The Kerri Edelman Show

Lindsay Manfredi is an international best-selling author, musician, speaker, and self-worth coach, best known as the bassist for the two-time Gold-certified alternative rock band Cold. She is also the author of Unf*ckwithable: A Guide to Inspired Badassery and the international bestselling memoir The Girl Who Cried Love: A Pivot to Self-Worth.  Beyond her creative work, Lindsay is a co-founder of the nonprofit Girls Rock Indianapolis as well as has delivered a TEDx talk on Girls Rock, with the emphasis on empowerment and identity, further cementing her commitment to using her voice and platform to create meaningful change. Lastly, she conducts Self-Worth Intensive Workshops where she teaches a practical, experience-based framework built around her proprietary Self-Worth Pyramid. For more information, go to lindsaymanfredi.com and follow her on Facbook & Instagram @lindsaymanfredi.

David Degrand is the illustrator of the kids graphic novel Snot Goblins & Other Tasteless Tales and of the gross tongue-twister book Twisted Tongues. He has also written and illustrated for Garfield, SpongeBob Comics, Simpsons Comics and MAD magazine. In 2024, he created designs for the ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic video ‘Polkamania.’ He recently released his new graphic novel, ‘I AM NOT OKAY’ published by Union Square Kids. For more information, visit degrandland.com 

James Yang is an award-winning illustrator who has won over 250 awards for design and illustration. His work has appeared in prestigious trade publications, such as Communications Arts, 3x3 Magazine, Graphis, Print and The Art Directors Club of New York. His illustrations and designs have also appeared in Business Week, ESPN, Golf Digest, Forbes, Fortune, Nabisco, Sony Records, New York Times, Wired and Smithsonian Institution. He has released numerous books including ‘Bus! Stop!’ (selected as an outstanding picture book by The New York Times), followed by his book ‘Stop! Bot!’ (earning the 2020 Geisel Award) and his book ‘A Boy Named Isamu: A Stoy of Isamu Noguchi’ (selected as the 2022 Asian Pacific American Library Association Honor picture book for Asian American Literature). He recently released his new book, 'A Universe Big & Small: A Story About Carl Sagan' (Viking Books/Penguin Random House). For more information, go to jamesyang.com and follow him @yangblog

Rob Kutner has won 5 Emmys, a Peabody, a TCA, and a Grammy writing for such shows as TBS’ “CONAN” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.’ He co-created the fact-based comedy TV show “Gander.” Rob’s other TV writing includes “Teen Titans Go!” “Ben10” “Angry Birds: Summer Madness” and HBO’s “Dennis Miller Live.” He has also written material for the Oscars, Emmys, Writers’ Guild Awards, MTV Movie Awards, Guys’ Choice Awards, and two White House Correspondents’ Dinners. He has developed kids’ and adult animated series for Warner Brothers and SyFy. Rob is the author of the satirical end-of-times bestseller Apocalypse How: Turn the End of Times into the Best of Times, the Amazon Kindle e-bestseller/Audible audiobook The Future According to Me, the graphic novel Shrinkage, horror comedy kids’ anthology Snot Goblins and Other Tasteless Tales and the NY Times bestselling ‘in-universe’ Memoir of Scott ‘Ant-Man’ Lang. His latest project that he is the Head Writer for it titled God’s Gang, which is an interfaith kids’ action-comedy animated series. For more information, visit robkutner.com and follow @robkutner

Phil Witte is a cartoonist and author. His cartoons have been published in dozens of publications in the U.S. and U.K., including The Wall Street Journal, The Times (of London) and Reader’s Digest, to name a few. His humor writing has appeared in American Bystander, Slackjaw, and many other print and digital publications. He has written 2 prior books including a joke book titled “What You Don’t Know About Turning 50” and a sequel on turning 60. Rex Hesner is a jazz musician, writer, and cartoon critic. He established Cartoon Companion, arguably the world’s first website dedicated to reviewing and rating single-panel cartoons. He and collaborator Phil Witte wrote weekly postings over a two-year period before attracting the attention of New Yorker cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff. Migrating to Mankoff’s online cartoon treasure trove, CartoonStock, provided Rex and Phil with countless cartoons to feed their blog, Anatomy of a Cartoon. Pick up a copy of their amazing book 'Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons' on Amazon and where books are sold. For more information, visit www.philipwitte.com and following @philwittecartoons

David Weill is the former Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He is currently the Principal of the Weill Consulting Group which focuses on improving the delivery of pulmonary, ICU, and transplant care. David’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, The Hill, and the Los Angeles Times. He also has appeared on Fox, CNN, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal. David’s memoir Exhale: Hope, Healing, and A Life in Transplant was published in May of 2021. All That Really Matters is his debut novel. David divides his time between New Orleans and Alys Beach, FL, with his wife, Jackie, two daughters, Hannah and Ava, and their dogs, Lucy and Frannie.  For more information, visit www.davidweillmd.com and @davidweill1

I’m an illustrator, cartoonist, writer, and snowman expert. I’ve done cartoons for places like the New York Times, MAD magazine and The New Yorker. I wrote The History of the Snowman (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores  (Penguin Random House, 2016) which became a NY Times bestseller. My work has been exhibited in: The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, Smithsonian Institute, The Cartoon Museum of London and in 2018, The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University. I’ve been nominated Gag Cartoonist of the Year (twice) by the National Cartoonists Society. I have spoke in over a 200 TV and radio shows like Good Morning America and places like NYPL, Miami Book Fair, The Norman Rockwell Museum, and The Grolier Club. I have written columns, Op-Eds and features for: New Yorker, New York Times, New York Daily News, NY Newsday, Reader’s Digest, SPY, Playboy, Details, GQ, MAXIM, National Lampoon, Village Voice, and McSweeney’s. I am a Contributing Editor at Writer’s Digest. In 2018, The Illustrated History of the Snowmanby Globe Pequot was published along with a postcard set called World's Greatest Bookstores: 100 Postcards by Clarkson Potter of Penguin Random House. I have been speaking publicly against online shopping to raise awareness for independent bookstores. I taught at NYU, Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts for a dozen years. In 2022 I published The Complete Book of Cat Names (That Your Cat Won't Answer to, Anyways). I am host of The Cartoon Pad and create the popular Substack newsletter, The Bob. His new book is Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums.

