Recommended Pop: Noise Pop music (#1 - #40)
20 MINUTE LOOP: Famous People Marry Famous People
Catchy and good-natured, but with a mischievous side, 20ML features boy-girl harmonies and distorted guitars. The resulting sound is sweet ear candy with serious bite to it, like a big ol' cherry-flavored Tootsie Pop with a shot of bourbon inside.
Recommended if you like Pixies, The New Pornographers.CD price: $12.97
AIDAN HAWKEN: The Sleep Of Trees
Upbeat epic indie rock
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, Arcade Fire.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
LOVE IS CHEMICALS: Song of the Summer Youth Brigade
On their second album, Love is Chemicals continues to extend and broaden their sound, marrying knotty, meandering guitars and shoegazer atmospherics to a songwriting sensibility informed equally by bright, tuneful west coast indie and moody Britpop.
CD price: $12.97
THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!: Walk Like A Human
Innovative electronic-based music that skirts the typical dance genre and finds a home between catchy indie pop and noisy math rock. Odd-yet-dance-friendly time signatures, experimental production, and sharp hooks all help set The Christmas Lights apart.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOYLINER: Not All Is Lost
Is it rock? Is it pop? Call it popcore.
Recommended if you like Pavement.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
DOVEMAN: With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead
A collection of nine romantic piano-led songs and seven dreamy mini-symphonies of ambient sound. Like listening to ghosts on the shortwave radio. An ebbing then swelling, oceanic thing, it comes than goes; tickles your ears then pokes you in the ribs.
CD price: $13.00
PRETTY & NICE: Blue & Blue
Glitch-pop that twists and turns, followed up by four dance remixes. Music to get sweaty to.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
HIDDEN DRIVEWAYS: Electrique Fence Tambourines
"A familiar yet new sound." [The Village Voice] This is bombastic rock music where melody and chaos unite, and creativity is king.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JUMBLING TOWERS: Jumbling Towers
Self-titled debut from indie/fuzz/rock/jungle machines
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
THE VAN ALLEN BELT: Meal Ticket to Purgatory
A psychedelic melting pot of choral harmony, nostalgia, dark cynical lyrics, original composition and experimental arrangement.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NERDKWEEN: Synergy
Experimental singer/songwriter with angel-like voice with lo-fi soundscapes.
CD price: $12.00
JULIAN SNOW: Doodle
Minor classic of 1990s Northwest lo-fi, experimental pop.
CD price: $23.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
ALBUMEN: Sidewalks Melt
Songs about maligned states, sperm whales, thugs, and preachers. Poetry, rock, and the devil may care.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
DOUG CHEATWOOD: More Than A Dozen Songs
A variety of songs culled from Doug's CD-R releases.
CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $18.00
AVI PAUL WEINSTEIN: Here Come The Clones
Tantalizingly catchy instrumental, pop, indie, artrock. The soundtrack for a bunch of creatures evolving in new ways.
CD price: $10.00
THE LYNX TECHNIQUE: Algebra
Their smart energetic pop struts with a little bit of swaggerin' attitude. April and Grace seem to be channeling the stellar spirit, sound and songwriting of Throwing Muses's Kristen Hersh and Tanya Donnelly.
CD price: $10.00
EDDIE DIXON: Well...That's Just Perfect
Sonically adventurous singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist constructs dense and layered songs that use elements of soul, electronic, blues and kinky pop music.
CD price: $10.00
FORCEFIELD ON: llipspill
Imagine popping in the disc. You hear some pretty nice melody and guitars and the occasional piano. Pretty good indie rock band you think. Then out of nowhere, but so suiting, a three piece horn section fills the void.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FAKE FICTIONS: Krakatoa
Blown-out fuzz pop chaos. Catchy songs with little regard for fidelity or professionalism.
