Rock: Modern Rock and Mood: Intellectual
THE SORT OFS: Anxiety on Parade
agitprop-prog-POPulism for the Individual
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
LIBRETTO: Figurehead
The return of the power trio. Alt-rock with a few nods to early prog bands and a dash of classical music.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
SEEPEOPLES: Apocalypse Cow Vol. I
With an intensive focus on the memorable songwriting of bandleader Will Bradford, coupled with the band’s trademark psychedelic touches and expert musicianship, SeepeopleS’ latest effort leaps forward into the sonic side of rock and roll, offering up 15 s
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
POLSKI FIAT: Phylogeny
Tech-no-no rock motorcade, wry and insistent
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
THE FIGMENTS: All The Gone Days
Nostalgic, at times pastoral, at times rocking, but ultimately lush, sexy and transcendent rock and roll.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
FLOATER: Stone by Stone
Current alternative rock trio. Intelligent, personal lyrics, stylish effect-laden guitars and tribal drumming. Addictive, emotional vocals. This dualdisc contains a behind-the-scenes glimpse at Floater over the last fourteen years.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
A NOVEL FORM: Pictures EP
Melodic Indie Rock. For fans of Copeland, Gatsby's American Dream, Number One Fan, Acceptance, etc.
MP3 price: $6.99
SUMMER BLANKET: Whisper Louder
Melodic and introspective indie rock. The follow up release to what was heralded as the best album of the year (2003) by The Broward New Times.
CD price: $10.00
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
APOLLO QUARTET: The Eleventh Hour
Apollo Quartet's driving, melodic rock sound manages to capture both uniqueness and accessibilty.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
QUASAR WUT-WUT: Taro Sound
Lyrically dark, sonically thrilling, ambitiously strange: what Edward Gorey's rock band might sound like.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION: Evacuate
Diverse and dark, this modern alternative rock album spans the spectrum from calming movie soundtrack-inspired keyboard sections through to energetic, riff-oriented heavy rock.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $5.00
NEGATIVE BLUE: Stiff Drinks and Sincere Conversation
This record sounds like Negative Blue kicking the crap out of Negative Blue backstage at a Negative Blue show. - Negative Blue Weekly
CD price: $7.99
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
THIRD DEGREE: Third Degree
Extremely listenable, hard-hitting and melodic rock.
Recommended if you like Alice in Chains, King's X.CD price: $12.97
MOVING ATLAS: The Elephant Gun EP
A progressive, melodic, hard rock onslaught with captivating melodies and story driven lyrical content created from historical events and life experiences.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
THE LAVA BROTHERS: Waking Birds Will Harmonize
Smart pop featuring meticulously crafted songs, intricate arrangements, and lush harmonies.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
SON OF AVERY: Mr. Wingo
Four individuals that write heavy pop, guitar driven, emotional songs about the world, both around and inside them.
CD 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
EL GATO: Everybody's a Pinata
A masterpiece full of epic songs of lush atmospheric sound and power.
Recommended if you like Built to Spill, Jane's Addiction.CD price: $6.99
BUG GUTS: Great Spangled Fritillary
A raucously roiling ride bristling with blasphemous sensuality and visceral liberation.
CD price: $12.97
LUCY STONER: Four Eyes
An eclectically powerful and thought provoking song oriented modern rock
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
BEN JOSEPH: It's a Wonder we Had Such a Good Season
The expansive, much anticipated solo debut featuring Sufjanic vocal and string arrangements blended seamlessly with indie pop tunes, balkan-inspired accordion-driven waltzes, and the best hardcore scream by a pop singer in recent memory.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
CHARACTER NINE: The Sound
A NYC based rock band that fuses melody into hard, edgy, and funky rock. This first EP release captures the band's versatility while maintaining focused sound all their own.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
THE REBEL WHEEL: Diagramma
Modern progressive rock with elements of Neo, Rio, and Fusion.
CD price: $13.99
CABIN: I Was Here (EP)
While illustrating simple themes of hopes and fears, this band manages to elevate the everyday and sweeten the bitter moments into cinematic worth. Melodically driven rock, explores the depth of sound while never ignoring the gravity of lyrics.
CD price: $6.98
JUPITER WATTS: Jupiter Watts
Guitar-driven dissonant pop for fans of the Stones' Her Satanic Majesty's Request or Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy
Recommended if you like Guided by Voices, The Jesus and Mary Chain.CD price: $11.00
KOSMONAUT: Vostok-1
The product of an extensive range of influences, Kosmonaut combines a pop sensibility with the conventions of classical music to create a sound that they describe as "Russian Neo-Classical Futurist Rock".