David Sipress graduated from Williams College and went on to a master’s program in Russian History at Harvard before leaving to pursue a career as a cartoonist. His first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1998. Since then, he has published over seven hundred cartoons in the magazine. During the presidential election in 2012, he became the first Daily Cartoonist on the New Yorker website, and his topical cartoons have continued to appear on newyorker.com ever since. His cartoons have been published in the Boston Phoenix, Time, Parade, Playboy, Funny Times, the Washington Post, Harper’s, and numerous other publications. He has published eight collections of his cartoons. He was the 2016 winner of the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Gag Cartooning. He has lectured widely about the art of cartooning, including at Williams College, the Yale Art Museum, and even on the Queen Mary II as the “Cartoonist at Sea”. David’s personal history essays have appeared often on newyorker.com; they range from an appreciation of the great Italian chef, Marcella Hazan, to the story of David’s family’s experience of the Kennedy assassination. David has been widely interviewed about his cartoons and his writing, including on ‘Sixty Minutes’ and ‘Fresh Air with Terry Gross.’ His memoir, WHAT’S SO FUNNY?, was published in 2022. The New York Times called it, “An endearingly vulnerable tale of being molded by one’s family of origin, then crawling out from under its suffocating weight.” A lifetime New Yorker, David lives in Brooklyn with his wife Ginny Shubert, an attorney and activist who works on issues of housing and health.

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's writing takes readers behind the scense of major moment in pop culture history and examines the lasting impact that our favorite TV shows, music, and movies have on our society and psyches. She investigates why pop culture matters deeply, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Seinfeld, to Sex and the City and Mean Girls, to Beyonce, Taylor, and Barbie. She had written eight books, including the New York Times bestseller Seinfeldia, When Women Invented Television, Sex and The City and Us, and So Fetch. Jennifer began her career in newspapers and spent ten years on stafff at Entertainment Weekly, where she reported from the front lines of Grey's Anatomy, 30 Rock and Lost. Her writing has since appeared in BBC Culture, New York magazine and Billboard. She currently curates and writes the Peabody Finds newsletter. Her own newsletter, Culture Trip, explores the intersections between pop culture, spirituality, and politics. For more information, go to jenniferkarmstrong.com & follow her @JMKArmstrong

Jim Wilson could have simply dismissed himself as a competent piano tuner-technician, even an exceptional one. But he was and is so much more, and it took the sudden death of a dear friend and the encouragement of a legendary singer/songwriter to prove it to him. From a broken home in Amarillo, Texas to a multi-award-winning recording artist, Jim Wilson’s journey is a captivating tale of showbiz glamour, personal tragedy, self-discovery, and dogged determination. And, as is typical of Jim Wilson, he’s turned out to be a pretty good wordsmith. Tuned-In: Memoirs of a Piano Man is a page-turner and a life-changer. It’s a self-help book in the form of an autobiography. It is entertaining, revealing and full of lessons for musicians, fans, and all readers. Jim Wilson’s life direction was set when he was given a guitar at age 7, then began composing songs at age 9. Soon after moving from West Texas to LA in his early 20’s, he gained a reputation as a respected piano technician, catering to the highest echelon of the music industry. Jim helped develop the first MIDI-adapter for acoustic piano in the 80’s, which became an instant hit with artists and studios around the world. Four of Jim’s ten recordings have hit the Billboard Top-20, he’s had two PBS specials, and his music has been streamed over 75 million times by fans around the globe. He was recently made a “Lifetime Member” of the Recording Academy. He enjoys scuba diving, skiing, pilot lessons, and mountain biking. Tuned In is Jim’s first book. For more information, visit www.jimwilsonmusic.com and follow him on Instagram @jimwilsonmusic

Jim Benton is an award winning cartoonist and author that regularly posts new comics across multiple platforms including GoComics, Instagram, Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, Facebook and his own website. Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants says: “Jim Benton is a comic genius and a brilliant cartoonist.” And beloved MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragonés says: “Humor in print has many forms, what is amazing is that Jim Benton excels in all of them!” Jim is the creator of the brand It’s Happy Bunny®, which has sold over three-quarters of a billion dollars at retail. It’s won five top awards from the licensing industry, a NCS divisional award for greeting cards, and The American Librarians Association designated It’s Happy Bunny books as Top Picks for teen readers. His book series, Dear Dumb Diary–is a New York Times Best-seller, and is published in Ok15 languages. The series has over ten million books in print, and was made into a musical Made-For-TV movie, seen on Netflix and The Hallmark channel, which Jim co-wrote and produced. His series, Franny K. Stein, has sold over 5 million copies and is the winner of an Eleanor Cameron Award for kid’s science fiction. His cartoon collection, Dog Butts and Love. And Stuff like That. And Cats. was nominated for an Eisner Award. The sequel, Man, I Hate Cursive from Andrews McMeel was also nominated for an Eisner Award the following year. School Library Journal says that Benton’s 2019 title Clyde has a “sly wit!” and has listed it as a New and Noteworthy Read. And Kirkus Reviews says about his series Catwad from Scholastic “Preteens will be onboard immediately and asking for the next volume…” His newest graphic novel series Fann Club: Batman Squad was released in 2023 with DC Comics. In 2023, Jim accepted The Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic Con for excellence in Comic Arts. For more information, visit www.jimbenton.com

Bart Edelman was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and spent his childhood in Teaneck. He earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Hofstra University. He has taught at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, Santa Monica College, West Los Angeles College, Long Beach City College, UCLA, and Glendale College, where he edited Eclipse, A Literary Journal. Most recently, he was appointed to the Affiliate Faculty in the MFA Program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. He was Poet-in-Residence at Monroe College of the State University of New York. His work has been widely anthologized in textbooks published by City Lights Books, Etruscan Press, Fountainhead Press, Harcourt Brace, Longman, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster, Thomson, the University of Iowa Press, Wadsworth, and others. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the United States Department of Education, the University of Southern California, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin to conduct literary research in India, Egypt, Nigeria and Poland. In addition, he received National Endowment for the Humanities grants for a series of lectures at public libraries on “The Common Good: Individualism and Commitment in American Life,” and “Trails: Toward a New Western History.” Collections of his poetry include Crossing the Hackensack (Prometheus Press), Under Damaris’ Dress (Lightning Publications), The Alphabet of Love (Red Hen Press), The Gentle Man (Red Hen Press), The Last Mojito (Red Hen Press), The Geographer’s Wife (Red Hen Press), Whistling to Trick the Wind (Meadowlark Press), and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023 (Meadowlark Press). He lives in Pasadena, California. For more information, visit at bartedelman.com and follow him on Facebook.

