Pop » Mood: Brooding
AWOL ONE/ JOSH MARTINEZ/ MOVES: Splitsville
This is a concept album of love songs to break up to, a beautiful, and morbid journey by two revered solo artists, who come together to share the stories of a town we all know so well, Splitsville.
Recommended if you like Atmosphere, Buck 65.CD price: $12.97
THE BELL: Make Some Quiet
This might take you back to a time when you were first discovering bands that acted like the ideal soundtrack to your post-teenage life. Think of Echo and the Bunnymen and The Cure.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DRUMATTICA: Train Out of Time
Dark Pop Rock music with hints of electronic and 80's New Wave.
Recommended if you like U2, Depeche Mode.CD price: $12.97
GREGORY DOUGLASS: Retro Active: Volume 2
A passionate amalgamation of contemporary folk, pop, and rock that “channels everyone from Stevie Wonder to Fiona Apple in a way that's terrifyingly mature for someone so young." (Instinct Magazine)
Recommended if you like Sarah McLachlan, Imogen Heap.MP3 price: $4.99
NEONBELLE: In A Cabin With
Lush electronic beats mixed with intimate pop songs accompanied by haunting vocals.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
THE LAST ARMY: Light Ep
London, UK-based rabble rousers mix classic rock n'roll guitars and drums with strings, timpani and church organs.
Recommended if you like The Clash, The Velvet Underground.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
DANIEL FOLMER: Wear Headphones
A tale of a thousand tangled wires that somehow find a way through the inner ear to the brain.
MP3 price: $6.99
BEAR HUNTER: You Will Be Heard!
Indie-rock-psychedelic-orchestral-pop, like Postal Service meets Flaming Lips meets Broken Social Scene meets Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd meets the Cure.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE CONFUSIONS: It Sure Looks Like the Confusions But It Sounds More Acoustic
Softer side of the Confusions allows you to appreciate the inherent melodic beauty of their songs.
CD price: $16.97
B-MOVIES: B-movies
Reverent, frustrated lamentation for a neighborhood that will never be again, the self-admonishment-by-proxy for a persisting parasitic subject, the desolate examination of la dolce far niente, and a cautious "note to self: seize the day."
MP3 price: $9.99
JONATHAN INC.: Waiting For Morning
Moody layered pop with Ebows, Casio, glistening guitars and memorable melancholic melodies
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JASON FERRIS: apathetic involvement
"Feel-hazy album of the year" L.A. Daily Minute "Stream of consciousness consuming" Product Digest Weekly "Amplifies the social decadence of our culture" New York Gazette
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $2.00
SEAN CROGHAN: From Burnt Orange To Midnight Blue
Crackerbash / Jr.High frontman goes solo. Following national tour with Elliott Smith, this is his debut solo album. A mixture of pop, soul, folk, and rock, Otis Redding and Elvis Costello.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
CHARLOTTE MARTIN: Veins
keyboard driven, harmonically lush, massively dynamic vocals singing poignant poems and stories poignant stories.
CD price: $9.49 / MP3 price: $9.49
BOY OMEGA: I Name You Isolation
From Space Oddity to Spiders on Mars; Dreamy melodies with understated production and a measure of The Kinks
CD price: $16.97
SOFAMECCA: Commuters
"The band has a steady grasp on where ambience ends and real late night, bruised-hearted atmosphere begins" Rolling Stone Magazine AUS
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TOM GAVIN: Fallout
a shimmering panorama of vivid songs ranging from slight, melodic musings to jarring, abstract indie-rock-isms.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GERALD COLLIER: Gerald's Demos
New, unreleased demos of former Best Kissers in the World front man Gerald Collier. ONLY available in digital form.
MP3 price: $9.00
MOTEL CREEPS: Pleasantries in the Parlor
A smoldering blend of alternative (new wave) and modern (shoegaze) rock, layered with perceptive sound and a disarming alteration of vocals. As charming as a stranger peering from behind a dark door.
