Folk » Type: Lo-Fi
HAL HIXSON: The Whistling Ones
New Weird Americana
Recommended if you like Richard Buckner, Sufjan Stevens.CD price: $10.00
PORLOLO: Meadows
Singer, guitarist and occasional trumpet player leads her band on a tightrope walk between twee, indie folk and orchestrated pop on Meadows, blending all three with a delicate touch.
CD price: $10.00
PHIL DODD: There Is Always A Light
Heartbreakingly beautiful and imaginative folk-pop, created through the bastard union of Beck, Kurt Cobain and Nick Drake.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
RIGO WALTZ: There's A Man...
Packaged as a 7" vinyl, this is actually a DIY full-length CD of ache and outrage at a parent whose abdication of duty and maturity scars everyone he touches. Suicides, autism, trauma and mayhem are left in his wake and decisively played out by the artist
CD price: $7.99
INSOMNIAC FOLKLORE: Oh Well
Highly anticipated new record from the 'tantrum-folk' pioneer. An album for coffee drinkers and carnies alike.
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
WAYWARD SWAY: On A Broken Machine
Dark, raucous, brooding, upbeat, nu-folk mid-fi balladry in a sparkling psychedelic seashell.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BRIAN GROSZ: Bedlam Nights
Crippled lullabies, snarling stomp-blues, murder-suicide ballads and endlessly dark hallways filled with the lingering, metallic scent of ill-fated liasons.
CD price: $12.97
DREW & THE MEDICINAL PEN: Dream, Dream, Fail, Repeat
"New York City insomnia, cigarette-butts-in-Chinese-food, drawing-dreams, vodka-breath bedroom-pop from a true, young songwriter."
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE: Anachronisma
The most sentimental album by the C.O.U. put out so far. Part one in a trilogy about time and space, this album is a retrospective on the popular music from the last century, all wrapped up in sheets of folk-instruments, anachronisms and whistleable melod
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Metronomicon Compilation 1.0
The tenth release from Metronomicon Audio; This album contains tracks from our very own artists, sideprojects, and guests appearance from friends of ours.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
THE LOW-COUNTRY MESSIAHS: Biscuit Palace
psychedelic damaged folk-tinged dirty blues & spirituals
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LISA BASTONI: Small Time Big Town
Relaxed and rootsy - short, solo acoustic guitar/vocal album recorded live in an apartment in Austin, TX.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
QUINTIN NADIG: Slip Songs
-an indie/folky southern gothic concept album-
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
MAD TEA PARTY: Flying Saucers
Fun, fresh, ukulele-driven renditions of American treasures from the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
Recommended if you like Dinah Shore.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
VIJAYA: The time will come when we find our home
Her music is known for a simple style, with her sensitive voice only accompanied by a guitar, or sometimes an harmonica and a tambourine.
Recommended if you like Cat Power, Jolie Holland.
MIRAH & THE BLACK CAT ORCHESTRA: To All We Stretch the Open Arm
The Black Cat Orchestra is a collection of musicians who sound right at home whether they're playing original soundtrack scores for silent films, forgotten Eastern European traditional dance numbers or 1960s pop country songs.
CD price: $12.97
MICHELLE SHOCKED: Texas Campfire Takes
The last great American field recording a.k.a. it's a bootleg
CD price: $12.97
HAL HIXSON: A Little Light
Slow burn modern male folk with nods to Richard Buckner, Tom Waits, and Will Oldham
JÓHANN KRISTINSSON: Call Jimmy
Modern lo-fi Icelandic folk music, mostly acoustic, but with haunting atmospheric touches.
CD price: $12.97
THE TURPENTINE TREACLE TRAVELING MEDICINE SHOW: Heals What Ails You
alt Country, Singer-Songwriter, Folk
CD price: $16.00
NERDKWEEN: Synergy
Experimental singer/songwriter with angel-like voice with lo-fi soundscapes.
