The Duane Bartels Band was created during the summer of 2016 - back when life seemed simple. Singer/songwriter Matthew Duane Bartels took his unique brand of songwriting across the States, from California to New Orleans, where he met drummer Matthieu. The two of them went right to work, in tight, dingy practice spaces, to create the debut record The Ballad of Johnny Loveless, an almost campy, Americana effort that incorporated elements of blues, country and jazz.

By 2018, this release had led them deep into the New Orleans music scene. Playing all over the French Quarter, from local dives to world-famous Frenchmen Street. Holding down a regular spot at The House of Blues New Orleans helped the band develop their live chops while absorbing the sounds of the Quarter. Upon establishing a name for themselves within city limits, the band spread its wings, performing live in Memphis, Little Rock, and towns along the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi Delta.

Their sophomore release Electric Baby Carriage will be their first recorded with producer Justin Armstrong (Death Cab For Cutie, The Deftones, Dave Matthew Band) at Marigny Studios in New Orleans. Two songs from their original session with him will be released as two separate singles. “Messin…” and “Wildfires” both demonstrate the growth of the band and the formation of their own distinct sound. The rest of the record will be completed during fall and winter 2020, as the band considers what the future holds.

Based out of Jackson MS these Rock & Rollers bring their psychedelic blues rock outfit June 26 to Martin’s Downtown

Mississippi hip-hop artist Dear Silas is a creative rapper and trumpet player, known for his literate songs and inventive production. Having initially grabbed fans with his 2016 debut, The Day I Died, Silas broke through to a wider audience in 2018 after his track "Skrr Skrr" went viral as part of a Dexter's Laboratory-inspired meme. 

Born Silas Stapleton III, Dear Silas grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, where he started playing trumpet at age twelve in the school band. By the time he left high school, he was also heavily into hip-hop, and spent several years studying music performance at the University of Louisiana in Monroe. Just shy of earning his degree, he left school to pursue his music career. Following an initial mixtape, he issued his 2016 debut independent album, The Day I Died, which featured production by Claw Beats, Antwone Perkins, Ken Cruze, and others. 

Despite his rising career, Silas still needed to pay his bills and eventually found himself working days at a Jackson-based computer store. It was while working at the store that he came up with the vocal hook for "Skrr Skrr." Realizing that his co-workers found the hook catchy, he immediately went home and finished off the previously all-instrumental track. He released the song online, and it quickly went viral, racking up thousands of plays. At the same time, someone else applied the song to a scene from Cartoon Network's' Dexter's Laboratory, crafting a video meme in which Dexter coos the vocal chorus of "Skrr Skrr" to a classmate. The meme also proved a viral hit, and helped raise the rapper's profile. Labels took notice, and Silas eventually signed a partnership agreement with RCA. In 2018, he released his sophomore album, The Last Cherry Blossom, which included "Skrr Skrr" and featured guest spots from Vitamin Cea, Aha Gazelle, and Compozitionz.

Miami Florida based blues band fronted by Christopher Mullins. Embracing a roots blues tradition, The Mojo Hands play all over Miami and the United States, playing classic parlor blues, juke joint tunes, and rockabilly.

Musicians perform the music of Elton John........STILL STANDING are Elton John.

Formed in 2013 STILL STANDING are the modern visual and musical Elton John Event bringing all the timeless classics to your venue with the attention to detail that his music deserves.

With over 200 Million Albums sold worldwide, Elton John along with the lyrical tapestry of Bernie Taupin have been a soundtrack to our lives. His catalog is comparable to the top selling artist of all time. STILL STANDING are the band that strive to carry on their legacy.

Fronted by Ben "Almost Elton" Frey who has been referred to as the closest representation of Elton's vocal on the Tribute Circuit, STILL STANDING will provide your venue with THE up close Elton John Tribute Experience!

Born and raised in the Bama clay, these boys are as southern as they come. Taught how to bend a string and break a heart by Skynyrd and Hank, brothers James and Frank Ford along with their hometown friends Andrew Davis and Ben Crain formed the southern rock band known as Them Dirty Roses. Piling into an RV with their belongings, their instruments, and all the whiskey they could carry (in the cooler), they made their way from Gadsden, AL to Nashville, TN. All living all under one roof, Them Dirty Roses are a living example of the quintessential rock and roll American Dream. Their live show calls for a shot of whiskey and a 2 for 1 special -- BUT what that really means is you better be ready to throw back 12 for 6 and shake it with Them Dirty Roses.

