Rock » Mood: Brooding
MAGGOTAPPLEWONDERLAND: Shards of Subtle Being
The definitive audio companion for lost souls and troubled minds.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
RASPUTINA: Oh Perilous World
Sixth full length of cello rock and loosely based steampunk concept album.
CD price: $14.99
SAVIN ILL: Oxygen
Put The Roots and Radiohead in a blender, add a little more distortion on top, and press play.
MP3 price: $9.99
WEINLAND: La Lamentor
"Four Stars--An amazing & intimate collection of hauntingly beautiful folk lullabies. The kind of music that gives you goose bumps (in that good sort of way)." - The Portland Mercury
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
AMERICAN MARS: No City Fun
A pedal steel-laden, song-driven disc rich with gentle sadness, melodic acumen and knotty wordplay whose reference points fall somewhere between Yo La Tengo, Calexico and the Flying Burrito Brothers. In a just world, America
CD price: $10.99
THE WYOS: Throw Your Arms Up To Heaven
As featured on the soundtrack to Spiderman 3, this album is a starting point for a band that salute the poetry of Bright Eyes, the fragility of Sparklehorse and the raw beauty of Calexico. With a spectral nod to Elbow The Wyos will always leave your glass
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE BELL: Make Some Quiet
This might take you back to a time when you were first discovering bands that acted like the ideal soundtrack to your post-teenage life. Think of Echo and the Bunnymen and The Cure.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
COBY BROWN & THE 11:11'S: Time Is Now EP
If U2 and Roy Orbison had a baby
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
STERYLE: Severance
Devastating guitars, crushing bass, and thunderous drums mix with aggressive, yet heart-felt vocals to make a sound unlike anything you've heard before.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
GARLAND OF HOURS: The Soundest Serum
Set sail on the sonic seas of darkly harmonic cellos, guitars and keyboards. A voyage of folktale melodies buoyed up by Amy's sureshot vocals and a randy rhythm section.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
CHRISTIAN DEATH: The Decomposition of Violets
1985 Cult Classic w/ Valor, Rozz Williams, Gitane DeMone, David Glass.
CD price: $11.99
SHAWN SUMMERS: Bronko
Here is the sound of moody highs and lows, pensive, water sign paranoia with sleeve-worn emotion and reclusive, raw hate and love. Feels like late fall on a dank, leaf covered October lane. Woods to the sides, mystery ahead. Change in the air.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SOFAMECCA: Children Dust
"The band has a steady grasp on where ambience ends and real late night, bruised-hearted atmosphere begins" Rolling Stone Magazine AUS
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
THE DECEIVERS: ...In Troublesome Creek
Unique, Texas born Rock and Roll. From the light and beautiful to Dark Gothic Folk Rock. In Troublesome Creek boldly pushes the boundaries of Rock and Roll taking you on a ride with warm bowed basses and scornful violin glued together.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, Nirvana.CD price: $10.00
DRUMATTICA: Train Out of Time
Dark Pop Rock music with hints of electronic and 80's New Wave.
Recommended if you like U2, Depeche Mode.CD price: $12.97
ARCHWAYS: Lest We Forget
Dark and pretty indie rock combining progressive musicality with smooth melodies.
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GREGORY DOUGLASS: Retro Active: Volume 2
A passionate amalgamation of contemporary folk, pop, and rock that “channels everyone from Stevie Wonder to Fiona Apple in a way that's terrifyingly mature for someone so young." (Instinct Magazine)
Recommended if you like Sarah McLachlan, Imogen Heap.MP3 price: $4.99
AMERICAN MARS: Western Sides
“Hailing from Detroit, yet having not a trace of the Motor City rock element, the ethereal sound of American Mars is an impassioned and moody brand of indie-Americana. One might compare this to the mid-period work of Joe Henry."
CD price: $10.97
SORROW HAS A PERFECT END: The Feasting
Invoking emotions a kin to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” Partridge’s tortured vocals cut through deeply saturated layers of instrumentation that range from sparse digital harmonies to overwhelming chaotic rhythms. Awake. Rise.
