Audiences is a rock band based in Chicago, lllinois. They are a plethora of sounds, strongly cross-pollinated.

Have Mercy hail from Baltimore, Maryland. Their music is powerful and melodic that draws a deep emotional response from their audience.

Hostage Calm write songs with weaving counter-melodic guitars and bass, stitched together with anthemic choruses.

Into It. Over It. is the indie rock solo project of the Chicago, Illinois-based musician Evan Thomas Weiss. It is considered one of the leading acts in the emo revival scene of the 2010s.

Brandon Robbins, often referred to as The Flame, and Mark Garbett, commensurately dubbed The Moth, first met on a train ride through the Alaskan outback and created The Moth & The Flame.

Has bemused cynicism and ennui ever been so fun? Archie Powell & the Exports have made a career of grafting prismatic power pop and sardonic, dark looks at the world outside into guileless songs with hooks galore.

Listener instrumentalist Chris Nelson’s orchestrations of horns, guitars, and drums (heck, even a banjo) are brilliant musical arrangements, even aside from the vocals. 

According to Balance and Composure, they can be loud, quiet and everything in between. A pretty apt description in a nutshell. 

La Dispute is a five-piece post-hardcore band from Grand Rapids, MI.

Hidden Hospitals is an alternative progressive rock band from Chicago, IL.

Chicago’s experimental post-rockers, The Gorilla Press, continue to make great impressions all around the city.

Tomorrows Bad Seeds, “leaders of the new school” is a five piece American band from Hermosa Beach, California formed in 2004. A perfect mix of rock, pop, punk, reggae and hip-hop guaranteed to hook you.

Just Like Vinyl was formed in the spring of 2010 by former Fall Of Troy frontman Thomas Erak and guitarist/vocalist Jake Carden of Seattle band The Filthy None. 

Formed in the winter of 2009, Sainthood Reps play a moody mix of post-grunge, hard rock, and post-hardcore.

Be it the dark and ominous winter or the bright and enthusiastic summer, Northpilot’s music pays homage to its Midwestern stomping grounds, incorporating its dynamic sound into a live performance which one reviewer hails as “…being shot through a cannon into a brick wall of sound.“

For the past four years, Chicago’s Loyal Divide has been creating sounds that inspire more than just your average hipster head-bob.

The band is new, but the musicians have been around for years. Bailiff is LOUD, smooth, and collected. 

With layered African & Brazilian rhythms, whimsical guitar lines and dreamy electronic touches, Way Yes makes sure you’ll never think of Ohio the same way again.

ElixirOnMute is an American progressive/fusion rock band from Boston, MA.