Rockford, IL-based Miles Nielsen has spent nearly a decade enthralling audiences with music that draws force from the prime years of Western-influenced rock music and classic ‘60s soul. Claiming influences as diverse as Otis Redding’s classic soul and Jellyfish’s cult power pop recordings. The band consists of Miles Nielsen on vocals and guitar, Daniel James McMahon on guitar and vocals, Adam Plamann on keys, horns and vocals, Dave McClellan on bass and vocals, Jeff Werckle on drums.
The San Diego based metal group Shawshank has crafted a sound and musical structure unique to the movement of young acts making their mark on metal. Shawshank’s music can be best described as intelligent, ambitious and experimental with their use of vivid studio production of technical color that creates a backdrop for their fierce intensity. In the truest sense of creating art, the band’s passionate design aesthetic exudes a youthful flamboyance in their music and lives that attracts fans from across varied genre borders.
Shawshank’s broad musical sensibilities were first showcased on their 2019 EP “Judgement Day” featuring the single “Money Talks” as well as the title song. The band is currently celebrating the release of their new single “Fashion” featuring Frankie Palmeri of Emmure.
CRAIG BARTOCK Is a music industry veteran with numerous credits in records, live work, TV and animation scores. He is a long standing member of the iconic, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, Heart, having produced and written several songs they've recorded as well as being the lead guitarist. Other writing/producing/playing credits include Blondie, Seal, Simply Red, Aly and AJ, Madonna, Brie Larson, Nikki Sixx, Brandy and Tina Arena. TV scoring credits include shows like The Carrie Diaries, Dexter, Burn Notice, Brothers and Sisters, and numerous MTV Shows. He's also appeared on several TV shows such as Ellen, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Dancing With The Stars And The L Word.
Steve Stevens is one of the most original guitarists to emerge from the ’80s rock scene, best known for his 30 year partnership with Billy Idol, his work on Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana”, his Grammy Award winning performance on “Top Gun Anthem” and his work with Vince Neil on “Exposed”. Stevens catalog of hit songs that he co-wrote & performed alongside Idol include “Rebel Yell”, “Eyes Without A Face” and “Flesh for Fantasy”. They sound as fresh and relevant today as the day they were released, as evidenced by being recently covered by artists as varied as Miley Cyrus, Green Day, Queens of the Stone Age, Him, Black Veil Brides, Children of Bodom, Dope, Daughtry, Sum 41, Blink 182, Drowning Pool, Murderdolls, Deathstars and The Donnas.In addition to currently working on a new record together, Idol & Stevens continue to tour to sold out crowds all over the world. Stevens has also lent his unmistakable sound and style to many hit records, including Pink “Try This”, Diana Ross “Eaten Alive”, Joni Mitchell “Chalk mark in a Rainstorm”, Robert Palmer “Don’t Explain”, The Thompson Twins “Here’s to Future Days”, Ric Ocasek “This Side of Paradise”, Peter Criss “Let Me Rock You”, Juno Reactor “Shango”, “Hokata”, and “Pistolero”, Kyosuke Himuro “Beat Haze Odyssey”, Steve Lukather “Lukather” and on his solo outings with Steve Stevens Atomic Playboys “Atomic Playboys”, Jerusalem Slim “Jerusalem Slim”, Bozzio Levin Stevens “Black Light Syndrome” and “Situation Dangerous” and the critically acclaimed solo releases “Flamenco A Go Go” & “Memory Crash”.
Stevens has performed on numerous movie soundtracks in addition to “Top Gun”, including “Matrix Reloaded”, “Once Upon A Time In Mexico”, “Speed”, “Big”, “Dogtown”, “Coyote Ugly”, “Look Who’s Talking Too”, “The Upside of Anger”, “Ace Ventura; Pet Detective”, “The Wedding Singer” and “Heavy Metal”. Stevens also tours with several popular all-star bands including Camp Freddy and Kings of Chaos.
The Dives started in 2016 as a 4 piece blues-based rock band. They hit the ground running with a 4 song EP and an amazing opportunity to tour North America and the UK, playing in front of tens of thousands people in the UK at venues such as the 02 Arena in London, the SSE Hydro in Glasgow and BarclayCard Arena in Birmingham. At the end of 2017, their founding member decided to move back to the West Coast to pursue a new musical route.
As a trio, their new sound provided the opportunity to open for The Plain White Tees and The Wallflowers and then secured a NYC club residency where they were able to hone their live performance – and then it hit (picture the snowstorm in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer but with a pandemic instead of snow and no Rudolph to save the day). Like every actor and musician as well as audiences, they were suffering the ramifications of locked venue doors. But, also like so many entertainers, they put the time to good use. It not only gave them time to record their new music which started being released in January 2021, but made them pivot and stop to rethink everything they were doing because, traditionally, “that’s the way it’s done”. More music to be released throughout the year.
The Nielsen Trust is a band featuring Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick and his family. The legendary guitar player from Rock n Roll Hall of Fame band, Cheap Trick, has joined his son Daxx, who also plays drums for Cheap Trick, his son Miles, of Miles Nielsen and The Rusted Hearts and Miles' wife, Kelly Steward, also a career singer and songwriter.
Cheap Trick released its debut album, Cheap Trick, in 1977 and found success in Japan with the release of its second album, In Color, later that year. The band would achieve mainstream popularity in the United States in 1979 with its breakthrough album, Cheap Trick at Budokan. Cheap Trick reached the Top 10 in the U.S. charts in 1979 with the Budokan live version of "I Want You To Want Me” and topped the charts in 1988 with "The Flame”. Cheap Trick was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016. The band will release their new album, “In Another World” on April 9th.
EVAN STANLEY
Born in Los Angeles, California, Evan Stanley has always lived straddling the lines between multiple worlds: growing up, he split his time between school, touring the world with his father’s band KISS and working as a delivery boy for his local deli. After school and a stint in New York, Stanley moved back to LA to pursue his own brand of pop that he describes as “a mix of 60s psychedelic, 70s singer-songwriter and 80s new wave filtered through a 90s baby that grew up on pop punk.”