Genre: Alternative/Indie
I've been making up songs on the piano ever since I was probably about six years old. Since then, I have always felt like music was the best way to express myself. I'm seventeen years old now, and I'm trying to find ways to become noticed. I have been singing ever since I can remember, and if you know me personally, I'm always singing something... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Cat Power was the alias of Chan Marshall, a Southern-bred singer/songwriter whose father, Charlie, was an itinerant pianist. After dropping out of high school, Marshall found herself in New York; performing under the name Cat Power, she was booked as the opening act for Liz Phair, where she met Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and Two Dollar... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Singer/songwriter Fiona Apple gained a recording contract in 1995 as one in a crop of mid-'90s female artists, but her confessional writing and throaty vocals made the teenager sound like much more than just the latest flavor. Born in 1977 in New York to singer Diana McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart, Apple began playing the piano at the age of... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
LaDarius McDonald was born in Shreveport,Louisiana on July,12 1992 and was raised in a small town of Benton by his mother named Ranette and have two older sisters named Laterryka and Tacquin.At the age of 12,McDonald began singing and writing his own songs and became part of the Shreveport Folk/punk music scene.in 2005,he released his first... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 00s
Get Away from Me, the title of singer/songwriter Nellie McKay's debut album, was a play on two titles by romantic female vocalists who became popular in the early 2000s: Norah Jones' Come Away With Me and Jane Monheit's Come Dream With Me. But while McKay shares some of Jones and Monheit's influences -- vocal jazz, cabaret, pre-rock traditional... [+] Read More
Genre: Alternative/Indie
These are Karls release candidates that have now been released on itunes, amazon and napster.
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Decades Active: 00s
If you have listened to The Moldy Peaches or to any of Kimya Dawson's first three solo albums (i'm sorry that sometimes i'm mean, knock-knock who?, and my cute fiend sweet princess) you will be familiar with her beautiful use of cassette four track to achieve an intimate sense of solitude. These home recordings make it feel as though you have a... [+] Read More
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Decades Active: 00s
If you have listened to The Moldy Peaches or to any of Kimya Dawson's first three solo albums (i'm sorry that sometimes i'm mean, knock-knock who?, and my cute fiend sweet princess) you will be familiar with her beautiful use of cassette four track to achieve an intimate sense of solitude. These home recordings make it feel as though you have a... [+] Read More
Genre: Folk
With her second release slated for the spring of 2008, a personal invite to play at Fred Eaglesmith’s Southern Ontario Picnic, and record labels starting to call, Lara Yule Singh’s star is beginning to sparkle.
Her debut CD, Something In the Still was released in May 2006. It spent ten weeks in the top 30 on the CKUA Radio...
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Genre: Alternative/Indie
Members of the band:
Timon - Vocals, Guitar
Juhi - Bass
Keke - Drums
Elmo - Guitar
NP - Guitar
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Cinematic and strange.Irie and sweet.Moody electronic/pop/ambient.I've just started to self produce and am getting a wonderful response.I've been writing since forever.Have lived and performed in Tokyo,LA,Athens,Corfu,and Albania.As a Daughter of a French Canadian Indian Father and Irish mother.Strange rituals and magical stories/music were... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 00s
A variety of noteworthy groups were active on the Boston music scene in the late '90s and early 2000s -- groups ranging from retro-soul/funk band Superhoney to the quirky, '80s-minded synth pop/new wave trio Freezepop to the hard-to-categorize Moonraker (who have since moved to New York City). But the most unique and intriguing group to come out... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 00s
A variety of noteworthy groups were active on the Boston music scene in the late '90s and early 2000s -- groups ranging from retro-soul/funk band Superhoney to the quirky, '80s-minded synth pop/new wave trio Freezepop to the hard-to-categorize Moonraker (who have since moved to New York City). But the most unique and intriguing group to come out... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Equally inspired by classic tunesmiths like Buddy Holly and John Lennon as well as the attitude and angular riffs of fellow New Yorkers Television and the Velvet Underground, the Strokes were also equally blessed and cursed with an enormous amount of hype -- particularly from the U.K. music press, whose adulation for the group rivaled their... [+] Read More