Fire Garden is Progressive Rock Band from Chicago.  New album 'Sound  of Majestic Colors' is OUT NOW Order your copy www.firegardenmusic.com/shop 

Sleepers Awake is a Columbus, Ohio based progressive metal group that creates brutally fantastic epics.

A gargantuan 70-minute triumph for ingenuity and artful intensity, Transcension adds great depth and intrigue to the sound Sleepers Awake established on their debut. Although there are still superficial debts owed to the pioneering likes of Tool and Opeth, not to mention revered prog greats like Pink Floyd and Rush, the songs that combine to form this imperious musical journey boast an idiosyncratic and absorbing personality that is both unique and mesmerising. Elements of classic rock, sludge metal and even left-field art rock and ambience collide again and again, resulting in a devastating but irresistible hybrid that fans of thought-provoking and soulful heavy music will find impossible to ignore.

A mind-bending and magnificent concept piece that tells the tale of 'The Augur' and his struggle with higher forces that veers off through magical worlds full of fantastic creatures and surreal imagery while exploring the dizzying depths of existential contemplation, the new Sleepers Awake album is a work of laudable substance, intelligence and creative bravery. Add to that the fact that this band kick a serious amount of unholy metal ass along the way, and it seems beyond doubt that these young Americans will soon be winning over a huge international fan base, as vacuous pop culture drives a generation of diehard music lovers to embrace more challenging and perverse aural thrills. Time to rub your eyes, unblock your ears and surrender to the sound of enlightenment, catharsis and joy rendered in three sonic dimensions...
Dom Lawson - Metal Hammer, Prog Magazine, Total Rock Radio, Classic Rock Magazine, The Guardian Music

Experimental Art Rock:-Vocals/Guitar/Bass/Programming: Robert Utter(Madder Kayne)_Drums/Bass/Vocals-Brandon Lobue Guest Bass/Vocals-Heather Longyear
The band is on indefinite hiatus in pursuit of other projects. Look for future projects from Madder Kayne's new band Lost Dogs 

Drew Stedman and The Cosmic Nothings are a rowdy indie rock band with progressive rock, classic country, and classical influences. They hail from Columbus, OH. Drew Stedman has been performing since he was a young child growing up in southern California. After his family moved to central Ohio, a whole new world of musical possibilities opened up to him as he began exploring different styles of music and becoming a skilled guitarist and vocalist. He spent several years in New York were he completed college before moving to Los Angeles. Drew’s former band, Riddley, performed on both coasts and recorded one album, The Quick Goodbye, which was released in 2007. Riddley performed in many of the best venues in LA including The Troubadour, Whisky A Go-Go, El Rey Theatre, Knitting Factory, The Viper Room and Key Club.

After the members of Riddley went their separate ways in 2009, Drew released a solo effort, an EP entitled If the Fires Exist, which is a bold reflection on religion and purpose. Drew de-converted from Christianity shortly after the release of the EP and continues to write thoughtful and provocative music which focuses on belief, relationships, criticism of religion and finding meaning in the universe. He moved back to Columbus, Ohio in 2011 where he produced The Skeptic EP which is a collection of songs dealing with issues of skepticism, faith, love, and science. In 2012 he was joined by bass player Tom Bauer as well as Chris Burnsides (Drums) and Rob Bradley (Guitar), to form Drew Stedman and the Cosmic Nothings. Chris Gatsby joined the band in early 2013 playing Keyboard and Viola. They recently completed their first EP, which is self-titled, and will be released in Summer 2013. The Cosmic Nothings are currently working on music for a second project that will be released later in 2013.

Multi-instrumentalist from Long Island, New York.

I love all types of music but metal is my scrambled eggs and hot sauce.

My latest LP, Edie, stream it free and ad-free www.stephsweet.co.uk/media
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Edie Review " Thankfully Steph is still ploughing her particular esoteric furrow and has just released her new single Edie which is as good as anything she's released to date. It sounds like a darkly psychedelic theme from a long forgotten  left field spaghetti western and it's absorbing and utterly enchanting. If the Velvet Underground had been commissioned to do the title track for the Good, The Bad and the Ugly, this is how it would sound." The Devil Has The Best Tuna 13th May 2022

https://besttuna.blogspot.com/2022/05/StephSweet.html


https://www.stephsweet.co.uk  

Gigradar "British singer-songwriter Steph Sweet freely admits she’s a “refined taste” but it’s difficult to not be intrigued by her feisty, often contentious approach to pyschy acoustic indie-rock meets punk brand of music."

Popocculture
"Steph Sweet has brought an interesting and new sound to this area.
With powerful vocals, and swirlly and crunchy guitar riffs that wouldn’t sound out of place in a late 90’s britpop, yet grounded somewhere more in the early 80’s. “All The Things” is dark, broody, a little strange, but also interestingly an ear worm that will grab you and not let go." 

" If the Bronte sisters formed a freak folk band then it'd probably sound something like this." 
Paul Kerr - The Devil Has The Best Tuna

" Placed somewhere between Devandra Banhart and Joanna Newsome, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist  -  vocals, guitars, drums, keyboards  -   combines a talent for bewitching songwriting, with a dreamy, lo-fi alt-gaze delivery."
Little Indie Blog

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