VANDAVEER is the alt-folk song-singing/record making/globetrotting project penned and put forth by DC-by-way-of-Kentucky tunesmith Mark Charles Heidinger. The son of a preacher whose father was a gambler whose father was both judge and US congressman, Mark Charles one day found himself in possession of a golden pocket watch owned, wound, and regularly counseled by each in this paternal line. On the backside of said watch was a family name engraved, passed down for a century or more like the timepiece that followed. That name was Vandaveer. >>MORE<< Myspace | Official Website

Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Tammy Haider and Eliza Hiscox make the music of Royalchord. Starting out in 2001 playing dusty alt-country with a crew that at one point swelled up to 8 members, Tammy and Eliza now play primarily as a duo, replacing guitars with keyboards and band members with chopped drum breaks and sequenced bass lines. >>MORE<< Myspace | Official Website

On March 9, Dark Dark Dark releases the stunning six-song EP Bright Bright Bright on Supply and Demand Music. Hailing from New Orleans, New York and Minneapolis, the chamber-folk sextet have yielded a lush and intoxicating follow-up to their 2008 full-length debut, The Snow Magic. The band has also unveiled their new website, brightbrightbright.com , where you can listen to the entire EP and pre-order the vinyl.  >>MORE<<  Myspace |  Official Website

A love affair with sad songs and an affinity for layers of vibraphones, organs, guitars, woodwinds, and vocals mixed together to make something so bare sound so full.  >>MORE<<  Myspace |  Official Website