Dan Misdea is a cartoonist for The New Yorker. He spent several years in finance before drawing funny pictures for a living. His work has also appeared in Air Mail, Narrative, The Times Luxury, and elsewhere. His first children's book, The Light Inside, is available now. He lives and draws in New Jersey. For more information, visit www.danmisdea.com and follow @danmisdea

An Award-Winning Stand-Up Comic and Cartoonist, Teresa Roberts Logan has appeared on HBO, A&E and The Comedy Channel. She has worked at some of the best clubs in the country, including Comedy Works, Catch A Rising Star, Flapper’s Burbank, and even The Comedy Cellar in Dublin, Ireland. She has opened for Maria Bamford, Paula Poundstone and Ardal O’Hanlon. As a cartoonist, her cartoons and comics regularly appear in GoComics and Tapas along with her making appearances at New York Comic-Con, Small Press Expo and Toronto Comic Arts Festival, among others. Finally, she loves making people laugh from stage to page. For more information, visit her at laughingredhead.com and follow her on Instagram & TikTok at @LaughingRedhead

As one of the country's top comedians, Cathy Ladman presents herself as the self-probing, anxiety-venting person that she is. She has appeared on "The Tonight Show" ten times and was also featured on the last two of Johnny Carson’s "Tonight Show Anniversary" shows. She’s been on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” five times, has had her own HBO "One Night Stand" comedy special, and was awarded the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand Up Comic. Her TV and film credits include: recurring roles on, ”I’m Dying Up Here” and “Pretty Little Liars,” “Modern Family,” “Scandal,” “How to Get Away With Murder,” “NCIS: LA,” “Mad Men,” “Brothers and Sisters,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Caroline in the City” (recurring), "Everybody Loves Raymond," Politically Incorrect,” “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist,” “Charlie Wilson’s War,” “The Aristocrats,” "White Oleander,” "What Planet Are You From?," "My Fellow Americans," and "Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead.” Her solo show, “Does This Show Make Me Look Fat?” opened this past year. For more information, visit www.cathyladman.com and follow her on Instagram (@cathyladman1) and Facebook & Twitter (@cathyladman).

Claudia Stavola began her career as a stand-up comedian when she realized the office thing wasn’t for her (she hates casual Friday, and chipping in for gifts for people who grunt when she says “hello” in the hallway.). She is also a writer for the satirical rock and roll website, Madhouse Magazine, and the host of the hard rock/heavy metal morning show on Monsters of Rock on Dash Radio—a station that boasts over 800,000 listeners per day. She can be heard weekdays from 8:00 AM to Noon EST/5:00 AM to 9:00 AM PST. As a writer & author, Stavola recently published her book, '100 Things to Hate Before You Die,' which is a  funny, relatable, and irreverent escape for comedy fans who are fed up with everything going on in the world, but can still find humor in the dumb and dumber. In this uproarious, honest, and biting collection of essays, she shares her unapologetic rantings, true stories, lists, observations, silly solutions to serious problems, and absolute fury over inconsequential things like the shorts-all-year-long guy and Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina candle, to more provocative topics such as angry “patriotic” guys, and dating show dimwits. There are plenty of guides for where to travel, what to eat, or what to watch before you die, but when you’re flooded with antipathy over just about everything, it’s hard to know where to direct your disdain. Claudia is here to help! '100 Things to Hate Before You Die,' available on Amazon, is an easy-to-read collection of fiery musings that will help you focus on what to hate and why. Get ready for a ride of emotions—you’ll go from pissed off to more pissed off—but in the most hilarious, engaging, and funny way possible. You can also find her and follow her on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook @ClaudiaComedy making dance videos with her cats, Hall and Oates.

Brett Neveu is an Award-Winning Playwright. His Film/TV productions include Eric LaRue (dir. Michael Shannon) with Big Indie Pictures, Brace Cove Productions and CaliWood Pictures, Night’s End (dir. Jennifer Reeder) with Shudder/AMC, the short Convo with Breakwall Pictures and the feature The Earl with Intermission Productions. Recent theatre productions include The Malignant Ampersands with A Red Orchid Theatre, Verböten with House Theatre (Joseph Jefferson Nomination, New Work), Traitor with A Red Orchid Theatre (Joseph Jefferson Award, New Adaptation) and To Catch a Fish with Timeline Theatre. Past work includes productions with 59e59 Theatre in New York; The Royal Court Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company in London, to name a few. A Sundance Institute Ucross Fellow, Brett is a recipient of a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Citation (Verböten), The Marquee Award from Chicago Dramatists, The Ofner Prize for New Work and an After Dark Award for Outstanding Musical (Old Town), to name a few. He has developed plays with companies including The Atlantic Theatre Company and The New Group (NY) and The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre and Victory Gardens Theatre (IL). He is a resident-alum of Chicago Dramatists, an ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre, a founding member of the playwright collective MC-10, an alumni member of TimeLine Theatre Company’s Writers Collective and Center Theatre Group’s Playwrights’ Workshop (LA). Brett has been commissioned by The Royal Court Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and A Red Orchid Theatre, to name a few. His plays have been published through Broadway Play Publishing, Dramatic Publishing and Nick Hern Publishing. He has taught writing at DePaul University, Second City Training Center and currently teaches writing for the screen and stage at Northwestern University.

Rich Sparks is a cartoonist/illustrator living in Chicago. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Air Mail Weekly, Weekly Humorist,The American Bystander, Barron's,The Wall Street Journal, SpongeBob Comics, Narrative Magazine, and probably other places. He released a NY Times bestselling book of humorous drawings called Love and Other Weird Things. (The bestselling part is a lie.) For more information, visit www.richsparksillustration.com

David DeGrand is a cartoonist from Texas that enjoys drawing pictures that make people laugh or barf (preferably both). He used to draw comics for his high school and college newspapers but since then has written and drawn for MAD Magazine, SpongeBob Comics, The Simpsons, Garfield, and Uncle Grandpa among others. He has also illustrated numerous children's books including The Zombie Chasers and World of Weird Animals series, and designed the animated series Death Hacks for Augenblick Studios. Most recently he illustrated the graphic novel Snot Goblins for First Second Books which will be released in July of 2023. For more information, visit www.degrandland.com

The life of Jeffrey Biegel takes its roots from age three, when Mr. Biegel could neither hear nor speak, until corrected by surgery. The 'reverse Beethoven' phenomenon explains his life's commitment to music, having heard only vibrations in his formative years. The year of 2020 focused on composition and commissioning projects: original "Waltzes of Hope", "Sonatina", and "Three Reflections: JFK, RBG and MLK" for solo piano, and for piano and orchestra, orchestrations by Harrison Sheckler. Autumn 2021 sees the world premieres of his "Reflection of Justice: An Ode to Ruth Bader Ginsburg" with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's "Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg" for mezzo-soprano, piano and orchestra in tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. Considered the most prolific artist of his generation, Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters upon Mr. Biegel in 2015, for his achievements in performance, recordings, chamber music, champion of new music, composer, arranger and educator. In 2019, Kenneth Fuchs's "Piano Concerto: 'Spiritualist'" with the London Symphony Orchestra led by JoAnn Falletta received a Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium, featuring Mr. Biegel as its soloist. In 2022, he will premiere Jim Stephenson's piano concerto, Daniel Perttu's 'A Planets Odyssey' for piano and orchestra, Farhad Poupel's "The Legend of Bijan and Manije" for piano, orchestra and chorus, and Peter Boyer's "Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue" in 2023. Mr. Biegel also created the first largest consortium of orchestras in 1998 for Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's 'Millennium Fantasy' premiered with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 2000! For more information, visit jeffreybiegel.com

