Pop » Type: Experimental
PDX POP NOW!: 2008 Compilation CD
Amazing compilation of various Portland pop, rock, jazz, chamber, and electronic artists.
CD price: $8.00
HELVETIA: The Acrobats
Complex, hypnotic, self recorded jams on their new record The Acrobats, the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2006 release "The Clever North Wind."
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE OLYMPIC SYMPHONIUM: Chapter 1
Folk from New Brunswick, Canada - 3 songwriters, 3 voices, two guitars, upright bass, casio keyboard and drums.
CD price: $17.50 / MP3 price: $17.50
AUDREY RYAN: Dishes & Pills
Quirky singer-songwriter indie-rock with elements of folk/country but with an overall unique and experimental approach to capturing songs, lots of layers, strong lyrics, and strong hooks.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PDX POP NOW!: 2005 Compilation
Begun in 2004 in true DIY fashion by a dozen or so members of the PDX-POP mailing list, the group has produced three music compilations and FREE, ALL AGES multi-day music festivals, to which The Shins, The Thermals, Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists...
DAS LLAMAS: World War
Wild-throated melodies loom over a landscape of guitars and synthesizers ardently sewn together over spastic percussion erupting against steadfast bass lines that create a grimy upbeat electro rock that drunkenly flirts with no-wave punk.
Recommended if you like Bauhaus, Gang of Four.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
WHY TWIST THE HAIR: Healthy Skin
An electric keys duo that defies simple genre categorization. Their songs are “pop” in form—short, direct, hook-laden—but harmonized in the dissonance of modern classical music and rhythmically propelled by a unique hammer/scamper nonsensibility.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SPOUSE: Love Can't Save This Love
Indie rock with memorable choruses, driving beats, and sometimes smooth/sometimes raspy vocals.
MP3 price: $12.97
HULA: The Cloud That Eats Hands
An intimate delivery of hauntingly beautiful harmonies over a delicately woven soundscape of dark guitar, pedal steel, bass and drums.
Recommended if you like Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth.CD price: $12.97
MANCINO: Manners Matter
From the depths of the Gowanus Canal, Mancino mashes elements of 60's pop, psyche, circus squawks, and solid rock music into a potent stew that possesses the shy wallflower to boogie and the dancing queen to strap on a pair of headphones and geek out.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
DAVID PILTCH: Minister of the Interior
Noted bassist David Piltch (kd lang, Bill Frisell, Holly Cole, Loundon Wainwright III, Joe Henry, Madeleine Peyroux) releases his debut solo album, with shades of jazz, Americana, art pop, and friendly experimentalism.
Recommended if you like k.d. lang, Bill Frisell.CD price: $12.97
THE DEEP FREEZE MICE: Hang on Constance, Let Me Hear the News
English post punk indie garage band that made ten albums in the '80s.
Recommended if you like The Legendary Pink Dots, Television Personalities.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!: Walk Like A Human
Innovative electronic-based music that skirts the typical dance genre and finds a home between catchy indie pop and noisy math rock. Odd-yet-dance-friendly time signatures, experimental production, and sharp hooks all help set The Christmas Lights apart.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE RAINING: The Raining
The Raining's music has been described by fans as melodic with catchy phrasing and hints of art-rock here and there.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
GARRETT FISHER: Phonograph
Inspired by the poetry of Sappho, this album blends pop, Indian ragas, sampled beats, vocals, bass, and keyboards.
CD price: $12.97
ANTI-SOCIAL MUSIC + GENA ROWLANDS BAND: The Nitrate Hymnal
A chillingly beautiful treatment. There are serious musical chops at work here, liquid runs of 20th century classical violin, electrified and electrifying guitar buzz, discordant brass and even, at one point, a church organ.
Recommended if you like Scott Walker, The Rachels.CD price: $9.99
SLUSHCO: When I Met the Boss of Nova
Synthetic science fiction delivered from catchy electropop casiotones and analog synthesizers. Check out a sample.
MP3 price: $6.99
MARVINS REVOLT: Killec
Three-piece from Copenhagen, Denmark making angular and catchy tunes. Touched by sounds from the present and the past, but forging their own path, regardless of scenes or trends.