CD price: $5.99
PROJEKTOR: Young Hearts Fail
Second full-length and represents an evolution in the bands sound, moving away from the epic sound of "Red Wolf Glass" to a more immediate and driving rock focus.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
J. FRANK WILSON & THE CAVALIERS: Last Kiss-The Definitive Collection
1964 Texas Rock n' Roll+Teen Tragedy Pop Music+British Invasion Sounds
CD price: $12.98
BOBBY PENNOCK: 10,000 Stories
Sounds like what would happen if James Taylor had lunch w/ The Beach Boys, The Beatles stopped by, and they all drank w/ Pink Floyd.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
JOE REYES: Colours and Sound
A compelling mix of smartly-crafted pop songs in the tradition of the Beatles, Elliott Smith and Aimee Mann, with all the instruments composed, performed and recorded by the artist himself.
CD price: $12.97
DAKARPO: Notes In Another Order
Sweet yet sinister a truly original sound.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
EVIL MARIA: Evil Maria
Neo-sixties garage pop, infusing edgy rock elements with pop and early new wave.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ANDERS PARKER: 14th and Division, Live in Portland, Oregon
Live album from the lo fi melancholic americana guitar noise wizard.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CRAIG BETHELL: A Day Full of You, A Night Tired of Me
Ex-Locust vocalist teams up with Mark Van Hoen (Mojave 3, Locust, Sing Sing). Influenced as much by avant-pop baritones Scott Walker and David Sylvian as it is by a troubled and melancholic Chet Baker.
CD price: $11.99
DANIEL FOLMER: Gloria
A tale of a thousand tangled wires that somehow find a way through the inner ear to the brain.
MP3 price: $6.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Coming Up Roses -- Sacramento Remembers Elliott Smith
A tribute album featuring artists from Sacramento, CA covering Elliott Smith songs.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith.
THE LAST ARMY: Dark EP
London, UK-based rabble rousers mix classic rock n'roll guitars and drums with strings, timpani and church organs.
Recommended if you like The Clash.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
SHALLOBOI: Learning How to Crawl
Acoustic songs with male/female harmonies and some floating atmospherics in the background.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
SAUL ASHBY: Saul Ashby
Soulful folk pop that takes you back to when the singer/songriter had some depth and meaning. Saul Ashby's sound is timeless.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
ANDREW: From Me to You
The acoustic beauty of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bookends" meets the stark lyrical honesty of John Lennon's "Plastic Ono Band."
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
TONY MARRIOTT: Solitude
Guitar layered indie rock. Moody and atmospheric. Solid songriting. an original voice.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DARK LITTLE ROOMS: Foolish Beauty
It can be difficult to communicate pain without sounding despairing. Dark Little Rooms beautifully navigates its turbulent and lovelorn music, promising hope through the bruises.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
SECRET ANNEXE: Seven Headed Monster
Septet of guys and girls playing earnest indie rock/folk.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $7.99
AKAI: Pretty Songs About Ugly Things
Caustic narratives backed by dynamic orch-pop melodies with searing guitars and subtle sentimental moments.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
CHET: Kauai
Sweeping pop melodies, gorgeous vocals & the perfect saturation of reverb meet equally to map the sonic scape of "Kauai", the second album from Victoria, BC's pop royalty Chet.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SIGNAL HILL TRANSMISSION: An Empty Space
"Longtime L.A. indie darlings Signal Hill Transmission have crafted a fine-tuned, melodic departure from their previous volume of work. . .with traces of Elliott Smith and Sea Wolf melodies all worked in to their layered sound." -West Coast Performer
CD price: $11.98 / MP3 price: $9.99
RABBIT IS A SPHERE: Laps In The Sleep Saloon
Indie rock's post-coital cigarette
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
THE MILKMAN'S UNION: Oh Boy
Indie pop for discerning listeners. Catchy but thoughtful.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
NANBANJIN: On Your Way
Two Brits and an animal causing melodic mayhem in southern Japan.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
NATHALIE NAHAI: Nathalie Nahai
"Simple songs of love, loss and mourning... a brief patch of sweetness and light" OMH.com
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
PONY EXPRESS: Becoming What You Hate
Somber pop songs. Sometimes noisy, sometimes minimal, always what you like.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
GREG WEEKS: Bleecker Station
My second release, this EP was recorded on 4-track cassette, then mixed in a high end studio. Why? Because I worked there durring the mix. So its kinda the most hi-fi of lo-fi recordings.
