From is an LA wonderpop band founded by singer/writer/producer Roni Brunn.

From’s addictively catchy, simple pop songs sound like Nico + Kraftwerk on a Magical Mystery Tour. Brunn’s vocals are emotionally expressive while stylistically unaffected, bringing a refreshing, raw drive to surreal, eccentric orchestral arrangements. The live performances sound energetic, tight, and very loud, like an all night party far from any police stations.

From debuted with The American EP in 2006. The 6 track release was received with critical praise, and Brunn was eclectically compared to Nico, The Cure, and Madonna. The video for "American Girl" debuted in YouTube's top 40. In 2007, From released a single featuring a cover of R.E.M.'s "Fall on Me" as well as an acoustic version of its song "American Girl."

Later that year, Brunn relocated to Stockholm, Sweden, where she recruited musicians for a live band. In 2008, she moved back to Beverly Hills, where she completed From's first full length album.

Brunn grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel, attended high school in Beverly Hills, and graduated Harvard University with a major in economics. After college, she launched a line of high end handbags that sold in exclusive shops around the world and appeared in top fashion magazines, including Vogue, InStyle, and Marie Claire.  In LA, she created Math-Club, an organization that puts on recreational math events as documented in Time Magazine, Wired, and NPR. In her work as a web developer, she created sites for Ringo Starr and Justin Timberlake. She is a self taught musician who writes, performs, and produces all the recorded tracks for The Band From.

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If ANTWON didn’t exist, no one could have invented him. The former hardcore punk, unabashed hedonist, and Nature Boy leader is what you’d get if Bad Brains spent their summers balling on a budget. ANTWON isn’t a contradiction; he’s a man of complexity. You might catch the San Jose native flexing in BMWs chauffeured by freaks, but he’d prefer to be low-key in a Prius. You might catch him in the club sipping tea and smoking the highest caliber of weed. He isn’t weird isn’t for the sake of being weird. He’s weird for the sake of being raw as fuck.

The former member of power-violence punk outfit, Leather, ANTWON first burst onto the scene in the early years of this decade, blending slightly nostalgic fluorescent raps with gritty industrial dirges, and live shows so rowdy the bruises still haven’t healed. He’s collaborated with Wiki, Heems, and Lil Ugly Mane, Suicideyear and Pictureplane—effortlessly shifting between styles and genres without losing the lecherous wit that made him instantly stand above from the sea of Tumblr struggle rap.

With his lo-fi druggy summer anthems, ANTWON emerged as the missing link between Kid Rock and the Great Rock N’ Roll Swindle, The Misfits and Martin Lawrence. He was ostensibly too raunchy for the punks, too punk for the hip-hop traditionalists, and not chill enough to be chillwave, but he still built a die-hard cult—one of music’s true originals, idiosyncratic, off-beat, blunted, and always with a bad chick hanging off of him.

The Fader said, “ANTWON has a gift for making filthy-fun-times rap songs with people who don’t usually produce rap.” Spin compared him to like a teenaged Biggie in that famous street-corner freestyle resurrected as an ex-hardcore dude.” Pitchfork claimed, “ANTWON’s heavy voice mourns the people whose lives are growing stagnant and not progressing…like Death Grips if they showered up and decided to write the vast majority of their songs about oral sex.”

He’s too smart and self-aware to try to be the voice of his generation, but his raps embody the spirit of the masses that refuse to fit into any classification. He’s the music nerd and the class clown, the punk and the pervert, emotional and aloof, the rap kid sampling Metallica, old funk, and 80s synth-pop.

After a handful of mixtapes and one solo album, he’s signed to Anticon—the ideal fit for a label that never catered to obsolete notions of genre or what a rapper could or couldn’t be. ANTWON couldn’t give a fuck even if he wanted to—an original artist that’s always evolving, swerving recklessly in the lane that he built.

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy

After moving to New York City almost a decade ago, and now residing in Brooklyn, KC fell into the New York City grind like many others, but it was his discovery and romance with dance music that gave him a new sense of life and soul.  After experiencing the magic of the New York City dance floors that have brought to life so many genres before, KC discovered the four-on-the-floor beat of house music that has become the heartbeat to his soul.  His constant exploration of new sounds and house sub-genres has him delving into areas that help him express the emotions he feels at various times in life...whether that be at sunset on the rooftops of one the greatest cities in the world or at sunrise at Burning Man.  KC's sets are a constant narrative of the thoughts and emotions that center around deep feelings of curiosity and love of the world and the people around him.  When he is not off on an adventure, you can typically find him dabbling in funky, soulful house music with sprinkles of disco classics, deep house melodies and tribal beats around New York City as he attempts to bring together strangers and friends to lose themselves on the dance floor.

Events (2019):
Tulum, Quintana Roo, MX - 1/1 - 1/8
Miki Beach FunRaiser @ BK 101 1/12
33 Grand: Liquid January @ Ms. Yoo 1/18
Disco Volante @ Nublu 2/8
33 Grand: Siren Soiree @ Ms. Yoo 4/26
Lightning Society: Persephone’s Odyssey /The Spring Burlesquerade 4/27

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