Michael Charles musical pilgrimage started over five decades ago in his birth place Melbourne, Australia. While enjoying a successful musical crusade of touring, recording, and numerous television and radio appearances in his homeland, Michael received an invitation from Buddy Guy’s management to appear at the infamous Legends in Chicago, Illinois USA. Graciously accepting the honor, Michael Charles traveled the twelve thousand five hundred miles and took the stage with Mr. Buddy Guy. After numerous trips back and forth, Michael Charles made the monumental and life changing decision to make America his home. Charles worked the whole Chicago blues circuit performing with Mr. Buddy Guy, Phil Guy, James Cotton, Eddy Clearwater, Junior Wells, George Baze, as well as touring with blues legend, Jimmy Dawkins.
Through the next twenty years, and now a eight times Grammy elected artist, Michael Charles enjoyed being featured in numerous television and radio broadcasts and several music magazines, along with gracing countless stages and pages including Chicago Blues Fest, Philadelphia Jazz and Blues Fest, Windy City Live Television, WGN TV, JBTV, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun Times, and The College Music Journal. In October of 2015 Michael Charles received the extreme honor of an induction into the Blues Hall of Fame. Michael has received endorsements from Vertex and LR Baggs and in Canada from Godin / Seagull Guitars. Michael Charles’ discography is comprised of thirty-two releases including a double CD thirty year anthology released in 2014 and the live CD “Concert at the Nest”, released in the winter of 2015.
Michael Charles is traveling his tenth consecutive tour in 2017, the All I Really Know Tour, which will once again take him to the far corners of the USA, Canada, and Australia. The 2017 Tour promises a multitude of concerts and publicity appearances as MC performs a whole new list of cities, festivals, and nightspots and revisits some favorite venues from the last nine annual tours

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After meeting in June of 2012, Cole Tyler and Anthony Graziano starting writing and playing together and immediately clicked. In the beginning, the idea was based on becoming more of a garage rock band but their sound would quickly become their own. Once they brought in drummer Ryan Hottenrott, and bassist Dave Gambon, the band came together and things took off. With the line up solidified, the band would go on to record a self titled full length album followed by the Running From the Past record. 
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Before disbanding on January 1, 2017, The FORZ played gigs like the Forbes Under 30 Summit, and were on the ballot for the 59th Annual GRAMMY awards for Best New Artist and Best Performance by a Group or Duo for “Words For Me” and “Separate Ways.” They were a top 5 pick on WEMF's Boston Emissions twice in 2013, had their first album released by Wiener Records
and worked with Al Gomes of Big Noise. 
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With influences that swing as far off as The Zombies, Todd Rundgren, and The Raspberries and all the way back to their peers such as Foxygen, Ty Segall, Mac Demarco, and Tame Impala, Melody Motel bring a new feel to a classic genre. Lush with addicting progressions, vocal hooks, and alt rock edge, the record boasts the aesthetic of classic rock anthems.

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