DVD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
PENDING DISAPPOINTMENT: New York Penn, NY
Guitar, drums, bass, and a whole lot of disenchantment.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LAURIE & JOHN: Arabella
Drifting and melancholy, this is The Carpenters meet Autumn Defense, the latter another of John (Stirratt of Wilco)'s side-projects.
CD price: $11.00
THE LAST ARMY: Light Ep
London, UK-based rabble rousers mix classic rock n'roll guitars and drums with strings, timpani and church organs.
Recommended if you like The Clash, The Velvet Underground.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
MODEL PHOTOGRAPHER: Model Photographer
Heartbreak and moodiness set to straightforward guitar, bass and drums. this indie rock band from Seattle is the pop-heavy side project of Minus the Bear's Alex Rose.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
BEAR HUNTER: You Will Be Heard!
Indie-rock-psychedelic-orchestral-pop, like Postal Service meets Flaming Lips meets Broken Social Scene meets Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd meets the Cure.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
POST HARBOR.: praenumbra
A crushingly thoughtful and melodic post-rock sound.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MAKE THE LION: s/t
Post-Radiohead prog-psychadelia. Intelligent rock for the thinking soul.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CHROME: Alien Soundtracks
Ltd Edition reissue of this classic Spacey Psych Masterpiece.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
AWAY, RI'O!: All Things Shining
It can be heard and felt as though a warm embrace, the waking of songbirds as late night turns to early morning while staggering homeward drunkenly, or the sound of a overdue telephone conversation with your father. Somewhere between Bonnie "Prince" Billy
CD price: $12.97
LINDSAY HOLLER & THE DIRTY KIDS: Love Gone Awry
featuring a retro, soul-filled voice, Lindsay Holler is a magnificent display of pleasure and pain.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
B-MOVIES: B-movies
Reverent, frustrated lamentation for a neighborhood that will never be again, the self-admonishment-by-proxy for a persisting parasitic subject, the desolate examination of la dolce far niente, and a cautious "note to self: seize the day."
MP3 price: $9.99
CATOAN: and will i
A rare mix of the simple and the textured, the plainsong and the cathedral of sound
CD price: $10.49 / MP3 price: $3.99
AIRPORT CATHEDRAL: Jet Lag
Emotional art rock that hits the proverbial nail with gutsy exuberance.
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
AND THIS ARMY: Foe
"Beautifully fuzzy guitars with bulldozing bottom end.and Britpop-esque vocals? It's Brooklyn's And This Army, and they meld the English '90s shoegazing aesthetic with the heaviness of American atmospheric metal. It's an interesting combination, for sure.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
JONATHAN INC.: Waiting For Morning
Moody layered pop with Ebows, Casio, glistening guitars and memorable melancholic melodies
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOHN HENRY LAMBERT: Gone Away
Deeply atmospheric acoustic songs from a true English eccentric songwriter, a mix of the folk tradition with the atmosphere of late night ambient jazz.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BROWN BIRD: such unrest
Singer/songwriter David Lamb, cellist Jerusha Robinson, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Robinson, known as the dark Americana trio Brown Bird, have brought subtly disturbing lyrics dressed in soothing harmonies to those who will listen since 2003. These
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
PLASTIC NEBRASKA: His Head is a House
New-Trouble Thrillbilly Swampacana from the Bizarro Roots Hinterlands
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ALLEGRA GELLAR: Cassette
The third full length release by this LA-based indie-folk-electronic band. Between tape hiss and protools these thoughtful acoustic based songs combine seamlessly with ambient, ethereal, and electronic textures.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TRY ME BICYCLE: Voicings
Folk with a solid jazz sensiblity.beautifully organic production with an emphasis on rich vocals/harmonies, musicianship, and recording live heartfelt studio performances.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
SCREEN VINYL IMAGE: The Midnight Sun EP
Possibly not the first band to be dubbed "Electropsych" but certainly the only band to live up to the name, with hard hitting beats, john carpenter era synths, and JAMC guitars.
