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Annie Quick
(Team Super/Organic)
Her second record, "Souvenirs and Shiny Things" will be released later this year, along with a series of video vignettes that takes users on audio-visual exploratory of New York's Central Park. She plans to take that experience on the road with her on an extensive tour of North America - look for her in your city! Visit www.anniequick.com.
"For God's sake, don't bother to forget that she's a woman. Just try to remember that she kicked your ass."
-Detroit Metro Times
"Annie Quick expresses herself as one of the stronger examples of musical catharsis to come along in many a moon."
- Modern Rock
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Brown Shoe
These gentle indie rockers from Folsom, CA have been called everything from shoe gazers to show offs. Differences aside, people are gravitating towards their live performances.
In November 2006, Brown Shoe traveled to Lexington, Kentucky to work with producer Duane Lundy (Scourge of the Sea, Joanna James, The Parlour Boys), creating what one reviewer describes as "imaginatively dense soundscap...alongside steady awe-inspiring rhythms and uplifting melodies." The release of Vanity in June 2007 attracted press, placements on MTV, and radio play on over 300 stations. By the time Vanity was finished, a handful of new songs had begun to take shape as the foundation for what would eventually become Brown Shoe's latest record, Jackalope, recorded between January and April of 2008 and due out September 30th. For more information, please visit www.brownshoemusic.com.
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Four Trips Ahead
(505)
After independently releasing and co-producing three EPs, "Beginnings" in 2003, "The 505 Sessions" in 2004 and "39th Street Lullabies" in 2005, Four Trips Ahead decided it was time to tighten up and grow up. Their arena rock sound reminisces on the melodies of a Killswitch Engage record or the spiritual progressiveness of Kings X touched by the modern production of some of Audioslave's best work. They will self-release their stunning debut album, produced by Nick Cipriano (Dream Theater, Erasure) this Spring. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/fourtripsahead.
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The Handcuffs
(Oofl)
Songs from The Handcuff's debut album, Model for a Revolution, as well as unreleased (as of yet) Handcuffs' tracks, have been placed in numerous television shows and feature films, including MTV's The Hills, Laguna Beach, Next and Pimp My Ride; A&E's Roller Girls and Paradise City; and the Sundance and SXSW award winning documentary The Education of Shelby Knox.
They have received radio play on KROQ in Los Angeles and WKQX (Q101) and WLUW in Chicago. The London-based Merc Clothing Company is now spotlighting The Handcuffs, among an exclusive roster of bands, on their corporate website. The band is currently in preproduction for their untitled sophomore record, to be released on Oofl Records later this year. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/thehandcuffs.
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Heroine Sheiks
The Heroine Sheiks have been making noisy rock in their Midwestern base of Minneapolis, MN since mutating from Cows and Swans in New York City in 1999. The band is planning a short run in the Midwest and along the East Coast this Spring with more dates throughout the South, West and Northwest to come later in the year. The band will be touring in support of an 8 song EP entitled "Journey to the End of the Knife" that will be released exclusively on vinyl via Amphetamine Reptile Records. For more information, visit www.heroinesheiks.com.
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The Majestic Twelve
(Pandora's Legacy)
This art-punk getup self-released their second record, "Schizophrenology" in July '06 and has surpassed 50,000 downloads along with 12,000 copies to-date. Not to brag, but it's quite a feat for a completely DIY music group. The band is currently writing and recording songs for the untitled third Majestic Twelve album due out this summer and front-man Kenyata Sullivan was recently commissioned to write a book about his experiences in the underground music scene to also be released sometime this year. For more information on Sullivan and The Majestic Twelve, visit www.themajestictwelve.com.
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Matt Keating
(Kealon Records)
If Matt's music was unconcerned with placating an increasingly image-conscious zeitgeist, his three albums for Alias Records - Tell it to Yourself (1993), Scaryarea (1995) and Killroy (1997) have proven more enduring and fresh as a result. On these records, Keating established a distinctive sound that split the difference between folk-rock and power pop, and favored words and music over angst and posture.
Matt chose an endangered format (the long-playing record-album) to perform some much needed mouth-to-mouth on the great lost art of the album. It's exactly the kind of implausible, foolishly romantic, unabashedly retrograde quest that deserves a title like QUIXOTIC. And so it seems perfectly natural that QUIXOTIC, out this summer, should also be a double CD collection of 23 new songs. For more information, visit www.mattkeating.com.
