Spoonfed Tribe

.....This is a collection of artists/ performers from Dallas-Ft Worth, TX. In 1999, Spoonfed Tribe debuted their first album with great impact and started touring the region, while gradually releasing 2 additional Independent CD's. In 2003, the Tribe opened up to diligently touring the us and spreading their vibe. Since then, they were able to release 2 more albums.

.....Their new project,"Public Service Announcement", holds a New Sound, which is gaining radio support, and National recognition. This has given great momentum to the Tribe, along with winning "Best Hard Rock Band" and  "Rock Album of the Year" at the FW Weekly Music Awards 2008. Spoonfed Tribe is ready for the future and the Now.

T Bird and the Breaks

"T Bird and the Breaks are serious soul students. Yet, there is something more than a re-creation taking place when T Bird grabs the mic. You might say he is channeling the great soul men of the past, but dig deeper and you will find that this is music at it's most visceral form. Raw, rowdy, and raunchy at times, T Bird and his breaks know how to start a party. In a world of cookie cutter impersonators, T Bird sings the truth."

FM Campers

" FM Campers want to melt your face and break your heart. With two tables full of electronic goodies, drum machines, samplers, pedals, Moogs and laptops, topped off with huge guitar sounds and a hard hitting drummer, FM Campers have been garnering a lot of attention over the past year. Shaun, Jason, and Anthony have all been tickling the ears of music lovers in Brooklyn and Austin for years, but finally came together to form FM Campers and take their music to the next level, breaking boundaries and bringing unheard of sounds to the masses. FM Campers invites the listener to explore new sonic places, filling your ears with driving electronic beats on top of energetic live drumming, huge bass, and multiple layers of sounds, voices, and melodies. A wall of sound that pulls you in and makes you move, their live show is not to be missed. "

PONG

Materializing out of the fog machine with 2001's Killer Lifestyle, one of America's great post-punk spawn, Austin's Ed Hall, added keys, a second guitar, and gave itself a New Millennium makeover: Pong. Fun replaced fury with funky, a lithe, robotic bounce - They Might Be Giants as opposed to Trance Syndicate. Twenty grand later, the video soundtrack to Killer Lifestyle's "Bubble Jungle" has ballooned into Bubble City, early android beefed up with Man or Astro-Man? And like Ed Hall's 1995 swan song, La La Land, this sequel never betters its opener, "Killer Lifestyle."

Sharp scales peel off into the broiling underbelly of bassist Larry Strub and Lyman Hardy's bedrock drums, up from which Shane Shelton's synthesizer burps lava lamp bubbles. Guitarists Gary Chester and Jason Craig zigzag it together with spidery weaves. Behold the first Red River anthem of 2005: "He's a real smooth talker, he drinks Johnny Walker. He says, 'Gimme Johnny Walker and water without the water.' He says, 'This is the killer lifestyle.'" Does he ever. "He say, 'Get into my limo, I really like your demo, it's snowing in July, and now inside it's raining bimbos.' He talk a walkie-talkie, he fly a helicopter. The best seats in the house like he's the Phantom of the Opera, singing, 'This is the killer lifestyle.'" A total bore, you know him well. "He's a fake punk rocker, he gets baked like Betty Crocker. He makes lots and lots of money, but prefers to eat a Whopper. He says, 'This is the killer lifestyle.'" At the end, cascading melodies fall like rain in the biosphere. Brings a tear to your eye.

The calliope intro to "Secret Meat" and space needling riffs don't miss a beat next, herky-jerky skeleton riffs a la Oingo Biongo. Batting third, the other hit is the Seventies cowbell intro and Grand Funk of "Interpol," aka "Interpol boogie," automated vocals et al. The rest of Bubble City never quite measures up to its lead-off trio of songs, but at 37 minutes, it cuts 12 minutes of flab off the debut and is as lean as fluorescent body paint. To its considerable credit, Bubble City's bob and bounce shore up nominal tunes better than any band has a right; Strub/Hardy are indie rock's Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson. More Seventies ("The Owl") and a pastoral instrumental ("After School Special") give way to closer "Finally," a goof about Led Zeppelin's cutting tape (complete with Darkness/Young Heart Attack outro). Just as Houses of the Holy didn't include its namesake, Killer Lifestyle saved its best and brightest for Bubble City. This is the "Killer Lifestyle." - The Austin Chronicle

Moving Matter

With its head in the clouds and feet planted firmly in the stratosphere, Moving Matter has taken what you thought a rock band was, turned it on its head and launched it into outer space!

Since relocating to the musical mecca of Austin, TX from Ft. Collins, CO, the band has steadily progressed, constanty honing its expansive, stratospheric sound, and frequently garnering praise and comparisons to such acts as Sound Tribe Sector 9, Phish, and The Disco Biscuits. Bassist Chris Holland handles the pocket with deep, aggressive grooves and guitarist Josh Pearson holds a PHD in soaring-lead-alogy, while drummer Dan Mcgreevy captains the ship with his rock-steady and relentless beats. Bozarth on keys has rounds out the sound by dropping stinging synth textures and creamy hammond organ in to the mix.

