Nashville, TN
RIYL: David Gray, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Josh Ritter and Jackson Browne
"Gabe Dixon... a fresh new voice in the power-pop firmament… awash with hooks, harmonies and melodies that refuse to budge from your heart… smart savvy and utterly seductive.” 4 Stars – Record Collector
"One Spark... (is a) twinkling, chiming gem, a slice of love in stormy weather featuring (Alison) Krauss’ unmistakably radiant vocal harmonies.... 'Pick Of The Week' " - USA Today
"One Spark... (is) an album full of effortlessly melodic pop songs." 4 Stars – The London Sunday Times
"Dixon writes poems set to music so sweet, they’re fit to swoon over” – Aquarian Weekly
"Dixon’s an elegant and deft piano player, a fine songwriter who speaks from the soul, and... a smooth and sensual singer. And maybe this album has that one spark... that ignites it and emblazes it on a mainstream, popular audience. It would be a shame, though, if the really good songs here don’t get heard." - Pop Matters
RIYL: Vic Chesnutt, Bruce Springsteen and Twilight Singers
Local Band!
RIYL: Joseph Arthur, Twilight Singers, Vic Chesnutt and Bruce Springsteen
Local Band!
Gabriel Palacios is a former members of Found Dead on the Phone, Mala Vita, Pathos, and countless other Tucson acts. He new project is in the singer-songwriter vein with hints of Greg Dulli-inspired trip-hop. Very nice!
RIYL: Tom Waits, The Black Keys, Howlin' Wolf, King Khan and Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Local Band!
Gabriel Sullivan cut his teeth as a teen in Tucson’s punk scene. But his musical restlessness kept him seeking out new sounds. Somewhere along the way, he discovered some fascinating parallels between the Mexican conjunto music of his hometown and the thrilling songs of Romania’s Gypsy people. The rhythms are for dancing, the melodies are full of pathos, and the performances are at once virtuosic and rough-and-tumble. While Sullivan is one of the busiest musicians in Tucson, playing guitar, percussion, and keys regularly with half a dozen bands, his Taraf de Tucson is the fullest expression of all of his musical obsessions.
Seattle, WA
Long Island, NY
Genre: classical/jazz/rock
we're a band from long island, new york.
we have a demo and an ep that you can listen to.
we've done a bit of touring and have opened for such artists as Taking Back Sunday, Mew, Glassjaw, As Tall As Lions, John Nolan (of Straylight Run), I Am the Avalanche, Bayside, The Sleeping, and The Dear Hunter.
We played the Bamboozle Festival in 2009 and 2010.
We're currently writing our debut album and hitting the road every chance we get.
Local Band!
"Galactic Federation of Love are a quirky pop band, influenced by the likes of Talking Heads, Jonathan Richman and the Beatles, among others. Combine that with a vaudevillian sense of showmanship, a hearty dose of conspiracy lore (utilized in a fashion that amuses rather than annoys) and the raw charisma of lead singer/guitarist LemonMan, and you have a veritable Tasmanian Devil of rock." - Tucson Weekly
The Feds are a lot of fun and the audience always gets into them.... Very 60's-ish psychedelic kind-of stuff... For fans of Captain Beefheart and the Kinks.
New York, NY
Since their formation in 2001, Gang Gang Dance has earned an enthusiastic underground cult following by providing experimental, left-of-center music that uses a lot of electronics but is also very percussion-minded. They are on tour in support of their latest release, Saint Dymphna, to be released in late October. This is the follow up to their widely lauded release, God's Money. For fans of Black Dice, Excepter, Animal Collective, and any kind of arty, tribal-dub electronica.
"If anyone can think of a name for what Gang Gang Dance does, I'd like to hear it. They're anything but a 'noise' band, as what they do is extremely musical and even melodic. They could be called 'experimental,' but that seems like too much of a cop-out. Post-rock? Maybe. Freak-folk? Hardly. Funk? Now, let's not get carried away. But Gang Gang Dance does have a particular sound, and even with its parallels to bands like Excepter or Animal Collective, it doesn't sound exactly like them, even though the overall aesthetic may be somewhat similar... God's Money is a peerless listen: the kind of record that leaves you scratching your head, not because you don't get it, but because you have a hard time explaining how much you love it." - Treble
"There are those who make 'noise,' and then there are elegant, shadowy troupes cobbling ghost languages and fractured dub into undulating biospheres. Last year, Excepter's KA provided a backbeat for spinning infinitives on rusty fire escapes. And now, on their second full-length, fellow New Yorkers Gang Gang Dance have created an equally powerful record." 8.6/10 - Pitchfork
"God's Money employs a sort of musical alchemy, integrating diverse and unusual musical elements into a unique and transformative vision." - Dusted
"Freak-folk, art-noise, tribal dub, you name a whacked-out hybrid description, and it's been applied by someone to (Gang Gang Dance)... The Gang's rhythms and textures are intriguing, and much more accomplished in sound than their previous lo-fi efforts. What throws the group for a loop however, are Liz Bougatsos' vocals: chanted, singsong babbled, howled, and wailed in turn. Her presence almost solely pulls the Gang out of the ambient world and into another far more disturbing and experimental galaxy entirely." 4 stars - All Music Guide
RIYL: Dinosaur Jr, Pavement, Guided By Voices and Sunny Day Real Estate
Local Band!
