The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Area acoustic trio the Echo Falls was formed in 2003 by singer/songwriter/guitarist Alex Mandel along with his childhood friend, drummer/vibraphonist David Brandt, and a college friend from Oberlin, double-bass player David Arend. (Arend also went to Juilliard.) Mandel have been a member from the …

Maker, occasional vocalist, and DJ Nina Kraviz comes from Irkutsk, Siberia — nearly a dance music spot. Kraviz dropped beneath the spell of home music through the middle-’90s through radio. A couple of years later, she relocated to Moscow with regard to learning dentistry, and was briefly a part of …

Thao & the Get Straight down Stay Down can be an indie pop music group led with the distinctive-voiced Thao Nguyen, whose songwriting tends toward the musically playful and lyrically heavy-hearted. Elevated in the town of Falls Cathedral, Virginia, Nguyen used your guitar and songwriting being a pre-teen, and was …

Pop singer/songwriter Zac Poor was raised in the tiny city of Fairfield, Montana (the self-proclaimed “Malting Barley Capital from the Globe”). Musical from a age, Poor ultimately relocated to LA and started the difficult work of carving out a name amidst a ocean of struggling performers using the same objective. …

Hailing from Bury St. Edmunds, a city in the British state of Suffolk (best-known as the house from the Greene Ruler brewing firm), Thee Vicars certainly are a rock and roll & move combo made up of four teenagers who like their music fast, noisy, solid, and sounding as though …

Famed for his or her impromptu gigs in unorthodox venues, North East four-piece Small Comets’ mixture of tricky percussive rhythms and Afro-beat-tinged guitars provides seen them called the Uk Vampire Weekend. Hailing from Sunderland and Newcastle, brothers Robert (business lead vocals, electric guitar) and Michael (business lead electric guitar) Coles, …

Hardcore music group Toetag hail from Western Palm Seaside, FL, where these were founded in Apr of 2008 by vocalist Natural powder, guitarist John “J-Dub” Wylie (ex-Until the finish), bassist T.J. “Weegie” Jennings, and drummer David “D-Lux” Atkinson. Followers to a guy of metal-infused traditional hardcore legends like Sheer Terror, …

Prima Carezza is a favorite Swiss-based ensemble specialized in the overall performance of salon music. In lots of ways it is a totally exclusive chamber group: though it includes seven users, a lot of the concerts receive by just a trio of players. Furthermore, while they perform in a few …

Neo-psychedelic rock-band Mondo Drag were shaped in Davenport, Iowa, by Johnnie Cluney (drums/vocals), Nolan Girard (rhythm guitar/vocals), John Gomino (keyboards/saxophone), Dennis Hockaday (bass), and Jake Sheley (lead guitar). The group released its debut recording, New Rituals, on Alive Naturalsound Information on January 26, 2010. Their similarly trippy, seven-track follow-up features …

Salt Lake Town, UT’s Eagle Twin pairs up vocalist/guitarist Gentry Densley (ex-Iceburn) with drummer Tyler Smith. The duo started focusing on their improbably bluesy and prog-infused design of sludgy loss of life/doom in 2007 and quickly captured the attention from the Southern Lord label, resulting in the discharge of their …