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Rootstand

February 18, 2011 by su  
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Greetings from the Rootstand Family. The trials, tribulations, and grassroot determination of our team has exposed us as one of the most upcoming and notorious roots bands on the scene. Few other bands dig as deep in to the God-given mojo and animusical magnetism afforded to Michigan’s favorite acoustic ghetto rebel sons. Rootstand successfully marries [...]

Media for the Street Team

April 7, 2010 by su  
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Head on over to the street team page and get the new

Big Sam’s Funky Nation

March 21, 2010 by su  
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In New Orleans, a city indisputably overflowing with funk, the high honor for Best Funk Group of 2008 was awarded to Big Sam’s Funky Nation at the 2009 Big Easy Music Awards. For the past few years, Big Sam’s Funky Nation has been a driving force of urban funk. The band is led by trombone [...]

Greensky Bluegrass

March 20, 2010 by su  
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GREENSKY BLUEGRASS is one of the most exciting bands in today’s music scene. Like a breath of fresh air, this five piece band plays traditional bluegrass instruments and uses them to create original songs and soundscapes that are unique and new, yet somehow feel comfortable and familiar. Though they have been likened to ‘70s era [...]

Jessica Lea Mayfield

March 20, 2010 by su  
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Pop Matters By: Caroline Shadood Everything about singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield is both incredibly practiced yet incredibly sincere—a binary that becomes only more compelling in consideration of her 1989 birthday. view article Babel Music By: Joe Puglisi In a dreary sea of songwriters, her writing encapsulates that special certain emotive quality that is tough to [...]

Steppin’ In It

March 20, 2010 by su  
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Rare indeed when a collection of songs creates an entire world. Yet that’s exactly what transpires with Steppin’ In It’s “Simple Tunes for Troubled Times.” Sonically painting with a pleasant array of old time country swing and blues, this Lansing, Michigan, quartet brilliantly updates a re-surging American musical genre. Populating this 11-track collection is an [...]

The Macpodz

March 20, 2010 by su  
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Alien exhaust jazz meets townie f**K rock! One of the nation’s great eccentric cities can fill its fanatical void with a young band called The Macpodz. Ann Arbor’s guitar-less five-piece comprised of brilliant musicians who via bass, trumpet, percussion/flute, keys, and drums, muster up some of the most energetic dance music on the scene today. [...]

Jen Sygit

March 18, 2010 by su  
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Jen Sygit has been writing songs since she was knee high to a grasshopper. Her parents report that as a child she gravitated toward the musical instruments in the room and within minutes was able to play melodies on them. As early as Elementary school Jen could be found writing love songs on her parents [...]

Joshua Davis & Fool Rooster

March 17, 2010 by su  
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Raised between the steely clamor of Detroit and the stillness of Michigan’s pristine Upper Peninsula, Joshua Davis is a rare combination of both city and country. These distinct yet complimentary faces of Davis’s home state of Michigan are lovingly melded in his songwriting. Joshua writes songs, plays acoustic and electric guitar, National steel, mandolin and [...]

The Rachel Davis Band

March 16, 2010 by su  
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Rachael Davis has been singing on-stage since she was two years old. Being born to parents who never intended to keep her very far from music for very long seems to have made all the difference in the world. Before she could walk Rachael would be set in a car seat and placed in the [...]

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