Performers

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

On the new album A Beautiful Life, Heartless Bastards share a wide-eyed and radiant vision for harmonizing a broken world. The Ohio-bred and Texas-transplanted band’s first new music since 2015’s Restless Ones, A Beautiful Life affirms frontwoman Erika Wennerstrom as a songwriter with the power to profoundly influence our state

Ground-breaking, chart-topping, genre-bending, globetrotting, instantly enthralling… it’s little wonder that Talisk rank highly amongst the most in-demand folk-based groups to emerge from Scotland in the last decade and more. Mohsen Amini (BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards’ Musician of the Year 2018), Graeme Armstrong and Benedict Morris (BBC Radio Scotland Young

Whether it be on the banks of the Mississippi River or deep in the heart of the English countryside, rock ‘n’ roll lives, breathes, and burns on the outskirts. Hailing from Rome, GA at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, The Georgia Thunderbolts rise up with a scorching signature style

The Durham-based Bulltown Strutters represent the New Orleans brass band tradition, fronted by several talented vocalists, powered by a massive horn section, and stirred into a colorful gumbo with a heaping dose of crowd participation. Whether leading a street parade or filling a stage with joy, they will get you

Deb Talan has been writing songs since she was 14 years old. Granted, her style has changed a bit since writing the forever-unknown smash-hit “Through the Window” about feeling numb, like life was going on somewhere out there but not accessible to her (at 14. so jaded.) She played clarinet,

Having a foot in two different worlds isn’t an easy balancing act, but it’s one that DMV rapper-producer redveil pulls off gracefully. With new project learn 2 swim that came out April 20th, he establishes himself as a torchbearer for hip-hop’s progressive, vulnerable future whose triumphant, soulful beats tie back

“Living in a world that wasn’t made for you makes you pretty strong and adaptive, and you find the fun in it,” says Alex Lahey. “It also makes you realize how absurd everything is. With ‘The Answer Is Always Yes,’ I wanted to get weird because the world is weird,

U.S.based, internationlly touring singer-songwriter Shayfer James weaves lyrically eloquent dark-pop songs from gothic landscapes that evoke the narcotic mysticism of a Lewis Carroll-inspired three-ring circus. His piano driven music swaggers from decadent danceable anthems to soft-hearted ballads with jazz lilted satire and whiskey-dirt grit. In addition to touring and recorded

Christian Lee Hutson starts his new album Quitters with a laugh. In this follow up to his ANTI records debut, Beginners, Hutson moves away from the focus on growing up to the dread and complications of growing older. The laugh that announces Quitters is the kind you’ll find at the