4 To Watch For: Jonathan Rice

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on October 1, 2004

There are many mysteries surrounding scrappy, guitar-strumming Scotsman Johnathan Rice. Why does his singing voice eerily echo...  read more

4 To Watch For: Jedd Hughes

By Billy Altman on 12:00 AM on October 1, 2004

Ask 22-year-old Jedd Hughes what he did on his summer vacation while gearing up for the release of his debut Transcontinental...  read more

4 To Watch For: The High Water Marks

By Steve LaBate on 12:00 AM on October 1, 2004

Drummer Hilarie Sidney of Elephant 6 legends Apples In Stereo first ran into Norwegian singer/guitarist Per Ole Bratset on tour in Oslo...  read more

4 To Watch For: Citizen Cope

By Wes Orshoski on 12:00 AM on October 1, 2004

These days it seems most artists you meet have a horror story to tell about the music business. They’re usually full of gripes about how the label didn't...  read more

4 To Watch For

By Billy Altman on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

Adrienne Young & Little Sadie’s debut is called Plow To The End Of The Row, and every copy of the self-released CD comes with a packet of wildflower seeds...  read more

4 To Watch For: The Concretes

By MacKenzie Wilson on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

“For the first time in my life, I was completely star-struck,” says Lisa Milberg, drummer of Swedish indie-pop band, The Concretes...  read more

4 To Watch For: The Ditty Bops

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

They just might be the strangest, most unlikely musical duo since Hall and Oates...  read more

4 To Watch For: Ricky Fanté

By Andy Whitman on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

Budding soul sensation Ricky Fanté sounds like the second coming of Otis Redding, but don’t try the comparison with him...  read more

4 To Watch For: Charlie Mars

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

You can almost hear the pounding hooves. Throughout the eponymous V2 debut from Oxford, Miss., artist Charlie Mars, a spooky Southern Gothic aura gallops like some spectral pale stallion...  read more

4 To Watch For: Jamie Cullum

By Brian Quincy Newcomb on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

It was already far from your standard jazz-trio set when Jamie Cullum climbed under the glass-topped grand piano in the lounge of Austin’s posh, 120-year-old Driskill Hotel...  read more

4 To Watch For: Rich Price

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

You’ve got to hand it to former San Francisco resident Rich Price—as singer/songwriters go, he’s definitely his own idiosyncratic man...  read more

4 To Watch For: Eszter Balint

By Philip Christman on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

A simple, descending blues figure played on a banjo, an alluring, slightly weary voice, then a manic, stringed kr-thunk....  read more

4 To Watch For: Rachael Yamagata

By Tom Lanham on 10:59 AM on January 23, 2004

Huddled in the darkest corner of San Francisco’s Café Du Nord, sultry songstress Rachael Yamagata shivers as patron after patron shambles in, gradually filling up every inch of sold-out floorspace...  read more

4 To Watch For: Mindy Smith

By Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen on 10:51 AM on January 23, 2004

Mindy Smith never set out to record a hit song, and she sure as hell never thought her first exposure to a mass audience would come from a video that went with her version of a country-music classic...  read more

4 To Watch For: Ollabelle

By Thomas Bartlett on 10:45 AM on January 23, 2004

“The music chose us more than we chose it,” says Glenn Patscha, keyboardist and vocalist for New York-based sextet Ollabelle, referring to the gospel-heavy roots repertoire on the band’s self-titled debut...  read more

Marc Broussard

By Bill Clifford on 9:28 AM on January 23, 2004

It’d be easy to pass Marc Broussard off as another young singer/songwriter riding the coattails of Dave Matthews and John Mayer. He’s young, good looking, armed with an acoustic guitar and full of sweet melodies...  read more