A new leader of the Brooklyn pack, FAMILY combines lush classic rock flavor with modern progressive heaviness on its astonishing debut album, Portrait.

The balance Family strikes is one perfected by precious few bands. To bring the vibes of our forefathers -- the finesse, the hooks, the grooves of say, Led Zeppelin -- into the modern day metal underground; to take a classic rock sense of musicality and use it to make something that's fiercely original, crushingly heavy and not "retro" at all... this is a fine line indeed, a delicate tension that is rarely achieved.

Jessy Greene has toured and/or recorded as a violinist, cellist and singer with the Foo Fighters, P!nk, Atmosphere, Wilco, The Jayhawks, The Geraldine Fibbers, Dessa and P.O.S. of Doomtree, RZA, Glen Campell, R.E.M. and many more amazing bands and artists. Jessy is currently finishing her 3rd solo release and an EP with her new band, Fauntella Crow, as well as composing and recording string sections for film – and chasing seagulls in her spare time. For composition and string arrangement please contact: strings@jessygreene.com

Rowdy power pop revivalist Brendan Benson adds record label proprietor to his résumé with the release of Young Hines' full-length debut, Give Me My Change. The inaugural release for Benson's Readymade Records introduces listeners to the Atlanta born, Nashville based singer/songwriter Hines, who fronted a Beatles cover band before his online demos helped land his big break.

White Poppy is the experimental pop project of Canadian musician and artist Crystal Dorval. Dorval self produces and records all the music for White Poppy at her makeshift home studio in Vancouver BC.

Not Not Fun records released the debut cassette “I Had A Dream” in 2012, and will be releasing a full length LP in the spring of 2013.

Dorval also creates psychedelic art and video. Both of these visual elements are incorporated into White Poppy.

The concepts and ideology of the SubKulture Patriots were created by Brian Tanton aka "The Brain". In November of 2010 he linked up with HBZ aka Boo Radley from the critically acclaimed Spin Alley. RuDi Devino a founding member of the Short Bus Alumni followed after Cap'n Kirk, aka A.K. a former member of Diasporic and the Anti-Gravity Crew, completing the alliance the following year. The end result was a group of like minded emcees with one common goal; to share their music with the world!

Rites Wild is one of the solo monikers of South Australian-born musician Stacey Wilson. Wilson is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, visual artist, graphic designer and owner of record label ‘Heavy Lows’. Wilson also plays in a band, Terrible Truths, and has two other solo incarnations, Regional Curse and Comfort Zones. All releases are self recorded and mixed by Wilson at home. Beginning in late 2010, Rites Wild has released 5 cassettes, a CDR and a LP, as well as featuring on compilations including ‘We Are After All Here’ from New Weird Australia.

Ghost to Falco is essentially the brain child of Portland, OR resident, Eric Crespo. Beginning in late 2001 as a solo project incorporating swirls of electric guitar loops, antique analog synthesizer sounds, and field recordings, he first used the moniker as a way to book shows that might score him a floor to sleep on while moving cross-country from North Carolina.

With outrageously immodest beginnings, The Tom Fun Orchestra sauntered into the Canadian music scene the way an Italian funeral saunters through a mountain village. That is, with many loud instruments, casks of wine and complete irreverence for everything happening around them. A year into the band's life, they travelled the country with eighteen of their friends in a school bus. And so it began.

Dear Reader,

We are UUVVWWZ, an avant-blues quartet from Lincoln Nebraska, comprised of Teal Gardner, Jim Schroeder, Dustin Wilbourn, and David Ozinga. We have been playing as UU for five years and have put out one album previously, a self-titled record that was screech-cronky, clubbier, and babier than our current work, the trusted language.

If you could bottle the spirit of THE ENEMY and flog it Coventry, UK might just have an export to rival their proud motor industry heritage.

Frontman Tom Clarke, bassist Andy Hopkins and drummer Liam Watts are back with a ferocious, guitar-heavy and typically anthemic third album. The band, with Joby J Ford from The Bronx on producing duties, have been in LA rediscovering the DNA that helped a young three-piece from the West Midlands explode into the charts in 2006.