MEMBERS
Sonic Smith – Guitar
Dita Vox – Vocals
Nick Detroit – Bass
Tom T. – Drums

Bio:
Dita and the boys collided at a KISS-themed party on New Years Eve 1999, where she came dressed as Paul Stanley. As rock-n-roll fate would have it, Nick, Tom and Sonic were costumed as Gene, Ace and Peter, and they've been inseparable ever since. Combining the guitar-garage revival of The Mooney Suzuki, with the swagger of bands like The Go and The Rolling Stone, The Emergency put forth like a Maximum R&B tent revival where, the sacraments are guitars and warm beer.

Due their musical mind-meld, Sonic and Nick believe they are twins — but of the long-lost variety. Sonic and Tom were in a band together called The Broken Faces, and may also be brothers, though many have their doubts, as Tom has six toes—and that's on each hand. The Emergency have been together since September 2004, releasing an EP called FAR OUT on Heavy Soul Records. They are planning to record a full-length LP next year at Ghetto Records in Detroit with the legendary garage Svengali Jim Diamond manning the controls. Until the major labels come to their senses and sign them up for much deserved fame and fortune, The Emergency continue to demolish packed houses up and down the west coast.

MEMBERS:
Jamie Love – Vocal
Mike Wuellner – Guitar
Lui Williams – Drums
Harold Belskus – Bass

Bio:
Friends since their carefree days at Sammamish High School in Bellevue, Wash, Jamie, Mike, and Lui goofed around, jammed and partied ‘til the four winds scattered them out of state in 1997. By the time the millennium rolled around, they were all back in Seattle, and playing in different bands. So they hooked up again, got a cheapo rehearsal space and began a Friday jam for kicks. Pretty soon they had 50 people showing at their tiny space sitting on beer stained carpet, listening all night. It was the fans from those rehearsal space jams that insisted they play out—it was getting pretty cramped in the rehearsal studio, and the service was lousy.

Before long an ambitious booking agent went ahead and booked Out From Underneath a show at the Ballard Firehouse, without even asking the band. Annoyed, they drew a crowd of 160—not bad for a Wednesday night. Their extended jamming before they ever played a show made their chops tight as a duck's ass—and word got around. Soon they were headlining every club in Washington—with lines out the door. This more than modest success gave them the cash to record their first CD, Dig, in 2001.

Their tight and cohesive sound comes from the unlikeliest of influences: Jamie channels the soulful spirit of classic blues and soul singers like Etta James and Aretha, which Mike injects with massive ballsitude through his Les Paul and Crate half-stack. Lui, being from the exotic state of Hawaii, injects funky island hip-hop grooves for that Don Ho-meets-Dr. Dre kine vibration. Harold, who joined Out From Underneath after a succession of bass players came and went, has been with the band for the last year, adding critical low-down evil bass for the band's 2004 release, Transitions.

MEMBERS:
Karina – Vocals
Dirk – Guitar/Vocals
JoJo – Bass/Vocals
Paul – Drums and loops

Bio:
The members of GIFTIG only speak German, which is handy for them because they live there, but for non-Germans, the language barrier can be a tough nut to crack. So it's a good thing hard, tuned-down guitars & airplay-ready songs need little translation.

Powered by Karina's sweet melodic lead vocals (Jungs, was ne scharfe braut!!) along with Dirk's guitar, JoJo's bass and Paul's drums and loops, GIFTIG blasts über–geil blend of soft vocal passages, augmented by Dirk's heavy-as-hasenpfeffer six-string pummeling. Prior to joining GIFTIG, bass player and screaming vocalist JoJo was a very popular German soap opera star, breaking the young fraü's hearts from Hamburg to Munich.

Currently, GIFTIG is releasing their debut single (that just entered the German rock DJ-charts and stayed in the Top 20 for 5 weeks!) and their dual disc - album (january 2006). The album was produced in cooperation with German top producer Frank Bornemann (GUANO APES, etc.) and will include DVD-Material with 5.1 material mixed on the S-8 and S-10. During the past four years, GIFTIG has won several German music contests, including SWR 3 (one of the biggest radio stations in Germany) and PopAkademie.

Word is, Hasselhoff has GIFTIG in heavy rotation on KITT's CD changer.