NEW ARTISTS AT ALL INDIE RADIO

American Idol’s Sarah Burgess Inks Record Deal,
Best remembered as the auditioner whose father didn’t know she had snuck out to New York, only to be awarded Idol’s Golden Ticket to Hollywood, Sarah Burgess made a connection with the American public with her story of determination in the face of resistance from those not as convinced. After an emotional audition and tearful aftermath, a bond had been forged between the viewers and an emerging artist.

Speed of Life
Speed of Life is not just a band to founder and songwriter John Zay. It’s a way of life. While healing from a failed relationship Zay did the only thing he knew how to. Live his life to the fullest. Out in the ocean catching waves with his friends in Costa Rica, Zay was inspired to begin “Catalyst”, Speed of Life’s latest release.

For Your Eyes Only
Some bands need to luck into success to become as dedicated as For Your Eyes Only. But the band has too strong a work ethic to let luck be a factor in their success. Take, for example, the short bio posted on the band’s Web site. Instead of grandiose prose boasting of the band’s history and how they will save the world with their music, they utilize the space to give thanks to fans. It’s not a front: The band’s only agenda is playing shows and making music.

Return for Old Man Brown
Old Man Brown is based in the Baltimore area, playing original Rock, Blues, Soul and Funk that honors earlier traditions with respectful arrangements and the highest standards of musicianship. OMB's repertoire includes an enticing collection of original songs written by keyboardist and singer Adam Scott-Wakefield and his late brother, drummer John Scott-Wakefield.

Amber Brooke and Destructive Behavior
The Amber Brooke Band consists of five kids who just love to play music. The group delivers its own brand of high-energy performance with solid vocals.

A Deviously Pretty Picture
DJ Devious (David Charles Kramer) started learning guitar at the age of seven and was already performing by the age of eight. After studying with Lynn Herrick and Bill Svenglini for a number of years, David attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a BM in Songwriting, a BM in Music Synthesis, and studied a wide variety of styles on the guitar including Rock, Jazz, Blues, Funk, and Classical. David now plans on getting his Master of Music degree in Guitar Performance.

Paul Nash: Avant Noir Jazz Cycles
There are millions of musical stories in the naked city. This is one of them. This is not the story of contrived tragedy, the sad story of the life of a facile celebrity, created the way interest in nearly everything is created in the current culture - through hype and marketing. Though the lines between substantive art and commerce-entertainment are often blurred, there are still artists who are committed to exploration and emotional, spiritual and mental uplift. Paul Nash - a jazz guitarist, a composer who worked in various styles of jazz and classical music, and a music educator - is such an artist and this is his story.

Pie Boys Flat Uproots the Island
Pie Boys Flat hit the NYC music scene in 2003 with their unique blend of Reggae, Blues, and Funk. Their writing shows influences ranging from Bob Marley to Jack Johnson to Sublime to Paul Simon and has melded into a form of ethnic Rhythm and Blues that sits firmly in the pocket of a style all its own. Laced with soaring three-part harmonies, their music is the manifestation of a many year friendship and collective musical intuition.

Breech Releases Tarnish and Undress
Two dramatic years in the making, Breech’s long-awaited fifth release, Tarnish and Undress, will hit the streets on October 8th, 2007. While in the throes of recording the CD, lead singer/songwriter Missy Gibson popped out a kid, enduring long months of morning sickness and pregnancy-related ailments, yet never missed a session. Bassist Ian Barstow moved to Sweden to become a reindeer farmer, his bags packed and sitting next to him as he completed the last of his tracks.

Who the hell is sick as monday?
Fledgling or indie bands take note: if you want to get attention, put out your work with a killer cover. the cover photo of this new sick as monday disc certainly qualifies; moody, sexy yet tasteful, and mysterious, the cover art simply screams "play this disc."

Sunset Signs Zamza
Hailing from the eastern part of Russia, ZAMZA is a well-respected, major indie label signed, three-piece "Trip Hip Power Pop" band. Their debut CD, which will be in stores on July 10th, is entitled, "Turn To You", and should serve to further skyrocket the band's trajectory in the music industry. They are currently hard at work performing live in Russia throughout May and June - gearing up for the new release on Sunset Records in July 2007.

