BELT - Influenced
by everything from the Beatles to Iron Maiden, BELT manages to jump from
genre to genre while still maintaining a definitive sound that is all
their own. Fans have described it as a mix between Barenaked Ladies and
Nirvana, with a splash of Pink Floyd. Others have labeled it Brainiac
Punk. OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Blue Number Nine - If Ian Anderson and George Clinton were one guy with a sex change and sounded like Rickie Lee Jones with a funky, jazzy rockin' band, you'd get blue number nine. With members hailing originally from Japan, Italy, Detroit, Buffalo and New Jersey, one might say that blue number nine resembles the United Nations. But New Jersey-based Stefanie Seskin felt this gave the band an identity when she started it in 1995. Each member's roots could not help but give the music a worldly flavor, one combining funk with Latin jazz, R & B, rock, pop and early Motown. Seskin, the lead singer, songwriter and flute player of blue number nine, fronts the band that has been likened to a "tornado on stage" and one that seems to bring a party wherever they go. OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Stefanie
Seskin - Since 1995, Stefanie Seskin has been
the lead vocalist and manager of blue number nine. Prior to that, she
sang back up vocals in various bands, and also played bass with Bill Popp
And The Tapes. She appears on his album "Popp This." Seskin
has won the ASCAPlu$ Award in the Popular category every year since 2001.
Her debut solo CD, "The Edge Of Reason", is a mostly a collection
of tracks not performed by blue number nine. Seskin produced and engineered
the CD and also did the artwork. OFFICIAL WEBSITE
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