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VENUS FLYTRAP: Come With Us
Screaming guitars, tight bass and drums, and joyful noise -- a hypnotic wall of indie sound reminiscent of Motorpsycho and Sonic Youth.
MP3 price: $9.99
THE CROWD SCENE: With Complete Glossary for Squares
Melodic, Lennonesque optimism, a whisper in the ear.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOHNNY J BLAIR: Nothing Like Williamsport
Johnny delivers an infectious pop 'n' roll tribute to Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
MP3 price: $1.99
THE MATTHEW SHOW: february
Literate song cycle meets documentary, with more than a little sardonic wit added for seasoning.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
TVFORDOGS: Starling
Explosive British power trio with sparkling hooks. Modern? Retro? You be the judge.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOHNNY J BLAIR: Grateful
Offbeat, sunny pop full of irreverence, romance, and bittersweet spirituality.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE MAY BEES: Drop Little Boy
Apocalyptic rock-club thrash with a maple-syrup coating.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Wampus Multimedia: Modern Rock & Modern Folk
Original music for films and multimedia projects.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
NEIL LUCKETT: Radio for Cats
Stripped-down and immediate, chills up the spine.
Recommended if you like Nick Drake, Bert Jansch & John Renbourn.CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOHNNY J BLAIR: Fire
Immaculately crafted pop 'n' roll with a streak of gospel-inflected, blue-eyed soul.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ALICE DESPARD: Samsara
The until-now rare first solo disc from the founder of Washington, D.C.'s Hyaa.
Recommended if you like Neil Young, Patti Smith.CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE CROWD SCENE: Turn Left at Greenland
Shimmering trans-Atlantic pop refracted through a lens of the Kinks, the Left Banke, Television, and Elliott Smith.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE SIMPLE THINGS: President Foushee
Virginia roots-pop outfit returns with a best-of as solid as a pop rock.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ALICE DESPARD: Push Me Pull You
The comeback album -- honored in the Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll, now to be honored by your stereo.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
TVFORDOGS: Roller
Melodic post-grunge in the finest British power-trio tradition.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ALICE DESPARD: Vessel
Washington, D.C.'s indie maven unleashes her inner voice.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOHNNY J BLAIR: Treadmarks
Caught live in the studio, the virtuosic Blair imagines if Raymond Chandler and Sam Cooke were street musicians busking with David Bowie's beat-up 12-string guitar.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon
Emerging artists interpret the literate, acerbic pop songwriter.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ARMS OF KISMET: Cutting Room Rug
Brooding and poppy, funny and foreboding, it's toe-tapping, tragicomic rock 'n' roll.
Recommended if you like The Postal Service, Beck & The Flaming Lips.CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
CASEY ABRAMS: Like a Mirror
Haunting Americana songwriting that recalls the best of Don McLean.
Recommended if you like Don McLean, Willie Nelson.CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MITCH RENAULT & ARMS OF KISMET: Ted's 12: Original Soundtrack
Mitch Renault scored the postmodern sitcom, Ted's 12. Arms of Kismet added the theme, "My Mercurial Nature."
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
J.T. BOWMAN: J.T. Bowman & Lerlene Stackwood
Full-blown country-pop concepts prefabricated for your listening pleasure.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
CAFEBAR 401: Cafebar 401
Tearing up Dutch radio, this is modern rock with a flair for dark, mischievous drama. Put aside your Foo Fighters and meet Cafebar 401.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ARMS OF KISMET: Eponymous
Literate and insidiously catchy, Arms of Kismet is postmodern pop for the savvy, ironic streetcrawler.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS: After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed
Eclectic interpretations of Lou Reed songs -- the essence of New York City poetry.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
AMATEUR GOD: Near Life Experience
Imagine if David Lynch directed a postmodern remake of the classic film Frankenstein. Then imagine the sort of soundtrack he might choose -- ominous Transylvanian atmospherics designed to fill viewers with a deep and joyful sense of dread.
Recommended if you like Aphex Twin, Godflesh.CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
TVFORDOGS: Heavy Denver
Enticed by snippets of Dave Grohl or Coldplay? tvfordogs go beyond.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS: If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the Music of Jonathan Richman
A wildly entertaining ride through the repertoire of one of rock's most original and eclectic songwriters.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
WAMPETERS: Murder Your Darlings
Smoldering chamber rock descended from the Band, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys.
Recommended if you like Wilco, Bob Dylan and The Band.CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
WAMPETERS: Hey Judas
Indie before indie went mainstream -- great DIY songs and flava.
Recommended if you like Wilco, Bob Dylan and The Band.CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
WAMPETERS: Look What's Left
It sounded out of step in the grunge-laden wilds of 1994, but now sounds like the beginning of something else entirely.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
WAMPETERS: Bloodline
Unplugged and emotionally direct, this will have you squirming in your dancing shoes.
MP3 price: $9.99
WAMPETERS: Pagan's Nest
Soaring melodies, ringing guitars, searing harmonies and playful distortion -- everything you need for your '90s Friday night.
MP3 price: $9.99
JOHN WATTS: Selected Cuts of Grief
Jonathan Richman meets Vic Chesnutt and Jad Fair on a city bus to Venice Beach.
MP3 price: $5.99
WAMPETERS: Folk Medicine
Wampeters' sophomore disc captured the lightning of '80s pop in a bottle... and then shot the bottle with a BB gun.
MP3 price: $9.99
WAMPETERS: Screen Test
Cassette four-track, drum machines, synths, and guitars, guitars, guitars.
MP3 price: $9.99