Young Empires are Robert Aaron Ellingson, Jake Palahnuk and Matthew Vlahovich out of Toronto, Canada The electronic/world beat trio formed in October 2009. They claim their style is world beat haute rock.

Since their formation in October 2009 the band has received international acclaim for their infectious hooks and high-energy sets. Spinner described their emergence as, "almost fully formed with their rock star moves well-honed and their cred firmly cemented." Also, turning heads in the fashion industry their song "Glory of the Night" was released on Parisian fashion/music label Kitsune Maison 10 and the track "Against the Wall" has been featured on a viral fashion video for NYLON TV.

They were named one of the top 10 out of over 500 bands at the NXNE Festival and their live sets have complemented the performances of Jamiroquai, Dragonette, Japandroids, Sleigh Bells, and Tanlines. Entertainment Tonight Canada has also named them "one of the most anticipated acts for 2011," so be sure to keep an eye on Young Empires as they continue to take over new territory!

User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.

With sophisticated savvy and singularity, the Los Angeles quartet Saint Motel has built a formidable reputation on the back of inventive indie pop and wildly fun live shows. Mixing blistering pep with unique flair and rousing rhythms, Saint Motel's aural catharsis is pure bliss with a twist of cynical humor. Once pulled in by the pulsating and joyous melodies, delight can be found in the surprisingly avant-garde lyrical subject matter. Stories reveal themselves through thematic twists and turns with a narrative voice both subversive and sincere. We find our contemporary hero assessing the world through a lens of poetic contrasts -- running down the line of his modern concerns and realizing that a mangled face can be beautiful, that honest feedback can be as lethal as any weapon, and that one might be better off when he has nothing at all. With such honest motifs strung together by tongue-in-cheek notions, delivered with such charm, the band's
intentions are often left open to interpretation. And so, what might be easily perceived as sexy with one listen, with another might seem mean-spirited or flatly perverse. That is the flair of Saint Motel's rapturous pop and the graceful dichotomy of its existence.

User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.

Fan-Tan formed in the fall of 2006 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina when Kuki and Sandee Kooks met Ryan Lee Dunlap and began making music that parted stylistically from the 90s alt rock sound so abundant in the area, and drew more from British post-punk to new wave. After a few months of recording demos and playing shows around the area, the trio decided to move the project and themselves to New York where they incorporated the unique synth sounds of fellow North Carolinian and circuit-bender Mike Walters, who had also recently relocated. It is here where ultimately the sound of Fan-Tan would take shape. Over the next two years the band played venues all over New York, toured the east coast, and began recording their second EP with Arjun Agerwala at James Iha's Stratosphere Sound Studio in Chelsea. The results of those sessions, entitled "The Age of Discover" will be released on March 26th, 2010, followed by a US tour in May.

User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.