As American went into coronavirus lockdown, Madeleine seized the stuck-at-home opportunity and cooked up the idea for a hilariously delicious YouTube cooking show, MAD IN THE KITCHEN – which instantly became must-watch TV for the quarantined cook! Foodies and friends, old and new, fell in love with Madeleine’s offbeat, silly approach to cooking. So much so, she is now a regular guest on several morning television shows, including The TODAY SHOW with Hoda and Jenna. Madeleine’s cooking aspirations are no flash in the pan. It’s the result of a good long simmer of Madeleine’s natural talent for creating stick-to-your-tickled-ribs savory television. Before The Daily Show, she spent six years at Late Night with David Letterman producing cooking segments with famous kitchen eccentrics Julia Child, Wolfgang Puck, and everyday eccentrics like the lovable oddball baker from Boise, Bev Tanner, who Madeleine plucked from obscurity. As a former TV producer, Madeleine knows how to make good TV.  As MAD IN THE KITCHEN keeps growing and expanding, her videos continue to impress, not only on YouTube, but also on Instagram (Reels) as well as quick hits on TikTok and Stories (her secret stuffing recipe became a viral hit!). Madeleine has also begun offering virtual cooking classes and events specializing in corporate team building, and is launching a bi-weekly instructional (and entertaining) Saturday night live-stream to engage with budding cooks in real time. The most important ingredient to the success of MAD IN THE KITCHEN is Madeleine herself, serving heaping portions of warm laughter and super silly enthusiasm for truly delectable and wholly original dishes. Madeleine Smithberg is now self-producing the most lovable oddball eccentric chef yet – herself! For more information, visit madinthekitchen.com and youtube.com/madinthekitchen

Adam Mamawala is a stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster based out of New York City. He has appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, BET, and SiriusXM, and his debut album ‘One of the Good Ones' debuted at #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts. Adam has been a freelance contributor to Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update and Someecards. He currently co-hosts podcasts ‘Away Games’ and ‘HORSE,’ as recently featured in the New York Times! For more information, visit www.adammamawala.com

John Matta is a TV writer best known for his work on The Martin Short Show, Steve Harvey’s Big Time, Kid President: Declaration of Awesome, The Epic Adventures of Captain Underpants and the creator of Matta Napkin. It all started when his wife Rose Abdoo was going through cancer treatment, and drawing a comic on a napkin was a silly way to make her laugh every day. It both delighted and exhausted her. Finally, she told him to please share them with other people. So he uploaded them to the web and Matta Napkin was born. For more information, visit mattanapkin.com

Wisconsin native Ed Steckley is a humorous illustrator living in New York City.  Beginning as a theme park caricature artist at multiple parks around the Midwest and the country, he’s navigated an illustration career ranging from comic books and magazine illustration, newspaper and advertising, and children's book illustration. Currently he’s the illustrator of two different series of Rube Goldberg books, published by Abrams: two kids’ picture books to date as well as the upcoming three book series of Rube Goldberg ‘Middle Reader’ books, written by Brandon T. Snider, the first of which will be published later this year. Artwork from the picture book series is currently traveling the country to various children’s and science museums as part of a long running Rube Goldberg exhibit. Other clients include Mad Magazine, lots of smaller magazines, Spin Master Toys, and more ad agencies than he’d care to shake a stick at. He's had and has artwork in art galleries and museums all over the country. In addition to his illustration career, Ed has spent the last number of years traveling around the globe with the USO to military bases with a small group of National Cartoonists Society (NCS) members, meeting and drawing for military service members and their families. Locations of these trips include Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Qatar, Germany and Turkey.  He currently serves as the liaison between the NCS and the USO. He’s the Vice President of the National Cartoonists Society and runs the Manhattan chapter of that organization.  He’s the recipient of two ‘Silver Reuben’ awards from the National Cartoonists Society, for ‘Best in Advertising Illustration’, as well as two different ‘Nosey’ awards for 'Caricaturist of the Year' from the International Society of Caricature Artists. For more information, visit: www.edsteckley.com

Bob Eckstein is an award-winning illustrator, cartoonist, writer and snowman expert. He creates cartoons for places like the New York Times, MAD magazine and The New Yorker. Eckstein wrote The History of the Snowman (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores (Penguin Random House, 2016) which became a NY Times bestseller. His work has been exhibited in: The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, Smithsonian Institute, The Cartoon Museum of London and in 2018 and The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University. He’s been nominated Gag Cartoonist of the Year (twice) by the National Cartoonists Society. Eckstein has written columns, Op-Eds and features for: New Yorker, New York Times, New York Daily News, NY Newsday, Reader's Digest, SPY, Playboy, Details, GQ, MAXIM, National Lampoon, Village Voice, and McSweeney's. I am a Contributing Editor at Writer's Digest. He also speaks publicly against online shopping to raise awareness for independent bookstores and teach writing at NYU. His two new books include  taught at Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts for a dozen years. His new book is All’s Fair in Love & War: The Ultimate Cartoon Book by the World’s Greatest Cartoonists and The Elements of Stress and the Pursuit of Happy-ish in this Curren Sh*tstorm. He can also be heard with New Yorker Cartoonist Michael Shaw on their new podcast ‘The Cartoon Pad.’ For more information, visit bobeckstein.com

John Di Domenico is an Emmy Nominated, Actor, Writer, Comedian and Impersonator. He is currently best known for his Award-Winning Donald Trump impersonation as winner of Best of Las Vegas Silver, ABC’s The View’s National Trump Contest and The Laugh Factory’s International Trump Competition. Di Domenico was immortalized as Trump on the Las Vegas Wall of Honor. Di Domenico has been performing Trump since 2004 and is the official Trump for Conan O’Brien, Slate’s Trumpcast, Chelsea Handler on Netflix, TBS’ The Heckler, Fox News Redeye, Planet America, Fox & Friends, Randy Rainbow, Glen Beck’s Blaze Network and many more diverse outlets. John has been heard as Trump on The Howard Stern Show, James Corden’s Show and Stephen Colbert. Di Domenico is also the voice of Trump on the bestselling audio book The Method to the Madness. John has made hundreds of live appearances as Donald Trump around the globe including the European Parliament in Brussel, London’s famed Dorchester Hotel, The Rainbow Room in NYC and headlined in Totally Outrageous Brunch at the Sahara/SLS on the Las Vegas Strip. John has appeared as Trump in four feature films, the 13 episode Canadian Comedy Awards Winning web series, “You Got Trumped: The First 100 Days” and his Amazon Prime show, “Fake News: A Trump Story,” which he co-wrote. John has made an appearances on TODAY in Australia and on Britain's #1 rated This Morning. You can see and hear Di Domenico on TikTok with over 4.5 million followers & YouTube with over 19 million views of his own content along with commercials, animated series, voiceovers, virtual reality, apps and even toys. John attended East Stroudsburg University and graduated from Temple University with a BA in Speech Communications. He overcame a severe speech impediment as a child to become a performer. For more information, visit www.thejohnnydshow.com

