Layton Thomas is a Toronto-born songwriter and performer. Heavily influenced by film and television scores, as well as the pop and rock he grew up with, Layton specializes in writing imagery, atmosphere and emotion into his melodies. His original music has been featured in Two Wolves Theater's productions of The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and Sundance. Today, he can be spotted playing with band, Car Trouble, around the GTA, as well as lending his writing and guitar playing to Alt-Rock outfit, Secret Suburbia.

Mercedes Ave is a Sacramento Pop/Punk band. Everything started with a simple question; "want to start a band?" Lead singer/Rhythm Guitarist Kris Khaos and Bassist/Back-up vocalist Nick Lunetta (A.K.A. "the twins") began formulating the idea of starting up a new band after their previous project "No Right On Red" blew up horribly in their faces the year before. However, after realizing that both members were prepared to push themselves to hell and back for their music, they decided to take the leap. They later found two new additions, Logan and Victoria, but unfortunately things did not work out and the twins were alone again. That was when Nick decided to bring in his good friend and phenomenal guitarist Nathan Furey. With the addition of Nathan, their sound improved 10 fold and they were one step closer to their goal. However, the next step was the hardest (as it is for a lot of bands); finding a drummer. Kris, Nick and Nathan had all been in bands prior to this and they all agreed that in order to make this band stand out, they couldn't just grab any random drummer and bring them in. Thus, the audition process began. They saw some good, some new. Some with "too much" show and some who didn’t even show and it seemed like nothing would ever work out. However, then Jon Medley came on the scene. He showed up on time, he picked up what they showed him fast and was a kindhearted person. And with a unanimous decision Jon was brought in and Mercedes Ave was born. However, the good times only lasted a few months. Lead guitarist Nathan Furey decided he was going to split off from the group and pursue something more to his personal style, leaving some pretty big shoes to be filled. To add onto things, the band began having issues with Drummer Jon Medley. When things began to become too tense, they decided to split. Thus leaving the twins to be the remaining two members again. Now the twins had a huuuge problem because Mercedes Ave had an upcoming gig and while Nathan said he would stay on for the show, things were a little different in Jon's case. Thus, the hunt for a new drummer began! luckily for the twin they almost immediately were contacted by multiple drummers that had heard about the opening. so the audition process began and in what seemed like the longest week ever, the twins finally found their new drummer Jake"J. Cool" Cooley. Now, Jake and Nick had worked together before in their previous band "Angel's Ruin." Needless to say, Nick was happy to be working with Jake again, Kris was happy to have such a phenomenal drummer and Nathan just kept on playing his solos. well the last show came and went, thus leaving Mercedes Ave without a member. so, once again, they auditioned. they auditioned and auditioned and auditioned and FINALLY they found the right fit. they were happy to bring in Jesse, the new and hopefully final piece to the Mercedes Ave puzzle!

"we arent perfect. we still have a long ways to go as a band, as musicians, and even as friends. we argue sometimes, we get frustrated with each other, and sometimes the threat "i will throw you in the pool" gets thrown around, BUT when the days over and we hit that last note, we are friends, we are brothers, we are musicians and we all have the same goal. we may not be well known but we plan on fixing that. We play from our heart and the only band we sound like is us. give us a shot, i guarantee you wont regret it."

some of their influences are Fallout boy, Blink 182, Mayday Parade, A day to Remember, and basically anything else the guys like. they all just love playing and bring more things to the table each practice

Andrea Desmond is an award-winning pop singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, whose sultry sounds, conscious lyrics, positive attitude and high-energy stage presence radiate pure soul.

Andrea received training in songwriting under the guidance of her cousin Alan Menken, the Oscar-winning composer of such Disney classics as Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.

Her new song Inner Fire, released October 1st, co-written with Natalia Bortolotti (Warner/ Chappell) and produced by SR (Randy Jackson), is inspired by the sounds of Sia, Ellie Goulding and Adele, among others. 

Music has always been front and center in Andrea’s life. After receiving a Bachelors in Music degree (with an Emphasis on Composition), she hit the road and became the keyboardist/singer of a cover band playing the California and Nevada casino routes. After years of playing in other people’s bands, and playing other people’s music, she took the bold and courageous leap that all who aspire to follow their heart must do. She launched her solo career and fearlessly ran to her destiny.