MP3 price: $6.00
HOPE IN GHOSTS: All your Departures
Sad, mostly instrumental post-rock. Songs for break ups and fleeting kisses in the snow.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
SONS OF PERDITION: The Kingdom is on Fire
They play psalms for the spiritually dead. Running wide-eyed through the dusty attics of regional American music (country, folk), spinning tales of sorrow, madness, revenge and soul-gnashing woe.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
ADAM FREEDMAN: Best Laid Plans (Gone Wrong)
Music that could have been written by the unclaimed love child of Ani Difranco and Elliot Smith, conceived on the bed of Seattle indie pop.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
HOTTER THAN JUNE: Leave All the Pretty Things Alone
Hotter Than June merges a combination of emo-rock in the vein of Dashboard Confessional with the post-hardcore sound of bands like Senses Fail and Taking Back Sunday.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
DEVASTATIONS: Coal
Full of slow-burning songs that are black, broody and seductive. The dark imagery of drowning men and the redemptive power of love are leavened by a dry humor and a sexy swagger.
ADRIAN JAMES: Das Gift
A dark, meticulously-layered 14-year project by former violinist of Evanescence that features bilingual lyrics and eclectic instruments.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JASON FERRIS: apathetic involvement
"Feel-hazy album of the year" L.A. Daily Minute "Stream of consciousness consuming" Product Digest Weekly "Amplifies the social decadence of our culture" New York Gazette
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $2.00
STEVE BIEGNER: As the Orchestra Swells (the lights go out)
Sparse, organic sounds to lushly orchestrated songs with strings, banjos, and beautiful vocals - the songs will break your heart, soothe your heart, and sometimes rock you senseless.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
SEAN CROGHAN: From Burnt Orange To Midnight Blue
Crackerbash / Jr.High frontman goes solo. Following national tour with Elliott Smith, this is his debut solo album. A mixture of pop, soul, folk, and rock, Otis Redding and Elvis Costello.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
WOW & FLUTTER: Names
Brooding musical interludes (Modern Primitives) and shine through with little gems of pop light (Careful), this album is a step beyond the usual post rock landscape.
Recommended if you like Bauhaus, Sonic Youth.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GRACE CATHEDRAL PARK: In the Evenings of Regret
"In the Evenings of Regret".... sounds like the score for an indie film that you've never seen
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
JOHNETTE NAPOLITANO: Sketchbook 2
Heavy edge homemade dark guitar pop - more vocals & lyrics than Sketchbook 1.
MP3 price: $12.97
RICHMOND FONTAINE: Obliteration by Time
Americana from the Great Northwest
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
ADRIAN CROWLEY: A Northern Country
His most accomplished record to date. Arranged with a string section, Adrian Crowley lets his songs breathe and expand, creating sparse and emotional songs that recall the best of Tim Buckley and Nick Drake.
BLACK TIE: At Dawn
Beautiful ambient, yet sometimes haunting. Primarily instrumental.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BOY OMEGA: I Name You Isolation
From Space Oddity to Spiders on Mars; Dreamy melodies with understated production and a measure of The Kinks
CD price: $16.97
MANUOK: Manuok
The debut album from VIA SATELLITE member, and contributor to many others (the Album Leaf, Ilya, Pilotram, to name a few), SCOTT MERCADO under his MANUOK banner. (pronounced Man-You-Oh-Kay)
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
SOFAMECCA: Commuters
"The band has a steady grasp on where ambience ends and real late night, bruised-hearted atmosphere begins" Rolling Stone Magazine AUS
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TOM GAVIN: Fallout
a shimmering panorama of vivid songs ranging from slight, melodic musings to jarring, abstract indie-rock-isms.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GERALD COLLIER: Gerald's Demos
New, unreleased demos of former Best Kissers in the World front man Gerald Collier. ONLY available in digital form.
MP3 price: $9.00
HEROES IN THE SEAWEED: Warmth In Your Distance
Folk-influenced indie rock that blends surly voices and acoustic and electric guitars with cello and percussion.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
MARTHA DAVIS: ... So the Story Goes
Moody and eclectic as well as poignant and beautiful, this album is brimming with dark and delicious stories about love, life and loss - unique in perspective and universal in appeal.
