The Silent League is a difficult band to trace. Formed in '04 in Brooklyn by Justin Russo (at the time, keyboardist for Mercury Rev), The Silent League may sometimes appear like an on-again/off-again relationship between a collective of musicians interested only in periodically making records, playing shows, and disappearing again. This may be true. While nobody in NY ever seems quite sure whether or not the band still exists, the name carries weight all over the city. Lay tracks through the past 5-6 years’ worth of new music, including their latest "But You've Always Been The Caretaker" and you’re going to run over more than a handful of people who began with or spent time creating music under the name The Silent League…many of them still do, you just don’t know it.

Like their hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia, Brasstronaut is hard to pin down. Their debut album, Mt. Chimaera, possesses qualities of the fjord-flanked city's unpredictable character. Since forming in 2007, Brasstronaut has steadily acquired the hands necessary to fuse a diverse range of genres and this follow-up to their Old World Lies EP represents the first statement by the band's definitive six-piece line-up. Vocalist and keyboardist Edo Van Breemen is joined by a roster fluent in trumpet, lap steel, flugelhorn and the seldom-heard EWI (a wind synthesizer), among others.

KAT is what Danish, female, electro-pop artist Katrine Ottosen calls herself when she steps on stage and wraps herself in keyboards, laptops, home-cooked beats and vinyl birds. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Sometimes hushed, sometimes loud. Always beautiful.