Eleven years after becoming the first hip-hop act to put the Twin Cities on the map, Atmosphere has grown into one of the most accomplished MC/producer duos around. Between Slug and Ant, they’ve released six albums, 11 Sad Clown tour albums and various side-projects like Felt — amounting in well ...

Mickey Avalon (real name Yeshe Perl) is a rap artist from Hollywood, California. His debut self-titled solo album was released Nov. 7, 2006 on Interscope/Shoot to Kill Records in association with MySpace Records. Avalon blends dark, lewd, and crizzled lyrical hooks with hip-hop beats.

Frequent...

Glasgow 3-piece The Fratellis comprise Jon(vocals/guitar), Mince (drums/vocals) and Barry (bass).

In an interview in The Sun newspaper, The Fratellis confirmed that their name is taken from bassist Barry, whose original surname is Fratelli; the other members of the band simply adopted that pse...

Silversun Pickups are an American alternative/indie rock band from Los Angeles, California that have diverse influences ranging from The Velvet Underground to shoegazing bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine to (critics have suggested) The Smashing Pumpkins. The band is signed to Dangerbird...

The Presets are an electronic two piece from Sydney, Australia. The Presets have been one of the biggest indie bands for the past few years in the Sydney area touring and supporting many well known bands such as 2 Many DJ's, Ladytron, and Daft Punk. Their debut LP Beams combines electro, rock, te...

DeVotchKa is a four piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble that fuses Romani, Greek, Slavic, and Bolero, music with American punk and folk roots. They take their name from Anthony Burgess' Nadsat (the self created language of 'A Clockwork Orange's main character, Alex) word for "young g...

Cut Copy is a band from Melbourne, Australia comprising of Dan Whitford (lead vocals/keys/guitar), Tim Hoey (bass/guitar) and Mitchell Scott (drums), Bennett Foddy being a former member.
Their sound, perhaps best labeled as retro/electropop, is much in the vein of contemporaries such as Daft Pun...

Dressy Bessy is an indie rock band from Denver, Colorado, associated with the Elephant Six Collective. Guitarist John Hill also plays with the Apples in Stereo. Lead vocalist/guitarist Tammy Ealom formed the band with drummer Darren Albert and guitarist turned bassist Rob Greene in 1996. The name...

Pop Levi is kinda small and reedy and darkly, hairily handsome, and, far more important, the maker of an odd brand of music that is sort of like a combination of every kind of pop ever heard all at once, yet it manages to stay original.

Pop Levi's career started in the fogs of Liverpool. Somew...

John Vanderslice (born May 22, 1967 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician, formerly of MK Ultra but now performing with his own band.

After mk Ultra broke up in 1999, Vanderslice wasted little time building a solo reputation. In 2000, he gained national media attention over his sing...

Darker My Love is a psychedelic rock band based in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of 5 members. Tim Presley, a former member of the band The Nerve Agents and also a visual artist responsible for much of the band's imagery, contributes vocals and guitar. Andy Granelli, formerly a membe...

The Veils are a New Zealand band based in London, fronted by Finn Andrews. Their sound has been likened to artists as diverse as Jeff Buckley, The Birthday Party, The Smiths, and Joy Division. Their live shows have become famed for their emotional intensity and Finn's often scarily possessed stag...

Combining poly-rhythmic tapping guitars, pulsing analogue synth, vocal melodies and chopping drum-lines, Foals create organic agitated dance-pop.

They recently signed to Sub Pop for US distribution and featured on the cover of NME magazine, tipped as band of the year for 2008. In March of 2008...

Holy Fuck are creating a legacy based on near stupidity. It’s a simple concept, to mimic modern electronic music without using modern fail-safes like laptops and programmed backing tracks… and of course to make people freak out and smash stuff. So for last year’s NXNE festival they armed themselv...

Port O'Brien is a folk group that is the project of Van Pierszalowski. Van was raised in Cambria, California - a beautiful town on the southern most tip of Big Sur that specializes in hippies, Hearst Castle tourists, and retired people that enjoy lawn bowling. Now he lives in Oakland, or as his h...

Cameron McGill is a singer/songwriter from Chicago who fans of alt-country mainstays like Ryan Adams and Rocky Votolato will really love. Fans of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and other singer/songwriters that cross great pop stylings with country will also love Cameron. Warm Songs for Cold Shoulders wil...

Resting on temperamental faultlines of rumbling bass runs and frenetic drumming,
Denver’s Photo Atlas joyously erratic rhythm section grinds together, creating
fissures that vocalist/guitarist Alan Andrews soars over with his high-pitched
shrills. The effect is seismic on the dance floor. The ...

Rock Plaza Central is a Canadian indie rock band. After a pair of glowing reviews from the influential music website Pitchfork they have recently come to prominence as a major indie rock band. Their independently released disc, Are We Not Horses (2006), made many top ten lists for the year, inclu...