MP3 price: $11.99
MOTEL CREEPS: Pleasantries in the Parlor
A smoldering blend of alternative (new wave) and modern (shoegaze) rock, layered with perceptive sound and a disarming alteration of vocals. As charming as a stranger peering from behind a dark door.
CD price: $5.99
PROJEKTOR: Young Hearts Fail
Second full-length and represents an evolution in the bands sound, moving away from the epic sound of "Red Wolf Glass" to a more immediate and driving rock focus.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
WHITE BUFFALO: Last Of The V8 Interceptors
Melodic rock with an Edge. White Buffalo write songs that you can't stop singing or moshing to and hearing Phil Campbells voice is something you never forget.
MP3 price: $10.00
BLOOD OF ABRAHAM: Eyedollartree
Revolutionary production, revolutionary lyrics, an instant cult classic from the streets of L.A.
LUX INTERNA: A Lantern Carried In Blood And Skin
An introduction to the musical and mystical journey of this neo folk act
CD price: $13.98
TX/RX: Lost In the Static
U2, The Cure, Placebo, Duran Duran, Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, The Cult, Jane's Addiction, BRMC, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Killers, Kasabian, Anything that rocks with originality.
CD price: $12.97
LAYMAR: In Strange Lines And Distances
Like Mogwai playing a set of instrumental Joy Division cover versions or the Cocteaus morphing into Eraserhead
Recommended if you like Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor.CD price: $12.97
J. FRANK WILSON & THE CAVALIERS: Last Kiss-The Definitive Collection
1964 Texas Rock n' Roll+Teen Tragedy Pop Music+British Invasion Sounds
CD price: $12.98
HEIR TO MADNESS: The Citadel
Debut album that encompasses wide styling and rich depth. Figure out what that means.
MALACHI CONSTANT: Answers
This is a limited edition cdr that consists of the out of print Newspeak and Challenger EPs along with 11 unreleased songs from 1998-2006.
CD price: $7.99
THE NEW CENTURIES: Paradise Massage
A pop, dance and post rock sound that’s heavy enough for the rock club, funky enough for the dancefloor, and detailed enough for your headphones.
CD price: $5.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Eye For An Eye: A Tribute To Nick Cave
Dark, disturbing, violently loving, quietly loud, acoustic gothic folk songs and murder ballads.
CD price: $11.97
WILL QUINLAN & THE DIVINERS: Navasota
Will Quinlan and his Diviners imbue Alt-Country/Folk/Americana's classic hallmarks with introspection, emotional resonance and a truly original energy.
ALRIGHT JUNIOR: Eudaemonic
A modern post punk twist on grunge rock.
Recommended if you like Foo Fighters, Incubus.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
TORMENT THE VEIN: Faded Life
Alternative rock with a metal edge
Recommended if you like Staind, Breaking Benjamin.CD price: $10.00
LIGATURE: Ligature
One of Boston's best drummers steps forward with a bold, edgy, moody project.
CD price: $12.97
THE SILENT COMEDY: The Silent Comedy
Raucous Americana
Recommended if you like The Decemberists, Arcade Fire.CD price: $6.99
FERNANDO: Old Man Motel
Crazy Horse meets Plastic Ono band in a sleezy Tijuana juke joint. Old Man Motel was voted a "Hidden Treasure" by Magnet Magazine and was named named "Top Ten local release of 1999" by The Oregonian(Oregon's leading newspaper).
CD price: $12.00
JOE REYES: Colours and Sound
A compelling mix of smartly-crafted pop songs in the tradition of the Beatles, Elliott Smith and Aimee Mann, with all the instruments composed, performed and recorded by the artist himself.
CD price: $12.97
DAKARPO: Notes In Another Order
Sweet yet sinister a truly original sound.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
SCOTT TYLER: Storyville
Intimate folk music to confess your sins to.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
THE PHONIES: Gran Tourettes
The Phonies can be described as a combination of guitarist Risto Lehtomaa's characteristic fingerwork and singer Tom Stenman's angelic vocals flavoured with the thoroughly disturbing lyrics.
