Aurganic extends its roots to the tenth grade of high school in 1999 when two classmates, Leo and Mike, joined a local punk band. The two quickly got along discovering that both of their fathers were jazz buffs. Despite being in a punk band, they were discussing old jazz rock albums they grew up listening to.Fast forward to 2009. Mike and Leo found themselves living in Toronto and New York respectively. Both led their separate music lives for quite some time, and it would continue so, if Mike didn't become interested in ...
I could say that Kari Taylor is a unique, hot, and talented, off the chain and off the hook vocalist but I am not going to do that. I will let your ears be the judge of it. However, let me tell you a little something about Kari and how this Bio arrived in your hands to read.Kari Taylor was raised in Los Angeles, California and at the tender age of three, showed natural talent and an interest in music. Her family came to the conclusion that she was destined to be a vocalist because the moment she came out of the womb, her first cry had the sound of a note that only a vocalist could hit. One day, while playing at a neighbor's house, Kari's talent wa...
Most bands start when the members are in their early-twenties, move to the city, stick around for a few years, implode, start families and get real jobs. J...
Rory is an acoustic, rock band with powerful vocals and hard hitting songs with heavy influences of blues, rock, and folk. Rory began as a solo artist playing cover shows throughout the Durham Region and Toronto at restaurants and pubs. As soon as he started writing music, he was in the studio recording his first EP "Closure". While working with Producer, Theo Posthumus, it became evident that the sound of Rory was growing from a solo act, to a full band sound. Recording finished up, and "Closure" was released by the band on January 12th 2012 in Toronto. Each of the 5 members of RORY are very skilled musicians, each with 10-20 years of playing experience. Though they are new to playing with each other, the ski...
Heather Pierson was born on the edge of the American West and was raised on the music of the South - blues, jazz, soul - music that is at once both celebratory and melancholy. To define her by these origins, however, is to miss the point - she is a prolific performer, composer and songwriter in nearly every genre of music. Her wildly and beautifully varied live performances and her growing catalog of releases reflect this boundless creativity. New Orleans jazz, Delta blues, poignant and narrative story-songs, Native American chants, New Age instrumental piano, folk-pop, a capella vocal renderings, ethereal and synthesized soundscapes: all are well within the capable grasp of this unique and inspiring performer. Her latest CD release,...
Matt Cronin, Nick Fede, Jay Schneider, Matt Smith and JC Zwisler make up Boston-based Rock/Indie Pop act Jet Black Sunrise. Their music has been referred to as everything from alternative acoustic rock (read "90s") to experimental indie pop. With three songwriters in the group, and every member of the band contributing artistically, this eclectic experience comes as no surprise. Their enthusiasm and passion will become clear after only one listen or one visit to a show. Local press has commented that, "Despite [often] limited space, Jet Black Sunrise still connects with the crowd...
A suicidal preacher and a staph infection; We are RUST. We are from Austin, Texas. I met Patrick two years ago when I arrived back in Central Texas after a stint on the East Coast. I was doing some vocals for Unspeakable Things, his instrumental death metal project. They had never had a permanent vocalist and kicked the idea of my addition around while I wrote some words but the whole thing didn't go together. That band wi...
Surefire is somewhere between the Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys. It is Peter's last ditch attempt to be able to stay in the US to make music for a living!...
The inspiration for Red Vienna first began when drummer Robbie Zgaljic and bassist/vocalist Jahmeel Russell were on tour with their previous band in Europe.The two formed a musical bond both on and off the stage and decided on their arrival home to Vancouver to start a new group. In late 2009 they began to work on music with guitarist/vocalist Devin Boquist.Red Vienna's debut EP was released in 2010 to positive reviews and followed by performances in Vancouver and Toronto....
Tiger & the Helix was a Los Angeles based rock group that formed in the early nineties, fronted by Richard Gannaway, who later founded the acclaimed world music project Aomusic. The group also featured keyboardist, Jay Oliver, whose other credits include Sheryl Crow, The Eagles, Jimmy Buffett, Wynona ...
AOMUSIC, (also known as, AO) is a pan-cultural world/new age musical group, known for an exotic blend of ethnic texture, rhythmic energy and ambient harmony. Their compositions employ melodic refrains, sung by Miriam Stockley (the voice of Karl Jenkins' Adiemus project), and children’s choral ensembles from around the globe. Song lyrics are typically sung in a mixture of ancient languages or made-up phonetics, so as not to pay allegiance to a particular ethnicity; thereby lending to a more universal impression. ...
Plastic Animals are a four-piece band based in Edinburgh. They formed in 2006 and, between long periods of hibernation, created three minute punk messes.In 2011 they returned with a fuller, more ambient sound on their "A Dark Spring" EP, which was supported by a string of gigs in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast.Second guitarist Ben Slade joined the band in 2012 and the first fruits of this new union will be heard on the new "Automaton" EP, due for release in June.Mario Cruzado / James Lynch / Dave Wark / Ben Slade...
