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By SuperDee

An unlikely sound of noisy, fuzzy, psychedelic pop is emerging from New Orleans - and leading that charge is Rotary Downs. Their latest studio effort, Chained to the Chariot, was described by NPR as "a stunning collection of psychedelic art pop songs that plays like a brilliant mash up of Neutral Milk Hotel and Odelay-era Beck." When one imagines music from the Crescent City, brass bands, R&B, and jazz pianists may come to mind. But Rotary Downs is challenging this comfortable construct by creating music that is simultaneously original and classically New Orleans. Chariot is a masterpiece with commentary on many different elements of life in South Louisiana and has quickly become a favorite among fans and critics.

Rotary Downs is bursting out of their local scene after having been named “Best Rock Band” in the Gambit Weekly’s 2008 Big Easy Awards and the #2 “Best Unknown Bands of 2007” by NPR. They are fresh off of a successful performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – their second consecutive year at this heralded event. Also in 2007, they had a high profile slot at NOLA’s Voodoo Music Experience where they will return this Fall. Attention is being diverted towards this rock’n’roll coming from the Crescent City as Rotary Downs has been invited to perform at major national events this year including the prestigious SXSW Music Festival in Austin, the 7th Annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, and the 18th Annual High Sierra Music Festival. Rotary Downs have been one of the driving stalwarts in the under-praised genre of experimental indie-pop since 1999. Chained To The Chariot follows three previous albums: Quitters EP in 2004, Long After the Thrill in 2003, and their self-titled debut in 2001. They've emerged from Katrina fully formed with the addition of more drums, bass, keyboards and trumpet giving their fuzz-guitar and pedal-steel-driven sound an extra dose of texture. In 2008, the band added vocalist/percussionist Tiffany Lamson to the lineup as they head out on the road and into the studio for their next highly anticipated release.

The rearview mirror shows many amazing experiences for Rotary Downs over the last couple of years. Their multiple trips to New York City have included performances at the Knitting Factory and the Mercury Lounge. They have been a guest on public radio with in-studio performances and interviews on NPR’s Studio 360 and WNYC's Soundcheck, while the incredible track "False Protection" has been featured on All Songs Considered. In 2007, the band completed their inaugural trip to the West Coast, which featured several memorable shows, including a sold out performance at the famed - and now closed - Sweetwater Saloon in Mill Valley, CA. During the excursion, Rotary Downs was filmed for a feature on CurrentTV – the Emmy award-winning network led by former US Vice President Al Gore – and can be seen in its entirety on current.com.

Rotary Downs is James Marler (lead vocal/guitar), Chris Colombo (lead guitar), Jason Rhein (bass/vocal), Zack Smith (drums), Cory Shultz (trumpet/keys/guitar), and Tiffany Lamson (voc/percussion).

"The New Orleans rock group Rotary Downs has released a stunning collection of psychedelic art-pop songs that play like brilliant mashups of Neutral Milk Hotel and Odelay-era Beck." - #2 on the Top 10 Great Unknown Artists of 2007 list - NPR Music "Singer James Marler sounds like he has been taking double shots of thesaurus, unraveling densely packed rhymes in his abstracted lyrics. Too lo-fi to be baroque, too catchy to be experimental, songs like "G-7 Hit!" and "A Feast in Squalor" swerve into woozy grooves but don't stay for long." – Rhapsody.com

"****" - Alternative Press

"The [JazzFest] set suggested New Orleans really ought to be paying a lot more attention to Rotary Downs." - Offbeat Magazine "[Chained To The Chariot] is a diverse album that ricochets from roots-tinged psychedelia to edgier synth-pop to excursions along the spaceways, but with a sure hand on the wheel." - Gambit Weekly

Big Rock Candy Mountain… a song about the sweeter things in life for the down and out. The concept that a land filled with your uttermost desires is what is considered paradise. Big Rock Candy Mountain...a band that takes this concept and translates it into their own paradise of fuzzy guitars, square-waved keyboards, cavity inducing harmonies, distorted bass-lines, and four on the floor drum beats. Creating the foundation of what they consider fun, euphoric, and loud, BRCM’s goal is to share this utopia to the masses. With their debut EP, "Hey Kid", being released Sept 22nd, BRCM draws the powers of rock bands and other celestial entities such as Led Zeppelin, black holes, Daft Punk, Death Cab for Cutie, Queens of the Stoneage, the big bang, and banging in general... As the great provider says, stay tuned for more touring, and more rambunctiousness.

