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Originally from the San Fernando Valley and eventually relocating to Echo Park, CA, Corners began playing high-energy shows around Los Angeles in 2011. Influenced by late 1970s punk and 1980s post-punk, Maxed Out On Distractions, is a synth-inspired album in the Internet age. The album title itself is a reflection of living in the Internet age and literally not having any room in your life for more distractions. Singer Tracy Bryant explains, “The album title relates to the music in the way we approached making the album itself…blocking out everything else and focusing on making pure music, not being distracted with the constant addiction that social networking sites have become.”

The New York based Spires seemingly came out of nowhere last year, the rock band burst onto the scene last Summer with a Residency at Pianos on the Lower East Side. After winning over audiences and media alike with this stunning entrance and highly praised live sets at the Northside Festival and CMJ they followed it up with shows with Temples, The Horrors, Toy, Noah and the Whale, Allah-Las, Widowspeak, Caveman and Hookworms.

Their debut single "Candy Flip"(b/w "Comic Book) was released by 401K Music in the US and on the Too Pure Singles Club in the UK to great critical acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic. BBC 6 Music made it their single of the week, KEXP championed the band and featured them in session, the NME, The New York Times, Brooklyn Vegan, all raved about the band and the single which was produced by Connor Hanwick of The Drums and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Muse, Johnny Marr, Alberta Cross, Temples).

The once sleepy side project named Drug Cabin is (at once) a band and a family of sorts that has endured the vagaries of a fickle music business and life itself. Following a self-titled e.p. in 2012, Nathan Thelen (Pretty Girls Make Graves, Moonrats) and Marcus Congleton (Ambulance Ltd) combined to write 22 new songs. With the talented support of Brandon "Eugene" Owens on bass, Sheridan Reily on drums, and Frankie Palmer on pedal steel, the songs were recorded to analog 8-track at Gaucho Electronics in Downtown Los Angeles. Engineered by F. Bermudez , produced and mixed by Nick DeWitt (Pretty Girls Make Graves, Liars) the result is 2 albums , Yard Work and Wiggle Room. Together both records contain a vast collection of harmonious sweeping deep groove folk-ish indie pop with deceptively addictive hooks. The shape shifting tone of the compositions can feel very much like 70's garden rock imagined by Brian Wilson as it feels so down to earth yet so dreamy.

Caspian is a rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts, a seaside town 20 minutes north of Boston. Nobody sings. Most of the time we play heavy, other times quite soft. We always try to play with heart. So far we have recorded three albums. The process is always evolving - Thanks for exploring it with us.

Since 2004, CASPIAN have performed over 650 concerts, bringing their music to 40+ countries stretching over 4 continents. They released their fourth studio album, "Waking Season" in 2012, and a companion EP "Hymn For The Greatest Generation" in November 2013.

The band are currently writing their 4th full-length album in Beverly, MA, set for release in 2015.

In the winter of 2008, seven friends, roommates, and lovers decided to start playing music together. Inspired by Canadian literary genius Mordecai Richler – and undeterred by their lack of formal training or the fact that “Barney’s Version” is a shitty name for a band – they settled on Hooded Fang. Since then, they have played opening slots for The Born Ruffians, Malajube and Bishop Allen.

Hooded Fang´s songs shamelessly plunder all musical genres in the service of crafting the perfect pop tune. With full harmonies, rotating singers, and changing instrumentation, Hooded Fang can sound like The Cure at their least gloomy and Herman Düne armed with synths and a trombone.

Triptides is a sunshine warped psychedelic group from Los Angeles, California. Their music can be visual; a fuzzy haze suddenly gives way to a dream sequence.

The Shh’s music emerges, in secret, from a place in between the city of Paris & the Island of Malta. Their debut EP, The Burning Love, evokes surf-rock sounds with warm ‘Summer of Love’ vocal melodies. This 2-piece’s influences range from The Jesus & Mary Chain to The Modern Lovers to PJ Harvey to Slow Club.

A vulnerable and honest voice, Fate Under Fire grabs your ear quickly with alternative pop vibes. David James created the Sacramento, CA quartet from his home studio. Always evolving and making no apologies, the sonic landscape has transformed from driving guitars to sweeping synths, touching leads and big drums.

Music Band seeped out of a broken sewage line in an upstate New York domitory, and somehow it's Nashville's problem now. Brothers-in-dirt Harry Kagan (guitar), Duncan Shea (bass), and Lee Putney (drums) have been both room- and bandmates for over three years, and a single experience of seeing them on stage makes it clear that they just can't get rid of each other. Music Band's demeanor in everything they do shouts their apparent mantra: "Always be nice, always try to look cool in pictures, and and rock and roll forever."

These boys seem to have it all - save, perhaps, access to Heaven - and they want to give it to everyone: yelling, softness, debauchery, tall trees, three-part harmonies, dirt-thunder, trill beats, backbeats, big hearts, nice teeth, thug moves, sensitivity, positivity, gravity, big ole styrofoam cups, boxed wine, shadow-doubles, power crystals, sacred talismans, and straight-up love, to name a few. They are always laughing. Music Band wakes up laughing every day. Has that happened to you? It's the best.

"Their best to date." ~ Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

“This is great, one of those songs that builds into something of a crescendo, it's really good.” ~ Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing Radio

“Dynamic, punchy and all the things that make you want to pogo around your living room.” ~ Pete Donaldson, Absolute Radio

"Their debut EP, recorded at London's famed Abbey Road Studios, received recognition across the country and now, Auction For The Promise Club return with their latest release 'This May Hurt' - a single that expects to get a very similar response. Musically inspired by the likes of Bjork, Radiohead and Muse; the Cornwall three piece wear their influences on their sleeves with this offering, if not through sound, through context. Zoe White Chambers (singer/guitarist), Toby White Chambers (drums) and Perran Tremewan (guitars/keys) make up this indie-rock three piece and straight off the bat, the trio began garnering support in all the right places. BBC and 6Music, NME Radio, XFM, Absolute and Amazing Radio have all backed the band's past pursuits while Rolling Stone, Classic Rock, Loaded and MTV Hive have all featured them on their sites. Auction For The Promise Club have already graced the stages of Bestival, Boardmasters, Y Not, Lodestar, Leopallooza, headlined theEmerging Icons stage in the Olympic Park on the opening day of London 2012 and were subsequently asked back to play again the following week. The band intend to cover just as much ground in 2015 (The Great Escape and the BBC Introducing stage at the Looe Music Festival) but this time off the back of their new material and what is arguably their best to date." ~ Wareen Morris, The Playground