The Maryland-based rock band ANY GIVEN SIN spent much of 2019 turning heads with the release of their single, "Dynamite," which quickly became the #1 most spun song on SiriusXM's Octane. The band soon solidified its position on the channel, landing the coveted 'Accelerator Artist' title, and blazing past some of the biggest names in Rock on their weekly 'BIG UNS Countdown', becoming the #2 Most-Requested song on the channel and landed them at #29 of SiriusXM Octane's Top 100 Year end countdown. The band quickly followed that up with the release of their next single "Another Life," which in turn also became another #1 most spun song on SiriusXM Octane. Any Given Sin has since just recently released their new single "Insidious" in the midst of the Covid- 19 pandemic. Although given the pandemic at hand the band never stopped moving forward and had to become more creative in the filming of the video for "Insidious." With social distancing a huge hurdle to overcome, they forged their way by each member being filmed separately in the shadow's of their images and brought together to create the video which was done with the magic of videographer Tom Flynn. The band has been working with some heavy-hitters in the Rock world including Trevor Kustiak (Evans Blue), John Moyer (Disturbed), and most recently, Chris Dawson (SAUL, Seasons After), who produced the single, "Another Life" and "Insidious." Every once in a while, a singer comes along that single-handedly re-sets the bar for what a Rock vocalist should be. Someone with such raw emotion and power it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up - ANY GIVEN SIN's Vic Richie is that singer. Complete with epic, crunchy guitar riffs and put-a-hole-in-your-soul, massive drums, this is a true-blue American rock band with both authenticity - and POWER.

Peter Mehlman grew up in Queens, NY and graduated from the University of Maryland. He started his career as a sportswriter for The Washington Post and worked with Howard Cosell where he produced a TV series titled, ‘SportsBeat.’ His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, LA Times and practically every Conde Nast women’s magazines. In 1989, he moved to Los Angeles, CA where he bumped into his friend, Larry David. After showing Larry David a humor piece he wrote for the New York Times Magazine, it was passed on to Jerry Seinfeld who absolutely loved it. Upon writing a script for Seinfeld’s first freelance episode titled, ‘The Apartment,’ Mehlman was hired as a writer and over the next 6-years worked as a writer and co-executive producer where he was associated with the show through nearly all of its 9-year run. Mehlman is best known for his ‘Yada Yada’ episode (which has been included as an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary) and his classical Seinfeld-isms: ‘Spongeworthy,’ ‘Double-Dipping’ and ‘Shrinkage.’ In 1997, he joined DreamWorks and created the TV show, ‘It’s Like, You Know…,’ a scathing look at life in Los Angeles. Mehlman also punched up the animated kid flick, Madagascar, where a hypochondriacal giraffe was named after him. He continues to write essays, screenplays, NPR commentaries and hosts the Webby-nominated YouTube series, 'Narrow World of Sports.' He also dabbles in stand-up comedy and doodles subconsciously under the concept of ‘Bravely Oblivious.’ Mehlman has published numerous books including, ‘Mandela Was Late,’ ‘It Won’t Always Be This Great,’ and his most recent one, ‘#MeAsWell, A Novel.’ For more information, visit www.petermehlman.com

Fielding Edlow is an LA based comedian/writer and native New Yorker. She was recently named one of “the six funniest women in Los Angeles right now.” (Pure Wow) Fielding voiced the recurring character, “Roxie” on Bojack Horseman and hosts her own hit monthly show ‘Eat Pray F*ck’ at the Hollywood Improv. Her solo show, Coke-Free J.A.P, (Backstage’s “Best of Fringe Award”), was followed by a four-month, sold-out run in LA at the McCadden Theatre and was subsequently developed as a half-hour comedy pilot at Showtime. She recently created & starred in her award-winning web series Bitter Homes & Gardens which is based on her scary real-life marriage. Her first half-hour comedy special, “Can’t Say Sl*t” is now streaming on Amazon. For more information, visit www.fieldingedlow.com and follow her @fieldingedlow!

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia: How the Show About Nothing Changed Everything; a history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted; and Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love. Most recently, she published her book, 'Pop Star Goddesses: And How to Tap Into Their Energies to Invoke Your Best Self.' She spent a decade on staff at Entertainment Weekly and has since written for many publications, including BBC Culture, The New York Times Book Review, Vice, New York magazine, and Billboard. She also speaks about pop culture history and creativity and hosts the podcast #Authoring. For more information, visit www.jenniferkarmstrong.com and follow her @JMKArmstrong.

Abby Schachner (Your Friend Abby) is a writer/performer who started illustrating four years ago to make her children’s writing REAL. When not illustrating, she performs her poems (and comedic ditties) around Los Angeles and beyond (especially when not in quarantine). After college, Abby moved to Chicago to study improvisation. There, she toured the country with The Second City and improvised with amazing people. She’s also a solo performer who enjoys tackling tough themes in creative ways. Be it eating disorders, sexuality, abortion, or intimacy, her shows have won Best Of’s at festivals around the US. Her show, Schachner Vs. Schachner, (a feel-bad comedy about family, identity, and attempted murder) was the #1 reviewed show at the Hollywood Fringe and received Best Comedy at the SFFringe. Always on the hunt to grow creatively and to challenge herself, the past year and a half she dove face first into stand up. When not drawing, painting, or writing jokes, she is occasionally overcome by crafting binges, creating dolls made from upcycled clothing, cans, and/or tampons. In the meantime, she has created four children’s books – Monsters Have Feelings, When Monsters Are Happy, The Spot and The Breathing Book. For more information, go to www.yourfriendabby.com and follow her @your_friend_abby IG

Mike Sager is a bestselling author and award-winning reporter. He’s been called “the Beat poet of American journalism.” For more than forty years he has worked as a writer for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, GQ and Esquire. In 2010, he won the American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine award for profile writing. More than ten of his articles have been optioned for or have inspired television movies and series and feature films, including Boogie Nights. The author of a dozen books and eBooks, Sager is also the editor and publisher of The Sager Group LLC, a consortium of multi-media artists and writers. For more info, please visit www.thesagergroup.net.

