Pop » Type: Lo-Fi
THE DEAD TREES: Fort Music
With total disregard for what is "hip," the dead trees remind you of all the bands you still listen to but no longer play live, making the dead trees the "hippest" grave robbers of our generation.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
THE GO: Howl On the Haunted Beat You Ride
Howl: to utter a loud, prolonged, mournful cry, as that of a dog or wolf. Haunted: preoccupied, as with an emotion, memory, or idea; obsessed. Beat: one's assigned or regular path or habitual round. Ride: to appear to float in space, as a heavenly body.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
PDX POP NOW!: 2006 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, Viva
CD price: $8.00
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
TINY TIM: Stardust
A compilation of previously unreleased 26 tracks including covers of hit songs in 1960s and 1970s and off stage recordings etc. with a 16 page booklet.
CD price: $18.98
TINY TIM: Wonderful World Of Romance For Tiny Tim Fans Only
The 1979 sessions digitally remastered.
Recommended if you like Tiny Tim.CD price: $18.98
HYPNOTUBA: Loosed
Fun, happy, mostly instrumental Casio pop for people of all ages (yes, all of them.)
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
THE GRAND MAL CONSORTIUM: ...and the night will walk a dead one once again
Great sounding northern Swedish pop/rock.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MOONCALF: mooncalf
Independent, countrified-rock with heavy electronic undertones - a mess of sounds and style
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
THE WHORE MOANS: Watch Out For This Thing
Aggressive trashy punk, and precision power pop. Clever hooks and intelligent songwriting from Seattle, Washington.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
CINEPLEXX: Picnic
Spanish-language indie pop with lush arrangements and swaying rhythms. Featuring members of Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits and Federico Aubele.
CD price: $12.97
SONGSTORE: Permanent Victim Syndrome (1996-2006)
Emo pop songs.
Recommended if you like Yo La Tengo, The Cure.CD price: $12.97
PRKR: The Felt City
An atlas of electronic pop songs evoking technology, globalization, climate change, relationships, ideologies, and uncertain futures.
CD price: $10.00
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
THE STATE OF SAMUEL: Here Come The Floods
Swedish Pop with chiming 12 string guitars. For fans of Guided by Voices, Apples in Stereo, and Power Pop.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MAPLE RABBIT: Let's Be Honest
lo-fi keyboard video band: twee meets post-riot grrl meets new wave meets your mom.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
ARBOR DAY: Braver Than Today
"...Gayfully skips through the daisy fields (driven by a Beach Boys-like horn section), and settle down in a clearing to have tea with Jonathan Richman and the Smiths." --Village Voice
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
FRANKEL: Lullaby for the Passersby
The solo recording project of Los Angeles resident Michael Orendy, who plays and records everything himself. The moniker comes from the fearsome piece of orthodontia that he wore as a child and suits Orendy's music perfect
MP3 price: $12.97
PAWNSHOP KINGS: Locksley
'Revolver/Rubber Soul' Beatles Rock 'n' Roll and Southern Gospel with a low 'shotgun willie' country gear
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
KARL MOHR: Vereinsgasse
Crazy lo-fi electro weirdness for the strange-at-heart. Recorded to cassette, the musical sounds are derived almost exclusively from a Roland PMA-5 and an Aiwa stereo lav mic. This is a fun ride for the open-minded.
Recommended if you like Pizzicato Five, Yello, Leonard Cohen, Thomas Dolby, Rheostatics, Spookey Ruben.CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE & CYRANO: Center of The Universe & Cyrano
Cyrano's piano and organ is adding an acoustic sweet touch to the C.O.U. tunes, Sissyfus' out of tune fiddle, deep bass and dreamy programming is pulling the leg of cyranos ballads.
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
SCOTT MARROW: For All The Time You Spend Losing... You Better Enjoy Your Failures...
Loud guitars, pop melodies, catchy
CD price: $8.00
THE RED THREAD: ship in the attic, birds in the subway
The Red Thread's third album expands on the southwestern, guitar-driven rock songs and energy of their live shows. "Wurlitzers, vibes and Lakis' winning way with pedal-steel create a melancholy magnetism that is hard to ignore." - Uncut
CD price: $9.97
PHOEBES DOUGH: Draco Way
Melodic, electric guitar and vocal driven storytelling
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
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.
