ART DISASTER no.10 ARTISTS

The White White Lights serenade with rabid love songs and host noir dance parties for carnivorous ghosts lost in spectral hallucinations.
Their layered songwriting entangles the delicate and violent in equal parts, creating vivid and potent songs that both seduce and destroy. Fans of Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pixies, Butthole Surfers, and similarly iconic bands will likely appreciate what The White White Lights have started incubating.

The Shondes are a rock band based in Brooklyn and best known for potent political anthems and heartbreaking violin hooks. The foursome brings the sound and spirit of riot grrrl to its unique brand of Jewish-inflected music with an explosive and emotional live show that often moves audiences to tears. The Shondes approach each moment on stage with limitless joy and ferocious passion, and offstage, band members Louisa Solomon (bass/vocals), Elijah Oberman (violin/vocals), Fureigh (guitar), and Temim Fruchter (drums) are outspoken and visible in their communities regarding issues of sexuality, gender and religion.

Leopold and his Fiction is the balanced reincarnate of a sultry era of Western darkness underneath big city lights and country back roads leading to the morning shore of a transpiring musical horizon. The honest and transcendent San Francisco Rock ‘n' Roll band escalating into the west coast music scene, Leopold and his Fiction acquires a moody-pop frame derived from distant genres and unwavering imagination in an attempt to reinvent what each member feels has dissipated from the greater measure of music.

KEXP and WOXY, among others, fell for the band's quirky and charming blend of pop rock, and listeners followed suit, blogging the band up to #11 on Elbo.ws blog aggregate. The band also caught the attention of their peers. Artists such as French Kicks and Islands responded to Pomegranates' dynamic live set by inviting them out on the road. Everybody, Come Outside! shows a marked improvement both creatively and sonically from its predecessor, channeling influences that range from Talking Heads and Brian Eno, to French Kicks and Fela Kuti.

Sunset is a musical ensemble founded by Bill Baird, formerly sound team, from the musical hotbed of Austin, Texas. They play folk and traditional music with a twist of electronic components, perhaps some vocal harmony. Features drums, bass, some analogue keyboards, guitars, and the general listening pleasure.
Ancient forests under majestic mountains, the two sides leading your feet back to the sordid music clubs that we all know and love. Moving between the two sides, both because they are just different aspects of the same coin. Real beauty can be found in the dirt.

As a quick talking MC, spiritual songwriter, and ambitious entrepreneur, Shunda has the undeniable ability to entertain and communicate with her audience at the same time. Both overtly spiritual and sexual, Shunda's sheer force of will, perseverance and patience are also vital touchstones that have played key roles in her success. Shunda is no overnight sensation -- she gets hers through the sweat equity that will land her on "hot" lists in 2010.

Red Wanting Blue has been called the hardest working unsigned band in America. With eight studio albums, 10 years of touring and thousands of loyal fans to show for it, this Columbus, Ohio-based band is now the subject of a documentary about its story produced by Broadway legend Ken Davenport.

Born out of a university art-rock collective, The Bright Light Social Hour has evolved into an unabashedly wide-screen rock act, melding classic rock energy with indie, experimental, and soul influences.

Born Mellissa Ulachi Ulanma Offoha and known to friends and fans as Lachi, this Brooklyn-based lyricist plays her rock songs at the piano backed by a band so crack you'll have to dance while you sing along. Tune after tune, Lachi lets you into her unique world, at times evoking Joni and others Alanis. Still, Lachi is carving out her own name to remember.

CAW! CAW! is the stargazer, the crude cowboy, the truth teller, the hypocrite and the wild sexless child you want to be again, plastered with rich, impudent guitar textures and propelled by a smart and booming rhythm section. They play for everyone, but specialize in earth songs for space explorers, time travelers, pill-popping lovers, miniature golfers and paste eaters.

With a foundation in Salsa, hip hop and electronica, Orion's reportoire has expanded to include the toughest dancehall riddims, Cumbia y Merengue, mash-ups, grime, baile funk, dubstep, jazz, minimal techno, bassline and most things in between.

For 17 years the EVOL DJs have been running, promoting, DJing and creating the world famous EVOL dance party in Edinburgh, Scotland. Guests from John Peel, The Stone Roses, Trail of Dead, Princess Superstar, The Go! Team through to Franz Ferdinand, The Kills, mogwai and many more have graced the decks... but always with The EVOL DJs Keiron and Skoda under scoring the night. Eclectic playlists and after parties for Nirvana, Mudhoney, MTV, Super Furry Animals... to name but a few.. have helped forge their reputation for mass hysteria from the UK through the USA, New Zealand, Korea and Europe.

Miguel Angel's style would best be described as a mix between Radioclit and New Order with a little touch of Roy Orbison. He also has a bit of a punk-rock back ground, so dont be surprised if you here a some The Clash dropped with a little cumbia.