Dem Bones formed in October of 2009 when Gabriel Smith (Guitar, Vocals) met Daniel Lauten (Violin). Over the course of the next few months, they slowly started adding new members and playing shows in the Grand Valley of Colorado. The band other than Gabriel and Daniel consists of David Rowley (Upright Bass), Talya Dewey (Vocals), Jordan Fields (Drums), Billy Pogany (Lead Guitar/Banjo), Steve Kilcrease (Mandolin), and the newest addition of Austin Martinez (Trumpet). They play a punk/folk set with overtones of spaghetti western tunes. They are currently recording their first album as the prepare for a 2 and a half week tour of the northwest.

Listen to some of their tunes on their MySpace page.

Michael Gross & The Statuettes formed in the summer of 2008. Michael Gross (former singer and guitar player for “The Brobecks” and “Lets Become Actors”) recorded a solo CD in the spring of 2008 titled “Tales From a Country Home”. Shortly after, Michael decided to form a real life band. The Statuettes were born. Living never felt so good. The Statuettes have received praise by many local and national media outlets, and were most recently voted a finalist in the 2010 Salt Lake City Weekly Music Awards. The band has released two E.P.’s “Dust & Daylight” (2009) and “Impulse & Exports” (2010). They are currently working on their debut full length album which is scheduled for release in the summer of 2010.

Learn more about the band on their website, and listen to some of their tracks on MySpace.

The Broken Spells are on Myspace and Facebook. Listen to a few of their tracks… they’re going to rock Green River’s face off.

Audrey Ebbs is a 23 year old solo artist, recently making her way into the alternative-indie-pop music scene. She has been around music her whole life, but has only been playing for a few years. Self-taught, Audrey plays guitar, piano, mandolin, percussion, and is always looking to expand. She sings all of the harmonies heard in her songs, as well as records and produces her work from home. Born and raised in Alaska, this independent artist made her way out to San Francisco where she worked with a non-profit organization to help the homeless. By that point, however, she was already getting the itch to do more with music. Her job provided a unique opportunity to travel to countries like Egypt, Italy, Morocco, Turkey, etc, and it’s there, overseas, singing and playing the guitar, that she saw the connection music instantly formed between people. Now she currently lives in the Western Slope of Colorado where she’s been developing her sound and venturing out to local venues with the help of some of her friends. Come fall she plans to move to L.A. where she’ll attempt to take her pursuit of music one step further. With her music already featured by companies like Mercedes-Benz, Audrey Ebbs is an artist you’ll want to keep your eye on.

To hear some of Audrey’s music, you can visit the following links:
http://www.myspace.com/audreyebbs
http://www.facebook.com/audreyebbsmusic

With the release of his first full-length CD, “10 Miles to Biloxi,” and recent EP, “The Water,” Brock Gleeson hopes to bring his blend of lively folk-rock and engaging storytelling to a wider audience. His band, which has existed in various lineups for nearly 4 years, consists primarily of Brock on lead vocals, guitar and banjo, and childhood friend Ben Reynolds on backing vocals, guitar and mandolin.

“10 Miles to Biloxi” took 21 days to record in a tiny Colorado recording studio and was 3 years in the making. “The Water” was the result of a burst of songwriting and a nonstop weekend of work in the same cozy home studio. “They’re both labors of love,” Brock says. “I’d wanted to work with a band to record the songs on ‘Biloxi’ for a long time. I’d written a couple of the songs on ‘The Water’ and when the last few were ready we went straight to the studio. It was only a few months between, but I had to share them!”

Born in Grand Junction, Colorado, into a rowdy Irish clan where everyone was a storyteller, Brock grew up sharing tales — only some of which were true — and performing them before rapt audiences from the family dinner table to the school stage. He hit the road shortly after high school, capturing the hearts and souls of audiences from Colorado to Nashville to Austin to Phoenix, and counts among his musical highlights opening for guitar and roots music wizard Jimmy Vaughan in 2004.

The Brock Gleeson Band creates songs you’ll tap your toes to and find yourself humming a few hours later. They’ll make you sway your hips across a dance floor or sing aloud on a long country drive.

The guys are in a new studio in May, recording a batch of songs inspired by a late winter trip through the South. Summer will be the perfect time to share them onstage.

The Brock Gleeson Band website, Facebook, and MySpace.

Dinosaur the Musical is Dylan Forster, Drew Fields, and Arbys of Grand Junction, Colorado. They’re young (still in high school!), but they’re talented. They’ve been been described as “jazz-infused post-rock” (Lehi Cano) and “a zebra wounded on the Serengeti in May” (Dinosaur the Musical).

Listen to some of their tracks on their MySpace page, and visit their Facebook page while you’re at it…

Eddie Tennyson does not confess to writing “real” songs–they’re “just stuff he makes up.”  This San Diego-born singer-songwriter tells stories with a voice and acerbic wit not far from John Denver and just a stone’s throw away from Todd Snider.  As a child, Eddie fell in love with the West while traveling with his folks from the orange groves of California to the wheat fields of Kansas to help with the family harvest. He later spent many years traveling the back-roads gathering experiences to put into his songs, his wanderlust finally finding a home in the red dirt of the Canyonlands. This landlocked Jimmy Buffett still hits the road regularly in search of new adventures. His songs tell of outlaws and open spaces, lost landscapes and human foibles in an irreverent, tongue-in-cheek kind of way. Provocative yet fun, his songs make you think and go reptilian at the same time.

Holy Water Buffalo is Thomas Clyde Brunson III, Jeffrey Boone Vanderlinden, and Steven James Siggard of Heber City, Utah.

These guys rock.

Video: Buffalo Hunter by Holy Water Buffalo

Holy Water Buffalo’s Facebook + MySpace.