They hope to record a full album in 2013 and play as many shows as possible. Not much more to add other than they want to help bring rock music back so people have a reason to turn their radios and music television back on.

“What the hell is that?” is a question pretty familiar to the controversial Brooklyn band Prince Rama. The answer is far from simple; sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson have lived in ashrams, worked for utopian architects, written manifestos, delivered lectures from pools of fake blood, conducted group exorcisms disguised as VHS workouts and have now finished inventing an apocalypse on which to base their new pseudo-compilation album, Top Ten Hits of the End of the World, comprised of ten singles “channeled” from fictional deceased pop bands.

The beginning of Pirates Canoe was when Sara, a Buddhist monk/mandolin player, happened to walk into a baseball bar in the middle of Kyoto, Japan. That’s where she met Kanako, carrying a fiddle case and drinking beer. The very next day, the two heard the singing of Reika in another Kyoto bar. Thus was the band born—Instruments, voice, bars and alcohol.

Songwriter and DIY instrument maker Matthew Steinke returns with emotionally driven anthems backed by a collection of homemade animatronic musical instruments that comprise the latest installment of OCTANT. Steinke has recently relocated back to Austin, his hometown, after spending several years in Brooklyn, Chicago, and the Pacific Northwest creating multimedia art installations and playing in pioneer indie-rock bands Mocket and Satisfact.

A Greek bassist ducked into a little bar in New York’s Alphabet City and heard the Eastern Mediterranean and Southern Balkans pouring across the packed room. The clarinet was keening and singing, and he knew every tune.

Jesse Boykins III is a singer / songwriter with a timeless sound. He is the creator of a new approach to music he calls “World Soul” in which he shares a point of view that crosses all genres, generations and cultures.

Brooklyn-based quartet, Lake Street Dive enjoyed a whirlwind end to 2012 when their video for "I Want You Back" became an internet phenomenon landing half a million views. It all started with an admiring tweet from Kevin Bacon that took off in dramatic fashion. Now, with more and more fans discovering their exuberant and exhilarating sound, they are poised for a breakthrough. Known for their infectious blending of influences, Lake Street Dive is a band with jazz at its heart, combined with a passion for pop, R&B, soul, and a healthy dose of the Beatles and British Invasion bands.

Featured new artist in Filter and Under the Radar Magazine!

NIGHTMARE AIR is a rock trio from Los Angeles, California, fronted by the dynastic duo Dave Dupuis (guitar, vocals) and Swaan Miller (bass, vocals).

The bands debut studio album will be released March 19, 2013 on Saint Marie Records as well as Vinyl Junkie Recordings in Japan.

If it was ever true (and it probably wasn't), that whole idea of a slacker persona existing in the Pacific Northwest has gone stale. Just ask Nü Sensae, the Vancouver-bred punk trio who can't seem to sit still.

Since forming in 2007 as the core duo of menacing bassist Andrea Lukic and octopus-armed drummer Daniel Pitout, the group has essentially devoured anything that has crossed its path, doing multiple laps around North America and releasing top-shelf DIY punk records that hit the elusive sweet spot between grunge's most aggressive freakouts and hardcore's best songwriting.

‘No Ceremony are impressing more and more by the minute and it’s becoming nigh on impossible to ignore ... you hear the recent material, you watch the arty videos and you see something of genuine substance.’ This Is Fake DIY

‘While waiting to find out more, we console ourselves with the few pieces posted on Youtube. Vague, fluid, fascinating, phosphorescent, these little lights in the night are as enigmatic and their discrete author(s).’ Les InRocks