CD price: $12.00
CORY WOODWARD: Princess Of The Skies
Music that fuses electro with acoustic instruments to create lush arrangements that complement and never overpower the song itself. Lyrics that paint a bitter picture of life but leave audiences with a message of hope to hang onto.
CD price: $10.00
WOLF TICKETS: Car Alarms Are Entertaining
Homerecorded indie/electronica songs in which noise tries to wrestle melody to the ground. Sometimes it sounds like black ants on white paper.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
ZACH ZELLER: Swords
Catchy folk pop you, your mother and the suspicious neighbor will all love.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
BRENDAN LOSCH: Until We Meet Again
Heartfelt songs imbued with intimate chords, melodic vocals and simple yet contemplative lyrics.
SUPERFLU: La Chance
A French pop-folk band, born in the 90's. They mix french and american influences with a male/female combination of voices.
CD price: $12.97
WISCONSIN BANDS: Don't Be Cruel
The new Wisconsin sound, from artists existing in the motherland and the diaspora.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE VIPER & HIS FAMOUS ORCHESTRA: Everything for Everyone
Dig the neo-skiffle, crypto-constructivist sound of this ukulele, suitcase, sliphorn, and double-bass quartet from turn-of-the-century East Central Illinois, caught in full monophonic splendor.
MP3 price: $12.97
JONATHAN PENN: A Transient Warehouse Of Damaged Goods
Aggressive, yet restrained. Vivid lyrics, folk influences, and new sounds. A journal of eclectic ideas.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.00
THE OTHER ALSO: Broken Clocks
Introspective, low-fi, urban folk songs buzzing with humming birds and the gentle sway of glistening palms under the Southern California sun.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
MIKE ELLIOTT: The Remember Everything Recordings
He has been described as a 4-tracking shaman from the Midwest. He has been described as a cross between David Byrne and Tiny Tim. His songs have been covered by many regional artists and his music is usually classified as folk rock and/or indie.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
KIRK WITHROW: Yesterday Will Be Better
Primitive Americana with mojo to spare, played on handmade cigar box instruments and other homemade creations.
CD price: $11.00
JESUS LICKS: Highwayman EP
Feral folk country music sporting girlish vocals; music with teeth.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
ADRIAN ROYE: Welcome To One Man Town
Singer/ songwriter Adrian Roye fuses contemporary folk, soul, rock, and afro-beat to make an album of infectious yet intelligent music.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
PUPA'S WINDOW & THE CHRIS AND JOYLENE SHOW: A Family Portrait
A Family Portrait a collection of warm and inviting folk/pop -- thirteen bittersweet musical essays on love, loss, growing old, and triumph
Recommended if you like Damien Jurado, The Little Ones.MP3 price: $5.00
IRA MERRILL: The Handshake and the Heartbreak
A seasoned, mature folk-rock album with jangle choruses reminiscent of America, the structure of the Beatles, the mournfully upbeat juxtapositions of Elliot Smith and a slight nuance of Jeff Lynne’s penchant for harmonies.
CD price: $10.00
NOW WE'VE GOT MEMBERS: Curious Yellow
Seven tracks of balkan-pop, sober psycedelia, and fine pop music.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
MORIARTY™ VS. CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE: Did You Order A Radar?
eight rhythm-box infected, organ and bassoon fuelled wild remixes by the one and only center of the universe. mr. moriarty's pop-pearls are being seriously reconfigured, paradigm- shifted and copernically rotated.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
MAGNUS MORIARTY™: Drive Fast Slow Right Left
Nice lo-fi melancholy, killer pop-tunes and a long remix from the C.O.U.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
MAGNUS MORIARTY™: ...and The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks...
