deFrance formed from the muddy banks of the Ouachita River in the vest pocket town of Camden, Arkansas. Called the “hardest working band in Arkansas,” the band has racked up more than 600 shows since forming in 2015. deFrance now calls Little Rock, Arkansas, home but these road warriors carry their modern take on classic rock & roll across the world, having performed shows at legendary international venues as well as earning the respect of fans locally, with two of their songs being selected for use in Arkansas state tourism commercials. The band’s technical prowess and deliverance of a truly pure rock & roll sound has been recognized with support opportunities for Foghat, Bon Jovi, Deep Purple, ZZ Top, Whiskey Myers, Robert Randolph, Shooter Jennings, Morris Day & The Time, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Living Colour, among others

The Upper Level consists of Clark Hudgins, Bo (Bridges) Roach, Steve Cook, and Jimmy Spell. The Upper Level reunite to open for The TWIST at Martin’s Downtown bringing different generations together for Jackson, MS Rock & Roll
The Upper Level formed from different high schools in North Jackson in the eighties, playing clubs and parties.

Delta is a Mississippi spawned jam band based out of Jackson,MS. Inspired by the likes of The Grateful Dead, WSP, Phish and many more, Delta creates a unique individualized live music experience with a blend of original music, covers and improvisation

Proud Hound is a 4-piece blues-rock band based out of Como, Mississippi. Kody Harrell has performed with Luther & Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars and has been featured in Cody Dickinson & Friends lineup

"Stinging blues guitar and potent, original songs herald the emergence of a major new talent." --USA Today

"Jarekus Singleton is an exciting new young blues guitarist with melody, hooks, swagger and a strong, original voice. His lyrics are modern, personal, acutely poetic and deeply mature." --Washington Post

"Jarekus Singleton is destined to be the next big name in the blues world." --Blues & Rhythm Magazine (UK)

"High-energy, rock-tinged and tough…a winning blend of modern-day blues and emotionally intense soul with melodic, hot-toned lead guitar, funk-seasoned rhythms and hip-hop flavored lyrics. Singleton creates unpredictable and challenging music that sounds both firmly rooted in blues tradition and fearlessly dedicated to breaking boundaries and blazing new paths." --Living Blues

At just 30 years old, Jarekus Singleton is a musical trailblazer with a bold vision for the future of the blues. Springing from the same Mississippi soil as Charley Patton, Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Singleton’s cutting-edge sound—equally rooted in rap, rock and blues traditions—is all his own. He melds hip-hop wordplay, rock energy and R&B grooves with contemporary and traditional blues, turning audiences of all ages into devoted fans. With his untamed guitar licks and strong, soulful voice effortlessly moving from ferocious and funky to slow and steamy to smoking hot, Singleton is a fresh, electrifying bluesman bursting at the seams with talent.

Singleton's Alligator debut, Refuse To Lose, features a scintillating guitar attack and lyrically startling original songs all sung with a natural storyteller’s voice. Produced by Singleton along with Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer and recorded at PM Music in Memphis, the album is an impossible-to-ignore first step onto the world stage. With songs telling real life, streetwise (sometimes funny) stories brimming with surprising images, pop culture references, infectious rhythms and unexpected musical twists, Refuse To Lose unleashes a new wave of blues for a new generation of fans.

Jarekus Singleton has been tearing up clubs and festivals across the South, and has performed twice at the world-renowned Chicago Blues Festival. He has been featured at South Carolina's Lowcountry Blues Festival and Festival of Discovery as well as many other festivals in the South and clubs throughout Mississippi. With the addition of high-visibility performances including Springing The Blues Festival, Biscuits & Blues in San Francisco, The North Atlantic Blues Festival, The PA Blues Festival, The Cincinnati Blues Festival, and The Festival International du Blues de Mont-Tremblant, Singleton is on the cusp of international stardom.

The Terry Miller Project consist of some of Jackson’s elite musicians. Terry Miller has been a member of The Vamps and Southern Komfort Brass Band for years. Terry is a great performer of funk, soul, and jazz. The Terry Miller Project features:

Terry Miller

Jarid Smith

Rhamarcus Lee

James Weary

Tyler Kemp

Angelo is an Electronic and Bass Music producer based out of Jackson, Mississippi

SYLVIA ROSE NOVAK RUNS RAGGED, ROCKIN’ & REAL ON BOISTEROUS “SOUTH OF BOULDER” - GLIDE MAGAZINE

NEW SYLVIA ROSE NOVAK TRACK “LITTLE SISTER” IS STRAIGHT OUTLAW COUNTRY - AMERICAN SONGWRITER

“NOVAK IS AN EMERGING TALENT, DELIVERING HONEST, EMOTIONALLY RIDDEN SONGS THAT HAVE LASTING POWER.” - GLIDE MAGAZINE 

 “THE ALABAMA BASED NOVAK’S CHANGE OVER SIX YEARS IS SUCH THAT THOSE WHO HEARD HER FIRST ALBUM MIGHT NOT EVEN RECOGNIZE IT’S THE SAME ARTIST ON THIS NEW ONE. THE TRANSFORMATION HAS BEEN GRADUAL WITH THE SONGS, SOUND AND EVEN HER LOOKS BECOMING INCREASINGLY RAWER OVER THE COURSE OF HER FOUR RELEASES.” - AMERICAN SONGWRITER