CD price: $10.00
NOSE BLEED ISLAND & THE BLOOD ISLAND SOCIETY: More Tales From The Blood Island
Glitchy gutter pop surveys the surreal to the absurd with a notable fixation on pizza and robots. Its a postmodern martini party at singer Joey Pizza Slice's mom's house where dracula rips a solo on a one-stringed guitar with beer spilled on it.
CD price: $10.00
MONOLAND: ben chantice
shoegaze, dreampop, indie guitar noise pop
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
HELLFIRE SERMONS: Hymns Ancient and Modern
From C86 to feedbacked noise pop, Liverpool's Hellfire Sermons plough their lonely furrow through the hidden channels of indie pop.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOED OUT: Weirder than looney tunes
Sonic noise pop from New Zealand's guitar heroes Joed Out.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
OTHERSIDE: Cartwheel (Round In Circles)
Uproarious, uplifting, hard edged Indie Guitar music. Classic vox, guitar, drums and bass. Think: Gang Of Four go partying with Garbage.
CD price: $5.00
RYAN JEFFREYS: Go
A mixture of pop, electronic, and a love for playing with textures.
CD price: $12.97
LABRADOR DALI: Exile on Myspace
Hi-tech Lo-fi, Sixties meets Nineties, Pop meets Noise in a dark alley, Brooding and Upbeat.
Recommended if you like Pink Floyd, Wilco.CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $5.94
THE WATERFORD LANDING: Bullet Park E.P.
Pop sensible melodies with distorted industrial rhythms, sonic guitars and bass combine to create a new, futuristic style.
Recommended if you like The Magnetic Fields, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, My Bloody Valentine.CD price: $8.00
BUCKFAST SUPERBEE: Buckfast Superbee
Super-Charged rock quartet hailing from San Diego CA. Power, emotion, and raw energy all wrapped up into songs you can't get out of your head.
KNOCK KNOCK: Girls on the Run
Sing-along pop songs about the end of the world.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
PRAY TV: Paydirt
Brooding melodic rock with references to Joy Division, Husker Du, Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Nominated for an Aussie ARIA award.
MP3 price: $8.95
VERONICA BLACK MORPHEUS NIPPLE: Special Problem Music
The Human League & The Modern Lovers meet down by the river. Everyone is killed and then made to feel guilty. This is some blippy, beautiful, noisy rock & roll music; Mean and clever, and catchy like syphilis.
CD price: $11.95 / MP3 price: $6.95
THE OTHER CHRIS HARDY: Insanity Begins in the Home
This one man band sounds like if the Foo Fighters & They Might Be Giants kidnapped Adrian Belew, resurrected Syd Barrett and played songs about animals, food, old ladies with hammers and naked law enforcement agents.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
ORGAN WOLF: I Didn't Come Here and I'm Not Leaving (So You Can Just Kiss My Ass That's What You Are)
An original blend of popular music influences ranging from twinkling, blissful, productions to stripped down old school hits. Artfully deconstructed, neo-psychedelic, instrumental driven noise pop.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MARY AND THE BOY: Mary and the Boy
Essentially a trio (Mary, The Boy and the dancer Exotic), they tread in grim, noisy and somewhat controversial territorries armed with a venomous punk attitude. Themes of vulgar sexuality, existential terror and social disintegration.
CD price: $13.00
ELECTRIC NEEDLE ROOM: Too Much Information Age EP
Ever watch TV? Ever listen to the radio? Ever surf the internet? How about read a newspaper? Then this is the EP for you.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
CHORES: Life is Hard
This Portland, OR group’s first EP is all-inclusive with gang-style vocals via both testosterone and estrogen-laden chords, lyrics honed for your intellect, lots of guitars, and maybe just a little moxie. Perfect listening after a hard day at work.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
MEDIC MEDIC: The Horse We Rode In On & The Lambs We Took With Us
"the band manipulates the shrapnel of grunge, riot-grrl post-punk and disco into a modern paradigm of driving, metallic pop music that's as deafening as it is danceable" - Danny Fenner, Pittsburgh City Paper
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