Recommended if you like Maxïmo Park.CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
FOR FEATHER: Your Friends Are Doing Well
Fervent and expansive, here is a rock band that intertwines the ethereal sound of the marimba, the warmth of the upright bass, the strength of the electric guitar and the bell-toned, raw honesty of Erica Glyn's vocals.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
TAKE NO DAMAGE: Mushroom Clouds
Experimental pop for a nuclear bubblegum post-apocalyptic landscape. Induces a crack-like sugar high for the auditory processing section of your brain.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
CRYSTAL UNDERSTANDING: Hold the Gem
High spirit magic computer pop sound
Recommended if you like DAT Politics, Ratatat.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE TRIMMED HEDGES: The Seas Elected
An always moving underwater sea circus.
Recommended if you like Pink Floyd, They Might Be Giants.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: Eyes
"A Dunfermline four-piece with the menace of Joy Division and the slacker indie cool of Pavement. Whether it’s their engrossing hooks, guitar flurries, or the occasional brooding soundscape, the band set a high benchmark."-Stuart McHugh, THE LIST magazine
CD price: $6.00
SPOUSE: RELOCATION TACTICS
INDIE ROCK - Cushioning a core of relentless melodies with soft layers of fuzz, the music on Relocation Tactics plays like a shuffle of early '90s indie rock.Consistently revolving between head-bobbing upbeat numbers and slower, more lackadaisical fare, S
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
MANDIBLE: (Here Come The) Mandible
Prog-rock for short attention spans.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE LOVELY PUBLIC: Burning Tape at the Mystery Dinner
"like an ensemble of olden time court entertainers descending into an electrified pagan ritual."
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Politics of Photosynthesis: a Tribute to Stereolab
An eclectic compliation of bands from all over the world. Each over delivering a unique revisioning of various Stereolab songs.
MP3 price: $12.97
MORNING FOR THE MASSES: Seconds
Morning For The Masses plays a progressive indie rock style, mixed with a little experimental tendencies.
MP3 price: $6.00
KYLE MANN COMBO: Goodbye Kites
I hear progressive and indie rock, jazz, pop, classical, show tunes, there is a cabaret feel and Kyle is not shy of hitting a falsetto. Some of the most endearing parts of the recording are the falsetto hooks… - Richard Milne, WXRT 93.1 FM
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
HELLOTHISISALEX: the anachim thorn
Fuzzy analogue tones and jaunty pop beats for fans of catchy electro. Instrumental electronics for warming the winter and cooling the summer.
CD price: $6.97 / MP3 price: $6.97
THE SPEAKERS: Yeats Is Greats: The Speakers Sing the Poems of William Butler Yeats (and more)
quiet experimental folk-pop songs--seven of the songs are Yeats poems set to music
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
MODERNSTATE: highwater moonboot
a one man band of atmospheric sing-alongs and and art-folk experimentalism.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
KITE OPERATIONS: Dandelion Day
What if Phil Spector held a noise band at gunpoint and forced them to produce the perfect pop album? ...Yeah, you're right. Brains would be splattered against the wall.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
THE MERKIN DREAM: Cottage
Shimmery guitars and delicate keyboard lines. Nostalgiac vocals and foggy memories. City streets and cool green summer grass.
Recommended if you like Yo La Tengo, Radiohead, Belle and Sebastian, Blonde Redhead, TV on the Radio.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
BRICE WOODALL & THE POSITRONS: Sine Wave Sea
A well-rounded, textured, and lavish affair. Woodall provides an endless bounty of good things. Songcraft. Haunting melodies. Heaps of feeling. Electronic burbles, coos, and purrs.
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Jeff Buckley.CD price: $9.99
MICHAEL WEBSTER: Report
Mind-blowind psychedelic pop songs that change speed and style every couple of seconds.
CD price: $7.50 / MP3 price: $4.95
THE TANGIBLE EARS: Whims
The band's debut full length disk exhibits an elegant amalgamation of Indie, Jazz and Pop.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE PROPER NOUNS: A Million Hurtful Things
Intelligent pop rock which remains firmly rooted in British post-punk while maintaining a punk edge.
Recommended if you like The Smiths, The Fall.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
SETTING SUN: Children of the Wild
Hook-laden indie-pop probed by twizzling sounds, lashing cellos, driving beats and a voice with words slowly tasted before being released.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
CARTOON MONSTER: The Dying Sea
Quavering vocals, subtle lyrics, soft beats, and rumbling keyboards create an atmosphere utterly unique yet approachable.
CD price: $8.00
ANGEL TECH: The Angel Tech Geometry Set-EP
Their debut release from 1999 - eclectic, electronic, experimental, acoustic and intense - beautiful songs from a band out of time.
