Noisy guitars of fuzz and echo thread through this group taking its name from Joseph Heller's satiric Catch-22. Heady vocals and lyrics from principal songwriter Jordan Jeffares coerce even the most pretentious into tapping toes. Hands clap and drums trip over flashy rhythms while guitars stutter through unique melodic progressions. Snowden, largely follows the evolution of Jeffares' post-collegiate home recordings in Athens and Atlanta. Impressed with his bedroom demos, Jeffares' brother put Jordan in touch with likeminded players and the band was born. Having self-recorded and released its first EP, the group immediately charted all over indie radio in their home state of Georgia, prompting Jeffares and company to brave the long, monotonous drives up to New York for shows. The traveling quickly paid off with Snowden opening for groups such as the Unicorns, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Xiu Xiu and Arcade Fire. The group's Jade Tree debut, Anti-Anti, expands studio credit to include some tracks engineered by Erik Wofford (The Black Angels, Explosions in the Sky, My Morning Jacket) as well as a few helmed solely by Jeffares. Although Snowden grew from a rather isolated situation and mood, ironically those same conditions are what continues to draw listeners in.[more]

12:30- Selmanaires
11:30-12:10 Rizzudo
10:50-11:20 The Orphins (side stage)
10:00-10:45 Young Antiques
9:00- 9:45 Anna Kramer
8:00-8:45 Pardner
7:00-7:45 The Meeks Family
6:20-6:50 Hollow Stars (side stage)
5:45-6:15 Lonesome
5:00-5:30 Long Shadows [more]

The E.A.R.L.'s dunch shows are hangover friendly live music that occur somewhere between one and four p.m.[more]

Ryan Steinwedel (lead guitar) and Kelly Taylor (vocals) started writing more than a year ago , not knowing that they would soon be looking to form a band. They took their songs to drum beat maestro Noel Goff (drums and producer) who recently has joined the train ride with fellow music maker Mark Sims (bass). We all enjoy many types of music, which brings great variety to our ideas when working together. Ryan Steinwedel began playing guitar at the College of Charleston. There, he joined his first band and studied jazz guitar at the school.[more]

Chocolate Kiss started in 1997 with Bob (Bob Rob/Mr. Bob) Medina on guitar, James Joyce on guitar, Matt Mauldin on singing and Jon Rothman on drums. Eventually we figured out that Jon was a terrible drummer so we got Kip Thomas to play drums after our second show. He was also a good addition, as he helped run Moodswing Records during this time and financed the release of 4 Chocolate Kiss CDs over the next 4 years, including Onethrutwelve (aka The Orange Album), Les Boom Boom (aka The Blue Album), Set Yourself On Fire (aka The Red Album), and No Funeral (aka The Green Album). We shunned the bass player for many years, keeping the sound to the duel rhythm guitar midrange sound, but then added Cade Lewis on bass for the band’s final year and No Funeral album. We never became a very popular band, which kept us honest, but we did have a core group of superfans that we loved very much. This site is for them and the wives of Chocolate Kiss: Andrea Thomas, Becky Mauldin, Sue Joyce and Janet Medina (we miss you).[more]