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Unisex Salon: official website; myspace; Eighties to the point of excess, Unisex Salon is everything you love to love about the “Me Decade”: shameless, upbeat and heavy on the synths. Garishly tattooed, omnisexual lead singer Kenyon Phillips brings to mind a modern Bryan Ferry, mincing, growling and crooning his way through danceable New Wave soundscapes crafted by keyboard player Brian Gumbel, bass player Jansen Cinco (Lukas Haas, Domino Kirke, Charles Tolliver) and former Fun Lovin’ Criminals drummer Stephen Borgovini. Backup singer Autumn Ready Potter rounds out the sound with disarmingly pretty harmonies that, like The Osmonds, are a little bit country and a little bit rock n’ roll. The band’s Bacchanalian live shows continue to set them apart from other New York pop acts, and have even resulted in the placement of Unisex Salon songs in episodes of “Eleventh Hour” (CBS), “The Mighty B!” (Nickelodeon) and “Teen Cribs” (MTV).

Zerobridge: myspace; It's not often you hear about a band like zerobridge. Lead singer/guitarist and songwriter Mubashir Mohi-ud-Din ("Din") and drummer Mohsin Mohi-ud-Din ("Mo") are two brothers, whose parents are from the disputed territory of Kashmir, nestled between northern India and Pakistan. Greg Eckelman, seasoned NYC bass player (Orange 9mm, The Phoids), keyboardist Paolo Arao (CatJaw)), round out the four piece band who have been playing their own unique brand of melodic, guitar driven rock n' roll for the last five years. With three independent releases behind them, including their latest EP entitled, There We Were, Now here We Are, the music of zerobridge illustrates a penchant for classic song writing and a passion to become the only band that matters.

Killcode: myspace; The five guys that make up the band Killcode didn’t have to rise from ashes or go through some spiritual quest to find themselves where they are today.

Collectively they have sold tens of thousands of albums and toured the world with separate bands, sometimes sharing those stages with each other, not to mention some of music’s royalty. There came a moment not too long ago when guitarist Chas and vocalist Tom Morrissey put a few tunes to tape and decided they had something that rocked too hard to ignore. They approached Erric Bonesmith about checking out the songs and seeing if he might dig throwing down some bass. He dug it, and he did it.

Next they set their sites on a drummer and after several auditions by drummers from all over the country, they found Rob Noxious. Rob fit in from day one and then there were four. Guitarist Pat Harrington was just himself finishing a new album after just getting off tour when the guys asked him to come jam. They five guys got a room, plugged in and Killcode was born!

One of the things that was obvious from the very start was the fact that all five guys had common musical ground but born from different genres and influences. It turns out that those differences just added to the inspiration and created a heavy but melodic, dirty but polished, raw and emotional sound.

Killcode won’t go quietly, and they won’t be nice about it but, they will get the job done.

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