Poundcake

PoundCake delivers rock n roll in epic doses. Fresh off a stint recording at Chicago’s Electrical Audio for an upcoming EP, PoundCake has been busy on the club scene promoting its first record, The Permanent Record. Searing guitar, pounding basslines, and powerful drums make PoundCake a three-piece to be reckoned with.

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John Condron & The Benefit

It’s been a good year for John Condron & The Benefit. A new record and a trip to South by Southwest have the band riding high. The newly minted four-piece delivers Condron’s songs old and new with a blistering intensity.

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Withershins

Withershins continues to impress as they make a name for themselves on the storied Champaign music scene. The four-piece unit delivers strong musical anthems with plenty of introspective lyrics and catchy guitar hooks.

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Blood Pony

When you start thinking about all of the instruments being played during a Blood Pony song, you tend to forget it takes a bunch of kickass musicians to bring the melodica, glockenspiel, violin, trombone, moog, guitar, bass and drums into a beautiful harmony. But the St. Louis band accomplishes that and more breathing life into singer James Walker’s pretty songs.

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Lupe Carroll Band

Lupe Carroll has a way about him that typically results in listeners exclaiming, “Damn, that kid can sing!” His is a voice that’s flecked with blues and tinged with pain and with a full band, there’s no telling what he can do.

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The Annandale Cardinals

The Annandale Cardinals fuse country and rock into a sweet mix peppered with good songwriting and great playing. The Minneapolis sextet has been touring in support of its debut “Home.”

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vaudevileins

Vaudevileins is the new project from Jeff Julian and Brennen Chouinard (x-Deconstructing Jim). With a new record in the can set for a spring 2011 release, the duo have teamed up with William Aldridge and Pete Aimaro to bring the songs to life on stage.

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