Sic Alps

Chris Forsyth (Northern Spy)
Guitarist Chris Forsyth’s hypnotic compositions assimilate art rock texture with folk, blues, and experimental influences. Long active in the improv/experimental underground, he’s released a series of acclaimed records over the past few years, including his 2011 LP Paranoid Cat on Family Vineyard and Early Astral, a 2012 duo LP with Mountains’ Koen Holtkamp on Blackest Rainbow, that have earned favorable comparisons to Sandy Bull’s raga-fied Chuck Berry-isms and the majestic guitar tapestries of Television and Popol Vuh. His 2012 Kenzo Deluxe LP/CD on Northern Spy has been described as “resonant [and] incisive… a cosmic abstraction of the American guitar tradition, reducing blues, rock, folk and improvisation into their spare, hypnotic base elements.”(Philadelphis City Paper). Forsyth has toured throughout Europe and the US, sharing stages with such like-minded artists as Steve Gunn, Bill Orcutt, Rhys Chatham, and Träd Gräs och Stenar, and, from 2002 to 2011, as a member of Peeesseye. He has also collaborated with artists including Meg Baird, Tetuzi Akiyama, Mike Pride, Nate Wooley, Shawn Edward Hansen, and choreographers Miguel Gutierrez and RoseAnne Spradlin. Currently in the works are a follow up to Kenzo Deluxe for Northern Spy, a split cassette for the Preservation label with Loren Connors, and a collaboration with choreographer Meg Foley. Forsyth was awarded a 2011 Pew Fellowship int he Arts and resides in the City of Philadelphia, USA.

Bill Orcutt
"Many influences behind Bill Orcutt's acoustic guitar music are easy to guess-- the raw blues of Lightnin' Hopkins and Fred McDowell, the abstract improvisations of Derek Bailey and Cecil Taylor, Orcutt's own attacking bent in 1990s noise outfit Harry Pussy. But there's at least one that nobody could've deduced: "tic videos." As Orcutt told The Wire, he's fascinated by clips "made by people... who have these involuntary physical and verbal tics, and they actually document their symptoms and put the videos up on YouTube." It's an odd inspiration, but one that says a lot about his playing style, which Orcutt himself likens to hiccuping. His wiry plucks and messy note clusters come in exhilarating fits and starts, so fast and impetuous that his guitar strings seem hard-wired to his firing neurons. His obsessive repetition is less about creating studied mantras than capturing the primal power of involuntary impulse." - Pitchfork

Meg Baird (Espers)

Moonbeams

Tennis System (LA)

Slowness

Caldecott

The Rabbles

Glen Meadmore

The Whoa Nellies
The Whoa Nellies are a five-piece band specializing in songs from the flower power era. We take pride in reviving bubblegum pop, groovy radio hits, show tunes from “Hair” and British Invasion chart toppers with a pinch of California Country. We'll sock it to you with late '60's and early '70's songs from TV shows including The Monkees, The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. We are a fun-loving group with an out-a-sight outlook on life.

Punk Rock Sideshow

Religious Girls

Unstoppable Death Machines

Dead Meat

Parquet Courts (What's Your Rupture?)

Andy Human

Fine Steps