JOE RANDAZZO: Stuck In The In Between
Emo Folktronica
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, Air.MP3 price: $9.99
KATHY ZIEGLER: Don't Worry, The Danger
Mini pop anthems that sparkle and sway, get in your head, make you weep and then stay
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE HIGH WATER MARKS: Songs About The Ocean
A super indie pop side project conglomeration featuring Hilarie Sidney of The Apples in stereo.
CD price: $12.00
TREMULOUS MONK: Sparkle Like Your Shoes
The aloof sound and tender lyrics both captivate and inspires, leaving you with an uplifting sense of soul and curious about future recordings. His sound is both thoughtful and fascinating and proves there is plenty more to come from TremulousMonk.
CD price: $12.00
HIS & HER VANITIES: A Thought Process
Indie Post-Punk/PopRock mixed with occasional noise, a more raw and true-to-live record than the debut.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
TEARS IN X-RAY EYES: Wonderfully Made
Bittersweet tales of love and loss from a London bedsit - acoustic guitars, old synths and orchestral percussion create something truly heartfelt
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
BIIRDIE: Morning Kills The Dark
Biirdie is Jared Flamm and Kala Savage and on their debut album, Morning Kills the Dark, they combine whimsy and bittersweet subdued dejection that echoes the work of early-'70s British singer/songwriters who mined a similar mindset.
MP3 price: $10.97
NERDKWEEN: Synergy
Experimental singer/songwriter with angel-like voice with lo-fi soundscapes.
CD price: $12.00
THE SPINDLES: The Enclosed I.P.O.
Edgy folk. Soft rock renegades. Americana. Indie rock.
Recommended if you like The Decemberists, okkerville river.CD price: $12.97
THE AMPERSANDS: And
New York/New England indiepop team-up whose smart, hooky orchestrations rumble with harmonies.
Recommended if you like XTC, The Apples in Stereo.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
WHATFOR: Sooner Late Than Never
'60s-style Pop Rock layered with catchy vocal melodies, bits of strings, horns and harpsichord -- and harmonies that teeter and swoon like a drunken barbershop quartet.
CD price: $9.99
DEVIL BLARE: The Journeyman
Devil Blare is a solo artist and multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for writing catchy and quirky songs. His new LP “As The Journeyman” captures the mood of the 60s by paying obvious homage to The Kinks and Stones as well as The Pretty Things.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
TRANSIENT SONGS: Plantation to Your Youth
Southern laced tales and songs of despair, Majestic psychedelic basement pop made in the secluded gloom of the Northwest.
CD price: $6.00
BELOVED BINGE: Blender Theory
"Eleni Binge's time shifts behind the drum kit and Rob Beloved's serpentine-note guitar lines suggest a certain affinity for math rock. But perfection and precision are subsumed by an overarching playfulness." --Independent Weekly
CD price: $12.97
TREEBENDS: In The EP
Made with only the best in organic & low-fi ingredients…this sweet treat is served best with headphones.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
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
MISHIMA USA: Hold My Breath
The bass-less indie pop duo Mishima USA formed in 1998 and draw their influences from such alt-rock icons as Hüsker Dü, Sugar, Sonic Youth, and Pavement.
MARK LESSERAUX: Low Cool
A mix of art/indie-rock, folk and comedy. "A stunning mind f_ck of a record" - Monroe Wheel 2008.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
PROJECT NAIRB: Project Nairb
Quirky underground pop/ rock. Recorded at home with plenty of lovin'
Recommended if you like The Beatles.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
PROJECT NAIRB: Forest Far
Quirky pop music, recorded at home. Forest Far is a concept album about traveling to that magical place that is just out of reach.
Recommended if you like The Beatles, Neil Young.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
ALBUMEN: Sidewalks Melt
Songs about maligned states, sperm whales, thugs, and preachers. Poetry, rock, and the devil may care.
MP3 price: $5.00
SCISSORS FOR LEFTY: Underhanded Romance
"Eager rock magpies come bearing bright, catchy gifts. huge hooks and playful pleasures win the day. So cheerily unpretentious, it's almost irresistible." - Spin Magazine
Recommended if you like Art Brut, Arctic Monkeys.CD price: $12.98
I WAS A KING: Losing Something Good for Something Better
The notion of songs written in a lost decade between the sixties and the seventies, or maybe a forgotten year in the nineties. It is spontaneous indiepop, exquisitely constructed in the origo of the genre's soul: Unforgettable ear-catching tunes.
