Country » Type: Experimental
HEAD FOR THE HILLS: Robbers Roost
Rooted in the tradition of bluegrass, their music is a vibrant mixture of homegrown compositions, traditional harmonies, and an innovative approach to progressive acoustic music that reflects the band's experiences living the mountain life.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
PORLOLO: Storm and Season
Porlolo is watery and dark, feeling and mysterious-- a wide-eyed yet whimsical look at the cracked earth of a by-gone day.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
POSTURE COACH: Give Them Excess!
Rock and roll, outlaw country, maybe a little indie.
MP3 price: $10.00
PIANORAG.: pianorag.
A trio of young, talented multi-instrumentalists, they combine bluegrass, jazz, funk, and myriad other genres into an innovative, organic, and soulful blend.
Recommended if you like Charlie Parker, Béla Fleck & David Grisman.CD price: $11.00
HOT DAY AT THE ZOO: Cool as Tuesday
Simply put: Hot Day at the Zoo embodies what it means to put down your troubles for a while and get caught up in a laid down groove that's sure to bring a smile to your face and a sway to your hips. Good Times...
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ACTION PACKED THRILL RIDE: A Looseleaf Script
Blending indie rock, country, garage, folk, Americana, and noise along with inventive arrangements, constantly shifting dynamics, quality lyricism and multi-layered harmonies makes for a unique listen.
Recommended if you like Okkervil River, The Avett Brothers.CD price: $9.99
AMONG WOLVES: Among Wolves
Beautiful yet destructive at times, and as intensely personal as it is strange.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DAILY PLANET: The Big Scoop
The second album from Britain's premier newgrass / jam band. They combine bluegrass with blues, jazz and irish music, and visit all points in between. Features guest appearances from Tim Edey, Matt Flinner, Tony Furtado, and Paul Bradley
CD price: $15.00
JOHNNY MILES: Sign Of The Times
some crazy lazy artistic type guy wrote down some words and when he read them he sang them into notes and then underneath the notes he started strumming guitars and pounding pianos and things.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BAWN IN THE MASH: Hurry Up and Wait
Bawn in the Mash convey emotion to the listeners mind by connecting wavelengths and frequencies;creating colors you hear and tones you can feel. A fusion of folk that melts both faces and hearts alike.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DONNA FULLMAN: Donna Fullman EP
Debut recordings from the atmospheric Country Folk Blues songstress.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ANDY THORN: Bolin Creek
Progressive bluegrass music featuring Larry and Jenny Keel, along with members of the Infamous Stringdusters, Biscuit Burners, and the Big Fat Gap.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
MARK MCADAM: Cavalcade
Pushing the boundaries of Americana and Indie Rock, Cavalcade is a gorgeous museum of heartache and exuberance. McAdam's most accomplished work yet.
Recommended if you like Wilco, Iron & Wine.CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
JAKE BECK: The Sleeping Giant
Experimental and creative folk music arranged in suites--written, composed, and recorded in a one-bedroom apartment in Portland, OR
CD price: $12.97
DESTRUCTION ISLAND: Preaches The New Wilderness
Original genre jumping indie rock that teeters to polar opposites while always delivering a good song.
CD price: $9.99
R.C. HENRY: Sidewinder
This debut album presents his unique Dobro style - sounds of the deep south mixed with alternative blues and subversive lyrics.
CD price: $12.97
5TA HERDEILDIN: Skipid Siglir / And The Ship Sails
Contemporary Icelandic folk music
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
SATELLITE SOUL: Straight Back to Kansas
National act gone indie offers up their 4th record filled with storyteller lyrics and frank mid-western rock/alternative country sounds. This record will remind you of the Jayhawks, Wilco, Son Volt and Elliot Smith.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
THE DARK BOB: When I Grow Up To Be A Man
Progressive Country. Avant Western music. Rootsy Americana.tragic, humorous and hopeful.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOHNNY DOWD: Cruel Words
An American original; a singular musical vision distilled from the raw detritus of primal rock and roll, free jazz, swamp blues and greasy funk; anchored by a voice channeling Johnny Cash through Chet Baker.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
CYD GLORE'S NEW MASTERPIECE: personally, i'd rather not be fishing ...
Semi-country music and impersonations.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE AMALGAMATORS: My Heart's Part
An Amlgamation of influences and sounds, ranging from country, punk, bluegrass, folk and psycadelia. Featuring tales of Love, loss, intoxication, and death. Fun for the whole family.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ANDY TANAS: Songs From The New South
An exploration into rock and country. Neo-rocking country with a few curves thrown at ya. Very unique with an apart from Nashville approach and a Memphis sensibility.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ILL LIT: i need you.
Containing the best elements of Rock, vintage Americana and electronic cut and paste sonic pastiches, Explores the borders of country, pop and electronics
CD price: $13.99
ILL LIT: Wacmusic
Earnest vocals tinged with honeyed twang rising over the soothing white-noise of loops, beats and a battered boombox.
CD price: $6.99
DEBBY: Getting It Right
With an experimental blend of retro country music and the St. Louis Blues, "Getting it Right" establishes the new music genre "New York Country" music.