MADISON SMARTT BELL & WYN COOPER: Forty Words For Fear
"Sonic moonshine" is what Esquire called this fusion of blues rock, acoustic and spoken word.
CD price: $7.99
VNC: City/Port Liaison
Surreal, non-standard guitar tunings, atmospheric, underground, warm in the dark. Oakland.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JEFF JOHANSSON: This Delicate Wall
Wistful, sultry indie folk from Asheville, NC. "Dirty like soil in spring"
CD price: $12.97
EVIL MARIA: Evil Maria
Neo-sixties garage pop, infusing edgy rock elements with pop and early new wave.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TEAM BUILDING: Upon St. Lawrence
The most beautiful, fragmented, haunting and memorable thing to come out of western Canada since the rockies. And we're pretty tall too.
CD price: $9.99
THOSE POOR BASTARDS: The Plague
A carnival of infirmity and disgust.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THEODORE: Songs for the Weary
What it might sound like if Raymond Carver wrote some songs for a dirty country rock band that was playing at his favorite bar for a one-nighter and then they never stopped.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE GLAD VERSION: Make Islands
wind across the plains. late nights in Holland. ghosts and heavenly bodies. how whiskey can lead to ambulances.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
PORQUINHO DIABO: Porquinho Diabo
Experimental takes on traditional fado songs.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
MICE AND RIFLES: Beginner's Luck
The Austin quintet’s dusty ballads cut with a sardonic edge with whip-smart lyrics and hypnotic croon accented by pedal steel.
MP3 price: $4.99
THE HAPPY TALK BAND: There there
Funereal love songs from the fetid underbelly of New Orleans.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
JOHN GERARD: All The Right Words
Metaphorical songwriting, powerful three octave vocals, he tells you everything.
CD price: $12.97
DANIEL FOLMER: Gloria
A tale of a thousand tangled wires that somehow find a way through the inner ear to the brain.
MP3 price: $6.99
THE PAPER SONS: Fine Line
Rhythmically driven alternative rock, illustrated with beautiful open harmonies reminiscent of the early 90's alternative sound while remaining dramatically modern.
CD price: $5.00
THE LAST ARMY: Dark EP
London, UK-based rabble rousers mix classic rock n'roll guitars and drums with strings, timpani and church organs.
Recommended if you like The Clash.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
COLDCAST: Coldcast
Heavy yet melodic. Music with substance, lyrically and musically. Coldcast is blend of singing and hardcore vocals that fans of all kinds of music will enjoy.
CD price: $12.97
SHALLOBOI: Learning How to Crawl
Acoustic songs with male/female harmonies and some floating atmospherics in the background.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
JIMMY HONEYMAN: Jimmy Honeyman
Like Richard Hell leading Buffalo Springfield through a remake of Gasoline Alley.
CD price: $12.97
A CATAPULT WESTERN: A Catapult Western
ACW set out to achieve two simple goals: write and record in the spirit of collaboration, and make an album they would like if they heard it somewhere. The result is engaging storytelling set to an unconventional score.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE WHEAT POOL: Township
The new face of country rock. Dark driving music. Whiskey-soaked stories of grown-up disappointment told on highways across Canada. A remarkable effort of Canadiana rock n roll.
CD price: $12.97
AFTERIMAGE: Strange Confession
The original Afterimage from Los Angeles. Dark dance music of the early 80's. Comes with deluxe fold-out booklet with photos and history of the band. Several rare and previously unreleased live tracks included.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ARKANA: Automat6n
Lush, compelling, sometimes aggressive alternative music, putting a modern spin on the sound of their influences from the 80's and beyond.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SCREAMING FOR EMILY: The Sea
"Blustery, oceanic goth from the shores of Jersey" THE BIG TAKEOVER
MP3 price: $3.59
BACK TO BLUE: The 13th Day
To enter the world of Back To Blue is to enter a world of endless nights, back alley laments, broken hearts, lost faith, empty bottles, and full ashtrays.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
THE ALLKNOWING: Ours For The Taking
We are American metal. Part dirty southern, thrash and hardcore. We take no prisoners.
