MC Trachiotomy
From New Orleans' 9th Ward! The one-and-only MC Trachiotomy "took both the underground rock and hip-hop worlds by surprise with his shocking 1999 debut, Robot Alien or Ghost. Not as out of the ordinary in today’s increasingly experimental world of underground hiphop, Robot Alien or Ghost, with its murky moonscape of atonal lo-fi alien beats and cryptic, often indecipherable rhymes, confounded critics and listeners when it arrived. Though no one could decide whether or not it was a work of ultimate genius or sonic terrorism, all agreed that it was bizarre.

2002’s w/ Love From Tahiti, on Bulb Records, unveiled a more listenable, and even more diverse and ambitious Trachiotomy with all of the creative aspects of his debut. Italian philosopher Pierre Scaruffi, in his History of Rock Music, best describes the album as defining “a territory straddling rap, spoken-word, psychedelic rambling, Captain Beefheart-ian wackiness, lo-fi pop and the Residents' new-wave… The album is the musical equivalent of a hurricane, sweeping away swamp blues, freeform jamming, reggae balladry, hip hop, etc. The comedian indulges in spoofs of spy-thriller cocktail muzak, 1940s' big-band swing, Broadway show tunes, and soft-night-jazz.” Summing up the first two records: “The creative intensity of these albums is simply frightening.” - New York Night Train

Goodbye Nautilus

The Chop!

My First Earthquake

Lumerians
"Other-worldly synthesizers layer amidst ambient post-rock stretches." - Pop Matters

Grass Widow
"The San Francisco band Grass Widow braids apparitional vocals over distorted post-punk riffs." - SF Gate

Clipd Beaks

Phantom Kicks
new band involving Tanner from Raised by Robots.

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

Nodzzz
San Francisco three-piece Nodzzz, a band who sound like they were conceived in London sometime around 1976, shuffled off to Manchester for a couple of years until the turn of the decade, then arrived back just in time for the first wave of Dan Treacy-inspired madness. Singer Anthony Atlas owes as much of his pugnacious bile to the likes of Mark E Smith, Nick Lowe, the aforementioned Treacy and Howard Devoto as he does Statesiders Jonathan Richman or Richard Hell. Although accents occasionally speak louder than words, there's no doubt vitriolic rants like 'In The City' emerged from years spent listening to a battered old copy of Live At The Witch Trials. Alongside the likes of Finally Punk, German Measles and The Specific Heats not to mention Leeds' very own Spectrals, there's a new school of C86-inspired pop flourishing at present." - Drowned in Sound

Thomas Function
One of the best acts from all of Gonerfest IV!

"In the Valley of Sickness sounds like Reigning Sound before they got all grown up, a cousin of King Tuff that’s a cross between a gruffer Gentleman Jesse and a less batshit Nobunny. The organs will bring to mind the Turpentine Brothers, and the clean swagger a throwback to some early Television or even the B-52’s. But in the end, this is just a really good rock album, made by a bunch of guys who know how to write really good songs." - Dusted

Yussef Jerusalem
from France.

Kurt Vile & the Violators
Chubby Checker, Schoolly D, Hall & Oates, Robert Hazard, Roy "Philly Boy Roy" Ziegler, Left-Eye Lisa; some of them may have monuments to themselves in their hometown City of Brotherly Love, or at least a signed glossy at Pat's Steaks. Kurt Vile is an Philly talent whose largeness cannot be denied; while his album debut Constant Hitmaker hinted at a future of hazy bedroom-pop Tom Pettyisms, his last few releases on Mexican Summer and Richie Records have painted up expansive Spacemen 3-worthy soundscapes with no lesser songwriting greatness. His new album Chilidsh Prodigy was just released on Matador. - WFMU

Wooden Shjips
Fjans of cjontemporary pjscyh mjusic yjour sjearch is ojver!

Young Prisms
Young Prisms is a San Francisco psychedelic/garage/beach-pop band, influenced by the California coast, Charlton Heston, and late night spiritual pow wows.

The Dont's

Finn Riggins

Total Hound

Neil Hamburger
"Despite his appalling comic timing, muddled delivery, and cliched material, stand-up Neil Hamburger nevertheless emerged as one of the most acclaimed and name-checked comedians of his generation; like Lenny Bruce before him, he was a hipster icon whose trailblazing riffs defied conventions at every turn, transcending the confines of hilarity with kamikaze recklessness. Prior to his ascendance, comedians were expected not only to be funny, but insightful as well; Hamburger changed all that forever." - All Music Guide

Mike O'Connell
O'Connell's ever-evolving album, "Unemployable" -- which he custom burns for each paying customer -- offers everything from his classic heavy-metal educational songs for toddlers to his latest off-color efforts, such as "Asian Babies" and "Sexual Psychic."

As his record title suggests, O'Connell's work-world failures provide consistent fodder for his comedy. Fireable offenses have included adding gin to nonfat lattes, crying too much, math errors, inhaling whipped cream propellant, chortling at authority figures and masturbating into warm tortillas.

Randy Liedtke

Stirling Says

Finest Dearest

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