MP3 price: $5.99
NOVAVOX: Pacify
Engaging and haunting, lavish and rough, the music of Nova Vox strikes new ground in the already heavily treaded alternative domain. If you want to feel emotion; if you like your pop to make you think, this is it.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
LOOKOUT POINT: What Could Have Been
Clear melodies on top of hard pounding rhythms tied together with powerful, catchy choruses.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
RECEPTOR: gestation
Calling to and from a hybrid of music legend, modern classic and cutting-edge influences, receptor wields a progressive universal weapon, attitude & voice.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
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
UNIQUE CHIQUE: Ethica
A mix of Jazz, Indie Rock, and Brit Rock combined with chaotic rhythems and hypnotic arpeggios.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
BIOGRAPHY OF FERNS: Memory's Servant
A band where margin notes from biology class, french surrealist writers and Paul Klee drawings merge into post punk, art school, punk, and distinctly plaintive literary narrative. in the vein of Wire, Mission of Burma, The Clash, Television, Gang of Four.
CD price: $8.50 / MP3 price: $8.50
THE FOLK INDUSTRY: Bridges and Payloads
Great, intelligent rock music with elements of folk and electronic noise/loops.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
PASSERBY: Passerby
Passerby's insightful lyrics have garnered comparisons to Pulp and Blur, while their sound is a result of the unique marriage between envelope-pushing electronica and wonderfully catchy pop/rock hooks reminiscent of Beck and Junior Senior. Such diverse c
MP3 price: $7.97
THE HOCHIMEN: Totenlieder
Modern, alternative three-piece rock with lyrics concerning the death of god and related subjects.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
LITTLE BEIRUT: Permanent Kiss
Melodic, intelligent, Brit-influenced rock and roll. Makes you happy for being so sad.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MELODROME: Happens While You Blink
Guitar driven, modern Rock/Pop that reaches deep into its British roots, full of hooks and intelligent lyrics.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
FREQUENCY FALL: Volition
If the members of Radiohead copulated with a robot Mars Volta coverband while the Smashing Pumpkins played softly in the background the progeny would most certainly be Frequency Fall. Turn on your brain. Press play.
CD price: $7.97
TRANSFER: The Guts Of My Arm
Indie-rock with roots influences; heavy, dynamic, with soulful melodies.
DIVISION DAY: The Mean Way In
Infused with haunting melodies, complex arrangements, vibrant sonic palettes, and infectious rhythms, this six-song EP will undoubtedly both challenge and pleasurably reward anyone who gives it a listen.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
SEEPEOPLES: For the Good of the Nation
SeepeopleS are a postmodern rock band focused on tightly-composed, highly textured music that's infectious, energetic and totally unique.
MP3 price: $12.97
THE MINIATURES: coma kid
coma kid is an impressively consistant disc that stylistically spans Bolan and Bowie, Lennon and McCartney, Rundgren and Sparks, The Cars and Weezer-all without sounding slavishly derivative. Calgary Sun
CD price: $12.97
NIMBUS: EP
a fresh dose of thoughtful melodic rockin, head-gyrating art
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
CORSAIR: Corsair
With influences ranging from the Police, XTC, and Wilco, the band's music been classified as "modern rock with an independent persuasion."
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ABERDEEN CITY: We Learned By Watching
Smart and moody rock with UK sensibilities, interesting structures, strong melodies and moving rhythms.
MP3 price: $8.00
SINGLEMINDED: Dysphoria
Singleminded contrasts heavy, modern rock with melodic vocal harmonies to create a style that hints at its influences while sounding fresh and new.
MP3 price: $12.00
MARK LANE: Golden State Of Mind
Melodic, poetic & original. A modern sound fusing hints of classic West-Coast flavored rock and pop stylings and impressionistic soundscapes, this multi-layered opus is bold, eclectic, challenging, and timeless. "Refreshingly well crafted."-Van Dyke Parks
CD price: $12.97
THE NATIONAL: Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers CD
Smart, bracing, and beautiful rock music.
CD price: $13.00
VIOLET NINE: EP
Melodic and unique rock music with all the hooks of a pop song and the emotional edge of alternative rock.