Named after an unreleased book by a very famous beat-poet, this album is a joyful mixture of indeed very whistleable tunes and out-of-your-mind lyrics.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
TÄPPAS STREPENS: The Future Will Be Better Tomorrow
rom the non-existing cotton fields of Norway’s suburbia hell we bring you a ramblin’, whiskey-fuelled-raving maniac, armed to the teeth with a machine that not only kills fascists, but every kind of hypocrite and biggot there is.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
DOMINIC AND COLIN MOORE: This is (the demo bootleg version of) the Ninja vs. the Octopus Man
Rock and Roll with Roots and Wings
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $7.99
CHAMBER POT ORCHESTRA: Ephemeral Flowers
One guy mixes Iron & Wine & Wilco & Westerberg in his basement with lots of his own guitars then his composer buddy comes by and spices things up here and there.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.99
BETIKA: Halflove
Death-pop, played with zeal and vigour by the musical wing of a sinister youth-movement.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BILLY G. CAMP: Don't Stop The Carnival
Alt. Country-Folkadelica: A dose of Country-Cool and Neo-Folk injected with Rock n' Roll and good vibrations. Billy G. Camp draws on influences as diverse as Tom Waits, Gram Parsons, and John Hiatt.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FUCK THE WRITER: Maar ik Dans Niet
Melancholic acoustic recordings, written and performed by two hands and one voice, during a long and cold winter. Open a bottle of red wine, light a cigarette and sit back...
MP3 price: $11.00
LIONLOVE: Lionlove EP
Warm, beautiful and melancholic pop music featuring guitars, banjos, piano and the soft friendly voices of Charlotte and Daniel.
MP3 price: $6.49
RAMON & JESSICA: Ramon and Jessica
Unabashedly original songs with appealingly raw, unselfconscious execution.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MONKSTRAP: songs from bexar county
Stripped down americana that offers distorted tales of excess and hopelessness.
CD price: $10.99
ALAN GARR: Run Over By The Wheels
"These songs are melodically driven to depress the hell out of you and make sucking on an exhaust pipe seem fun."-Steve Owen, Nashbill. "Uplifting triumphs of optimism? Maybe I got the wrong CD."-Erin Young, Salt Lake Saviour.
MP3 price: $5.99
A MILLION BILLION: the filthy schoolgirls ep
Quiet lullabies, featuring member of Rufus Wainwright, The Silent League, and Loaded Dreams.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
WICKED IMMIGRANT: White Nuns on Red Wine
Melodic acoustic indie-rock and folk from Dayton, Ohio, featuring members of Dishwater Psychics, Blusom and Upstate
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
BEZALEL: Fidelity on High
An eclectic blend of indie-folk pop and ambient electronica.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE EARLY HOURS: Personal Day
Melancholy, Nocturnal, Dreamy, Intimate, Poignant, Wistful, Reflective, Singer/ Songwriter
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
LUKE: careful where you put your time
The process of finding a new spirituality outside of traditional religion.
CD price: $9.90 / MP3 price: $9.90
THE SKELLINGTONS: Dyslextacy
Rootsy folk-rock with an experimental twist
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
FOR ALGERNON: orange watches & lost loves
A quiet mix of folk and indie-pop arranged on piano and guitar with touching, honest lyrics on love, loss and starting over.
MP3 price: $8.00
FEMURS: the femurs
A mix of electric and acoustic sweet lost-love pop songs with soothing melodic vocals- acoustic/electric punk to hang your hat on.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
THE TRANSMISSIONARY SIX: Transmissionary Six
A dreamy cloud far west of hope
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
PONCHOS FROM PERU: Friendship and Other Mistakes
Indie Folk-Rock that is driven by solid songwriting and tight changes. Strongly unique musical theory intertwined with Pop Melodies.
CD price: $5.00
THE CORDELIERS: The Rhetoric
The Cordeliers take almost as much pride in their songwriting as they do in their drinking.
Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Uncle Tupelo.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $7.92
ELASTIC NO-NO BAND: The Meow Bits - EP
Offbeat acoustic folk and lo-fi pocket symphonies, with a couple covers of songs by The Beach Boys and The Beatles.
MP3 price: $2.99
JACKSON COMBS: The Hardest Parts
A Simple and Elegant blend of Lo-Fi Americana and Soul. Catchy Choruses, Intelligent lyrics, and the Synthetic sounds meet the Visceral to create an atmosphere that the listener can lose themselves in.