ITEM price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
LAST YEAR'S YOUTH: Last Year's Youth
If you miss the great punk rock from bands like Rancid and Bad Religion, then check out Philly's Last Year's Youth.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ANDREW: From Me to You
The acoustic beauty of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bookends" meets the stark lyrical honesty of John Lennon's "Plastic Ono Band."
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
THE RADIO HOUR: The Radio Hour - EP
A & R PICK -CMJ Magazine. Stark, strange (at-times), polished production, serious, brooding, intelligent, impacting vocals. Illinois Entertainer called it "cutting-edge folk" meeting a personal demise.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ANDRE KIRCHHOFF: Nowhere & Main
On his debut album Nowhere & Main, singer-songwriter André Kirchhoff paints from a broad musical palette ranging from rootsy garage rock, to alt-country, to folk, seamlessly moving from stripped-down acoustic numbers to full-band accompaniment.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
RED SAMMY: Red Sammy
An exceptional compilation of tunes and art - Red Sammy is Trice's rough mixtures blended with Feild's smooth undertones.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TONY MARRIOTT: Solitude
Guitar layered indie rock. Moody and atmospheric. Solid songriting. an original voice.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DARK LITTLE ROOMS: Foolish Beauty
It can be difficult to communicate pain without sounding despairing. Dark Little Rooms beautifully navigates its turbulent and lovelorn music, promising hope through the bruises.
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
SALTER CANE: Salter Cane
Intense and urgent country-noir - somewhere between Joy Division and Johnny Cash.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SECRET ANNEXE: Seven Headed Monster
Septet of guys and girls playing earnest indie rock/folk.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $7.99
AKAI: Pretty Songs About Ugly Things
Caustic narratives backed by dynamic orch-pop melodies with searing guitars and subtle sentimental moments.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SINK TO SEE: Sink To See
mood evoking music with 80s brit and 70s americana
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
MARTIN JACK AND WEREWOLF SEQUENCE: Ice Thorn: Singles (Collection)
Original Rock and Roll From The Unsanctioned Future With Past Obligations Sanctioned
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE: When In Rome...Do As The Lions
Artfully drawing influence from equal parts of Pop, No-Wave, Psychedelia, Stoner Rock and Minimalism to create their signature sound, Bay Area rockers, The Girlfriend Experience, serve up 13 epic tracks on this Sylvia Massy produced Heyday Records debut.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
JOE COFFEE: When The Fabric Don't Fit The Frame (Limited Edition)
Here to give you a dance track to shake your ass over your misfortunes or waddle home with your misgivings.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
EVEN IN BLACKOUTS: Fall of the House of Even
EIB blends an angelic female voice with punk, bluegrass, jazz and R&B.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
SCARLATTI TILT: Gathering of the Haunted
Imagine a sleazy night out with PJ Harvey and Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds in a dank, underground club where the air hangs heavy with smoke. This is the soundtrack to that night…and its inevitable comedown. Also see singer Daisy Chapman's solo album.
CD price: $13.50 / MP3 price: $13.50
COLOURSLIDE: Colourslide
Alternative/Modern Rock for fans of U2, Remy Zero, and Killers.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
BEDFORD DRIVE: The In-Between
Catchy, smart, indie rock laden with pop vocal hooks and memorable musical imagery. Co-produced by Mike Poorman (ex-Hot Rod Circuit) this EP is destined to push this quartet to the next level.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
CLEMENTE: ...whilst honey hums
The southern, literate, doll house bummer rock sounds of Clemente.