"A nerve-wracking amalgam of lo-fi, hysteria and high-flying histrionics, this prog-pop treat is sure to drive you batty… and straight to the dance floor." -Groovescapes 3.3.09

“Big Rock's sound is defined by both by its sparkling, effervescent melodies and its raw rhythmic sensibility. They demonstrate their drama by whipping back and forth between frenetic, distorted charges and delicate, self-aware passages that aren't afraid to retreat a little. It is a pinpoint reflection of their New Orleans home town, a city that wears all of its colors on its sleeve, from vibrant highs to grittiest lows.” –Brett Cooper,SomeAmerican.com- Washington D.C. and New Orleans Blog

"Its like Queens of the Stoneage meets the Beach Boys with synthesizers." - Some girl.

"The opening number 'Rocketship' is pure sensory overload—chaotic, euphoric, overpowering and inescapable. The rest of the songs on Hey Kid are just as maddening. The hysterical opus, 'I Am the Storm,' swims through a sea of feedback and trippy art punk, while the pulsating distortion of 'Hey Kid Give Me Your Money' erupts into a vehement, overdriven freakout." - Aaron Lafont,Offbeat Magazine

"Big Rock Candy Mountain will mix it up for you—give you a spin on life from a variety of gears, and ‘get you off’. They’ve got a contagious energy that permeates almost every bar of their musical profundity." -Southside Sanctuary 6.26.09

"By turns celestial and intensely earthy, Big Rock Candy Mountain is a modern band with seemingly equal enthusiasm for classic rock and angular, post-Pavement flavors, with each tune on this saucy debut slapping these currents together with smashing results." - Dennis Cook,Jambase 9/22/09

"Is it too early to call this the post Dirty Projectors era? If so, Big Rock Candy Mountain carries the curious dischording harmonies to its own world of alternating power riffs and introspective blank spaces. This is certainly not simple music." -IndieFeed 10/01/09

"first off, they’re loud, but loud with a purpose. they’re not just wailing on guitars and hopefully making some kind of sense. they’re loud but the melodies remain fully intact. secondly, they were fun as hell." -Captains Dead Blog

"Their sound was sharp and concussive – more intense, focused and rambunctious that I ever would have predicted. Songs like “Rocket Ship” and “Lover” crammed the perverse delirium and glorious bombast of classic prog rock into the swirling spirals and sinuous pulse of choice new wave." -Groovescapes Oct '09

"Big Rock contrasts the gentle and rugged in persistent switches from quiet to forceful in titles like, “Rocketship” and “Bang Bang,” showcasing their sparkling melodies and a playful aggression." -Ashcan Magazine 10/5/09

Read more:http://www.myspace.com/bigrockcandymountain

http://www.flowtribe.com/
Boiled in the musical melting pot of New Orleans, simmered in Louisiana soul, Flow Tribe transcends the traditional barriers of the music establishment with their unique style and sound. With the delicacy of a sledgehammer, Flow Tribe fuses psychedelic/blues and funk/rock to captivate any crowd.

The Story:

After forming in the summer in 2004, Flow Tribe started to come together and live shows soon followed. Following the dual adversities of Hurricane Katrina and drummer Russel Olschner’s deployment to Iraq, the Tribe regrouped in 2006 to growing popularity and local acclaim. In 2009 Flow Tribe was selected by the reader’s of Gambit Weekly as the #3 Best New Local Band. Constant touring throughout the Southeast earned Flow Tribe the reputation as one of the hardest working bands with the most high energy live show. From New Orleans to the slopes of Colorado and everywhere in between, Flow Tribe brings the funk each and every time.

“With fat-bottomed beats, dueling guitars, and a hyperactive, trumpet-toting frontman, it’s hard not to get sucked into their eclectic melee.” - CaptAbernathy, Groovescapes (Feb 07, 2009)

“Flow Tribe, a local funk/rock/blues band does well to blend the three. Along with dashes of other genres, they’ve fashioned an album that lends itself to a type of music that isn’t created in New Orleans very often.”

- Thomas Rush, Where Y’at Magazine November 2008 CD Reviews

“My feet hurt from dancing so much.”

- Anna Purdy, Times of Acadiana (May 07, 2009)

“Listening to Flow Tribe perform live is a true musical experience. The music is upbeat, the lyrics are fresh, and the crowd just cannot stop moving. “ - Kellie Johnson, Tiger Weekly (Apr 23, 2008)

“Building on the rich history of New Orleans funk comes the next generation jam band paying homage to their Crescent City Roots.”

- Samantha Morgan, Where Y’at Magazine January Ones to Watch

“Their funky brand of music and O’Rorke’s vocals bring to mind G. Love and Special Sauce.”

- Clare Austen-Smith , The Hullabaloo (Oct 17, 2008)

“The sound they produced was an incredibly fun, danceable mix of funk, reggae, rock, and hip-hop.”

