Ani Cordero created and fronted a new bilingual indie-rock band in Tucson, Arizona in early 1999. She borrowed members of Tucson’s Calexico and Giant Sand and called the group by her Puerto Rican family name, Cordero.

Dirty Sweet is: • Ryan Koontz: Vocals • Nathan Beale: Guitar, Vocals • Chris Mendez-Vanacore: Drums, Vocals • Christian Schinelli: Bass • Eli Wulfmeier: Guitar

Sparhusen is: Olf Nystrom: keyboards, vocals, drums Gert Foresberg: guitars, salmon flute, vocals Berget Kattson: vocals, baby making

Indie rock band formed in 2004 in Seattle by Ben Bridwell and Matt Brooke. Joe Arnone joined the band in February 2006. They are currently signed to Sub Pop Records. In 2009, Ludwig Boss (a member of the Swedish band Ray Wonder) joined the band.

Chromeo is P-Thugg and Dave 1: best friends since their adolescence, virtuoso musicians, walking hip hop encyclopedias, and the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture.

Christa Mae was given an old guitar, back in the formative years of junior high school, by her older brother, Dave. It was so big she had to lay it across her lap like a pedal steel in order to play it. In the years since Christa and her guitar have grown into each other.

If “up and coming” weren’t a way to capture your yearning for the latest independent artist then I would say Michelle Armstrong is anything but….with over 90 songs written and two released albums she is more of  a shooting star than a rising one.

I alternate between acoustic and electric albums. The latest, “Yellow House,” is the scaled-down sort. And it’s being called my best. In 2005 I made my last electric album (for the time being). John Shipe & The Blue Rebekahs, with a cadre of Oregon Indie scenesters from Dan Jones & The Squids, Eleven Eyes, and

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The Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Duhks have always gravitated towards traditional roots-based song structures, but they’ve never stopped evolving since their inception five years ago.

John Maxfield grew up in Highland, Illinois where he taught himself how to record, play guitar, piano, saxophone, drums, and various other instruments. He attended the Saint Louis Symphony Music School as a teenager, where he met and studied classical and jazz music with Dwight Bosman.