CD price: $5.00
HONEST POD: Seven On My Side
A massive tapestry of sound, layered with grinding guitars and propelled by kinetic, driving rhythms that push the borders of control. An athlete in pure heavy rock, this band fills up every corner of silence with a fully-saturating,.... wall of sound & e
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE NATIONAL: The National
Whiskeyed, wearied alt-rock intellectuals with a penchant for wistful melodies and existential angst. Water serves as an extended metaphor for loving, losing, and growing up. Think: Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Tindersticks, and Guided By Voices.
CD price: $13.00
SCREWTAPE LEWIS: Finding Ways to Selfdestruct
Finding Ways to selFDestruct is a major evolutionary step forward for electro-art rockers Screwtape Lewis. The new record is a glorious mash-up of The Clash's militant marches and Duran Duran's hooky electronica wrapped tightly in post 9-11 urgency.
CD price: $9.98 / MP3 price: $7.98
RK: ROMAN KLUN: Kingsway
Featuring: Steve Gadd, Jerry Marotta, Aaron Comess, Tony Levin, Daniel Grimsland, Gerry Leonard, Jesse Gress, Pete Levin, Bob Halligan jr, Joey Eppard, Leslie Mendelson, & Steven Bernstein, Erik Lawrence (Levon Helm Brass)
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MENEW: Of The Future
MENEW's sound is a distinctive synthesis that combines their unique style with influences that range from contemporary greats to classic British rock. MENEW is proving that music can be meaningful and catchy as they redefine their generation’s sound
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $5.94
BROTHER BELIEVE ME: Things Change
No-nonsense modern rock with a hint of southern rock/metal and intelligent lyrics meant to rock your body and your mind.
Recommended if you like Foo Fighters, Breaking Benjamin.CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
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
THE FOUNTAINHEADS: What Means So Much
Finely crafted pop rock, jangly guitars and harmonic vocals.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
LA CHA-CHA: ¡Viva!
Indie pop jazz alt rock electronica with a twist.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GUV: Cannibals, Cones, Adultery and Sunshine
Combines detailed song structure, thoughtful lyrics and riveting guitar solos with overriding influences of both classic and modern indie Brit rock.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BLICK VAN GLORY: The Search for Quest
Alternative rock that hooks your ears and charts a course through your mind, heart, and soul.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MARTIANS SEE RED: When All Seems Lost
Melodic alternative rock that has been compared to a blend of the Beatles, Pixies, Weezer, and Old Metallica. We take a little bit from everyone.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
THE POCKET RAINDROPS: Nocturnal Bliss
Indie, Indie Rock, Alternative, Pop
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BROTHER SEAN: Window Seat
Synthesizers, glitched-out voices and found sounds hinge the nostalgia-borne work of Brother Sean, who nestle aurally adventurous, emotionally earnest work between Richard Thompson smarts and Howie Day inebriation.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ALPINES: Strange Company
British-influenced indie rock with subtle, literate, intelligent lyrics.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
FRANKLIN AVENUE: Fork in the Road
Vintage Rock - alternative musical ideology woven through the heartfelt sounds of the late 1960's.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE JACETS: EP
Detroit indie rock that is making a great name for themselves in the metro-Detroit area.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
LOCKE: The Fight or Flight Response
Locke: We're like everything you have ever heard but like nothing you have ever known.
CD price: $4.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
THE JULIE PUPPETS: The Julie Puppets
Radiohead and Jeff Buckley had tea and then played a vicious match of croquet against the Flaming Lips backed by the Police.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BANDAZIAN: In Vacant Fields
hip indie-rock with vintage overtones and focused, folk-laced songwriting
Recommended if you like Modest Mouse, The Strokes.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
THOMAS LANE: Something to Hold Onto
Thomas Lane is an original, acoustic driven, pop-rock band from Milwaukee, WI. The music is just the right mix of experience, emotion, and energy resulting in songs that launch themselves into the listener’s soul.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
PINES OF ROME: The Everlasting Arms
three peice countryfied indy rock based in providence ri. imagine hank william sr schooling early touch and go bands.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE SANE: Later EP
Raw yet very melodic blend of the Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, The Cure, and U2.
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
MALPRACTICE: Stab Wounds
Malpractice is great mix from all over the map. Stab Wounds is 13 tracks of driving-melodic punk rock. The band exceeds expectations lyrically & musically. The stories told in these songs came from the streets, the heart, & from the long history of man.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SOLSTICE COIL: A Prescription for Paper Cuts
A combination between the sound and emotional charge of alternative rock and the precise compositions and arrangements of progressive rock.
