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In the music scene, the word “Alternative” has been bastardized since its inception, being slapped onto numerous artists due to lack of a better term. However, Le Noire, the four-piece band hailing from the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, truly embodies the origins of the term alternative rock.  Formed in mid-2014 by friends and fellow musicians Nate Lotz, Sohanny Rose, Dan Graham and Tyler Carroll, Le Noire’s commitment to alternative rock music and its sound and lifestyle is nowhere more evident than in their music. The band is undoubtedly hard rocking, unwavering, and fully committed to melding their unique psychedelic/grunge sound into a completely new take on rock and the alternative genre – a truly dark and raw sound.  To further their cause, the band does something that is relatively unheard of these days, Le Noire do all of their recordings live, using vintage equipment and instruments, and most importantly - recording everything to tape.  Fresh off the release of their first single, FIRE, Le Noire wields the mighty alt-rock sword in the return of rock music, as most of us knew it. “FIRE” embodies that true rock prowess, and definitely reminds of something you’d catch on MTV, staring googly-eyed at the TV after school with a plate of Bagel Bites. The vocals glide perfectly along the crunchy guitar chords and the deep, noxious lead riff, ultimately culminating in a crescendo of splashing cymbols and angst. Exactly what this music is and should be about. To note as well, Le Noire’s upcoming EP was recorded with and produced by Eli Thomson (renowned bass player and member of Father John Misty) using a Trident A-Range console which was used to record music from giants like David Bowie, The Police, and Rush. The end result is a truly nostalgic sound, one that pays a tremendous homage to bands from the 90′s, but because of the songwriting and mix of other sounds and genres, is something new all on to itself.   Just listen and you be the judge.

WHAT DO WE DO? 
We have a simple philosophy: we make music to make people move. The live shows are high-energy &amp; positively charged. The music explores a diverse range of styles from rock &amp; funk &amp; reggae to house &amp; dnb &amp; breaks, and a smattering of latin, soul, and jazz vibes. The result is an irresistible blend of danceable beats and infectious hooks.

WHO ARE WE? 
Fronted by the delectable May Bluebell (jazz inspired) and the irrepressible Morgan Anderson (reggae mon), each brings their own flavour to a heady mix that breaks out into soul, hip hop and some seriously heavy counterpoints.

The 3-piece sax section is the next link in Buttertime’s unique sound, and features the incorrigible Will McDermott on alto, Adrian “Systematic” Vandenbergh on baritone, and Carlo Morello on tenor.
Driving hard from
the rear is a three piece rhythm section headed by band-leader Justin Cruickshank. With a core imperative to make people move, the unit is tight and focused, with an unparalleled rhythmical diversity supplied by drummer Richard Neville and bassist Eugene Samolin.


PUPPET REBELLION's name was written in capitals just now to get your attention. Once they have that attention, they will draw you in further with their uncompromisingly heartfelt lyrics and edgy, in your face contemporary musical arrangements which are meticulously designed to move your body and mind.

There are many artists out there vying for your time, but a quick glance at Puppet Rebellion's already impressive list of achievements prove to show that this fiercely independent band is the real deal. Having formed in January 2013, the band have already amassed a huge following on social media, helped in no small part by their close ties with both Manchester football clubs, having been selected by Manchester City FC for their 'Goal of the Month' feature and being played half-time at Old Trafford during a Manchester United Champions League game.

The band have so far released two critically acclaimed EPs, ('Chemical Friends' and 'No Means Yes'), tracks of which can be heard when they play their status affirming and sold-out energetic shows around the nation's Northern capital (including main support slots with 'Catfish & The Bottlemen' & 'Reverend and the Makers') and other venues across the UK.

So many bands, so little time. Make sure you give Puppet Rebellion the attention they deserve.

Louder Than War said...

 “There's a huge buzz in Manchester around Puppet Rebellion. To see a crowd singing along to a band that can count its gigs on both hands is a sign of greater and bigger things to come. Already, there’s a feeling that they could be huge given the right breaks"

City Life said...

"Their relentless riffs, tight rhythms and fervent vocals ooze the stomping potential that could easily find you raucously jerking your way round an indie club dancefloor. Move over Bloc Party and Interpol, there's a new guitar sensation in town!"

Little Indie Blogs said... 

“Puppet Rebellion prove themselves to be one the strongest and most confident bands in Manchester at the moment. They've been a band for barely a year, yet are already making waves both in their city and further afield, thanks in no small part to the depth of their musical prowess and intelligent lyricism"

Acid Peacock Promotions said...

