The BV’s are a band from Augsburg, Germany. Their bittersweet, looping, disintegrating mix of indie pop, shoegaze and krautrock came together by chance in the cascading granite greys of a wet English winter in 2016, when Fred moved from Augsburg in Germany to Cornwall in the UK for a University exchange programme and moved in with Josh. After living together for four months, they decided to record some demos for fun, which later became their first album, Speaking From A Distance, released in 2017 on German label Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten. After Fred moved back to Augsburg, The BV’s continued to make music over the internet, releasing an EP and a second album with Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten (Cartography, 2019), as well as singles with Cloudberry Records (USA), Shiny Happy Records (Indonesia) and Melotron Recordings (Greece). They also toured extensively in Europe and the UK, including appearances at Indietracks and Madrid Popfest. In 2022, Josh moved from the UK to Augsburg. With the band now finally all living in the same city, the bv’s have spent the last year recording their third album, Taking Pictures Of Taking Pictures, which was released on 16^th February by Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten and Shelflife Records.

Black Tail is an indie rock band from Rome and Latina (Italy): Cristiano Pizzuti (Voice, Guitar, Synths), Simone Sicamanna (Guitar), Cristina Marcelli (Bass) and Roberto Bonfanti (Drums). The idea, and the name of the project, came out of a walk in the woods right outside Boston in 2013. A close encounter with a black-tailed deer, and a bunch of songs written while traveling. One of the songs is a demo recorded with a small portable device in Back Bay, dedicated to Elliott Smith, and presented during a short acoustic set on national radio station Radio Rai1. Three records (Springtime, 2015, One Day We Drove Out Of Town, 2017 and You Can Dream It In Reverse, 2020) released for the indie labels Mia Cameretta and Lady Sometimes, filled with indie-americana, jangle textures, and dreamy guitar arpeggios. The soundscape interlaces and changes, from sunny ballads to a shadowy restlessness. The musical vocabulary is influenced by Wilco, Sparklehorse, Teenage Fanclub, Yo La Tengo, Elliott Smith, all mixed up in an eclectic ecosystem made of handmade drawings and indie rock songs, slight folk roots and a rather lo-fi slackerish attitude. A personal narration of secluded worlds and introspective gazes. Wide Awake on Beds of Golden Dreams, which was recorded at VDSS Recording Studio by Filippo Passamonti between Dec 2022 and Sept 2023, is the band’s fourth full length and will be out on February 23rd (MiaCameretta Records).