Recommended if you like Dinosaur Jr., Guided by Voices.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
PUFF AND THE PILLPOPPERS: SET THE WORLD TO FLAMES
Their music is at once hauntingly melodic and infectiously rhythmic. This five-piece Montreal indie band create atmospheric textures using instruments such as an old Spinet organ and vintage amplifiers.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
SPANISH ARCHER RECORDS - VARIOUS ARTISTS: Spanish Archer One
This is a collection of trailblazing musical talent fused into an eclectic mélange of class and edge.
CD price: $10.00
SUGARBOOM: Recess
Recess was released as a cassette tape in 1990 before CD’s were common, especially from Portland bands that did everything DIY.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
THE MONIKERS: Esperanto
A high energy collection of garagey pop rock tunes from this Utah band.
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE: Staying up all night with the C.O.U.
Made for dance-floors and home alone parties; this is one hour of high-octane Pastis and expresso-fuelled 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
VARIOUS ARTISTS (METRONOMICON): Metronomicon Compilation 2.0
Our second compilation album, longer and with more guests than the previous one. Compiled into un-named "sections" it's a good start if you don't know whats going on inside Metronomicon Audio.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
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
THE PINK DELICATES: Who Stole the Quiet Day
Not pop, not rock, but it pops and rocks.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
CANDYLAND RIOTS!: Orange Sash and the President of the Galaxy
Depressing? Perhaps, but throw in lush, art-psychedelia influences and catchy-as-hell choruses.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.99
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
THE BLAKES: The Blakes
In a year of great Northwest rock albums, the latest release from this Seattle trio might be the best of all. Their sound is more versatile than most, ranging from raw, noisy garage-punk and propulsive, Strokesish jangle to New Wave-influenced dance-rock
CD price: $12.97
KORY ROSS: Bastard Boy
A scattered brained blend of pure pop with a tendency to shift gears without notice. Whispering vocals ease you into the next freak out.
Recommended if you like Arcade Fire.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
GOODNIGHT MONSTERS: The Brain That wouldn't Die
lovely Lo-Fi-But-Cool-Fi-POP straight out of a teenage bedroom in Turku, with the charm of a japanese all-girl-pop-band
CD 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...
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
THE MARLBORO CHORUS: Entangled
Entangled is a little more experimental for TMC. Recorded on 8-track tape with minimalism as a goal, it runs the gambit from solo acoustic to Velvet-Underground style jams.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
THE SUICIDE OF MISS MELANCHOLY: Integrity is Plastique
Eclectic concept album from DC area indie band, heavily influenced by the likes of Elliott Smith, David Bowie, Sufjan Stevens, Led Zeppelin, Skip Spence, Jeff Buckley, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, Cat Stevens, Jesus Christ, etc.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
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
PORTABLE FOLK BAND: introduces The Royal Postal Bazaar
Sweeter than all of your favorite snacks.
CD price: $9.50 / MP3 price: $9.50
RAMON & JESSICA: Ramon and Jessica
Unabashedly original songs with appealingly raw, unselfconscious execution.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE DEPT.: Be Your Friend?
The Dept. is bedroom pop that combines drum machines, synths, & guitar ".with a voice that's a little like Donovan's on a melancholy day".
MP3 price: $9.95
SPY ISLAND: A Treasury of Great Science Fiction
THEIR LATEST RELEASE..... intelligent and energetic indie. guitars twang, drums thump, bass booms, keys buzz. we're gonna charge this vacation, this nutra-sweet nation.
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
UNCLE'S INSTITUTION: Walkie Talk To Me
"I always try to make something real, even though i with walkie talk to me tried to make stiff, simple and cartoonish pop music. almost a little unreal, but nice, quirky and playful.
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
PARK POLICE: Ranchero
Indie rock power pop with a penchant for ass-kicking.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: I'm With Cupid: A Waxfruit Transatlantic Valentine
A collection of some of the best new underground garage, indie-pop, and electronica from the UK, Sweden, Brazil, and the USA. Features tracks by Bearsuit, the Would Be Goods, Miss Mary, the A-lines, thee Fine Lines, Action Biker, and more..