ANYTHING BOX: Elektrodelica
The name says it all. Elektrodelic, baby. Synths, guitars and drums mixed the way they ought to be. This album will take you away.
MP3 price: $13.00
RACHEL TAYLOR BROWN: Ormolu
Icarus's poor legs stick out of the placid pretty sea.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
IDAHO: Vieux Carré
RARE LIMITED EDTION - A collection of Alt. rock, old school Emo and dream pop - a must for serious fans
Recommended if you like Grandaddy, Mercury Rev.
PRAY TV: Swingers Paradise
Aussie band pray tv's 1994 album produced by singer songwriter Ed Kuepper from oz punk legends The Saints ("the man is a god. no other word suffices" - Melody Maker). "recalls an americanized Richard Butler of psychedelic furs / love spit love notoriety"
CD price: $7.85 / MP3 price: $7.85
PRAY TV: Paydirt
Aussie band Pray TV's acclaimed 1992 album. Brooding melodic rock with references to Joy Division, Husker Du, Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Nominated for an Aussie ARIA award.
CD price: $7.95
THE DIARY: Separate
Stylish. 1977 to 1981 meets 2005 in an elektro-punk landscape for your soul. Download a FREE Single. :Warning.: Known to cause emotions. :)
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
FRUIT OF CHOICE: Vow
Award winning songwriting and world class musicians weave a strong, intricate soundscape that has elements of 70's soul, folk, and rock. All channeled through a truly original and honest medium that leaves no doubt that this music is alive in today.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
MICHAEL HAAGA: The Plus And Minus Show
Houston's Michael Haaga, formerly of the popular metal outfit, Deadhorse, returns to surprise us all with a psychedelic trick up his heavy metal sleeve. Dark, rich melodies, simplistic lyrics and dream-like arrangements.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
KEATING: Cemetery
A midwestern, singer/songwriter blend of folk, pop, antipop, and indie rock.
Recommended if you like Bright Eyes, Neutral Milk Hotel.
SUMMER AT SHATTER CREEK: All the Answers
Like Elliott Smith walking into a chocolate shop owned and operated by the Flaming Lips, the immediate, multi-layered instruments and vocals create an otherworldly and enveloping heady magical journal into a world operating on neuroses and melancholia.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, Simon & Garfunkel.CD price: $11.97
SIGNAL HILL TRANSMISSION: Tomorrow, The Stars
"The SHT draw on folk, pop and alt country influences and there are detectable traces of Scud Mountain Boys, Elliott Smith, and early Wilco amongst the songs." -Comes With a Smile, UK
CD price: $11.98 / MP3 price: $9.99
LAYABOUT: Honest Woman
Layabout's debut EP features keyboard-driven songs, enhanced with a bold palette of brass instrumentation, which evoke a host of diverse influences ranging from Steely Dan, to Debussy, to Lambchop.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
JOHN THURSDAY: Backseat Magellan
Melodic Funk Poppy Rock. john thursday's second CD combines harmony, groove and lyrical integrity to create one of Chapel Hill NC's most unique late 90's albums.
CD price: $10.00
CHRIS WARREN: Beautiful Ruins
Mixing depth and whimsy, pop and folk, Lennon and McCartney, the minutiae of daily life and the big picture, and delivering it in a strangely intimate voice and deftly finger-picked guitar.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
EVERYTHINGNOTHING: choices
San Francisco Alternative Pop: radio friendly songs about everyday life. (c)2004
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
MISSION 5: The Other Side
American rock and roll with catchy monster hooks that sound instantly familiar yet original at the same time.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
AQUALUNG: Aqualung
Dark and haunting songs, featuring the hit song "strange and beautiful" from the extremely successful uk vw ad campaign.
AXOE: Telegraphic
Axoe's debut synthpop album blends synths and rhythms with intimate, arresting vocals on dance anthems, gentle valentines and songs of brooding intensity.
MP3 price: $15.00
THE DAYLIGHT TITANS: Boom and Chime
Post-punk power pop from deep in the heart of Texas.
Recommended if you like Tom Petty, The Church.MP3 price: $11.97
GIRL TO GORILLA: Super Deluxe Custom Experience
Hard luck rock'n roll with an alternative bent, if punk and 50s R&B inspired rock is considered alternative.
