Willie Watkins and Matthew Meier, two residents of Massachusetts, have one objective: to rule the dubstep and bass music genres. The two producers, who are now residents of Long Beach, first connected while they were in middle school and developed a bond around their love of music. The two have been pioneering their genre as Barely Alive for almost ten years and... read full bio
Sammie is a contemporary R&B performer who first found commercial success when he was just a preteen. He then almost immediately disappeared from the scene, came back after a while, departed again and then later made a comeback. Sammie Leigh Bush, Jr. was exposed to music even before he was born since his mother, a former professional singer, participated in the... read full bio
Roots of Creation, a reggae-rock hit that has topped radio and Billboard charts, is a traveling force. Whether on the festival circuit, performing at jam and reggae-rock favorites like Camp Bisco, Gathering of The Vibes, California Roots, Jungle Jam and Closer to the Sun, or sharing the stage at sold out shows with some of their diverse influences including Slightly Stoopid,... read full bio
Producer, DJ, label boss, host of a radio program, former professional breakdancer, full-time comic Wongo, a party starter from the Gold Coast, is not a one-trick pony. You've undoubtedly likely danced to Wongo tracks by this point, who has major years under his belt. In addition to releases on labels like Insomniac Records and DJ mixes for triple j and Skrillex's... read full bio
Joey Varela, the brains of VRSTY, grew up worshipping Usher and Michael Jackson as models for his own soulful, mellifluous vocal delivery. The performance he saw for the first time, an outstanding triple-bill at New York City's Webster Hall headlined by post-hardcore outfit From First to Last, irreversibly changed his course as an artist while he was still in high... read full bio
Tigercub released their second album, "As Blue As Indigo," earlier this year to rapturous praise from rock and alternative press throughout the world, firmly demonstrating their ability to lacerate the surface with ease. The band's own Jamie Stephen Hall wrote and produced the album, which Upset describes as one that would "cement them at the top of the food chain."... read full bio
With their Epitaph debut, Clouded, the Californian indie duo This Wild Life effectively abandoned their original plans to become a full band and repurposed their emo/pop-punk sound for an acoustic setting. Co-singer/songwriters Kevin Jordan and Anthony Del Grosso have continuously demonstrated an interest in creative expansion and evolution, moving from an electric phase to a stripped-down acoustic period and later to... read full bio
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die blends driving, emotionally raw songwriting with electronic elements and the drawn-out atmospheres of groups like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Explosions in the Sky to create one of the more dynamic bands to emerge from the new wave of emo that started in the late 2000s... read full bio
The Pineapple Thief was founded by Bruce Soord as a venue for his music. Soord's debut album, Abducting the Unicorn, was published on Cyclops Records and generated enough attention to build a modest but devoted fan following. For the second album, 137, Soord went back to the Dining Room studios. The interest of various large labels during this period delayed... read full bio
The first achievement of American Football came with their self-titled debut when they brought together two reclusive siblings: post-rock and emo. It was a groundbreaking record where the sly musical layers that surrounded the lyrics veiled and muddled their clarity. American Football raised more concerns than it cared to address, much like Slint's Spiderland, Codeine's The White Birch and Talk Talk's Laughing... read full bio
With miles of timeless melodies and the type of overwhelming music that will renew your belief in life itself, Aeon Station's Observatory is an enormous statement that has been in the works for more than a decade. The endurance of the soul is prominently reflected in Kevin Whelan's debut solo album, which gives rock music a contagious and uplifting aural... read full bio
The French-Caribbean singer-producer just revealed the release date for her upcoming full-length album, Lotus Glow. The album, which marks her debut as Adi Oasis, has a diverse cast of guests, including KIRBY, Leven Kali, Jamila Woods and Aaron Taylor. On Lotus Glow, the French Caribbean-born, Brooklyn-based soul-funk-R&B singer blends her expert production skills, soaring vocal abilities and stunning bass proficiency to produce her... read full bio
The Royal Foundry, which is led by Jared Salte and Beth Schumacher, is a musical express. With their pop-driven "All We Have" and "Dreamers" being used by Disney, MTV and the NHL to their indie-rock songs like "Listen to the Beat" and "okay" tearing up the radio charts. They share the stage alongside artists like Twenty One Pilots, July Talk, The... read full bio
Allen created "Blank Stares" after witnessing his mother's Alzheimer's-related symptoms. In Iowa, a video of him and his mother playing the song on stage went viral and had more than 500 million Facebook views. Since then, his mother has passed away, but Jay is still touring the nation as an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Association and the song has helped generate... read full bio
As Daphni, Dan Snaith creates mesmerizing, driving compositions that are very different from his Caribou work and rediscover the primal force of dance music. The unfinished remixes, edits and singles that came before Jiaolong's full-length debut represented the project's beginnings as energizing adds to Snaith's DJ sets; songs like "Yes, I Know" and "Ye Ye" continued to be popular dance floor... read full bio
Cecilia Cassandra Pea-Govea, better known by her stage name La Dona, is a solo reggaeton singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist from San Francisco. The Chicana performer started her career by playing percussion and strings in her family's conjunto before switching to trumpet. Before combining her distinctive background in her creative works, she also played in a youth salsa band and a Balkan... read full bio
The five KAKKMADDAFAKKA brothers are not designed to sit around doing nothing. Norwegians often don't take extended vacations. However, over the previous two years, a significant portion of their inventiveness has been lost to them for acknowledged causes. A lot of energy built up during the two years that they were unable to perform live. With the release of their... read full bio
Jens Lekman, a Swedish indie pop performer, mixes lyrics that is delicate, funny and emotional with experimental use of samples and orchestration. With his albums released on the Secretly Canadian label in the mid-2000s, he rose from relative obscurity and home-made demos in circulation to receive critical praise on a global scale. Lekman experimented with a variety of conceptual releases in... read full bio
Afro-Cuban culture, Yoruban sacred music, current Jamaican dancehall, trap, and Afro-beat are all incorporated into the futuristic live electronic music act IFÉ, which was founded by African American producer and drummer Otura Mun in Puerto Rico. The most significant electronic act in Afro-Caribbean music, IFÉ's debut album "IIII+IIII" revolutionized how electronic music was conceived and performed, seamlessly fusing the complexity... read full bio
These independent shapeshifters use hip-hop, R&B, and even techno influences because they can never be pinned down. SORRY is Asha Lorenz and Louis O'Bryen, the band's core members and its guitarists, along with bassist Campbell Baum, drummer Lincoln Barrett and synth player Marco Pini, explore desire in the big city and punctuate it with everything from bracing post-punk to 1990s alt rock... read full bio
