Pop » Type: Sonic
ICU: ICU Bleeding
His delivery is absolutely tantalizing and ends up the most distinct element of the record Full of raspy silk and smoked-out sexuality, his vocals almost sound like the meeting point of Marc Bolan (of T. Rex) and Jeremy Enigk but deeper and grittier.
CD price: $14.99
BIRDMAN RAY: EP
A glorious mash-up of baroque pop, driving rock'n'roll and alt. country; whatever dinner jacket they're wearing always involves great songwriting at the heart of the party.
CD price: $5.00
WELSH RABBIT: Don Quixote vs. Sancho Panza
Power trio indie pop with harmonies, with feedback, with love.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
PDX POP NOW!: 2004 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...
CD price: $8.00
THE STEREOTYPES: 4
Sonic pop music rich in texture with layers of guitars and vocal harmonies.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JONAH: Trust Everyone Before They Break Your Heart
Lush and anthemic guitar-pop with soaring melodies and artfully crafted songs.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
WELSH RABBIT: Forward Motion
Welsh Rabbit rocks and you can sing along with them... what else do you need.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
WELSH RABBIT: West 11th Love Letters
Influenced by the Beatles, Elvis Costello, Big Star, The Stones, Blur, Weezer and assorted New Wave and Power Pop bands. They wear ties on stage. Dig?
Recommended if you like The Beatles, Blur, Weezer, The Cars, Elvis Costello, Big Star, Teenage Fanclub.MP3 price: $6.99
MOTORIK: Klang!
Motorik balances catchy hooks with driving dissonance and employs angular rhythms from all instruments. Motorik has post-punk influences, driving rhythms, fem vox and anthemic guitar.
CD price: $10.00
THE HEAVY SANDWICH: Songs About Stuff Sometimes
A layering of rock, groove and dynamics with classic pop sensibilities. Surprisingly there's not a song about lunch meat to be found. Yet.
Recommended if you like The Beatles, Wilco.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
YELTSIN: A Closer Walk With Yeltsin
“A tight indie-rock trio, surprises by way of its musical clarity, energy and catchy hooks that stick.” Willamette Week
CD price: $9.95
CINDERPOP: A Lesson in Science
Awash in chiming guitars, soaring harmonies and an eclectic blend of everything that's right in indie-rock.
Recommended if you like The Shins, The New Pornographers.CD price: $11.00
SHALLOW: Jumping Away From Something Exploding
Blissfully swirled dreampop, soaring melodies and achingly beautiful female vocals.
COOPERBLACK: Soft Robot
Australian three piece band producing rock pop tunes with fat synth and driving bass lines. Songs about driving cars, living with the rain, finding monsters in concrete, being born purely digital, being a nerd and the repetitive nature of alien abduction.
MP3 price: $8.00
PRAIRIE DANCE CLUB: Prairie Dance Club
Mixes vintage songwriting and sonic undertones that combine for a highly memorable listen.
Recommended if you like Neil Young, Travis.CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE PARTY FAITHFUL: Seven Cycles
Highly melodic, sonic, and often danceable, The Party Faithful's music is thoughtful yet unpretentious. While they certainly owe a debt to their Anglo heroes (Morrissey, The Cure, and the like), they have a sound all their own.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
TOM GAVIN: Into the Weeds
A cluster of expansive, evocative songs sculpted with coarse, dusky textures and dream-logic imagery.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
ARCH STANTON: Highland & Marine
Imagine a soundtrack to an excursion from the daily grind. This six-song EP, Highland & Marine, takes you from high-powered manic powerpop tunes to unconventional synths sauntering about, then lastly ends in a dreamlike ballad.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
THE AIRFIELDS: Laneways, An Ep
A sonic vapor trail built from the shimmering blankness of winter, and the way it grinds you down.
CD price: $7.97 / MP3 price: $7.97
THE STEREOTYPES: 3
3 mixes classic rock influences (Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys) with a hybrid of power-pop, garage-rock and punk. Stylistically open to individual interpretation but always wholly original, The Stereotypes' "3" is everything you want in a rock album.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GRAND ATLANTIC: This Is Grand Atlantic
There's a wonderful thing that happens when a band steps out from the shadows of their influences and confidently asserts their own sound, their own thoughts and their own reason for being - people listen and take note.
