MARMALAKES is a three-piece folk-pop outfit comprised of Austin natives. Dynamic and concise, their lyric-attentive songs are laced with harmonies and youthful enthusiasm. Playing together now for more than two years, "Wonder Winds," their debut EP, was self-released just this summer. Looking forward to a busy and active future, this band is bound for eager ears.

The Bribes play dirty, moody, imaginative blues-rock from the soul. Relying on genre-bending songwriting originality and good old-fashioned musical instrumentation, the Chicago-based band has played a dynamic brand of rock and roll for toe-tapping audiences all around the city since 2011. Haunting stylized vocals and huge electric guitar act as anchors to round out their dark, bluesy sound. With musical influences ranging from early American blues to the British Invasion, The Bribes have sparked comparisons to artists like Elvis and The Black Keys, but they have cultivated a sound that is all their own.

This spring, The Bribes are building on their strong foundation with a new record, The Man is Good and Fine, out April 11. Their first full-length release boasts nine raw, complex tunes that were made for the modern stage, but that wouldn’t be out of place at an under-the-sea fifties prom or a klezmer revival show in the eighties. Dancing encouraged.

King Mary is a group of best friends who are madly in love with each other. We combine harp, guitar, horn, voice, and electronics to tell stories. Using forms, words, rhythms, and nonsense, King Mary explores emotions, disappointment, potential, loud laughs, drunken mistakes, childish insight, subtle sadness, happy tears, sounds, words, and endless experience. Everything forever. We want it all. We made it all up. Let's make it up better this time.