THE STONE SUGAR SHAKEDOWN
The Stone Sugar Shakedown, a 5-piece Funk, Rock, Jam band from Saint Louis, Missouri, was united by a love of musical exploration, improvisation, & getting soulfully nasty. Among the members is a shared vision of pushing musical boundaries, all while embracing the legacy of Jazz and Jam Bands.
THE EMPTY SPACES
NATE Z
THE SOUNDWALLS
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND ‘CRASH’
ALANIS MORISSETTE “JAGGED LITTLE PILL”
RUN & PUNCH
LES ANIMAUX
Les Animaux [LEZZ ANNIE-MO] bring the worlds of punk, surf, garage, indie rock and ska together to deliver new life to the sounds you already know without succumbing to the stereotypes. You may have heard these sounds before, but not all together and never like this.
SECOND CITY CITIZENS
Chicago’s very own Trifecta of Mic Wreckers, the Second City Citizens, have not slept much in 2011. Since voltroning in 2010, the alternative hip hop trio has toured relentlessly in the Midwest—playing notable shows with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, C Rayz Walz of Def Jux, Mac Miller, Blueprint, CunninLynguists, Mac Lethal and many others. Emcees Rich Jones, Swords the Ronin and Troy Boy have released a combined 5 projects—filled to the snapback brim with fun storytelling, clever lyrics and twenty-something sight and sounds—headlined by the compilation album Spliff Notes. With a project with renowned producer Tony Baines (Supertrap) on the horizon, SCC is ready to spread their love for hip hop and energetic live performances to the masses—in the Second City and beyond.
WERMONE
THE WILD ONION PEOPLE
HALFMOON MAD
Halfmoon Mad is an alternative rock band based out of Chicago, Illinois. Its members include Joanna Stanielun (vocals, guitar), Maxwel Perna (drums), George Kolovos (guitar), Steven Perna (bass) and Rachel Atlas (keyboards). Inspired musically by bands like Incubus, Porcupine Tree, Alanis Morrisett, and many others; and lyrically by the beauty and difficulty of life, Halfmoon Mad brings together rock melodies and insightful lyrics, striving to bring truth to music. Having gone through multiple line up changes over the past few years, HMM has settled into a group with undeniable chemistry that shines through in the music, and the performance.
In a world of music that is auto-tuned, tells you you’re a firework and lacks substance, Halfmoon Mad stands out as both musically and lyrically deep. Their songs are created to reach in and grab your soul, toss it around and make you think about who you are and the world we’re living in. Halfmoon Mad has an alternative rock sound with progressive hints and is sure to appeal to a wide range of listeners. This is what people don’t know about but want to hear.
I.DEVISE / UNDADOG RECORDS
AFRICOULEUR
COJACK
XV
CASEY VEGGIES
Casey Veggies (né Casey Jones) may be young but he definitely knows the value of prioritizing. Although this ’90s baby (born July 18, 1993) entered high school with hoop dreams, playing shooting guard for the varsity squad of Inglewood High School’s Sentinels, the Los Angeles native’s interest in rapping soon eclipsed his passion for basketball.
Back in ninth grade, the young MC had been recording songs and posting them on his MySpace page just for fun. But after receiving positive feedback on a few of his early tracks, Casey Veggies began to re-evaluate his relationship with music. “I was just writing and writing but then when I began recording things just started to fall into place,” says the emerging breakout star. “The response I got made me take it more seriously.”
While Casey Veggies originally started out as one of the founding members of the hip-hop supergroup Odd Future (OFWGKTA), he decided to strike out on his own following the release of his first mixtape, 2007’s Customized Greatly Vol. 1, which he dropped at the age of 14. “I just had a different vision for my own rap career,” Veggies says, explaining his decision to go solo. “I wanted to do my own thing.”
With the release of 2009’s Customized Greatly Vol. 2, Veggies not only proved that he had the potential to be more than just another MySpace star, but he also began to work closely with friends Joshton Peas and Anwar Carrots to establish a merchandise and artist management company called PNCINTL, better known as Peas & Carrots International. In an interview with The Madbury Club, the remarkably entrepreneurial teenager demonstrated a strong head for business as he discussed how “strategic sponsorships, limited merchandise, organic partnerships, social presence and influence ability have proved fundamental in the success of Peas & Carrots and thus, Casey Veggies.”