CD price: $9.99
THE LONESOME SOUTHERN COMFORT COMPANY: Lonesome Southern Comfort Company
Maybe it’s just a country or a folk rush. It was needed to write songs about politics and war after all we've felt in the las few years watching tv. No matter how the music sounds. They were probably sick of being full time members of a band.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
STEVE SCHRIEMER: Mountains, Valleys, And The Flood
Creative and simple folk rock sang with the most honest of tones possible.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
JOHN PEART: Mr Mawse
This is the debut release from this psychedelic folk-rocker. Recorded onto 4-track tape in winter 2007, this collection of simple songs take the listener on a journey from Byrds-style bluegrass, to Syd Barrett-era Floyd.
MP3 price: $10.00
CANDID BADGE: Stripped
Stripped down music for cold nights. Haunting soundscapes and dark lyrics.
CD price: $10.00
GROUNDFLOOR: Bones
Acoustic rock with jazz influences. Icelandic music with a melancholy undertone with main focus on words and rawness. New alternative to Icelandic music.
Recommended if you like Tom Waits, Grant Lee Buffalo.CD price: $16.50 / MP3 price: $12.50
THE COLORFUL QUIET: Elevation Is The Key To Flight
Pseudo-90's cassette recordings of the first songs ever written by Stephen Webster when he was in high school.
MP3 price: $6.99
AARON RICKER AND THE STICKERS: Ha Ha Cemetery
DIY urban folk, sometimes teasing music out of everyday objects and/or the odd field recording.
CD price: $13.00
SUNNYMARIA: Bird A
Roots music, with a zydeco-esque feel, complemented by a "cabaret" flair for the theatrical, equally homogenized with a strict adherence to romantic alternative pop sensibilities and circus-like intent.
CD price: $55.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BLUE SHIELD BAND: Haulin' Dynomite
Traditional, folk rock, and alt country.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $12.97
RICHARD AND THE PALLBEARERS: Wreckage from the Palace of song
This album begins a new chapter for Richard and the Pallbearers. Richard Paul Davis is joined by some of the finest musicians in Texas for the four new songs from his EP.
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $7.00
CHRISTOPHER & THE LION / DANIEL FOLMER: Born To Movement
Two of the brightest lo-fi songsters around, combining indie pop, electronic beats and some wonderful noises to create something beautiful.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, Neil Young.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SISTER RAY: 1,000 Shades of Sunlight
Folk music plus 60's fuzz. Powerhouse drum and bass section from modern rock. Fusion of old and new. Or as one described it, like a MiG-29 landing in someone's living room with both engines on fire and the pilot's skull burned to a post-Soviet ash.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
DAVID WAX MUSEUM: I Turned Off Thinking About
Literary Americana folk infused with Mexican son.
CD price: $12.97
SAM COOPER: Murray Manor
Fifteen irreverently reverent homemade tunes, approximately in the vein of indie-folk-pop, dealing with topics such as love-sickness, jellies and jams, existentialism, coffee, and Immanuel Kant.
CD price: $12.00
BLAKE IAN: The Blake Ian Theory
The all acoustic first release from the NY singer-songwriter. Lyrically driven folk rock influenced by Bowie, Dylan, Sebadoh, Beck, R.E.M., Elliott Smith and Lou Reed.
Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Neil Young.CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
HAROLD HALLER: S/t
Bonnie Prince Billly meets Beck's "One Foot in the Grave" recording style. Less is more.