"Quality all the way" - USA Today
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Natalie Walker
(Dorado/Fontana)
Natalie Walker has been hard to ignore since her debut, Urban Angel, penetrated the mass consciousness by earning strong reviews from Billboard, Urb, Trace and All Music Guide, and such singles as "No One Else" and "Quicksand" received heavy rotation on radio around the country . Her songs have been placed in films and movies, starting with Sofia Coppola's use of a Thievery Corporation remix of "Quicksand" in Marie Antoinette, then spreading to the television hits Ugly Betty and Grey's Anatomy.
It's often said that the true test of an artist's worth arrives on their second album, when they have to prove that their first was no fluke. By that measure, Natalie Walker has succeeded wildly with her sophomore effort "With You", a startling maturation from the former lead singer of Daughter Darling. For more information, visit www.natalie-walker.com.
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Starcode
Starcode's debut album, recorded in New York, New Jersey and British Columbia, is appropriately titled Hum, not only for the way their songs buzz around in your head, but also for a lurking and, "horrendous overtone of electrical hums we couldn't get rid of (in the studio)" front-man Dave O'Connor explains.
"When we did the same set up in Albany and Vancouver, there was no hum... it became a big joke for us, so therein came the name for the first record." Songs like "Fine," "Crash," and "Ordinary," generated more than a hum at college radio last year with well over 100 stations spinning the record and top 30 playlist positions from coast to coast. Check them out at www.starcode.com.
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Teedo
(ICBM Records)
Teedo, as they used to say of Blondie, is a group, although it's also singer Theodore Bilecky's nickname. The singer/songwriter formed the Brooklyn-based band in 2004, putting out a debut album, Luvatomic, later that year on their own ICBM label. Possessing a voice that moves from the archness of Television's Tom Verlaine to the camp extravagance of T. Rex's Marc Bolan, Bilecky favors an updating of 1970s glam rock that doesn't descend into the goofiness at the heart of other neo-glam acts like Mika, Scissor Sisters, and the Darkness: Teedo recall Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel or "Killer Queen"-era Queen, not Gary Glitter and Mud. (Denim, the short-lived '90s glam act started by ex-Felt leader Lawrence Hayward, is another touchstone, thanks in large part to Bilecky's very similar vocal style.)
Following Luvatomic, some bandmember turnover led to a lengthy delay before Teedo reappeared with the EP You Are My Girl in the spring of 2008, featuring a new permanent lineup of Bilecky on vocals and guitar, Michael Kratzer on guitar, Saeko Terano on synthesizers, Oweinama Biu on bass, and Charles Davis on drums. The band is currently at work on their full-length debut and will be hitting the road this Fall and Winter. For more information, check out www.myspace.com/teedo.
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WE Fest XII
The annual underground indie music and arts spectacle known as the Wilmington Exchange Festival (W.E. Fest), takes place every year on Memorial Day weekend in Wilmington, NC. The festival will continue that tradition in 2008, featuring more than 70 DIY and independent label rosters plus indie films, visual art, zines, indie comics, small press, and all kinds of DIY and independent culture community members. The first W.E. Fest was co-founded by Kenyata Sullivan of Pandora's Lunchbox and Majestic Twelve infamy in 1996 to showcase genuinely unknown talent and build community within the indie music scene.
This year WE Fest will take place May 22nd to May 26th, featuring sponsored showcases from Culture Bully, Hip Video, Jersey Beat Magazine, Jason Glastetter of CMJ and Organic Entertainment, naturally. Expect many, many surprise guest performances at what has become the toast of the entertainment scene on the beautiful outer banks beaches in North Carolina. Visit www.wefestival.com.
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13 HANDS/NOMADYOGA
Grammy-nominated 13 HANDS' contemporary sound is a cross between David Gray, Damien Rice, Pink Floyd and various World music styles. Additionally he plays over 20 instruments from various cultures, including Native American flutes, African and Indian percussion, Balophone and Hang drum that are incorporated into both contemporary, world and meditative music...and of course CHANTING AND SOUL SINGING rooted in the tradition of Hindu Chant, Native American and Shamanism.
His career spans 5 records, touring, and anti-hunger work. He has shared stage with Laurie Anderson, Tuvan Throat Singers from Tuvo (outer Mongolia), RUN DMC, Marjorie Fair, Paula Cole, Dave Stringer (Kirtan artist) and was picked the recent winner of the "On The Verge" contest hosted by folk music icon, Christine Lavin. Visit www.myspace.com/13hands.
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