Courtney Yasmineh isn’t necessarily a rulebreaker, she just plays by her own rules. From skipping town out of Chicago as a teenager and holing up in a cabin in northern Minnesota, where she focused an obsession with Bob Dylan into the beginnings of her craft as a songwriter, guitarist and singer, to self-releasing 5 albums and an EP, and doing 9 tours of Europe and a half-dozen in the US (all self-booked, no less), she is simply unstoppable. With each album she’s continued to expand her musical universe, stretching across the spectrum from indie pop to alt-country to full-tilt rock’n’roll, all the while writing better and better genuinely smart songs that are deeply personal yet touch on subjects and feelings everyone can relate to.

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Genre:
Acoustic folk, Americana-Irish storytelling.
Hometown:
Chico, CA
About:
Take folk music’s tradition of storytelling, mix it with some aggressive punk flair, add an impassioned voice and Ryan Davidson is what you get.

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Genre:
Jam Band

Members:
Dave Kennedy, Dave Matthews, Chuck Evans, Aaron MacGregor, Eron Stroud

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SlaveGirls Band consists of three, sometimes four members, none of which are girls. Sorry, it’s just a name. Pete, Jamie, and Mark on guitar, drums, and base, are the founding members of the band and make up the rhythm section of the tunes. Lately, the band has the great fortune of an added member.

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Julie Christensen’s new band Stone Cupid, a kindred spirit to her post-punk powerhouse Divine Horsemen, headed to the studio with producer Jeff Turmes last spring to capture a debut album to be released this spring.

Christensen, who’s authored 5 independent albums and sung with everyone from Leonard Cohen to Lou Reed, has surrounded herself with a team of team players. Guitarists Sergio Webb and Chris Tench flank Christensen at the front. As Tench creates the ideal sonic landscape, Webb populates it with one stunning surprise after another. Propelling the enterprise are drummer Steve Latanation and bassist Bones Hillman, who combine taste and telepathy into something so unified they seem a single entity.

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