MP3 price: $12.97
BILL FOREMAN: Tangerine
Folk, pop, and instrumental tunes culled from 4-track recordings (and one live 2-track) Bill made between 1989 and 1994.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
MARTY SCHROCK: Praktikos Yios one night sessions
Folk Rock in one night sessions. Written, played, recorded, and mixed by Marty Schrock.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DIABLO'S DUST: Living In Nowhere
A High-Test Percussion-Driven Americana Spectacle of Devilish Proportions
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MILK & FRUIT JUICE: Monkey EP
Pop folk, with real pieces of ukulele all wrapped in a dream influenced by the Magnetic Fields
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
BRIAN EDWARD BAILEY: Lines To Stand In
Like a soundtrack to a road trip film that takes you from blue skies to hard good-byes with diverse songwriting and emotional vocals.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
MIKE AUBE: Aberdeen Street
Alternative-folk that is a little goofy but environmentally conscious and medicine for your soul.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
WALLACE WYLIE: The Bow And The Baker
"a young songwriter who writes genuinely excellent lyrics" John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
THE JINNIES: Traveling Roots
Minneapolis-based folk/Americana trio featuring female vocals, two guitars and a violin.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE STORY OF EVEREST: Consuelo Y Mas Ep
amazing folk psych rock pop stomp heartbreak weep blue black twang beauty.
MP3 price: $7.00
KOPPEN: Truckdrivin' Songs
Inspired by slapstick humor and blues from long before any of us were born,
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
SULKY DARKY: The Sulky Darky L.P.
If you cannot make it beautiful in perfection, make it beautiful in it's ugliness. Sleepy vocals set over heavily & cleverly layered guitars. Subtle & Dissonant.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
RACHEL SMITH: Famous Secrets
Melodic pop that combines lo-fi folk and hi-fi electronica.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
TOM DRAKE: Love Unwound
Quality lyricism rooted in the Americana acoustic folk/folk-rock blues temperment with an inkling towards experimentation with electronic and ambient noise (lofi joy).
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
MIKE PURSLEY: Titled Untold
Singer/Songwriter mix of folk, psychedelic rock and indie styling
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
HAL HIXSON: Base Elements
Experimental Folk
Recommended if you like Tom Waits, Richard Buckner.CD price: $10.00
FRENCHY BURRITO AND THE FOLK PISTOLS: Live Targets
Live recordings.(circa 1994)
Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt.CD price: $6.97 / MP3 price: $4.99
THE SPORTSMAN'S CLUB: Falling Scenery Converts
Stripped down indie folk in the spirit of Paul Westerberg, Nick Drake and Robyn Hitchcock
MP3 price: $5.00
NICHOLAS SUNSDAHL: LOVE DEMO
"a treaty between healthy living and the underworld"."can break the trance of bereavement"."possessed by Hermes" -Molly Serious
CD price: $4.97 / MP3 price: $4.97
CLIFTON NEWELL: Wonder and Hesitate Behave and Congratulate
Contemplative "quiet time" music
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TEN MINUTE TURNS: Sad Animals
For a wild, everything-including-the-kitchen-sink sound, tune into Ten Minute Turns' Sad Animals. Walls of guitars, suitcases full of drum machines, and junk stores full of accordions await you.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TOBY GOODSHANK: Mogo On the Gogo
Goodshank synthesizes his sonic moods into a seamless blend of chunky guitars, crystal-clear vocals, & fringe sexuality.
Recommended if you like The Moldy Peaches, The Decemberists.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE RED ROSE CAFE: The New Year Tapes
According to bandwagon.ie, the red rose cafe play "the most delicate folk to be heard this side of the atlantic".
MP3 price: $15.00
ELEVATOR RIDE: Truisms and Epigrams
Breakup songs, dream sequences, and a touch of swoon. Literate, mostly acoustic pictures from a place you've forgotten.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
NO THEY DO: When Robots Rule The World
The lonliest robot in the world is not going to take it any more.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
FRIENDLY PSYCHICS MUSIC: FPM Comp Volume 1
Midwestern folk and indie rock with a subtly twisted mind
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
LISTING SHIP: Time to Dream
www.npr.org says of Listing Ship: "The Los Angeles-based, seven-piece band is organic and quirky, with a sound that the L.A. Times once described as 'the kind of edgy but folksy bluegrass you'd hear at a Mensa picnic." Special guest: MIKE WATT on bass.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
PATRICK CROWSON: Patrick Crowson
Dylan Thomas would applaud these coal black songs. Americana UK
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SOUND OF SINGLES: Dead Dog on the Road
Dark Americana from the side of the road. Sound of Singles is the solo project of Mt. Moriah steel guitarist Gerald John.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
GRIZZLY BEAR: Horn of Plenty with Bonus
Grizzly Bear captured its etherized folk on the beautiful Horn of Plenty (Kanine), a dreamy, evocative record that sounds like it was recorded a mile below sea level.
