FALLEN STARS ARE A THRILLING EXPLOSION OF SOUND HAILING FROM THE WETLANDS OF VANCOUVER. THIS FANTASTIC FIVE-PIECE BRILLIANTLY FUSE HARD ROCK AND POP-METAL, GENERATING A COMPLETELY REFRESHING SOUND. THEIR MUSIC IS SIMULTANEOUSLY WARM AND WHIMSICAL YET RIGHTEOUS AND RARE. FRONTWOMAN, ROSE HAS A SOUL- SHAKING VOICE THAT RATTLES LISTENERS TO THE CORE. HER VOCAL RANGE IS IMPOSSIBLY WELL SUITED TO THE WALL OF SOUND SURROUNDING HER BY THIS GROUP OF FIERCELY TALENTED ARTISTS. FALLEN STARS ARE PROUD MEMBERS OF THE LBGTQ+ AND QUEER COMMUNITY. THE BAND’S NATURAL INCLUSIVITY IS PALPABLE IN THEIR ENDLESSLY PASSIONATE MUSIC. THE BAND HAS GARNERED SOME SERIOUS AND WELL- DESERVED ACCOLADES OVER THE YEARS. THEIR UPCOMING FULL-LENGTH RECORD “EXECUTION” ILLUMINATES THE BAND’S ENDLESS VERSATILITY AND TALENT. STAY TUNED FOR EVERYTHING THIS FEROCIOUSLY GIFTED GROUP HAS TO OFFER. THE ALBUM WILL BE UNLASHED IN THE EARLY SUMMER.
Artists can be dime-a-dozen, but there is only one Scotty J. Emerging from the elite San Diego and Denver music scenes, Rock/Americana/Blues/Country recording artist/songwriter, Scotty J, began hitting the ground running in the 90’s and since that time has manifested into a versatile and multifaceted artist with his own signature sound and stylization. Originally hailing from Los Angeles and known for his tasty, tone dripped, melodic bluesy guitar style, Scotty J over the years has been playing many roles as a developing artist. Ranging from taking on singing, songwriting, studio sessions, filling in for gigs, and audio engineering/producer for several artists and projects. He was awarded as “Top Musician” by Louie Bellson at the Lubbock Jazz Festival.His break through hit single “Come to Me” garnered regular airplay on several Denver/Boulder/internet radio stations including 99.5 The Mountain, Area 93.3 FM, KCUV 1510 AM, KVDU, and KCRV 88.9 FM. Since gracing the stage, Scotty J has had the opportunity to play prominent shows alongside or opened for notable artists including The Flobots, Jeff Skunk Baxter, String Cheese Incident, Otis Taylor, Al Green, John McEwen, G Love & Special Sauce, Harry Dean Stanton, Oakhurst, Gilby Clark, Ozomatli, Dave Wakelin, Gila Monsters, Stan Ridgeway, Davy Jones, Peter Noone, Tommy Ramone, Young Dubliners, and several others. You could have also found Scotty J the house band at the House of Blues LA Scotty J’s original band Cranium Lounge was honored to record with legendary David Devore (Grateful Dead-Fleetwood Mac) at the Complex in West Los Angeles. That same band was nominated as the “Top unsigned LA Band” for 3 consecutive years. Now continuing his legacy exclusively as a solo artist, Scotty J has a busy and promising 2019 coming up and will be releasing 14 new singles over several months. The new songs are engineered and co-produced by Grammy award winner Clark Hagan (Chet Atkins, etc.).Scotty will also be performing a lineup of shows in Colorado and California in Summer 2019 in preparation and promotion of the upcoming record. As he continues to compose, create, manifest and innovate throughout 2019 and beyond, be sure to keep an eye out for Scotty J’s upcoming releases and show dates.
The vast canvas of the desert, genre defying soundscapes, and cinematic vignettes inspire Mojave Grey’s barrier breaking mood during our unprecedented times. Based in between Los Angeles and the Joshua Tree, Mojave Grey is the brainchild of recording artist Zander Bleck. “We seek to capture the vibe of the desert and elements of nature and to infuse into our music and visuals for to those who yearn to escape during this socially distant moment,” Zander said.
Blood of the Phoenix blend a mix of early 2000s metalcore with a new groove. Influenced heavily from the big choruses of Killswitch Engage to the djent-melodic verses of Periphery, they have brought a crisp unique sound to the genre.
