a book of... read full bio
Scandinavian singer and producer Nanna Oland Fabricius, also known as Oh Land, grew up in Copenhagen and was educated at the Royal Danish and Royal Swedish Ballet schools. Her self-produced debut album, Fauna, was released by Scandinavian tastemaker/producer/DJ Kasper Bjorke. The album featured lush otherworldly soundscapes that wouldn't sound out of place alongside the Bjork LPs and trip-hop tracks... read full bio
Mike Peters is more famously known as the lead singer of the Welsh band, The Alarm. The Welsh musician began his solo career after the band split up. During his career with The Alarm, he achieved fifteen Top 40 UK singles and sold over five million album copies worldwide. He began working on his solo career with his first album,... read full bio
JTX (also known as songwriter JT Harding) CO-WRITER OF THE HIT SINGLE SMILE by UNCLE KRACKER & THE #1 COUNTRY HIT SINGLE, SOMEWHERE WITH YOU by KENNY CHESNEY. CO-WRITER OF THE TOP 5 COUNTRY SINGLE, ALONE WITH YOU by JAKE OWENS. JTX singles - SUMMER LOVER, SEVEN DAY WEEKEND", "LOVE IN AMERICA" (175,000 downloads, 2.5 million total YouTube views,... read full bio
NONONO a Swedish trio based in Stockholm, consisting of production team Astma & Rocwell (whose credits include Bebe Black, Benny Banks Icona Pop) and singer/songwriting talents of Stina W_ppling. Meeting through a mutual friend, the three formed NONONO during the spring of 2012; around the time Stina returned from the UK where she had spent three years studying to... read full bio
Outshyne consists of 5 guys from Laurens, SC whose deep-seated southern roots have been the foundation for their country rock sound. The bands collective dream is to share their music with the world; through dedication and determination, the band is taking the steps they need to make that dream become a reality. They played over 180 shows opening for national... read full bio
From the infectious electro-pop of Lions In Cages" to the atmospherics of "Back To Back," McElligott -- who plays all the instruments in the recording studio but performs live with a full band -- has been able to create music that isn't specific to any scene and is extremely refreshing in today's increasingly homogenized musical landscape. Already a fast-rising star... read full bio
