Ken Stringfellow – musician, songwriter, producer, arranger – has been part of the indie landscape since the debut of his acclaimed band The Posies in 1988. Hailing from the musical hotbed of Seattle at the time when that music scene exploded into national prominence, The Posies went on to sign with Geffen Records…

We are Little War Twins, Boston’s Folk Renegade Mystics, and we have come forth through the storm to awaken the thunder and lightning in you. We bear this truth to you: You are strength. You are electric. You are whole. Together Little War Twins stands as a tribe, threading together a tapestry of sounds that is as unique as the instrument we sheath…

Day Joy makes beautiful lush dream folk landscapes caressed with crooning and heart felt melodies and deep poetic lyricism. Hailing from Orlando, FL the now five sometimes six piece was originally a two person project started by Peter Michael Perceval and Michael Serrin. Peter and Michael met in college years ago…

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away (Pittsburgh PA, 2007)…….. David ..(The Maneuver).. Peters was searching the depths of the music world for a singer/songwriter to help create the exact indie/alternative sound that defined the essence of his influences. As luck and karma would have it, Jeremy Gray had recently moved to Pittsburgh…

The Armadillos began with three guys and a town called Butler. Austin Vanasdale, Matt Rychorcewicz, and Eric Rodgers, all hailing from Butler, Pennsylvania, started experimenting with acoustic instruments and songs they’d heard on old-time records in 2007. After relocating to Pittsburgh, The Armadillos worked to develop an original…

Relationships tries to take the classic clichés in ‘emo’ and ‘twinkly emo’ and twist them around in various ways to make something people already love into something people are going to really love. They use the term ‘dwingly’ more as a joke than anything, but its purpose is also to represent their molding of ‘twinkly emo’ into something that they can call their own…

When you decide to go into the studio,” reflects Miss Tess from her home in New York City, “the timing has to be just right.” In fact, uncanny timing informs and enhances nearly everything Tess does, from her disarming, behind-the-beat vocal phrasing to her solid yet gently swinging rhythm guitar…

The Duskwhales began in January 2010, comprised of school friends Seth Flynn, Chris Baker, Brian Majewksi, and Austin Mee. The band, hailing from Northern Virginia, started out playing cover songs mostly from groups like The Cure, The Pixies, Nirvana, and The Strokes. After about a year of refining their sound and getting some really solid original material together, The Duskwhales started breaking into the local music scene, playing at cafes, clubs, and band battles…

After most of a decade hiding since her 4th and final Shivaree LP, Ambrosia Parsley returns with I miss you. I do. The 5-song EP provides a glimpse of her coming solo debut, Weeping Cherry, due later this year. Nearly titled Four Funerals and a Wedding, Parsley explains that the record is warmly inhabited by “a bunch of beautiful ghosts and two young lives at their freshest.” Also, check out Ambrosia in the soundtrack for Oscar contender Silver Linings Playbook…

Sera Cahoone is a long way from home. Growing up the daughter of a dynamite salesman in the Colorado foothills, she got her start on the drums at 11, and at 12 her mom was taking her to dive bars to sit in with the scruffy old bluesmen. By the time she picked up a guitar, she had been so shaped by these things – the dynamite,..

Western Pennsylvania’s Born Again Blues is the passion project of pop veteran Jeff Betten and novelist Joseph Ripple. Stripped down to the regional sounds of day and night, the album is country music: homespun and handmade with unobtrusive hints of pedal steel guitar, banjo, reed organ, cello, fiddle, and piano…

When future music historians look back at the strong currents circulating between the Americas in the 21st century, they will find Los Lobos, Calexico, and a charismatic, lanky Missourian singing tight harmony with a Southern belle rattling the jawbone of a donkey. David Wax and Suz Slezak form the artistic core of the David Wax Museum, and together with multi-instrumentalist Greg Glassman, fuse traditional Mexican folk with American roots and indie rock to create a Mexo-Americana aesthetic….

“Arlo Aldo is the new music project by Kadman creator, David Manchester. Teaming up with Ariel Nieland on vocals and keys and Brandon Forbes on drums, the group brings a unique and gorgeous twist on modern American alt-folk. The mellow, intimate songwriting for which David is known mix with lilting harmonies, finger-picked guitar, subtle percussion and cathedral-like organ to provide a music experience somewhere in the nexus of Low, Dirty Three & Jason Molina.”…

1980-83: Ryan and Sam Weber born in Baltimore, MD. 1992: Sam receives a guitar for Christmas, Ryan gets a bass soon after. 1992-2000: The brothers play in various local bands in and around their hometown of Westminster, MD: A.W.O.L., Illegal Aliens, and Northern Lights. Sam playing in bars by the age of fifteen, often before having to get up for school the next day. 2001: On a whim, Ryan emails rock-a-billy legend Ronnie Hawkins. Hawkins responds and they send him a demo tape…

If there’s one thing that’s for sure about music from The Lopez, it’s the fact that your kindergarten teacher would absolutely loathe it. Frontwoman Stephenwolf and everything-else-guy Jesse, collectively The Lopez, have failed to retain any notion of “inside voices” from their elementary school days, a move that seems to have worked out in everyone but Mrs. D’Amato’s favor…

Ellis Paul is a critically-acclaimed singer, songwriter, poet, and troubadour originally hailing from a potato farming family in northern Maine. He is the recipient of thirteen Boston Music Awards, second only to multi-platinum act, Aerosmith

White Like Fire released their new Lies EP and video on January 29th. They have shared the stage with national acts such as All Time Low, and their fans enjoy their energy, volume, and when they light stuff on fire…

Blaudzun is the alias of Dutch singer-songwriter Johannes Sigmond, who has been working on his own behalf since 2007. In January 2012 Blaudzun released Heavy Flowers (V2 Benelux) his most dynamic LP to date, in which his remarkable voice, haunting melodies and dramatic string arrangements coincides with a love for folk and art rock…

Hot Water Music is a Gainesville, Florida punk outfit known for Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard’s raspy vocals, as well as their searing Jawbreaker-esque guitars on earlier albums. The act first formed in 1993, and their first record, Finding the Rhythms,
was released on No Idea and Toy Box records. Many fans commonly refer
to Hot Water Music as the abbreviation, HWM. The name Hot Water Music
comes from a Charles Bukowski book…

“Ramona Falls is the musical brainchild of Brent Knopf. Brent, a Portland Oregon native, was also one-third of the band Menomena from 2000-2011. Like most of us, Brent Knopf watches a lot of YouTube videos, only he’s not watching kittens playing piano. Rather, his tastes err on the more experimental side of things—like people who attempt perpetual motion machines using magnets…