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Taken from the new Live EP from the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis. Courtesy of Anticon
The music is anthemic, cacophonius, and cathartic, in an almost feel-good sort of way. It's kind of like stepping into a particle accelerator to go for a ride, and Proton Proton is playing on the particle accelerator hi-fi during that ride.
The music is decidedly slow and focused, making you stop and actively listen to what's going on. You're rewarded with repeated listens as songs grow in front of your ears.
The Earlies have the funkiness mixed with a good capability for melody and song structure. They've also wandered into that otherworldly quality of dark and light that can be explosive when done right. Courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
The instrumentation on the track is certainly engaging, but the heavy vocal processing makes it seem as though Stephen Hawking is guest vocalist on the track. Courtesy of Force Field
Headphone drum programming for your soul. Or better yet, put it through big, big speakers and watch the bass waves move in 3D. Courtesy of Mush Records
The predominant sound here is of shoegazing guitars, with their band name being a not so subtle reference to ‘Loveless’, the seminal album by My Bloody Valentine. Includes audio stream and MP3 download.
Courtesy of Technical Echo
Menomena works to lay instrumentation and vocals over the top of sound loops, combining one part found sound structure and one part songwriting to come up with an experimental way of creating music.
Courtesy of Barsuk Records
Spastic clarity and rythmic jabs. It's got electronic and traditional instruments alongside found sounds... This is a genre unto itself.
Courtesy of Temporary Residence, Ltd.
The new Skyband additions of bass, drums, pianos and the occasional banjo plant the Skygreen Leopards somewhere more between the countrified jangle of Americana and the feel-good notions of blue skies pop than ever before.
The new Skyband additions of bass, drums, pianos and the occasional banjo plant the Skygreen Leopards somewhere more between the countrified jangle of Americana and the feel-good notions of blue skies pop than ever before.
Singer Victoria Legrand is a cross between Nico and Karen Carpenter, with her siren-like vocals covering the backdrop of hazy, reverb-laden organs & guitar. Courtesy of Car Park Records
This definitely feeds back to a time in the past, the sixties perhaps, but at times it fuses in parts of the seventies or even modern sounds. It's lo-fi and bubbling with life. It's looks back at a time when music and life in America were more simple than it is now, but David makes things more complex than they used to be, bringing the kind of modern dilemmas into the lyrics that were unheard of back in 60's music.
On The Lost Take, Dosh lays down a range of influences, from jazz to electronic to hip-hop to anything that seems to be bouncing around his ears. Dosh filters the world into his music, and his music gives you the world. Courtesy of Anticon Records
Upbeat bleeping contrasted with miserablist vocals. Xiu Xiu prove as well as being superior experimental indie kids, they can actually write a good pop song worth singing along to. Courtesy of Kill Rock Stars
There are many names for the kind music The Blow creates... glitch-hop, indie R&B, etc. It's the kind of bass-heavy music that makes you want to to reach for the volume dial and the bass control to increase the saturation to full-on, earth shaking levels. Maybe the Blow should be measured on the Richter scale? Courtesy of K Records
The music is real and visceral, with roots in dark 80's UK sounds. ¡Forward, Russia! have been called anything from dance-punk to to post-punk to math rock. The one thing everybody seems to agree on is that the sound is explosive and the music is addictive.
Motor City natives TAN! typify the urgency common when college students polished up punk and experimented with their parents’ keyboards in
the early 80’s. Courtesy of Frenchkiss Records
Les Georges Leningrad describe themselves as ‘petrochemical rock’, but it's more like rock with random electronic keyboard stranglings. Courtesy of Dare To Care Records
Sounding like Apples In Stereo crossed with early Sonic Youth and lost and wandering around in the collective unconscious, Welcome sounds like everything revolutionary that has ever happened in music... fractured 60 psych pop songs, indie rock rule bending, experimental structure, and a very cool sense of musical mytique that is hard to put into words.
Imagine the spirit of Joy Division inhabiting a band that has a love for experimentation and the bass guitar. And a female lead singer. And they're from Australia.
Recorded in the remote woods of Elktooth, Colorado, the album is a collection of pounding tribal drums, deep-throated chants and plenty of dark imagery. Courtesy of Sounds Familyre
Sounding like an indie rock band with an urge to experiment with a blend of off-hand background sounds, Annuals create music that seems ordinary on the first listen. Repeated listens will reward you with a dense layering of noises and sounds that build a greater sound around the song structure.
More new school from Toronto. Their music includes rumbling bass lines mix with jagged guitar lines to merge into the superform of indie rock with distorted, grilled vocals. They've garnered comparisons to David Bowie, Joy Division, and Pavement. It's like slight noise mixed with melody and hooks.
A cover of a song by Clinic called Distortions, recorded at the Alberta Court studio on an eight track. I can just picture Chris in the corner, operating an eight track recorder while electricians are coming and going behind him while working on the studio at large.
