Official Web Site www.carybrothers.com Official MySpace Site www.myspace.com/carybrothers Listen Jealousy Ride Who You Are The Glass Parade Honestly The Last One Loneliest Girl In The World If You Were Here Think Awhile All The Rage Precious Lie Blue Eyes

Cary Brothers  Print This Page With his heartfelt, melodic songs influenced by everything from 80's British New Wave to 70's Folk, Nashville native Cary Brothers has achieved critical and commercial success with his independent releases "All The Rage" and "Waiting For Your Letter," both of which hit the top of the iTunes Folk charts. "Blue Eyes" has been downloaded over 30,000 times and broke the Top Fifty on the iTunes singles chart. On the web, Brothers has found tremendous success on MySpace, where he has over 1.5 million plays on his music page. Cary's songs have appeared on the NBC sitcom "Scrubs," the FOX mystery "Bones," WB's "Smallville," and the successful medical dramas "Grey's Anatomy" and "ER." Brothers' lyrical ballad "Blue Eyes" was featured on the Platinum selling, Grammy winning soundtrack to the hit indie film "Garden State." Brothers' song "Ride" appears on the soundtrack to the feature film "Last Kiss," starring Zach Braff, Rachel Bilson, and Casey Affleck. Brothers has also performed on the CBS "Late, Late Show," "Scrubs," and "CDUSA." Cary found his musical voice playing regularly as part of the talented musical community at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, and he has since brought his tremendous live show across America and Canada, touring with such acts as Liz Phair, KT Tunstall, Aqualung, Imogen Heap, and The Fray. Cary is currently in the studio working on his first full length release which will hit stores everywhere May 29th 2007.

Official Web Site www.jimboggia.com Official MySpace Site www.myspace.com/jimboggia Listen On Your Birthday To And Fro Johnnie's Going Down Live The Proof Made Me So Happy Where's The Party? Talk About The Weather Bubblegum 45s Several Thousand Black And Blue Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Somebody to Love On Your Birthday

Jim Boggia  Print This Page Misadventures In Stereo, the third album by widely lauded singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jim Boggia, is unmistakably the work of a true believer and pop craftsman who's closely acquainted with music's capacity for transcendent uplift. His confessional, deeply personal lyrics tap into the deepest and most universal of human emotions. Born blind in one eye and with limited vision in the other, Boggia grew up an only child with an acutely developed ear for music. His early fascination for such iconoclastic pop classics as the Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society, Nilsson Sings Newman and Stevie Wonder's Innervisons helped to inform an aesthetic sensibility that would push him to create album-length listening "experiences" on his own releases. Boggia has gained impressive career momentum in a short amount of time. Blackberry selected one of his tracks for a new ad campaign and his songs have also been featured on MTV's Real World and ABC-TV's Men In Trees. He's developed a loyal grass-roots fan base for his dynamic, improvisational live shows. His work has been embraced by numerous fellow artists and kindred spirits, many of who have lent their talents to Boggia's albums. His sophomore release, Safe In Sound (2005, bluhammock music), featured key contributions from such notable admirers as Aimee Mann, Jill Sobule, MC5 guitar hero Wayne Kramer, Attractions drummer Pete Thomas and legendary '70s cult-pop icon Emitt Rhodes. Boggia's first two releases, 2002's Fidelity Is the Enemy and 2005's Safe In Sound, established him as a critical favorite. Harp magazine described his songs as "captivating," adding that he "delivers the sort of intelligent, melodic pop music that ought to be a staple of radio playlists." Paste called Boggia a "first-rate audio architect" and praised his use of "lush instrumental flourishes, intriguing sound bites and naturalistic found sounds." The Washington Post made note of his "soulful voice, experimental instrumentation and an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music." The qualities that have endeared Boggia to fans, critics and his fellow musicians are abundant throughout Misadventures In Stereo (which, appropriately, was mastered at London's fabled Abbey Road studios where the Beatles recorded virtually all of their '60s classics). His knack for merging melodic bliss and bittersweet, richly detailed lyrical substance is prominent on such tracks as the ironically jaunty-sounding "Johnnie's Going Down," the pensive "No Way Out" and the dreamily melancholy "So." Another standout is the baroque-pop underdog anthem "Chalk One Up for Albert's Side," which Boggia co-wrote with Tony Asher, legendary lyricist of the Beach Boys' landmark Pet Sounds. Particularly affecting is the haunting album-closer "Three Weeks Shy," about a soldier killed three weeks before completing his tour of duty. Boggia's deep and abiding affection for classic pop is apparent on "Listening to NRBQ," a poignant reminiscence of a love affair strengthened by a mutual love for music. The song also doubles as a tribute to the title band, whose beloved guitarist Big Al Anderson plays guitar on the track. "8Track" and "It's Your Birthday" (the latter co-written with David Poe) further examine the role that music plays in our lives and loves. Misadventures may be Boggia's darkest album to date, but it still sparkles with the melodic wit, inspired arrangements and perfectly crafted songs Boggia is renowned for. Recorded mostly live to analog tape, it's a warm, organic album that pays tribute to the recording process. "Nine of the ten songs on 'Misadventures in Stereo' deal with some type of loss: loss of a loved one, loss of control, loss of love, loss of power, the list goes on." Boggia says. "Writing and recording these songs gave me an outlet for processing those things, but also provided moments of hope and perseverance as well." While Safe In Sound experimented with all manner of left-field sonic frills and exotic vintage gear, Misadventures In Stereo finds Boggia taking a more basic, stripped-down approach. Recording live to analog tape, he and his band blew through the material until they had what they felt were the right takes. "I went for the qualities that I loved about my favorite '60s and '70s records," Boggia states. "They weren't perfect, but they were all about the feel of the performances. Whether it moved you was much more important than if that note was a tiny bit flat or that snare hit didn't line up exactly on the beat." Record collectors will be happy to know that Misadventures will also be issued on vinyl. With Misadventures, Boggia shows a career artist at the peak of his creative power, a self-proclaimed "music geek" for whom making music is as effortless as breathing. In a perfect world, everyone will be hearing more about Jim Boggia.