CD price: $12.97
CHERRYHILL: Unsaid
A break the rules soulful, melancholy pop with classical and jazz influences. "A can't miss act is Cherryhill, a stunning, classically trained acoustic quartet helmed by pianist/singer Kaela Bratcher and violin player Caitlin Whitehouse.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
THE GORILLA PRESS: The Gorilla Press
Chicago's melting pot rock. The thunder of drums in a subway tunnel; a Rhodes pours wild chords on shimmering, clanging guitars; to wrestle with the longing for home vs. the love of being alone. To take a thing to pieces to learn to make it whole.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NAJEEBULLAH MAHMOODI: Boodam Wa Hastam
Najeebullah has a velvety strong deep voice, evoking memories of the late Ahmad Zaher espcially on his way to win the Second Season of Afghan Star.
Recommended if you like Ahmad Zaher, Ehsan Aman.CD price: $10.00
BULLET DAZE: Bullet Daze
Electronica landscapes with rock elements. The album has many different moments: chill, dark, lounge, pop. It's almost like a soundtrack to an unknown Tarantino film. Or, as the drummer put it, "Portishead meets Duran Duran meets spy movie."
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
SUSANNA MACDONALD: Best Of Nothing Yet
A unique mix of acoustic-folk-rock-pop-jazz-electronica (with some classical thrown in for good measure).
CD price: $10.00
KENT GUSTAVSON AND DEJAN ILIJIC: I Am Here
Serbian & American electronic traditional world pop.
CD price: $16.97 / MP3 price: $16.97
VII: So Selfish
VII offers listeners a glimpse of his light and darkness. culminating in a mixture of 90's electronic pop and goth, and electronic textures like DnB, house and techno.
MP3 price: $12.97
THE WAXWORKS: Lost Negative
"Whip-smart lyrics. Splendidly infectious too, and with the right backing the charts surely beckon" - John Earls, Planet Sound, Channel 4
CD price: $12.97
THE DANGEROUS LILOS: The Dangerous Lilos
Simple atmospheric melodic songs with a twist.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FLIGHT CRASH COMPANION: Criminals
Hungarian new wave
Recommended if you like Depeche Mode, The Postal Service.CD price: $5.00
PLASTIC CHORD: Colonial Conundrum
Psychedelic space pop
Recommended if you like David Bowie.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SPELL TORONTO: Be More Careful
Nominated for Best Alternative Album at the 2007 San Diego Music Awards before it was even released, "Be More Careful" blends pop sensibility with indie integrity and rock and roll intensity.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JCK: 5 Year Anniversary
JCK are innovators of a style called haberdash rap, a mixture of pop, hip hop, electronica, rock & metal brought together under the banner of rap. Rap verses and catchy choruses. For collectors of unique and original independent music.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
FEEDING FINGERS: Wound In Wall
Authentic post-punk, new-wave, dark-wave, goth(ish) trio for those who crave an element of dark and sensually charged surrealism in their music.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
REPUBLIC OF LETTERS: Spirit or a Ghost
The unique sound of Republic of Letters can be characterized as a combination of melodically driven Brit Pop, Ambient Rock and Post Indie Rock.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
SYMPHOSOMATIC: Circles Round My Mind
Intelligent, emotional pop rock from Toronto area based Symphosomatic. Recorded in Seattle Washington in 2006. All songs written by Adam Bernstein.
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
GARY BROCKHOFF: Clear Blue
Progressive power-pop; songs with pop structure and melodic intro and transitions
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MULALLY: Tomorrow EP
Comparable to the Doors, this album has 5-part harmonies, strings, organ and all live instrumentation
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
ULTRAVIOLET: Dos
Ultraviolet plays emotional electronic pop songs about love and war.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
L'NEE: Vyctor/Vyctorya
A unique blend of Pop, R&B, and Gospel vocals. With timeless lyrics and a chameleon-like style.
