Artists
n a Detroit suburb, tucked between a pizzeria and a Walgreen’s, lies an arcade jam-packed with one-of-a-kind oddities. Rife with dark nooks and impossible angles, the space is plastered with vintage circus banners, hanging model airplanes, and handcrafted coin-op machines. A… (Read More)
Influences: playgrounds, hi-fives, hugs, flowertrees, bike riding, crayons, wishing flowers, hand-holding, llamas, house-shows, rhymes, pink flamingo boats, fancy dance moves, happy suns, fluffy clouds, ethiopian food, parks, jumpingjacks, elevator rides, adventures, friends, latino-and-proud, puffy coats, & krisskross! Some bands we have… (Read More)
The most amazing thing that could happen to me, ever…is if I was at the mall and I found the most bitchenest pair of hot pink jelly shoes while I was suckin’ down a cold orange julius and I was catchin… (Read More)
ASnticon Record’s Telephone Jim Jesus, born with the far plainer name George Chadwick, is one of the unlikelier products of tiny, snowy New London, New Hampshire. In that culturally isolated corner of the world, the few artist types, especially those with… (Read More)
i like to record in my attic, i live in a stupid town in the edge of nebraska not far from south dakota and kansas… howd I get here? - (Read More)
Thank God For Astronauts play rock music, loud, melodic and fuzzy rock music. Our influences range from all the classic rock heroes of the 60’s and 70’s and many of the early 70’s pop/ punk rock bands and a lot of… (Read More)
tangles of guitar, knots of singing, threads of beat and thump make a rope fit for hauling the heavy machinery of your day When Thao was in kindergarten, misguided kids called her TOWEL. Buy Like the Linen at itunes.com or cdbaby.com… (Read More)
The Amicable Splits consist of a strange, sometimes morbid, yet always playful mixture of odd timing, unusual chord structures, funky bass lines, and abstract lyricism…with the occasional mutilation of obscure covers (Read More)
There probably aren’t too many people who remember Autonomous Collective, a poppy post-rock act that daringly explored a wide range of sounds with admirable dexterity. When that band eventually morphed into the Archive, the players solidified their sound into a compelling… (Read More)
Like a post-collegiate Fiona Apple jamming with Snow Patrol Al-Attas and her band serve up a violin-rich, piano-drenched sincerity topped off with a voice that’s wise and heartbroken beyond its years” (The Onion). Tifah formed in August 2006. Although a young… (Read More)
We are The Axe That Chopped The Cherry Tree. We’re centered in Denver, though we all met in Greeley. We’re a little different than most bands. We don’t spam our band name out, nor do we “whore” on myspace; our “friend… (Read More)
THE BEACHES formed in 2006, with a genre-blending rock, Disco, New Wave, Reggae, Punk, they make audience on the floor to the Dance people. Releasing their 1st Album “THE BEACHES”, they raised media attention and chose for the 2006 best… (Read More)
The Beebs’ debut album, Bird, features warm, acoustic instrumentalism and soaring harmonies along with a number of diverse instruments (chromatic harmonica, vintage Casio children’s keyboard and a small wind organ purchased at the local Goodwill.) In a nutshell, Bird, is experimental… (Read More)
It seems true spies are rarely happy. Some are even driven to the point of suicide. It’s hard to keep secrets. Especially from the ones you love. Follow the Dark Horse. The flames will be your guide. From Pitchfork: “After years… (Read More)
The Black Apples live in a house painted a half-garish, half-charming purple, nestled beneath the high-rise trees of downtown Fort Collins. In the short five months that The Black Apples have been in town, they’ve established their house as equal parts… (Read More)
An 8-bit game soundtrack played through a Marshall stack. With words. Influences They Might Be Giants, Cake, Tom Waits, Violent Femmes, Tenacious D, Weird Al, Da Vinci’s Notebook, The Ramones, Man Man, DeVotchka, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Beck, White Stripes, Johnny Cash… (Read More)
The Botticellis have an obsession with pop music, melodic songwriting and the cinematic sounds of yesteryear, but they’re not lost in some oldies Neverland. On Old Home Movies, the quintet gives us ten luminous snapshots of sun-bleached memories. The vision is… (Read More)
It was in a backyard of their L.A. neighborhood that Ross Flournoy, Danny Iead, Rob McCorkindale, Brian Whelan and friend/writing partner Adam Vine developed Now or Heaven, The Broken West’s second full-length album. A sense of home, symbolized by that small… (Read More)
The Bronz is made up of Andy, Bailey and Chris from Core of the Earth and Joaquin from Slick Pigs Lie. We formed in August 2006. We WILL Rock you!! (Read More)
Alan Bishop and Richard Bishop present The Brother’s Unconnected A tribute to the music of Sun City Girls and Charles Gocher Article in Seattle Weekly More about the Sun City Girls More about Charles Gocher Said bill consists of one 45-minute… (Read More)
So as of… I dunno, whenever ago, the band formerly known as Station Agents (and with a myspace page reflecting such) lost a member and became The Build-Up. During this period of tumult and chaos, we’ve also managed to put the… (Read More)
“Chock full of junk store percussion, is this to be considered inspired by call and response old time Gospel, or is it the Gospel for modern folk pop lovers? This lo-fi recording of strings, mandolin, drums, “whatever you can get your… (Read More)
The Caribbean’s vision is to empower people through great pop music- any time, any place and on any device. As the worldwide leader in pop music for personal and business consumption, the Caribbean strives to produce innovative products and services… (Read More)
Don’t trust the Carrots’ MySpace page, which describes the band as “Austin’s new evangelical sensation who met two years ago at church camp and realized they all had a devout love for God in common.” It lies. “Basically I have a… (Read More)
The Cassettes were originally formed as an out-growth of front-man Shelby Cinca’s four-track recordings: odd pop nuggets that diverged from the teeth-gritting angst of his previous project, Frodus. The son of Romanian refugees who fled from the Iron Curtain in search… (Read More)
hello, hello. my name is kamtin and i go by the name THE CHAIN GANG OF 1974. i write, record, and perform everything myself. i have no expectations with this project. my only reason for doing this is to have a… (Read More)
“The Coast are yet another example of the increasingly talented and seemingly unstoppable Canadian indie music scene” Rob Bolton, Exclaim! Magazine “The spacey, Verve-like quality of their delicate tunes wouldn’t sound out of place on the Lost in Translation soundtrack as… (Read More)