DYLAN GILBERT: The Quiet Life
Folky indie rock with experimental and jazz undertones.
CD price: $12.97
GERONIMO: Enlightenment In A Small Town EP
Members of The Cure, Television, Dinosaur Jr, Fugazi, Hot Chip, At The Drive In, despistado, and the best actor out of one of your grade 12 one act plays; in a space shuttle; having an orgy; before arriving on a far off planet; in another galaxy, to vote
Recommended if you like Fugazi, At the Drive-In.MP3 price: $12.97
SHARE: Pedestrian
Share seems to stand in between the genres we grew up around and look at them with pencil in hand and create songs somewhere in between what we find familiar. The melodies are refreshing, lyrics worthwhile, with Escher-like scaffolding.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
DOUG CHEATWOOD: More Than A Dozen Songs
A variety of songs culled from Doug's CD-R releases.
CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $18.00
COSMO SPEEDWAY: Evolution of the Bicycle
We've got tech beats, real beats, good times, bad times, found sound, tape loops, french horn, watermelon, moog, cello, piano, Cholula, and a gold spray-painted 12 string guitar that stains our clothes when we play it.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ELEVATION: F.A.B.L.E.
Tokyo Neu Wave. Gnarly freaky guitar and avant-female-vocal
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
HO-HUM: Landau Zeal
A dynamic and surprising mix of older school new wave, new school indie folk and an unprecedented blend of pop bridging them in the middle. It's the sort of sound you would expect out of the UK; poetic, lush and incredibly catchy.
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Elvis Costello.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
STRICTLY FOR THE BIRDS: Time With You
Since their beginning only a year ago in the fall of ’05, Strictly for the Birds have shown themselves to be one of the Northeast’s hardest working new bands. Fans have used quite a set of adjectives to describe their sound and performances: catchy, showy
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
SCOTT PARIS: If... Dog... Rabbit!
A testament to a truly scatterbrained artist looking for his place in the creative world.
MP3 price: $3.99
WET CONFETTI: Laughing Gasping
Wet Confetti play music from the heart, nothing stands in their way. Drum assaults, driving bass and slashing guitars push the idea of rock music in new directions. Noise and energy used in a way that is fresh and exciting.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE BEIGE: 01
an atmospheric pop quintet: understated, wry, jazzy with off-kilter pop leanings. "A record that fuses popular and experimental forms into a coherent whole is a rare thing, and this is a record of rare beauty." -- Americana UK
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SOUNDPOOL: On High
NYC based 5 piece shoegaze/space rock audio/visual recording artists with sweet girlie vox saturated guitar sounds lush synth arrangements and a danceable driving rhythm section who prefer to play out with the backdrop of self produced psychedelic visuals
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SKIMO: Un año de libros viejos y los restos de un incendio
Pop with electronic background can be emotional, that’s big truth; but maybe it should be that way by law, because if we don’t add any heart to the machines they won’t be able to touch our thrills, even if the song is absolutely great.
THE FIT: Gas & Electric
The FIT is credited with having a profound impact on the New York Rock Scene durring their brief reign in the late 1990's. The Fit's Dance-Rock sound has been haled as the basis for some of today's bigg
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LOST AUDIO NETWORK: The Braille Album
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
CD price: $12.97
SPOUSE: Nozomi
Schizophrenic indie pop with memorable hooks, and yummy ear candy.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LIKE CLOCKWORK: A Cross In The Ground
Jesse Astin's Indie Pop Massacre, Like Clockwork, hailing from Atlanta, GA is an emotional outburst via electronic instruments and poetic visions.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
EMPEROR X: Central Hug/Friendarmy/Fractaldunes
Myco-pop delayed guitar songs. Marchy folk anthems. Magnetic pickups + an MT-40 + wooden things like drums and harpsicords when available.
CD price: $9.41 / MP3 price: $9.41
HELICOPTERS: How to Fake Fall Asleep
How to Fake Fall Asleep is a masterpiece of lush pop, sonic experimentation, and catchy-as-hell melodies that defies comparison and demands attention.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ESQUIMAUX: perfecto!