Sylvia Rose Novak has always come out swinging. This is as apparent on the opening track, “Fallout”, of her fifth studio album, A Miss/ A Masterpiece, as it is in the fact that she’s been releasing a full-length studio LP every two years since 2014. She’s been called prolific more than a handful of times but the Athens, GA bassist and songwriter simply prefers to think of herself as driven.

Met with acclaim from publications such as American Songwriter and Billboard, Novak’s aptly-named 2020 release BAD LUCK carefully bridged the gap between her former life as an Americana artist - a genre that she felt put into because the music industry and fans alike had issues boxing her into one space - and her foray into pure rock and roll. However, when it comes to A Miss/ A Masterpiece, Novak is expecting fans of her previous work to leave their preconceptions at the door and realize that the Sylvia Rose Novak they thought they knew is a Sylvia Rose Novak who never was. Novak wants to see her name in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, not the Country Music Hall of Fame. She closes her eyes and sees herself selling out Wembley, not the Ryman. A Miss/ A Masterpiece is deeply reflective of the person and the artist that Novak has always known herself to be.

It is high time the world meets her as she was meant to be introduced: in her favorite Black Sabbath tank top, black jeans, and a scuffed pair of well-loved motorcycle boots.

A Miss/ A Masterpiece, though recognizable in the sense that Sylvia is and always has been a poignant writer with an unshakable sense of rhyme scheme and brilliant imagery, is far different than anything she’s ever released before.

The drums hit hard and loud. The bass and guitars are down-tuned and heavy. And Novak’s voice, though clearly hers, hasn’t so much matured as it has tapped into something raw and real that’s been buried deep within her all of these years. A Miss/ A Masterpiece is also deeply personal; touching on her fears of nuclear fallout in “Fallout”, hitting hard notes about reproductive rights in “Stress Fracture”, offering a glimpse into bipolar depression with “Rage”, and penning a memoir about the time she was addicted to uppers via “The Window” - a track on which she also played violin for the first time since she put down the instrument in 2019 to focus solely on bass.

The bass was Novak’s first instrumental love. Though she’s multi-instrumental - having learned everything from Trombone to pedal steel over the last two decades, something about the bass has called to her since she was twelve years old and first heard the introductory bars to “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” Duff McKagan’s counter-melody reached out to her as if it was an old friend, a kindred rebel soul. From that moment, her relationship with the instrument has only grown and is now the bedrock for the sonic rebirth that’s so evident throughout A Miss/ A Masterpiece.

THE LONG RUN is made up of some of Florida’s finest and most respected musicians. Individual members of the band have performed with or shared the stage with great artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steppenwolf, Eddie Money, Beach Boys, .38 Special, Doobie Brothers, Trace Adkins…just to name a few.

THE LONG RUN reproduces the sound that made the Eagles one of the most successful musical groups in rock and roll history. They capture the energy, guitar technique and vocal harmonies of the Eagles to an art; five voices blending together that will please even the most critical of Eagles fans.

You won’t hear a tribute to the Eagles this great till
“Hell Freezes Over.”

TUC'S NOVOCAINE FEATURED #1 BILLBOARD ALTERNATIVE SONGS CHART 2020...

Based out of Fort Worth, Texas, The Unlikely Candidates are an indie rock band initially formed as an acoustic duo by childhood friends Kyle Morris and Cole Male in 2008. Eventually expanding the lineup to include guitarist Brenton Carney, bassist Jared Hornbeek, and drummer Kevin Goddard, the band was also able to expand its sound in bigger, more sweeping directions. In 2013, the band signed on with major-label Atlantic and released their debut EP, Follow My Feet. In early 2016, the Unlikely Candidates returned with a hooky new single in “You Love Could Start a War,” which made a strong showing on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart.

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Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Winston Ramble is a homegrown folk-rock n roll band. With members originally hailing from the free state of Winston County, AL, the band aims to interject the raw expression of rock-n-roll into the feel-good vibes of acoustic music.

Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Fooshee’s Forecast is emerging on the scene with a sound that’s familiar yet unique in rock terms - the result is a fusion of folk, funk, and blues. — They aim to create quality music, authentic in its nature.

Led by Jon Fooshee, the band was formed from a wealth of touring musicians who enjoy the synchronicity of composed songs paired perfectly with the freedom of improvisation. With roots tying each musician back to Atlanta jam sessions, the Forecast aims to share the experience of community that they have found in music with everyone listening.

The roster of musicians that FF draws from have collectively headlined major music festivals, embarked on international tours, and have released albums under major record labels.

