Maximal Music Sync is over the moon to announce the addition of our newest signing, Seattle-based singer-songwriter Sera Cahoone! 

Across her four critically-acclaimed albums, including 2017's From Where I Started, Sera has become known for creating stirring, hushed Americana music that embodies raw emotionalism. Her songs have always been the sort that grab the listener by the collar and pull them close. And yet fans may not even realize they’ve yet been held at arm’s length until they hear the revisited arrangements on her new, forthcoming EP, The Flora String Sessions, due for self-release on April 20, 2018.

The Flora String Sessions revisits some of Cahoone’s most beloved fan favorites from across her remarkable career, with just her starkly honest vocals and guitar plus violin, viola, and cello. It’s somewhat of a greatest hits collection, albeit with more intimate, stunningly beautiful arrangements by Led to Sea violist Alex Guy.

Cahoone has always been a master of intense lyrical intimacy. And while her exquisite live band has provided her previous recordings with lush, intuitive instrumental support, there is something remarkably pure about hearing some of the best songs of her career delivered in this more nuanced manner.

As Cahoone has steadily gained a wider audience over the past twelve years, the Denver- native-turned-Seattle-mainstay (and former member of Carissa's Weird and Band of Horses) has toured with Son Volt, Kathleen Edwards, Blitzen Trapper, and Gregory Alan Isakov, to name a few; but it was a duo tour with Guy that set the pair spinning toward The Flora String Sessions.

We're so happy to welcome Ft. Collins, CO based singer-songwriter Kyle James Hauser to the Maximal Music Sync family! Kyle’s music career began auspiciously: he performed at CMJ, SXSW and the Toronto Int’l Film festivals; was a competitive finalist at Telluride Bluegrass and Rocky Mountain Folk festivals; and released his first record Oh Oh on sonaBLAST! Records. 

A graduate in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music, Kyle James Hauser went on to study banjo under Jayme Stone, Noam Pikelny, Chris Pandolfi and others. He’s been involved in over a dozen album releases over his career, and his album You a Thousand Times reached #1 on Colorado Public Radio a month after its 2014 release. His songs are featured in film and television, including Judd Apatow’s The Big Sick, MTV's series 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom, Where Hope Grows and many more.

Kyle has shared the stage with Nathaniel Rateliff, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Head and the Heart, Brett Dennen, John Hiatt, David Grisman and more. Playing with Colorado band Rapidgrass (2014-2016), Hauser released two albums and toured internationally, most notably headlining La Roche Bluegrass Festival in France and winning 2015’s RockyGrass Competition. In 2015, Hauser also seized the opportunity to co-write a ballet with one of the country’s most highly-regarded regional ballet companies, the Louisville Ballet.

In addition to his recording and touring career, Hauser currently serves as Programs Coordinator for the Detour touring program at Bohemian Foundation’s groundbreaking incubator, The Music District and has been involved in music nonprofits Louisville Folk School (as co-founder), Think 360 Arts, Colorado Music Collective, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He also teaches songwriting at the Berklee College of Music and has given masterclasses at schools all over the country, including Oberlin Conservatory and Swallow Hill.

We're elated to add the Bosshouse catalog of songs and masters to the Maximal roster! L.A.-based Bosshouse Music was founded in 2002 by composer / songwriter Stephen Phillips.  Since its inception, the Bosshouse and Transphonic Records catalogs have secured thousands of placements in episodic television, film, advertising, and trailers.

The BH team, including CEO/Founder Stephen Phillips and Amy Roberts as Senior Director/Creative Marketing, has a philosophy of  working from “the inside out” as composers, which has served Bosshouse exceptionally well from day one and continues to be an unbreakable model in all things sync. Bosshouse Music features over 2000 tracks of high quality, vocally-driven songs and underscore, while Transphonic Records provides clients with access to bands, artists, and singer-songwriters.

2018 has welcomed the addition of SottoPhonic Productions into the Bosshouse family.  SottoPhonic is specifically geared toward trailer music production, master reimagining, and underscore composing.

We're psyched about our newest Maximal signing, Atlanta-based rockers Baby Baby! These guys are too awesome for words, so we're going to let them introduce themselves: 

We are Baby Baby from Atlanta. I am Fontez Brooks. I sing songs and play the guitar. I am Colin Boddy. I like a good cocktail kit and yelling is fun. I am Grant Wallace. I hit drums and have a thriving lawn care business. I am Hsiang-Ming Wen. I slappa da bass and haven’t had a hair cut in years.

We play fun-rock. We’ve played it at Riotfest, Made In America, Afropunk Fest(s), Warped Tour and for Red Bull’s 30 Days In L.A. We’ve toured with Fishbone, Black Lips, and some other bands worth mentioning, but we won’t.

We just released 2 songs called “Here” (which is an ode to old Atlanta) and “Boys Poop Too” (which is about male sensitivity).

Our managers say we are “a mélange of Indie, English and Swedish Punk, Bayou Rock, Vaudeville and Carnival”.  But what do they know. They use big words which we don’t understand.

We're excited to announce Maximal's newest signing, award-winning UK musician, producer, and author, Colin MacIntyre, a.k.a. Mull Historical Society and Field Stars! Colin has had two UK Top 20 albums and four Top 40 singles since the release of his Gold-selling debut album, Loss. With his latest project, Field Stars, he's creating electro art-pop produced by the Grammy-winning Dom Morley (Amy Winehouse's Back to Black) and mixed by Lars Norgren (Tove Lo's Habits). 2018 will also see the release of Colin's new Mull Historical Society album, Wakelines, produced by the Mercury Award-winning songwriter and Brit Award-winning producer Bernard Butler (Suede, McAlmost & Butler). 

In addition to making amazing music under his various monikers, Colin is also the author of the novel The Letters of Ivor Punch (W&N/Orion), which won the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, and will have two more books out this year-- his memoir, The Boy in the Bubble, and his children's book, The Humdrum Drum, a picture book with accompanying original songs and audiobook. 

Maximal is thrilled to announce our newest signing, Brooklyn-based indie singer-songwriter, Rue Snider! This coming Friday, March 2nd, Rue will release the first single, "Vamonos", off of his forthcoming album, City Living. 

Welcome to Maximal Music Sync's online home! We'll be updating the site as we grow our roster of artists and catalogs, so there will be more to see here soon.