The Talismen formed in 2015 in Montgomery, Alabama. These talented musicians have been learning and growing as they entertain audiences all over the Southeast. With a combination of energy and sophistication beyond their years, The Talismen put on a show containing soulful and funk-filled originals along with some music of their favorite artists from across the jam / rock / funk spectrum. 

The Talismen released their debut album, Jar Full of Something, in February 2019. The album has since totaled over 400,000+ streams via Spotify. In March of 2020, the band released a four-song EP, Extra Vehicular Activity, which was recorded and produced by Kevin Scott (Jimmy Herring & The 5 of 7 / Col. Bruce Hampton). In August of 2020, the band released their first live album, Live From The Bunker, which showcases their vast improvisational skill. All three releases continue to be in heavy rotation as the band currently sits with 14,000+ monthly listeners. 

The band continues to expand their catalog of fan favorites and originals entertaining audiences throughout the South. They continue to expand into new markets across the Southeast, drawing large crowds in cities such as Birmingham, Auburn, Tuscaloosa, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah, Charleston, and many more. They were selected to play Umphrey's McGee's inaugural Woodlands Music & Arts Festival in 2019 and have supported acts such as TAUK, Ghost Light, CBDB, Consider the Source, Funk You, and New Orleans Suspects.

Robby Peoples was born in Jackson, Mississippi. His childhood was steeped in the Delta blues tradition and oozes out in his lyrics about hardship, family, women, and booze. His storytelling is only ousted by his fiery harmonica playing which has allowed him to share the stage with Leon Russel, Black Joe Lewis, Delbert McClinton and more. Make no mistake, though, Robby Peoples is as rock and roll as Elvis Presley and as American as a Chevrolet.

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 a wide variety of songs from the band’s expansive catalog and delivering them with the sort of energy and spontaneity that might have you thinking you’re standing in the Fillmore West in 1971. Led by bassist Christian Grizzard, the group features guitarist Jack Silverman, drummer Matt Martin, and a rotating cast of some of Nashville’s top session and touring musicians.

New Orleans’ pioneering voice in “alt-rocka countrybilly serial killer blues,” Shawn Williams sounds like the result of a dirtier-minded Elvis deciding to get it on in the back of some roadhouse saloon with one of those sad-eyed cowboy types that would rather be drinking alone. Williams' new album (Aug. 2020) The Fear of Living.  The Fear of Loving., where seven of the nine songs were written in a week at the beginning of the Covid shutdown, was recorded and mixed by her on her phone, as she played all of the instruments. Brett Milano with OffBeat Magazine said in a review of the third album, "it is a beautifully cathartic one, with some lovingly crafted songs and even some flashes of dark humor..." Shawn's sophomore release Motel Livin' was named as one of the 'Top 50 Albums of 2018' by OffBeat Magazine, and named as one of the 'Top 10 Albums of 2018' in Europe's Country Music People magazine. Williams' sophomore release Motel Livin' (June 2018) "throbs with some of 2018's best-written songs," says Europe's Country Music People magazine.  

Her debut album Shadow (March 2017) is a skillfully-mastered collection of originals that moves seamlessly from old-school R&B-inflected rockers to softer, wistful numbers that evoke the broken-hearted melancholia of the desert. Idiosyncratic, catchy, and rich with local talent, the tracks showcase Williams’ impressive musicianship and unique capabilities as a songwriter.  New Orleans' OffBeat Magazine says, "it's an impressively mature debut album".  

On recording as in live performance, she conveys a sense of rawness, a depth of feeling, and a lack of pretension that set her apart from the rest of the city’s pool of talented up-and-coming musicians. Shawn has opened for international touring artists such as the Queen of Rockabilly - Wanda Jackson, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, Corey Smith, John Paul Keith, The Accidentals, The Way Down Wanderers, Loverboy, and more. She's been honored to be nominated two years in a row, 2018 and 2019, for OffBeat Magazine Best of the Beat awards. Kicking off 2020 touring in Sweden, Williams will be spending the remainder of the year continuing playing around her hometown of New Orleans and touring Europe in the summer. Aside from her own music, she is also the founder of the all-female Elvis tribute band, Pelvis Breastlies.

An accomplished career in radio has taken her from Atlanta to New York City and back to her hometown of New Orleans, where she marked success as the former programming director for two of the city’s largest radio stations (NASH FM 92.3 and 106.1 the underground), all the while managing to maintain gigging/writing/drinking schedule required of a young bandleader in a vibrant night town.