The Outfit, from Chicago, have been creating a buzz since coming on to the rock scene. Their first single 'Soldier Boy' released in 2018, secured the #34 spot on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Chart. The band isn’t re-inventing the wheel, and it never tries to; that is its charm. The three words to describe the band is original, bold and rock. The Outfit shows they have the chops of veteran musicians, yet the forward thinking attitude to make an impact with a fresh unique sound for today's music scene. The instant gratification track 'Viking' has been received enthusiastically by crowds at the bands recent performances, including the Rock USA festival last summer. 'Viking' also cracked The Billboard Mainstream Rock Indicator chart late last year, peaking at #24, while the video has over 360,000 views on You Tube, and over 90,000 plays on Spotify. The band is getting ready to lauch their new single 'Come Alive.' Lead singer Andy Mitchell says, 'Come Alive is a song about living in your dreams.  A place where you can go to see friends and love ones that have passed on.  A place where the dead come alive.' The Outfit released their new album titled 'Viking' on March 27th, 2020, via Pavement Entertainment. The album was mixed by multi-platinum producer Ulrich Wild (Breaking Benjamin, Static-X, Deftones, Pantera, and White Zombie).  The band will continue touring this year and will making stops at the world famous Whisky A Go Go, along with shows in Las Vegas, San Diego and Phoenix. Later this summer they will be opening for Puddle of Mudd on select dates.

Maor Appelbaum is a mastering engineer and musician. After working as staff engineer (mixing, recording and mastering) for famed record producer Sylvia Massy Shivy at Radiostar Studios in Weed, California, Maor moved to Los Angeles where he opened his private mastering suite. Maor has had the pleasure of mastering recordings for major international acts such as: Faith No More, Yes, Walter Trout, Eric Gales, Starset, Ill Nino, Dokken, Fates Warning, William Shatner, Gus G, Common Kings, Sepultura, Yngwie Malmsteen, Halford, Fight, Armored Saint, Lita Ford, Seven The Hardway , Marco Mendoza, Angra, Treponem Pal, Wayne Hussey, Therion, Cynic, Nekromantix, Butcher Babies, Billy Sherwood and The Top Chops, to name more than a few! He has also mastered the works of well-known music producers such as: Matt Wallace, Mike Clink, Mike Plotnikoff, Bob Horn, Ben Grosse, Bassy bob Brockmann, Toby Wright, Justin Gray, Roy Z, Sylvia Massy, Gilby Clark, Warren Riker, Ryan Greene, Ulrich Wild, Fabrizio Grossi, Logan Mader, Stan Katayama, Ben Schigel, Mark Lewis, Jacob Hansen, Tue Madsen, Eyal Levi, Jason Suecof and Thomas Lang. Furthermore, he does mastering for unsigned artists of all genres from all over the world. Maor has an extensive background with the international music industry. He is well aware of the various music styles and sounds that are developing vastly as the today's technology develops. To Maor, being a mastering engineer is the best way possible to combine his love and passion for music, with his multitude of skills including objectivity, subjectivity, technical and artistic prowess. He finds pleasure in his job, more than anything, thanks to the variety of music and sounds he gets to master from all over the world. It is a profession he takes pride in and masters. For more information, his discography and credits, go to www.maorappelbaum.com

Matt Balaker is a Comedian and Author who lives Southern California with his two sons and one wife. He has worked in investment funds, independent movies and has been performing stand-up comedy for the past 15-years. His contributions and credits have included The Adam Carolla Show, Thick Skin with Jeff Ross, Comedy Cellar Podcast, Hulu, Conan O'Brien, Can We Take a Joke and About Last Night. He also mentioned that years ago he was on a cable access show, which was cancelled (signaling his undeniable sense of humor). Recently, Matt co-authored a book with Wayne Jones, titled 'Greg Giraldo: A Comedian's Story,' which tells the life story for the first time of the late, great stand-up comedian! The book gives an inside look into the comedian’s life thanks to more than 60 interviews conducted by the authors with Giraldo’s friends, family, and colleagues. They dive into his early life as a lawyer, his success and eventual cult status in the stand-up comedy world and his premature demise from addiction in September 2010 at the age of 44. The book can be purchased at www.greggiraldobook.com!

Hard Rock/Metal Band Silent Season will be releasing their new EP 'The War Within' (Volume !) on Friday January 25th! Silent Season came together in the spring of 2008. Collectively, the band has built a resume on radio airplay and touring with bands such as Sevendust, 10 Years, Gemini Syndrome and Twelve Foot Ninja. With support from Sirius XM Octane, Music Choice, Sixx Sense and specific FM stations such as WZBH, WOBG, WHBR, KOZE, KJML, WIIL and WXTB, the band has been able to garner an undeniable and loyal fan base. Silent Season’s single, ‘Chance,’ made it to the #1 spot on Music Choice’s Metal channel in one week. Also, the band has shared the stage with several national acts such as Citizen Zero, Black Veil Brides, Falling In Reverse, Hinder, Lacuna Coil, Like A Storm, Nonpoint, Orgy, Powerman 5000, Red, Scott Stapp, Sick Puppies, Taproot and Trapt, to name a few. Be sure to download a copy of their new EP 'The War Within' (Volume I) on iTunes, Amazon Music and/or Google Play. For more information, visit www.silentseaonmusic.com and follow them @silentseasonmusic!

The name is the sound. Churning, burning. Slowly rolling like a sludgy, incendiary river. Bending and twisting. Calm but raging. Soothing and fierce. It is next level heavy rock – crushing riffs, soaring vocals, steam train like grooves, dynamic and distinctive songs. On the first day, there was Black Sabbath. On the second, Soundgarden. Now, there is Burn River Burn. Burn River Burn's latest release, Neüstonia, is available everywhere via Pavement Entertainment.

Incognito Theory is the Hard Rock/Metal project of lead vocalist Dave Incognito (Dying Eyes of Sloth), which features lead guitarist Jay Prussack (Dying Eyes of Sloth), bassist Scott 'Stanley' Pustilnick (formerly of MCA recording artist Familiar 48 aka Bonehead whose major album 'Wonderful Nothing' with the hit single 'The Question' charted on the Billboard Rock and Hot AC Charts) and drummer Jon Tropp. Guest musicians have also included Lee Richards (Dropbox) and Mike LePond (Symphony X and Silent Assassins) with Silent Assassins contributing to Incognito Theory's debut album, 'Ashes Divide.' The band's hits single off of their debut album is titled, 'Reckoning,' which is accompanied by a video. The band is sponsored by Cold Cock Whiskey and endorsed by Dirtbag Clothing.

Farewell to Fear was born out of the huge black hole that mainstream rock radio left during the absence of super rock stars like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden. The band revisits that era with big rock riffs, big choruses, and big anthems for a new generation of mainstream rockers. With their first full-length album, New Blood, co-produced with Brett Hestla (Dark New Day & Creed), the group generated an incredible three singles on Sirius XM’s Octane channel, an unheard of feat for an unknown band. This also landed them at #1 on Amazon’s Hot New Rock Singles chart and #8 on iTunes Rock chart. Their debut also earned them direct support from Howard Stern, including the rarest of moments on Stern’s show, airing an entire song as opposed to the normal 20-second snippet he usually shares. Due to this enormous amount of support, the track “Diamonds” reached a most impressive 1 million streams on Spotify. Inspired by the recording process of their most recent EP, Legacy, the band started writing and recording relentlessly, ultimately allowing them to seamlessly merge their skills and styles together to create heavy rock songs that deliver a strong punch to the gut while staying melodic and delivering impactful lyrics, hitting all ranges and octaves. Their latest album,Voices, is available via Pavement Entertainment, which was co-produced with Damien Starkey (Burn Season & Puddle of Mudd). Farewell to Fear's highly anticipated new single, “Underneath My Skin,” sends a powerful sucker-punch with its anthem of Love and Obsession. It's an emotional gut wrenching song that will inspire the devil within.