VASE: A Carving In The Wood
The album merges gentle acoustics and subtle electronic sounds with understated and softly spoken vocals.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
WOODY PINES: Rags To Riches
Low fi from weird america's rural roots. railroad guitar, whiskey banjo and skeliton washboard. hi energy oldtime and juke blues.
CD price: $13.35
DIBS: Slivers and Bits
Ducks and alligators. Computers and cables. Eyeballs and alcohol. Offbeat lo-fi songs, sung in a low voice, both sweet and deadpan, accompanied by a variety of people on guitars, omnichords, keyboards and beatmakers.
CD price: $12.00
PACIFIC OCEAN FIRE: Pacific Ocean Fire
???music to clutch yourself to, music to ache to, music to sing along with, this is simply glorious???, - Americana UK
EARLY DOLPHIN: Swim
Odd, blissed-out Silverlake psych/folk lovliness. Clay & Co. play gentle, strange, aquatic ditties, with interesting arrangments and guitar treatments. Good for marine adventures.
Recommended if you like The Stone Roses, Dinosaur Jr., The Sounds, C & A, The Like, Together, Dolphin.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DANNY VASQUEZ: Lo-Fi & Lonesome
"Sad and beautiful, melancholy yet uplifting"
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ELAM BLACKMAN: Candlelight & Twine
loose and lyrical. greg brown's got some chicken. john hartford is bringing flowers. you're invited to eat and listen.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
HARTLEY GOLDSTEIN: Songs in the Key of Zoloft
If Bright Eyes were Jewish, Ben Folds a New Yorker, and Belle and Sebastian less fey, you'd have Hartley.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
ITAMAR ZIEGLER: Itamar Ziegler
A heart pumping treat, full of pulsating rhythm and near comical twists and turns. Home cooked musical ride that is Fun and inspiring.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
POOP YER PANTS: Poop Yer Pants
Poop Yer Pants is a sonic reaction to programmed entertainment, prescribed living, and the Pottery Barn.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
RICHARD BUCKNER & JON LANGFORD: Sir Dark Invader Vs. The Fanglord
Lofi country folk rock
CD price: $14.98
JEFFREY CHRISTIAN: In My Own Weak Words
Lo-Fi Acoustic songs blending Alternative, Folk & Indie Rock.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BRIAN JOENS: Midwest
The bittersweet lo-fi sounds of small town Iowa.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
JOANA SMITH: Sleeping on the Plane
Written in bed. Music box songs in 6/8 timing; perfect for napping on Sunday, breathing deep, pink sunset. Sometimes modern pop, sometimes 1900's Rachmaninoff, honest ditties with a cello.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
KEVIN FINN (LAST NIGHT ON EARTH): The Lion's Lament
indie folk electronica: "More than an album...a beautifully cohesive artwork." -Justin Hopper, Pittsburgh City Paper
Recommended if you like Nick Drake, Red House Painters.CD price: $5.95
GIVING THE TABLE A NAME: goby stuck between the nodal point(s)
a man from afar, running into the distance with his head on fire
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
CANDLE-ENDS: To the Sea
Motionless, picaresque, do-good, nonchalant, prevalent, grotesque, erratic, plague-bearing.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
RAJIV PATEL: Obey the Cattle
experimental in a way, but mostly guitar techs that are smooth and fresh.
CD price: $12.97
GOSLINK: goslink Harmony
Recommended by the international airplane association as great cockpit-music.