A hybrid of sounds loosely based around experimentalism, electronic leanings, and whatever they feel like throwing in at any particuliar moment. From the album The House of Apples & Eyeballs.
Sanguine pop experimentaion - noise pop, fuzzy noise, and energy. CNN's Anderson Cooper likes them - maybe you should heed Mr. Cooper's recommendation. Courtesy of Absolutely Kosher Recordings
One half of the dynamic duo of Fiery Furnaces, Matthew Friedberger has released a double album of solo material - 1 part pop and and the other part experimental. That's what you get in these two songs - an example from each. Courtesy of 859 Recordings
The Minders deliver blink and you’ll miss them pop gems with stellar production, engaging lyrics focusing on life and love, and just the right amount of musical accents & flourishes to keep them from becoming forgettable. Courtesy of Future Farmer Records
hard-edged, post-hardcore, math influenced music that shows the band growing into new heights of songwriting and experimentation. Courtesy of Jade Tree Records
Musically, the band remains as straightforward rock as they always have. Singer Tim Kasher sings on the verge of yelling, and power chords and catchy hooks are still around.
The semi-psychedelic alt-country of Return of the Native feels like being alone in a nowhere desert town. Anchored by the brush drumming of Matt Griffin and melancholic guitar wails, Amber Webber lends somber seductiveness. Courtesy of Secretly Canadian Records
It's kind of a quieter version of Deerhoof, more pop-oriented. You can definitely see what Chris' contribution to his former band was, but now The Curtains are a whole new thing!
Plenty of echoplex knockouts, but this time Comets On Fire teeter around the threshold of sanity rather than spending all of their time beyond it. It's this kind of reservation that makes you want more... Courtesy of Sub PopRecords
Dry guitar sounds soaked in reverb, but Your Black Star lays it over pop leanings while still retaining some of their indie roots. They sound like they grew up listening to the Cure. Courtesy of Wonka Vision Records
Combining elements of folk stylings and bohemian influences, Lewis & Clarke creates the type of hybrid that is not only off the beaten path, but also unique onto itself.
Cale Parks from Aloha is releasing some of his own stuff - home recordings of electronic music. It's ambient and flowing. Courtesy of Polyvinyl Records
Features 13 tracks from artists at the Intonation Festival - The Stills, Robert Pollard, Panthers, The Sword , The Streets, Boredoms, Bloc Party, Favourite Sons, Jose Gonzalez, The Constantines, Lady Sovereign, and High On Fire. Dig it! Courtesy of KEXP.org
Part of the noisy, droney movement that seems to be sweeping through the US right now. It's fuzzy, dark, and oh so good. Courtesy of Light In The Attic Records
The trademark free jazz underground harmonic overtones, the alternately tuned guitars, the minimalism, the lo-fi production. Courtesy of Geffen Records
From the upcoming I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass. It's lively, upbeat, and everything that's good about Yo La Tengo. Courtesy of Matador Records
The kids from Oneida are back with more crazy sound workouts. Up With People is a steady workout of guitar and snare drum. Courtesy of Secretly Canadian Records
This has a stripped down folk aesthetic with some experimental sounds put in. It can be very sparse at times, with the guitar barely clinging to the drums, a loose vocal track placed on top of that.
Shoegazey dreamlike music with pop sensibility. They know how to swing the pendulum back and forth between pop
and dream. Courtesy of The Social Registry
A majestic slow tempo piece with some of the best lyrics on the new album. That’s the thing with Doug Martsch, often times his guitar speaks louder than he does and he doesn’t get credit for his prose.
The new band with Spencer Krug from Wolf Parade. It's all pianos and guitars and catharsis, working you over until no part of you is left unaltered. It's lo-fi and big and bombastic at the same time.
Sometimes Irving lean towards psychedelic, sometimes new wave, sometimes indie rock, sometimes pop, always experimenting. That's life in the modern age for you, complex and complicated, where nothing is as literal as
it seems.
There's lots of notes and sounds and blips. It's very keyboard-centric. And the deep bass is nice. It's cool how such organic music can have such deep and moving bass in the drums.
Helvetia play the tribal lo-fi anthems of outer space to infintity. The music is a combination of an otherworldly dreamscape with its feet firmly planted on the ground.
Emerging from the gray and dark winter of the Midwest, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's have both the explosivesness and passivity that can be so common to this part of the country. The interesting part is that they have both. It's like Ryan Adams having periodic freakouts. Courtesy of Artemis Records
It's dark and sinister, like taking a ride in an old car with Nick Cave through a gothic part of town. It lurches forward with intensity and passion. Courtesy of Up Records
Straight-forward, honest and real. It's hard not to like this music because it's so very right in front of you at every moment. It's dry and indie rock and a little lo-fi.