Facing Fire is a hard rock band from southern Ohio. Collectively, the members have been in multiple bands and played countless shows. They officially formed as Facing Fire in late 2016 when vocalist Scott Artis, guitarist Tony Phillips, and bass player Josh Quillen began writing material together. Soon they had written enough to complete an EP and headed into the studio in early 2017. After much anticipation, they released their first single, “Dying Inside.” The band released a music video to go along with the single which received over 100 thousand views in the first two weeks of release. After so much success with the first single, the band headed back to Nashville to put the finishing touches on their EP in early 2017. The band then rounded out their lineup by adding Samuel Gibson on drums and began crafting their live show. After receiving several offers from various labels, the band finally settled on a deal with Pavement Entertainment in July of 2017. They recently released their self-titled EP through Pavement and are excited to bring their heavy hitting music to life. Look for Facing Fire with their high energy live performance in a city near you!

Four years is not that long, relatively speaking. A ‘blip on the radar’ over a lifetime. But in the case of St. Louis’ Cavo, four years speaks to more of an eternity than some may realize. It doesn’t take much in this day and age for a band to break up. It takes a lot more effort to stay together, not to mention sustaining the want that got them together in the first place. So imagine a band, completely lost and void of the will to keep moving forward. In that reality, four years can seem like forever. And that’s where Cavo’s story really picks up. As vocalist Casey Walker likes to tell it, at the time “there just wasn’t anything left to give.” They had tried everything. ‘More guitars,’ ‘scream it don’t sing it,’ ‘pick up the pace,’ etc, etc. It didn’t work. Not for Cavo. No one believed it anyway. So they decided to stop. It was time to put this aside. And they did. But then something happened a while later. The want slowly started creeping back in. Not quickly, but little by little, over time. But the want this time was different. It didn’t feel the same. Something had changed. For once, it wasn’t about what someone else wanted. It was only about the four of them and what they wanted. No label, no producer, no agent, no manager, no one but them. And it felt right. So, they decided to try again, but this time, their way. Over 50 songs. A sound that truly reflected who they are as musicians. Not what everyone else told them they were supposed to be. No outsiders pushing for ‘more of this’ or ‘less of that.’ It was actually so much easier than they thought it would be. Cutting it down to just 12 songs was the hard part. They decided to call it “Bridges,” because they felt like they had crossed over to someplace new. A place where Cavo could just…be.

From the streets of Chicago, something is brewing. Chicago veteran musicians, brothers Mark and Matt Nawara, and Mike Gorman, along with Phoenix, Arizona’s, Andy Mitchell have formed The Outfit. The Outfit brings you straight up rock and roll, with catchy hooks and an aggressive sound. The Nawara brothers played the Chicago club scene for years, along with writing and recording original music. Mike Gorman comes from two legendary Chicago bands, Pezband and Off Broadway. Rounding out the lineup is singer/songwriter and guitarist Andy Mitchell, whose past bands included Dish, Verona and 9 Volt. The Outfit recently finished recording their debut album. The album was engineered by Chicago music veteran Matt Mercado at Sonic Palace Studios in Oak Park, Illinois and Larry Eylea at Minds Eye Digital Recording Studio in Glendale, Arizona. Mixing was being handled in Los Angeles by Grammy nominated, multi-platinum producer and mixer Ulrich Wild (Pantera, Static-x, White Zombie, Deftones, and Breaking Benjamin). Debut album available everywhere now!

Hailing from Kenosha, WI, Saint Tragedy formed their unique hard rock sound in 2008. Their line up features Wayne Wiginton (vocals), Matt Brudniewicz (guitar), Eric Serbedzija (bass), and Jason Scuffham (drums). In the years they have been together they have had the the chance to develop their sound and open for many national bands to expand their audience. Best classified as a modern day hard rock band with a bit of an old school sound thrown into the mix, Saint Tragedy has definitely been evolving through its years on the scene, and continues to attract people of all ages. This group of individuals come together to bring you their upmost heartfelt raw talent and honesty within their music. Get their new EP “Prolonging the Agony” digitally through Pavement Entertainment.

The band's cutting edge modern rock sound was born through serendipitous connections in the thriving Deep Ellum music scene of Dallas, an area that has given rise to iconic Hard Rock and Metal bands like Pantera, Drowning Pool, Hell Yeah, and King's X. The band grew their fan base locally, and began to branch out regionally and nationally, opening for notable bands such as Sick Puppies, Candlebox, Hinder, Vince Neil, Black Stone Cherry, Lynch Mob, Drowning Pool, Local H, Trapt, Metallica, Dokken, Scott Stapp Of Creed, Avenged Sevenfold, and Buck Cherry. It was on one of these tours that the band caught the attention of Los Angeles based writer/producer, Chad Gendason. The band felt an immediate comradery with Chad and a lasting bond was made. Messer started writing with Chad, and their first collaboration became "Simple Man". Fan favorite "Whiskey" soon followed and the songs started to flow into what would eventually become their self-titled debut album "Messer", which will be released on 4/20/18 on Maddpants Records. The album was mixed by Ben Grosse (Marilyn Manson, Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed) and mastered by Tom Baker (Papa Roach, David Bowie, Motley Crue). The band's desire for creative expression and to touch as many lives as possible is what drives them forward. 2018 is shaping up to be the year that Messer cuts through the noise and clutter of the Rock world and makes it mark. MESSER means "knife" in German, and the Dallas, Texas band expects to cut a memorable swath through the Rock world in 2018, starting with new single "Make This Life". The song is going for adds now at Active Rock radio and available everywhere for streaming and download. Their debut self-titled album will be released on April 20th!

Burdens Within was formed in 2010 when friends Ryan J. Kline (Bassist) and Mike Riley’s (Guitarist) previous bands came to an end. The duo ran into each other and decided to get together to write some music. They wanted to write songs with no barriers. Armed with one purpose: “We just wanted to make kick ass rock music” states Ryan. Burdens Within was formed! With its roots in the alternative grunge movement of the 90s and adding elements of classic rock, hard rock and metal, Burdens Within covers all the bases and has created its own unique sound. Rounding out the line up is Craig Thomas (Drummer), Ryan Alan Battering (Lead Guitarist) and Daniel R. Rivers on (Vocalist). After inking an Artist Partnership deal with Pavement Records, the band recently released their debut self-titled album featuring the hit single 'Dead End Town.'

