Recommended Pop: Britpop music (#1 - #40)
THE APPLE WAR: Alarm Bell City
With soaring and angular guitars, the warm and whirling tones of organ and glockenspiel, a pounding rhythm section, and a singer that can actually sing, The Apple War is more than just Seattle’s answer to Brit-rock.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
ERIK PENNY: The Linger Kiss
Americana singer-songwriter Erik Penny's last album as an LA resident is a mish-mash of styles, from the wall-of-sound title track "The Linger Kiss" to the electronic/organic "Rumors on Your Mind" to the Costello-esque "Easier Life."
CD price: $8.00
STONETHROWN: Where You Stand
A refreshing blend of triumphant indie rock, progressive pop, shoegaze, and folk music.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
LION THIEF: Lion Thief
Pop rock that draws from the sounds of England in the late 90's
CD price: $8.00
THE RIP OFF ARTISTS: Esque
Lyrically esoteric, melodically inspired pop.
Recommended if you like Elvis Costello, Jon Brion.CD price: $10.00
SLUSHCO: When I Met the Boss of Nova
Synthetic science fiction delivered from catchy electropop casiotones and analog synthesizers. Check out a sample.
MP3 price: $6.99
ABSENT KID: Misadventure
The new album is the bands finest work to date, a classic indie-rock album with a triumphant outlook, brimming with catchy hooks, jerky spazz-rock grooves and punch the air moments.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
THE LAST ARMY: Light Ep
London, UK-based rabble rousers mix classic rock n'roll guitars and drums with strings, timpani and church organs.
Recommended if you like The Clash, The Velvet Underground.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Stay in the Box
Indie pop punk rock folk electro
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Hypnotiks: System Overload
Hypnotiks are a production duo from North-west London who are aspiring to flood the music industry with a unique sound.
MP3 price: $9.99
THE SPONGETONES: Too Clever By Half
Beatle-flavored jangly guitar and vocal pop, with a 1960's flair.
Recommended if you like The Beatles, Todd Rundgren.CD price: $13.97
JIMMY DAVIS: The Variety Show EP
Mike Skinner meets Kanye West, The Audio Bullys meet Jamie T, Just Jack meets Richard Ashcroft, The Klaxons meet AIM. Met everyone yet???
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
MAP: Regrets, Silhouettes, and Distractions
The Smiths with a splash of Pedro the Lion and a twist of The Shins.
Recommended if you like Death Cab for Cutie, Pedro the Lion.CD price: $10.99
PARTICLE ZOO: Recipe For Nothing
This '80s alt-rock and '60s Brit-pop influenced jangly rocker spins the eerie tale of a war-torn, paranoid world without love.
MP3 price: $1.00
THE LAST ARMY: Dark EP
London, UK-based rabble rousers mix classic rock n'roll guitars and drums with strings, timpani and church organs.
Recommended if you like The Clash.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
THE BLAIR BAND: Celtic Christmas
An exciting blend of ancient Irish and Scottish Christmas carols with vocals, celebratory traditional Celtic instrumentals, and classic Christmas carols that everyone knows performed with celtic instrumentation.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
LOVELIKEFIRE: Bed of Gold
Lovelikefire mixes lavish arrangements with pure and simple songwriting sensibility and just a smidgen of britpop reverence.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
JETS UNDER FIRE: The Winter EP
Aching over old memories and longing for new. This 1st full band EP captures those memories locked away in your heart. Your locksmith is here.
MP3 price: $5.99
GARY REYNOLDS AND THE BRIDES OF OBSCURITY: Santiago's Vest
...another batch of heartfelt, well-read pop/rock gems. - Performer Magazine
CD price: $9.99
STRANGERS: Everything Goes Automatic
A straight, honest, raw pop music that will let you filling out your own dreams and fantasy.
CD price: $14.80 / MP3 price: $14.80
MODAKAI: Any Place is Better Than Here
Brit-Rock from Dallas, TX with melodic grooves, big synth, and rhythmic dancable drums that have found their way on airways in the UK and US. Modakai proudly wears their influences on their sleeves.
Recommended if you like Keane, The Killers.MP3 price: $5.00
MARK MATHEWS: Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride
Melodic, folky, classic British indie pop with a swing and swagger that'll make you sing along to the refreshingly honest lyrics.
CD price: $10.00
DETLEF ZOO: If It Makes Us Happy
Produced by Gang Of Four leader Andy Gill. Sounds like The Beatles in 2008.
CD price: $10.97
SAINTFACE: Apartment Stories
"Draws smartly from '80s and '90s England: Smiths-like swooning, Britpop atmospherics and Suede/Oasis guitar heft give their well-wrought songs depth and crunch." - The Village Voice
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
GREG CAMILLERI: Auditions (Remastered)
Catchy, melancholy indie pop that sounds like Elliott Smith, Aimee Mann, Beck, Jon Brion, Radiohead, Tom Waits, and The Postal Service playing "Duck Hunt" with The Velvet Underground.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE MOLD MONKIES: O Brave Yet Ignorant Swine
Distortomelodic power pop handcrafted by hard-working goofballs. Britpop goes 14 rounds with punk, with Zappa and Robert Pollard refereeing.
CD price: $9.98 / MP3 price: $9.98
SPANGLEMAKER: You Want It
Indie rock with a definite britpop spin. Lyrically introspective and full of pop hooks, spanglemaker has given the songs on "You Want It" a universal feel by making them unabashedly radio friendly.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE GOOD NORTH: Life Outside Our Walls
The lush hooks of Britpop with an unmistakable American edge
MP3 price: $4.99
HYPNOTIKS & DAMIEN LYNCH: In the Way
Within every relationship is an element of the unknown "what if he or she done this or that," then what do i do. Hence, the title of the song "In the way" a catchy but yet serious mid tempo scorcher which is about a relationship that turns sour.
MP3 price: $1.00
MODAKAI: Modakai
"Perfect music for the morning after a heartbreak, one night stand, or breaking our of a small town."
MP3 price: $9.99
THE HAIR THIEVES: EP3
An eclectic mix of ambient jazz pop rock indie punk soundtracks.
Recommended if you like Stiff Little Fingers, Mansun.CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $4.95
POPLORD: Full/Filled
Catchy yet stimulating indie-pop catered to people of above-average intelligence. Contains 13 tracks with classic and modern influences, no two alike. you'll feel like a kid in a candy store.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DIEGO MENA: Hey!
En éste, su primer trabajo en solitario, Mena flirtea con el jangle pop, el folk y algunos momentos sinfónicos, sin abandonar sus raices rockeras.
Recommended if you like The Beatles, Johnny Cash.CD price: $6.99
RASE: Rase
RASE is a British mainstream indie guitar band whose great catchy melodies, clever lyrics and punchy riffs, combine to create the energy and feeling you need to really believe in a band.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
