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THE WEST: Awake & Waking Up
The West takes lo-fi to the next level, creating lush harmonies and foot stomping melodies. From a faded second story bedroom in the city, they wash every note in young ideas and fresh blood, straight from the heart.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
NIEVE AND COOK: Away with Words
Hip hop at its finest. LA based emcee, Nieve, has a lyrical style that can only be described as smooth, poetic, vivid, and captivating. His debut album, "Away with Words," combines elements of Jazz, Classical, and HipHop.
Recommended if you like Common, Lupe Fiasco.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GUSTAV HOYER: From Darkness Into Light
Classical, new music, new classical music
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND: "When I Was A Soldier" EP
Indie Rock n Roll band with the literary acumen of bands like The Smiths and Nation of Ulysses; a penchant for 50's skiffle, early 60's soul, late 70's punk ethos, and the earnestness of bands like The Arcade Fire & James
FRAGILE DRAGON: Light Bend and Rhythm
Alternative Electronic: a blend of Electronic Pop and digital Film Scape punctuated by massive rhythms. At times the music is serene and sparkling, other times it is an intense psychedelic jam with an otherworldly afterglow.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
LINGUISTICS: The Writes of Passage
Amazing rhymes, top-notch professional production and mastering, sick beats and turntables. 17 tracks of pure heat with songs featuring 2mex of the Visionaries, DJ Step 1 and DJ Solo, DJ 3rdi, and Tassa
MP3 price: $10.00
THE DARKSIDE CROOKS: The Wino, the Warlock, & the Shogun
The black Beastie Boys meets the Alkaholiks meets the "Lord of the Rings" with a touch of Gangsta
FRESH AIR: Slowly Coming Along
Making you like hip hop....again, Fresh Air delivers a smooth blend of jazzy sounds and jeep rocking beats all topped with intelligent and witty lyrics that will make you moove. Fresh Air has everything for all type of people from all walks of life.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
GOR: GOR
Blending in his Armenian background with slightly jazzy and folky western pop, he has once again, produced a bench mark album. Don't miss it. CDBABY
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
THE LUCKY STARS: Hollywood & Western
Original songs in the style of late 1940's/early 1950's hillbilly and Western Swing.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ANGELES DRAKE: I Wish You Would Come Home Already
angeles drake blends a symphonic cuff of keyboards, pristinely distorted guitars, mathematically infused drum beats, algorithmically synthetic programming and heartbreakingly soaring anthems. Likened to Coldplay, Doves and Snow Patrol.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TW12LVE: There Goes The Neighborhood
Upon pressing play you will have entered the realm of William TW12LVE, where the ghetto is a microcosm of the world's realities. These realities are universally reflected through his Hier Echelon approach to addressing world issues in the form of Hip Hop
CD price: $10.10 / MP3 price: $10.10
JUSTIN CONNOR: Kaliyuga
Gorgeous post-apocalyptic pop music; spacy melodies, introspective lyrics, and dreamy landscapes reminiscent of Radiohead, The Velvet Underground, and John Lennon. Songs for the end of the world - an end that you won't mind at all...
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
THE GLASS PLASTIKS: Time To Exist
Soaring anthem-like melodies embedded into a wall of sounds and textures, all wrapped up into a great pop song.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE GOOD FICTION: Paso
Somewhere between noise-rock and lamplight croonery; the songs pulse and breathe like good rock should - alive, uncluttered, and headstrong.
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
MLUM: muZAC for ExperiMENTAL musik
Weltradau (world noise) in which ethnoise, bodily functions, sound mauls and stylistic cliches are reconfigured,
Recommended if you like The Residents, Brian Eno.CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
FREDERICK MOORE: Lives of the Saints
Harmonically adventurous sound scapes with an experimental, electronic edge support existential/beat meditations and semi-linear narrative.