CD price: $12.97
ISAAC QUATORZE: chords behind my trip
adventurous, genre-hopping indie pop, produced in a basement with zero budget, created just to make your headphones (or car stereo) happy.
22-PISTEPIRKKO: The Nature Of...1985 - 2002 Collection
Eccentric and eclectic pop from finland
Recommended if you like Beck.CD price: $12.97
MCGOWAN: Mcgowan
Debut album from former Ben Lee guitarist Mcgowan Southworth - from expansive soundscapes to intimate portraits to full on rockers, a record that sneaks up on you and grows with each listen. Lovingly crafted pop sonic bliss.
CD price: $10.00
DUTCH COURAGE: Chicago
Memorable pop music full of hooks, surprises, and endearing quirks.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
GANNON: A Planned Escape
A healthy mix of Indie Rock and Roy Orbison. Who else is rocking a ukulele? Distorted guitars, 8 bit keyboards, uke... what more do you need?
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
SONNTAG: Sonntag
Not your typical girl vocalist. Bumpy bass lines, electro beats and synth bits woven together by electric guitars that owe as much to punk-garage as they do to James Bond. This soundscape providing the backdrop to passionate tales of everyday existence.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TOMMYGUN: Cranes And Camels
Dirty noisy melodic garage rock indie power pop
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
THE KINGDOM FLYING CLUB: Sumatra Fox E.P.
Pop-rock so sweet it'll make your teeth rot. These guys have been on the O.C. Aren't you jealous?
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
ASTER: Suitcase Sessions EP
Indie keyboard pop with cutting, yet wistful vocals. Electronic ambience flirts with well-crafted synth melodies and interlocking drum rhtyhms. The end result is a new breed of pop distortion with substance.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
KENRON: Kenron
This Seattle based singer-songwriter, specializes in an intoxicating variety of deep, colorful, intro-spective pop that takes it's cues from a number of post-modern rockers and lo-fi 'do it yourselfers'.
Recommended if you like The Dismemberment Plan, Grandaddy, Death Cab for Cutie, Pedro the Lion, The Postal Service.MP3 price: $7.99
ERIC LICHTER: Chorduroy
Alternative Singer/Songwriter. Beck meets Jackson Browne in a Full carnivale' filled with Songsmiths, Vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists.
MP3 price: $11.98
JOANIE MENDENHALL: Secretary Waltz
"A dulcet voice... A deep intelligence and fierce wit. She bares her soul but never in a gratuitously confessional manner."--San Diego Union Tribune
MP3 price: $12.00
HUMBERT: Plant the Trees Closer Together
The Big Takeover says Plant the Trees Closer Together made our top 40 of 900. It is joyous, hammering, clamorous, sunny melodies, intelligent, beach boys like chamber low-fi pop. We absolutely love this disc.
CD price: $12.00
SUMMER DARLING: I Know You--I Never Knew You
Indie Pop with lad and lass vocals, anthemic production, and a few quiet moments for all your gray days.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MERCHANDISE: Lo-tech Solutions to Hi-tech Problems
Merchandise make the kind of acoustic electronica that'd be the soundtrack to a summer picnic in Hyde Park. Two men's reflections on everyday life have never been so glorious. Totally pure, grandiose pop music - Blowback Magazine
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FORTYWATT: All My Assumptions Were False
Post-emo space-geek power pop for the lovesick followers of Weezer, Sunny Day Real Estate and R.E.M. Intertwining guitar lines, vintage synth sounds and roiling drums and bass collide with stick-in-your-head hooks and hummable melodies.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
THE GOLD STATE: Whole Wide Whole
Sentimental yet dispassionate surrealist pop that may remind one of 1970s TV commercials for instamatic cameras.
MP3 price: $9.97
COSIGNER: Let's Fast Dance
The new Cosigner record sounds like the same band that made "Center Rise Solo" so much fun, with some qualification. The guitars are a little more like Yo La Tengo. The vocals are a little more Pavement-y. The bass and drums are a little more Beatle-y.
MP3 price: $11.97
DESOTO REDS: Hanglide Thru Yer Window
Jewish wedding meets the Beatles
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
MY ZUKO: Four Songs
Melodic indie rock 3-piece, with girl vocals, clean vs. dirty guitars, driving bass and cool ass hooks. File between Tanya Donelly and Buffalo Tom.