CD price: $14.00
OFM: Rock and/or Roll
The not-too-distant past's idea of how the way-too-distant future sounds: a hook-laden bliss-blur.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ACHILLE LAURO: you're going to live (and other nice things to hear)
21st Century Death Lounge
MP3 price: $7.00
THE SIMPLE PLEASURE: are you ready for...
The sound of a circular saw cutting a crystal ball. Drum machines, synthesizers, dirty guitars, and soul squeeling.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MERCIR: Windchimes and Landmines
Seattle-based electronic-rock quartet MERCIR's newest release, "Windchimes and Landmines", melds haunting vocals, moody strings, and swathes of synths with complex beats and jagged guitars. With nods to such diverse acts as Air, Gorillaz, and Sigur Ros.
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
ENATION: Identity Theft
Passionate, desperate, searching rock. It's like Radiohead, U2 and Bob Dylan all got together for breakfast and decided to adopt a baby boy, called it Enation, and then left it to fend for itself.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
PALE HOLLOW: Pale Hollow
A shimmering blend of Americana and British Pop.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
HOPEFUL MONSTER: Metatasking
Psychedelic synth rock and chamber pop
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SURVIVING SUNRISE: Surviving Sunrise
Surviving Sunrise is a Modern Rock band that merges Hard Rock, Hardcore and Pop to create a sound that is both powerful and infectious. The different musical tastes and influences of the band members has become the basis for their style.
CD price: $12.97
SUPER NUDIST: Departure
Has been described as sounding like an early Death Cab for Cutie mixed with a maybe later Tripping Daisy.
CD price: $10.00
IMPERIAL Z: That Far & This Close
12 alt-rock tunes that will speak to you with a familiar voice, like an old friend reminding you who you are.
CD price: $9.99
LABB: Sugar High- Bonus CD
Labb was the epitome of late 90's Boston rock. Powerful, poppy and the alternative to the rap-rock overload. Sugar High was the first full-length release from a still very young and green band who was on the cusp of finding their sound and fans.
COOPERBLACK: Soft Robot
Australian three piece band producing rock pop tunes with fat synth and driving bass lines. Songs about driving cars, living with the rain, finding monsters in concrete, being born purely digital, being a nerd and the repetitive nature of alien abduction.
CD price: $10.00
EXCUSES FOR SKIPPING: Out Of Work Early
Excuses For Skipping (efs) is an all-girl band from san francisco who play catchy, spacey yet spikey dream pop.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SEPTEMBER LEAVES: Cover The Sky With Gold
Golden, slowly floating, dancing in the wind
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
NUCULTURES: Butterflies, Zebras, And Moonbeams
This adventurous double CD collection of music is a kaleidoscope of songs and sound blending shapes and hues with vocals, horns, strings, piano, drum machines, vocal loops, guitars, bass, and left-field electronics into a brilliant textured soundscape.
CD price: $20.00
COUNCIL ON FIDELITY: Reach and Frequency
pop melodies, heavy backbeats, and jangling guitars wrapped in "wall of sound" inspired arrangements.
CD price: $6.97 / MP3 price: $6.97
MARCUS BENTLY AND THE BEAT SURRENDER: ep 1
Root's rock ala Tom Petty, Wilco
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
JEREMY BUCK & THE BANG: Fools Gold
It's "Roller Coaster / Thrill Ride" Rock N Roll, Filled with Orgasmic Choruses, Passionate Performances, and Songs You'll Never Forget.
Recommended if you like Billy Idol, Paul McCartney.CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
DEPT. OF ENERGY: Held By Waits
Familiar, yet completely unique at the same time, Dept. of Energy combines classic influence (Brian Wilson, YES) with contemporary sound (The Shins, The Decemberists).
