THE WELCOME
The Welcome is
Gehring Miller – vocals // guitar
Sarah Johnson – vocals // keys // percussion
Jonah Kort – bass
Casey Harding – drums
MUSICAL CHAIRS
BLVD PARK
Lush tree lined streets and tall stately Victorian homes are the staple of the Midtown Sacramento neighborhood of Boulevard Park. Spring of 2009 found several like minded artistic neighborhood residents jamming around a late night backyard campfire, thus marking the beginning of Blvd Park the band.
Based in Seattle as of fall 2010, Blvd Park is its own unique blend of all original, all singer, all player Spaghetti Western Americarnie Browngrass/Gypsyfolk. Upright bass, mandolin, guitar, trumpet, accordian, banjo, lots of tambourine and tight 3-5 part harmonies, both female and male; rigorous, dynamic, gritty, harmonic; music for the soul.
RAILROAD TRACKS
GENOME
Genome deftly combines organic improvisation and audience interaction with mind bending electronic sound manipulation, adding an entirely new dimension to the labyrinth of melody, harmony and rhythm. The music of Genome acts as a gateway to a new freedom of mind and spirit through the ritual of music, dance, and Dionysian celebration. The Genome project is not about the members of the band alone, but rather, the love and community of its supporters and friends. The band makes the music, the people dance to the music, and everyone gets lifted together!
GUNNELPUMPERS
Masters of their instruments and wizards of improvisation, Gunnelpumpers is a unique ensemble that creates compelling worlds of sound from seemingly nothing. Connected to each other, their instruments and their environment, they are able to draw forth music that is fresh, unadulterated, and rarely premeditated. Their music is infused with a myriad of styles in ways that sound like nothing else.
JET EDISON
Having been introduced by the Mayor of Denver, John Hickenlooper, at a downtown Denver show, it is safe to say that Jet Edison is making an impression wherever they perform. ….Jet Edison is quickly coming up through the ranks in the Colorado music scene as a band to keep your ear on. Playing a distinct blend of genre-defying music, their devotion to pushing the envelope is clear in their technical instrumentation and thought provoking lyrics. Bringing together individual influences from Rock, Funk, Jazz, Blues, and Jam they provide an unforgettable concert experience as no two Jet Edison concerts are alike. The guys constantly learn new material and write new songs in order to bring the most groovinest show to the table… Press: Marquee Magazine: “Flying across the Front Range on a mission to provide nothing short of a musical adventure, Jet Edison brings together individual influences from rock, funk, jazz and blues, to provide a jammy concert experience.”.. Mountain Ear Newspaper: “Jet Edison is a genre bending rock band whose elevated performances have brought them highly acclaimed recognition all across the Front Range. During a single show the Jet Edison quartet will journey to the harmonic precipice… to create a show that goes beyond the conventions of the modern day jam experience.”.
MC SPARKPLUG
FALLEN RIVIERA
Will Parry and Steve Ornest began writing music together while studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. They sent their early demos back to music industry professionals in Los Angeles, and encouraged by their response, decided to make the move. Soon after arriving in Los Angeles they met bassist Matthew Denis and drummer Aviv Cohen, and Fallen Riviera was born.
The band hit the local club circuit hard, gradually building a loyal fan base. After releasing their debut EP entitled “The White Dress EP,” Fallen Riviera embarked on a brief college tour.
They returned back into the studio and recorded “Six Mines,” which was ranked album of the year by Music Connection Magazine and awarded them the 2011 Lauren Picard Emerging Artist of the Year Award at Cornell University. This sparked a five week national tour for the band.
SLUSHY
Slushy is a rock and roll bubble gum sun slop pop punk band from Logan Square, Chicago. Rad dudes with rad tudes playing rad tunes. Rock and roll and catchy melodies and having fun. Slushy writes songs about having fun, eating food, being young, dying young, falling asleep, not having fun, traveling through time, and falling in love with every cool girl we meet. Chris is the one who sings the songs and plays the guitar and dances around. Brent is the one who plays the drums and guitar at the same time, or maybe at different times if that seems like more fun. Sometimes other people will join them if it sounds like a good idea. We like having fun.
KING CRIMSON ‘IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING’
PINK FLOYD ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’
K-ORA
THE CHRONICLES OF A LANDSQUID
SLAPBOX
Dusty funk samples, guitar fuzz, dark dirty drums, & crazy psych rock; SlapBox is a 2 man audio visual kung fu fight! A musical/optical soup aimed directly at your cerbral cortex. Advisory Warning! You may break your neck!