My name is Peter Hansson 56 year man from Sweden. I played music since I was 11 years old. I started first with elecric organ from drums and now guitar. I’ve been in some bands over the years but is only a couple a years ago that I started to write songs and with a focus on Country music. I really like telling stories that’s the great about country music. I hope one day to write a hit and get a famous country singer to sing my songs.
Redgrave Jones is a Los Angeles – based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music is best described as eclectic/alternative drawing influence from a wide array genres.
Eric Klein is a singer/ songwriter/ guitarist who has been entertaining audiences throughout the U.S. for over 40 years. His versatile songwriting and guitar playing is rooted in the diverse sounds of classic rock, blues, Americana, acoustic rock, and country. Eric’s musical journey began as a teenager in the late 1970’s in Upstate New York when a local musician showed him how to tune a beat-up acoustic he found in the basement. He and the guitar have been inseparable ever since. He continued his musical development while attending the University of Florida and Colorado State University in the 1980’s. In those music-rich environments, he wrote and performed with a variety of talented players and was introduced to the authentic sounds of local roots musicians; sounds that he incorporated into his guitar and songwriting styles. During this period, Eric’s rock bands were successful regional acts, opening for many well-known national artists. In the early 90’s Eric moved to Los Angeles and continued to refine his writing, recording, and performance skills. His knowledge of the craft of songwriting expanded as he attended numerous songwriting seminars, performances, and song critiques. He placed several original songs with three different music publishing companies. Since moving to the San Diego area in 2001, Eric has recorded extensively and held down lead guitar and vocal duties in several rock bands. He is currently plays lead guitar and provides background vocals in the north San Diego County bands FreeMartin and Cadillac Fringe.
Horse Trader is a lockdown concept. All recording was done remotely in various homes and the tracks mailed to one another. Huw and I are long time collaborators, and we recruited a few friends to contribute who had home recording gear to be able to do it. I [Paul] wrote all the songs and recorded them to a click track. This was the first step. I then sent the lot to Huw to add drums. Huw then sent the tracks to the next in line. I think 7/8 tracks went to Bruce, Doug got 3/4 and Mark had a couple. There was no plan. It was an organic experiment. We did it like this because there was no other option to making a recording. I’d call it a recording band, not a real band as such. We don’t have any plans to play live or for the band to continue once things revert to normal, well not at present anyway. The important aspects as far as the writing went, was to let it be a document of exactly where things stand for me in the present tense. The perilous political situation, the isolation, with some sci-fi flights of fancy and general remarks on the philosophic and some psychedelic references to the death rebirth cycle. Fixing the lens on the embarrassingly wealthy despots who run the world and are taking us to the brink of extinction, felt necessary. For this album we had a slightly different line-up to the first one, that was dictated by who was available. I gave very little instruction to any of the other contributors. I just told them to play what they felt like expressing. It was all done on trust and knowing each other well. I knew exactly what each would bring from playing together previously. It gave everyone room to be creative and not have any limiting parameters. There were a couple of things that were corrected or changed, mostly over the awkwardness of my songs, which don’t really follow any kind of recognisable songwriting template, as I use tunings and have developed my own way of doing things. I’m sure they’d have liked charts or chords as guides, but I don’t work that way. Giving them the key was about the only clue I gave them, hence on occasion some difficulty in translation. I’ve no idea what the chords are anyway. I just draw chord shape diagrams and note the tuning to remember them. Sometimes I don’t even do that, so after a while they become unfathomable to me as well! It’s a very loose, organic, intuitive process, with chance elements and happy accidents. I find this lack of conscious intent helps rather than hinder the creative process. Huw collated all the tracks, as he has lots of recording experience as he owns his own studio. He is far more experienced at this part than I am. Mark offered to mix and master the recordings.
Hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Alternative Metal band Seven Days Rest came onto the music scene of Albuquerque New Mexico in late 2015. Leaning into their style, Seven Days Rest primarily uses the down-tuned heavy guitar sound of the mid-2000’s Alt-Metal scene and the darkly aggressive songwriting of modern Post-Hardcore/Metalcore. Their influences include Trivium, Breaking Benjamin, Slipknot, Nothing More, Three Days Grace, A Day to Remember, Our Last Night, and Jinjer. The band currently consists of vocalist Shay Raelynn, Guitarist Aris Zaffer, Bassist Julian Gunther, and Drummer Justyn Rippie. Their second full-length album is expected to release in spring 2022.
