Featuring members of The Year of Acceleration, The Static Session performs songs crafted with a pop sensibility that has been compared to a mix of The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen and Oasis.
"If you miss the heady days of Brit-pop a la Echo and The Bunnymen and latter-day Jesus and Mary Chain and The Cure, The Static Session provides just what you've been looking for."- Tucson Weekly
"Black Carl is the best live band in Phoenix... hands down. If you have not seen them yet you better do it before they get signed and blow up and move to New York or something." - Electric Mustache
"Black Carl... (create) down-and-dirty, sexy tracks a hypnotic beat that makes you really groove." - Phoenix Metromix
"Black Carl - sounds like it might be dirty, sounds like it might be racist. It's neither. It's soul, funk, blues and everything that was once cool." - Indie Rock Reviews
Former member of the Jons, Ricky Shimo creates expiramental, yet upbeat, sonic soundscapes with guitar loops and a bunch of talent.
"As a vocalist, Chandler has an amazing combination of innate talent, joy and heart and soul that comes across easily and spontaneously." - Eugene Weekly
The Tucson Artists and Musicians Healthcare Alliance (T.A.M.H.A.) is an alliance of artists and art advocates dedicated to the sustainability and vitality of our arts community. T.A.M.H.A. provides Tucson artists with local accessible healthcare resources, and strives to insure that the local creative community and T.A.M.H.A. members have access to the vital healthcare resources.
Tonight's line-up includes: Tom Walbank, The Tryst, Determined Luddites, Mariachi Luz de Luna, Naim Amor and many more!
Ke'opu is newly relocated from Hawaii. A nice addition to the singing-songwriting community.
Sunny Italy performs some sweet old-time folk-blues!
Vanessa Lively blends an eclectic mix of alternative folk music bringing together a variety of stringed and percussive instruments, balanced by expressive lyrics in both English and Spanish. Vanessa’s musical voice blossomed while she lived in Salinas de Guaranda, Ecuador, where the thin cold air and bare conditions strongly influenced her songwriting.
“Missing a Vanessa Lively live show will make your life a shade sadder. You must go see her! Like exercise benefits the body, Vanessa Lively’s performances do wonders for the soul.” - The Austin Chronicle
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti are making their 4AD debut this June with Before Today. Its already getting some attention.
"Reclusive pop genius Ariel Pink and his Haunted Graffiti band will tour North America this summer in support of the June release of Before Today, the group's 4AD debut. Before Today is said to be the most accessible record ever from Pink." - XLR8R
"On Before Today... Pink brings forth plenty of the fractured, lo-fi weirdness his fans have come to love. And with the wider distribution offered by his new label, the rest of the world might just catch on too." - Prefix
"Ariel Pink’s lo-fi creations are so strange, beautiful, and addictive, it’s not hard to imagine the mad professor cooking this stuff up in a laboratory populated by the ghosts of pop’s past... and an extremely baked Bob Pollard. - AV Club.
"Remember in The Wall when no matter how high poor Pink got, he couldn't break free from the bricks, and the worms ate into his brain? Well, imagine those were the kind of worms that sang Beach Boys harmonies... (Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti) suggests the wiggy offspring of Syd Barrett and Shakespeare's shape-shifting Tempest sprite." 4 stars - Spin
"Not many artists can blur the line between pop and avant-garde with the same magical results. It takes a fine craftsmanship to be able to pull this off." 7/10 - Tiny Mix Tapes
"The Doldrums are off-kilter with fairly straightforward structures and instrumentation, reminiscent of early Beck with the slight dementia of Gary Wilson or Scott Walker. The abstracted pop sensibility is marked by vocal harmonies and primitive electronics..." - Dusted
"If you enjoy peeking into someone's warped mind, and you find lo-fi to be engaging, you'll enjoy hearing this CD. It's not for everybody, though. But then, neither was Daniel Johnston, and he achieved some acclaim for his wacky contributions to music. Ariel Pink might just do the same." - Delusions of Adequacy
"The fact-sheet on (Pearl Harbor) reads like a treatment for one of those 'Visit California' commercials, but instead of knocking back mimosas with Arnie and Maria, your tour guides are the fresh faces of young, hip indie beach-pop. Take Pearl Harbor, consisting of two sisters named Piper and Skylar: they make the kind of sun-dappled, chimerically-dazed sandal-gaze that takes cues from everything from Haunted Graffiti to, at least most apparent on first single 'Luv Goon', Fleetwood Mac." 7/10 - Pitchfork
The Electric Blankets: desert romantics blending an exciting brand of dirty garage-indie-pop!
"Kinch... (are) Catchy as hell." - Hear Ya
"Fans of The Shins, The Flaming Lips and Coldplay... you'll be pleasantly surprised." - In Your Speakers
"Kinch are savvy - in how they craft piano-driven hooks, in how they market themselves, in how they have built a fan base" - So Much Silence
Seashell Radio consists of four great musicians, including Esme Schwall on cello, Cassie Van Gelder, Fen Ikner who helped write a song that was adopted as theme music by NPR’s Science Friday and local singer-songwriter favorite Courtney Robbins.
"Seashell Radio... gorgeously moody tunes that at times recall the sophisticated pop of Talk Talk and Air." - Tucson Weekly
"Young Mothers... is the simple intersection where a moody Elliott Smith guitar crashes into the chipper sounds of a Weezer melody." - I Guess I'm Floating
Vocalist Kari Shaff has an incredibly sultry, yet honey smooth voice with which she performs beautiful jazz standards. Cool and classy at the same time!