Constantly collaborating and creating, the band has a vast amount of new music on the way, as well as other median-crossing endeavors, such as pairing their upcoming funk album, Traffic Jams, with a comic book.

“The goal of our music is not to be a distraction, but to inspire creativity and hope for a better future.”

JON SPENCER & THE HITMAKERS!

JON SPENCER (Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Heavy Trash) - vocals & guitar.
SAM COOMES (Quasi, Heatmiser, Elliot Smith) - synths & vocals.
M.SORD (M.Sord, No Monster Club) - drums.
BOB BERT (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Bewitched, Knoxville Girls, Chrome Cranks, Lydia Lunch Retrovirus) - trash.

SPENCER SINGS THE HITS!
Jon Spencer, the BLUES EXPLOSION man who put the BELLBOTTOMS on BABY DRIVER! The Top Cat who spread the Secret Sauce in BOSS HOG!

The Rockabilly Right-Hook from Heavyweight Outlaws HEAVY TRASH!

The Swank-Fucking Master of PUSSY GALORE!

Jon Spencer is back! Often imitated, never duplicated, the original NYC underground-rock legend returns from the wilderness with twelve red-hot hits, each more powerful than the last! This is Garage Punk for Now People! A wizard's brew of rhythm & blues and subversive dance grooves, weaponized with sci-fi skronk and industrial attitude, calibrated for the Revolution, a ball-peen hammer of sound guaranteed to destroy any post-modern hangover!
Pulsing with energy, clanging with excitement, and dripping with radioactive soul and raw emotion, Jon Spencer opens up his heart like never before, exploring man's modern condition with caustic guitars and outerworld crooning, asking and answering the musical question, "Is it possible to torch the cut-throat world of fake news and pre-fab, plastic-coated teen ennui with the cold hard facts of rock'n'roll?"

The answer is YES!

SPENCER SINGS THE HITS!

This is the truth serum America has been craving, the beginning of a rock'n'roll special counsel that takes no prisoners and puts the squares on ice!

 https://www.facebook.com/JonSpencerHITmaker/ https://shoverecords.bandcamp.com/ www.jonspencerbluesexplosion.com

All eyes are on Black Carl! as he bursts out of the fertile Birmingham bass scene. A stacked release plan is in the works for 2022 as he racks up major club and festival plays including Okeechobee, Ubbi Dubbi, SONIC BLOOM, and several high-profile events yet to be announced. Even bigger tour plans are slated for the back half of the year as scores of shows line up around his infectious and stage presence.

Carl Bell has won over fans from coast-to-coast (and soon, internationally) with a blend of hard-hitting beats and raw showmanship. Bell’s not happy until the fans are as sweaty as his ubiquitous stage towels. Nobody works harder to capture a crowd and draw them into his explosive sound.

Black Carl!'s duo Integrate with fellow Birmingham-based act VCTRE, is on a parallel trajectory garnering just as much attention as its solo projects thanks in no small part to the dynamism and chemistry of two best friends sharing the music they love. New music from all three projects is queuing up in advance of a breakout year. 

Up-and-comer ‘Saka’ has had an explosive start to 2022. Building off of the momentum from releases via Cyclops Recordings, widely respected UK imprint Inspected Records, Odyzey Music, Halcyon, a two-track EP on Gud Vibrations, an EP via underground tastemakers DOMEOFDOOM, and a barrage of self-released singles, the forward-thinking newcomer continues to impress. his swiftly growing discography exemplifies a cutting-edge sonic quality that is both familiar and unconventional.

The experimental beatmaker draws inspiration from an eclectic variety of underground electronic and his hometown of Hong Kong, wielding a sound palette that is both carefully intricate yet chaotically destructive; industrial yet organic; oriental yet occidental. By combining broken beat patterns, undulating soundscapes, rippling melodies and grotesque basslines, the burgeoning bass talent has achieved an instantly recognizable sound that is uniquely his own. With support amongst top tier industry heavyweights such as SLANDER, RL Grime, Alison Wonderland, Excision, Zeds Dead, Subtronics, CloZee, and Noisia, Saka is carving his very own path through the left-field electronic space and turning heads every step of the way.

 https://linktr.ee/Blackcarl

https://www.facebook.com/BlackCarlBeats/

https://soundcloud.com/soundslikesaka?

https://open.spotify.com/artist/78JjBYPpCRwGwaZff4qQrv?si=xR1sEnhcQCmEI084Y72LPQ&nd=1 

https://www.facebook.com/soundslikesaka

The Grateful Dead continue to have one of the most rabid and loyal followings of any band in history, and deservedly so: They wrote great songs, and they were excellent musicians and terrific improvisers who never played a tune the same way twice. The Stolen Faces deftly capture the spirit of the Dead, covering the band’s expansive catalog and delivering it with the sort of energy and spontaneity that might have you thinking you’re standing in the Fillmore West in 1971!