The Latonas are an expansive four-piece Indie Rock band known for their exciting live shows. In demand throughout the Aussie Music scene, the band seamlessly blends catchy guitar melodies, explosive drums, and a three pronged vocal line up that delivers songs that get you dancing and stay stuck in your head for days.The Latonas were recently chosen for the Sonicbids Artist Spotlight. As Sonicbids hosts more than 200,000 artists on their website, being chosen as the Artist of the Week for a home page spotlight was both an honor and a testament to the band's originality and talent. News Limited also featured the Latonas second EP launch on their front cover. Yes, News Limited is ...
These days few artists have standards when it comes to the music they perform and few listeners have standards for what they want to hear. St. Louis, Missouri’s Various Hands is setting out to change all that. Their music is catchy and appealing and will make you want to move your body in a convulsive type of way that might otherwise be considered “dancing” while at the same time it touts uniqueness and fresh energy that is becoming a lost art in today’s industry. Various Hands combines an indie dance rock style of music with singer/guitarist Jeff Nations’ signature life-is-good lyric motif. Drummer Matt Koch, guitarist Zach Meier, bassist Daniel Strain and keyboardist ...
30aut6 is from Valier, IL, a tiny town of around 700 in the Southern part of Illinois. They grew up on farms, and at heart are hard working country boys but that doesn't mean they can't rock. It is this 'real' element of the band that draws in so many fans. Members of the band have worked in the Coal...
The guys in Homemade Drugs cook them up fast, short, and full of the great noise they themselves love. Tyler and Brian lead the way on guitars, Chris keeps it real on Bass and Bobby absolutely slams the drums in this psychedelic punk rock mash up that keeps everyone up all night long. Songs like “Schizophrenic Cat” and “I Shot Mary” really are short, but they keep you coming back for more, and more, and more until your eyes are blood shot and your skin itches, but hey maybe one more song. It’s not unusual to hear chants of “we want drugs” at shows and the guys always deliver. First Homemade Drugs brings out the best...
Audrese Prince better known as Drese, is a hip-hop artist/producer from Colorado Springs, Colorado. After countless attempts to break into the music industry, Drese ended up getting real and enrolled for his first semester of college. After realizing music was his only passion, he finished up the semester and made the leap to Florida. There he enrolled in a school specializing in recording arts. Drese quickly excelled and molded his craft. Two years later with a degree in hand, Drese is reborn....
meet (i am) isis. the rocker. the poet. the spoken soul & performance artist. the renaissance chic. the writer/ journalist/ lover/ friend/ community activist/ spiritual advisor/ revolutionary/ and whatever damn else u need her to be. with an eclectic fusion of rock and spoken soul, (i am) isis has positioned herself to thrive within the music and entertainment industries. a multi-faceted visionary, the Newark-born, Minneapolis-raised phenomenon has created for herself a montage of eclectic rhymes, emotional rants, socio-political soliloquies and stories of love and growth and inspiration. ...
The Legend of The fundaMentalsRock and roll isn't dead. It might have sat on it's nuts and is currently writhing in pain on the floor, but it's not dead. The fundaMentals, hailing from the "Elephant Graveyard of America", a/k/a Port Charlotte FL, are doing their part to keep it alive. The fundaMentals first album, "Get Off Our Lawn!: A Rock and Roll Testimonial", is a rock and roll sonic pipebomb-in-the-poop-chute guaranteed to get you up and jumping around like your biscuits are burning. An album that's more landmine than landmark. You don't know it's there, but when you discover it, it blows your f***ing face off. It's what rock and roll is supposed to be: loud, brash, and obnoxious, putting a full-th...
Hailing from Brazil, BTK has worked for an impressive list of heavyweight labels such as Virus Recordings, Shogun Audio, Playaz Recordings and Renegade Hardware. Already setting a firm foundation with these labels and many others, BTK’s tracks regularly receive support from some of the biggest DJ’s in the scene such as Ed Rush & Optical, Andy C, Friction, DJ Hype, Audio and many more. His debut album on Virus Recordings (produced together with Optiv) stormed the charts in summer 2012 to heave him up to the producers A-list. BTK also has his own imprint called “Dutty Audio”, which he founded at the end of 2010. The label acts as an outlet for BTK's own music an...
From his first single, "I Sit On Acid", released in 1988, to the present, Belgium's Praga Khan remains one of the most innovative acid house musicians in circulation. Thanks to extensive experimentation with drugs, Crowley-ian sex magic, and esoteric paths of self-deprivation and mutilation known only to himself, this orgiastic orchestrator created the LORDS OF ACID to further encapsulate the seductive messages and raw sex of his ever-evolving musical vision. From the raw carnality of their 1991 release "Lust", to the electro-thrash of 2000's "Farstucker" Lords of Acid has re-defi...
