After releasing three albums and numerous other recordings of dreamlike shoegaze pop with Chocolate Claws between 2009 and 2013, Colorado natives Karen and Ryan Hover split off to create a fresh band in 2014. Sound of Ceres pursued an identical path, though with an increase of electronics and more information …

Tempering sharp and powerful lyrics using a sweetly melodic tone of voice, Jamila Woods can be an activist, poet, and R&B singer/songwriter whose inspirations consist of Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison, aswell as Erykah Badu and Kendrick Lamar. A indigenous of Chicago, Woods began performing in cathedral. After she graduated …

Hooton Tennis Membership are an indie rock and roll quartet from Liverpool comprising vocalist/guitarist Ryan Murphy, guitarist/vocalist Adam Madden, bassist Callum McFadden, and drummer Harry Chalmers. Their warm and tuneful yet calm audio recalls ’90s American slacker indie as very much as it will Brit-pop, getting to brain Dinosaur Jr. …

The nom de plume of singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Michigan indigenous Garrett Borns, BØRNS crafts big-hearted, alternately dreamy and danceable, falsetto-driven, electro-pop confections which have been dusted with glam rock and folk. Elevated in the fantastic Lakes coastal city of Grand Haven, Michigan, BØRNS analyzed music in the Interlochen Middle for …

Marrying basic but melodic music and impressionistic lyrics using a raw and thunderous guitar strike, Dilly Dally are an indie rock-band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada shaped by longtime friends Liz Ball and Katie Monks. Ball and Monks have been close friends since senior high school; they were critical fans from …

Concocting a dark, swampy fusion of blues and doomstruck indie rock and roll, the Ukiah Move are a group whose root base are in the South but whose minds have migrated towards the Northeast. The Ukiah Move feature guitarist and vocalist ZZ Ramirez, guitarist and vocalist Brian Hennessey, bassist Andrew …

The New Cellar Tapes may be the name directed at the studio collective assembled by T-Bone Burnett to create discarded and discovered Bob Dylan lyrics from 1967 to music and record. Upon their breakthrough in nov 2013, Dylan’s publisher contacted Burnett with the work of turning the handwritten manuscripts into …

Forging country with rock and roll instrumentation and dynamics, and tossing in definite pop overtones as well as some hip-hop nuances, Old Dominion is usually blessed with solid in-house songwriting and playing, sharpened by stable gigging around the Nashville circuit, where in fact the band formed. Composed of four Virginians, …

A FRESH Zealand-born, German-based singer/songwriter and acting professional with a unique tone of voice and a penchant for smart pop collaborations, the aptly named Graham Chocolate is a quirky and unstable musical confectioner. Students of music, dance, and theatre from an extremely young age, Chocolate spent nearly all his profession …

British singer Jermain Jackman received the third group of The Tone of voice UK in 2014, beating fellow finalists Christina Marie, Sally Barker, and Jamie Johnson to consider the very best spot. The London-born performer, who was simply also a dynamic youth politician, received the vote of will.we.am following his …