Strung Like a Horse is known for their signature brand of Americana, distilled from old-school storytelling, roots-rock and bluegrass instrumentations, and alt-rock edge. Mississippi-bred, Chattanooga-based frontman Clayton Maselle brings the influences of John Hartford, Split Lip Rayfield, Danny Barnes, the Band, Violent Femmes, and Old Crow Medicine Show to his singular songs. The band’s authenticity, unpredictability, boundless energy, and great fondness for a good time have made their live shows a cult favorite. This summer, the band recorded their first studio album, Whoa!, with multiple Grammy-winning producer/engineer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, John Prine, Brandi Carlile, Calexico/Iron & Wine, Margo Price, Al Green, Josh Ritter), to be released on Transoceanic Records in early 2020.

Noted by Amos Perrine in No Depression as among the “Best New Music” at AmericanaFest 2018

and on his "Don't Miss" list for AmericanaFest 2019; Strung has also been invited to perform an

official showcase at AmericanaFestUK 2020 in London. The band tours year-round, performing up

to 90 shows a year, including Bonnaroo (labeled "Best Band Name"), Suwanee Roots, Wildwood

Revival, Rhythm & Blooms, Summer Camp, Music City Roots, Scene City Roots, HartfordFest,

LibertyFest, NAMM, Road to Nightfall (winning act), Moon River Music Festival (launch party), Get

Off the Grid Fest, and Jam in the Van. They have toured on the road or performed with Old Crow

Medicine Show, Shooter Jennings, Nicki Bluhm, Del McCoury, Charlie Daniels, Travis Tritt, Sam

Bush, War, Lera Lynn, Honey Honey, and Hot Buttered Rum. Sam Bush remarked, after they

opened for him, that the five-piece band's full-tilt set "makes me sound like Bill Monroe."

Full band lineup includes: Clay (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, mandolin), “Crispy” (drums, bells, percussion), Tyler Martelli (lead guitars, piano, organ, keyboard, mandolin), “Danimal” (upright double bass, electric bass, lap steel guitar), Ben Crawford (banjo), and Paddy King (fiddle, cello). 

The Selfless Lovers are a piano-driven rock n' roll band from Austin, Texas. The group's original music draws on classic rock, soul, blues and southern rock influences. The Selfless Lovers are a must-see live act; showcasing an energized retro sound, fantastic musicianship and danceable original songs. The band's singer even plays saxophone and piano at the same time during the set. The Selfless Lovers have actively toured Texas since 2018, and play close to one hundred and fifty live performances per year. Inspired by iconic live bands such as The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and The Faces, Bruce Springsteen and The Allman Brothers, The Selfless Lovers aim to bring the joy and energy of roots rock n’ roll to new audiences. The band has released 3 EP’s: Glad To Be Here (2017), The Selfless Lovers (2018), Live From Austin (2019) and will be debuting their full-length, twelve song album When The Bars Close in the Spring of 2021

3 BAND BANGER FEATURING:

HARTLE ROAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJb1m8p-3QI...

BIPOLAROID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPf3b3Bb2ug

WITCHCAKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYNmeKwZRrQ

Bobby Bare, Jr. could’ve phoned in a career. He could’ve exploited the fact that he’s the son of iconic Country Music Hall of Famer Bobby Bare, was born into Nashville’s Music Row elite, and counted artists like Shel Silverstein as close family friends and George Jones and Tammy Wynette as next door neighbors. Instead, Bobby blazed a path of unique songwriting craftsmanship with a voice that blows through you like an unyielding wind on the desolate prairie.

With a big-as-the-room persona, an ability to rock the doors off the most jaded of clubs, the heart to hold a room completely still with just his guitar, and a genius for arrangement, Bobby Bare, Jr. and his band of merry makers are one of the most unique bunches around. They are adept at abandoning common sense in favor of laying themselves at the feet of a rambunctious, freewheeling, and unfettered and unhinged muse.

In the late 90's, he fronted the boss hog rock band, Bare Jr. With their two records, Boo-tay and Brainwasher, they memorably rocked out on a Nirvana-on-Skynryd-not-Sabbath groove, more indebted to the homebrew than "The Other H." He keeps himself even busier by appearing on albums by indie rock heroes like the Silver Jews and Frank Black and My Morning Jacket. Few that we have found can combine humor, pain, and anger in such an effortlessly well-crafted manner. If encountered in public, beware: Bobby is a big, gregarious, good-natured fellow who will giddily talk music (from the Smiths to Roger Miller to Metallica to Dolly Parton--sometimes in one breath) until the bartender is tossing you both out.

