Brought together by their love of experimental films, unusual musical instruments, electronic music, and a shared pop sensibility, Balún was formed in San Juan, Puerto Rico by visual artist José Olivares and composer Angélica Negrón. Now based in Brooklyn, NY the group includes Noraliz Ruíz, Shayna Dunkelman (Xiu Xiu/Peptalk) and Raul Reymundi (Las Ardillas/Suturee).
 
Since their formation, the band has released a handful of singles and albums receiving critical acclaim from publications like Allmusic, Club Fonograma, Textura, The Big Take Over, The Tripwire, Flavorpill and Puerto Rico Indie, among others. Ever since moving to New York City, Balún has performed in festivals and stages across the country including Decibel Fest, Pop Montreal, FMEL, Issue Project Room, Mercury Lounge and NYC Popfest.
 
The group has done official remixes for other Latin American and European acts like Algodón Egipcio, El Columpio Asesino, Miou Miou and Adriana Calcanhotto and collaborated with teen ‘new music’ ensemble Face The Music, experimental theater company Y No Había Luz and Puerto Rican folk singer Mima. They have released music on Sgulp! Discos, Brilliante Records, Lefse Records, Mushroom Pillow, Si No Puedo Bailar, Plastilina Records and Beko-DSL
 
Their latest single “Años Atrás”, a mix of dembow and dream-pop music, was self-released on September 2014. This song serves as a preview of the group’s new material that explores magical realism, global folk traditions and forward thinking electronic music.
 
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all boy/all girl ignore the conventions of genre or aesthetic continuity. Always curious, and wandering to unfamiliar places looking for familiar sounds. They combine orchestral instruments with your typical rock n’ roll outfit, casually traversing key signatures, and augmenting time signatures to create their own version of pop music.

The band was formed in 2012 when vocalist Danielle Lovier and upright bassist/guitarist Nicholas Rahn recorded a handful of off-kilter songs in their Brooklyn bedroom. The recordings were saturated with thick layers of vocal harmonies, arco bass, and acoustic guitar. The band soon grew into those arrangements. Now, three releases later, the band has explored many different sonic domains and instrumentations. Their output ranges from Pixies-esqu pop/rock gems, to lush orchestral pieces, to haunting fast-food mantras . As the sounds shift from one song to another the energy is uniquely all boy/all girl.

After the release of their LP Slagroom and consequent touring in 2016, the band left the city and moved to rural South-Eastern Georgia, where they spent two months writing and recording new music. Set for release in June 2017, their EP Troubleshooting addresses darker subjects and takes on a more personal perspective. On the title track, Lovier is brutally vulnerable as she tries to make sense of a relationship which has stopped working, asking finally “is it plugged in”?

With a kaleidoscopic sense of time and texture, GADADU weaves driving rhythms, dynamic shifts and unorthodox song forms into a unique and mesmerizing sound. Started in 2013 as a collaboration between Hannah Selin (viola/voice/composition) and Nicki Adams (piano/voice/composition), GADADU expanded in early 2014 to include trumpet, guitar, bass and drums. The quintet has performed across New York City and the surrounding region at venues including ShapeShifter Lab (Brooklyn), Cake Shop (Manhattan), Lot 45 (Brooklyn), Radio Bushwick (Brooklyn), The Shrine (Harlem), Silvana (Harlem), Taszo Espresso (Washington Heights), The LaunchPad (Brooklyn) and 3G Lounge (Philadelphia). GADADU’s debut album was released on February 24th, 2015 and has since been awarded Top Album of April by The Equal Ground.
 
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With his father an opera teacher and mother a singer/actress, Rick Warren is both vocally gifted and classically trained. He listened to opera as a child and later became enamored with the music of Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, and Nick Drake, all of which helped him develop his unique music style.
 
At 17 Warren signed a production contract to record and promote a John Mayer style album of original material. Warren quickly became disenchanted with the music industry, as well as the pop style of these early songs. He quit touring and began a career producing other artists (The Front Bottoms, Thank You Scientist) after studying music production at the Institute of Audio Research.
 
While working as a producer Warren became fascinated with the psychology of music. He earned a degree in psychology and was soon a published author in several academic journals. His first leading-author publication will appear in the top music psychology journal Music Perception. In 2014, he began a PhD program in neuroscience at Columbia University, where he currently studies.
 
Since leaving his production contract at 18 Warren continued to write songs, working relentlessly on four studio albums without any intention of releasing them. He also formed the New Jersey band HMS Revenge with two current members of the Front Bottoms.
 
Warren has decided the time is right to once again release his music. His album Proximity is two years in the making, and features Americana-style instrumentation with the addition of lush string arrangements composed by Warren himself. The release will be accompanied by an album-length, one-take music video.
 
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Don Miller is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. He performs live visuals in real time under the alias NO CARRIER. Miller works with video synthesizers and nearly obsolete electronics to create psychedelic low-resolution video art. Part of the 8bitpeoples artist collective, he performs, exhibits, and lectures worldwide. Much of the software used in the NO CARRIER project has been released for free and is open source.”
 
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