Artists
Pablo is a powerful live performer with a relevant message. He continues to study and educate himself on the true realities of the world around him. His music shares his penetrating vision of these realities, and helps to open the minds… (Read More)
Pacifika’s Silvana Kane, Adam Popowitz, and Toby Peter quietly spent 2006 immersed in the studio capturing a sound. What does a band comprised of a Peruvian born singer with a love of flamenco and electronica, a dub infused bassist raised in… (Read More)
Papa have found a way to reconcile their inborn melodious eclecticism with a face-punching wham-bam that only slightly suggests the old, old punk rock it’ll invariably be lumped in with. (But that’d be the boundary-smashing punk art of Wire/PiL as opposed… (Read More)
Bandleader MALCOLM WELBOURNE’s personification “PAPA MALI” is a salute to his home territory of north Louisiana. Malcolm was born in Mississippi and raised in Shreveport, where absorbing the blues along Bayou Pierre was just as much a matter of course as… (Read More)
*Forward is not just a direction, it’s a way of life for Colorado based producer Alex B who is rolling out big tunes under the new guise of Paper Diamond in 2011. The new project finds the trusted producer moving into… (Read More)
Paper Tongues plays for the people. Fusing massive rock n’ roll melodies with fiery hip hop beats, the Charlotte band conjures an infectious, incendiary sound on their A&M/Octone debut, due out this summer. Embracing elements of rock, funk, rap and soul… (Read More)
Started in the summer of 2000 by Jesse Pruett, Parker Theory is a band from san diego, california armed with hard-driving sounds, three part harmonies, and a positive energy. Each song has its own feel, ranging from alternative indie rock to… (Read More)
Since forming in the fall of 2000, Particle has enjoyed a successful ride that has taken them to eight countries for over 850 shows including Europe and Japan. After a whimsical San Francisco boat cruise, a musical bond was surged that… (Read More)
Passafire combines reggae, progressive rock and experimental dub roots to create a unique sound that has provided them with national recognition. The Savannah, Georgia based band is a new addition to California’s LAW records, which is run by nationally acclaimed act… (Read More)
On their newest album, These Days (the Virginia Sessions), the Pat McGee Band come full circle, returning to the independent music roots of the group’s formation almost a decade ago. As one of the nation’s hardest-working live acts, playing more than… (Read More)
Pat Travers was born in Toronto, Canada on April 12, 1954. Soon after picking up the guitar at age 12 Pat saw the legend Jimi Hendrix perform in Ottawa. This obvious inspirational concert must have sparked the young Pat to go… (Read More)
Depending on your point of view, Pato Banton’s career either started or ended with a bullet. It was fired in 2000. Banton, a two-decade reggae institution around the world, was on tour at the time. He had spent the better part… (Read More)
Pato Banton and Mystic Roots Band
Birmingham, England reggae singer/toaster Pato Banton (born Patrick Murray) made his debut on the English Beat’s third album, 1982’s Special Beat Service, helping out Ranking Roger on the track “Pato and Roger a Go Talk.” Five years later, Banton returned with… (Read More)
Pato Banton, backed by Sol Horizon
Having already enjoyed a career filled with international hits and chart-topping duets with artists such as Sting and UB40, Pato Banton will undoubtedly continue to be the leading voice in reggae music for the coming decade. Surfdog Records is proud to… (Read More)
Patrick’s material includes the advantages and disadvantages of living in a world with limited vision and the complications that arise from it. Patrick discusses the obstacles of relationships/marriage and raising four children. Patrick addresses an asortment of other topics that are… (Read More)
The typical adjectives used to describe singer songwriters don’t really apply to Patrick Park. The contemplativeness and over analysis that are so often behind the heady brand of music Park proffers doesn’t appear in his creative process. Indeed, his decisiveness is… (Read More)
This is about songs and soaring voices, about faith and fate. About family, yes, and loss, and jubilation. But mostly Downtown Church, the seventh album from Patty Griffin, is an opportunity to engage her special voice with the myriad traditions of… (Read More)
Paul Sabourin and Greg “Storm” DiCostanzo have been writing and performing original funny music together for a long, long time. They hope their music will make you laugh and feel good for a little while, and believe that this aim is… (Read More)
Paul Cebar cut his teeth musically in the coffeehouse folk scene of the mid-’70s in Milwaukee. First paying gigs took place in late ’76 with an emphasis on solo recasting of small combo jump-blues and other early R&B. Upon graduation from… (Read More)
From Philadelphia. Built wax wings to fly. Best friend is giant ox. Mind control! Does not like any kind of bean, not even jelly. Shark attack survivor— and guilt free! Ghost-wrote one John Irving novel, can you guess which one? Coal… (Read More)
Thorn drew an opening slot for Sting and has subsequently toured with other heavy-hitters including Mark Knopfler, Jeff Beck, John Hiatt, Richard Thompson, Robert Cray, Marianne Faithfull, and John Prine. He’s toured the United States, Canada and the UK performing in… (Read More)
If you had to peg Paula Fuga into a certain music genre, it would be almost impossible. But if you had to? Something like modern Hawaiian soul might suffice. Paula is fueled by the grit and glamour of love. She is… (Read More)
Resting on laurels has never been an option for the men of Southern California’s punk rock powerhouse Pennywise. With The Fuse – an amazing, incendiary album from its first snare drum crack to its last molten guitar line – the legendary… (Read More)
The great chasm for any musician is the distance between what they hear in their heads and what reaches listeners’ ears. Unless you’re a band committed to either effete esoterica or stage-humping feral lunacy, your success largely depends on how well… (Read More)
People Under the Stairs formed when Mike Turner (Double K) and Chris Portugal (Thes One) met on the fringe of L.A.‘s late-’90s hip-hop underground. The duo, devoted to jazzy samples, danceable beats, intricate rhyming skills, and laid-back humor, debuted in 1998… (Read More)
The spirit of aloha is alive and well and currently residing in sunny Southern California. Meet Pepper; Bret Bollinger, Kaleo Wassman, and Yesod Williams, three young innovative minds mixed with divine inspiration from the Hawaiian Islands. Pepper has been perched on… (Read More)
NOBODY CAN ACCUSE Rhyme Inspector Percee P of jumping in too early. After growing up at the epicenter of hip-hop, then recording with a dizzying array of artists for nearly two decades, the rapper is just now releasing his first full-length… (Read More)
Perpetual Groove has become a rock band. That’s the impression fans got when they heard one of the rock & roll tracks from Perpetual Groove’s new album, LIVELOVEDIE at the band’s sold out New Year’s Eve performance. LIVELOVEDIE was produced by… (Read More)
