“Lydia, when forming in 2003, set their creativity forth to a path of artistic independence away from any comparisons to bands in their genre. By combining traditional rock with dream-like harmonies and reflective choruses, the band gradually adopted a reputation as a group of young musicians destined to break through to the mainstream…

Raised in hard-bitten Nebraska, Joshua James’ work reflects a distinctly American ache, a yearning for a big sky and an open road. Beckoned westward out of his heartland home by the voices of Jim Morrison and Isaac Brock, he made it as far as the mountains of Utah, where like the settlers before him, he was stopped…

Jeremy Porter & The Tucos are a Detroit band playing original Rock And Roll. They love their power-pop but they’re influenced by Gram Parsons, Uncle Tupelo and Waylon Jennings as much as Cheap Trick, The Replacements and X. It makes for an interesting, hooky blend of energy, melody, distortion and twang…

We are a four piece band from Indiana, Pennsylvania. Two brothers, two non-brothers. We’re here to make you dance. We can be dirty and we can be clean…

Massive success and its aftermath have sent many artists into oblivion, forever trying to recapture the moment when the world first bowed at their feet. That moment came for Brian Vander Ark when…

Friends since school, PAWS are made up of Phillip, Joshua and Matthew, and are based in Glasgow, Scotland. The band play (in their own words) ‘infectious, lo-fi, garage pop-rock’ and have already made a name for themselves in Glasgow as one of the best Scottish live bands currently on the scene…

The Paranoid Style was a special committee convened in 2012 in order to address our country’s many pressing problems.Of all the bands that circulated in the late-90s political science-independent underground, the Paranoid Style, known for their pub rock moves and theories of Possibilism, have always been considered the most depraved and dangerous, the most likely to take all the beer and leave. What did they want? What did they really believe? Demos have been passed around for years…

Silent Lions somehow manage to be Toledo Ohio’s premier super group with only two members plays effected bass utilizing octave pedals, freak fuzz sounds, atmospheric synths and an arsenal of vocal distortions while drummer Matt Klein grooves and thrashes beside him often providing soulful singalong harmonies..

The Okemah Prophets (Oh-kee-mah) are a band out of Minneapolis, led by singer/songwriter Kevin Bowe. Bowe has a long history as a guitarist/writer/producer, landing 3 platinums and songs on 2 Grammy winning albums working with Paul Westerberg, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Etta James and others…

A Philadelphia native, Campbell moved to San Francisco in 2004 specifically for the newer Rock scene he had heard was developing. After a few years of trying to balance learning the West Coast Music Scene with his day job, the job was cast aside in favor of full time touring, writing and recording for a living…

Eriksson is a musical project from Scott McGough, combining mellow acoustic music with layered vocals and ambient noise into songs borne of being a young person in a boring Western PA suburb. The latest Eriksson effort, Boy On A Leash, is intended to be a good album to do nothing in the dark and fall asleep to…

Raw Guru Records artists “The Long Knives” have been around since 2007 and were first founded as WJ’s solo project, with the addition of SnK on the drums in 2009. Derived from 100’s of home recordings done over the years on a little Foster 8-Track and the bands studio work coupled with blazing hot live performances…

Two bands share the name Single Mothers, one being a hardcore band from London, Ontario and the other being a stoner metal band from LA. Often described as frantic, frenzied and outrageous Single Mothers exists upon the fundamental that live music should be an interactive experience. A typical Single Mothers show usually consists of sing alongs…

In July of 2012 China Rats, an unheard of band from Leeds in the UK, were booked to play the tiny Villa Camp stage at massive European festival BENICASSIM the night before the start of the main festival. The result was an impromptu mosh pit and a festival booker who wished he had booked them for the main festival…