Yarn
A Brooklyn-born, North Carolina-based Americana band that built a devoted following the old way, one bar and one 170-show year at a time, on the strength of Blake Christiana's songs.
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North Mississippi Allstars
Two brothers raised on North Mississippi hill country blues who turned that raw, hypnotic, one-chord Mississippi trance into a loud, joyful, guitar-driven live band.
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Dangermuffin
A College of Charleston duo who turned tides, saltwater, and Lowcountry sunlight into two decades of groove-driven, horizon-chasing roots-rock.
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Dale & the ZDubs
A DC-area reggae-rock band with a horn section, a punk streak, and a frontman whose hardest years became the band's most honest songs.
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Pressing Strings
An Annapolis trio led by Jordan Sokel, folding blues, soul, folk, and a little reggae into warm, plainspoken songs that feel worn-in from the first listen.
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Hayley Jane Band
A New England force of nature with a musical-theater background and the stage presence of Janis Joplin, fronting a genre-hopping soul-and-rock band built for the live moment.
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Big Daddy Love
Big Daddy Love is a Winston-Salem band that blends bluegrass instrumentation, Southern rock, and jam-band improvisation into what they call Appalachian rock, a fixture of the Southeastern festival circuit across five albums since 2008.
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Dune Dogs
A group of New England high-school friends who turned a shared love of surf, sun, and salt water into a beach-rock band, blending surf, funk, reggae, and pop into pure summer.
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