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KaiserCartel  Print This Page KaiserCartel walk with love in their hearts, be it for their writing and music, for their audience and the connection they make with them, for one another, and even for the scenes that they came up in. Courtney Kaiser was born and bred in Indiana, her passion for music gave her the initiative to become heavily involved in the Bloomington scene as a university student at Indiana University school of music. Whether she was promoting shows or playing them, the heart that Courtney poured into everything she did was evident to everyone around her. So much so in fact that she was quickly snapped up by John Mellencamp as a backing singer. When she left Mellencamp's band she moved to New York w here she began teaching elementary school music as a day job and performing around the city at night. Benjamin Cartel is truly an artist who is constantly mastering his craft. As a university student at Parsons School of Design he studied the arts and spent his evenings rocking out at local New York City venues, both onstage and off. As an early childhood art teacher he helps inspire young children to create and he himself takes the inspiration from those around him and pours them into the songs he writes. Courtney and Ben met in a strange twist of fate, the way these things most often happen, and not only did they come to find a perfect fit for their music, they also became a perfect fit for one another. March Forth, their first LP together, was recorded in Los Angeles at Track Record Studios with producer Matt Hales (aka aqualung) and mixed by Matt and Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros).

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Kristoffer Ragnstam  Print This Page While high-profile pop bands from Sweden were busily grabbing press attention, their countryman Kristoffer Ragnstam was working under the radar screen, making music that refused to fit the Scandinavian stereotype. His sound was different - too different to ignore. Musicians took note, not only in his country but in Germany and Japan. The media responded too, going overboard with effusions that, at the request of this somewhat self-effacing artist, we won't repeat here. On his U.S. debut, Sweet Bills, Kristoffer bundles the results into one of the most idiosyncratic packages heard since the advent of Beck. Each track veers unpredictably to the next: The wall-of-sound pop of "Lonely Lane," broadcast by roaring guitars and thundering drums, gives way to the simmering funk of "Doctor, Give the World a Smile." Mellow horns and backward guitar samples on "Sweet Bills" explode into a complex groove that nudges surreal lyrics - "My girl wants to be an astronaut/My boss wants to be a talent scout" - through "Born as a Lion." Sweet Bills is, Kristoffer insists, a project he can introduce without hesitation into the unsuspecting American market. "It's very intimate - naked, even. I'm not trying to be smart or anything. I'm just doing what comes naturally. Sweet Bills is one hundred percent me." One hundred percent Kristoffer: As the world will soon discover, music doesn't get any hotter than that.

