For this Groupee Session, The Sweet Hurt performed three songs from their new EP, In the Shade of Dreams, as well as one song ('Take This Away') from their last record, Everyday Mistakes.  Recently featured as one of our Buzz Bands, The Sweet...

Melanoid is the solo project of Johnny Hanson, an unassuming sort who just happens to be prodigiously talented.  The best way to describe John Hanson is that he is a cross between Roy Orbison and Elliott Smith.  Seriously.   He combines...

Queen Kwong is led by singer/songwriter Carré Callaway.  Carré first received some notoriety a few years ago when she opened for Nine Inch Nails on one of their tours.  Her music is not anything like Nine Inch Nails,...

We’ve brought in dozens of bands for our Groupee Sessions over the past several months and one name that kept coming up when I asked artists who they admired was singer/songwriter Liz Pappademas.  The first time I visited her website,...

For this Groupee Session, sound engineer (and leader of the most excellent The Idaho Falls) Raymond Richards was concerned about bringing a "punk rock" act into his small studio.  Well, I would not classify them as punk rock, but there was some...

Los Angeles-based The Weather Underground treated us to an amazing set of live performances at Red Rockets Glare studio in Los Angeles.  Bird in the Hand: This song appears on the band’s most recent EP of the same name, but for this...