Florida singer-songwriter Jayne Kelli built a local following in Tampa Bay by performing her original tunes throughout the area, making appearances on local radio programs and working with fellow musicians.

But for the release of her latest EP, Promises and Dead Ends, Kelli began her push for international recognition by taking her music to Northern Italy.

When she returns to Florida, she plans to return to Hideaway Recording Studio to continue work on her full-length release, Jack for a King.

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“Replacing the original’s flinty electric guitar with an acoustic ease and its deep, distorted bass throb with an accordion’s wheeze,” Indy Week’s Grayson Currin describes, “this take emphasizes the shifts from chorus to verse and the song’s antiphonal structure.”

Flying Tiger Sound guru B.J. Burton handled the audio side of the video while Arthurs sat behind the camera.

The band played two tracks from the recently released full-length Oh Tall Tree In The Ear as well as “One Hundred Thousand Miles” from the They Say EP.

Paste certainly doesn’t have a shortage of love for Roman Candle, what with the magazine scoring Oh Tall Tree an 89 out of 100 and sponsoring a nationwide tour alongside The Deep Vibration.

One of the latest bands to begin to make its mark on the local music scene is the duo of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz. Armed with an acoustic guitar, fiddle and of course mandolin, Mandolin Orange came to be when a hometown girl met a boy from the Upper East Side — of North Carolina, that is.

Playing an array of bluegrass, folk and Americana, Mandolin Orange is the story of a boy, a girl and the beautiful music they make.

Like most bands trying to make a name for themselves in a market overwhelmed with talent, Mandolin Orange tours relentlessly; which means there are ample opportunities to catch the duo in a live setting. Coming up, you can check them out at Nightlight on Aug. 19, The City Tap in Pittsboro on Aug. 28 and Open Eye Café on Aug. 29.

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The video was shot in and around the city of Durham, and features frontman John Harrison strumming solo on his acoustic guitar while all of the audio was captured live on the streets.

“Matt, Jessye [McDowell] and I rode around Durham, N.C. one day and filmed me playing pieces of the song,” Harrison explains. “It was a fun day, and we met a bunch of wonderful people who are in the film.”

You can catch North Elementary on Sessions at Studio B live at 4 p.m. on July 23 right here at Music.MyNC. Not For Everyone, Just For You was released Feb. 24, 2009 through Eskimo Kiss Records.

Bryant also performed the track “Good Girl Gone Bad” exclusively for Music.MyNC.

Legendary rock photographer Robert Knight is renowned for his iconic photos of Led Zepplin and The Rolling Stones before they became the icons they are today. Now, Knight prides himself on “discovering” new talent and helping them nurture their careers. Recently that has included Panic! At the Disco and Australian band Sick Puppies.

Knight has set his sights on Bryant and is trying to convince the rock world that he has discovered “the next Stevie Ray Vaughan.”

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Our executive Web producer Stacy Peterson has a great story about the first time he saw Dillon Fence live.

“I still have the little red flier lying around somewhere at home …

It was early 1991 and I paid my $5 and went to The Brewery (which is still on Hillsborough Street) to see the band Dillon Fence. I had heard these songs ‘Something For You’ and ‘Daylight’ in 1990 from a demo and was finally going to check them out …

The opening act?

A special acoustic performance from a guy from Virginia named Dave Matthews.

So that’s the story of Dillon Fence, a regional band that very nearly made it in the early 1990s but couldn’t quite get into the mainstream.”

Throughout Dillon Fence’s tenure, the band was signed to Carrboro-based Mammoth Records and consistently sold out regional performances. Even before they exploded with “Hold My Hand,” Hootie & The Blowfish regularly opened for Dillon Fence and incorporated Fence covers into their sets.

Years of nearly constant touring has resulted in Humphreys writing and recording a solo album completely on his own. The songs on Trunk Songs are raw and honest. They are Humphreys at his most vulnerable and at the top of his game.

This weekend you can catch Humphreys with Dillon Fence at the Mammoth Records 21st birthday bash at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro. He will be performing with HOBEX on May 2 at the Brennan Station Concert Series on Hillsborough Street and June 6 for Bandtogether at Lincoln Theatre with Rusted Root, The Rosebuds and Chatham County Line.

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The band garnered considerable praise after their performance at SXSW 2008 and Adult Nights is scoring well with the critics. Wild Light’s first single “California On My Mind” is building momentum for the album’s release, which will be celebrated Tuesday, March 3 at The Earl in Atlanta, Ga.

“California On My Mind” by Wild Light

A special thanks goes out to Harry’s Guitar Shop on Glenwood Avenue for the use of their mic stands, Ruckus Pizza in Mission Valley for the use of their mics and stands, and Guitar Center on Capital Boulevard for the use of their mics.

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Before his performance at Nightlight in Chapel Hill on Feb. 4, 2009, Breeding and accompanying guitarist Thomas Bryan Eaton stopped by 100.7 The River for an interview and acoustic performance. Radio host Kitty Kinnin invited Music.MyNC to film the performance and be a part of the event with the rest of the Kat Pack.

Breeding performed songs from the recently released Cheap Vodka Rain, which saw a digital-only release on Jan. 18, as well as from 2006’s EP Grey Skies. If you’re looking for a physical copy of his latest LP, the only place to find it is at Breeding’s shows as he presses limited quantities.

Cheap Vodka Rain was recorded live over a two day session in Brooklyn and produced by Dave Bielanko of Yep Roc Records band Marah.

Hailing from Louisiana, the band performed at Lincoln Theatre Sunday with Medusa Stone.