The greatest moments in life are those that catch you completely off guard. Be they big or small, it’s the unexpected occurrences and chance encounters that keep life exciting, and earlier this week I stumbled across someone who has quickly won his way into my heart. If you have a few minutes to spare I […]
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Leon Bridges Is About To Become Your New Favorite Soul Artist
October 26th, 2014 
James Shotwell 
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UTG PREMIERE: Act As If – “Easier”
October 24th, 2014 James Shotwell The weekend is almost here, so in our minds it is as good a time as any to forget about work and focus on what really matters: Discovering great new music. Today, we have the great honor of partnering with fast-rising pop rock outfit Act As If to premiere the closing track from their highly […]
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UTG PREMIERE: Nemes – “Black Streak”
September 19th, 2014 James Shotwell With a little more than a month to go before their long awaited full-length debut arrives in stores, New England folk rock outfit Nemes have joined forces with UTG to share a brand new song. It’s hard to know the right way to describe the sound of Nemes to someone who has never encountered their […]
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UTG Premiere: Vanities – ‘Dead Beats’ EP
September 18th, 2014 James Shotwell Just a year after bursting onto the hardcore scene with their incredible debut, New England’s Vanities are back with a killer new record that might be your favorite heavy release of the fall. The world of heavy music has become incredibly underwhelming in recent years, at least on the side of things that caters to […]
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UTG Video Premiere: Across the Viaduct – “Night Shift”
September 16th, 2014 James Shotwell We have a slew of unsigned exclusives coming your way this week, and the latest offering comes to us from none other than Ohio pop punk outfit Across The Viaduct. To be fair, Across The Viaduct are not pop punk in the same way, say, Man Overboard are pop punk. Their sound is certainly rooted […]
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The Weekend Classic Are About To Become Your New Favorite Band
September 14th, 2014 James Shotwell I’ve always found that the best listening experience anyone can hope to stumble across is an instance where material that you never expected to impress you ends up knocking you on your ass. The track plays, your jaw slowly comes unhinged, and by the time it ends you’re too busy eating your own words to […]
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Creeper Make Our Knees Weak With Their Video For “Gloom”
September 4th, 2014 James Shotwell UK rock outfit Creeper are winning over hearts around the globe this year, and their march towards total genre domination continues this morning with the release of a music video for “Gloom.” If you’re not a fan already, strap in. Your life is about to change. Taken from Creeper’s critically-acclaimed new EP, “Gloom” is a […]
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There’s Something Irresistible About Radical Something’s “Cali Get Down”
August 30th, 2014 James Shotwell Several weeks ago we brought you an audio stream of a new song titled “Cali Get Down” by a band we had never previously covered called Radical Something. That same group has since released a video for the that single, and we have only fallen further in love with their unique take on modern pop […]
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August 29th, 2014 James Shotwell I am not sure what else can be written about Vanities that has not already been scrawled across this site a dozen times in the past year. Rising from relative obscurity in New England, Vanities have quickly become a band everyone with an ear for the heavier side of music needs to know. Their debut […]
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Buffalo, NY’s Well Kept Things Are About To Be Your New Favorite Band
August 28th, 2014 James Shotwell We’ve probably said this a dozen times before, but there is nothing in this life quite like the rush you feel when stumbling upon an undiscovered talent. Be it musician, painter, filmmaker, or something else entirely, there is something about that rush of emotion and excitement that accompanies a new artistic discovery that cannot be […]
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UTG Album Premiere: Get Stoked – ‘Washington Street’
August 18th, 2014 James Shotwell This is a fact we have no doubt mentioned a thousand times in the past, but UTG is a product of Michigan. We may have moved our offices several times since launching on the campus of Ferris State University in the spring of 2008, but that does not mean our hearts ever left the so-called […]
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UTG Premiere: Adage – ‘Defined’ EP
August 13th, 2014 James Shotwell With the exception of five or six bands, the world of radio-ready rock and roll has been incredibly underwhelming in recent years. Most bands seem to have no problem finding a way to reach large audiences, but very few have mastered the art of developing a career that can be sustained – if not built […]
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