Falling Through April's band founders (Jim Siani, Dave Piontek, Taylor Foster, Dan Candia) have weathered the full gamut of hurdles as a startup since forming in 2011, ranging from exploding transmissions and ghosting vocalists to nearby celebratory gun fire landing Taylor in the hospital. When charismatic front woman Mikaela Salazar stepped into their lives in 2016, the road blocks were removed, and everyone found something to be excited about. The band has 2 previous independent releases: The "Take Flight" album in 2012; and the "Risk and Reward" EP in 2015. In early 2017, FTA packed up and drove to Nashville, TN for a several month's long recording binge with producer and friend Jon King (Augustana, Darling Parade). The result is their new album "Zodiac", a powerful alt-rock collection that melds influences ranging from Incubus to Halsey. The band has amassed a significant touring resume, having opened for The Pretty Reckless, Pop Evil, Adelitas Way, Flyleaf and more. They have also performed at major festivals including the Vans Warped Tour, SXSW, Florida Music Festival, Sonorous Music Festival, Dewey Beach Music Conference and Celebrate Fairfax. Their touring has garnered them endorsements from PRS and Reverend Guitars, among others. FTA's goal is to have their music reach as many people as possible around the world and for their music to inspire and encourage listeners. Becoming a household name in the modern rock community drives them forward, and “Zodiac,” which will be released on January 19th, promises to help them achieve that goal.  A second single and video will be released in early 2018. Follow them @fallingthroughapril

Hard Rock/Metal Band Silent Season will be releasing their new phenomenal single 'Stars' on Friday December 22nd! Join us as we hone in on the story behind this melodic, emotionally moving ballad from song's initial inspiraction to its final completion. Silent Season came together in the spring of 2008. Collectively, the band has built a resume on radio airplay and touring with bands such as Sevendust, 10 Years, Gemini Syndrome and Twelve Foot Ninja. With support from Sirius XM Octane, Music Choice, Sixx Sense and specific FM stations such as WZBH, WOBG, WHBR, KOZE, KJML, WIIL and WXTB, the band has been able to garner an undeniable and loyal fan base. Silent Season’s single, ‘Chance,’ made it to the #1 spot on Music Choice’s Metal channel in one week. Also, the band has shared the stage with several national acts such as Citizen Zero, Black Veil Brides, Falling In Reverse, Hinder, Lacuna Coil, Like A Storm, Nonpoint, Orgy, Powerman 5000, Red, Scott Stapp, Sick Puppies, Taproot and Trapt, to name a few. Be sure to pick up a copy of their phenomenal new song 'Stars' available on iTunes, Amazon Music, Google Play and Spotify. For more information, visit www.silentseaonmusic.com and follow them @silentseasonmusic!

Social Void might best be described as a ‘lyrical’ alternative rock band fronted by brothers Chip Cooley (vocals, guitar) and Brent Cooley (bass, keys). Their atmospheric debut album, Propeller, chronicles a deeply personal and prolonged time of isolation, in which Chip confronts his past, present, and future, and faces the consequences of disconnecting for too long.  Playing guitar from the age of four, and being raised by a vocal coach, he's been ingrained with music as a means of expressing feelings that escape mere words, and he layers his guitar as added textures and contrasting voices in each track. His brother, Brent, also singing and playing piano from an early age, has always had a natural ability to find harmony and expound upon these raw expressions. And with his inclination for maths and general knack for musical theory, he provides a technical balance and structure. Their songs are self-recorded, self-produced, and use every step of the process to serve the greater work. In former iterations of the band, they have become veterans of live performance in historic Charleston and have added Charles Holliday (drums), Elijah Kuzia (synth), and Quell Graham (guitar) for touring.Be sure to pick up a copy of their amazing album 'Propeller!'

BLACK WATER RISING (BWR) is a collection of soul baring, angst ridden, riff heavy material that is proudly anchored in the foundations of traditional hard rock song writing. Giant guitar driven monster riffs served up on a bed of crushing grooves with soaring melodic vocals and big hooks. Basically, NO FRILLS RIFF ROCK! Lyrically the message is socially and politically driven by the dark times we live in. With darkness seemingly growing by the day, BLACK WATER RISING is a name that fits this band like a glove. Their debut album released in 2010 would achieve the #1 slot on Amazon.com’s Rock Chart upon release. BWR received heavy airplay on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio's Octane channel for the singles "Brother Go On" and "No Halos." The album reached the #6 slot on the Top 20 airplay chart for the channel and "Brother Go On" also cracked the top 40 on the Media Base Active Rock Radio Chart. BWR has played shows and toured with Hellyeah, Kill Devil Hill, King's X, Monster Magnet & Ace Frehley. Their tour schedule also brought them to the 2010 South By Southwest Festival in Austin, TX performing at High Times Magazine's Doobie Awards show where BWR won the 2010 High Times Doobie Award for “Best Rock/Alternative Artist,” beating out such tough and respected competition as Staind, Eagles of Death Metal, The Mars Volta and Danko Jones. BWR followed up the critically acclaimed self-titled debut with their sophomore effort, Pissed And Driven released in 2013. The first offering from Pissed and Driven, "Show No Mercy" was #5 most added on the CMJ Loud Rock Chart, top 10 at many college radio stations and in heavy rotation at Nationally Syndicated Cable channel Music Choice reaching #1 on their Metal Chart. The band's video for "Dance With The Devil" spent 15 weeks on Noisecreep's Battle Royale Top 10 Video Countdown.

10 Years has come a long way since their inception in 1999. The band landed a deal with Universal/Republic Records on the strength of their two independent releases, 2001's Into the Half Moon and 2004's Killing All That Holds You. Their major label debut, 2005's The Autumn Effect, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Heatseekers Album chart thanks to their breakthrough hit, "Wasteland," which topped Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, and "Through the Iris," which hit No. 20 on Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The band followed that success with 2008's Division, featuring co-production work from Rick Parashar (Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam). The album peaked at No. 12 on The Billboard 200 and spawned the hit "Beautiful," which reached No. 6 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The momentum continued with 2010's Feeding the Wolves, which was produced by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, 3 Doors Down) and bowed at No. 17 on The Billboard 200, while the single, "Shoot It Out," peaked at No. 6 on Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and spent 25 weeks on the chart. The group, which toured the world with such rock greats at Linkin Park, Korn, and Deftones, went back to their indie roots with 2012's Minus the Machine on their own Palehorse Records, which was part of Warner Music Label Group. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Hard Rock Albums chart, No. 8 on the Top Rock Albums chart, and No. 26 on The Billboard 200. On October 27th, the band will release their new album, "(how to live) As Ghosts," featuring the hit single "Novacaine!"