Indeed, Casey Veggies’ grassroots approach to marketing and promotion has not only garnered him more than 75,000 Twitter followers and over a million views on YouTube, but also scored favorable press coverage from a multitude of influential blogs and magazines, including complex.com, missinfo.tv, RapRadar.com, vibe.com, xxlmag.com, thesource.com, worldstarhiphop, and MTV’s RapFix blog.
Shortly after graduating high school in the spring of 2011, Casey Veggies joined Mac Miller as an opening act on his Blue Slide Park tour. Since then, he has performed with West Coast heavy hitters such as Nipsey Hussle, Dom Kennedy, Kendrick Lamar, and Hodgy Beats of MellowHype, as well as his friends from Odd Future, Tyler, the Creator and Domo Genesis, plus pop star Rita Ora, in addition to collaborating with artists such as YG, Rich Hil, Chip Tha Ripper and Raheem Devaughn.
In 2011, Delicious Vinyl helped with digital distribution of Casey Veggies’ independently released full-length debut album, Sleeping In Class, which he followed up a year later with his latest mixtape, Customized Greatly Vol. 3, released on April 9, 2012. Next, the prolific young rapper who supported Big K.R.I.T. on summer 2012’s Live From the Underground Tour has a new mixtape called Life Changes in the works. “I’m moving a little away from the volumes,” says Veggies. “I want to prove to people that I can put together a full package.” As with all of his releases, Veggies’ forthcoming projects are sure to be ripened to perfection.
Veggies are good for you and so is his music. Live and grow.
SADISTIK
BODI
ORDEAL
SMASH MOODY
DMTNT
MATADORA
THE PLEATS
DANNY DUDS (AUGUST PREMIERE)
THE FOSSILS
LIPREADER
THE FRONT
SNOW ON SUNDAY
SCARLET MOUNTAIN
FIVE THOUSAND MILES
T-MODEL FORD
T-Model’s credentials are impeccable; if anything he’s over qualified. He was born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forrest, a small community in Scott County, Mississippi. T-Model thinks he’s seventy-five but isn’t sure. He was plowing a field behind a mule on his family’s farm by age eleven, and in his early teens he secured a job at a local sawmill. He excelled and was later recruited by a foreman from a bigger lumber company in the Delta, near Greenville, and eventually got promoted to truck driver. During the time he spent driving and working in a log camp, T-Model ran into trouble, and was eventually sentenced to ten years on a chain-gang for murder. He lucked out and was released after serving two. He says, grinning, “I could really stomp some ass back then, stomp it good. I was a-sure-enough dangerous man.” When asked how many times he’d been to jail, T-Model responded, “I don’t know. How many?” He seemed to think it might be a trick question. Upon realizing it wasn’t, he answered to the best of his ability. “Every Saturday night there for awhile.” As disheartening as this is, it’s also a refreshing reminder of how ridiculous the present image of a bluesman is. Nothing could be more twisted than the romanticized and picturesque standard…an old black man devoid of anger and rage happily strumming an acoustic guitar on the back porch of his shack “in that evening sun”. T-Model couldn’t be further from this fabricated image. At 3/4 of a century old and with a dislocated hip, hes still cussing, fighting, and outdrinking men a quarter his age. Spam to his friends,Tommy Lee Miles to the authorities, he has been T-Model’s A-number-one drummer for the past eight years. T-Model and Spam are the only men still playing on Greenville’s Nelson Street. Most of the audience has scattered due to violence from the crack trade, and with the exception of T-Model, the street that once boasted Booba Barnes and others is dead. On a typical night Spam and T-Model will arrive at the club and unpack T-Model’s guitar and amp, and the bass drum and snare he allows Spam to use. When T-Model feels there are enough people, they start banging away in their own post-war Peavey-powered hill stomp. It’s nothing unusual for T-Model to play eight hours a night. They keep going until no one’s left standing. After his equipment’s packed up T-Model will coat himself with Off and climb into his van to crash.