Andrea moved to Seattle in 2012, where she quickly formed a band and further developed her sound and writing style with producer Martin Feveyear (Presidents of the United States of America, Kings of Leon, Mudhoney), to local acclaim. Myseattlenightout.com called her Seattle's "indie pop sweetheart,” and Seattle Wave Radio noted that "her career is already off to a fast start, and we expect to see a lot more of this amazing young artist." The band made it to the finals in local competitions, participated in radio interviews, and played around the city from the Crocodile to the Showbox. 

In 2013 Desmond was signed to indie label Spectra Records, where she released the EP Open Spaces, and was nominated for “Best Singer” in the Shorty Awards. Additionally, her song Run won Best Singer/Songwriter for the Akademia Music Awards and first place in the Eco Arts Awards: Songs of Freedom Competition.

This led reviewers, such as Music News Nashville to say, “In my mind she is a musical triple threat. She’s got a good look, she can write music/play piano, and she’s a great singer. It’s impressive how well her vocals at times shift from classical to even soulful. This reminds me of Adele, Lily Allen, Jessie J. and Imagine Dragons. Desmond is a captivating composer and singer within her own right.” 

Looking to further pursue her career, Andrea moved to Los Angeles in 2014, where she began performing frequently at the House of Blues, and ended up connecting with John 'Sly' Wilson, songwriter of Justin Timberlake's Billboard hit "Suit and Tie" for advice on the industry. 

From being a piano/vocal teacher and songwriting coach, to an assistant to a composer working on an upcoming PBS TV show, she began building a musical foundation within the L.A. area. Most recently she has been in a songwriting phase, working with local producers and writers on new material. She has been featured in an interview with I HEART RADIO and KISS 107.7 FM on her new single. Upon the release of "Inner Fire" articles have been written about the song on NBC News, ABC News, Digital Journal, Skope Entertainment, Populove Magazine, Vents Magazine, EDM Sauce, and Kurrent Music, among many other publications.

​When one hears Andrea for the first time, it takes the listener from despair and delivers them to a culture of hope. Her music, along with a sweet and compassionate smile, combined with her angelic voice, reminds the listener of good times while taking them to another dimension.

​Or simply, as Indie Shark Reviews acclaims, “She seems a likeable, genuine, and all around kindhearted person. Sometimes a good heart and a nice voice is all it takes to reach the next level. Her future is bright and full of potential.”

What was intended to be a two-and-a-half week tour became a life-altering road trip.

Riding on a few covers, some original lyrics, plenty of sweet harmonies and inspired storytelling, that very first set made its way into community centers, youth detention facilities, churches and street corners across the country. The very next summer, the six sat curbside in a viral video that spread quickly online.

Nearly 5 years and thousands of miles later, the group formerly known as Level 3:16 is back, hitting the pavement with a new name, new music and a fresh, new sound. For 6 Way St., there’s only six ways to do it. What’s “it”, you ask?

Everything.

The sound is what you get when heartfelt lyricism is driven by hard-hitting beats, turning corners with smooth neo-soul melodies, cruising naturally in an acoustic comfort zone. Occasionally detouring into the pop lane or taking the scenic route with hints of cinematic film score, it’s all w(rapped) in the youthful nostalgia of urban 90s classics. The destination? Music the 6 way: An eclectic, soulful blend of hip hop and r&b.

As far as concerts go, a 6 Way St. performance will definitely take you on a journey. Whether putting pedal to the metal with high energy crowd participation or pumping the brakes for a dramatic, thought- provoking interlude, each set is tailor made for the youngsters and the young adults, the moms and the dads, the hip hop heads, the music lovers, and everyone in between.

The members have come a long way since sitting on the curb in 2010. But all six still share a common drive toward the vision and mission of 6 Way St. Kristen (KB), Stv G., Chris T., Crystal, Kristin (K Mase), and Candace are exceptionally talented leaders who are passionate about their personal relationships with Jesus Christ using music and other art forms to reach their generation.

6 Way St. is more than the merge of two emcees, three vocalists, and one female deejay. It’s an intersection of six unique minds. It’s the understanding that being in a group comes with lots of twists, turns, and roadblocks. It’s a consistent reminder that you don’t always get to choose your family, but you can choose to love. And that love is hard work, because it requires going further than simply “meeting in the middle.” Doing it the 6 way means you don’t stop at halfway, but take the initiative to meet someone where they are. It’s a road less traveled, for sure.