Motorflower
A band that spans a spectrum of influences that range from Led Zeppelin to The Foo Fighters to Stevie Ray Vaughn, Motorflower is a deliberate hard playing four piece combo with pop sensibility. All four members - Nathan Jay Moody (Electric and acoustic guitars, lead vocals), Steven Fulton (Guitars,Mandolin, and backing vocals), Stephen Hall (Drums, backing vocals), and John Paul (Bass guitar), are hard laboring workers by day and volume abusing musicians by night.

Brain Researcher's Notes Will be Music To Your Ears
Biography Psychology professor and research scientist, Dr. John Kline, puts his music where his mouth is in the newly released CD, aptly entitled, "Instrumental Conditioning." In psychology, this refers to behaviors that become predictably patterned by consistent consequences.

Damn Near Definite for Mike Cassetta
When Mike Cassetta calls "Damn Near Definite" a state of mind, he is completely sincere. It's that feeling that you have deep down in your gut when you're voyaging to uncharted territory, and the horizon looks quite daunting . . . but the promise of a better future pushes you forward.

Pale Obsession
What first began as a common project of bandleader and singer Joe May and keyboarder Christian Krier became a coherent band during 2005. At the end of 2005, the actual line-up of Pale Obsession had found together, regrouping, beside the 2 founders, Marc Goergen as drummer, Luc Coljon on guitars and Christophe Groben on the bass.

Miles Beyond
Miles Beyond is a Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band formed in October of 2002. Tim Moody's powerful vocals shine through the darkness of today's music. The energetic guitar duo of Tim Moody and Paulo break the boundaries of traditional metal music, reshaping guitar playing for the new millennium. The thunderous rhythm section of Shawn Ramsey (bass) and Tod Fisher (drums) anchors the melodic guitar driven sound of Miles Beyond.

Mark Marshall has a New Eye
"Regardless of what form of media you're talking about, Mark Marshall has been involved in it. In a career that spans over 20 years, he has worked in both the performance and production aspects of recorded and live music, video, radio, interactive, print and internet media projects.

Euphoric Darkness from Kevin Buck
Guitar Idol winner Kevin M Buck has unleashed his second album onto the world entitled Euphoric Darkness. Euphoric Darkness is an insane Heavy Metal / Hard Rock album. Kevin M Buck’s new CD Euphoric Darkness features Buck’s vocal and guitar skills with an emphasis on hit songs.

Bull's Eye of Success
Many bands across the world have aimed at the same target; to be as good as the great Rock bands of the past! What Rock fan doesn't recall the incredible stories of the Scorpions or Def Leppard rising out of the unknown to become superstars?

Madras:Up From The Ground
Sometimes you’ve got to take a few steps back in order to go forward. That was what songwriter Dan Luperini was thinking when he disbanded Madras in February, 2006.

You Name Our Band
These Brit pop rockers are ready to let the world in on what promises to be the next big moment in the history of Rock music. Watching them, you feel like you are in a dream. You aren't sure whether to rock out, just close your eyes and sing along or stand and let the music take you.

Honor By August
Award-winning Washington DC-based rock band Honor By August has shared the stage with artists including Bon Jovi, Hootie & the Blowfish& the Sixers.

Who Are Those Guys
The Who Are Those Guys sound has been compared to The Band, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Dylan and Creedence. Their music is a mix of rock, blues, folk and country with a classic sound that's all their own.

Jerad Finck - Music gives me something to believe in
Pop rocker Jerad Finck carries a bright, powerful musical flavor to fans, enlightening them with the sounds of rock-n-roll’s future. Finck’s sound is accessible and endearing but also forward-thinking, moving the music up a notch and setting a new bar. Finck is the new reigning prince of pop.

Chromaticism is Deconstructing Kharma
Chromaticism is a modern rock band based out of Yonkers, NY. Formed in January of 2004 by Ryan Scully, Spencer Sinkov and Andy Stark, the band since it's inception has set out to create a benchmark in the current modern rock scene. Infused with raw aggression and deep emotion,

Sheila Sondergard - Spoke Too Loud
In the beginning of 2007, Sheila teamed up with five of San Diego's very best musicians, forming a band of world caliber talent. Their music is extremely diverse and boundary less, yet cohesive, intelligent, and thought provoking.

Friendly No One
Friendly No One has released the music they made while weathering the loss of their drummer 2 years ago as an EP titled “ex’s for i’s”

The music is an experimental interlude as members often forgo their usual instruments in lieu of cellos, trumpets, organs, and the like.

