Hello, hello! – from Blow Wind Blow.

Blow Wind Blow is the music of Ryan Suzuka (vocals/ukulele/harmonica), amplified into appropriate proportion with the help of bandleader Rami Atassi (lead guitar), Aaron Ervin (guitar/keyboard), Conner Hollingsworth (bass), and Paul Newmann (drums). This band is here to display the beauty, power, and depth of someone who paced through his youth without knowing he had a musical voice. In one moment you experience his accumulated ache and the next, a thunderous declaration of purpose. This band is creating indie pop that owes as much of its creation to the ethereal falsetto of Skip James and command of Son House, as it does to the lush vulnerability of Camera Obscura and rootsy melodic drive of Neko Case. Welcome to the wonderful world of Blow Wind Blow!

Dumpster Hunter — led by the gangly, spasmodic Jeff Taylor — shatters the psychic wall between audience and performer, exposing a weird, compelling and emotionally naked universe.

The New Jersey born, Brooklyn based songwriter and his band gang up on unsuspecting audiences, using his large mouth and their acrobatic musical arrangements both as tools and semi-lethal weapons. Exciting, sometimes unplanned sit-ins with artists like Matisyahu and Trixie Whitley have punctuated the last few years of Taylor’s journey. The singer will perform the role of ‘Larry The Dwarf,’ with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the upcoming World Premiere of Frank Zappa’s ‘200 Motels.’

Dumpster Hunter’s incendiary live set is largely comprised of the rollercoaster material from their debut album, ‘Frustration In Time Travel.’ A new EP is scheduled for release in early 2014.

Matthew Paige and Zack Murphy ARE the Blackfoot Gypsies. They are the amplifier for your heart and soul, your love and hate, your on and off, your push and pull. With caution being checked at the door, there is no room for thinking… only feeling. Breaking the lines between hipsters, punks, posers, dads, normies, cowboys, rockers, and burnouts; everyone gets stripped to the core on the floor. And no one leaves the same as they came before.

Scouting the future of the American music that has been progressing since the dawn of time. There’s no stunting the Blackfoot and there’s no stopping the Gypsies. The torch has been lit and will be carried with pride, speaking up for a generation unlike any other. It’s all happening here, and it’s all happening now.

Sacramento, California was the home of my post highschool rock band Ian Faith. Through multiple member changes and a number of disasterous entanglements with the record industry we ended up and eventually disolved in Boston MA. Nashville became the birthplace of a new band founded by ex-Ian Faith member Jeff Lemons and Lex Price, called Tremolo. Tremolo made a few friends in the local music scene and eventually became Septemberland. Septemberland made a few more friends in the Nashville community, and earned a small amount of recognition amongst those who live with the delusion that they “count”. I now reside here in Chicago, having weeded out all the charlatans and weenies, I am surrounded by an amazing family of accomplished and dynamic music makers and otherwise, beautiful people. I love music!! I most of all love the humanity of music! When I’m not making music I’m a Tour Manager/Stage manager for a short list of artists and organizations whose music and creations I enjoy supporting. I book and promote a Nashville-style singer/songwriter showcase once a month, called Get Off The Couch, from which this “Get Off The Couch Presents…” show was spawned. So, find me in the dark bars, the hot crowded theaters, or the bustling out door festivals, oiling the tired muscles of the giant organism that is live music and let’s have a cold beverage and listen together. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC EVERYWHERE!!