"Puppet rebellion were something else, Simon Monaghan played the crowd like it was a massive venue, with a setlist that shouldn't belong to an unsigned band. The whole outfit were tight, focused and exceeded the hype that was laid out before their arrival. It really will not surprise anyone in attendance if they are a household name in the imminent future." 


Polaroids & Polar Bears said...

"The lyrics are (weighty comparison alert) so very Smithsian in their resonance and delivery. The Industrial Revolution may be a thing of the past, but Manchester is still capable of pumping out first-class, guitar-wielding produce."

Fortitude Magazine said...

"'No Means Yes' is the awe inspiring EP by Puppet Rebellion.  It will make you drop what you are doing and listen from beginning to end as all five tracks have their own unique stand out moments yet compliment each other with the most elegant yet dark and dirty riffs and lyrics"

U & I Magazine said...

“The intelligent and sharp lyricism combined with a fresh take on a well-trodden genre make Puppet Rebellion one of the most exciting acts to emerge from Manchester in 2013, and with their live shows doing nothing to hamper their reputation it's clear that the band have absolutely no intention of slowing down their ascent to the top of their game”

Bitter Sweet Symphonies said...

"There’s a real finesse to this band that becomes clear throughout this EP and again through their live performances. You get a real sense when listening to Puppet Rebellion of being part of something bigger than yourself, you can’t help but feel proud of them. They are a true credit to Manchester and of course, to the music scene here in the UK"

Hooting & Howling Magazine said...

"Their heady blend of no-nonsense indie pop and intelligent lyricism propels the band above and beyond the confines of their local scene and upholds a distinct universality to their music that belies the relatively short space of time the band have been together. Definitely an act to keep your eye on over the next 12 months"

Music vs the World said...

"Since they burst onto the Manchester indie scene in 2013, Puppet Rebellion have accumulated fans like nobody’s business. They’ve just got this natural something or other that makes people love them. It’s not something you can learn, I don’t think. They’ve just got it in their blood. It takes bands years and years to get to anywhere near approaching this stage, doesn’t it?"

Bleach & Cologne said...

"Puppet Rebellion are destined to be big. Huge. Gargantuan. Gi-frigging-normous. Susan Boyle's-monobrow massive"

Rock ‘n’ Roll in My Soul said... 

"No Means Yes is gravity-defying splendor. Beauty, heartache and love span over five tracks – each superb independently, and as a collective. A record with a punch and then some, Puppet Rebellion seem to be inching dangerously closer to iconic status with their sophomore EP."

Rock Britain said...

"Puppet Rebellion have a lot of potential and they are unleashing it gradually. The band have so much to offer that we can only guess what to expect from them in the future. This intelligent outfit are as far from being a cliché as it’s humanly possible. If you trust Puppet Rebellion with saving real music, they won’t let you down for sure. After all, one doesn’t drive people crazy with their music within the first year after formation and, most certainly, doesn’t get played during half time at Old Trafford for nothing."

Given To Sound said... 

“There’s a feeling when you listen to the EP that it isn’t designed to slowly grow on you, it’s almost as if it doesn’t want to wait for that, it’s not going to politely sit and wait for you to mull it over and decide if it’s interesting or not – it’s going to grab you by the unmentionables and take you on a quality ride.”