Smalltime from Bittybox
Bittybox is the solo studio project of singer songwriter Vicki Silbert. The term bittybox comes from computer hacker slang for an old, slow, underpowered computer. This seemed an apt analogy for a digital audio project begun with no budget and minimal gear.

Michele Moreno releases Plastic Garden
Michele’s stunning vocals have earned her backup singer gigs with the legendary Ray Charles and Spain’s Raphael. Now her original music is being released on her debut CD Plastic Garden.

Echoes of Shadows Lie
Rising from the New York City underground, the music of Shadows Lie is a dark, intense blend of heavy guitars reminiscent of Staind, Portishead-like electronics, Days of the New type acoustic guitars and vocal stylings ranging from Tori Amos to Incubus.

Sounds of Fire and Light from Rind Stars
Rind Stars is a smart rock n roll band from the complicated American South. Each one of the five members could front their own band, and all would be vastly different. But they don’t.

Neall Alcott’s Debut CD, Rittenhouse Square
Rittenhouse Square is a collection of 12 songs recorded between Jan. 2007 and June 2007. The songs are actually a diverse collection, with styles ranging from acoustic/electric pop rock to folk rock to modern rock. 

Antennas to Heaven release Hermeneutics
Antennas to Heaven are based in the Newcastle upon Tyne area of North East England and formed in late 2005. The band combine post rock / shoegaze instrumentation with surreal stories involving regret, contemporary heroism, modern professional apathy and cornish pasties

FreeState offers Surrender
The combination of raw power and melody make for a powerful beast and Melbourne's FreeState launch their debut album Surrender with enough raw power and melody to quickly scale the heights of the Australian heavy rock scene.

Alyse Black Releases Debut Album
After getting three degrees in very responsible subjects at the University of Washington, Alyse Black headed off to start her fabulously successful and lucrative career in business strategy consulting for a large, well-respected consulting firm.

Johnny Bennett does Red Light Room
Johnny Bennett’s latest effort “Red Light Room”, a five track EP of piano driven pop rock songs, is now available. Johnny Bennett produced the project with the mix by Steve Cochran and mastering by Richard Dodd.

Project Charlie: These Days
Project Charlie is a true New York band that believes in the revival of Rock and Roll. All band members live in the city, allowing their songs to express both the excitement of New York and the inevitable jadedness of its inhabitants.

Lisle Engle releases California Miles
Los Angeles Rocker and acclaimed Post Production Mixer, Lisle Engle, has recently released a new album of 15 songs relating to his life and experiences in Los Angeles and California over the last decade.

Viva! from Cinema, Cinema
Broadening the scope of their musical movements with hook laden craftwork and infectious melodies, the Brooklyn based CINEMA, CINEMA stroke a new brush to indie rock.

MRDCs’ Timecode
What can one guy do with a cool guitar collection, a computer and some vintage synths? Listen to MRDC and find out. MRDC is about making great albums. Remember those? Picture this, a summers evening, a beautiful sunset, your favourite beverage and good company.

Power prog rock trio Marsupious launches Stone Baby and tour
Albuquerque-based rock group Marsupious is hitting the road, and winning fans, following the release of their debut CD Stone Baby. The bass-driven power trio has recorded thirteen tracks of pulsing, grinding, prog rock capturing the spontaneous combustion of live performances.

Thank You For The Pain
Basic Rock Outfit
Basic Rock Outfit started from the vision Jeremy Thomas had of Elvis's jumpsuit laying on a messy hotel bed. A Basic Rock Outfit is glamorous, tough and could back up the talk and swagger.

Traveling Light with flo
"Traveling Light” is the first album to be promoted under her own name Flo, but Flo Fozard has been actively making music for sixteen years.

Michael Dimitri: This Is Me
Began his career playing coffee houses and universities. He hitchhiked across America stopping at any place that would let him play then gradually as he perfected his art he could be seen performing at hotel bars, taverns, nightclubs.

Regan Lane: Don't Mess With The Pretty
From the opening blast of energy on the power pop rockin’ title cut to the electronic pulse of the Bowie-esque final song ‘Earth Boy’ Regan Lane’s ‘Don't Mess With The Pretty’ is an eclectic, ambitious collection of intelligent pop and rock.

Five Star Iris
Five Star Iris is a four piece Atlanta based Rock band creating music of enduring substance. Like much of Five Star Iris’s self-titled debut album, the anthemic first single “Let It All Out” is a showcase for the Atlanta-based quartet’s soulful rock melodies, sharp songwriting and searching lyrics

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