CD price: $10.00
BRAD OTTS: you=YOU
With his highly-anticipated freshman effort, he channels "alt country meets folk meets indie rock" with brilliantly-honest and captivating songwriting that conjures images of Tom Waits meets Jeff Tweedy, leaving you craving more.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
JAMES MILES: Seven Of Swords
Acoustic, autumnal, melancholy, rainy music with hints of elliott smith, nick drake, and chris bell
CD price: $6.99
WARM IN THE WAKE: Port of Quick Returns
If Andrew Wyeth, M. Ward, Lucinda Williams and Guided By Voices had an all night get-together on a southern river bank, this record would stoke their bonfire.
CD price: $10.00
OX: Dust Bowl Revival
Wilted, broken, skeletal 'americana' at it's low-fi best.. studio weary fragments, fragile masterpieces, sonic accidents
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
NORFOLK & WESTERN: Norfolk & Western
A breathtaking, intimate collection of folk songs, ambient instrumentals and lo-fi beauty.
SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY: Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel
Frantic, moody and slightly weird; SITA’s second full-length album pushes the amalgam of screaming vocals and clangy folk rock into fuzzy, spacey territory.
CD price: $9.99
THE SUMNER BROTHERS: Sumner Brothers
"Their sound mixes brotherly charm, amazing homegrown gospel/roots/alt-country/folk songs, and a delivery that calls to mind a young Elvis and Cash".
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
HABIT TRAIL: Drifting On Off of the Shoulder
Folky dirt, oblique lyrics, noisy energy, and an original, off-kilter balance between lo-fi songs and vintage country-rock.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
MATT WATTS: Matt Watts
Folk music, like you might have grown up listening to.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
DBDA & RICHIE RE: It's All About The Stick
This CD has inspirations from indie rock, classic rock, blues, hip hop, and folk music; an eclectic and unique mix of styles based on the life experiences of the artists.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
KARL BLAU / GIFT MACHINE / GRAVES / NATE ASHLEY: 4-Way Split
Four good friends with their own unique take on the traditional folk archetype. From Blau's electronics, Gift Machine's quiet harmonies, Graves quirky chill pop, and Nate Ashley's brooding melodies, there is a beautiful diversity, while still maintaini
Recommended if you like Beck, Mount Eerie.MP3 price: $7.99
ADAM ARES: Flowers Smoking Cigarettes
Late 2007 release of bedroom folk from an American writer and songwriter.
Recommended if you like Eels.CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $3.99
GOLDEN BOOTS: Ev/Coyote Deathbed Surprise/Telelog Freedom
Crumbly experimental alt-country americana
Recommended if you like Beck, The Monkees.MP3 price: $7.99
LEE TRAWICK: Homemade 2007 to 2008
An exploration of folk, angry folk, and pop using a guitar, keyboard, and laptop.
MP3 price: $4.00
LANDOFTHESILVERJETS: We Can Take The Pain
This is straight ahead rock n' roll recorded on an analog four-track, inspired by Guided By Voices. The music is at times folk, other times indie. But once in a while, it gets really noisy.
Recommended if you like Yo La Tengo, Guided by Voices.CD price: $12.97
BEN BLANKENSHIP: Solitaire
Roots rock and roll and acoustic Americana. Album is raw with lots of live in the studio with feel of Nebraska.
CD price: $10.00
MATTHEW REVELES: We'll Meet Halfway
With sixties era inspired harmonies and tinges of southern style guitar and harmonica, from start to finish, this debut album is sure to satisfy a wide variety of palettes, even of the most discriminating music lover.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
BRETT WILDER: Vanishing Point
"vanishing point" is unlike any album you've ever heard, my life story set to music & recorded "real-time" on a mono tape recorder as a little boy in Alaska & a teen runaway living in Golden Gate Park & on a laptop while hitching cross-country summer '07
CD price: $10.00
THOMAS PATRICK MAGUIRE: A Slight Return
This is the third full length album released by Thomas Patrick Maguire. It is best described as Folk, Indie and Lo-Fi/Middle Class Music.
Recommended if you like Beck,
