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Alex Amen

Alex Amen is a twenty-five-year-old artist and songwriter from Texas. At eightee, Alex moved from Texas to California to study filmmaking. After one semester he dropped out and moved onto the “Dittman Family Commune”, a historic commune with ties to the anti war, civil rights, and psychedelic countercultural movements of the mid-60’s. It was here that he formed his first band, “American Slang” in 2017. The band broke up shortly after, resulting in Alex’s move from Southern California to an island in the Puget Sound of Washington State. Here he spent three years in relative isolation, taking up various interests in mycology, mountaineering, poetry, and wooden boat building. As years passed, Alex felt the increasing need to return to California to pursue music. In January of 2023 he self produced his first record (unreleased) in a self built studio at the historic Zorthian Ranch in Altadena, California. Alex now lives…

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Titus Andronicus Merge Records
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Pattie Gonia
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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Max Fry

Posted 11/24/2025

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Posted 11/19/2025

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Ground Control Touring welcomes Ella Ion

Posted 11/06/2025

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Ground Control Touring welcomes willoh

Posted 11/05/2025

Missouri native willoh creates eclectic sounds in the privacy of her bedroom on recording equipment she bought from her savings earned while working at a McDonalds in her hometown. Her innovative approach to sonic layering is addictive, and new single “Buckshot” is a must-listen, and one you will want to hear on repeat. willoh’s self-produced debut, not more than that,…

Ground Control Touring welcomes Hiding Places

Posted 10/30/2025

Hiding Places formed in the countryside of Athens, Georgia in 2020, but their roots trace back to a shared college radio station at UNC Chapel Hill. Guitarists/vocalists Audrey Keelin and Nicholas Byrne, bassist Michael Matsakis, and drummer Henry Cutting create a twinkly, raw folk-alternative collaboration that blends earnest storytelling with intricate, guitar-driven textures. Now based in Brooklyn’s DIY scene, Hiding…

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