Look, we LOVE Bobby's records and we want people to hear them. Maybe our descriptions are making you scratch your head or are scaring you off. Forgive us, his music is ahead of its time and we are not sure what to say about it. All the years we all wasted getting English degrees are powerless in coming up with suitable words to describe his projects. When someone around the office is absent-mindedly whistling a tune, chances are real good that it's, "I'll Be Around" or "Valentine" or "Borrow Your Cape." Bobby's music is ample proof that commercial radio wouldn't know a genre-bending smash hit if it ran up and bit it in the ass, and, if radio programmers weren't all neutered corporate lapdogs, his songs would be in the broad canon of rock.

Nashville rockers Country Westerns are excited to announce their self-titled debut album released in 2020 via Fat Possum Records. American Songwriter broke the news of the signing and shared new track “Gentle Soul”.

The band has also announced a slate of performances spanning from February to May of this year, which includes stops in Nashville, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and more. See below for the full itinerary of upcoming dates.

Even if you don’t know their names, you likely know their work. Drummer Brian Kotzur starred in Harmony Korine’s film Trash Humpers and was a member of Silver Jews. Singer, guitarist, and songwriter Joseph Plunket led Brooklyn legends The Weight, with a bass-playing side-hustle for Atlanta’s Gentleman Jesse. Plunket relocated to Nashville ten years ago and opened a bar. It was there, in a town teeming with solo artists and hired guns, that the two bonded over their shared desire to be in an actual band.

In 2016, Plunket and Kotzur spent a year in Kotzur’s garage writing riffs and tracking demos. During those hazy, late nights they began to hone their sound. Eventually, with a handful of songs and the encouragement of their friends, they began their quest for the third ‘Country Western’. After some time playing with different lineups—early recordings feature Reece Lazarus from Bully—their friend Sabrina Rush, another rock-n-roller for life, joined them on bass. Rush plays violin and is a member of the Louisville band State Champion, but had never played bass. The instrument came naturally to her and her harmonic bass lines were a perfect fit.

Those who have seen them know The Molly Ringwalds take every stage they step on with force.

They dazzle and engage their audiences with energy and passion, while taking them on a musical journey filled with all the hits that transcended the 80s and defined a generation.

The Molly Ringwalds' show is loaded with the visual enormity and glam that encompassed the essence of the decade’s music scene.

Music videos of the iconic songs are the backdrop to a stage that comes to life with a captivating light show and a movable set that draws every single person into the moment.

John currently has a Top 20 single “I’ve Been Everywhere” with the group LA RATS (featuring Rob Zombie and Nikki Sixx). 

For almost 30 years, John 5 has been one of the most in-demand guitar players on the planet. As well as a guitarist for hire, 5 has shared the stage as axe-man for Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson and Rob Halford. He has also worked with an impressive array of names, from all walks of music, including KD Lang, Rod Stewart, Dave Lee Roth, Alice Cooper, Tina Guo and Steven Adler.

To call John 5 a shredder does not do him justice. There’s little he can’t put his hand to.

John 5 was born John William Lowery, on July 31st 1970, in Gross Pointe Michigan. His love of guitar began at age seven, when he began watching the Hee Haw series with his father. “I watched the guitar playing and knew that was what I wanted to do. My friends wanted to be astronauts and such but all I wanted to do was play and play and play”. Other notable influences included KISS and Jimi Hendrix.

John 5’s solo career turned out not to be a flash in the pan, and he has now released 9 studio albums, a live album and a remix album . He has worked with several special guests on those albums, including Albert Lee who called John 5 “one of the nicest guys I’ve worked with“, Steve Vai who called John “underrated”, Joe Satriani, Jim Root, Eric Johnson and many more. As well as his solo albums John 5 teamed up with the vocal talents of Joe Grah (formerly of Texas band Jibe) to form “radio rock project” Loser. Their first single, ‘Disposable Sunshine’ featured on the Fantastic Four soundtrack. 

