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.

Silver Darling
"A ramshackle, very loose, folk rock with influences from The Band to The Mountain Goats." - Songs: Illinois

"The common pitfalls of Americana and new folk are easily avoided on this album; there’s not a sloppy or superfluous moment to speak of. From Kevin Lee’s vocals—sad and full of soul—to Christian Kiefer’s meticulous production, Sacramento’s Silver Darling tells a dark story with many eerily joyful revelations along the way." - Sacramento News & Review

Winter's Fall
The songs of Winter's Fall stretch from slow ballads to more driving anthems and other moods in between.

Dana Falconberry
"Like other new singers with an old-world charm (Jolie Holland, Jenny Owen Youngs), Falconberry makes music that seems to spring from an unnamed place and time. Oh Skies of Grey has a vague gothicism, a thirties-pop feel, a deep blues vibe, and even a trio of female voices conjuring the sound of the Roche (or Andrews) sisters. Plus, Falconberry mixes in a contemporary sensibility; the production is eccentric and ranges from delicate acoustics to brittle, distorted power chords. All this has the potential to add up to a mess, but Falconberry seals the deal. She charms her way through the witty and varied material with her thin but beguiling voice. As with other records that require some patience at the outset, her album ultimately yields big rewards." - Texas Monthly

Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus is a rock and roll band from Glen Rock. In the beginning, there were only three people in the band. At one point, there were eleven people in the band. Right this second, there are five people in the band. Titus Andronicus take their name from a minor Shakespearean tragedy, not, as many people believe, from some sort of killer robot from the future. Titus Andronicus practice at Ian's house. Titus Andronicus sometimes disagree on what is the right thing to do. Titus Andronicus like to scream and carry on at excessive volume. Titus Andronicus like songs which are fast more than songs which are slow. Titus Andronicus think slow songs are okay sometimes. Titus Andronicus never sing about love, only hate. Titus Andronicus have no hope for the future. Titus Andronicus believe only in nothingness. Everyone in Titus Andronicus was born to die. Titus Andronicus crave your approval but will settle for your utter disdain.

"They hit every mark, nailing noise and debris against shake-and-sing anthems. That's Titus Andronicus' ploy-- aggressing and endearing audiences as a completely ramshackle crew of Jersey drunks, while somehow triumphing through perfectly clangorous pop songs." - Pitchforkmedia.com

Off Campus
ex-The Pattern and PeeChees.

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

Sunburned Hand of the Man
"Sunburned Hand of the Man is a nebulous band. It comes from Boston and New York and points in between. It has a revolving cast of musicians, depending on where it’s performing or what it’s doing. Its music is improvised rock, spooky and droney. Its singers utter unintelligible words. It draws no conclusions; it leaves some of the heavy lifting to you. At the music’s limits, the extramusical elements begin. This band has been around for 10 years, scratching out a name for itself in outsider-rock festivals, and it carries an edge of ragged, freaky attitude, some kind of cross between spacey naïveté and confrontational sarcasm." - Ben Ratliff, New York Times

Franklin's Mint
Featuring Phil Franklin of Caroliner Rainbow, Faxed Head, and Secret Chiefs 3.

Christine Shields
I live in a teeny tiny house in the woods. The other day there was a pale yellow mantis in there. Nearby lives a bear who I never see, but I hear at night. Also there are crickets, bats, metallic dragonflies, and myriad other creatures. I like to play the guitar, and sing a song, and paint a picture. I like to swim, fly, and rollerskate. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4