By day, Eric C. Castillo works marketing and media for his company, Reprogram Music. By night, he is known around Houston and nightclubs nationwide as Ceeplus Bad Knives: a DJ and producer with a soft spot for African funk and synths. When he's not rocking the world of music lovers everywhere, he's at home taking care of his family where his son ...

If you couldn't guess from the band name, the Jazzus Lizard plays freestyle jazz based on the music of the Jesus Lizard. It sounds like a crazy combination, but the way the Austin group expresses their rock-inspired tunes shows that jazz and the Jesus Lizard are a combination as great as peanut butter and jelly. It's so good in fact, that the ...

Tim Wilson and his friend Ryan Carbary formed Ivan & Alyosha in the summer of 2007. Inspired by the works of classic writers, both musical [Harry Nilsson] and literary [Fyodor Dostoyevsky], Ivan & Alyosha's music is a perfect relationship of old and new folk-pop sounds. The Seattle-based duo is preparing for their SXSW debut and their ...

Erin Austin was finishing up vocals in a Denton, Texas recording studio when Spinner got in touch with her, but a long day of work couldn't put a cap on the effervescent singer. Austin fronts OK Sweetheart, a Billie Holiday-inspired band with a vintage pop sound. Wrapping up the final touches of OK Sweetheart's debut album and preparing for her ...