DJ DORIAN DUPREE
DJ CELESTE ALEXANDER
DJ CELESTE ALEXANDER Mix-artist from Chicago, Started in 1982 under the encouragement of Steve “Silk” Hurley, Celestethedj started learning how to mix under the tutelage of Andre Hatchett among many others. One of the first female dj’s in Chicago, she signed on with Promoter Dave Risque’ and Gucci Productions. After the first year of playing exclusively for Dave Risque’ and proving that a female DJ Can hold her own in this male dominated industry, opportunities opened up along with her popularity. She has shared the decks over the years with dj’s such as: Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Steve Hurley, Andre Hatchett, Craig Loftus, Greg Gray, Boo Williams, Farley “Jackmaster Funk”, Terry Hunter, Gene Hunt, Wayne Williams, Ron Carroll, Mike Dunn, Greg Gray, Chip E, Tyree Cooper, Glenn Underground, Pharris Thomas and many others. She was the lead DJ for the “Fantastic Four” an all female DJ group for “Park Avenue Productions” which dubbed her the name ” The First Lady of House” in the mid 80’s and also did guest spots on radio stations; WBMX, WGCI, WHPK, and WKKC in Chicago, and is the ONLY female to have Played “The Musicbox” with the Legend (the Late) Ron Hardy. Celestethedj left the DJ and party scene in the mid 90’s and after a 15 year absence from the Scene resurfaced in March of 2006 to reunite with the thing she loves the most. Playing House Music! In 2007, she was one of the Feature guest DJ’s of the “Chosen Few Picnic” (Chicago’s Biggest and Longest running Annual House Music Picnic), The Attic Picnic , and In July 2007 was given her own Internet Radio Show on Cyberjamz.com. Cyberjamz is the longest running, highest rated internet radio station totally dedicated to house music. Her show The “Celestial Odyssey” runs every Saturday from 1-3pm (cst) and has a quickly become one of the top shows on the station. She has been featured in some of Chicago’s most premiere clubs and made her debut at the WMC 2008 in Miami. Playing for the “First Ladies of House” party, and the “Cyberjamz” party among others. She is now one of the newest members of the Nubang Clan, a group of DJ’s, producers, promoters, and artist world wide. She just produced her first remix project with Vick Lavender & Carla Prather, for the track Named “First Kiss”, which is doing very well on the House Music charts. With Future bookings in 2009 in cities like, Dallas, Detroit, and New York, Celestethedj has quickly become one of the Premiere Female DJ’s in the country. Along with production projects with Producers like: Vick Lavender, Gene Hunt and Terry Hunter, Celeste Alexander is THE name to look out for …….
MEGA MILITIA
EMMA
ZIG ZAG AND THE UPDOWNS
AARON OMEN
BEHOLD! The sounds of AARON OMEN are your ticket to liberation! Bathe in the sonic power, be lifted up out of your lifeless doldrums. Be freed from the monotony that your radio imposes. Since the release of the debut album, thousands have testified to the wondrous sounds contained therein. A portable replica of the words and sounds of AARON OMEN (a.k.a. the album, Beyond Villainous) is available to the world via all major download sites and internet mail order avenues. However, the true way to obtain these magickal words and sounds is from AARON OMEN and company IN THE FLESH! You, brothers and sisters, can bear witness to the hidden rites that were once only spoken of in whispers Those fortunate souls who have been in attendance will tell you, AARON OMEN and his band of traveling spiritualists MOVE you…SHAKE you…and SUMMON the things inside you have feared to unleash! You are being offered YOUR CHANCE to join with those who have experienced the NEW WAY offered by AARON OMEN. Don’t be left behind.
THE STATIC AGE
The Static Age are an American post punk band originally from Burlington, Vermont consisting primarily of Andrew Paley and Adam Meilleur.
LISSIE
ORNERY LITTLE DARLINGS
Chicago Tribune January 20, 2011…. Once again, we have that elusive, impossible to define but you know it when you hear it Chicago sound, in the form of Ornery Little Darlings. And not only does this band have one of the best names in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. It grabs your attention with that moniker, then keeps it with a bottom-heavy, reverb-saturated aural assault that is much like a Chicago version of punkabilly. You fans of The Cramps will feel right at home with the Darlings. It’s smart, draws upon many influences including some operatic howls. And like so much Chicago rock, it’s amazingly well-played.
THE FATTY ACIDS
VASOLINE
STONE TEMPLE PILOT TRIBUTE
RAS SHERMAN & ROOTS ROCKERS
CRYAN SHAMES
JIMY SOHNS
THE SHTETLBLASTERS
STAR FUCKING HIPSTERS (DJ SET)
MIKEY ERG
I’m mike. I record songs in the middle of the night when I don’t have to get up for work the next morning. I’m usually pretty tired by the time i do vocals and mix so you know…thats why this stuff sounds pretty bad. Some of it is funny. Maybe the Ergs will do some of the tunes, maybe not. Thats me.