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South  Print This Page I remember a question in the very first interview we ever did, it was a James Olham interview for NME. He asked us "are you for real", and I guess after being in this business for over fifteen years whilst many of our contemporaries have bailed out and taken up other carriers, I feel we can quite honestly say, yes. This lifestyle is all we know and we live and breathe it, in as much as we love what we do and couldn't or wouldn't know how to do anything else. More successful bands have come and gone, but when you believe in what you're doing and you create not through necessity of financial gain but love you are truly free. It's been a long old ride and we got on at the age of fifteen in an inner London School called Haverstock ,in a time when it was pretty unfucking cool to carry a guitar. I bought a four-track recorder for my sixteenth birthday and we started recording demos that would eventually be released on MO wax records. Even back then it was the joy of finding new ways to record and make music that kept us together .We were always trying new things, like flipping the tape over to record backwards and overdriving the inputs to distort the drums, putting all manner of instruments through whatever pedals we had to find new sounds. With the rise of downloading we have seen many labels fall, Mo wax folded when the first album came out, and the same with Kinetic records and our second album, along the way we've worked on projects like, the sound track to the film "sexy beast" and toured with many great bands, but the ethos always remained the same. To be creative and stick to what we believed in. We've never been the sort to jump on a bandwagon and start writing Snow patrol or Keane type ballads to sell more records. Our souls just wouldn't allow us. The South way has always been to push boundaries and never record the same record twice. I once went to a very inspiring question and answer session by the British film director Michael winterbottem. He was explaining how, to make the films he wanted to make, he would never bow to the traditional Hollywood format of gaining major backing before making a film. He would make a film with whatever tools he had, as long as the idea was good it didn't matter. We've always recorded our own demos and in 2004 we set out to construct our own studio to produce and record our third album, it was a liberating time, learning how to use the equipment properly and creating a base where we could write and record freely. It was a very creative period and as artists saw us make the E.P "speed up /slow down" the album, "adventures in the underground journey to the stars" and two of our own music videos. Coming up with good ideas and following through with the means we had. South has become like a cottage industry of creativity. Whilst being proud of what we achieved with "adventures" We feel like it was still a time of learning, but by the time we started on our fourth and latest album, we felt like we were finally in a place where we could commit to tape the ideas in our heads, to the standard that matched the quality of the music. And this brings us to where we are now, "You Are Here" our latest album, riddled with the experiences and creativity of the past the tip of our journey from here in on in, we hope you enjoy it.

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Speech  Print This Page Speech burst onto the scene in 1992 like a cultural storm trooper. As the musical political and conceptual force behind the hip-hop group Arrested Development, he set the tone for their brand of conscious reality. Winning two Grammy awards, 2 MTV awards and an NAACP award the multi platinum group shook up play lists and mindsets everywhere. The title of his latest solo album, "The Vagabond," comes from Speech and his love of all that's artistic. Speaking, writing, taking pictures, drawing, dance. This album is soul music, hip-hop and world music. Like a vagabond, Speech has wandered all over the map, but when it's all done and said the theme is love and there are no boundaries.

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Swati  Print This Page Swati ('birth of a star' in Hindu') is a New York City native. Swati's early exposure to music came via the classical world when she was awarded an academic scholarship to study trombone. Her performing debut at Carnegie Hall, however, resulted in abandoning the classical world in favor of exploring her own singing, songwriting and guitar playing. Swati immersed herself in the city's music scene at a young age, managing the popular club Nightingale's. This put her in touch with the fertile music and arts scene in Manhattan's lower east side. Before long Swati was performing and creating a sensation there, attracting musicians and record company execs alike and securing a spot at Lilith Fair. Swati approaches songwriting and performing as catharsis: a way to expose her inner self and connect with others. "Onstage," she says, "it? the optimum place I can be in my head. When I see a stranger who feels what I feel, the emptiness and loneliness are completely gone. I'm completely content." As a guitarist, Swati's technique is simultaneously percussive and dreamy, revealing elements of her Indian heritage. Using a twelve string guitar fitted with eight strings, she employs open tunings ala Joni Mitchell and plays through an assortment of effects pedals. The result is remarkable. Swati doesn't sound like anyone else and no one sounds like her; rarely has a solo guitarist sounded as muscular and delicate or gotten such an enormous sound from a simple acoustic instrument. After years of experimentation with different musicians and producers, Swati teamed up with producer Duke McVinnie (songwriter/guitarist with Shivaree) and producer/engineer Brandon Mason (David Bowie, The Secret Machines) to make her independent debut album at Allaire Studios. From the opening guitar salvos of "Big Bang" to the timely lyrics ("Whatever happened to honesty, whatever happened to respect?") of "Dodge," Swati has created a solid work that touches and resonates with people. The record completed, she has been taking to stages throughout the U.S., exposing listeners to what was previously heard only in Manhattan. Influential tastemakers KCRW in LA and Reg's Coffee Shop.com have championed Swati, helping spread the word in the US and from Australia to Britain as well. Swati's songs are direct, honest and powerful and delivered with disarming humor. In the crowded singer/songwriter universe, Swati stands out as a particularly distinct star.

