Performers

With a name hailing from a tanning salon, Tan Universe is an independent band based out of Asheville, North Carolina. The group draws inspiration from a wide variety of subgenres of rock, most commonly surf, psychedelic, garage, and shoegaze. From humble beginnings of playing shows in small apartments, Tan Universe […]

723 (pronounced seven twenty three) is a genre bending music collective from the North Carolina piedmont. The group was founded by “Space Sam” Gabriel Alvarez (the groups multi-instrumentalist producer) Tramaine Bowman (poet and guitarist) and former theater kid and vocalist Maxx Alvarez. The group’s genesis was cemented in early 2021

Through 25 years and eight independent albums, the last four on their own Right Coast Records, Ballyhoo! have earned the exclamation point which marks their name. Starting in the basement of their mom’s Aberdeen, MD, home, rocking out on guitar and drums respectively, practicing every day, brothers Howi and Donald

The Heavy Heavy create the kind of unfettered rock-and-roll that warps time and place, immediately pulling the audience into a euphoric fugue state with its own sun-soaked atmosphere. Led by lifelong musicians Will Turner and Georgie Fuller, the Brighton, UK-based band began with a shared ambition of “making records that

Hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, Halocene has been an unstoppable force of hard work and passion since 2008. Having toured from coast to coast in a beat up van, opening for bands like Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, and rocking the Vans Warped Tour, Halocene found their stride as YouTube influencers,

There’s been no stopping for The Paper Kites since their critically acclaimed 2015 album twelvefour and their 2018 On the Train Ride Home and The Corner Where You Live. With official platinum certification in the US, Melbourne indie folk outfit The Paper Kites released their highly anticipated fifth studio album

In 2016, Trevor Powers shut the door on Youth Lagoon. “I felt like I was in a chokehold,” he says. “Even though it was my music, I lost my way. In a lot of ways, I lost myself.” Stepping back from the alias, Powers found personal transformation at his home

90 in November, the first full-length LP from Texas quintet Why Bonnie, crashes into existence with a squeal of feedback and a burst of distorted guitar. It’s a dynamic introduction to a more raw-edged indie sound from a band who have matured from bedroom dream pop into a sophisticated rock

Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer knew they had balked before they even got home. In the Fall of 2021, Joyner and Widmer—for a dozen years, the beguiling garage-pop pair known as Generationals—wrapped the second of two sessions in Georgia for a new EP. They’d opted out of the process of

The emo-rap of Florida’s Poorstacy emerged in 2019 with the release of his six-track debut EP I Don’t Care. The mix of guitars, hip-hop beats, and emotionally charged lyrics quickly found an audience in the underground hip-hop scene. Following several collaborations with Travis Barker, he released his sophomore full-length, 2021’s

Rather than wait for inspiration to strike, Joshua Radin will seek it out wherever possible. His search for inspiration led him to hit the road in 2022. He left his material existence in the rearview, grabbed a backpack, packed his guitar, picked up a pen and a pad, and sought

Representing a brand of lyrically dense Hip-Hop, London Native Jerome Allen better known by his rap/stage name Rome Streetz has been actively releasing projects since 2016. A wild youth who was moved to New York as an infant, before being moved back to his hometown to be kept out of

Guitarist Julian Lage expands his horizons on View With A Room, a collection of 10 compelling original compositions that marks his second release for Blue Note Records. Having established a home base with his brilliant and deeply attuned trio of bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King—most recently heard on

Hari Kondabolu is a comedian, writer and podcaster based in Brooklyn. The NY Times called him “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today” and described his 2018 Netflix special Warn Your Relatives as “an incisively funny and formally adventurous hour that reveals a comic in command of

Truly a shapeshifter, Scuare is rumored to have mastered over a thousand flows, but can he reverse the flow of time?

Meltycanon credits video games as the reason he started making music; as a child, he replayed them simply to hear the soundtracks. Today, the Alabama-based producer’s aspirations lie in creating evocative compositions people can get caught up in. Meltycanon’s ambitions extend far beyond forging new sounds for rappers — he

Underground rap’s own Kaiju, Kill Bill: The Rapper. Bill’s deep rasp and hard-hitting, emotional lyrics offer many cathartic moments that are easy to relate to. Sitting in the static of his old frequencies, Bill has built his tombstone out of moonstone.

Julianna Riolinoknows how to capture and highlight beauty before it fades. On her debut LP,‘All Blue,’ Riolino reflects on her own past, the memories of pain, healing, and love strewnthrough it. The songs focus morality and the stretch of time, seeping naturally into Riolino’sAmericana-indebted songwriting, resulting in a golden and

Without doubt or qualification, The Sadies are one of this continent’s greatest extant rock ’n’ roll bands — just as they have been for the last quarter-century. Versatile and imaginative, they skip from astral psychedelia to shuffling bucolics and leap from puckish pop to righteous garage-rock without losing momentum or

Combining elements of legendary nu-metal/ hard rock groups such as Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Limp Bizkit & Korn with modern trap and electronic elements, American rapper & producer, Mike’s Dead, has paved his own lane as a multifaceted artist. Launching his brand in June of 2018, he quickly amassed

Jacob Allen knows a thing or two about the transition from darkness to light. It comes with the territory, really, after ten years of crippling insomnia: long nights spent staring into the ceiling and waiting for dawn to slowly creep in under the crack in his curtains. “For literally a

Early in her career, UPSAHL released songs that gained much-deserved recognition throughout the Phoenix music scene. As a graduate of the Arizona School for the Arts, she went on to ignite a groundswell of fan adoration and tastemaker praise by way of numerous indie alternative gems. “Can You Hear Me

Roots rock/Alt-country/Americana pioneer Kenny Roby, a 35 plus year veteran of the music business and scene has been making records and performing on stages since his days as a youth growing up in South Carolina. During his teen years as the frontman for upstate South Carolina punk/hard rock band The

Ryan Monroe joined Band of Horses in 2007 to record “Cease To Begin” and has been writing some of your favorite BoH jams and rocking with the band ever since, 16 years and counting. Josh Roberts, who fronts the amazing Hinges, and Ryan Monroe of Band of Horses both played

Nathan Bowles is a multi-instrumentalist musician and teacher living in Durham, North Carolina. His work, both as a solo artist and an ensemble player, explores the rugged country between the poles of Appalachian old-time traditions and ecstatic, minimalist drone. Although his solo recordings prominently feature banjo, Bowles is also widely

Steve Gunn’s Way Out Weather, from 2014 was not only a career highlight for the artist himself, who had formerly travelled most often in more experimental and more improvisatory musical communities, but it was also an important milestone in the story of contemporary independent music of the rock and roll