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
MALVERN: The Grand Bender
Have you ever feared that in your entire life you would be this alone and entirely happy with indie rock? Sleep, my bespectacled prince... sleep.
THE HINDI GUNS: The Hindi Guns
"Minimal and hypnotic" (Rough Trade catalogue) -- "Mix(es) a Lucinda Williams twang with old school girl punk" (PDX Mercury). Atmospheric Stones/Stooges guitar, blistering slide, Mariachi-style trumpet, even mellotron -- a unique and compelling debut.
CD price: $10.99
MIDLAKE: Milkmaid Grand Army
Lo-fi pop music with image rich vocals, brooding melodies, and playful, infectious beats.
ELLIOTT SMITH: roman candle
elliott smith is one of the best singer/songwriters to ever pick up a guitar and a pen. this is his first cd of hushed velvet-hammer style songsmithing. hard to believe that cavity search had to brow-beat him into putting this brilliant debut cd out.
CD price: $12.97
ARBOR DAY: Radar Boy
Arbor Day writes urban, three-minute symphonies to god. Their melodies, always front and center, soar the same heights as Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys, but are grounded in the dirty truths and musical heritage of the group's New York City home.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
THE GRAVES: Love Love Love
An intimate and textural soundscape, that sways in gentle, melodic, campfire baroque.
CD price: $12.00
TEARS IN X-RAY EYES: Half-Life
Bittersweet tales of love and loss from a London bedsit - heartfelt and brimming with restless ambition - What's On In London called it "a work of pure genius".
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
ICARUS HIMSELF: Icarus Himself
"He accompanies his death 'n' degradation tales with lonely echoes, double-tracked vocals, and the occasional drum machine. " The Onion
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $1.00
POLYGRAPH LIAR: Polygraph Liar
Melodic Rock, Sweet Singer-Songwriter, Alt Country, Pop.
CD price: $8.00
DARYNYCK: the sasquatch sessions: 2001-2005, vol. i & ii
Catchy, catchy, catchy. You will be humming these songs after one listen--that's a guarantee.
CD price: $10.89 / MP3 price: $9.89
HUTCH: Hollylake & Silverwood
Graduates of the original Silverlake underground pop scene, Hutch mines classic 60's & 70's Rock to create "retro-forward" soundscapes that draw the listener in, but it's the quality songwriting and choice of cover tunes that keep you coming back again.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
AUTOPISTA SUR: Caracas se Quema
Rock en Espanol hecho en Venezuela. Con sonidos que reflejan influencia en los beatles y la elocuencia en la lirica de Andres Calamaro.
CD price: $9.99
ANYTHING BOX: Nineteen
A true representation of 1988 using two synths, a drum machine and the human voice. A twenty year old artifact. Finally heard, before its destruction when the empire reigns. An Abox Classic.
MP3 price: $10.00
AUDIO ARMADA: Discography: 1999-2002
Late 90's indie rock with smooth vocal melodies and lots of textured ambient guitar work.
MP3 price: $9.99
FOIBLES: Solid Rock Baptist Church Rummage Sale
26 tiny, caffeinated, indie fake folk (fauxk?), psychotic episodes featuring Mom's acoustic guitar, Wendy's clarinet, Vince's Grandma's accordion, Asa's Toys-R-Us drum set and a coffee can cow bell.
CD price: $6.98 / MP3 price: $6.98
THE OKMONIKS: Party Fever!!!
Girl-fronted. Ultra catchy. Organ-driven. Mono-fied. Garage pop. From Tucson, Arizona.
CD price: $10.00
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
FILEWILE: Nassau Massage
Brings together guest artists from many corners: Nicolette (British vocalist formerly of Massive Attack fame), New York rapper and now Berlin resident RQM, Rider Shafique and Mr. Melody alongside Baby Chann.
CD price: $12.97
GAVIN CONNER: Baby Woulda Woken
Heartfelt songs that stretch from new wave influenced demos to alt. country singer-songwriter gems.
