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Pete and J: official website; myspace; Pete Harper and Jason Blynn are known to themselves, and in turn by others, affectionately but usually appropriately, as "Pete and J". Pete and J tour nationally, all over the US of A, and occasionally in the UK. Most of the time, Pete and J are a band consisting of 4 people (a bassist and drummer in addition to the Pete and the J).

They are based in New York City, where they flourish in the sweet exhaust and excitement of city life. They tour much of the year, however, so occasionally see both grass and trees.

“Drawing regular comparisons to Simon & Garfunkel, but rising well above simply sounding like someone else, Pete and J are seasoned live performers, consummate entertainers, and offer a simple but unique twist that somehow bridges young and old, shy and wild…”
-Cheshire FM (in the grand UK)

Pete and J have released “Dressed for Conversation” and “Without a Band”. But the forthcoming new album (currently being worked on) is the most highly anticipated of all of their works to date. Featuring a move towards the upbeat pop hooks of The Rolling Stones and vocal harmonies that have been lost for 30 years, the new songs are at the same time nostalgic and new, vinyl and totally original.

The XYZ Affair: official website; myspace; New York's The XYZ Affair have come a long way since lead singer Alex Feder's high school demos that make up their roots. Originally forming out of New York University's basketball Pep Band, the band solidified their current lineup – Feder on vocals and guitar, Chris Bonner on bass and backup vocals, and Russ Maschmeyer on guitar, keyboards, and backup vocals— and have since been mastering the art of writing soaring arena pop colored with the duality of confident energy and boyish vulnerability.

With an affinity for complex harmonies, wall of sound guitars, big drums, and flashy guitar solos, the group has since birthed its triumphant debut A Few More Published Studies, and the followup Trials EP, to the liking of a growing legion of devotees.

The band is currently hard at work on their second full length, to be released in summer '10.

Young Galaxy: official website; myspace; Stephen Ramsay and Catherine McCandless are Young Galaxy. They stem from island roots, from Canada’s Western frontier, that place of rising tides, beach side campfires and fogged-in cedars. But Young Galaxy isn’t the stuff of island gales and Okanogan laments. There’s another facet, a cool urbaneness, the measured cadence of a city strut. Years spent in the fertile cosmopolitanism of Montreal have made their mark.

If Young Galaxy is a musical entity with its heart buried in leaves, its feet follow the striding beat and rhythmic pulses of the mirrored-glass and neon-lit city. And just as young galaxies are born of contradictions – bits of nothing made everything – so is their eponymous debut.

Song after song, we hear traces of the familiar retooled and delivered in ways we’d never have guessed at, never have conjured in a million years. They win us before we know that we’ve been won. For every defining element, the album has another to check and compliment it – brooding guitar licks and floral harmonies collide with rapt shoe-gazer choruses that transcend to an anthemic pastoral.

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