Influential Kansas City five piece, The Get Up Kids, returned in January 2011 with a new studio album, ‘There Are Rules’ – the band’s fifth full-length collection, and the first on their own Quality Hill Records imprint.  Seven years after what looked to be their final album ‘Guilt Show’, The Get Up Kids returned to the studio in 2009, sparked by a spur-of-the-moment decision to start writing songs together.  And so ‘There Are Rules’ came to be - twelve new songs that will prove to be both surprising, and familiar. The songs were all written spontaneously and then fleshed it out with long time producer Ed Rose in the studio, resulting in a collection of tracks that are fresh and inspired, created by a band that has been given new life and isn’t looking back. The first fruits of these new recordings was ‘Simple Science’, released in April 2010 - an EP that burst, unannounced, into the Billboard Top 200, followed by the first teaser for the album  - the 7” single ‘Automatic’, out early January 2011.  For the new recordings, The Get Up Kids started their own label – Quality Hill Records – naming it after a historic neighborhood in Kansas City, not far from where the band first formed.  And so, after touring across four continents to sold out crowds too many times to count, after becoming a crucial part of what has been called the “second wave of emo” in the 90’s along with bands like Braid and The Promise Ring and influencing a list of bands as long as your arm, after 15 years, 4 acclaimed studio albums, a collection of rarities, a live record, numerous 7"s and EPs, the Kansas City five piece – Matthew Pryor on vocals and guitar, Rob Pope on bass, Jim Suptic on guitars and vocals, James Dewees on keyboards and Ryan Pope on drums - unveiled ‘There Are Rules’ in 2011, proving that the final chapter for The Get Up Kids has yet to be written. 

Ester Drang is an experimental, post rock, shoegaze band from Tulsa, OK. Formed in 1995 by Bryce Chambers, the band quickly gained a fan base creating songs and soundscapes inspired and influenced by My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Spiritualized, The Beatles, and more. In 22 years the band has seen members come and go including, Sterling Williams, Brian Brewer, Jeff Shoop, Philip Phillips, and James McAlister. After releasing 4 full lengths and an EP, the band quietly went on hiatus in 2007. Chambers resurrected The Drang in 2012 with a new line-up including original bassist and founding member Kyle Winner, and currently featuring Hank Hanewinkel III (drums), Tommy McKenzie (guitar and keyboards), and Jon Paul Pope (cello). 

The band have just released their first new music in over a decade. The single entitled The Union, is taken from a forth-coming EP the band are preparing for release. Throughout the years, Ester Drang have remained in the minds and record collections of fans new and old, and continue to inspire new acts. The band have toured with the likes of Pedro The Lion, The American Analog Set, Starflyer 59, and most recently Echo & The Bunnymen.

The Blowbacks play pop music, more or less. Sometimes it's pretty and sometimes it's not, but it's always beautiful... 

With influences ranging from Free Jazz to Frank Sinatra, via Neil Young, Pavement, Krautrock and classic 80s/90s noisepop, The Blowbacks whip up a sound that is equal parts fragile beauty and motorik power. Songs which boast indelible melodies are strapped to jet engines and sent into orbit. 

"The Blowbacks sound like an inspired musical collision between Steven Malkmus, Martin Carr and “Smile” era Brian Wilson. Everything sounds like a single - The Blowbacks marry pure pop genius to an almost Phil Spectoreseque wall of sound and the world is a better place for 3 minutes 25 seconds." - RICH CRAVEN - SONGS OF PRAISE PROMOTIONS 

Tele Novella are just some small-town weirdos in Lockhart, TX that like making catchy and sincere songs.  Our forthcoming record is called Merlynn Belle and it sounds like the animatronic Chucky Cheese band playing medieval country songs.   INSTAGRAM:  @telenovellatx

I'm a Kansas family man who enjoys singing and playing!  My songs have a wistful, genuine, heartfelt vibe.

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