Kanda
Kanda's sound is a dose of pure sweet-ass electro-pop goodness. Backed by their trusty laptop and blessed with an ear for brilliantly catchy indie songcraft, the Portland-based duo are poised to rule your heart, ears and iPod.
The Lights
Since 1998, The Lights have consistently been putting on one of the best live rock shows in Seattle. Their sound is covered in grit, and anyone who has seen them live in New York, Missoula, Portland, Eugene, Boise, Seattle, Bellingham, has been infected. Through a Turn-on, The Lights connection, their live sound has been captured brilliantly on the Bop Tart Records full length debut, recorded by Erik Blood (producer and member of The Turn-ons) and produced by Erik Blood and The Lights. Simply put, The Lights ROCK!
Dame Darcy
Dame Darcy is a renaissance woman; her vocations include artist, musician, actress, screenwriter, palm reader, and model. Her comic Meat Cake is distributed by Fantagraphics Books, and has a readership of more than 10,000. Dame Darcy has done numerous musical projects over the years, including touring with Lisa Carver’s (of Rollerderby fame) legendary Suckdog performance troupe, and singing with Tiny Tim. In New York Dame Darcy hosted and co-produced over 100 episodes of her public access television program, Turn of the Century. The show featured animation and films by her and other artists. Most recently, Darcy toured seven East Coast cities with her comic brought to the stage Meat Cake The Play, and just got done playing music on a tour of Japan.
The Turn-Ons
There is an abandoned car somewhere in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. Doors flung open, engine running and hazard lights flashing - there is music trickling from inside. Lonely and feral, violent yet subdued; the music of the Turn-Ons is a bloodstain on the leather interior of your heart.