A self-taught musician originally hailing from Eureka, California, Bareilles began her career in Los Angeles, performing in small clubs and venues and building her audience. Read more »

Last year, Sage and MPress Records decided to release a compilation featuring some of music’s most talented independent songwriters. What began as simply a desire to open ears to new voices, soon developed into a benefit compilation where 100% of the proceeds went to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Read more »

After several years of performing as the vocalist and bassist for the now defunct (but never forgotten) rock outfit, Concrete Blonde, singer-songwriter Johnette Napolitano has released her latest musical effort with the emotional and soul-bearing Scarred. Read more »

Operating her own record label from a charming shack within the Australian bush, one will find the lovely Emily Maguire Read more »

If her face isn’t immediately recognizable, her voice most certainly is. Since 1993, Dolores O’Riordan led the Cranberries, one of the more commercially successful bands of the last decade and spawned the hits ‘Dreams’, ‘Zombie,’ ‘Ode To My Family,’ ‘Salvation’ and others. Together the group released five albums, the most recent in 2001 with Wake Up And Smell The Coffee. Read more »