Grace Leer is a California native with a lot of talent. The country music star has been singing since she was six years old and this tradition carried on through her adulthood. But before taking on the world with her professional singing career, Grace decided to attend college to play D1 soccer at the University of California Berkeley. However, it... read full bio
Canadian singer-songwriter Madeline Merlo is a country pop sensation with over a decade of songwriting under her belt. After singing with Open Road Recordings back in 2014, she released her first self-titled EP which garnered a fair amount of positive press. Just two years later, her first official studio album “Free Soul” was released and the album peaked at 88... read full bio
Dan Davies and Michael Stauffer host one of the most original trivia shows around. It’s not just trivia: it’s a hybrid between quiz questions, comedy, limbo, and sometimes even Mariah Carey sing-a-longs. The two of them have been working together for some time, originally hosting a latte art competition. Now, with Question Party!, they’re turning the trivial competition into something... read full bio
Chad VanGaalen, best known for the song “Peace on the Rise”, is a multi-instrumentalist from Calgary, Alberta. Chad’s first big-ish release was “Infiniheart” back in 2004 on the Canadian indie label Flemish Eye. This was a series of songs that he recorded himself inside his own bedroom – a true DIY project. Eventually, he was picked up by the label... read full bio
Chris Garneau is a singer-songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts who has had quite the career. From 2006 up until now, he has released six albums with the most recent one – “The Kind” – coming out in 2021. Chris quickly found an audience within those looking for music that focused on personal and heartfelt lyrics. What sets Chris apart from other... read full bio
Trevor Powers, formerly known as Youth Lagoon, has been making music since 2010. While he retired from the Youth Lagoon project in 2016, he did return, operating under his birth name. It’s more or less a continuation of what Youth Lagoon established, a neo-psychedelia, Americana, and experimental project. The debut album “The Year of Hibernation” was released under the Fat... read full bio
C Duncan, born Christopher Duncan, had very talented musician parents. The two of them practiced classical music and performed regularly, while Christopher took up piano and viola lessons. Needless to say, music has always been a part of his life. Once he reached his teenage years, Chris began performing in different bands, learning to play the guitar, bass, and drums.... read full bio
Squirrel Flower, or Ella Williams, is a Massachusetts native who got involved in the Boston DIY scene at a young age. As a child, she gave herself the nickname Squirrel Flower, a name that would carry much significance in her later musical career. As a child, she wrote poetry and that would later influence her songwriting. Ella’s family has always... read full bio
Vacations – comprised of Jake Johnson, Campbell Burns, Joseph Van Lier, and Nate Delizzotti -- is an indie-rock band coming straight out of Newcastle, Australia. While touring in Europe with their band Chin Up Chin Up, they decided to try a little experiment: start a band with no guitars. While the current iteration of Vacations features guitar, it still pushed... read full bio
Dehd is a trio – Jason Balla, Emily Kempf, and Eric McGrady – based in Chicago with an incredible chemistry. This reverb-heavy surf rock group has a unique sound that came so intuitively. In 2016, Dehd released their debut self-titled album and the very next year, they released the “Fire of Love” EP under Infinity Cat Recordings. As they released... read full bio
Duster -- a space rock band from San Jose, California – had an incredible run from 1996 until 2001, before calling it quits. Then, after 19 years, they came back to give it another go and they’re still kicking. Their first album, “Stratosphere”, was released in 1998 under the Up Records label. The seventeen track album was a hit, getting... read full bio
Tamaryn Brown comes from New Zealand, where she lived with her mother and grandmother. They were Junigan psychologists who owned a halfway house for runaway teenagers, thus Tamaryn feels as though she was raised alongside thirty other brothers and sisters. She relocated to the United States when she was a little bit older and was exposed to the music scene.... read full bio
fanclubwallet, stylized with all lower-case letters and no spaces between each word, is the stage name of Ottawa-based artist Hannah Judge. She started writing music in college, writing songs that were “depressing garbage” but soon dropped out of college and began pursuing it full time. Hannah had divided her time between penning comics and writing music – if there was... read full bio
The women-led band The Wild Reeds is full of multi-instrumentalists and highly talented singer-songwriters. Kinsey Lee, Sharon Silva, Mackenzie Howe, Nick Pakpiseth, and Nick Jones make up this quintet that can be described as an indie-folk rock group with a touch of country. They’ve released three albums, the latter two of which were under the Dualtone records banner. The newest... read full bio
Ringside, started by Scott Thomas, is an indie pop-rock band consisting of Scott and actor Balthazar Getty. Scott – after apparently nearly dying at birth, being adopted, and nearly burning down his hometown of Lafayette – got his hands on his uncle’s massive record collection. From there, his passion for music took off. Scott moved to Los Angeles, living with... read full bio
Teenage Priest – also known as Tyler Van Ginkel -- is one the freshest names in indie music. His lo-fi electronic “chillwave” sound may remind you of artists like Toro y Moi or Washed Out, but it is a sound all his own. Tyler has been in the music game for a minute and you may not know it, but... read full bio
Porches, led by frontman Aaron Maine on guitar and vocals, is an electronic synth-pop and indie band based out of New York. They’ve released five studio albums: “Slow Dance in the Cosmos” in 2013; “Pool” in 2016; “The House” in 2018; “Ricky Music” in 2020; and “All Day Gentle Hold” in 2021. In particular, the album “Pool” received incredible widespread... read full bio
Adult Mom is an up-and-coming indie band whose songs are both emotional and raw. What started out as a solo project at Purchase College in Stevie Knipe’s dorm room in 2012 has turned into something huge. Now, Adult Mom is a little more than a solo project, but Stevie is very much the face of the band – the band,... read full bio
Daye Jack is a hip-hop artist and rapper from Atlanta, Georgia, best known for the song “Hands Up” with Killer Mike. The song peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists chart. Born in Port Harcourt Nigeria in 1996, his parents relocated to America when Daye was little. In high school, Daye got into programming and recording music... read full bio
Italy's Sicily is the birthplace of Jonathan Cilia Faro. He started taking music lessons when he was nine years old, and at sixteen, he started performing on his own. Over 100,000 copies of his debut album, Always Close to Me, were sold. Rebirth, Cilia Faro's second album, is an introspective account of his life's horrific events. He started a global... read full bio