- Adam Tustin, New Orleans Concerts Examiner (May 21, 2009)

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http://www.lordtandeloise.com/
http://www.myspace.com/welcometohillkrunk

"Long ago, the world's wealthiest family bore twin poets into the world, Lord T & Eloise. Schooled in the art of the arts and in the economics of business, these two young gentlemen would one day be called upon to save rap music."

Press "You should download a few ditties from the dandies, Lord T & Eloise, the world's first purveyors of Aristocrunk." -VH1's BEST WEEK EVER

"Immensely clever..." -SPIN MAGAZINE

"No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't hate it…as good, if not better than most of the rap I hear these days…polished, unique, and catchy as hell…funny, relevant, and original." - THE SAN FRANSISCO BAY GUARDIAN

"Editor's Pick" - BLENDER MAGAZINE

"A new genre of music." - GIANT MAGAZINE

"The most fun you'll have all weekend!" -THE KNOXVILLE METROPULSE

"...an intoxicating spectacle..." THE NASHVILLE SCENE

".....the most 'out there' band I've ever played with...." - MICKEY AVALON

"Brilliantly tongue-in-cheek…evoke a flow that draws comparisons to License to Ill-era Beastie Boys. Grade A…a confident, impressive record..." - THE MEMPHIS FLYER

"Amazing. Simply amazing." - CHATTANOOGA PULSE

"The industry needs performers like this." - AL KAPONE, the King of Crunk

The Rapocalypse will be merchandised… A message from The Syndicate:

Never one to do anything on anyone's timeline but their own, Lord T & Eloise, have asked the governing committee of The Syndicate to announce that a series of packages that celebrate Time Travel, Excess and the Rapocalypse will be made available to their royal subjects in very the near future.

These packages will NOT be offered anywhere else and can only be purchased directly from LTE. In the future, some of these items can be used to save your life.

When ready, official word will be spread throughout the land.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

LORD T & ELOISE are Crunk artists and performers based out of Memphis, TN. The two self-proclaimed 'intergalactic time travelers' and 'saviors of rap music" have spent the last three years touring the United States, sharing the stage with some of the industry's most important modern performers, and bombarding the American media with their own sense of style, bravado and showmanship. The duo is set to release its third full-length effort, "RAPOCALYPSE", this August. The album, which takes place in the future, is a twenty-three track magnum opus of their experiences with time travel, and harbors messages of what is in store for humanity. Their upcoming string of live performances, entitled 'The Rapocalypse Tour', begins in August and will take the rap duo across the entirety of the American landscape until the close of the year.

About Hillkrunk Hillkrunk is more than simply a band name. Hillkrunk is a way of life that comes from traditions as old as music itself. Steeped in the traditions of the blues, influenced by southern rap, crunk, soul and the niche of rock n roll that travel in collectives throughout the world, Hillkrunk are, in no uncertain terms, a family. The Hillkrunk family's combination of rap music, soul and funk ties into hill country traditions and the legacy of blues masters that speak through them. These musical legacies are continually inspiring Hillkrunk and those that follow to evolve towards a higher state of musical consciousness and booty shakin. Unlike a traditional hip-hop act, Hillkrunk's musical family performs with all original tracks – no samples here. The musical family's core is comprised of lyricist Kaz, guitarists Wes Youngblood and Cody Dickinson (of North Mississippi All- Stars), drummer Hot Cleveland and harmonica virtuoso Dixie Dan (both of Hill Country Revue) joined by an ever-changing who's-who of Memphis and North Mississippi musicians and rappers. Among the guests prominently featured on their debut album, listeners are treated to 8 Ball & MJG, Luther Dickinson, Al Kapone, Chris Chew, Maurice Eloise, Free Sol and Candace, DJ Soul Control, M3 and a special appearance from legendary producer and musician Jim Dickinson on the organ.

http://www.americanaquarium.net/
http://www.myspace.com/americanaquarium
Hailing from Raleigh, NC, American Aquarium's southern musical perspective is a blend of honest songwriting, an unwavering work ethic, and a genuine love of rock & roll. Whether you call it alt- country, Americana, or roots rock, one thing is for certain: Their music is a fresh voice that borrows from many forms of the American songbook.

25-year old songwriter and band leader, BJ Barham, brings songs to the five other band mates who breathe life into a performance that is equal parts Springsteen-esque rock bravado, old-school country lyrical heartbreak, and indie-rock introspection. From the college coeds to tattooed bikers and hipsters, the band has demonstrated their ability to cross boundaries.

With 4 years, 4 albums, and over 600 shows under their belts, American Aquarium is the continuance of the road warrior meets studio craftsman ethic that has long been a part of the rock & roll and country music cultures. They are a band and crew that spend their lives between a van with no air-conditioning and stages all across the country. Their collaboration forms a wholly new and polished version of what Americana might start to look like in the years to come.