The first full-length record from Esquimaux. Featuring the tracks "Honey & Dear" w/ guest vocalist Gary Jules, and "For the Record" w/ guest bassist Brian Gibson of the bands Lightning Bolt & Wizzardz.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
DEAD PAN RANGERS: Not Much Less Further Than Last Time
Experimentally skewed indie pop-rock
CD price: $8.95
THE SILENT YEARS: Stand Still Like The Hummingbird
The Silent Years' brand of rock touts a dreamy delicacy encased in rock noise: Vocal harmonies punctuate cascading melodic hooks. Intertwining inspirations from Wilco, Radiohead and Elliott Smith, the band crafts a sound that is scientific, yet artful.
MP3 price: $9.00
SPOUSE: Are You Gonna Kiss or Wave Goodbye?
Infectious indie pop created from feather smooth/sand-paper rough vocals over a bed of swirling guitars, bass and drums, and the occasional glockenspiel or prophet V synth.
MP3 price: $10.97
JONATHAN SEGEL: Scissors and Paper
Jonathan's first solo record after years of bands. darker and more reflective than the previous Jack And Jill records, obviously influenced by the company kept while touring with Sparklehorse. Soulful and melodic guitar and violin work, mixtures of drums
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
RAYZD: Fear is the Mind Killer
RAYZD is the new name of a band formerly called G-Clef and da Houndz/Yalloppin' Hounds, and is the hip-hop/pop/jazz-oriented Phoenix that rose from the ashes of the Neo Swing Movement of the turn of the millennium. But trust us you never heard a band like
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE MANAGEMENT: Seventeen Minutes in the Cheap Seats
An intriguing blend of futuristic sounds created on old-fashioned equipment. They developed a compelling form of indie rock and electronic down-tempo style with hand-me-down equipment and a nickel & dime budget
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
SUBSTANCE RECORDS: California
This gem of a compilation features some of LA's top modern rock artists including; Brian Bell's (Weezer) band Spacetwins, Remy Zero's astounding home recordings, Silver's ethereal and grinding early sessions; and is played on KCRW
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FLEXIE: Take Out
80s new wave influence in the songs and sound. Two cousins as dual lead vocalists give that sound you can only get when sisters or brothers or cousins sing together. Cool guitar-work weaving in and out behind the vocals.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.98
BERRY: Deanimminevitabilitated & Advent
You were a kid once; having a good ol' time until your mother yells at you and suddenly. Temper tantrum. One minute it's a catchy, pop-tarty darling, the next it's a noisy freak-out.
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Animal Collective.
POP ARCHEOLOGY TRANSMISSION: It Is What It Is
Blending Baroque Pop, California Pop, Power Pop, British Pop, Psych Pop, New Wave, Art Rock, Synth Pop and Surreal Americana.
CD price: $12.97
ZAP EM DEAD BARTHOLOMEW: Piano Fingers EP
A post-hardcore sound with a little pop-punk feel and new wave influence that reaches across the genres to give everything from brutal southern breakdowns to dancy hooks to soft soulful melodies.
THE OTHER CHILDREN: BANG!
Soaring, sing-along rock tunes that grab your ear and won't let go.
CD price: $10.00
PARKDALE REVOLUTIONARY ORCHESTRA: Truth in the Dark
Take new music opera, reduce the instrumentation to a manageable and mobile six-piece group, add hardcore drums and electric bass, and play original music and covers of everything from Wire to Kurt Weill.
Recommended if you like Philip Glass, Godspeed You! Black Emperor.CD price: $14.97
JETPACK: MISSING: Jetpack: Missing
Hard rock guitars with beautiful female vocals over aggressive drums with a bluesy funky bass player, familiar yet different.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $6.00
PORTER: Atemahawke
Indie, Experimental, rock and pop blended together to make you imagine fantastic landscapes.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
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
THE RED ELECTRIC: Wonderland Fight Songs
Intriguing, progressive, electro-rock along the lines of TV on the Radio, The Rapture, and Radiohead. Whether you're dancing your ass off to IWFTWW, singing along to Freebirds or immersed in the complex sounscape of Days of Heaven this is music for you.
Recommended if you like Radiohead, T.V. on the Radio.CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN: Hiding in the Light
Self produced indie/pop rock.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
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
NOSE BLEED ISLAND & THE BLOOD ISLAND SOCIETY: More Tales From The Blood Island
Glitchy gutter pop surveys the surreal to the absurd with a notable fixation on pizza and robots. Its a postmodern martini party at singer Joey Pizza Slice's mom's house where dracula rips a solo on a one-stringed guitar with beer spilled on it.
