Cosmos & Creature: 8 million streams. Ryan Shupe: acoustic on his own terms

Cosmos and Creature are the highly acclaimed LA-based singer/songwriters Brandyn Burnette and Molly Moore who combined their two successful solo careers to take on the music world twice as fast with twice the talent. Brunette, formerly with Warner Bros. Records, wrote a number 1 hit for Hedley which won Single of the Year at the Juno Awards, plus he charted on the top 40 for a single he wrote for Jake Mille. He has garnered over 3 million streams on both Spotify and YouTube, earning him  a spot on the Billboard Emerging artist charts for two weeks straight. Moore is not only a successful songwriter having recently landed a co-write with Leah Michelle (GLEE), she is also an accomplished solo artist with a dedicated fan base of her own. They formed a duo in 2014 and started making waves,.  Their new pop-electro single “Young”  is now out and rising up the chart s with 8 million Spotify Streams

Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband are a tight, traveling, acoustic  quintet that has a fanatical regional base in the West, centered in Salt Lake City.  A second generation fiddle player, equally at home with an electric or acoustic guitar or mandolin, Shupe began playing music at age five and was performing professionally and touring nationally at the age of 10 with a group called the PeeWee Pickers. He still plays a fiddle he found in his great aunt’s closet. Shupe formed the RubberBand so he could enlist a rotating group of musicians on a gig-by-gig basis and never have a group “break up.” His plan didn’t exactly work, however. One by one, the temporary sidemen began to stick, fusing into the close-knit final incarnation that exists today. His new album,  recorded and arranged in his studio in Provo, We Rode On” deftly combines rock with the acoustic instruments and virtuosic jamming the band has become known for.