JAILBOX
GREYS
SONS OF THE WEST
A rock and roll band from Columbus, Ohio; the heart of it all.
REALDIAMONDS
CRAWFISH BOIL
LIPBONE REDDING
SINS OF A NATION
DEADMANSWAKE
DEADMANSWAKE: Female-fronted melodic metal with a whole lot of balls.
“[DEADMANSWAKE is] a band on the verge of big things, being magnetically led by a singer whose voice could ignite the souls of even the most mold ridden corpses in grandma’s graveyard hall of fame.”
-Brian Kirst of Horror Society, Chicago, IL
TRUE WITNESS
ALMOND
Members: mike connor
ALMOND started on wednesday, august 25th, 2004, in an arlington heights basement. assassination for ALMOND is scheduled for monday, november 10th, of 2068.
ALMOND will play almost anywhere for $1TEN0dollars
im sorry that new songs aren’t added at an average rate of 1.5 a week anymore. there has been technical difficulties.
ALMOND creates noise using guitars, keyboard, bass, DD20 digital percussion, objects that are lying around in the basement. shaky egg, and sonic foundry vegas pro ultimate platinum edition 4.5
for heavier works, check out TechnoSlut 33x, another act in which ALMOND takes part.
THE DANCE CANCER
SOLEMN ORCHARD
Reset this life, and start over.
BROWN BAG
Formed in Fall 2010, Brown Bag is a new, organic rock and roll band hailing from the Southside of Chicago, IL. Influences range from folk, jam, punk, jazz and even electonic elements. Currently, Brown Bag consists of Dave Waterman (Vocals/Guitar), Mike Ellis (Keys/Vocals), Jack Pieroth (Bass), Dan Cantone (Guitar/Vocals), and Matt Rezetko (Drums/Percussion).
HILLBILLY HERALD
WISHGIFT
HEALTH & BEAUTY
THE BOMB SAWYERS
The Bomb Sawyers are a two-man band from Chicago, Illinois. Their hard-rocking, lyrics-driven music draws from such influences as Buddy Holly, Flogging Molly, Johnny Cash and Neutral Milk Hotel. Jason Horwitz, originally of Houston, provides rowdy, relentless drumming and soulful vocal harmonies. Ben Saller, a Chicago native, brings his own brand of intense singing along with frenetic guitar-work. The Bomb Sawyers love nothing more than lighting a crowd’s fuse and causing an explosion of boot-stomping, hand-clapping, knee-slapping and whiskey-drinking while they wail the night away.
SPEED OF THE DEVIL
BROTHERS RAGE
Brothers Rage is a progressive improv-rock quartet from the Chicago area.
THE BAND strives on writing unique, structured compositions, while encompassing spontaneous improvisation during live performances. Many original compositions leave room for improvisation to take place resulting in a different musical creation every time a song is played.
THE MUSIC is best described as a fusion of genres ranging from rock/progressive/metal to dance/electronic/jazz/experimental and overall groove.
Thank you all for listening/watching and paying attention.
We appreciate YOU!!!
-BRage
JUSTIN AND THE SALTY DOGS
Justin and the Salty Dogs began making music out of necessity. When Brownie McGhee (1915-1996) so astutely said years ago that “Blues is Truth,” he exposed the roots of an ancient philosophical tradition that regards music as playing an important role in the welfare of a troubled mind. The ancient Roman philosopher Seneca (ca. 4 BCE-65 CE), for instance, speaks like a bluesman when he says, “Let the mind be soothed by the reading of poetry and occupied by the tales of history; it should be treated with sensitivity and finesse. Pythagoras used to calm his worried mind with the lyre; and who does not know that the cornet and trumpet act as stimulants to the mind, just as certain songs provide it therapeutic relief” (De Ira 3.9). The songs by Justin and the Salty Dogs, initially self-prescribed medicines, have precisely this aim. The “physicians” with whom they have consulted are numerous, but a few are especially worthy of mention: Mississippi John Hurt (1893-1966); Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933); Sonny Terry (1911-1986); Woody Guthrie (1912-1967); and Muddy Waters (1913-1983). They tip their hats to these sage musicians and others like them, in all their complexity and problems, for pointing the way.