"Garboski quickly developed a reputation, among fellow musicians especially, as one of Tucson's best live bands. All veterans of numerous Tucson bands (Beau Bowen: Maintenance, Lloyd Dobler; Garth Bryson: Ladies and Gentlemen, Maintenance; Josh Skibar: Is To Feel, Fun With Dirt, The Bled) they fell together naturally, creating an energetic sound that gives each instrument equal footing... bombastic rock music, full of starts and stops, soaring melodies and rapturous, frenzied instrumenal passages. Garboski sometimes recalls the Seattle explosion circa 1991, but leans more post-rock than punk." - Catfish Vegas
RIYL: Garboski: Dinosaur Jr, Pavement, Guided By Voices and Sunny Day Real Estate - Dead Western Plains: Grizzly Bear, The Album Leaf, Caribou and Four Tet
Local Band!
An EPIC BATTLE... The gauntlet has been thrown and Garboski face off with Dead Western Plains in a song-for-song and set-for-set rock 'n' roll duel. Who will come out on top???
"Garboski quickly developed a reputation, among fellow musicians especially, as one of Tucson's best live bands. All veterans of numerous Tucson bands (Beau Bowen: Maintenance, Lloyd Dobler; Garth Bryson: Ladies and Gentlemen, Maintenance; Josh Skibar: Is To Feel, Fun With Dirt, The Bled) they fell together naturally, creating an energetic sound that gives each instrument equal footing... bombastic rock music, full of starts and stops, soaring melodies and rapturous, frenzied instrumenal passages. Garboski sometimes recalls the Seattle explosion circa 1991, but leans more post-rock than punk." - Catfish Vegas
Dead Western Plains meshes their collective influences of electronic, soul, ambient, noise, pop, gospel, rock ,hip-hop and classical music.
Local Band!
Gary Bear, one of Tucson's newest singer-songwriters, is best described as quirky folk-pop.
Boston, MA
"Presented by KLPX!"
Gary Hoey... How to describe... hmmmm... Jimi Hendrix meets Stevie Ray Vaughan. They go have a drink with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, They run into Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton who takes everyone to a BBQ over Dick Dale's house and Metalica shows up! Then Brian May calls up with Audio Slave in his car and they drive into the pool and finally Aerosmith give's everyone a ride home.
Los Angeles, CA
"With just a single album (1998's Greetings From the Side), Gary Jules emerged as one of the most gifted songwriting talents to surface during the decade... It would be three years before he resurfaced with the independently released Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets (eventually picked up by Universal), an album that was even more stunning and advanced on all the promises of the first... Gracious and redemptive, it is a rapt, quiescent masterwork." 4 1/2 stars - All Music Guide
"Though the songs are uniformly stellar, it's Jules's voice that transforms Snakeoil from merely pretty to truly affecting. Rough-hewn and thin from years of emotional turmoil, Jules's singing uncannily evokes Cat Stevens cavorting with Neil Young, with all the emotional immediacy of the former and all the storytelling power of the latter." - Pop Matters
RIYL: John Prine, John Hiatt, James McMurtry and Todd Snider
Shreveport, LA
RIYL: The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bob Dylan
Gashcat is a self-proclaimed "fuzz folk" band hailing from Louisiana. The project was formed by songwriter Kyle Craft and tours as anything from a 6 piece noise machine to an acoustic duo. No matter how the incarnation is formed, the amazing vocal ability of Craft and intense emotional landscapes of the songs make for an incredible live show. The band has been featured in BrooklynVegan.com, SYFFAL.com, NPR.org and even played on the official Sub Pop Records showcase at SXSW 2012. Definitely not a band to miss!
"The Louisiana band Gashcat makes fantastically catchy, idiosyncratic rock and pop songs that burst with joy."
-NPR.org
Salt Lake City, UT
RIYL: Napalm Death, Pelican and Pantera
"The sound of extremity defined, Salt Lake City's Gaza performs an unpredictable mixture of metal, sludge, and grindcore, which could very well be termed "progressive" due to its highly technical and innately unconventional approach." - All Music Guide
RIYL: The Dismemberment Plan, Nirvana and Soundgarden
Local Band!
"Gaza Strip... Distorted guitars kick you back to the grunge days. The vocals can be described as the lovechild of Frank Black, Kurt Cobain, and Fred Schneider videotaping. The visual that just popped into your head might be unpleasent, but the sound Gaza Strip manages to conjur up is not. The energy this band puts out is addictive, these guys know how to put on a show." - The Scene
"Gaza Strip have obviously studied their Nirvana and Pixies textbooks" - Tucson Weekly
Detroit, MI
New Orleans, LA
RIYL: The New Pornographers, Rilo Kiley, The High Strung, The Spinto Band, Dr. Dog and The Shins
"After the breakup of their previous band, The Eames Era, Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer formed Generationals and indulged their inner hoarders on 2009’s Con Law, appropriating sounds from other bands—like Momus’ herky-jerky misanthropy, or The Shins’ bedroom-bound charm... But the new Actor-Caster finds the duo better off for reducing the clutter. The nods to other bands are still pronounced—a little New Pornographers here, some Belle & Sebastian there—but streamlining the superfluous production that marred Con Law has resulted in a shinier, more confident record that isn’t hung up on nostalgia trips." - The Onion AV Club
"Generationals‘ latest album combines the best sounds of britpop with powerful riffs that will just make you want to get up and dance." - The Owl
"With Actor-Caster, the Generationals have made an exceptional contribution to the indie-pop canon, and have subsequently given New Orleans a foothold in yet another musical form." - Hear Ya
"Actor-Casterr is an album that is immediately endearing and also worth exploring deeper, when the album's real richness emerges from the contrasts between sugary music and the bleaker lyrics." - Tucson Weekly
RIYL: Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations and Stevie Wonder
Local Band!
Formed in the fall of 2008, Genevieve & The LP's has made its mark as one of the most dynamic and fun young bands in Tucson. Built around a trio of talented instrumentalists, and fronted by the incredible Genevieve Gaus, Genevieve & The LP's play an awesome concoction of r&b, soul, funk and pop.
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