HEROIN BLACK
I started makin music a few years ago. Im from shitcago- the windy city (cuz of the blow). I just finished my third CD recently. “HIGHrKey”… you should pick it up pick it up! Good luck on ur primative speakers being able to take it though. I rite, arrange, and make all my own music and rite all my own lyrics- Ghost riters ar expensive an I dont got the money or integrity(Lack thereof) 4 that, but if u give me something upfront (I barter so u dont always have to use cash) Ill b mor than happy to produce/ghostwrite ur whole discographi. DIY till the day I die though! I just started doing live gigs with this new shit so cum support me.
SUNDAY CHURCH RIOT
BOOM SWAGGER BOOM
SNAKEWING
Heavy and Pissed Off.
PHIL BERRY=vocals, NICK HAMILTON=guitar, CRIS GOLAN=bass, KEVIN HICKNER=drums/vocals
BUMPUS HOUNDS
The Bumpus Hounds are a Punk Rock Trio from Chicago, that consists of brothers Pete and Mike Vercillo, and Mike Webb. The band takes many elements of influence from earlier bands in their hometown on what was deemed “The Chicago Sound.” Aggressive and melodic music, with smart, tounge-in-cheek lyrics and no-nonsense attitude. The songs are high energy with a very honest and straight-forward delivery. They have a 10 song CD that they released themselves, and a slew of new songs that arer played live all around Chicago. They take their music and craft seriously; without taking themselves too seriously.
DRAWN FROM BEES
From Australia
SILHAVEY
Welcome to Silhavey. We are a rock band from Chicago. We’d like for you to listen to the rock music we make. Our first album is an EP we call Maru.
“…very impressed with their six song debut, mostly for the songwriting, but there are also some interesting production touches as well…” – Richard Milne, WXRT
RAD AND SUBTRACT
BULLY THE TEACHER
Bully the Teacher are five talented musicians on a mission to give listeners their favorite GenX era high school rockers and beyond.
THE BLACK SAXONS
THE BLUE HIT
OMEGAWATT
RAY IS DUDE
LAMON MANUEL & SKECH185
BOOBS AND GOOMBAS BURLESQUE
VALORA
DJ MAJOR TAYLOR
LO-PAN
There is a hidden world where ancient evil weaves a modern mystery. A world filled with the darkest magic’s where all movement is caused by tensions between positive and negative furies. A world in which the furies, when out of balance, turn into demon and live forever. A creature of fast dark destructive power. Repulsive and evil existing only to plague the living as they do with LO-PAN, who is cursed. Cursed with rock and roll genius. Born out of a combination of dirty rock and roll, stale beer and an unhealthy obsession with “Big Trouble In Little China,” Columbus’s Lo-Pan have been tearing up the club circuit since 2005. Lo-Pan burst onto the local scene with their locally released self-titled album back in 2006. The local buzz gave way to more national attention as bands told bands and Lo-Pan began gracing venues big and small with names like Red Giant, Devil To Pay, Torche, Saviours, Year Long Disaster, Red Fang, Valkyrie, & the Atomic Bitchwax (just to name a few). Fast forward five years and there’s hardly a band worth playing with that they haven’t shared a stage with. Enter the sophomore release, “Sasquanaut.” Initial pressings on local indie Nice Life Records sold out quickly and as before the best praise is when one band on the road tells another “Hey, man you’ve got to check this out.” Which brought them, album masters in hand to us here at Small Stone. “Sasquanaut” had all the makings of a classic, thunderous low ends, pummeling drums, riffs to die for and a voice that soars but for all the genius that shone through it was still rough around the edges (don’t get us wrong we love rough around the edges). So we checked them in to a proper studio and left them in the capable hands of Benny Grotto for a little remixing, a little re-mastering and just ever so much re-recording. Enter Sasquanaut, mark 2: “Sasquanaut (Remixed & Re-mastered).” Heavier, more dynamic, louder and just that tiny bit more polished, this is the album that bands and fans new they could make. Mere words just can’t do justice to the effect that a little more time and the proper equipment have had on these eight raging tracks. Maybe a quote from the bands namesake might sum it up. “When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”
SILVER MACHINE
LOST DOG
MOBLEY
“Cry Havoc!” is a thrilling introduction to a new sonic and narrative world created by Mobley. At once intimate and epic, these songs find him exploring themes of power, alienation, and dissent with an artful clarity that demands repeat listening.
With his trademark cinematic sweep, the Austin, TX-based songsmith (and record producer/filmmaker/writer) has delivered a new EP that carries forward the concepts that have animated his work to-date. But where 2021’s Young & Dying in the Occident Supreme refracted these ideas through surreal spaghetti-western soundscapes and guitar-driven psych rock, “Cry Havoc!” introduces a retro-futuristic world of seductively sinister melodies, distorted synths, jagged cuts, and propulsive rhythms.