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Genesis, King Crimson, Muse, Porcupine Tree, dredg, The Mars Volta.CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
EAGLE AND TALON: Eagle and Talon Cares
LA-based indie/art girl band with encrypted tunings, furious drumming and a little casio. If you like sleater-kinney, gang of four, deerhoof, black sabbath and modest mouse these girls will break your legs.
MP3 price: $5.00
DAWN OVER ZERO: 1st Demo
Music for MUSIC people. A twist on today's one-track-mind method of rock music. Modern rock the way it was intended to be. Thanks for listening. _DOZ
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
OTTO: The Great Unseen
OTTO seems to be liked best by Alternative, Indie and Emo fans of all ages.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
QUICKENING: Rock Music EP
Van Halen and Green Day had a baby...they called it Quickening
Recommended if you like Green Day, Breaking Benjamin.CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
AS WE SPEAK: Lost In The Station
Poetic Indie Rock with an Eclectic Rhythm Section. "A BRILLIANT mix of U2, Coldplay, & Elvis Costello."
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
CHAD WILSON BAILEY: Cardio
Strange fascination, 18 is the one for me, plays like a journal, it's all you need 2 see, cardio is the heart of me..........
CD price: $9.95
ELLIPSIS: Weight of the Sun
Indie rock that spans the gap between pristine minimalism and primordial chaos. Linear, idea-driven songs that build and flow toward dramatic resolution.
CD price: $4.99 / MP3 price: $2.99
THE FREE PRESS: Storms
Canada's hottest new act. Melodic and harmony driven modern, pop rock. It's like Coldplay and Crowded House are in a fist fight. Limited release EP.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
THE MISSIONARYS: Feast
The Missionarys take brilliant songwriting and combine rock,powerpop,and folk within a timeless sonic landscape to create one of the most immediately listenable recordings.
CD price: $11.95 / MP3 price: $11.95
THE BEAUVILLES: Singapore E.P.
Intelligent rock and roll with pop sensibilities and dark romantic mood swings.
MP3 price: $7.99
CEZANNE: Breaking Bats for Jesus
Indie groove rock from the heart about life and love sung with no inhibitions.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ALL THE TEA IN CHINA: All Ears
The Finn Brothers, XTC, Badfinger and Gentle Giant go camping together and All the Tea in China brings the marshmallows and imported beer.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
FLESHDEVILS: FleshDevils
Alternative melodic rock. Three piece power trio performing songs from life lived on the very fringe.
CD price: $19.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE AMERICAN TRAGEDY: The Soundtrack
Rock, Modern Rock, Emo
Recommended if you like Tool.MP3 price: $12.97
XANDY BARRY: All The Money In The World
Passionate electronic soundscapes blended with rock energy and amazing lyrics.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE AUDIOCENTRIX: Center Yourself
Combine the lyrical prowess of Ryan Adams, the growl of Greg Dulli and the melody of The Beatles and somewhere between is The Audiocentrix.
Recommended if you like The Afghan Whigs, Ryan Adams.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
CORPORATE GUN: Immune Against The Crisis
The music of Corporate Gun embraces and improv-rooted philosophy met with intelligent songwriting. The band is stylistically spirited in the grandiose fashion of Pink Floyd and Radiohead.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ALSO: Send Them Off Smiling...
High energy melodic indie pop from Los Angeles.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
A KITE IS A VICTIM (AKIAV): Raw Flow
deeply intense and introspective art rock.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
SABRINA & THE HAUNT: 7 Tales from a Basement
'The Haunt' walks on the edge of rock & pop (Incubus, Foo Fighters, Evanescence) while leaning heavily on its own unique sound. Edgy melody driven songs, strong hooks, meaningful & poetic lyrics sung by "Chrissie Hynde" meets "Kate Bush")
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
BIXBY LANE: For a Change
"...it simply makes you want to move..." - Liz Townsend, UMKC Press
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SUNDAYRUNNERS: Sunday Runners
Successfully mixing traces of Radiohead, Pixies, Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse into hook-laden modern rock with heartfelt, haunting and endearing vocals reminiscent of early Bowie, Bono.
CD price: $10.98
TWELVEHOURMARY: blowing over
Twelvehourmary makes modern rock that resonates with well drawn lyrics, memorable melodies and songs that swing from aggressive to thought provoking where you will find your own places of discovery within their amazing debut collection... take a listen.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MAN ON EARTH: Disposable Sounds For The Fickle Mind
the debuet cd from man on earth.
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Prince, Jane's Addiction, The Verve, Oasis, Dashboard Confessional.CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
WOODWARD: s/t
"high art" -- an intimate artful debut with hushed vocals and lush instrumentation that winds and weaves, as if the melody is being made before your ears -- elusive, intricate, and unconventional...
