Sug Daniels is a Delaware born, Philadelphia based, singer-songwriter, story teller, and producer who is using the tools around her to capture the emotions of an era. Daniels’ work is as colorful, vulnerable, and charismatic as her personality. She thoughtfully combines elements of folk, rock, and soul alternatives to create personal and tender music interlaced with messages of truth and positive change.
Surgeon General is a tastefully noisy rock outfit formed in Bennington, VT and now based between VT and NYC, taking cues from 90’s indie to mangle together a sound with the accessibility of classic singer-songwriter stylings with just enough noise to keep you on your toes. SG’s debut record “Live at Martha Hill” is an honest and raw one-night showcase of a band firing on all cylinders until the machine breaks down completely.
surgeongeneralmusic.com
Brittany Ann Tranbaugh (pronounced TRAN-baw) is a Philadelphia-based songwriter whose queer Americana heartbreaker “Kiss You” won Song of the Year in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Tranbaugh has been writing songs and playing shows as a side gig since she was a teenager, but in February 2023, at 31 years old, she finally quit her office job to pursue a full-time career in music. Her newest release is a self-titled EP produced by Grammy-winner Tyler Chester which showcases Tranbaugh in her new era: energetic, self-assured, surrounded by her beloved musical community, and more commanding as a vocalist and writer than ever before.
https://brittanyanntranbaugh.com
Rasha Jay is a NJ based singer and songwriter who fuses her love for alternative, rock and soul. Rasha is also an active licensed therapist and believes strongly in the power of music, and it’s therapeutic power.
Magana is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Jeni Magaña. While spending endless days in her home in 2020, she transferred her office into a small recording studio and spun this album out of all her meditations and various synth experiments. Dark and mystical landscapes ebb and flow around brutally vulnerable lyrics and vintage vocal stylings, strung together with small instrumental interludes that turn the listening experience into more a fever dream. When Magana is not crafting ambient spooky rock, she can be found on the road as a touring musician with artists such as Mitski, Lady Lamb, Laura Cortese, and more.
jenimagana.com
NAJI SOUL is a singer and songwriter (World/Afro-Pop) based in New Jersey. He has directed numerous music videos and has been a guest on television and radio several times. Naji Soul released his first album entitled “Whispers From Morocco”, where his song “Kolo Nga Yan” has been remixed over 2000 times around the world. The natural talent of NAJI SOUL encourages him to excel in various musical worlds, notably by givings more concerts with his band and give his audience an exotic musical experience.
Labretta Suede and The Motel 6 are a bunch of crazed rock ‘n’ rollers with a reckless set and a show of music and outfits you could just LICK! With a 50’s rock ‘n’ roll influence, a twang and some dirge, Labretta Suede and The Motel 6 are an ass whippin’, high kickin’, low down rockin’ an-a-reelin’, high-class outfit.
In 2019, GREENHOUSELAKE had a new band name, a fresh batch of bright, emo-y indie rock anthems, a solid lineup – singer/guitarist Elijah Bloome, guitarist Caleb Couri, bassist Nico Caro and drummer Joe Leonardo – and an enthusiastic following in the small Hudson Valley college town of New Paltz. In March of 2020, they released an EP, ALLCAPS/NOSPACES. There was, of course, no release show.
At a time when most people were struggling with isolation, Bloome was living in an overcrowded punk house and needed some space. That summer, in the height of the pandemic, he left New Paltz for Philly.
Smooch, GREENHOUSELAKE’s new record, came from Bloome’s trips back to New Paltz. The college town is a recurring theme in indie rock: it’s an artistic incubator, a small pond, an ecosystem, a launch pad. It had been those things for Bloome, who graduated from SUNY New Paltz in 2019. Going back to visit, “I felt uncomfortable in the town, felt uncomfortable taking up space” he says. “We were stuck in this phase where we were talking about how good it used to be.” The community, he thought, was stuck. “Another year went by and i was like, ‘Ok everyone fucking get over it, lets move on with our lives and do some interesting stuff.’” But a friend pointed out that maybe Bloome was the one who needed to get over it. As he deadpans in the bittersweet “BBB,” there were things he “tried to bury without a proper funeral.”
When they were barely teenagers Couri taught Bloome how to play guitar. By highschool they had a real band, and then carried their musical partnership to college. Leonardo joined in 2016, and Caro hopped aboard around the end of school. Bloome and Couri scrapped everything else they’d ever written, and GREENHOUSELAKE was born.
Keyboardist Bianca Checa, who lives in Brooklyn, joined in 2023. Everyone but Bloome still lives in the Hudson Valley. “I can only describe it as a long distance relationship – which it is – where you have to make every visit count,” he says with a wink. He’d take the bus up for a couple days, and the band would spend the whole time workshopping the new songs. In the last few months they started playing the songs for an audience. “I like to let a song grow up, mature, and people need to be in the room responding to it for a song to get better, I think.”
Bloome has always loved the stream-of-conscious lyricism of the Pixies and Pavement, but Velvet Underground fandom, he says, is at the center of Smooch. On “College Town” Bloome talk-sings over a driving, undulant jam. It’s a detailed tour of a physical place as well as his own highly specific emotional geography. The track, he says, was an attempt to rip off “Sister Ray” or “The Gift,” but “College Town” also brings to mind the funny, wistful sweetness of, say, Minutemen’s “History Lesson Part 2.” Even at his most frustrated Bloome’s lyrics are rooted in curiosity and kindness.
