Marabelle Phoenix

Kira Lynn Cain
"At the intersection of alt-country and film noir stands Kira Lynn Cain, whose lavish, shadowy music conjures up all kinds of fanciful comparisons (Mazzy Star meets Ennio Morricone! Julee Cruise meets Calexico!). There’s also an innocence and elegance to Cain’s music that feels channeled from the vocal pop of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s that was the soundtrack to her childhood." - All Music Guide

Porch Flies

Wiggwaum

Chen Santa Maria (record release)

Punk Rock Sideshow w/DJ Tragic & the Duchess of Hazard, every Monday

The Acorn
Spawned in the fertile swampland of Canada’s national capital, The Acorn has been creating experimental folk and music since early 2004. The project was initially the brain/lovechild of Rolf Klausener, who composed a series of electro-acoustic folk tunes under the name.
The Acorn runs a wide stylistic gamut from folksy to jubilant, interlocking guitar harmonies, vocal harmonies and song structures that oscillate between the understated and the unexpected. (bio)

The Shaky Hands
"Chock-full of rhythmic lullabies that hint at folk standards, 1960s pop icons, and the topical colorings of indie rock." - Pitchfork

Ohbijou

Buzzer

Lover!
ex-Lost Sounds/Reatards from Memphis!

The Safes
"Chicago's The Safes isn't all power chords, hooks, and harmonies (though it's got all that nailed down). The trio jams bright melodies, bluesy stomps, and every mood from silly to bitter into tight-and-fast power pop songs." - The Onion

Fault Lines

Evangelicals
"Effervescent melody and spacey instrumentation, cleverly merging the influences of The Beach Boys with the work of Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie."

The Old-Fashioned Way
"Crowded around their sage leader, the OFW give off the ease of a family band, though no member remotely resembles another. They’re Dickensian orphans, then, who’ve gathered to put on a minstrel show — and who’ve had to find a sound to fit their strange batch of instruments. The two red-blooded guitars and the drum kit give the songs a sturdy rock core when the band wishes it. But there are also, at points, a Paul McCartney–style toy bass, an accordion, a triangle, a wailing keyboard, and a melodica, which pile into a haunted and seductive sort of antipop, mournful and klezmerish on a track like "Robot on Fire" but boppy, harmonic, and needing a restroom on "Take Your Fluids."
--SF Bay Guardian

THE USAISAMONSTER
Now a four piece!! "Buttery synth and elaborate vocal harmonies combine to levitate hairpieces. This is the perfect synthesis of their pastoral wanderings circa their second record, Wohaw, and the punk spunk of the first and third full lengths."

Lightning Bolt-meets-Meat Puppets are two touchstones for those of you looking at the rear of this rapidly disappearing ambulance.

High Castle

Common Eider King Eider
With raw viola, haunting vocals, and noise guitar, Rob Fisk (Badgerlore, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, ex-Deerhoof) has created an exquisite album that sounds perfectly at home in the natural world between dusk and dawn.

Mammatus
With an excess of fuzz and wah noise they manage to combine all the best bits of 70's psychedelic rock with the sonic attack of early Monster Magnet as they simultaneously enter the realm of heavy drone sludge rock.

Wildildlife
"Masters of skull-frying soundscapes, Wildildlife's debut full length "Six" (on Crucial Blast) buzzes with Sabbath sludge riffery, echoplexed-out vocals and tribal drumming to drive you straight into a swirling black hole. Killing Joke, Butthole Surfers, and Khanate come to mind as well, and despite the lurching, scuzzed out avalanche of sound, this is actually one of the most melodic (yet heavy) bands you'll hear in a long time!" - Brian Turner, WFMU

Three Leafs
Crickets, wind, pile drivers, birds, rattling chains, movies, hardwood floors, abandoned churches, pencil sketches, typing, shutter speeds, turbines, squid, brown rice, seven-lobe leafs, clocks, popcorn, echo, Muslim spain, unicorns, railroad crossings, cicadas, pulsars, cephalopods in general, barns, bicycles, wool, sauerkraut, swords, the Hundertwasserhaus, Varangians, paper bags, traffic, canyons, hollow metal objects, spring, summer, fall, winter, glacial ice, frogs, hot oil and water, steam vents, cold seeps, orbits, found object scuplture.