Recommended if you like Belle and Sebastian, Karate.CD price: $12.00
RISHLOO: Terras Fames
Modern, melodic, heavy, prog. art rock that dares to speak for the silenced.
MP3 price: $13.95
DEL CIELO: Wish And Wait
These girls know what rock it all about.
Recommended if you like Le Tigre, Sleater-Kinney.
SLOW TO SURFACE: The Interruption
Modern rock with melody and drive. A jouney into a sonic landscape that ventures beyond commercial restraints.
Recommended if you like Incubus, Sunny Day Real Estate.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
BLUE SPARKS: blue sparks
girl group harmonies - jittery manic guitars - angular soul filled bass and kinetic drumming.
CD price: $5.99
MODERN RUINS: the wormwood ep
This debut album from Modern Ruins explores the space between infectious pop accessibility and brainy, choreographed chaos with a biting and provocative commentary on contemporary politics and the media as your guide.
CD price: $10.00
KILGORE TROUT: Novocaine
When growling guitars echo with innocent integrity and your soul is warmed by an Indie-Pop glow, you must be experiencing Kilgore Trout.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
COLLAPSE UNDER EYES: Burning Sunset Red
Unique indie rock. The band's freshman release Burning Sunset Red is a collection of songs with multiple musical explorations and a satirical lyric style based in contemporary issues.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
DAVID SINGER & THE SWEET SCIENCE: The Stars Burn Out
"The lyrical eye of a poetic but funny novelist and the musical chops and range of a great Tin Pan Alley tunesmith who's taken way too many psychedelic drugs." - Jim DeRogatis, pop music critic, Chicago Sun-Times
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
STANDARD CANDLE: EP
Passionate vocals and lyrics blended with tight and catchy melodies....
MP3 price: $5.00
THE METHODS: Realized Amidst Sorrow
Ambient Alternative Rock. It's a mixture of dark soothing melody and thick structure harmony.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
9 BALL: Upside Down
OC's nearest things to pop perfection. (Live Magazine). Eclectic pop with the force of modern rock.Coldplay meets Foo Fighters. Has been heard on WB's One Tree Hill and Fox TV's Bones
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.99
DEEP RISING: Shards
Breaking the rules, drawing from various genres, rock band Deep Rising take you on a sonic journey through human emotion with songs that are powerful, sensitive, intelligent and moving. (STP meets Peter Gabriel)
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
THE JONES THING: A Comfortable Pair
melodic songs with interesting arrangements and structures... Memorable, fun, witty, sad, happy, and of course, movie-like.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
DISTANCE TO EMPTY: Distance to Empty
Warm vocals blended with smooth melodies create relaxing yet exciting melodic rock.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
UNFINISHED THOUGHT: Based On Actual Events
Beautiful female vocals with elements of dark wave, industrial, electronica, metal, goth, etherealism, ambient, dark rock, and even pop music. A true original.
Recommended if you like Garbage, Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Gathering, Lacuna Coil, Kidneythieves, Evanescence.MP3 price: $10.00
FOUR MEN WALKING: The Life We Have To Live
The music of Four Men Walking is lyrically based dynamic rock.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
GRANDFABRIC: Orphan Age
Fusing the traditional elements of two-guitar rock with piano and experimental production, Orphan Age moves between Gram Parsons-inspired country rock and radio-ready pop rock with ease.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
CONE: Out of Mind
Melodious, exotic rock from the dark Norwegian forest, beyond the mountains where the sun refuses to shine. CONE is now soaring towards the sun.
MP3 price: $12.97
RUFUS MCGOVERN: Poor Man's Heart
Every once in a while an artist comes around that demands your attention; an artist whose songs are both infectious and refreshingly mature; whose future is imminently promising. Rufus McGovern is one of those rare artists.
FLOATER: Alter
One of the Northwest's most prolific and successful independent rock bands to date, Floater's newest release is thematically ordered on the subject of change.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ELECTRIC CANDY SHOP: Symphony on Saturn
Blending songs that incorporate pop and rock elements, tight delivery and well written lyrics "Symphony On Saturn," is a by-product of the brave new world of original music in NEPA.
MP3 price: $10.00
BILLY DECHAND: Hold On
In the grand tradition of excellent British songwriting, here is a vast range of styles, maintaining a singular voice and unique sonic vision. Beautiful, angry, funky, thoughtful.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SIDE A ONLY: Set up for a let down
Our first album. This one's a bit diverse so, listening to only one track won't really provide the overall picture. It's simply the rock music we created at that time in our lives. Enjoy.