RUSTBELT RAMBLERS
THE AVERY SET
VELVETTE
TRIBAL SEEDS
From San Diego, California, award-winning reggae group Tribal Seeds have become known for their spiritually driven, refreshing rock vibe they have infused with the roots style of reggae music. Originally started by two brothers, Steven Rene Jacobo [lyrics,
lead vocals, rhythm guitar] and Tony-Ray Jacobo [producer, keyboard player], Tribal Seeds now boasts six members, including: Tony Navarro [lead guitar], Carlos Verdugo
[drums], Jose Rodriguez [keys, percussion], and Victor Navarro [bass].
lead vocals, rhythm guitar] and Tony-Ray Jacobo [producer, keyboard player], Tribal Seeds now boasts six members, including: Tony Navarro [lead guitar], Carlos Verdugo
[drums], Jose Rodriguez [keys, percussion], and Victor Navarro [bass].
Tribal Seedsʻ unmatched musical talent and authentic sound has brought them to the forefront of the reggae rock genre, as their art form has reached people of all ages
across the United States, and worldwide. The bandʼs self titled debut album, “Tribal Seeds” was released in 2008, and their second album “The Harvest” was released in
June of 2009. iTunes named both albums the “Best Of” in the Reggae genre, for their respected years. Their debut album helped garner them the “Best World Music”
title at the San Diego Music Awards in 2008, and “The Harvest,” which contained fourteen new and original songs, debuted at the number 5 spot on the Billboard
Reggae Charts. The tracks, written and produced by Tribal Seeds, were recorded and mixed by Alan Sanderson at SIgnature Sound Studios in San Diego, and mastered by Erik Lobson at Universal Mastering.
On July 19, 2011, Tribal Seeds gave listeners a brand new EP entitled “Soundwaves,” which peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Reggae Charts. The band notes that the album was inspired by their life experiences, being on tour, and their
desire to inspire youth to raise their voices and seek a higher consciousness.
Tribal Seeds have toured throughout the United States, and have also performed in Mexico, Guam, Aruba, and Hawaii. They have shared the stage with artists such as
Matisyahu, MGMT, Cee Lo Green, Jason Mraz, Sublime with Rome, Taking Back Sunday, O.A.R., Pretty Lights, Pepper, Collie BuddzThe Wailers, Stephen Marley, Gregory Issacs, SOJA, Rebelution, and many more. In fall 2011, they will be
embarking on a national tour, spanning over 25 dates in two months.
THROUGH THE ROOTS
DEVIN THE DUDE
Y’all know me !
HAMMER NO MORE THE FINGERS
THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR
THE JOSS RANGERS
RED CENT
BULLS GAME
ACRASSICAUDA
Take the number of metal bands who sing about war, death and destruction. …. Subtract it from the number of metal bands with personal experience of such matters….. If you arrive at the number minus 345 billion then you’ve done the math correctly….. If you want real talk about war then you should meet the members of Acrassicauda.
NEW REB
…it’s a movement of people who want to better themselves for the sake of the planet, the universe. A movement to help people gain consciousness, and awareness of whats going on around them. A movement that promotes positivity and the realization that we are all mirrors, and that we all reflect upon one another.
VIVA LE VOX
Viva Le Vox – there’s a trombone in your soul, and we’re gonna blow it.
BETSY WELLS
ANIMALS IN HUMAN ATTIRE
nimals in Human Attire was originally started by Jack Tell in early 2009. As an output for his solo folk/pop material Jack used his songs as a way to network and collaborate with a great number of people over the last year. From its MANY early incarnations the band has grown from a solo folk gig to a seven-member rock band.
EMBLEMS
Emblems is a rock band from Chicago.
Current members are:
Matthew Stevens
Ian O’Brien
AJ Griffith
Kyle Ahlstrom