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With his most recent release Negro Swan, Blood Orange (also known as Dev Hynes) has been making moves in the alternative scene, playing at high end festivals, and stunting boldly for the Gram.  Blood Orange is a project launched by Dev Hynes, a British singer, songwriter, producer, and director. Defined as everything from indie rock, […]

New York rock band Parquet Courts are coming to crash ACL 2018. As a long time fan of the band, I will let you know now right away that this is a definite go-to set. Coming off the release of their sixth studio album earlier this year, Wide Awake!, Parquet Courts are on fire once […]

Jackie Venson, a local Austin artist, will be hitting the stage at Austin City Limits this year to showcase her talent. Venson is a young, up-and-coming singer, songwriter, and producer who made her way into the local Austin music scene in 2013. Since then, she has been performing in local venues as well as around […]

This year has seen so much incredible new music, but we often don’t appreciate or recognize our female artists, across all genres, as much as we should or as much as they deserve. As women are stepping up, taking the lead, and having their voices heard across politics, media and Hollywood, 2018 (but really every […]

Starting off as a group of musically talented friends from one coast to the other, The Voidz were spearheaded by Strokes’ frontman Julian Casablancas. Casablancas, who had played sessions and gigs with Jeff Kite, Alex Carapetis, and Jake Bercovici assembled the group, adding their mutual friends Jeramy “Beardo” Gritter and Amir Yaghmai to the lineup soon […]

It has been five years since you gave up your passion for someone you thought was permanent; then ended up stuck behind a desk counting the seconds until the clock strikes 5 pm…just to question everything again tomorrow. R&B artist Corey H was in this thought process five years ago until he looked out the […]

Joining the talented Fortress Festival lineup, Courtney Barnett is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Her songs are known for their witty lyrics and rambling vocal performances carried by an indie/rock musical style, all coming together to create an overall unique artistic style that comes from her authentic personality. Her music finds a niche because […]

Venues have to put up warning signs when this band comes into town. It’s best if you bring a poncho to their shows, if you don’t want to get messy. If you like your hearing, you might as well walk in with a pair of earplugs. Fresh out of high school, Starcrawler is one of […]

Illenium is an American musician, DJ, and producer who has shown his talent in recent years, gaining a massive following and fanbase. He grew up in San Fransisco, becoming interested in electronic music at an early age. He began producing, and was extremely inspired after seeing a Bassnectar show at Red Rocks, CO in 2012. […]

Noname is a rapper from Chicago, known in her neighborhood of Bronzeville by her name Fatimah Warner. She grew up with a love and talent for poetry and rap, and began performing slam poetry and rap at open mic events throughout her teenage years. Engaging in the local scene, she met other Chicago hip-hop and […]

George Miller, better known as Joji, is a Japanese-Australian Lo-fi instrumental hip-hop performer and producer. Joji up and started his musical performance by uploading to his YouTube channel called TVFilthyFrank. His alternate persona called Filthy Frank could be one of the most important reasons Joji was able to get his music rolling. By providing his 8.3+ […]

For a man that has created his own genre known as “Gorestep”, Borgore has created a brand that has not only sparked controversy but has been able to mold that controversy into being identified as the “Bad Boy of EDM”.   Asaf Borger, also known by his stage name, Borgore, is an Israeli DJ/producer that […]

Virtual Self, a Porter Robinson project and alias, is a new and interesting neo-trance project which takes on a more grungy, early 2000’s electronic, and underground sound. Porter Robinson, an American DJ and producer, gained international fame and attention with his hit album Worlds in 2014, traveling the world and playing shows and festivals everywhere […]

Elohim, a mysterious and new face in electro-pop, is an exciting artist from L.A. who began her music career from a humble place. Being a shy, quiet young girl who had a passion for playing the piano, this passion grew into a talent for remixing and producing music. She began working with other young and […]

SZA, also known as Solána Rowe, has been the fresh new face of today’s R&B scene. Born in St. Louis, Missouri and then later moving to New Jersey, she clearly had a natural talent and passion for music growing up. In 2012 and 2013 she released 2 EPs, and her talent got the attention of the […]

Alison Wonderland, an Australian DJ and producer, has been taking the world by storm this year. From humble beginnings, this badass and talented young woman has landed herself a spot on Coachella’s 2018 lineup, the cover of many popular DJ magazines, and even created her own music festival in Australia called Wonderland Scarehouse. Her love […]

Jai Wolf is a New-York based electronic producer who has recently made his rise to stardom with his EP Kindred Spirits released in 2016, and has spent the last 2 years playing shows and festivals around the world. He was born in Bangladesh in 1991, and soon after, his family came the U.S. and settled in […]

G Jones, an Electronic DJ and producer from Santa Cruz, has only been in the EDM scene for a few years but has definitely made a name for himself. He was one of the leading, underground DJs that helped give birth to the new wave of glitchy, dubby, trappy EDM originating from northern California that […]

I remember there was a time when “Somebody That I Used to Know” was all that would play anywhere you went. The Gotye and Kimbra single was released in 2012 and became multi-platinum pretty fast. It then won the duo “Record of the Year” and “Best Pop Duo/Group Performance” awards at the 55th Annual Grammy […]

Laurie Anderson has been an avant-garde artist since the 1970s and her works have included performance art, pop music, and projects with a variety of different media. Anderson was born in Chicago in 1947 and from her teenage years began to study the violin and in her 20s relocated to New York City. She graduated […]


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