MP3 price: $10.99
A BAND CALLED DELICIOUS: Season to Taste
"St. Paul's A Band Called Delicious promote hard earned guitar-based wit with old-fashioned tongue in cheek on their tangy, "Season to Taste" - Maximum Ink Magazine
CD price: $11.99
THE SMARTEST MONKEYS: The Smartest Monkeys
The Beatles meet the sex pistols and XTC came along for lunch.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
32 LEAVES: (Fik'shen)
Combines elements of Grunge/Jazz/and Modern Rock. This Phoenix four piece has created quite a buzz in a very short time with the release of (Fikshen), the 5 song EP featuring the two single's Makeshift and SuddenChange.
CLEARLY AND THE MAINSTREAM: It's Like...
If only all music was this poppy...Honest-to-goodness melodies and hooks, primed for the masses; smashing textures, upfront lyrics and hooks so catchy you can hang your coat on them as you boogie.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
STARTER KIT: Tenuous At Best EP
Slightly melancholic indie-pop with carefully crafted melodies and tumbles of guitar and electric piano, supplying an appealing soundtrack for reflective 20-somethings.
ELEVENTH HOUR: Eleventh Hour
Catchy, melodic, guitar driven rock that you'll be singing all day.
CD price: $8.00
THE CHURCHILLS: Big Ideas
Soaring, sonic, and substantial modern indie-rock with pop sensibility; amazing songs with big hooks.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
TERRAMARA: Terramara
This Minneapolis foursome creates melodic pop-rock, melding smart songcraft and catchy melodies with tight grooves, lush, jazz-tinged harmonies and an edgy, rock sensibility.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
PAT BURTIS: Clarify
REDUCED PRICE FOR DECEMBER ONLY. Insightful, provocative lyrics, powerful acoustic and electric guitar grooves, and some jams; think Jeff Buckley meets Jeff Beck meets Bruce Cockburn.
CD price: $11.99
PAUL BRUBAKER: ...and the pursuit of happiness
A power-pop driven concept album about our least utilized inalienable right.
MP3 price: $9.95
BRIAN SEYMOUR: A Thousand Tarzans
Smart pop. Think Coldplay meets Springsteen. "From his early acoustic based material to the more exciting new pop leaning songs, Brian is a musical force to be reckoned with both locally and nationally." -Bruce Warren, PD, WXPN, Philadelphia
CD price: $12.00
ADRENALINE: Broken Clocks
Adrenaline delivers a rush of fresh rock with thundering drive, blending innovative rhythms and rich metaphorical lyrics with shredding guitar (think Foo Fighters meets Incubus with some Chili Peppers on the side).
CD price: $12.97
ARCTIC NOISE SYMPHONY: Levato
Original Rock with poignant lyrics
Recommended if you like Red Hot Chili Peppers.CD price: $10.00
LIONS LIONS: Direction
Lions Lions is new rock alternative. For Fans of Thrice, Comeback Kid, and Story Of The Year.
CD price: $7.97 / MP3 price: $6.97
WALL OF FICTION: Wall of Fiction
A Rock based Alternative band with deep roots in Classic Rock with a Modern Edge.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
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
SECTION GANG: Greater Than Civil
This debut release combines the band's love of the psychedelic '60s, glam-rock '70s, college-radio '80s and alternative '90s into a blend that could exist only in a post-2000 sonic landscape.
CD price: $6.99
PINKSTONE: The Ridealong
A smeared telegram, on beautiful letterhead, bearing bad news.
CD price: $12.97
BRENT ROGERS: 7 Years
Portland music producer Brent Rogers releases an eclectic mix of songs recorded after hours in the studio over a seven year period, including melodic love songs, adult rock, country, blues and groove tunes featuring many of Portland's finest musicians.
MP3 price: $9.97
TUKK: Three Faiths
A mix of heavy guitars, haunting keys, and captivating vocals take the listener in a cerebral study of current events. Mixed with TUKK's thought provoking lyrics this CD will surely enhance any music collection.
CD price: $12.99
BOON: Pretend
A full on rock album featuring songs that make you feel good.
Recommended if you like 3 Doors Down, Coldplay.CD price: $7.49 / MP3 price: $5.00
KOOPD WITH SHAY: Odyssey
American rock meets Asian rock. Check out the dramatic melodic sounds of this Korean rock album.
CD price: $9.00
