The New Division is an alias of the electronic artist John Glenn Kunkel. With 2 albums and 2 EP's under his belt, Kunkel returns in 2015 with Gemini. The third full length album can be branded as an ode to his signature sound, which has placed The New Division at the forefront of modern new wave music today. These 13 songs feature an eclectic mix of sonorous guitar hooks complemented by synth leads eerily narrating times past, all the while remaining boldly in the present.

Combining raw percussive power with unearthly synth pads and melodies, Seattle based live-tronica four piece Gems deftly navigates through strange and beautiful territory ranging from ambient psychedelia to hard danceable grooves.
Gems have garnered rave reviews from the Seattle music scene, most recently in a glowing profile from The Stranger that read: “Gems hit you with heavy grooves and polyrhythmic interplay, while Moog-generated liquid-sex bass-lines and champagne-bubble leads seduce you to the dance floor.”
The band’s members have played a part in many projects including such notable acts as Macklemore, John Grant, Blue Scholars, Ormonde, Andy Coe Band, and The Kindness Kind, among others. Adrian Van Batenburg and Jacob Evans pound pavement behind their kits, and Daniel Rapport and Gary Palmer hover over the keyboards, twisting knobs and making noises unknown to the natural world. The idea for Gems, they said, was to create an environment that allows for sonic experimentation and improvisation, while still retaining a feel that can only come about through an organic songwriting process.
In 2012, Gems took refuge from the Seattle rain in an abandoned 100-year-old warehouse, and got to work writing what would eventually become their debut LP, Tall Mountain. Amongst the dust and antique wood, Gems crafted, honed and expanded their sound until it took on a new life of its own. According to Rapport, “our music is about discovery” – and it is this belief in newness that encouraged them to begin collaborations with guests vocalists including the ethereal Lotte Kestner (on the stunning “Mockingbird”), and the sultry and mysterious okanomodé (on “Koi”).
With Tall Mountain, Gems has created an amalgamation of upbeat, danceable and psychedelic music – all while retaining an experimental yet very accessible edge. Gems’ compositions are certainly indebted to groups like Kraftwerk, Eno, and Neu! as equally as they are to DJ Shadow, RZA, and Daft Punk.
Legendary German electronic musician Harald Grosskopf had this to say: “[Gems is] courageous in general times of retro mania. This music is opening the mind for a look into the future.”

Screens is a band from West Seattle featuring veterans of the Seattle, Bay Area and L.A. music scenes. Screens plays Crystal Skully music; synth heavy, bass driven, trip-pop anthems. Like a John Hughes movie on acid. Like The Journey of Natty Gann. On acid. A pixilated outer space fantasy game in a breakfast smoothie. A musical odyssey mapping the days of the pre singularity for your listening pleasure.

Allison Tulloss- Vocals, Keys
Carlos Tulloss- Bass
Doug Port- Vocals, Drums, Octaport
Colin Higgins- Vocals, Guitar, Keys