After graduating from Harvard in 2004, Gambit began working a 9 to 5 with a venture capitalist real estate firm. Despite the beach house on Long Island and the six-figure salary, he found himself numbed by his 'comfortable' lifestyle and longed for the suspense of his adolescence. He missed the music he obsessed over as a teenager, the music he somehow knew was his true calling. So, with the same rigor and discipline he developed in college, he committed to learn how to play, write, and record music in the hopes of feeling once again. Before long, Gambit was playing to music reps convinced they were watching a life-long musician. The raw emotion of both his recordings and live performances are no doubt a result of man doing what he is truly...
To call Eminem hip-hop’s Elvis is correct to a degree, but it’s largely inaccurate. Certainly, Eminem was the first white rapper since the Beastie Boys to garner both sales and critical respect, but his impact exceeded this confining distinction. On sheer verbal skills, Eminem was one of the greatest MCs of his generation -- rapid, fluid, dexterous, and unpredictable, as capable of pulling off long-form narrative as he was delivering a withering aside -- and thanks to his mentor Dr. Dre, he had music to match: thick, muscular loops that evoked the terror and paranoia Em’s music conjured. And, to be certain, a great deal of the controversy Eminem courted -- ...
Queensrÿche is an American heavy metal / progressive metal band formed in 1981 in Bellevue, Washington. The band has released eleven studio albums and several EPs and DVDs and continues to tour and record.Queensrÿche has been relatively successful in the progressive scene, having sold over 20 million albums worldwide including over 6 million albums in the United States.The release of “Empire “(1990) brought Queensrÿche to the height of their commercial popularity. It peaked at #7...
As Giancarlo Vettor, frontman of Caracas, Venezuela progressive slash metal rockers rants on "No Change Today"--the video and focal track from the band's latest socially conscious full length assault Relentless Is Our Strength-there's "no change today at all" since the release of their critically acclaimed 2007 debut God In A Trench. The world is still full of injustices, financial inequities and slavery literal and metaphorical. It's now more crucial than ever that that the band-rounded out by drummer Joseph Ortiz, guitarist Erich Machado and bassist (and newest member) Humberto Ortega-keep on its global mission to get the word out and provoke effective action. Their next step: ten new t...
Garbage is an alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1994. The group consists of Scottish singer Shirley Manson (vocals, guitar) and American musicians Duke Erikson (bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion), Steve Marker (guitar, keyboards) and Butch Vig (drums, percussion). All four members are involved in songwriting and production. The band have counted worldwide album sales of over 17 million units.Garbage released a string of increasingly successful singles in 1995 and 1996, including “Queer,” “Stupid Girl” and “Only Happy When It Rains.” ...
Oleg Prodeus is a songwriter and singer, a multimedia artist and producer, a graphic & motion graphic designer, a film and video producer, a multi-instrumentalist and a music producer. He was born in the former Soviet Union and has been living and working in Vienna since 1990. In the 90s, he worked mainly in various theatres as singer, musician and actor. In 1997 he wrote and produced his first solo music album "To the Sky"with a second "Collective Farm" following in 2000. In 2004 he wrote and produced his first film music for the Austrian-German Motion Picture "C(r)ook. During this period, he also occasionally toured Austria with his various musica...
The early 21st century saw Pantera singer Phil Anselmo launch several side projects, including Necrophagia, Viking Crown, Christ Inversion, Southern Isolation, and Superjoint Ritual. The latter group is comprised of guitarists Jim Bower and Kevin Bond, drummer Joseph Fazzio, with none other than Hank Williams III on bass (Anselmo handled both vocal and bass duties for the group's recordings, but opted to concentrate solely on vocals for the group's live shows). According to Bower, the members of Superjoint Ritual approached the writing and recording of their debut with "the perfect 15-year-old mentality of having everything loud, everything on 10, getting loaded, and letting whatever happens, happen." Recorded at a rehearsal ...
Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul started forming up Damageplan in early 2003, soon after the demise of their previous band, thrash metal heroes Pantera. The brothers began working on tracks at Dime's Dallas home studio, unsure of exactly what they'd do with the material, but determined to banish the bad taste of Pantera's awkward breakup. Ex-Halford and -Diesel Machine guitarist (and full-time Dime pal) Pat Lachman heard the demos and expressed interest in singing for the project. While he'd never served as a frontman, Lachman's performances over the raw material were strong enough to land him the vocalist position. The lineup was completed with the addition of local bassist Bob Kakaha, who was immediately dubbed Bob Zilla for his monst...
In similar company with new-school French progressive dance artists such as Motorbass, Air, Cassius, and Dimitri from Paris, Parisian duo Daft Punk quickly rose to acclaim by adapting a love for first-wave acid house and techno to their younger roots in pop, indie rock, and hip-hop. The combined talents of DJs Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, the pair's first projects together included Darling, a voiceless indie cover band; their current recording name derives from a review in U.K. music weekly Melody Maker of a compilation tape Darling were featured on, released by Krautrock revivalists Stereolab (their lo-fi D.I.Y. cover of a Beach Boys song was derided as "daft punk"). Subsequently ditching the almost inev...