CD price: $10.00
CAVEDOLL: Songs That Would Not Behave Vol. 2
Eclectic indie electro pop rock
CD price: $6.97 / MP3 price: $4.99
BARON BANE: Orchids EP
Warm analogue meets cold digital - Alphaville meets Plaid; Phoenix meets Boards of Canada
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
PUBLIC JONES: Public Jones
Food for your mind, candy for your ears, fuel for your booty. Old school rock and groove collides with modern rock, pop, hip-hop and electronica. And now for something completely different.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
HAUNTED WEST: Haunted West
The eerie rock and roll songs of Mark Grande and friends.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
TWO TRAVEL AGENTS: One Way Ticket
The record includes 10 tracks full of emotion and depth, influenced by styles such as eighties synthpop, classical folk music and triphop.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
VENT: Return to Begin
The album is seen as one of the best ever - more streamlined - unlike the passionate and darker first album :Limerance and Loss" ....The second album is set to show a new beginning in today's music scene.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SUSAN GILBERT & PLASTIC DUCK: Funny Dog
Susan Gilbert's creative wordplay is complimented by the colorful soundscapes of Plastic Duck (flute, bass, percussion, bowed saw) in a collection of songs and musical poems that are hard to categorize, funny with a dark edge, and original.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE MOODIEVETO: Say Goodnight, Lost Love
Ann Arbor, Michigan trio's debut EP features eclectic indie electro pop fused with Americana and ghostly overtones. Danceable yet contemplative, somewhere between Drum and Bass and Whiskey Ballads. A truly unique and original blend of sounds.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
HIS MIGHTY ROBOT: The Conflict
Alternative rock that brings raw emotion and honesty with a sound that is unparalleled.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GIFFORD PINCHOT: 1910
Dynamic, abstract sound that pulls equally from guitar-rock, pop, space-rock, and even hard rock to create a truly indie sound unlike any other. The boy/girl vocals give the songs an added edge, making them highly vesceral, as well as memorable.
CD price: $7.97 / MP3 price: $7.97
FELINA'S ARROW: Let Me Tell You A Story
Felina's Arrow ~ Glam, Pain, and Harmony
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
BROTHER MACHINE: no home in this world
A total psychedelic folk-hop experience inside the mind of Seth (aka Brother Machine), the one-man-band behind "no home in this world"
Recommended if you like Justin Timberlake, Beck & The Flaming Lips.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BOX CAMERA: Box camera
A symphonic masterpiece of classic pop songwriting
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
WHITEROOM: WhiteRoom
Neo-Romantic Pop
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Patrick Watson.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $1.00
NEO NOUVEAU: The Forks & Knives
A rock, pop experiment guaranteed to please the people in your car. Listen and love our art and fashions.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
LYN LEON FEATURING CAROLYN LEONHART: Glass Lounge
Lyn Leon features jazz vocalist Carolyn Leonhart as lead singer and cowriter with a group of musicians, based in Swizterland, that perform with glass instruments.
Recommended if you like Portishead, Wax Poetic.CD price: $18.00
SCRAP ARTS MUSIC: Phon
Adrenaline-laced, hyper percussion -- played by 4 men + 1 woman -- on mobile invented instruments. Intricate + energy-pumped. "A knock-out." THE AGE, "Imaginative layering of propulsive rhythms is impeccable." NOTEWORTHY
CD price: $17.97 / MP3 price: $17.97
AMY KOHN: I'm in Crinoline
Dubbed a "Musical Devil in a Red Dress" by legendary Producer Arif Mardin, Amy Kohn's Experimental Pop is whimsical, cathartic, sweet and smart.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ORANGE PECCO: draw the blinds
One morning it started and it is still there hanging on the river Scheldt, ...
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
BERNHARD DRAX: I Ate Chocolate And Lost 20 Pounds!
Alternative Rock with a progressive bent performed by a Leonard Cohen fan, delivered with a Zappaesque mix of Chili Peppers so that Suzanne Vega would love it and Bela Bartok too.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DIFFERENT KONG: Different Kong
Progressive rock in a fairly pop format.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE BLACK MATH EXPERIMENT: Fake Words and Signs From Space
A supersonic casserole of punk, alternative, electronica, and outright weirdo rock and roll in the grand tradition of Devo and The Pixies.