Recommended if you like Joe Frank.CD price: $9.99
JOHNNY FROM KINGS: Angel City Letter
Beatnik-Blues, Original Soul, Topical-Funk, Radical-Roots
Recommended if you like Curtis Mayfield, Amy Winehouse.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
LEARNING CURVE: Left@Bumps
Left@Bumps is the 3rd album from LA's Learning Curve Crew and contains 15 fully-mastered songs.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
FUAD: Ferris Wheel
It is not just Instrumental Music, it is a collection of my feelings.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AVI THE MOST ILL: Straight Up
unique-jazzy-hiphop-poetic. a creative record of Tru Appreciation for Black American Music
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MORT WEISS: The Mort Weiss Quartet
You can't beat this unbelievable combination of talent combined on this incredible cd.
CD price: $15.95
PROMINENT SONS: Dawn Till Dusk
An album packed with vicious lyrics, social/political commentaries, and a positive message, just delivered with a fist to get the point across. The Sons are definitely shinnin' on this one.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
PAUL HOFFMAN: Success Songs vol. 1
Music has the power to change your vibration… lyrics and music produce powerful biological and emotional effects that can reprogram your mind and enable you to focus and attract the success you desire—in any area of your life.
MP3 price: $24.97
ELEMENTS OF THE OUTER REALM: Breakout
A unique sound that is the convergence of a wide spectrum of musical influences including hip-hop, jazz, classical, Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and world music.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ARNOLD ROSENTHAL: Mr. R's Songs That Teach
Animated educational music for Kindergarten to 5th grade levels
Recommended if you like James Taylor, Elton John & Billy Joel.CD price: $15.99
CHINA ROOM: put on a smile, they're coming your way
"Invoking the feeling of the Velvet Underground and Pink Floyd’s mad genius Syd Barrett, the band also tosses in more contemporary influences such as Radiohead and Joy Division for a hybrid style driven by a strong sense of melody." ---VC Reporter ----P
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
LEVI KREIS: The Gospel According To Levi
A diverse collection of pop/rock, ragtime, and gospel with contagious lyrical content that will challenge all that is familiar.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
HOLLYWOOD KILL: Hollywood Kill
HOLLYWOOD KILL - Hollywood Kill's debut album. Cinematic Hip Hop. very creative, It has classic hip-hop sensibilities, but doesn't sound like anything you have heard before. With rapping and singing in English with some Spanish.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
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SIMONTRONIC: The Royal Bloodline [Limited Edition]
this record is a mix of styles,from>acoustic bits to da hip/hop. check it mate.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
MOMZER: Goodnight Nobody
"[I]ntensely personal, poetic lyrical style ... iconic vocal sound ... and glorious piano / organ tying together a rock band of dynamic brilliance. And this album definitely rocks." -- Drill Magazine (NZ).
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LEILA FLORENTINO: Sail
Unique, off-kilter, lyrical, sexy, soulful, seedingly hummable, spare, evocative, off-beat, understated, straight-forward, poetic, plaintive, melancholic, atmospheric cool, heartbreak, jagged brilliance of a wine g
CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $12.95
THE COLOR TURNING: Antidote EP
Thought-provoking, soul-invigorating ambient/indie rock without boundaries or limitations.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
NACUSA: Greetings from... NACUSA Composers
This compilation features music in just about every style of contemporary classical music by 13 composers from the National Association of Composers/USA
CD price: $10.00
TRIBECA: Incident At The Metropolis
Sophisticated, lush progressive pop with jazz elements recalling Bacharach, Steely Dan, Tears For Fears, XTC, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright and Blue Turtles-era Sting. For those who wonder what happened to the spirit of originality and compositional divers
MP3 price: $11.99
HI-FIDEL AND DJ CRUCIAL: Traveling Between St. Louis and Chicago
This Hype Park MCs first full length offering is a must have for any true underground hip hop fan. Fidel brings a unique flow with socially consciece lyrics all blended together by DJ Crucial.
Recommended if you like Atmosphere, MF DOOM.CD price: $9.99
ARTICHOKE: 26 Scientists Volume One Anning - Malthus
Indie pop concept record of scientist biographies -- one for every letter of the alphabet -- in the tradition of the Beatles, Pixies, Breeders, Beck, Cake, the Fall, the Talking Heads, Wire, and Robyn Hitchcock.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
HAL CRAGIN: Wet Grassy Ground
Handstitched audio sweater with aquatic undertones.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