The songs on Smooch, which are overall more sophisticated, and hit harder than the sunny ALLCAPS/NOSPACES, were taken from a batch of around 50 that Bloome wrote during his first year in Philly. Reworking lyrics became a kind of therapy, as Bloome began to recognize the intense pressure he’d put on himself to justify leaving town, and his fear of being unwelcome in his old community.
‘It’s kind of like, ‘Ok, this is the reflection, here it is for all to see, I’m ready for the next thing,’” he says. “I’m trying to walk the fine line between nostalgia and reflection and not get too sappy with any of it.
“To heal from it is the goal.”
Formed in 2019, Brooklyn’s My Son The Doctor is cultivating a rabid buzz in New York City. The slacker-punk 4-piece has established themselves as a must-see band with their electric live shows and “Spiky, danceable indie rock that pulls influence from everyone from Gang of Four to The Strokes” (Brooklyn Vegan). 2023 saw the project selling out headline shows and sharing stages with acts like Bodega, Thick, and Native Sun. Named “Top 10 Hardest Working Band” by Oh My Rockness, My Son The Doctor is galavanting into the new year with unrelenting pace. Their debut album is slated for 2024 – recorded and mixed at Mitch Easter’s Fidelitorium by Jeremy Snyder (Pure Adult, Idles, Fontaines DC, Gilla Band).
NYC-based Jane Getter is a “triple-threat” (Geoff Wilbur)— guitarist, singer, and award-winning composer. Getter’s recent 2024 release, Division World, coalesces a lifetime of musical exploration into intricate arrangements, powerful playing, and killer solos. Getter has been shredding boundaries since picking up a guitar at age eight. She won the #8 slot in Prog Magazine’s end of year 2021 readers poll for best guitarist. On her first tour, with legendary jazz/blues organist Brother Jack McDuff, Getter’s musical language expanded to embrace the groove- oriented music that she saw thrilling audiences. Getter has also toured and played with Lenny White, Ursala Dudziak, Jaimoe (of the Allman Brothers), Michal Urbaniak, Kenny Garrett, The Roots the jam, Mike Clark (Headhunters), and the Saturday Night Live Band. Following solo albums Jane (LipsIck Records, 1999), See Jane Run and Three (Alternity Records, 2005, 2012), the new songs Getter was composing had a fuller, richer sound. This prompted the formaIon of Jane Getter PremoniIon. JGP has carved out a niche at the intersection of rock, jazz metal, and singer-songwriter with masterful playing of Getter’s “complex, sophisticated, and dynamic” compositions (All About Jazz) with releases On (Snapper’s MadFish Music 2015), ON Tour (Big Fun Productions, 2017). Anomalia, (Esoteric Antenna/Cherry Red , 2021) and Division World
(Esoteric Antenna/Cherry Red , 2024) On tour, JGP has dazzled audiences nationally and internatonally at ProgStock festival (US), Outreach Music Festival (Austria), San Francisco Jazz Festival, bFlat Bar (India), Warsaw’s Guitar City (Poland), Borderline (UK), North Sea Jazz Club (Netherlands) Iridium (NYC) and more. JGP has also opened for Allan Holdsworth and has opened for Brand X. Getter’s inventive approach to improvisation using scale design is available as a course on TrueFire. Her extensive teaching credits include clinics and master classes for national and international institutions. She is a recipient of ASCAP’s “Music for Theatre or Dance” award and is a New York State Council of The Arts commissioned composer.
Contact:
Andre’ Cholmondeley
andre@guitartour.net
THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM FROM THE AWARD-WINNING GUITARIST, VOCALIST AND COMPOSER JANE GETTER AND HER BAND.
FEATURING ADAM HOLZMAN (STEVEN WILSON BAND, MILES DAVIS), ALEX SKOLNICK (TESTAMENT), PAUL FRAZIER AND GENE LAKE…
Led by guitarist, composer and singer Jane Getter, the album follows on from her acclaimed ‘Anomalia’ album and features Jane’s all-star band including keyboardist Adam Holzman, guitarist Alex Skolnick, bassist and singer Paul Frazier and drummer Gene Lake. Randy McStine (McStine & Minnemann, Porcupine Tree) also guests on vocals.
Jane’s band has carved out a niche at the intersection of rock, jazz, singer-songwriter, and metal styles with her masterful playing and complex and dynamic compositions and has dazzled audiences internationally. Packed with inspired songwriting and blazing instrumentals, ‘Division World’ is the strongest album yet from Jane Getter Premonition.
Jane says: “This album is a bit more song oriented than my previous work. The songs were written during the pandemic and the lyrics in a lot of the songs are reflections of the divisiveness and divisions happening in the world today. My regular band is featured – keyboardist Adam Holzman, guitarist Alex Skolnick, bassist and singer Paul Frazier and drummer Gene Lake. Randy McStine also guests on vocals. I feel Division World may be JGP’s strongest album yet!”
“Jane Getter’s new album Division World is something quite notable in the multiplicity of genres & sub genres focused on progressive rock fusion guitar, modern jazz rock -contextual songs which do not shy away from a world of trouble as it’s context for her outstanding, fiery, & nuanced guitar playing – sung in her courageous, melodic, distinctive voice” – Vernon Reid. https://janegetter.com/
TRACK LISTING
1 DIVISION WORLD
2 DISSIPATE
3 THE SPARK
4 COMPASS
5 END THE BLAME
6 LAYERS
7 DEVOLUTION
8 ANOTHER WAY
9 MIXED UP
10 REWIND REGAIN
11 WAITING FOR THE LIGHT
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