MP3 price: $5.00
STEVEDORE: Almost Beautiful
Stevedore conjures up visions of Pet Shop Boys and Erasure but with more modern elements. The vocals are poppy while the rhythms are addictive and could fill any dance floor. Settling into the groove that the Postal Service and Head Automatica are creatin
CD price: $9.99
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY: (self-titled)
Moody, psychedelic pop, also takes cues from folk and electronic music.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
ANDAZIFICATION: JPT
An eclectic mix of experimental Rock, pop and Hip Hop from a trio from the Himalayas.
Recommended if you like Weezer, The Smashing Pumpkins.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE BATS FROM THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT: Zombiance
High Octane Synth Rock you can't help but dance to
Recommended if you like The Faint, The Rapture.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MARK MANGOLD: Lift
Piano based, unique world and New Age vibe...to pop.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
ZRU VOGUE: Survival of the Cutest
Eclectic, funky, rhythmic, melodic surrealist rock for thinking humans.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
BLAMMOS: Self-title Ep
From its opening ukulele strum to its blistering punk rock closer, this self-titled ep shows the dynamic scope of blammos' pop possibilities.
CD price: $8.00
ASHLEY HOLT: Great
Experimental (and relentlessly catchy) pop song prototypes about indigestion and furniture from the workshop of eccentric recluse Ashley Holt, best described as "junkyard XTC".
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
ULYSSES.: 010
The primitive sound of Robert Schneider's band ULYSSES. is an epiphany. Musically and emotionally direct, "010" thrives on dissolution, change, loss, and noise.
CD price: $12.00
THE SILOS: Heater
Organic guitar Rock with texured samples and filmic soundscapes
Recommended if you like Leonard Cohen, The Stereo.CD price: $12.97
DAVI JONES' LOCKER: Remedy For Your Brain
Unmistakenly the most engrossing and melodic adult rock to hit the independant music market.
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Creed, Incubus, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, The Calling.MP3 price: $9.99
TIMMY: The Damn Thing's Still Alive
Latest cd from the band Timmy. Power trio line-up with 10 original songs in a progessive, melodic rock style.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DOUG CULLEN: Nothing Happens
Experimental electronic beats blended with accordions, classical guitars and vocals.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
TWINK: Supercute!
Modern tunes for toy piano. Music box melodies meet mutated beats, vaudevillian ensembles and electronic textures.
Recommended if you like Plaid, Pizzicatto Five.CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99
JEFF ELIASSEN: Introducing Raven Fenbahn
Subtle + enchanting music through the symphonic eye of Raven Fenbahn, the West coast's hottest sitting pop chamber band.
CD price: $9.00
THE MUGGABEARS: Kim Berlin
Loose, jangly pop shoved up against complete noise krang. Oh, and sometimes you can surf to it (unless you're Eddie Vedder).
CD price: $7.97 / MP3 price: $7.97
INCANTARE: Blue Light Love
Songs of lust, lost love, suffering, shopping at K-Mart, ambient hallucinations, fairy tales, death and the existence of God, and a few surprises tossed in to tantalize your eclectic musical tastes.
MP3 price: $12.97
ZRU VOGUE: Beautiful Again
Zru Vogue sings surrealist art pop songs about life, beauty and decay -- this album picks up where Zru Vogue left off after their critically acclaimed records of the early 80's.
Recommended if you like Coldplay, Beck & The Flaming Lips.CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
REY FEO: Does Anyone Know You Are Going This Way?
Eclectic, harmony driven rock.
CD price: $9.98 / MP3 price: $9.98
FREEDOM BREMNER: Houseofreedom- The EP Sessions
This record is Ecclectic Soul, a mixture of soul, electronica, rock, pop and funk.
MP3 price: $10.00
BING: Galore
Drawing from a wide palette of sounds--1970's Ethiopian pop, Indonesian hybrids, American funk, Klezmer, Balkan jazz, indie rock, 1960's American experimental and jazz, BING creates dynamic, fresh, and eclectic music.
Recommended if you like Mahmoud Ahmed.CD price: $15.00
GUNS, BOOKS & TOOLS: low level equilibrium
g,b,&t are guitar rock. maybe a slightly different take on guitar rock - but still guitar rock. we try to think about each instrument, and write songs so that each instrument, including the vocals, has equal footing.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ORANGEMOSS: materialize
This band has their own creative sound permeating every area of music with heartfelt lyrics, sweet melodies, and a smooth rock and roll vibe that fuels the fires within.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ACTION SPECTACULAR: Everything's going to be KO, really
The album is more folky and laid back but rock music.