Legend is truly a word many people use when they talk about Graham Gold. With a career spanning over 40 years, his passion for finding and playing great music and his ability to rock a crowd has not faltered. There at the absolute beginning of house music, he was one of the most influential and ground breaking DJ’s on London’s Kiss 100 radio station, where his award-winning Friday night Kiss programme was networked all over the UK. He spent 8 years in the DJ Magazine Top 100 with 2 years at 22 and 5 years in the top 40, when this poll actually meant something before social media hype and ‘purchased’ votes took over. 
His career has taken him to rocking the decks in some of the world’s best clubs and festivals (including Glastonbury, Ultra Music Festival, SummaDayze, Homelands, Impulse) in 170 cities in over 50 countries. He also presented the biggest and most underground clubbing TV show, BPM as well as presenting on MTV for at Miami’s Winter Music Conference. His many mix albums have sold almost 1,000,000 copies in total.
Playing over 300 events every year including weekly parties at all the holiday island destinations-Ibiza, Mallorca, Benidorm, Tenerife, Cyprus, Crete and more during the 16 week summer season, he was literally getting on a plane every Monday to Thursday and Burn Out kicked in around 2006. It was time to slow down and after securing monthly residencies in Bangkok and Pattaya, he moved to what is dubbed S.E.Asia’s Ibiza, Koh Phangan,Thailand in 2008
Fast forward to 2023, he still lives on KP,  playing parties regularly (including sunsets) and producing music which has found its way onto labels such as Wyldcard, Patent Skillz, Ballroom, Krafted Underground, Dynamica, Assymetric and Jeepers. Musically it’s hard to pigeonhole Graham’s music-it’s everything from deep house, deep tech, progressive and melodic house, progressive techno to tech house and techno- the club and the time slot dictate what journey he is going to take his audience on. It can all be heard in his weekly radio show, Esta La Musica which is syndicated to over 25 radio stations.  He returns annually to the UK and Ibiza for the summer festival season.
Like so many others, his career started as a soul music DJ, which led to a 10-year residency from 1980-1990 at Gullivers in Mayfair, frequented by such luminaries as Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Mike Tyson, Jimmy Cliff, Maze, Earth Wind & Fire-the list is totally endless-if you were a major player in black music or sport in the 80’s you would have been at Gullivers! In this time, he also presented one of the two soul shows on London’s Capital FM, which won him the specialist Broadcaster Of The Year in the then music bible, Music Week. He also shared the decks weekly as far back as 1983 with Carl Cox in a dodgy little club in Brixton! Ask Roger Sanchez, David Morales, Tiesto, Armin, Ferry Corsten, John Digweed, Sasha, actually you could ask pretty much any big name about Graham Gold-they all know him! Check the socials, almost 12,000 followers on FB and over 10,000 followers on Mixcloud.
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www.mixcloud.com/GrahamGold/
www.soundcloud.com/dj-graham-gold
www.instagram.com/djgrahamgold/
www.youtube.com/GRAHAMGOLD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Gold

Broken beats, housey rhythms, groovy & gripping.

Monthly radio show: @littlecreaturescast

Based in Miami with roots in LA and San Salvador, Alex is an enthusiast and passionate selector of underground tunes. His rhythmic offerings provide an equal balance of engaging, energetic tunes and the freaky, weirder side of techno, electro, and house. He is currently a resident for Un_Mute (@un_mutemiami) and BlackTone (@user-438863613) events in the US, and host of Little Creatures Radio based in Bristol, UK: follow @littlecreaturescast

A 4-year stint in Central America starting 2013 led to affiliation with @thehouseprojectt and dates at most of the region's major clubs and festivals. Over the years, Alex has shared the stage with storied talent such as Onur Ozer, Ian Pooley, John Tejada, Dana Ruh, Tom Ellis, and Adam Collins (Omni A.M.) along with new school luminaries like Francesco del Garda, DJ Masda, Binh, Laurine & Cecilio, Nicolas Lutz, Raphael Carrau, Quest, Brasi, Giammarco Orsini, Z@P, Cristian Sarde, Cosmic JD, Sibil, Truly Madly, Hamish & Toby, Harry McCanna, John Dimas, Oshana, Nicola Cruz...

Such experiences are leading to a constant evolution in his musical depth and have bolstered his ability to comfortably combine trippy with techy, dreamy with drummy, heady with house.

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Dishing up delightful ‘bytez’ of marvellously rough beats, striving and adept pair Proto Bytez are a true example of being “in it for the music.” With hard kicks and majestic melodies embedded deep into their DNA, this dynamic duo has held a deep bond with Hardstyle for over ten years. Endlessly expressing their desire to manifest their ideas into sound-waves, as a result of their hard work, Proto Bytez have earnt a place of prestige amongst the Hardstyle community.

Jorick and Patrick have had their heads buried in complex production programs since ’07 and after fiddling around with music as a hobby, around 2011 they made the decision to pursue it with serious ambition. Over the years, Proto Bytez has established a signature sound which is based on Hardstyle’s core elements: everything from stunning melodies, god-like atmospheres, hard kicks and rough electronic elements – these boys have it covered! 

During the infancy of their career, their early releases allowed fans, industry professionals and artists to become familiar with their intentions. Tunes such as “Falling” and “Destruktion” were just a small taste of what the duo had to offer, as Patrick and Jorick’s skills and knowledge continued to flourish. 