Recommended if you like The Decemberists, Destroyer.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DROIDS ATTACK: Fatal/Error
Droids Attack has gotten heavier and more epic in scale on their sophmore release. Engaging stoner/doom metal.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CALABRESE: The Traveling Vampire Show
horror punk, punk rock, horror rock, goth rock
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
SIGNAL HILL TRANSMISSION: An Empty Space
"Longtime L.A. indie darlings Signal Hill Transmission have crafted a fine-tuned, melodic departure from their previous volume of work. . .with traces of Elliott Smith and Sea Wolf melodies all worked in to their layered sound." -West Coast Performer
CD price: $11.98 / MP3 price: $9.99
NATHAN SINGLETON AND HIS SIDESHOW TRAGEDY: Borrowed Guitars, Unwound Hearts, and Broken Strings
An eclectic stew of literary, emotionally evocative lyrics and raving bluesy jug-band histrionics--think Dylan writing songs for Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
CD price: $10.99
CARBON CULTURE: The Petrified Boombox
The Petrified Boombox holds an eccentric mix of powerful lyrics and musical styles, including: Reggae, Rock, Latin, Hip-Hop, Ska, Punk, and more.
MP3 price: $14.00
RABBIT IS A SPHERE: Laps In The Sleep Saloon
Indie rock's post-coital cigarette
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
THE BENZENE RING: Breathing Water in a Dream
Huge psychedelic guitar rock, dreamy synth fantasies, moody vocals, and strange plot twists. These are like movie scenes sewn together with a dream's anti-logic. Think 70s hard rock, modern indie rock, and Edward Scissorhands.
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MARK MATHIS: We Both Was Young
Come walk on an intoxicating, summer night to an ancient grove of trees, soft with moss and a backdrop of fireflies. Hear the chorus of cicadas, echoes of pleasure and pain, and murmur of prayers made and love lost.
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NANBANJIN: On Your Way
Two Brits and an animal causing melodic mayhem in southern Japan.
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THE BLACKTHORNS: The Blackthorns
With traditional tools, the Blackthorns play the sort of folk songs you’d expect to hear rising from the screen porch after a bomb has been dropped on a decaying Midwestern town.
MONTAUK GHOST: Montauk Ghost
Indie Rock Americana
Recommended if you like Wilco, Elvis Costello.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
RADEMACHER: Rademacher
Indie rock from central california that is melodic weird and wonderful.
Recommended if you like Pavement, The Flaming Lips.CD price: $4.99
DOWNPILOT: Like You Believe It
The wire moves the wood on analog tape. Sonically rich, darkly detailed songs with a timeless cinematic beauty.
Recommended if you like Talk Talk, Iron & Wine.CD price: $10.98 / MP3 price: $10.98
LUCY: Lucy
Indie/Rock/Pop-Punk Influenced by Ikara Colt, Fugazi, Joy Division, The Cure, Snow Patrol, Film School, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, L7, Interpol, At The Drive-In, Les Savy Fav, Dopo Yume, Mclusky, The Rapture, Moving Units, Fran
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CORTEZ DEL MAR: You Did This To Yourself
From South Louisiana, Cortez Del Mar blends classic Americana and indie-rock; often described as "country noir," they're guarenteed to break your wicked little heart.
MP3 price: $8.00
A DECENT ANIMAL: The Rabbit Hole Ep
Atmospheric rock. sometimes called neo folk. sounds like tinges of pink floyd mixed with alt country in a minor key.
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2 1/2 LOUNGE: Superstructure
Heavy, but important; like Santa Claus.
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QUASI PUBLIC: Petrol In Perfume Bottles
Dark alternative rock. Twisted and beautifully melodic.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
LACKLUSTRE: The American People
An attempt to fuse rock and roll with electronics, loops, vintage keyboards and ambient textures.
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AN EPIC AT BEST: There Will Be Rain
Piano-driven melancholy pop songs tinged with honesty and exuberance that take you back to a place and time when you felt unbearable pain that you can laugh about now.
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WILL HAVEN: Will Haven
Avant but Heavy-Duty "Stoner Rock". Bleed your eardrums with this record...
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MILES BEFORE: Miles Before EP
"[Miles Before's]songs are filled with the promise of something new and unique, while sounding distinctly familiar. In this case, its self-titled debut EP is reminiscent of early Jawbreaker and Samiam, with touches of Fugazi's urgency and dynamics."
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