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
CYRANO: You sensualize my soul
The Crazy synth-playercrooner Cyrano makes an album with 80s-inspired pop-anthems, wilgamat (the drum-machine on the legendary ELKA-organ) and Sigurd (supergroovy danish drummer) makes you wanna dance, and the norwegian-sounding ballads makes you want to
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $6.50
BRAVE RIFLES: Brave Rifles
".an explosion of keyboard-driven, dark indie/ punky pop." - Brian Keene of Real Detroit Weekly
Recommended if you like Killers, Coheed and Cambria.CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
THE CHURCHILLS: The Odds Of Winning
Twelve new songs by the NY based indie rockers including the hit "Sometimes Your Best Isn't Good Enough" which is the theme song for the MTV show "Juvies". You've heard these songs on "ER", "Third Watch", MTV's "8th & Ocean", "Making The Band" and many mo
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
THE VINYL SKYWAY: From Telegraph Hill
Melancholy and psychedelic pop songs infused with a retro rock n roll sound.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
SQUAREWAVE: Dullhead
emotionally charged pop/psychedelic rock...at the core of this album are simple, pretty songs written by real people with real lives.
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Pink Floyd.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
THE MITTENS: Transportation Disguises
Three-piece rock and roll band, guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. Catchy indie-rock with attitude.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
THE DIGGS: Commute
Melodic guitar driven mid-nineties Indie rock coalesced with traces of English dream pop
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
FINDING MERCURY: Vehicle
Intelligent alternative rock compositions influenced by the best of brit rock/pop.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
THINGS THAT GO POP: Things That Go Pop!
Electro-garage-dance-punk-new wave-trash-rock-noise-synth-pop for people who hate electro-garage-dance-punk-new wave-trash-rock-noise-synth-pop
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
JEREMY BUCK: A Secret Made of Dreams
Imagine a blender, I mean a big f...@#ing blender. You put Johnny Cash, Prince, Mick Jagger, Frank Zappa in there, add a little Paul McCartney; grind it up; and have Elvis serve it up to you.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
MERYLL: You've Got Cousins
Mellow indie-rock brought forth in a defiantly creative way, including home-made samples of skateboards falling, pianos from university buildings, and cymbals played with spatulas.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
THIS SIDE OF NORTH: This Side of North
Intimate and edgy vocals, vintage keys, lush guitar textures, gritty bass lines, funky filtered loops and live drum grooves combined with electronic synth and sample soundscapes give this album a unique style that audiences are calling ethereal, moody, an
CD price: $11.98
ROSETTA: Eternity
Gritty space-rock; a revival of the concise psychedelia that has long ignored age and gender gaps.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
MISSION MILE: radio in color
Combining heartfelt lyrics, addictive melodies and an electric delivery, mission mile create music that works its way under your skin and into your heart.
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Making music acceptable to total strangers since 1999.
CD price: $11.95 / MP3 price: $11.95
QUEENBEE JACKSON: Lovers Leave
Post Rock Torch Songs From Inner Space- turn down the lights, buckle your seat belt. This is intense and delicate. Think you can handle the ride?
CD price: $6.00
PHYLLIS: phyllis'
noisy guitar driven rock and roll with pop laden hooks that send you back to the noisy guitar driven rock and roll.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
PROTO: Proto
*SPECIAL LIMITED PRODUCTION CD-EP. Moody, climatic, and sonic, Proto excels in creating a warm atmosphere. Dramatic violin passages give way to ambient explosions of angular rock. Music featured on the WB television series "Roswell: Second Season DVD."
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
CHANCE OF RAIN: We Could Be A Monster
Creative mix of melodic guitar work, powerful vocals and a multi-faceted rhythm section.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
DAN LIPTON: Life In Pictures
NYC songwriter's second album takes listeners on a genre-hopping joyride... horns, strings, drum loops, accordions, guitars, vibraphones... A crafty album of widescreen, sonic pop.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE ROMAN CANDLES: Bang! Bang! Bang!
High energy rock n' roll with hooks that will stay in your head for weeks. Oft hailed as Alaska's best rock and roll band...come find out why.
PARKLIFE: Lonely Eyes and Amsterdam
Fuzzed-out guitars, soaring melodies, reckless rhythm... if you're into U2, radiohead, coldplay, the who, the police and foo fighters, you'll love parklife.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
THE SAMES: E.P
Simple music for simple people; fresh, stripped of the gloss, indie rock intertwining guitars laid down over staccato rhythms done to good effect at that. Layered vocals produce an overall dreamy quality, making the aural equivalent of a mood-altering pha
Recommended if you like Cheap Trick, Sonic Youth.MP3 price: $10.00
BLOWUP.: Can't Stay Here
a modern rock band that doesn't follow the trends of today. a timeless sound with a vibe of it's own. this 6 song cd hits you hard both sonicly and emotionaly.
