Midori is a high-energy soulfully potent singer and songwriter from the Bay Area. She is backed by Audioclique with burning lead guitar, panaramic keyboards, and ground pounding bass and drums. Recently, Midori was featured in the Showcase at slicethepie.com, where she finished 3rd out of 1000 bands and was the top US band. Midori and Audioclique's sound can be described as organic, classic rock fused with a modern presence ala beatles meets avril meets zepplin meets sheryl crow meets matchbox. Four of their songs won several awards on garageband, including track of the day, track of the week, and several #1 spots in the Bay Area music category. Midori also won SingerUniverse's Best Vocalist of the Month Contest for May ,and will be featured on their home page May 8- June 8, 2008. Midori/Audioclique will be the featured band- Global Spotlight for a Day at IndieSolo.com on May 22, 2008. Midori and Audioclique have been featured or reviewed by www.musiczeitgeist.com, ninjaonline.com and indiesolo.com. They have been selected for upcoming reviews or features in Junior's Cave, Target Summer Edition, Dig This Real, Buzzbin Magazine, and Wildy's World. They are also currently on the roster for the KBH/TVIFF Showcase Series. Review from www.musiczeitgeist.com Fronted by comely siren Midori Longo, Midori/Audioclique is a West Coast outfit that straddles the narrowing line between long-tail Jessica Simpson bands like Paramore->Be Your Own Pet and the wild wild world of self-produced ever-more widely available independent releases that take chances in the production room and sometimes crank out something that intertextually (so not a real word) leans on the wide-open sound of Zeppelin and what No Doubt must have sounded like before their first major label (read gated toms) outing. This project rides the wave in both directions, promising a fresh voice and one that is institutionally sanctioned by the payola powers that be. It is in this very dichotomy that the interest lies. Midori’s voice has all the making of mainstream stardom and the band that she rides understands the gravity of letting the moment ride, calling on vintage recording techniques and broad sounding mixes that remind us that there is a life in all this, not just an agenda to cut through the clamor. It will be interesting to see how they proceed, for indeed they will either blow open a door or walk through another where the party is well attended and they will scan the room in fear that someone may already be wearing the same dress. Let’s give ‘em an A. Cuz the sound, when it’s sound, is sexy and so is she. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.