Recommended if you like Janet Jackson, Corinne Bailey Rae.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DREEY-C: DREEY-C - English
Dreey-C combines sounds that soothes the romantic or the dance mood.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NO SECOND TROY: The Draft EP
Atmospheric indie rock landing like a futuristic jet engine on your sad melon
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
CATHERINE FEENY: Hurricane Glass
Folky Pop that will soothe you into quietude with strummed guitar and mellifluous vocals
MOTEL CREEPS: The Gifts of Happenstance
"The Gifts of Happenstance," a richly sensual and reflective debut LP from NYC's Motel Creeps, is a clutch of finely crafted pop songs in the tradition of Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Divsion, and other types shoegaze infused brit-pop.
CD price: $12.97
LEE SIMMONS: Sometimes Fools
A collection of songs that makes generous use of banjo, harpsichord, and gorgeous harmonies, Sometimes Fools is a record that exudes both a dark reality and a warm charisma for a winning take on the literate pop-rock landscape.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
EVERYTHINGNOTHING: illusions & fools
Infectious well crafted alternative pop music (c) 2006
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
GESTALT SWITCH: Nothing EP
Sharp, rowdy guitar, fighting and stomping indie rock beats as the Big Muff meets a keyboard party.
Recommended if you like The Walkmen, Interpol.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $4.95
GEIST: Decreasing Circles
Pop/Rock with a violin. Melodic, powerful, intelligent and charming.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
THE FIGHTING URGES: The Fighting Urges
Music for all urges - it's like driving a race car while eating a hot fudge sundae.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SCOUT: It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
Indie modern rock with great female Vocals.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SAM SHINAZZI: Stories You Wouldn't Believe
Sydney singer/songwriter Sam Shinazzi returns with his third release containing 12 disarmingly honest songs to make your feet tap and your heart ache.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
KEVIN JOHNSON AND THE LINEMEN: Parole Music
Kevin Johnson is a singer/songwriter in the tradition of Jimmy Webb and Harlan Howard who is equally comfortable with pop and country music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
OPUS BRIDGE: Reforged
Dark rock and aggressive romantic are the best terms to describe the music Opus Bridge creates. The atmosphere flowing from each composition contains many popular influences which is then flavoured with their own unique styles. Mysterious, deep, moving
CD price: $15.95 / MP3 price: $15.95
VENUS MISSION: Love Me Back Alive
Engineered by former Afghan Whigs' John Curly, this sophisticated, sultry, powerful sorrow-to-redemption song collection is awash in guitar textures, driving rhythm arrangements, and luscious piano flavoring. Fans of Fiona, take note.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PENNILESS: Anola
Pop sensibilties married to music that may remind you of Foo Fighters, Nirvana and Pearl Jam
CD price: $16.97
LE GRAND: Le Grand
Imagine if there could be another U2; possibly mixed with harmonies and keyboards. This is one way to describe Le Grand
CD price: $16.97
LARS BYGDEN: Trading Happiness for Songs
Hard to pin a label on Lars Bygden as he shifts effortlessly between pure pop, alternative country, forlorn ballads and introspection
CD price: $16.97
PENTECOST HOTEL: Friends and Fighters
beautiful and melodic...swirling keyboards,delicate strings and shimmering vocals
CRAIG LYONS: Equilibrium Theory vols. I & II
2 EPs on one disc - half mellow & moody, half rocking & rolling
CD price: $10.00
PRAY TV: Westona
Echoes of The Killers - only 8 years earlier. Pray TV are Aussie 1990's indie popsters & CMJ favourites who released a string of acclaimed albums throughout the 90's. Westona was produced by Andy Macpherson (Teenage Fan Club, Frank Black, The Who).
Recommended if you like The Psychedelic Furs, Valentine.CD price: $7.95 / MP3 price: $7.95
THE HEAVENLY STATES: The Heavenly States
Indie rock from the best live band of the year (04). This debut album is a collection of soaring rock numbers and the occassional slow riff. Cominations of violin and raucous guitar make it an uplifting experience. Check out the hit My Friends.
CD price: $10.97
THE OLD CEREMONY: The Old Ceremony
Old world pop-noir songs for modern times.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
THE COMMONS: Dirt Waffle
An album that elegantly captures the beauty of graceful lyrics and simple rhythms. Ranging from full-blown productions to quick and simple pleasurable pop arrangements, The Commons demonstrate their trademark melodic qualities and broad musical range.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
VANESSA M ZARATE: Ornament
Jazzy vocals with ambient beats and a very soulful, sensual, sexy feel.