CD price: $9.99
GROOVSKI: Groovski
Polish/East European mad mutant neu-punk, a bit insane and fiercely original.
CD price: $11.57 / MP3 price: $11.57
LABB: Driving Your Shadow
Music for driving on a Fall day; when it's warm enough to have the windows down but cool enough to wear a sweater...and you're on you're way to a party with the radio blaring.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
FISHER: Uppers and Downers
Artistic Pop with lyrics that always have a truly deep meaning and a voice like a hot rock wrapped in velvet. (THIS IS A 2-CD SET!)
Recommended if you like Fisher.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
NOE VENABLE: Boots
"Only a couple of records lately have pulled me from song to song to the end; one was Van Morrison's Down the Road and the other was Noe Venable's Boots..." --LA Weekly
CD price: $15.00
THE PEACOCK FLOUNDERS: Hello Beautiful
A powerful alternative rock sound with a unique pop sensibility and punk roots.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE FOLD: A Kind of Lightening
A mixture of rock experimentation and pop-song honesty.
CD price: $14.99
JORDAN CARP: Spaceman
The Beatles and Pink Floyd remembered by Peter Gabriel and George Martin
CD price: $12.97
A MAN ABOUT A HORSE: Does Not Exist
Up-beat melodic rock that makes you think.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LIKE CLOCKWORK: All Signs Point To Yes
Something old. Something new. That’s the critical musical balance behind Like Clockwork: an odyssey of sound, mind, spirit, and poetic lyricism from the chaotic, yet diametrically romantic mind of Jesse Astin.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
SCHEDULE 2: Schedule 2
The Man So Nice They Named Him Twice, Peter Pan, Tire Iron and Garbo got together and spent way too much money recording this power pop masterpiece.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MONOGOLD: Waves
4 piece indie alternative rock band with an energetic sound and memorable melodies.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
GRAYSHOT: Waiting Days
An instant yes for fans of melodic, sincere and polished songs with a warm vibe.
CD price: $8.95 / MP3 price: $8.95
FORTY PIECE CHOIR: Face Your Fear
"Marvelous, cinematic compositions. Packed with sensuous sonic details that invite repeated listens. Overflowing with sweetly crafted sophistication that's achingly gorgeous, swimmingly whimsical, playfully eclectic, & lushly integrated." - I.E.
MP3 price: $12.97
BRIBE THE GHOST: Identity
accessible idiom of disarming lyrical directness -- bursting effervescence -- songs that blithely blur the lines between art song and the driving rock and roll. the band that you've been looking for.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
VILOT: Good Deeds Radio Club
Spacey New Age Pop-Rock With Catchy Hooks
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MONOLAND: ben chantice
shoegaze, dreampop, indie guitar noise pop
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE VOLT PER OCTAVES: Sleeping In / Theta Release
Mellow Moog Music for the Masses ...
CD price: $16.97 / MP3 price: $16.97
WE LANDED ON THE MOON!: We Landed on the Moon!
It's a Sexy Party. And YOU are invited.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: Volo Ut Sis
"..the spectacular Moojuice Records debut from Scottish indie band The Scottish Enlightenment is a melodic but explosive indie rock feast. Fans of Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, The Editors, Sons & Daughters, Pavement check this out NOW." From a review in...
STARFUZZ: Product For American Radio
Grind up 14 surfboards, a fresh artichoke, a jacket once worn by Minnie Driver, a Craftsman Phillips-head screwdriver, a Peep, throw it all in a cement mixer and hit "frappe". We sound nothing like that at all.
CD price: $7.95 / MP3 price: $7.95
SKYPARK: Noambition
Underproduced arena rock. Overproduced indie rock. Sexy church music. harmonies.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
QR5: Pharmakon
Folk-funk with orchestrated alt-pop sensibilities and a reggae influenced rhythm section.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FAIRLIGHT: fairlight (demo)
Refreshing, passionate, edgy--these guys blend the pop sensibilities of Crowded House and the Cars, the American rock feel of Tom Petty, and the thoughtful songwriting we've come to expect from the likes of Wilco and Pete Yorn.