CD price: $5.00
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
THE GONZO SHOW: zlato baby
At heart the Gonzo Show are a sweet, mean jam band. combining the best elements of the early nineties american indie scene with the hazy wash of 60s revival bands like the brian jonestown massacre and the dandy warhols. the Hangar The Gonzo Show are just
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
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
PANDA TRANSPORT: Panda Transport
French pop electronica, sounds like Nouvelle Vague, Zero 7, the Bird and the Bee, Postal Service.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SINKCHARMER: Stars in Winter
Bittersweet folk-pop songs ranging from cinematic electropop to straight up indie rock. An elegy for the fallen.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
MODERNAGE: Strangers/This Song
Miami's indie rockers Modernage makes a stylish return with this winter '06 double A-side single.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
RACHEL SMITH: Famous Secrets
Melodic pop that combines lo-fi folk and hi-fi electronica.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE CHOCOLATE ROBOTS: Purr Quality
Canadian indie pop rock. Cheap keyboards, loud guitars, and real and mechanical drums surround the trio's skewed and often spiritual lyrics.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JULIAN CORYELL: Undercovers
A collection of other artist's amazing songs that have inspired me over the years.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
YAKUZA ZOO: Yakuza Zoo
Songs of the slightly paranoid, alternative groove-pop and hypnotic electronic, indie-rock mindset.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
MALASSIS: Birds Like Bricks
Indie rock with minor scale melodies and organic percussion
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
WHITE TOWN: Don't Mention The War
Electro/indiepop for geeks and freaks.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $5.99
SINKCHARMER: Vegetable Farmer
14 tracks of indie-pop-folk noise. Or something like that.
MP3 price: $5.00
MOGLAH: Revolvah
A Japanese artist/musician's interpretation of the classic Beatles album, Revolver. Equal parts YMO, ELO, DEVO and GnR.
CD price: $11.99
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
THE SWIMMIES: The Swimmies
Indie Rock and Bossa Nova listeners can dance at the same time, no problem.
CD price: $12.97
HELLFIRE SERMONS: Hymns Ancient and Modern
From C86 to feedbacked noise pop, Liverpool's Hellfire Sermons plough their lonely furrow through the hidden channels of indie pop.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
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
THE MAY FIRE: Right And Wrong
Garage cowboy riffs got wound around spooky keyboards and fuzzy, bourbon-soaked slide guitar.
CD price: $12.97
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Inside Information (12" vinyl EP)
Limited hand-numbered edition of 300 one-sided vinyl record that plays from the inside-out and features six of the best bands from the Minneapolis indie pop underground.
Recommended if you like The Autumn Leaves, Basement Apartment.VINYL price: $7.00
MISTER GRITS: Irritant Is Irritating
Hailing from their hometown, Mister Grits is a high energy blend of two different things.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
THE SPIRES: Written In A Year With A Lot of Rain
Guitar based pop folk Soul . We play music That's A little like The Smiths/Velvet Underground/Go-Betweens. If that's your bag.
CD price: $11.00
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.
CD price: $12.00
SUPRALUXE: Supraluxe
Welcome to Supraluxe. Lush Powerpop from Minneapolis / St. Paul. Cool chemicals, warm melodies, new sensations.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
THE HEALTH CLUB: Rarities & Outtakes
Forgot Indie Rock,maybe this will help you remember.
MP3 price: $12.97
THE SPECTACULAR FANTASTIC: The Spectacular Fantastic Goes Underground
Melodic retro pop with twang
CD price: $10.99
CHICKEN: chicken
Chicken is a composite of two friends, writing and recording songs independently in their bedrooms, collaborating on some songs, layered dreamy/creamy instrumentation with voice, guitars, drums, vibes and cello.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
VARIOUS ARTISTS: WarfRat Tales (Unabridged)
13 more LA bands from a garage in 1983, when you thought you've heard them all.
Recommended if you like The Beatles, The Doors.CD price: $17.99 / MP3 price: $15.99
THE DYMAXIONS: How The Sick May Help Themselves
Prog-Pop/ Home Rock from Montreal, Quebec.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PETRACOVICH: We Are Wyoming
Bedroom Folktronica, songbird vocals over bells, beats, and trains.
CD price: $11.99
COGS: Laughter and Footsteps
Experimental, spoken word, synth pop and caustic punk.
Recommended if you like Daniel Johnston, Jandek.CD price: $8.00
UNCLE'S INSTITUTION: the hit single babe
the hitsingle babe is somewhat funky, crazy, funny and really really nice.
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