Rock: Experimental Rock and Mood: Dreamy
LEILUJH: The Tiger Moth Odyssey
Harpsichord, slide guitar, toy piano, harp, melodica, combine with disco bass lines and funky guitars over vocal harmonies by indie rock queens Marisa Chaves and Dune Nguyen. Keeps you cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
IMAGINARY AIRSHIP: Where Dreams Take Flight
Epic, down-tempo space age chamber pop.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GHOST TO FALCO: Like This Forever
Strangely catchy and freedom affirming. Carefully crafted lyrics atop huge, lush avant arrangements. Urban isolation and desert-style expansion.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $9.00
DANIEL PARKER: mend
Quirky Apartment Rock out of Portland. Daniel Parker is songwriter for the band the Raining and home late at the studio laying tracks. The selections on Mend range in style from experimental rock n' roll to electronic to acoustic pop to California mellow
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
DIRE WOOD: The Escape
Ambient/ indie/ folk rock for the 21st century.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THOMAS BRYAN EATON: Dreams, Demons & Butterflies
While based on simple acoustic folk and blues songs, the recordings burst open with careful colorations and subtle textures. The final product is something that is hard to classify.
CD price: $10.00
MAKE AMENDS: Because Nobody's Real
Experimenting with fresh ideas about the shape and structure of music, Make Amends' sound is euphoric, cathartic, and catastrophic all in the same moment.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
SAFEASHOME: Not What Happens
An aura of Shoegaze and hints of noise pervade SafeAsHome's debut album, 11 soaring tracks of rock and electronics, filtered through the distortionary lens of long-lost childhood and uncertain futures.
Recommended if you like My Bloody Valentine.CD price: $11.99
BARTON MCGUIRE: The Star Market
Alternative folk-rock with lush, unique arrangements; intimate, melodic, compelled and compelling.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, Iron & Wine.CD price: $9.00
ADRIAN HENKE: oO, Nose, and Mouth
Ambient rock with country and world influences. Dreamy guitars, instrumental.
MP3 price: $5.00
MR. MEEBLE: Never Trust the Chinese
Mr. Meeble is glitchy organic electronica and dark experimental pop, connected by bits of soul, hip-hop, and rock.
CD price: $13.98
KAMIKAZE BABY: Uptown VineRise
The one fairytale your mommy never had the heart to read to you before bedtime.
CD price: $12.99
ALICE COHEN: Sky Flowers
Ethereal guitars and psychedelic synthesizers weave dance beats with darkly melodic pop in songs about ghost towns, spirit photography and outer space.
Recommended if you like Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins.CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DARBY CICCI: Minus Green
As beautiful as it is disorienting, Minus Green is lost in a world of 1960s pop, but sounds a little like it forgot to take it's medicine. Haunting melodies and jaunting, surreal lyrics to get you through your stay at the sanitarium.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
UNJUST: To Lose A Name
An eclectic, influencial blend of Faith No More, Muse, and My Chemical Romance.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
BLESS: Without a Sound
Dreamy, melancholic, rock and dark. A cross between The Cure and The Smashing Pumpkins.
CD price: $8.90 / MP3 price: $4.90
BLACK AND WHITE: Tomorrow's Never Wrong
Pure and honest, pure rock music stripped down to it's most basic form, overlapped with ambient harmonies and intense riffs that will change the way you look at music.
MP3 price: $11.00
DEBRA KADABRA: De Mente BlanKa
Electronic experimental rock troupe from Colombia, currently based at Gothenburg, Sweden. Painted with theatrical, jazzy, impressionist, and dreamy colors and, also, sometimes bluesy/sometimes razor blade/sometimes screaming/sometimes corrosive guitars.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $7.00
WALNUTT: The Posie Expression
Multi-genre, head-wrecking music that blends rock n’ roll, roots, trip-hop, jazz and ambient sounds into a smoothie soul shake-down.
Recommended if you like Neil Young, Gorillas.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MICHAEL OCEAN: The Manual
Like Radiohead if they'd listened to the Beach Boys more than the Beatles.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
TWILIGHT DEMENTIA: Twilight Dementia
Atmospheric indulgent rock that fuses sounds reminiscent of '70s rock with ethereal audioscapes
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
MAID MYRIAD: Embrace
Mathematical guitars, explosive drums and vocals soaring can't-get-out-of-your-head-melodies, seem to affect your breathing pattern as you listen to this upcoming Akron band.
Recommended if you like Ours, As Tall as Lions.CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
CHRIS STAINTON: Music For Movies & TV
Chris finally takes time off from playing with Eric Clapton to write some music of his own - this stuff is very varied and is intended to be used on the sound tracks of movies and TV shows.
CD price: $12.97
NOON BLUE: Noon Blue
A sound that incorporates multiple musical styles within each song.
MP3 price: $10.00
THE KINDNESS KIND: A Novel
Moves from the brash to the beautiful, shifting in and out of electronic moods while expanding into sweeping soundscapes. Recalls the melodies and textures of Air, the odd tonalities reminiscent of Blonde Redhead and is touched off by the atmospheres of C
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
HOLOSCENE: Nothing Is The End Of Everything - EP
By drawing together a wide variety of influences from experimental to industrial to ambient, Holoscene carve out a unique and hypnotic sound all their own, falling somewhere between early Pink Floyd and Explosions in the Sky.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ASBURY: Under the...Asbury
These songs consist of character studies, fantastical dreams, and the genuine confusion that permeates big city life. Haunting indie rock.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
PAPER PILLS: Carrageenan
A moody, sometimes intense, musical experimentation of noise and beauty.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
QUICK STEP JOHN: The Life In our Years
The songwriting styles of the Counting Crows and Ben Folds, combined with the biographical lyrics of Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eat World, mixed with the guitars and pianos from U2 and Coldplay.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
FITZO PERFECTO: A Collection of Sounds from the Mindfuck
Radiohead, Beck, Aesop Rock, and Olivia Tremor Control walk into a jazz club to have a drink with Frank Zappa while Fugazi make a protest outside.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
MARIONETTE: You Are Here
Alternative indie rock, folk, existential goodness.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MICHAEL LAECHEL: Faces
A variety of pop, rock, and recording styles.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