Recommended if you like The Cars, The Wallflowers.CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
R.U.O.K: Arctic Warmth
R.U.O.K's sound is an array of moody and melodic to raw, energetic rock using influences ranging from 80's post punk/New Wave to 90's Indie/Alternative all the while shaping it in to an original and unique modern style.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
CENTIPEDE: Save Your Cool Soul
An enticing melting pot of Pure Pop, Electronica, Post Rock and what sounds like the soundtrack to the Atari games of years past.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BROTHER-SISTER: S/T
real life brother-sister duo combine subtle electronic elements with inviting, mellow indie pop.
CD price: $10.00
EVAN KOLVOORD: Chatter of Souls
Sonic folk that is deeply revealing
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $8.95
RED LIGHTS: Unlucky Genes
Slow-burning indie rock from California's central coast.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ELECTRONIC BUBONIC: Impermanence
An evolving mood album based upon using the studio as the instrument, as well as vocals, keyboards and guitar. Conceptualized and created with a theme in mind, this is something you sit down and listen to the whole way through. At times smooth and equall
DEAN DROUILLARD: Dream At Harmony Motel
An sonic adventure and unique approach to pop music with influences from the '60s to the present. For fans of Jon Brion, David Mead, Josh Rouse, Micheal Penn, Duncan Sheik and Elliot Smith.
CD price: $13.95 / MP3 price: $13.95
DIME STORE THIEVES: Got to Get In to Get Out
Modern rock that gets lost in the 70s. Like Neil Young/The Beatles but Coldplay/Wilco also? Look no further.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
SENSATION JUNKIES: Once for the Money
Picture the demons of Alice in Chain's Layne Staley getting together with Mark Lanegan's infectious voice and Jim Morrison's charisma and intellect. Then weave that entity into rock, psychedelia and blues - the result is simply mesmerizing.
CD price: $12.97
SPLITSVILLE: Bulk Rate
Remixes, Live Tracks, Rarities and More...all in a specially-packaged CD.
MP3 price: $6.99
JOEL STREETER: Hear Me Out
Sonically rich debut album from 26-year-old singer/songwriter who has been called "San Francisco's best-kept secret and avowed melody junkie." Fans of Wilco, Elliott Smith and Badly Drawn Boy will enjoy the enthralling melodies and production.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
THE FCKED FIVE: The Fcked Five
Rollover with a lawnmower the ways of the world.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE DIGGS: Orange
Melodic guitar driven mid-nineties Indie rock coalesced with traces of English dream pop
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
ALLISON SCHARF: What You Got For Me
Delightfully simple electro-pop with driving beats and tasteful harmonies; Quirky under-your-skin grooves and lyrics.
CD price: $10.99
THE HOLY GHOST: Welcome To Ignore Us
Moody and swaggering, athletic and drunk, powerful and steeped in melody - the songs are the stars. Thoroughly original independent American Rock 'n' Roll.
LUCAS VAN LENTEN: Slowpoke
Indie-pop through a warped lens of psychedelic electronica.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DOPE SMOOTHIE: Go Strike
"...This album is genius. I love it....These guys are great musicians and know how to create a unique sound that finds its way to our ears through all the muck." THE GRADE: A - Tastes Like Chicken
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
JOED OUT: Weirder than looney tunes
Sonic noise pop from New Zealand's guitar heroes Joed Out.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SLEDGEBACK: People's Choice
Driving, melodic punk, with vocals like a Hungarian Dicky Barrett/ Tim Armstrong hybrid.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SMOKESTACKS: smokestacks
well its BRIT pop because were english but it is CALIFORNIA pop because we live here so it actually is GRIT POP
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
THE UPSIDEDOWN: Trust Electricity
Magnet Magazine called them "The Ones To Watch" in their most recent issue. The Willamette Week describes them as "dirty, glammed-up, drugged-down guitar rock with a dark heart. Their brand of ambient rock carries forth in a grand tradition.
Recommended if you like The Faint, Love and Rockets, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Dandy Warhols, The Rapture.CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
LABB: Coup de Grace
Sincere and spooky, catchy and concise melodic indie pop/rock that is in no way disposable.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
THE DIRTY PICTURES: Shuttin' out the world
This record elevates over the norm ....it breathes. Imagine, the Flaming lips meets Nick Cave & Damien Rice
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
LUKE JANELA: Rainmaker
Sonic exploration a la Eno, Boards of Canada and Sonic Youth mixed with solid songwriting and catchy Pop songs.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, Guided by Voices.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
THINGS THAT GO POP: Pop Yourself
Hey Mommie, Look: Progressive garage pop for the dirty masses.
