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Brown Shoe / Freak Owls / Young Heel / Marionette

Brown Shoe's previous three albums received broad radio play, charted on CMJ, and garnered numerous TV placements. In recent years Brown Shoe has crisscrossed North America a number of times, playing festivals, clubs, and colleges, winning over a diverse fan base across the country. After touring in support of Jackalope, Brown Shoe decided it was time to get back in the studio and begin recording the manically expansive and treacherous tale,The Gift Horse (unreleased, 2011).

In the year since the release of the debut, and after whittling down the lineup from a 5-piece to 3, Freak Owls have brought their unique blend of indie-folk-pop on the road to a majority of the US, as well as having played festivals in England, Canada, and as far away as Latvia. Selling out their first few runs of cd's while placing multiple songs in film and on TV, including a number of songwriting nominations such as The John Lennon, SongCircle, and 100% Music Songwriting Competitions, Freak Owls are gearing up to support the release of their new follow-up EP entitled, "Orchestrates", which sees the trio expanding their sound to greater intensities and smaller intricacies.

Born as an ambient pop solo-project in the Adirondacks, Young Heel is now a vibrant experimental pop four-piece based in Brooklyn, NY. Heavy on the beats and harmonies, Young Heel makes textural music that's both instinctual and challenging. They call it madrugada pop, and they want you to think about it, but they'd prefer if you danced. 

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Marionette draws on lots of the off-shoots of the rock and roll movement - with equal admiration for the great songwriters and the more abstract, noise acts that span across rock, psych, jazz, folk, alt-country, shoegaze, punk, whatever. Facing You is Marionette's (Richmond, Virginia) debut full length and features strong songwriting and unique male/female harmonies set against soundscapes of reedy accordions, grinding feedback guitars, bow scraping upright bass, hubcaps, half working organs and drum machines, field recordings, horns, and strings.

 

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