Moving Matter's previous LP, "Infrablue" finally revealed the crafty songwriting and studio prowess that the band had found in recent years, but it is undoubtedly late at night, under the lights and in the smoky bars where Moving Matter creates its magic. Swimming the uncharted waters of live improvisation, the band has a knack for creating powerful music that is undeniably in tune with the present moment and teeming with the energy of those who bear witness from the audience.

The band currently tours with a rig of intelligent lights, LED washes, inflatable aliens, and a multitude of 'candy' for the eyes to compliment the psychedelic waves of sound created by the band's guitar and synth-infused musical journeys.

Moving Matter has shared the stage with such artists as The Disco Biscuits, The Roots, Thievery Corporation, Sound Tribe Sector Nine, Tea Leaf Green, JFJO, Little Feat, Particle, Tony Furtado, Brothers Past, and Big Head Todd & the Monsters. MM has rocked such hallowed stages as The Fox Theatre in Boulder, Antone's and the infamous Stubb’s BBQ in Austin, and the Granada Theater in Dallas.

BoomBox

(Muscle Shoals, AL) BoomBox is Producer/Engineer/DJ/Drummer Russ Randolph and Producer/DJ/Vocalist/Guitarist Zion Rock Godchaux. This pair of dynamic artists uses their rich musical history and their vision of music and popular culture to deliver a style of music distinctly different from anything heard or seen in music today. This signature sound and show brings live music to a new, elevated level. BoomBox evolved through the common visualization of two forward-thinking artists from diverse musical backgrounds. Raised by supportive and musically inclined parents, both Godchaux and Randolph had an obsession with music at very young ages. Godchaux, who grew up with deeply embedded rock and roll roots, began playing drums at the age of two, and played guitar and wrote his own songs as a teen. During the 90s, Godchaux was a well-received touring DJ based out of the San Francisco area. Randolph began as a young drummer, but it's what was happening behind the scenes that attracted him most. As much producers as they are musicians, it is Randolph's understanding of soundscape and Godchaux's knack for songwriting that keeps BoomBox resonating at higher levels.

Killa Dilla

Two men, tattered and bruised, appear on the horizon. Unknown, their origin. Unknown, their purpose. Unknown, their struggle. Smoke fills the air as a faint rumble becomes present almost inaudible at first, then gaining strength as the very Earth begins to shake under one's own feet.

"This must be an apparition," a voice calls out "for I have never heard such an ominous sounding tone. Let alone one resounding from the Earth itself!"

Eyes play tricks, ears hear folly, the mind recoils in horror as the very visions once thought to be apparitions take physical form and through them, nay, from within them the very rumble grows louder and louder still until so voluminous that the very molecules behind the eyes vibrate in a wonderful dance of joy!

"This must be magic!" The voice calls again. "This cannot be human, for I have scaled Everest and I have seen the depths of the oceans and never in my life have I heard such a sound! Show yourselves!!"

And as quickly as the two men appear, they vanish.

In their stead is seen a small amulet, a disc if you will. And upon that disc is the blood, sweat, and tears of a thousand generations. A million millennia in waiting, this disc holds the energy of a thousand suns all condensed into a volume the size of the palm of your hand.

And now, as the brain struggles to regain senility, and the eyes adjust to the blinding light, a cry is heard on the horizon, "BEHOLD! We are the Dillion, and all the world shall know us as the Killa Dilla!"

http://thekilladilla.com

Narcissia Dhial

Narcissia Dhial has had many creative incarnations throughout her life:
dancer, model, clothing designer, musician. While living in Portland, Oregon (1998-2008), she headed two music projects, the doom-swing band Cotton Jenny, and the Jennifer Faust Sextet. She also recorded her first full-length endeavor, Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, with Mike Coykendal (M. Ward, She & Him, Bright Eyes), produced by Christian Hurd (Howlin' Maggy, Templeton, LookBook). Since moving to California at the start of 2009, Jennifer has formed an impressive band, featuring Michael Lindner (Aquavelvets, Mendocino Allstars) on bass, mandolin, and accordian, and David T. Carter (Trailer Park Rangers) on guitar and backing vocals. With her signature Gibson Flying V, haunting, dischordant melodies, and pitch-perfect shadowbox lyrics, Jennifer's sound remains strictly her own. This year's performance highlights include the Harmony Festival (Santa Rosa), Yoshi's (San Francisco), and music featured in the surf documentary,The Find (2009 release). Her first West Coast tour is planned for November.

Sounding like what Pink Floyd would sound like with a sultry female vocalist in 2008, Narcissia Dhial's songs about psychedelic cowboys are invigorating and amazing. With a voice reminiscent of Cat Power, Narcissia Dhial's work is hypnotizing and warmly embracing all at once. Her 2007 release, "Light As a Feather, Stiff as a Board," as well as her work fronting the jazz combo Cotton Jenny , are exercises in dreamy folk pop. Not only is she a great musician, but she also spends time modeling and designing clothes for her label, Narcissia Dial. Multitalented, indeed.