
“Sydney Sprague channels her sadness, anxiety, and existential dread through driving guitars,
shimmering melodies, and the deceptively sweet weapons of indie pop-rock and keen observation.
Self-aware with a knowing injection of dark humor, her songs summon the best of 90s alt-rock and
classic power-pop without sacrificing a melancholy befitting of the end times. Her music is intimate,
vulnerable, confrontational, autobiographical, and strangely uplifting. Her sophomore record,
somebody in hell loves you, is as devilishly saccharine as the title implies, boldly accessible and
smart.
The positive press, word-of-mouth, and a stellar tour with Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard
Confessional helped make organic streaming hits out of songs like “steve,” “quitter,” and “i refuse to
die”; “object permanence” boasts nearly 1 million streams on Spotify alone. “As a smaller artist, it’s
almost impossible financially,” Sydney says of her relentless schedule. “But I love it so much.”
Sydney wrote most of somebody in hell loves you during the pandemic lockdowns, and yet, it’s
decidedly less angsty than its predecessor. “And not because I’m a less angsty person,” she clarifies.
“Obviously, none of us were in a good place in 2020. It was a depressing time. But I didn’t want to
wallow in that. I wrote more as an exercise to distract myself from my woes.” A lot of the songs
became observational storytelling, exploring the drama of people around her and revisiting her past.”

Wheelwright
WHEELWRIGHT BRINGS A SOUTHWESTERN SOUND OF POP AND GRUNGE FROM THE SPRAWLING DESERT CITY OF PHOENIX, AZ. NONE OF HIS SONGS ARE IDEALISTIC. NO LIGHT WITHOUT DARKNESS, NO LAUGHTER WITHOUT AT LEAST SOME SUFFERING, NO THOUGHTFULNESS WITHOUT SOME RECKLESSNESS. WITH DEVIL MAY CARE SPIRIT, AND A MESSAGE OF HOPE, FRUSTRATION, AND LOVE, WHEELWRIGHTS MUSIC CONTRASTS BETWEEN WORLDS OF WANDERING EXISTENTIALISM, THE STRIFE OF MODERN RELATIONSHIPS, AND THE SHREDS OF HOPE THAT CAN BE FOUND IN DARKEST AND MOST BROKEN PLACES OF OURSELVES. SONGS OF ACCEPTANCE, HARD LUCK, AND LOVE WITHOUT ALL THE KUMBAYA BULLSHIT, BUT RATHER THE IDEA THAT WE ARE ALL BEAUTIFUL AND FLAWED, STUCK HERE TOGETHER, WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT. HIS SONGS ARE SELF ADMITTING AND ALLOW LISTENERS TO MEET HIM WHERE THEY TRUTHFULLY ARE. IT’S BRASH AND IT’S HONEST. IN HIS WORDS, “EVERYBODY HAS THINGS ABOUT THEMSELVES THAT THEY DON’T LIKE, THEY HAVE THINGS THAT THEY WOULD CHANGE ABOUT THEMSELVES, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE SPIRITS, AND HOPES, AND DREAMS AND LIGHT INSIDE OF THEM DESPITE THE DARKNESS THAT SEEMS TO HANG OVER US AS WE MARCH INTO THE UNCERTAINTY OF WHAT’S NEXT.”

Fastest Fox Alive
Fastest Fox Alive (FFA) is a musical project born out of the need to make music and the love of collaboration.
Their songs reflect the diverse range of influences that have shaped the band’s sonic identity, drawing inspiration from bands like Counting Crows, Keane, Third Eye Blind, and Death Cab for Cutie, while adding their own modern twist.