It’s the road where 6 people realized there’s really only One Way after all.

Dallas Woods

At a young age Dallas Woods developed the uncanny ability to find humour in the most unlikely places. Poverty, suicide, abuses of all kinds are a common theme in his life yet its relentless exposure has provided him with the mettle to cut-through society’s demons so he can apply words to his tsunami of feelings and thoughts. Dallas writes with a wealth of humility, knowledge and experience; it’s his coping mechanism.

A Noongar man raised in the E.K. [Wyndham – East Kimberley] Dallas is a quintessential underdog who dropped out of school at age 14; he was raised without a father figure and ran AMOK headed straight for the justice system. Luckily for him in 2007 the Indigenous Hip Hop Projects came through town at a formative moment and spotted this wayward kid’s talent and cheeky knack for word play. 
Dallas would pop up in break-dance cyphers during after-school sessions and completely blew the minds of the Indigenous Hip Hop Projects [IHHP] facilitators with his energy and dance moves that “were literally electric”. Wanting to join the IHHP family, despite there be now room for him to join the gang on tour, Dallas’ mother offered their family car for Dallas to go on the intensive 3 week dance tour. Prison was no longer the only option. In those three weeks ‘Halls Creek’ [Kimberley WA] Dallas’ work began to make an impact. Seeing his value as a mentor particularly with at risk kids whom Dallas has an amazing ability to connect with he was engaged as a key IHHP facilitator. He went on to win the East Kimberley Young Achiever Award at the age of 15 in 2009.  In 2016 he was on the song-writing team for the NIMA award-winning track titled Break the Silence raising awareness for White Ribbon. Since this time Dallas has visited over 250 communities and earned a feature role on Move it Mob style [ABC 3]. 
In 2014 he met Danzal Baker [aka Baker Boy] at an IHHP artist camp in Melbourne, soon after they worked together for the first time on a job in Gove / Dhalinybuy NT. Dallas took Danzal then 17 y.o under his wing empathising with how he was missing home.  It was here that Baker Boy was inspired to start rapping in his own style, started writing songs for the first time with Dallas and ignited the journey that catapulted him to where he is now. The two are staunch friends and continue to write together including Baker Boy’s new single Mr La DiDaDi.  
Dallas decided to move on from the physical demands of dance and started to hone his skills as head MC for IHHP; he was a natural. A Master of Ceremony with the ability to hype an audience beyond the norm. A few steps further Dallas releases his debut track 9 x out of 10, continues to write and perform with Baker Boy and has plans in the works to release an EP to coincide with his support slot on Baker Boy’s national tour this May and June.

Music in its purest form makes the listener reminisce , It takes them back to a place in time. It conjures up emotions that had since been forgotten. They can relate to the lyrics, the melodies, the mood. It makes them feel. 
Jim Pullman’s latest work “Jackals and Wolves” does an impeccable job of this. 
Jackals and Wolves aims for Jim Pullman at his most essential and honest. Its a snapshot of a rockstar unresolved, meandering a lonesome landscape of hard truths and attractive wrong answers 
The fruit of a year's worth of recording and even more time spent writing, 
The result is a seamless body of work, combining modern power pop with the friendly familiarity of easy '90s rock, at times reminiscent of bands like R.E.M. Made ominous by spacey guitars and mournful pedal steel, the mood of the music matches Pullman's theme of loss and returns to his songwriting roots, tapping into more personal subject matter. 
The album kicks off with whooshing air and guitar squeals giving way to Revolving Door, a strong rock song with a hook suggesting the best of Oasis, and rallies to an end with righteous guitar soloing punctuated by slams of grand piano. Then follows You Don’t Dump the Boys, They Just Lose Their Turn, an odd, sardonic track recalling The Turtles’ Happy Together, were it frolicking with the gleeful madness of an anxious and hopeless bar patron
Sonically, the album lends a more lonesome tone than previous releases, although it’s the band’s the most dynamic and well-arranged. Providing the record’s most lofty and dramatic moments, Levitate opens with a flowing and majestic string quartet
50 Paces  seems inspired by the lonely road ballads of Bob Seger, with a spacey and atmospheric pedal steel by Bronson Bergeson. And not to be outdone by other songs’ twisted-yet-tender moments, the album closer Feather Soft Heart (#7) reconsiders the other songs’ hard-bitten realism. Between soft percussion breaks and hushed piano progressions, Jim posits the question that, if we could set aside the defensive sarcasm for a couple minutes, could we build the courage to consider what we had was pretty good all along?


