Pale Horse is the creation of California native, Edward Stephen Crummer. Only a recent resident of Arkansas, Crummer has spent the lion’s share of the past four years traveling from Minnesota to Ohio, and Illinois back to Wisconsin playing small venues, bars, basements and street corners in pursuit of music. During those years, only a few bands were ever formed and all were short lived. Having been discouraged by this, Crummer began to work as a solo artist and went on a two year hiatus where he focused solely on songwriting and crafting them into something far more unique and meaningful than they had previously been.

In April 2013, his self titled EP was released and received local radio play as well as a guest spot on “Box of Chocolates”, a Wisconsin Public Television broadcast. In the fall of 2013, Pale Horse was formed with fellow band mates in order to take the “songwriter” sound of Crummer’s work and create a full band out of it. The roster quickly grew from one man, into the full four man line up that it currently is.

With inspiration stemming from outlaw country to folk and blues, Pale Horse has created a unique sound all their own and still managed to pay homage to classic American music, the way it is most fondly remembered.

Stephen Neeper & The Wild Hearts play rock ‘n’ roll music.

The Neeper sound represents a coalescence of influences, ranging from Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and The Black Crowes, to Ryan Adams, and Pearl Jam. The Neepers, Stephen and Zeke, started learning the art of guitar picking from their father so long ago that it is a part of who they are. After multiple tenures with various local bands, SNTWH formed through jam sessions in the Neeper garage with other Arkansas musicians, beginning with the addition of drummer Evan Barr in late 2011. Drew deFrance became a part of the Neeper band family as a result of similar late night jam sessions. Since then, the band has shared the stage with the likes of Cody Canada and the Departed, The Wild Feathers, Whiskey Myers, Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown, and The Dirty Guv’nahs.

SNTWH has garnered attention from the press as well. In the Arkansas Times, Robert Bell wrote, “It’s hard to convey the extent to which this band has swaggering, blues-steeped Southern rock down cold….frontman Neeper is a shred-meister extraordinaire… and the rest of the band members are stone-cold bad-asses, too.” SNTWH guarantee one thing: a rockin’ good time.

Blue Dream is a rock & roll experiment from Chicago, Illinois; containing Danny Awisha on drums, Anthony Cook on guitar, Jimmy Russell on bass, & Justin Sanetra on guitar/vocals. Inspired by the elements of psychedelia, Blue Dream has been described as, “A calm euphoria wrapped in an energetic noise rock exterior, a feeling of intensity delivered in a laid back fashion” (Paste Magazine). In December 2017, the band released their first 7″ single thru Chicago label Treehouse Records. This was quickly followed by a vinyl release of their first album, Volume Won, by European label Kozmik Artifactz in January 2018. And in September of 2018 the band wrapped up the year by releasing their second album, Volume Blue. “Neo-Psych-Mit-Der-Funky-Grooves cut chic enough to be urbane but fuzzed out enough to make the freakouts more than just a come on. I’ll take the dream-tone shimmer any day in a kind of self-aware reflection of British folk, but the dense roll that immediately follows re-imagines grunge as more than just an influence from 3 popular bands and something that could genuinely move forward from the perspective of a new generation” (The Obelisk).