Guitarist/Vocalist Bryce Chambers (Ester Drang) and Bassist Johnathon Ford (Unwed Sailor) form the core of NATIVE LIGHTS. The two musicians have contributed their fair share of captivating sounds in their various musical projects for 20+ years.  Native Lights' array of lush, hearty, sincere songs are indebted to the pioneering sounds of the infamous Slowdive, the 4AD instrumental outfit Dif Juz, shoegaze heavyweights My Bloody Valentine, and the dark, angular sounds of 90s rockers Codeine and The Jesus Lizard.

After releasing a 7'' single titled “Blackwater,” featuring the self titled single and an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark cover, the band recorded their debut album in the dark corridors of an abandoned cattle auction facility found somewhere in the outskirts of rural Hominy, Oklahoma. The facility's worn facade, crumbling walls and caving ceiling felt like the perfect place to track the group's vast, cinematic brand of shoegaze-bent discordant dream-pop.  

The guerrilla approach of going into a dilapidated building and recording an album brought about untold options for cavernous untamed sounds. The band brought along a minimal recording setup,  rigged up some electricity and adapted the old facility into a makeshift tracking room. For a long week in the dead of winter the band recorded by day and slept in the freezing compound at night, taking solace in the warmth of a bonfire on the front steps. 

After the recording process was completed, the band travelled to Louisville, KY to mix the album with Kevin Ratterman (Young Widows, My Morning Jacket, Maserati) at his famed La La Land Studio. The end result is a hallowed somberness, painted by the sounds of Native Lights, expelled in the form of swooning leads, hollow resonance, shimmery beats, and a mournful medley of lost voices. Thus the first Native Lights full-length record was born.

The album will be released on Passive Recordings in February 2015 with nationwide touring to follow.

Album available at www.nativelightsband.com

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When Cody Cloud named his band VEHICLES back in 2006, it wasn’t a reference to transportation - rather transformation.

VEHICLES was born out of the idea that many voices can come together to create transformational emotional experiences and connections, and songs are the vehicles that bring musicians, friends and family together.

It’s always been playing shows that makes this Wichita-based band tick. Though the lineup has changed over the years with friends leaving, new friends stepping in and old friends returning, touring throughout the United States over the past decade and a half has earned the band a reputation for bringing it live.

With the upcoming release of the new album Belief In Habits, VEHICLES is set to release two years of pandemic frustration as well. The album is full of isolation, pain and uncertainty while attempting to make peace with past demons and gazing at the future through the eyes of a painter.

Five piece alt-rock / shoegaze band from Wichita, KS. New EP "Intruder" out 8/29/17 via Air House Records. 

Jenny Wood 
Zack Roach
Kristyn Chapman
Caleb Drummond
William Erickson

Happily married with  kids, pets, and yard work, The Saturday Brothers were borne out of a necessity to escape the everydayness of their lives and reawaken a creative, musical outlet - even for just a few hours on Saturday afternoons. 

Both transplants to St. Louis, Nick Evancho (guitar/vocals) and Clint Smith (drums) met when their conspiring wives hatched a plan to unite these two unaccompanied musicians. 

Nick's looping guitar riffs & heart-on-his-sleeve lyrics combine with Clint's funky, textured beats to produce a truly unique Midwestern rock sound that doesn't take itself too seriously. 

Ultimately, their songs end up addressing the very things they sought to escape: the mundane, the local, the everyday. And in doing so, they succeed in exposing a range  of very hard-to-define universal truths. 


Several weirdos making noises to sensually pleasure your ears.

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