Recommended if you like The Rock.CD price: $13.97
JONATHAN SEGEL: Edgy Not Antsy
Pop oddities, kinda like Eno's pop records of the mid-70s but a whole lot more now
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Camper Van Beethoven.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SESAM-O: Cooking In The Larder
Cookin' in the larder is the debut album from Sesamo (SESAM-O). Extremely excellent psychedelic pop band from Spain, "con ecos a Pink Floyd y Flaming Lips.", navigating between unidentified flying popsongs, ambient electronica and mesmerizing post-rock, f
CD price: $13.00
VERTICES: Vertices
Experimenting with + & -, pain with joy, love & loss in just the right proportions, swirl them together, & you get the music of Vertices. Heavy at times, ambient & sometimes lethargic, their tangible & emotional songs will creep into your conscious.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
EDISON WOODS: Edison Woods
This first album by the enigmatic ensemble Edison Woods is a tender collection of warm blanketing lullabies. A painfully beautiful, timid entry into this ensembles unique landscapes.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
THE ARMY OF MARS: the army of mars
Well-crafted, adventurous indie rock with eccentric hooks, incorporating modern and vintage electronics into a guitar-heavy wall of sound. Dynamic, artful, and unabashedly pretentious, THE ARMY OF MARS draws comparisons to Radiohead and the Verve.
CD price: $5.00
S.A.: Sociedad Anonima
A mix of rock/pop, electronica & trip-hop... from Mexico... with love...
CD price: $10.00
SAMUS: Desengano
Gonzo psychedelic mayhem; crushing bluesy doom metal riffs collide with turntable butchery and kitchen-sink electronica to create the most warped heavy indie pop / metal record of 2002.
CD price: $12.00
APARTMENT: the girl is not right
Chamber punk and cabaret funk. An eerie theatrical and compelling set of songs that combine the spirit of 20's berlin cabaret with forays into experimental pop-punk and funk.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
OCTOTHORPE: Information Overload
High-energy first offering explores styles from rock to rap with bizarre, disturbing results.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
JUAN PROPHET ORGANIZATION: Naked and Palletized
The menagarie consists of guitar,bass,drums,piano,violin,accordian,vocals, banjo,trumpet,clarinet,cornet,glockenspiel,percussion and other sounds. It's a Circus Rock Show that will leave a powerfully nostalgic yet uncertain taste in the mouth...
Recommended if you like Frank Zappa, Mr. Bungle.MP3 price: $10.00
BIG MILK: Big Milk
Psychedlic riffs and dream inducing vocals... each song could evoke tears for its sheer beauty.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
TRACE FURY: Ankle Deep
Dueling female vocals, dueling pianos, backed by sax, bass, and drums; Dark, emotional, eclectic, and experimental; From jazzy to trancy, from funky to ambient, from catchy to confusing
RAMONA SILVER: Ultrasound
She sounds like a sisterly version of Jonathan Richman in her oblique street-simple yet street smart lyrics that posit such philosophical puzzles as "Being's just a reaction to everything we can't control" ...
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
DIGNEN: dignen
Fugazi meets The Cure, this is band does not fall under typical sterotypes.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DENNIS DRISCOLL: On The Go
Dennis Driscoll plays mellow indie pop songs with catchy melodies and sometimes he does his own original (comedic) spoken word poems.
LINDA KRAUS: The First
You are ready for a great experiment ? Jump into the acoustic emotion
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY: The Bronze
Prog-infused-indie pop rock with enough experimentation to be interesting and enough hooks to be memorable.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
ALAN JENKINS AND THE CREAMS: ie
An experimental, psychedelic, indie musical comedy about animal rights.
CD price: $12.97
WHITE NOISE RADIO: White Noise Radio
White Noise Radio are an atmospheric indie rock act out of NY who utilize 80's new wave, modern guitar crunch, and powerpop hooks to create memorable and refreshingly ambitious pop songs.
Recommended if you like The Cure, The Postal Service.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
INDURAIN: What You Get For Being Naive
Delicately crafted electroacoustic pop songs from this graceful Pan-European duo.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $4.95
ROBERT POKORNY: Coast
Acoustic electric strings horns vocals stories of love and life
Recommended if you like Rush, Robert Plant.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SEBASTIAN PORTILLO: UTOPIA
The Swiss singer and songwriter Sebastian Portillo produced himself in the studio and assembles on UTOPIA all his musical diversity. Radio stations already compared his song Eternity to the productions of the young Lenny Kravitz.
CD price: $12.97