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $1.00
DEATH TO ANDERS: Fictitious Business
An emotional and heart-wrenching journey through dark and dynamic guitars mixed with bleak, cryptic lyrics, and chilling harmonies.
Recommended if you like Pavement, Sonic Youth.
THE NINE VOLTS: EP
Florida roots rockers the Nine Volts have tapped into their Appalachian and Southern backgrounds to craft a debut EP of raw and beautiful Americana that hearkens back to the purity of alt-country’s beginnings. Ranging from country- and bluegrass-inspired
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
LITTLE SIGMOID: It's Warmer in the Sun
Country, rock, classical, reggae,an atypical playlist recorded at Nac Nud Studio, with Jeff Redlawsk, Rick Duncan, Tower of Power members,and many more greats
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PUFFERFISH: Hello Zero
"This trio saunter along the divide between indie rock and old-time country; think DIY as a way of life (i.e., porch-sittin' music) vs. a lifestyle. "North" blends brushed snares, muted pump organ, and rustic vocal harmonies to captivating effect.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BOSS TWEED: Boss Tweed
The new sound of Americana roots music is evident in the dark blues and eerie twang of Brooklyn trio Boss Tweed, fronted by a soulful female bass player and featuring a dynamite hollowbody Gretsch guitar player.
CD price: $12.75 / MP3 price: $12.75
EVAN PHILLIPS: Chickaloon
Phillips is an alt-country, hillbilly rocker from Alaska. Lots of pedal steel, rootsy guitar work, with sincere and honest lyrics.
MP3 price: $14.00
BY THE WAY: Late Night Stumble
"New Acoustic" folk rock blending bluegrass, modern folk and country
Recommended if you like Michael Hedges, Edgar.CD price: $12.97
LESLIE WOODS: Velvet Sky - out of print
Spooky, but in a good way- like dinner at the Twin Peaks Cafe if it were located in the deep South.
MP3 price: $10.00
LITTLE PEOPLE REVOLUTION 3: Take Me Gently
Electric and accoustic rock songs of appreciation and adoration for someone who matters, with some having experimental spirit undertones and overtones.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TRAPPERS CABIN: For My Friends
A revolutionary new sound of whimsical stories, told through a heavy serving of catchy melodies & unique harmonies. For My Friends was featured on NPR's All Songs Considered and helped Trappers Cabin reach #3 on NPR's Top 10 Best Unknown Artists For 2007
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
HOUSE OF ISNESS: Everything was Beautiful
virtuostic violin with stream of consciousness vocals. funky, steady groove. bass driven. simple, catchy melodies. with a touch of ambience. ecletic- one moment bluegrass, the next a heavy symphonic rock saga.
MP3 price: $7.99
WILD BEE: Distant Mountains Ep
Ghostly southern soul meets smart ,New York classic rock.
MP3 price: $10.00
MALCOLM ROLLICK: Scaffolds
experimental folk music with a dash of feminista witch banter and poetic transcendance
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE MAMMALS: Migration (EP)
Subversive, acoustic, traditional, high-energy, stringband folk music. Fun for all ages.
Recommended if you like Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan & Pete Seeger.CD price: $8.97
IOWA MOUNTAIN TOUR: Forney Lake
These are "SongPoems" or sometimes called "Demos"
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
THE PETTY BONES: Pine
Acoustic Roots/Americana Take a trip into Petty Bone County USA.Somewhere in the south where the tall pines.PINE
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
AMERICAN ALTITUDE: American Altitude
Clever, folky, bluesy, americana music
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
BRAINWARMER: Elliott Smith's Guitar
La-la-la pop, dark, experimental atmospheres, and the occasional country vibe collide in the warm songs of these experienced improvisers and songwriters.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
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YELLA HAIRED NDN GIRL: Little Red Feather [the gallery edition]
Features ethereal vocals, velvety acoustic guitar & soft banjo accents. Light country folk like wind through the pines.
CD price: $5.00
CODA: Halfway to Heaven
A sound that arcs from Country to Blues to Rock and even Gospel with the participation of now famous artists like Del McCoury and Jason Carter. Made in Rome and Florence Italy and finished in Nashville USA
MP3 price: $12.97
FLEEING GHOST: fleeing ghost
Slow music: original compositions for guitar, trumpet and cello.
Recommended if you like John Fahey, Dave Douglas.CD price: $10.00
BIG VESSEL & COMPANY: Riversongs
Diverse collection of jazzy, countrified electric folk with banjo.
CD price: $12.00
HOPPER'S WEASEL: Hopper's Weasel
Two guys walk into a bar. Their names are Rock and Alt-Country. A beautiful woman attracts their attention. They vie for her. Bottles are broken. They fight. This is the soundtrack.
CD price: $12.98 / MP3 price: $12.98
ETHER: Ether
Folksy kind of music sprinkled with lyrics of deep emotional substance drawn from the rich drama of "Bold and the Beautiful".
CD price: $15.00
IOWA MOUNTAIN TOUR: The Chicken Insurrection
Gary Forney is probably the most famous songpoet in over 100 years of songpoems, and has been seen in pbs documentary, the new york times, the los angeles weekly, papers and media from coast to coast, along with songs and interviews on international radio
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