In 2006, John 5 was invited to join Rob Zombie for a short Ozzfest tour. Despite being told “not to get too comfortable”, the pairing brought a resurgence in Zombie, who at the point was turning his hand to directing movies and taking a break from music, they began work on 2006’s ‘Educated Horses’. As a consequence John 5 had to make the decision to leave his fledgling band Loser. “Being the founding member of Loser, my decision to leave was not an easy one.”

In 2015, following a series of web shows to celebrate the release of his solo album ‘Careful With That Axe”, John 5 decided to take his solo set on tour, and formed The Creatures band to support his live shows. Initially joined by long-term friend Rodger Carter on drums, the band continues touring to this day, and now work as a unit on 5’s solo albums, including ‘Season Of The Witch’, the live album ‘It’s Alive’ and 2019’s ‘Invasion’. The current line-up includes John 5, Ian Ross on bass and drummer Logan Miles Nix.

Although John 5 does less “hired gun” work, he has contributed to work with Lynryd Skynrd, Meatloaf, Ricky Martin, Motley Crue, and Rod Stewart. 

“I’m busy, constantly busy with work but I look at who I am in the studio with or sending music to and I think  I don’t ever want it to stop.”

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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! 

Welcome to the lethal littered landscape of Jim Heath’s imagination. True to his high evangelical calling, Jim is a Revelator, both revealing & reinterpreting the country-blues-rock roots of American music. He’s a time-travelling space-cowboy on a endless interstellar musical tour, and we are all the richer & “psychobillier” for getting to tag along. Seeing REVEREND HORTON HEAT live is a transformative experience. Flames come off the guitars. Heat singes your skin. There’s nothing like the primal tribal rock& roll transfiguration of a Reverend Horton Heat show. Jim becomes a slicked-back 1950′s rock &roll shaman channeling Screamin’ Jay Hawkins through Buddy Holly, while Jimbo incinerates the StandUp Bass. And then there are the“Heatettes”. Those foxy rockabillychicks dressed in poodle-skirts and cowboy boots slamming the night away. Listening to the REVEREND HORTON HEAT is tantamount to injecting pure musical nitrous into the hot-rodengine of your heart. The Reverend’s commandants are simple.

Hard rock, psychobilly, southern rock or cowpunk? Nashville Pussy are notoriously difficult to label but who cares? The music they dish up is high octane stuff indeed. Incidentally, that goes for the music as well as the lyrics. The band’s detractors can get pretty vocal about their disapproval of the often outspoken lyrics on sex, drugs, booze, brawling and good ole rock ‘n’ roll but the fans simply can’t get enough. Nashville Pussy is the brainchild of the husband & wife combo Blaine Cartwright (vocals/guitar) and Ruyter Suys (guitar). The line-up is completed by the brilliant and daft Bonnie Buitrago on bass and Ben Thomas on drums. In 1998 they won a Grammy nomination for ‘Fried Chicken and Coffee’ off their full-length debut ‘Let Them Eat Pussy’. Though they’ve never hit the big time – their unwillingness to compromise or surrender to commercial tastes may have something to do with that - they do have a fiercely loyal cult following on every continent. Their latest outing ‘Pleased to Eat You’ (2018) confirms their reputation of sounding like AC/DC with a female Angus. Nashville Pussy are a time machine that transports the listener to those 70s days when head banging in public was likely to earn you a one-way ticket to the looney bin.

Tab Benoit is a Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and guitarist who has built a remarkable 30+ year career on the foundation of his gritty and soulful Delta swamp blues, acquiring a devoted legion of fans along the way, as well as 5 Blues Music Awards, including BB King Entertainer of the Year (twice) and an induction into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.  He has recorded and/or performed with Junior Wells, George Porter Jr, Dr. John, Willie Nelson, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Billy Joe Shaver, Maria Muldaur, James Cotton, Cyril Neville, Kenny Aronoff, Allen Toussaint, Kim Wilson, Jimmy Thackery, Charlie Musslewhite, Kenny Neal, Chris Layton, Ivan Neville, Jimmy Hall, Jim Lauderdale, Anders Osborne, and Alvin Youngblood Hart to name a few. Tab's accomplishments as a musician are matched only by his devotion to the environmental health of his native Louisiana wetlands. Benoit is the founder and driving force behind Voice of the Wetlands, an organization working to preserve the coastal waters of his home state. In 2010, he received the Governor's Award for Conservationist of the Year from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation. Benoit also starred in the iMax motion picture Hurricane on the Bayou, a documentary of Hurricane Katrina's effects and a call to protect and restore the wetlands.