Long Island Sound are a math-pop band from Newcastle, Australia. Formed in 2009 as Wandering Bear, they released a free EP titled "Distance". In March 2011 they released a self-titled EP featuring the single Animal House.
SHOTGUN is a 3-piece band that features the songwriting of Eric Mayer and the unique musical chemistry formed between those mid-Atlantic children, Ben Carlson, Mike Holston, and Eric. The band got its start in January 2004, when the three members met for the first time and recorded a short demo, to be followed several months later by the home recording of their first two albums, "Standing Guard" and "77.
Folk/Rock band with one Ep "Crime" released. It is up for free download in its entirety on their website: http://www.thehowls.com/
Sampha is a London-based singer best known for his collaborations with SBTRKT and Jessie Ware. His debut EP Sundanza was released on Jun 4th, 2010 via Young Turks Records. More info:
http://www.soundcloud.com/samphamusic
The solo project of Kody Nielson, formerly of The Mint Chicks.
Sleazy but wry, cowpunk / hard rock that has some similarities to bands like Nashville Pussy and The Cramps but is more tongue-in-cheek. Know for their ferocious live shows, SixFtHick, portray their hometown, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia as if it was a separate country, with co-lead singer Geoff Corbett playing the role of a parochial Boss Hogg. The other singer, his brother, Ben Corbett plays the role of a disturbed Iggy Pop with an emphasis on physical self abuse.
Based in Sydney, Australia.
For More Info On Melbourne Band Iowa Check out www.iowasounds.net
www.myspace.com Iowa: a place, sure, but also a state of mind. It’s a place somewhere between shoegaze and psychedelia, a spacious soundscape of reverb, feedback and dirty, dirty fuzz that could have provided a home for everyone from Spacemen 3 to the Jesus & Mary Chain. And it’s a state of mind shared by the Melbourne three-piece of the same name.
Bass Drum of Death is a garage rock band based in Oxford, Mississippi. Originally known as John Barrett's Bass Drum of Death they released their first EP ''Stain Stick Skin" in 2008.The band is now John and Colin. The band released "High School Roaches" in 2010 and GB City in April 11, 2011. Check also: http://bassdrumofdeath.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/BassDrumOfDeath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Drum_of_Death
Burying '60s sing-alongs and dance crazes beneath waves of reverb and giddy thud, Ty Segall has carved out his own shelf in the neo-psych garage alongside SF compatriots and collaborators Sic Alps and Thee Oh Sees. As an exploration of the space between Cro-Magnon fuzz and atmospheric acoustic psych, Ty Segall continues to crank out the best new garage rock from San Francisco. Ty Segall is the lead singer of Epsilons, the drummer for Traditional fools, the drummer every once in a while for Party Fowl, and as of February 2009, an occasional guitarist/drummer for Sic Alps.