Caroline Smith is a singer-songwriter from Minneapolis, Minnesota who started recording and performing at age 15, opening for B.B. King. Her unique voice and stripped-down acoustic styling are often accompanied by The Good Night Sleeps: Arlen Peiffer and Jesse Schuster.

Caroline's musical influences include Ben Gibbard, Feist, Patti Smith, The Velvet Underground, Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom, and Dr. Dre. These influences are made evident by her minimal acoustic ballads with a pinch of alt-country blues.

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A seven piece band playing a sensitive and hearty brand of distinctly American folk rock from Metuchen New Jersey who released "No One Will Know Where You've Been" in 2007. These blogosphere faves have a new EP called "What Happened to Him Could Happen to You" for their rapidly growing fanbase in 2008. Their broad array of influences and mellow rambling sound have earned them comparisons to numerous influential artists of diverse bent including The Byrds, Ryan Adams, Cat Stevens, The National, Billy Bragg and fellow Jerseyite Bruce Springsteen.

John...........vocals, guitar
Jeremy...guitar, violin, vocals
Rich.............guitar, vocals
Mike..............piano
Dave..............bass
Colin..........drums
Izzy........fatherness

http://www.roadsidegraves.com/

http://www.myspace.com/theroadsidegraves

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Sgt Dunbar and the Hobo Banned is an eight person indie folk collective from Albany New York and one of the founding members of Albany's B3nson collective. Founded in 2004 as a recording project The Hobo Banned began their career as internet street musicians posting home recordings to sgtdubar.com. After changing its form several times the band settled into its current 8 person in the fall of 2007.

The Hobo Banned's music has drawn influence from artists like Neutral Milk Hotel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Mingus, Charles Baudelaire, Beirut, Edgar Allan Poe, The Microphones and Salvador Dali to name a few across several mediums but it is the band's ability to internalize and reinterpret it's influences as a group that makes their music so excitingly singular.

The accumulation of kinetic energy that exists in their music is passionately displayed during their uninhibited live performances. The often overcrowded stage is populated by frenetic multi-instrumentalists who illustrate a controlled chaos of layered orchestrations, complimenting the philosophical nature of Alex Muro's howled poetry.

In the last year the Hobo Banned has played nearly 100 shows, including appearances with The Avett Brothers, Rock Plaza Central and sets at Mountain Jam, Athens Popfest and the CMJ Music Marathon. The Hobo Banned is currently planning its Spring '09 tour, including dates at South by Southwest, and preparing for its next release.

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