What remains unchanged is Mobley’s penchant for pop songwriting—ear-worm melodies and hooks for days. He has a mad scientist’s need to experiment with the form’s limits: for half of the tracks Mobley wrote and recorded whole songs which he then dismantled and sampled to create a fresh, new sound. The result is a record that feels strange and familiar, dangerous and danceable. It evokes the dread curiosity of 70s sci-fi paperbacks—among the inspirations for the EP. “Cry Havoc!” is itself a speculative fiction concept record that takes place in an alternate-past New York and the catastrophic far future. It follows an antihero whose failed heist attempt lands him in a secret time prison.
ARMAEDY
MUCH THE SAME
Reunited in 2015 after an eight-year hiatus, Chicago’s Much The Same continues carrying the torch of aggressive, melodic skate punk. Originally formed in 1999, the band quickly gained popularity in the Chicago punk scene, and eventually broke into national and international awareness with their ‘Quitters Never Win’ album in 2003 (A-F Records) and ‘Survive’ in 2006 (Nitro Records). Though the band broke up in 2007, word of mouth continued to grow their fan base throughout the world.
Much The Same now celebrates its 20-year anniversary and guitarist Dan O’Gorman’s recent victory over cancer by releasing their long-awaited third full-length album, Everything is Fine.
UNIT91
WARM OUROBOROS
LOCRIAN
TOXIC LAB RATS
STRIP DISTRICT
JACK OBLIVIAN AND THE TENNESSEE TEARJERKERS
When you come to the Jack Oblivian party, you are going to expect some pawn shops, bad intentions and low-down sleaze and on Rat City (in stores September 13th), he delivers. From the feral existentialism of songs like “Rat City” and “Mass Confusion” to the unhinged love songs with underlying sweetness like “Girl on the Beach” to vignette-heavy songs like “Girl with the Bruises”, Jack disembowels American roots music and the resulting deconstructed songs are tied together with an undeniable groove that only a drummer could muster. Among the originals are some well-picked covers, including a buzzing psyche version of “Moses and Me” by Tommy James and the Shondells, the Howlin’ Wolf-esque “Old Folks Boogie”, re-imagined as a Mississippi trash-blues worthy of T-Model Ford in his prime and “Lover Please!”, a hit for Clyde McPhatter that showcases the incredible guitar slinging of labelmate and collaborator John Paul Keith. Jack Oblivian produced Rat City and played a myriad of instruments on the sessions, at times playing everything.
TAM TAM THE SANDWICH MAN AND THE MAGICAL SUGAR COOKIES
Emerging from the depths of sublimation arose a fine spectre known as Tam-tam the Sandwichman. This essence, this entity, has birthed a new hour of creativity in the world. Tam-tam is no one person, it is bigger than one person, it is universal. All members of this band are tam-tam the sandwichman, for we are his magical sugar cookies with which the message is spread. We play music, but we are not musicians…. we are gifted. Remember that there is always room for one more in Tam-tam the Sandwichman.
JOHN PAUL KEITH & THE ONE FOUR FIVES
John Paul Keith is a blistering guitarist and singer, and the kind of songwriter who makes great melodies and incredible lyrics sound effortless. His new album The Man That Time Forgot will be released on June 21st on Big Legal Mess via Fat Possum Records. Produced by Fat Possum’s Bruce Watson, it captures the spirit and energy of the live shows put on by Keith and his band the One Four Fives, but explores a wider range of themes and influences – echoes of Tex-Mex, garage rock, countrypolitan, mid-60’s soul/pop, fiery rockabilly, and even Mose Allison’s brand of jazz-blues. It’s around about the third listen the realization comes: These songs are incredible. From the Sir Douglas-like opener, “Never Could Say No”, to the wry, closing-time waltz, “The Last Last Call”, this is the work of an amazing songwriter.
BLACK JET RADIO
30MM
DOCO
The family tree of Josh and Trevor Booth is filled with artists of all breeds. Most recently, their father was a member of Backyard Tea, which found some regional success in the ’60s and’70s. The lineage, however, began with a great, great, great uncle by the name of John Wilkes Booth who was an acclaimed actor in his time. Oh, and he also killed Abraham Lincoln. His resume, however, also boasted oil exploration alongside stage performance and political assassination, which brings us back to present day and its influence on his descendents. Dramatic Oil Company, or DO Co., was an ill-fated prospecting venture that the elder Booth dabbled in and the name lives on with the brothers’ Raleigh-via-Winston-Salem’s Doco.
THE FANCY BOYS
FOR A MINOR REFLECTION
SEXY FIGHTS
MAGICKS DJ SET
