Snarky Puppy was formed in 2004 by bassist and primary composer Michael League. Snarky Puppy was signed by SiTMoM Records in fall of 2005, and subsequently recorded and released their first studio record, "The Only Constant", in winter of 2006. The CD has met critical acclaim from the industry
The Polyphonic Spree are a psychedelic pop group which formed in 2000 in Dallas, Texas, United States. The band's core members are Tim DeLaughter (lead vocals, guitar), Mark Pirro (bass) and Bryan Wakeland (drums), all former members of the alternative rock band Tripping Daisy. The band also contains 5 backing vocalists and 12 musicians. The band's lineup has generally been stable since their formation.
Horse Thief is a psychedelic folk rock band based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, featuring Cameron Neal on vocals and guitar, Preston Greer on drums, Cody Fowler on bass, and Danny Rose on keys Horse Thief's debut LP Grow Deep, Grow Wild showcases the band's raw vocals, hollow guitar swells, colossal bass, and mountainous drums. Some songs on the album, such as
Baboon is a rock band originally from Denton, Texas. *** THIS song: "Banned From The Scene", is NOT that band.***
The band formed in 1991. They are currently (as of March 2005) working on their fifth (or sixth) full-length album (depending on whether We Sing and Play counts as an E.P. or as an album). Baboon appeared on an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger in 1996. The band and their music were a key point in the episode's plot.
"One-man band Konrad Wert grew up in a Mennonite family, raised by preacher father and a piano player mother, which accounts for both the baptized-in-fire-soul and musical versatility heard in his gritty Old World music. Wert's mix of blues and vintage folk howls with a sense of explosive freedom and latent rage-not unlike an Amish kid emerging from the wilderness to discover America -that instills his simple guitar/fiddle/stomp-box arrangements with unusual passion.
Will Johnson is the frontman of both the alt-country bands Centro-matic and South San Gabriel. He played drums in the band Funland prior to these groups and has played solo throughout his career. He recently released an album with Magnolia Electric Co. frontman Jason Molina under the name Molina & Johnson. He is also the performing drummer for the band Monsters of Folk.
Fishboy is a four-piece eccentric indie pop band from Denton, TX that began as the bedroom solo project of front man Eric Michener. He was given the nickname on a middle-school field trip after a dare to pluck and swallow a fish at the Dallas World Aquarium. Six years and several shoe boxes full of cassette tapes later, Michener moved from the suburbs to the Texas rock-and-roll Mecca of Denton with a handful of low budget recordings released by the close-knit Austin music collective Business Deal Records.