CD price: $5.97 / MP3 price: $5.97
PUMA FRENZY: EP
POP splashed with melody and a twist of fury. Hints of indie pop, new wave, punk and retro pop make this a killer from start to finish.
BULLSHIP: bullship
not 'new wave'. not 'no wave'. not just 'wave'. '.wav' (pronounce: dot wave). we 3-piece north carolina. we minimal, modular, friendly. we fine example good life.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MICHAEL MANGIA: The Invisible Wall
Michael Mangia (pronounced Manja) is akin to a diverse range of artists such as Tori Amos, Ben Folds, Spiritualized, Travis, Rufus Wainwright and a uniquely perspective songwriter and storyteller.
CD price: $12.97
COLORSTORE: Heavy Sleeps
Delicate psychedelia, soundscapes, atmospheric guitars, and swirling keyboards.
MP3 price: $5.00
ASTRONAUT: Evolve
astronaut fuses the sounds of their alt/post-grunge/punk predecessors, pushing sweet-but-fierce vocals to soar with fast-and-furious, 70s-infused guitar licks and a rhythm section that will give you a run for your money.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
DREAM 13: Scissors Paper Rock
Dynamic Rock. Midwest indie. All original, dig?
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
LOCH LOMOND: When We Were Mountains
Sweeping melodies brushed by atmospheric, mountain-esque rumblings of quiet, quaint rock, coupled with a straight-ahead sense burried underneath the ashes of the layered, but still light compositions.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
MILES: Structure Vs. Happiness
Miles combines the sonic rock attack found in such acts as Ride and Swervedriver with the classic pop structure of The Beach Boys and The Beatles...all the while displaying the indie rock intensity of the Pixies.
CD price: $12.00
RICHMOND FONTAINE: lost son
richmond fontaines' third cd is a sonic explosion of original americana...an introspective and narrative blast from a power trio that leaves you broken and breathless. punk fury with a literary country-tinged rock assault.
CD price: $12.97
GODBOXER: Pins
The new band from Expanding Man's Aaron Lippert, godboxer's hard pop sound invokes Redd Kross and The Who on tour with U2.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ANABRET: Anabret
An evocative and lush sound, drawing on the best traditions of independent music, resulting in powerful and often ethereal vocals above a richly textured musical foundation.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
KNEE JERK REACTION: State of Matter
The second release by the premier quantum funk, sono-scientists. British math rock for the power pop lover in you.
CD price: $10.00
MOODROOM: Hung Up on Breathing
A smoky blend of pop and trip-hop remeniscient of Garbage, Veruca Salt, Belly, and the Pixies.
PEDRO THE LION: it's hard to find a friend
Most influential singer songer writer from north west. toured with bands like Death Cab for Cutie and Jets to Brazil.
DRIVE: Music for Interplanetary Travel
"...Confident, complex songs that skirt around the alt-rock field and into a less crowded territory where art meets music and morphs into an accessible sonic treat." -Richard Martin
Recommended if you like Radiohead, The Cranberries, Foo Fighters, The Cure, Jane's Addiction, Supergrass, The Dandy Warhols, Swervedriver, The Smashing Pumpkins, Death Cab for Cutie, Lush, The Sundays, Deathray, Charmparticles.MP3 price: $10.00
CIVILIZATION: Civilization
An amazing dance/pop/trance CD. In the vein of Seal and Peter Gabriel. Powerful, lush, and dramatic. Gorgeous production.
CD price: $9.99
JAY HOAD BAND: Warmth In The White
"Multi-instrumentalist Jay Hoad's music lives in a place where jazz, jam, reggae, funk, pop and Australian tribal music meet, creating an eclectic sound of global proportions."
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
MILKBOMB: None of These People are Real
Reminiscent of the days when the much needed breath of fresh air that was NW Rock & Roll was king. Combining equal parts pop and the roar of guitar driven grunge, the sound comes across like sour cherry pop rocks exploding in your mouth.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
UTRIS: The Long Walk Home
The Long Walk Home is an album. It is a collection of songs that, while distinct and unique, are still fused together by a common vision and theme. Grooves, blistering rock and strange interludes are all blended together.