With great enthusiasm, Proto Bytez continued stepping up to the plate with some tremendous releases on Scantraxx Silver. Headlining this talent division with hard-hitting tracks such as “One Destiny” with Jay Reeve, “Back Down,” “Recreation” with Recharge and “Fire Up,” Proto Bytez have fulfilled their task to close down the ‘gap’ between Raw and Euphoric Hardstyle. Now, proceeding on their journey to triumph, Proto Bytez has now been announced as the latest addition to the Scantraxx Recordz clan! 

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Curve / SurlyCamp / Grove Presents / Resonant Sound

Cascadian sonic person Paranome has been making dancefloors move and parties pop in Oregon and beyond for over two decades first as Resonant Sound then at Bend, Oregon’s much loved groundbreaking venue The Grove. Now with the Curve crew in Portland and SurlyCamp on the playa, his sets defy convention and reflect a lifetime of heady music appreciation.

chris@thegrove411.net

If reinvention is the key to immortality, Chris Parson is going to live forever.  Chameleonic in style as in name, the visionary DJ/producer has shed many skins, each one broadening his bite further up the food chain. To veterans of the electronic dance community, he is widely remembered as junglist Crisp Arson. To the more recent wave of rave, he is Parson — lead pilot for Run DMT (est. 2011) and crime-fighting beermonger for Irresponsible Voltron (est. 2008).  
 
These nights, he operates as Spud Crowley — critical thinker, feather-ruffler of social media, and composer of metaphysical, bass-riddled wizardry. Once recognized as a pioneer of North American dubstep, the native Texan has since evolved to embrace a sound that spans more of his musical influences and individual prowess. Weaving time, moods and dimensions, he aesthetically connects the cerebral and the spiritual, pairing knowledge and dance. With vinyl releases on Planet Mu, Creative Space Records and Dubline Audio, as well as a decade-long enterprise as resident at Austin’s famed bars Plush and Barcelona, Chris Parson is truly a bona fide music-maker.
 
Following a brief stint at Otis College of Art and Design in LA, the border Texan moved to the capital city in 1997, and in 2001, dug his roots into the underground bar known as Plush, where he founded the longest running DnB weekly in Austin to date. After a five-year stretch booking and performing every Tuesday, the restless Plush fixture made the move to Barcelona — Austin’s notorious Sixth Street basement bar — and shifted his work week to Thursday nights. During his four-year residency with collective Irresponsible Voltron, Chris drove his production the route of dubstep and made history.
 
As his DJing captivated crowds in Austin and beyond, Parson the producer went global.  He received the Best International Newcomer Dubstep Forum Award in 2006, and his remix on Ramadanman’s label won Best Digital Release the following year. Undeniably, his catalytic moment was indeed 2007, when Parson’s creations caught fire through prestigious vehicles Planet Mu and Dubline Audio.  
 
His tracks “Throw Some Ds” and “Texas Crawl” gained such fierce popularity, Mary Anne Hobbs of BBC Radio 1 deemed Parson the inventor of “chopped and screwed” dubstep — a Texas-bred style that has since been imitated, but never replicated.  His discography continued to ignite with releases on La Dubstep Nostra (2008) and Creative Space Records (2009), and with a remix of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Now or Never” (2009).  As Run DMT, he released on Teenage Riot Records, Play Me Too Records, P5 Records and Heavy Artillery Recordings; but when the joint endeavor went supernova, a disenchanted Chris detached from the duo.
  
After touring huge festivals in the US and Canada, and leaving a trail of international releases in his wake, Chris Parson’s focus shifted back to the elements:  back to where rock meets wood to spark fire.  In 2013, he returned to Plush as Spud Crowley, with a fresh, albeit brief monthly residency known simply as Baked, then spent 2014-2016 back at Barcelona as resident of a bass-driven weekly. Parson fanned the flame for those three years, only to drop the torch to follow the moon. Unweighted from the trademark sounds of his past, 2017 peeled back yet another layer to the shapeshifter. Now, alongside Alex Scott, he is MDMT, and their element is all water and air — fluid, heady, and feelgood. So whether he’s weaving atmospheric goodness for local crowds, or shaking maracas as a rogue banana in Satalights, Chris Parson continues to construct the legacy that’s made him an Austin mainstay. 
 
 
https://soundcloud.com/mdmtsound
http://www.mixcloud.com/chrisparson/
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https://www.facebook.com/SpudCrowleyBeats

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