Electronic
Main Sequence lives in Portland, OR and makes sample-based music. The Ownership Society represents his first full-length release. It took 2 years and was created using nothing but records, a turntable, a mixer, an MPC-3000, and Digital Performer. The Ownership Society plays with many ideas that are floating around our society today, which oddly enough were embodied in the recordings of past decades. It ranges in styles of hip hop from... more

Electronica
Two-time GRAMMY Nominee, electronic musician underground darling Carmen Rizzo, is a frequent fixture in album credits as a producer, mixer, remixer, musician, and co-writer for a wide range of influential artists including Seal, Coldplay, Alanis Morissette, Paul Oakenfold, BT, Tiesto, Jem, Esthero, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cirque du Soleil, KD Lang, and Pete Townshend of The Who. Also known as a... more

Post-rock
Here is the press release from Secretly Canadian : How We Lost CD / LP (SC141, released: 05/20/08) Windsor For The Derby spent the last year and a half writing and recording the "How We Lost" record. Holed up for days on end in their Philadelphia studio, they recorded and re-recorded obsessively until every sound was exactly where they wanted it. Gear broke, hard drives crashed, gear broke again, and nervous breakdowns ensued. It... more

Indie
Damien Youth is an independent singer/songwriter/musician who works in a number of rock sub-genres. He has been a part of various musical projects including The Cosmic Cult Of Adam Strange, Featherbox, Kyte, Magic Island, Surprise Symphony and Walter Ghoul’s Lavender Brigade. He has also recorded with Peter Daltrey of the classic '60s band Kaleidoscope. The common quality in all of Damien Youth’s music is his uncanny... more

Indie pop
SXSW DATE - FRIDAY March 20 Snake Eyes Vinyl w/ London Victory Club   www.myspace.com/snakeeyesvinyl   *Stay Tuned for More   New Madrid Faults was conceived by John Kimock & Matt Molchany in the winter of 2007. Steady progress has been made in the last 6 months on an album slated for release on Ropeadope in early 2009. Early this year Matt Juknevic joined the band, finally making things feel as... more

Post-rock
PIETRO SALMA Pianoforte distorto ALBERT GUTT Computer sax distorto GEORGE DUVILLE voice chitarra ... more

Alternative Rock
Electric, bare, straightforward, physical or tribal are some of the adjectives that come to mind when listening to the new Manta Ray record, Torres de electricidad [Electricity Pylons], the natural follow-up to their more conceptual previous album, Estratexa (2003). Having toured Russia, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the US - gaining support from the American label FilmGuerrero (of which released the last record... more

Hip-Hop
What do you think of when you think about struggling? The kids in the street, no food stomach bubblin' or n****s in the E-Class, heavy drug smugglin'?" – Xzibit All hip hop bio clichés aside, Eyezon knows struggle all too well. Born in South Africa, he learned firsthand the trials associated with segregation, racism, and poverty. Growing up in difficult times without a father and a mother exiled to Germany for her... more

Club
Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony, sometimes known as ‘Bosshanover’, although this tropical moniker may appear deceptive as blue seas and palm trees are pretty rare around these parts! Nevertheless, it can be argued that this is the place where the primordial mixture of ‘Nu- Bossa’ and funky breaks first sprang to life in the mid 1990s. By the end of that decade, music maniacs Ralf Droesemeyer and Mark... more

Electronica
Toxic hurricane sludge, endless war and the eternal question of what to do with one’s Saturday night when the world’s about to implode… Cubik and Origami mine these topics and more on Slept In On Doomsday, their new release on Dinner Party Records. Originally known for the slow-burning downtempo funk of their eponymous debut on Wide Hive Records, and an intricate beatbox/instrumental EP in 2007, the duo have since broadened... more