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The Break And Repair Method  Print This Page The Break and Repair Method Paul Doucette's (Matchbox Twenty) solo debut is steeped in the irony of the records name, milk the bee, set to hit via bluhammock music on September 16th. "When I first came up with the title, it was from a place of pure frustration. It seemed a futile thing to do - you make a record - and really - what's the point? It's like milking a bee," Doucette explains. It's not surprising Doucette was compelled to christen the product of his efforts with a title that implies such pointlessness. After years as the drummer of the wildly successful band Matchbox Twenty, Doucette took advantage of a temporary break to record songs he'd been working on. "When I first made the record, I had been in a band for so long, and I was always a drummer. I never really contributed much melodically, so it was important to me to do as much of that as I could," says Doucette. With a deal secured, he prepared to record his debut, but soon found himself without a label due to major industry shake-ups. After several false starts and broken promises, Doucette found himself with a completed album of brilliantly catchy, emotionally laden songs, and no label. "It got to the point where I couldn't move on to the next thing," says Doucette. And luckily, he didn't.

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Val Emmich  Print This Page "Songs can be powerful tools - like weapons," muses New Jersey singer-songwriter Val Emmich. "In the past, the weapons of choice for warfare were swords, spears, even longbows - things that could do damage from a distance. Knives and daggers were for more intimate occasions." You might find this talk of weaponry perplexing coming from an artist discussing the significance of his new album's title. Then again, if you're familiar with Emmich and his work, you know there's often meaning lurking beneath the surface. "With knives and daggers," he adds, "you had to figure out how to get close enough to use them." On LITTLE DAGGERS, Val Emmich's sixth release, he manages to do just that, drawing listeners close with great pop melodies and playful arrangements while a penetrating lyrical story unfolds underneath.

Official Web Site www.virginiacoalition.com Official MySpace Site www.myspace.com/virginiacoalition Listen Home This Year Santa Fe Stars Align Not Scared Same Page Sing Along Lately A Desperate Way Look My Way I Got This One Gates of Wisdom That's What You Said Mason Dixon Voyager 2 Walk To Work Meteor This is Him Jerry Jermaine Johnny Wonder Lonely Cowboy Likeness Go Go Tech Dalia Lama Nicole's Song Motown Let It Snow Home This Year Santa Fe Not Scared Same Page Sing Along Lately A Desperate Way Look My Way I Got This One Stars Align

Virginia Coalition  Print This Page Virginia Coalition is made up of four friends who met in the T.C. Williams High School music program. Every member of the band can play almost every instrument. They sing just as well as they play and every one of them writes. Their collaborative song-writing style creates the textured, sometimes eccentric, and always melodic songs that have allowed Virginia Coalition to stand out. Jarrett Nicolay comments, "everybody writes and plays most instruments; we are never at a loss for new material," adding, "it is also great that we can all contribute to making the songs 'stage ready.'" Virginia Coalition's live show is a larger-than-life party that has helped the band garner a rabid fan base who affectionately call them "VACO." It was also Virginia Coalition's extraordinary live show that got them signed to New York City based label bluhammock music. Based on a tip from a friend, the founders of the label came to a show to check them out. "Then they came back a second time, then they kept coming back until we got signed. That's pretty much how everything has happened for us. " Ottinger said. "All the success VACO has is due to people passing the word around and saying good things." Word of mouth is how they sold 35,000 records and it's how they won the 2003 and 2004 Washington Post Reader's Choice Award for Best Local Band. On January 6, 2006, the band recorded their first live album at a sold-out show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. The album will be released on September 9, 2006. They are hoping to showcase the energy of their live show as well as take their listeners on a journey that shows their evolution as musicians, and introduce themselves to new listeners while serving up the stuff that their loyal following loves.