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A soulful rock and roll singer/songwriter in the vein of Jeff Buckley and Joe Cocker, Ontario local Billy Raffoul was schooled in music from a age. The kid of respected local solo musician Jody Raffoul, Billy spent his youth immersed in the finer factors of rock background, watching his dad …

Surrey indigenous River Matthews fostered his early love of music by learning covers in the songbooks from the Beatles, the Rolling Rocks, Bob Dylan, yet others. His wealthy, soulful tone of voice was a solid suit for the traditional fare, nonetheless it wasn’t until his mid-twenties that he finally mustered …

A singer with a solid R&B impact, Cobi was eight years of age when one of is own parents’ close friends showed him several fundamental chords on your guitar. He ultimately developed a enthusiasm for blues, R&B, and traditional rock, so when he is at his teenagers, jumped from fandom …

Bluesy folk quartet Kaleo hail from the city of Mosfellsbær, just beyond Reykjavik. They infuse soulful vocals with smoky rhythms comparable to Hozier or Ray LaMontagne. Produced by childhood close friends Jökull Júlíusson (vocals, electric guitar), Davíð Antonsson (drums), and Daníun Ægir Kristjánsson (bass), they started playing jointly as teenagers, …

A local of Barnegat Light, NJ, singer/songwriter Matt McAndrew emerged onto the Philadelphia music picture after graduating from the city’s School from the Arts in 2013. He spent time gigging around the town and working being a music instructor and a supermarket clerk to invest in his first record, View …

A distinctive and intelligent singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who cites Wayne Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Guy, Leonard Cohen, John Lee Hooker, and community choral singing among his affects, Hozier (his stage and performing name) was created Andrew Hozier-Byrne about March 17, 1990 (which simply so been St. …

Bristol-based quintet the Bronze Medal shaped in ’09 2009 carrying out a six-week backpacking trip through Europe — which vocalists Chris Hillier and Robin Southwell funded by busking while they traveled — and together they mixed influences from your National, Radiohead as well as the War about Drugs to create …