You can blame DWNTWN on breakups, booze and long drives to San Francisco. The band came to be in the summer of 2010 when Jamie Leffler and Robert Cepeda both went through bummer breakups and spent most weekends driving from LA to San Francisco trying to get away. In early… Read more...
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Sleigh Bells is composed of songwriter, guitarist and producer Derek E. Miller and vocalist Alexis Krauss. The duo met and formed in 2008, when Miller was waiting tables on Alexis and her mother at a neighborhood Brazilian restaurant. Miller mentioned he was looking for a… Read more...
BMI’s November batch of indie artists includes more new voices who are embracing the do-it-yourself capabilities of the contemporary soundscape. Allen Stone, A Million Years, Andrew Ripp, Com Truise, Freddy & Francine, Mad Planet, Radio Freq, Republic of Letters, SaintSaviour, The Jane Shermans, Sleigh Bells and Julian Shah-Tayler, as well… Read more...