CD price: $4.99
MAKE YOUR EXIT: EP
A combination of jam based moments and indie-pop songs to satisfy your soul.
CD price: $5.00
CHANGE THE STATION: Follow The White Noise
With an unparalleled female rhythm section and an energetic male vocalist, this trio from NYC create a unique brand of alternative/indie rock.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BRADYKYNIN: Bradykynin
This drone-rock/trip-pop record is not a wall of sound, but a waterfall of sound. Soft, innocent vocals, a steady bass line, melodic guitars, and dynamic drums, make this album a musical journey that will take you places you have never experienced.
CD price: $12.49 / MP3 price: $11.99
AT THE SPINE: Vita
An aural feast stretching from the sweet Gothic streets of Barcelona and the salty sands of Mediterranean, to the grit and grime of the darker sides of London.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
PENGUIN: Traveling Songs
Built on styles defined by Clapton, Led Zeppelin and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, this album will hit your stereo with the same satisfaction. If you're into independent artists without the whine, you'll be into this.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $12.97
ANXIETY X: Observationz From The Nocturnal New York Underground
An enigmatic blend of alternative rock, rap, jazz, funk, psychedelia with poetic, thoughtful urban lyrics and heavy on the electric guitar and interstellar synths.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
JOSHUA LANES: The Dance Thunder EP
Joshua Lanes’ title track, “Dance Thunder” is a head bopping, shoe tapping, body bouncing, hand clapping sort of track.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
SONNY: Twilight-World Music
Emotive and exquisitely sorrowful, with lush instrumentation and a voice of plaintive beauty; like poetry put to music, these are songs to treasure and take solace in.
CD price: $15.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
THE HARD GOODBYE: everybody wins
Progressive rock that is uplifting yet has the attitude of a butcher on Thanksgiving.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
PICTUREMEFREE: Wake Up Alive
"True-life lyrics, Allmanesque guitar melodies, and a rock-steady rhythm section GUARANTEED to make the listener get up and dance."
Recommended if you like The Allman Brothers Band, moe..CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
KENN LOWY: Life Comes Rolling In (With the Fog)
Have you ever been driving in the car with someone who suddenly decides to ignore the map or directions and says, "that looks interesting over there, lets take a left and go see?"
Recommended if you like Neil Finn.CD price: $13.00
CANDYTREE: Before the Cathode Rain
Where pixies dance in a hail of euphoria. Some of this music should incite you to throw furniture and destroy mediocrity.
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
CROSSING 13TH: Superstar/Circus Clown
This band from Salem, Oregon, brings forth a tasty blend of rock, blues, folk, pop and funk.
CD price: $11.11 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE GREAT DIVIDING RANGE: Persona Vista
Epic second album of post-indie rock from a new Australian band.
Recommended if you like Pavement, Guided by Voices.CD price: $15.00
NOBOT: Power Today!
Humans, Fear, Future, Joy, Robots, Love, NOBOT.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
TREEMOUTH: Electro Convulsive Therapy
The rock sounds of the guitars line up with the trip-hop atmosphere and the electronic vibes of the keyboard.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE WATERFORD LANDING: Bullet Park E.P.
Pop sensible melodies with distorted industrial rhythms, sonic guitars and bass combine to create a new, futuristic style.
Recommended if you like The Magnetic Fields, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, My Bloody Valentine.CD price: $8.00
THE AIRFIELDS: Up All Night
Up All Night makes you want to fall freshly in love, if only so you have an excuse to put its songs on a mixtape.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BUCKFAST SUPERBEE: Buckfast Superbee
Super-Charged rock quartet hailing from San Diego CA. Power, emotion, and raw energy all wrapped up into songs you can't get out of your head.
CD price: $12.00
MONO TAXI: We Wanna Get Some Real Fun
Third Single from the Anglo-French band Mono Taxi released on London-based label Ciao Ketchup Recordings
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
DAVID JOHN HULL WITH TOM CURIANO AND KATIA BASSANINI: Who Really Knows
Lush, intimate and melodic songs marrying Brit Pop sensibilities with a classic American flair. Layered harmonies, engaging arrangements and thought provoking, poetic lyrics. A one of a kind and refreshing sound. Irresistible.
CD price: $15.00