Mae Shi are the kings of experimental punk new wave chaos. They're so close to perfection and catastrophic failure at every moment that it's exciting to listen to.
It started as a senior thesis project and became a music project of its own. It's folk, pop, experimental, undefinable. Courtesy of Secretly Canadian Records
Drum machines that hum with life and intensity. Quiet duet vocals laid over the top. It's electronic experimentation from Copenhagen, Denmark. Courtesy of Rumraket Records
They're back with a very beastie offering from Mr. Beast. Noisy build-up that clogs your speakers with the on-off sutain of distorted guitars that only Mogwai can do like Mogwai. Courtesy of Matador Records
The Impossible Shapes have been tapping into the collective unconsciousness for a bite of that big psychic spiral of life, and they've channeled it for us all here. Folk leanings merge with more experimental sounds and tape
splicing aesthetics. Courtesy of Secretly Canadian
One of Scotland's finest exports are back
with a new album and new music. Anguish
meets sly vocal delivery with piano &
guitar. Courtesy of Transdreamer Records
80's new wave updated for the times. Slightly
edgy, upbeat rythyms, and a lot of energy
— and maybe a small affinity for the
guitar work of Sebadoh's Lou Barlow. Courtesy of Gold Standard Labs
Noise, then chaos, then back to noise again.
It's got song structure though, so there's
a framework to hold on to as they drag through
their sonic landscape.
A more immediate and visceral cutting to
the bone than bands like Joy Division, P.I.L., and the Fall, but
reminiscent of those bands in a more modern
sound. Courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
Dark and dry, cutting and quiet, loud and
brash. deadboy & the Elephantmen are
all over the map, and that's a good thing. Courtesy of Fat Possum Records
If you play video games, then you know how
the soundtracks can stick in your head after
hearing them over and over. The Advantage
took that idea one step further by releasing
a whole album of what was once 8-bit chip
music from video games, now played on real
instruments. Courtesy of Kill Rock Stars
Imagine the perfect version of the new wave
Flock of Seagulls reconfigured through the
dark Echo and the Bunnymen, in a perfect
way, in a perfect world. Courtesy of Secretly Canadian Records
Sublime vocal harmonies over chorusy guitars,
a touch of pop sensibility, and a good rendition
of verse chorus verse. Sometimes it just
hits the spot. Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
There's sharp, off-kilter chords, frenetic
cymbal crashes, and brittle melodies set
to break apart if you squeeze them too hard.
Not for the timid, but very interesting
if you have an open mind. Courtesy of Lovepump United Records
This is the kind of music you can play on
a warm spring day when it's dark and rainy
and you have the windows open. It's hauntingly
beautiful, dark, and innocent all at the
same time.
You harbor a slight fetish for Brian Eno's
music. You have surreal dreams of new wave
ideologies being poured onto smooth ideas
of post shoegazer aesthetics. You are visualizing
this file downloading right now... Courtesy of Jade Tree Records
Jangly, slightly lo-fi, and midtempo. Don't
hate them because they're from Indiana.
You can like them, really. There's no shame
in liking a midwestern band... Courtesy of Secretly Canadian Records
A very happy song. Upbeat tempos mingle
with happy melodies in a ritualistic dance
of hope. "And if you please I may,
escort you all they way, just sit you down
and see, be thankful everyday." Courtesy
of Merge Records
Fresh from the State Department of Mates
of State... new indie pop music from the
upcoming album Bring it Back. They've dipatched
dignitaries to the United Nations to let
you know - they're going worldwide. Courtesy
of Barsuk Records
The world has been clamoring for
new Belle and Sebastian over and over again
since that fateful line in the movie High
Fidelity...
"What is this?"
"Oh, it's the new Belle and Sebastian."
They were then immortalized. This is the
kind of mild, jangly indie pop that they
do so well. Courtesy of Matador Records
Ride the razor's edge of darkness and beauty.
The Duke Spirit invokes past hautings of
Andy Warhol's Factory with the immediacy
of the post 9/11 world. Courtesy
of Startime Records
Brooklyn's Finean Mckean used to be in the
Push Kings, but now he's got his own gig.
Dry guitar sounds washed in chorus and reverb
sound like an echoey sitar. Way out experimentalism,
but backed with a knack for a pop song that
makes a good combination.
Courtesy of Finian Mckean
Imagine a Strawberry Fields-era Paul McCartney
singing in a very hyper indie pop band.
Oh yeah: they know how to write a song,
too. Courtesy of Polyvinyl Records
Unashamed drum machine beats laid under
Psycho Candy distorted guitars. All of this
with a nod toward pop, but more in a "hey,
whats up" nod that you give someone
in passing than a full on embracing of pop
music. Courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
An entire show's worth of MP3's, taken from
his November 5th show at the Indpendent
in San Francisico. Great sound, lots of
music, good show. Courtesy of John Vanderslice