CD price: $12.99
SCREAMING FOR EMILY: Malice
Smooth, ethereal darkwave full of hooks and seductive synth washes that have an uncanny knack of getting under your skin. Underneath are driving rhythms that keeps you moving as the atmospherics take you away. very original.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JASON LANZA: Cyanosis
Lyrically driven; Alternative, pop, and rock with a little touch of a progressive songwriting style. Just all around good songs.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SUMMERHEAD: Sugar
Piano Music
Recommended if you like Moby, Portishead & Massive Attack.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CLOCKWORK: S:t Christopher Ep
"I first heard it some years ago; the music traveling through the hissing pipes and the dusty tunnels of nocturnal Stockholm. A hammering of cogs and the screaming of wheels, the echoeing sound of a pounding, unstoppable clockwork..."
CD price: $8.95
FIN: wasting time, building a future
new york city rock n' roll with an ambient, new wave vibe
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FRIENDLY NO ONE: The Cleveland Specials
Veering between jazzy clean-strummed guitars and power-chorded crunch on their generaly windy tunes...this is the rare band who talk about exploring "the boundlessness of rock music" in their press release and aren't totally bullshitting you.-The Pulse
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DUSTIN PLUMB: All Things Dead
28 y/o, multi-instrumentalist, Dustin Plumb, is a Pacific Northwest native, woven of the Seattle and Portland underground. Steadfast on the idea of self-production and the complete craft of music, he undertakes his recording projects with obsessive focus.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
B! MACHINE: The Evening Bell
B. Machine plays melancholy synthpop, with poetic lyrics, a seductive voice, and pure synthesizer sharpness.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
MICHIGAN: Ultimate Sky
Michigan is a band from Sweden that blends synthpop with an edgy, passionate alternative sound.
CD price: $14.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Synthpop for a Darkened Room 3
This collection features smooth, emotional, passionate synthpop songs for your more moody moments.
CD price: $8.00
THE SUMMER DARE: The Summer Dare
Deliberate guitar textures, dynamic bi-polar grooves coupled with painful & pretty melodies.
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Foo Fighters.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
ROBBIE MANGIARDI: Deep In The Black
Deep in The Black is New York City-Robbie's cool jazz-blues vocals covering nine standards and two originals over a live sounding smoke-filled room backdrop with some of the best session players in New York City-not for purists but very,very pure...
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BRITTLESTAR: waiting
strong melodies, big choruses, written with the help of stephen duffy (current songwriting partner of robbie williams)
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DAY OF LIONS/BRYAN FREE: Day of Lions/Bryan Free Split EP
Mellow and shuffly folk pop with guitar and piano.
CD price: $10.00
NOAH HOFFELD: Noah Hoffeld, EP
A personal and powerful delving into the rock/singer-songwriter genre
CD price: $12.00
THE DOUGLAS FIR: When This Wears Off
Imagine if Echo and the Bunnymen, PJ Harvey, and The Red House Painters all met for a late night cocktail in a dimly lit pub.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
FIGUREHEAD: The Absence Of Light
A mixture of hard and soft, rough and smooth, loud and quiet ... figurehead's modern rock is heavy on atmosphere and texture, harkening back to the the 80s and early 90s.
CD price: $4.49 / MP3 price: $4.49
OPIUM: Too Many Miles Between Us
Opium plays emotional, electronic pop music, with a new wave flavor and a modern production touch.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
RENAME: You Don't Deserve My Love
Rename is a melodic, catchy synthpop act from Germany that plays in the style of Erasure, Boytronic, and OMD.
CD price: $7.00
HUNGRY MIND REVIEW: Hungry Mind Review
British-sounding; with guitars, piano, mellotrons, violins, Chapman stick, and an emphasis on the lead vocal and melody
MUSIC FROM A JAR: Under Shades Of Blue
If you are into matchbox twenty, Oasis, LIVE, Dave Matthews, and quality music and songwriting of that genre', you'll LOVE Music From A Jar.