###LISTEN TO THE WHOLE DEBUT ALBUM AT SPOTIFY###
Salma Gandhi makes pataphysical instrumental stoner jazz/film noir rock/psychadelia in their own obscure and cunning way. The soundscapes that are painted canvas are by turns welcoming, confusing and sometimes directly obnoxious but the captivating feeling that makes you want to explore further is by your side during the entire journey.

The members of Salma Gandhi has through the years been spotted in different constellations of punk, stoner, metal, blues and doom bands but have never gone the full distance. But since the band formed in 2005, everything has moved in the right direction and the more relaxed approach and attitude to how music should be created eventually led to a record deal with Transubstans Records.

Some voices about the debut "The Quest For Nonsense Never Ends":

"Worth checking out if you are in the mood for something completely different." and "The languid pace, space-blues
guitar, twinkling and vibrating keys…straight-faced as you can get, and still mischievous." and "Dit debuut van Salma
Gandhi is gewoon topmateriaal, dat eigenlijk meer verdient dan enkel een doorbraak op Europees vlak"

”...it is revolutionary and constantly surprising, cleverly distinctive but still not overloaded. Swedish music has never been as good as now”
-Nya Upplagan-

"Sometimes music emerges that manages to wedge itself into the cracks between all that has allready been done, in those tiny spaces that exists between the various manifestations of music. You recognise what you hear, but yet it surprices you and seems unfamiliar. The instrumental Salma Gandhi is one of those bands that claim the areas in the bordelands of music."
-Tidningen Kulturen- 

"It breathes late 60-s/early 70-s and more so through the cinematical feeling in the music
where it sometimes feels like I'm beeing drawen into different scenes from a hard-boiled detective story
with car chases, smoky nightclubs and drama"
-meadowusic.se- 

"There are no rights or wrongs in the music of Salma Gandhi because
this is impro jazz for the rock lover and no rules or regulations
exist whatsoever."
-artrock.se- 

The cast is in search of Kramer's car in the multi-level parking garage of a shopping mall in New Jersey after Kramer purchases an air conditioner. Unfortunately, no one can remember where the car was parked. After carrying the air conditioner for some time, an exhausted Kramer decides to leave it behind one of the parked cars and tries to memorize the number of the parking space. Elaine fears that her new goldfish will die in the airtight bag before they can arrive home, while George must meet his parents by 6:15 to take them out to celebrate their anniversary. Also, Jerry has to go to the bathroom badly. While the gang searches for the car, Elaine desperately begs people in the parking garage to give them a ride around the building to find their car, but no one is willing to help or has any sympathy for the goldfish. One of the indifferent men that she begs is Larry Charles, a staff writer on Seinfeld. Jerry desperately needs to urinate. Kramer badgers Jerry to do it in some dark corner where no one can see him. After Jerry reluctantly does so, he is spotted by a security guard and is taken to the guard's office. Jerry tries to talk his way out of trouble by making up a story about a fictional disease of "uromysitisis", but the guard is not convinced; Jerry makes up some other stories, but the guard is still not buying it. Meanwhile, Kramer, Elaine and George wonder where Jerry is - George moans, "Unbelievable, I'm never gonna get out of here. The guy goes to pee, he never comes back. It's like a science fiction story." Elaine goes off on her own to find him; Kramer and George decide to do the same. Later, George also gets caught in the act of urinating, after being convinced to do so by Kramer. Both Jerry and George are fined and released. After the two find Elaine, Jerry convinces George to ask an attractive woman, whom they saw earlier in the episode, to give them a lift around the garage. The woman (Cynthia Ettinger) accepts without hesitation, and the gang all enter the woman's car and drive off. Moments later, the woman kicks them out after George says something to the woman that makes her explode in anger (the viewer is not told exactly what George said to the woman, but it involves L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology). Ironically, the gang is dropped off right by Kramer's car but unfortunately, Kramer, who has the car keys, is still lost somewhere in the garage. Hours pass by as George, Jerry and Elaine wait. Finally, Kramer shows up, having gone on his own hunt for the air conditioner because he forgot where he left it. Elaine's goldfish did not survive and George is well past the time deadline to meet his parents. Once they are all in the car, the engine fails to start.

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