VIDEOTAPE

MATT REED & TGP

KHIL

WE ARE THE O TOUR

YOUNG LOVES

THE HIT BACK

ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

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.

NATE Z

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

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