STATE SHIRT: Don't Die
Powerful music that almost make you forget that we're all going to die someday.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
A RIVAL: A Rival
Catchy, alternative rock, reminiscent of Fuel, Nickelback, and Creed
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
ERWIN: Erwin
Erwin's classic sound thunders down Laurel Canyon Drive at midnight onto the Sunset Strip, and into your mind as a fresh vision of rock 'n roll...
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
IRON JOHN: Girl and A Gun
They could be Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Elvin Jones and Jack Bruce in a blender but they aren't, they are Jeff's throaty and powerful vocals, Don's distorted Mo-town bass and Todd's John Bonham meets Keith Moon drumming.
CD price: $12.97
MINDHEAD: How Not to Get There
Fans of RADIOHEAD & ELLIOTT SMITH shoulder to shoulder with fans of COLDPLAY & MUSE
MP3 price: $11.95
JASON HAUSMAN: Hollow
Soulful brooding pop.... born in America.... fueled by the UK. 'Hollow' showcases Jason Hausman's searing voice... powerful lyrics & haunting melodies. All-American New Brit Pop.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
THE GREAT MISTAKE: Revolutions
Catchy rock similar to Something corperate, Weezer and Ben Folds. We are Four guys, one of us has a crown. We play music....ahh life is good
CD price: $6.50 / MP3 price: $6.50
THEY WALK IN LINE: All Mine EP
Indie rock ranging from tightly-structured pop to walls of sound.
MP3 price: $8.00
STYLUS: Modus Mundi
A sound that is powerful yet intimate, intricate yet subtle.
Recommended if you like Sunny Day Real Estate, Big Star.CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
TREASON: Spinning
Treason delivers "the rock voice of the millennium" - Italy's Metal Shock magazine, "pumping, gut wrenching guitars" - USA's Electric Basement, "keyboards nothing short of a mindblower" - Portland Music Network
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MEMO: Quiet Days
A truly alternative rock band with moody vocals, catchy melodies and a retro feel. Sounds of days past can be perceived (such as The Cure, New Order, Depeche Mode), but their influences do not overwhelm their unique sound.
MP3 price: $9.95
PLURAL: Have A Rad Summer
Sometimes indie, sometimes twee, sometimes pop, always wonderful. Plural is about the songs that get stuck in your head and wishing the world knew about it. Or, maybe just a secret for yourself.
MP3 price: $8.00
HELLO AMSTERDAM: How Are You?
Four lads from Salt Lake City playing rock music with the guitars and the singing and the drums.
Recommended if you like SUNNY, For the Day.MP3 price: $9.99
THE HUNGRY MIND REVIEW: Four
British-influenced moody guitar pop emphasizing melody (with touches of mellotron, e-bow, leslie)
CD price: $10.00
THE SHARP THINGS: Here Comes The Sharp Things
Grand, melancholy, chamber-pop tales of love and longing; lush and shambolic, with beautiful harmonies and edgy guitars; the dark side of Elton John, the light side of Nick Cave.
CD price: $13.99
ANTIQUE: Book One
A sorrowful tale of a burdened life expressed through dark ambiences perturbed with unforgiving aggressions of death.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MARTLY: Fascination
This high energy, full-sounding band transfers their positive karma to CD.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BULLETS OF ORANGE: Bullets Of Orange
The soaring drama of this band attacks you and enfolds you with it's missles of pure sonic energy, it's melodies of love and pain, and brings down the rock power from on high; from begining to end, a truly cathartic journey.
ELLEN ROSNER: Count To 3
Pop Rock at its finest. Vocals like Johnny Cash on estrogen, kick-ass drums, great guitar-work (not wankery) and good solid bass. Throw in the Poi Dog Pondering horns on a few numbers. You have to listen to this.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
JASMINE STAR: jasmine star
frighteningly melancholic dream-pop
Recommended if you like Mazzy Star, Opal.CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $2.00
GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS: Mobilize
His newest CD. A big passionate, triumphant pop album from the genius behind Grant Lee Buffalo. Grant's voice is more haunting than ever. It's a total classic from beginning to end. Every song is pure perfection.
Recommended if you like Grant Lee Buffalo.CD price: $13.49 / MP3 price: $13.49
GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS: Ladies Love Oracle
Grant-Lee Phillips in the raw, in the dark, in the basement. Sometimes a sketch says more than a mural.
