Matt Stevens

Name: Matt Stevens

Website: mattstevensguitar.com

Style: Live looped acoustic instrumental post jazz/rock/soundtrack

Bio:
Recent Press:

"Matt Stevens, looping guitar specialist and "One man wall of sound" .Prepare to be blasted away by incredible Spanish, Jazz and Rock rhythms with leads that are out of this world" - Spratton Folk Festival

"Recently, I had an opportunity to interview a guy who is doing some truly innovative work with acoustic guitar. This is hard to find these days. It's not that often you hear someone that challenges your ear in several pleasant ways all at once. Matt Stevens is a guitarist, songwriter, producer, arranger and sound experimenter extraordinaire from the UK." Guitarblogstar..com

"Even though that record is a must-buy for anyone with an interest in acoustic Guitar music, his regular online concerts or live performances are just as intoxicating. Let there be no doubt about it, after all: Matt Stevens may have some delicious studio cuts on offer, but the stage is still the best place to appreciate this both experimental and deadly catchy music."Tokafi.com

"He is fabulous. He has also been renamed Javier in my head because of the way he plays guitar - please check this one out, it's pay what you want until the end of February and is very highly recommended! "Put Me On It

About Matt
Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as John Mclaughlin, Johnny Marr and Sigur Ros. He plays live all over the UK. He has composed for short films(including the award winning Daddys Little Helper) and his live work is often compared to watching a one man guitar orchestra or wall of sound. He performs to people from all over the world using Ustream.TV His well received debut album Echo is out now - click here to buy it on itunes, for more info and to purchase from other digital retailers click here. He also produces a regular podcast, a blog, facebook, youtube and a myspace. Honesty and Integrity is valued over perfection.

Music Link : http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2143768

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Daniel Michael Cherrier

Name: Daniel Michael Cherrier

Website: www.DanielCherrier.com

Played With: King Cobra, Allies, Rockit,Prophecy and more

Style: All

Music Career: Daniel plans to future his career playing his guitar and singing songs he has written himself. He learned how to play the guitar at early age of 11, taking private lessons and studying Berklee guitar method. At the age of 19 Daniel started teaching private lessons to over 40 students a week, while playing with the rock band King Cobra which released a 4 song EP, With a list of band credits playing live and studio work, Daniel went off on his own to open Righteous Recording studio which he owned operated and engineered himself. 1994 Sweet As Honey was released, Daniel’s first CD which evolved into the band Prophecy. With 7 cd’s to his credit he has taken on music Video production and Computer recording. Recordings 1994 Sweet As Honey, Recent Gigs Carnival Cruise

Music Link : Get Da Funk Out

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Tex Boarder

Born and raised in the California Delta, Tex has been playing varieties of speed guitar for many years, finally defining a unique style which is Tex Boarder and now... could quite possibly be the greatest guitar player you never heard of.

Name: Tex Boarder

Website: texboarder.com

Played With: Former founding member of San Francisco Bay Area Speed metal band "Sadus" from 1984-1996. Now the leading member of the Tex Boarder trio.

Style: Surf/Country/Speed (we like to call it)

Music Link: Danger Danger Beach (the mp3 can be downloaded at Danger Danger Beach MP3 FREE download ) more music at http://www.texboarder.com/

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2010 Search For The Best Guitarist You Have Never Heard Of

This year I want to do something different.

It's now 2010, and any serious musician has a home studio. Any serious musician has access to the internet. But with such a flood of music to wade through, how do you find the really good stuff? And how do you find find something remotely interesting to you tastes.

This year, I want it to find me!

This is the official launch of the GuitarToyBox Search For The Best Guitarist You Have Never Heard Of competition.

If you are a guitarist, solo or in a band, and want to get your music heard, then I'm looking for you. No matter what style you play, I want you to send me you best music.

There are a few guidelines though:

1. Sound Quality - It has to sound at least semi professional. No boom box recordings or bad midi drums OK?
2. Guitar must be prominent - I don't care if your strum along acoustic power ballad is your best song. I want guitars. I don't care if it is metal, folk, blues, flamenco, jazz, ambient, whatever, the guitar needs to be interesting.
3. Original Music - I am after original music ONLY. I don't care how good your cover of Johnny B Goode is, I want original music that I have no expectations of.
4. Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative License preferred. See below for reasons.

Each week I plan on sharing my favourites with links, and will pick one featured artist that will get prominent publicity on this site. These featured artists, CC license pending, will be compiled onto a downloadable* compilation album.

I have no prizes lined up yet, except for the publicity, however I have recently been approached by several PR companies representing some big names and am hoping they may come to the fold.

I also don't care if you are signed to a label or not. As long as you are relatively unknown as a guitarist, then that's OK. You hear that Dave Navarro, Joe Bonamassa, Mark Tremonti, Gary Moore et al. You guys can't enter. But if you want to send me some stuff feel free!

If you are interested, please jump over to this page and fill out the form.

*This CC license was chosen as it allows me to redistribute your music, unchanged, with full accreditation, but will allow me to ask for a "download donation" to cover the costs of the hosting. If this takes off the way I would like, that could be quite considerable. I will be trying to get some sponsorship for this so I won't need to ask for donations.