Long-standing UK indie rock band, founded in 1988 in the West Midlands by bassist Martin Blunt.
Marketed in North America as The Charlatans UK due to copyright
issues with the '60s San Francisco psych rock group with the same name.
Tracklist
| 1 | North Country Boy | 4:04 | |
| 2 | Area 51 | 3:39 | |
| 3 | Don't Need A Gun | 5:10 |
Though Silent was mostly known during its early '90s existence for ambient keyboard-based explorations, it did also get this trio's debut effort out, one of the first and best American responses to U.K. shoegazing bands. The opening keyboard atmospherics and reverberating bird calls may seem more like typical new age, but when the first heavily processed and delayed guitar wash suddenly wafts into view along with bells and chimes, it's enough to catch the ear of any Cocteau Twins or My Bloody Valentine fan. With further obvious inspiration from Slowdive and a name taken from a Cure song, Closedown admittedly wasn't one for total innovation. Still, those who love the serene psychedelia that such names can conjure up will be entirely in their element here. Bandleader Jerry Battle, who handles the guitar and vocals, knows exactly where he needs to aim at with both -- vast and echo-laden with the former, withdrawn and whispered with the latter. The rhythm section, with one James on drums and a Fernando on bass, also similarly does what needs doing -- steady, early Pink Floyd style pacing and fills, Simon Gallup-influenced low, moody tones and so forth. It's all fairly obvious, but it's such a wonderfully good obvious as well -- better this than yet another of the wannabe alternative groups cluttering up 1994, at least. Another member, Cesar Betancourt, gets credits for treatments -- whether this means taking Battle's work and further going nuts with it or simply adding further studio tweaks is unclear, but there's a healthy flow of dreamy texturing throughout, along with murkier offerings like "Kilobit." Appropriate samples from 2010: Odyssey Two ("My god, it's full of stars!") and song titles like "Sunangel Summer" and "Empyreal" fill out this unoriginal yet quite enjoyable album, well worth any dream pop fan's time.
Tracklist
| 1 | Ring | 4:01 | |
| 2 | Red Oval | 7:02 | |
| 3 | Decryption | 2:54 | |
| 4 | Kilobit | 1:15 | |
| 5 | Mouth | 4:31 | |
| 6 | Sunangel Summer | 5:16 | |
| 7 | Solifluction | 3:29 | |
| 8 | Transmission | 4:16 | |
| 9 | Bumblebee | 7:42 | |
| 10 | Empyreal | 3:38 | |
| 11 | Aquila | 3:28 | |
| 12 | Moon | 6:24 |
Tracklist
| 1 | Fucking My Nurse In The Dark (After She Gives Me The Morphine Shot) | 23:37 | |
| 2 | Flesh-Eating Bacteria | 23:37 | |
| 3 | Polygamic Cyst | 10:52 | |
| 4 | Ruptured Spleen | 14:05 |
LP only release from this indie rock band from Yonkers, New York
Tracklist
A1. Wild Sun
A2. Alright By Mine
A3. Turning Us Around
A4. Lock And Key
A5. Lost Time
B1. Get The Picture?
B2. It's No Crime
B3. Different Flavor
B4.The Right Hand
B5. More Than Me
Four Star Mary is an alternative rock group formed in California in
1997. The band named themselves after the Four Star vs. Mary legal case,
in which Mary attempted to sue Exxon Mobil, a large US oil company
Lead singer Tad Looney, guitarist Michael ‘Zu’ Zufelt, bassist Steve
Carter, drummer Chris Sobchack and rhythm guitarist Derrick Tanner made
up the fictitious band Dingoes Ate My Baby in which Oz plays guitar in
Seasons Two, Three and Four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They have also
had tracks featured on the shows Party of Five, Road Rules, The Real
World and Charmed.
According to an interview in The Watcher’s Guide, music editor John
King heard their music at a party hosted by Steve Carter’s girlfriend
and thought they would be good on the show. Joss decided that they had
the right sound for the fictitious band he wanted. In Buffy, they played
at several posting board and cast/crew parties.
Their 2001 single "Pain" is on the original soundtrack CD for the show.
Tracklist
| 1 | Dilate | 3:10 | |
| 2 | Thrown To The Wolves | 4:01 | |
| 3 | Never Mind | 4:14 | |
| 4 | Say It | 3:46 | |
| 5 | Dark Sky | 4:02 | |
| 6 | She Knows | 4:08 | |
| 7 | Violent | 4:03 | |
| 8 | Run | 5:09 |
Lo-fi, acoustic, alternative country on Sonic Youth's drummer, Steve Shelley's label.
Tracklist
| 1 | Hotel Opera | |
| 2 | One To One | |
| 3 | Chambre Vert | |
| 4 | Pity 6 | |
| 5 | Record Time | |
| 6 | Tastee Freeze | |
| 7 | Three Poodles Drink The Soup | |
| 8 | L'Asesina Lengua | |
| 9 | Meteor Pink | |
| 10 | La Lengua Asesina | |
| 11 | Station To Station | |
| 12 | Waiting Around To Die | |
| 13 | Hotel Opera (Reprise) |
Fuzzy bass, quirky yet interesting lyrics - Blogatrix
American
duo, comprised of Christopher Rankin (bass guitar) and Hilary Binder
(drums). Formed in 1988 in San Francisco, California, formerly the
rhythm section of Forethought. Resident in Tábor, Czech Republic, since the early 1990s.
Tracklist
| 1 | At The Point Of No Return | ||
| 2 | Right There / Cuckoo Clock / Pam Kray | ||
| 3 | Velcro / Free Time / Ache / Downshift |
Spanish alternative rock band from Gijon (Asturias), formed during the Spanish indie music explosion and the so called the "Xixon Sound" movement in the nineties.
Free CD with magazine 'Rockdelux' N°162, April 1999.
Recorded live at Teatro Jovellanos, Gijón, (Spain), 24 November 1998 except track 8, recorded at Estudios Odds, Feb '99.
Tracklist
1. Tin Pan Alley
2. Experiment In Terror
3. Crash
4. Adamo
5. Slalom
6. Wide-O Blues
7. O.F. King
8. Everybody's Talking
9. The Godfather
Punk band from Richmond, Virginia, USA.
They were active from 1991 to 1996 and again in 2007 and 2010.
Tracklist
| 1 | Collision | |
| 2 | Overthrow | |
| 3 | Sister | |
| 4 | Life Is Precious | |
| 5 | Rusty Nails And Chaos | |
| 6 | Hymn | |
| 7 | Statick | |
| 8 | Dysfunctional Ideals | |
| 9 | Bound And Blind |
American punk rock band founded in 1992 in San Francisco and disbanded in 2007.
Tracklist
| 1 | A Simple Gesture | 2:01 | |
| 2 | Smell It Rot | 2:23 | |
| 3 | Alone When She Dies | 2:38 | |
| 4 | Undisputed King Of Nothing | 1:42 | |
| 5 | Secrets | 1:54 | |
| 6 | Santa Cruz | 4:29 | |
| 7 | Parts Unknown | 2:41 | |
| 8 | Crop Circles | 2:01 | |
| 9 | Colors Lie | 2:03 | |
| 10 | You're On Your Own | 1:46 | |
| 11 | Dramatic History Of A Boring Town | 1:43 | |
| 12 | Static | 2:46 |
Super hard to find release.
Catchy indie rock with female fronted vocals with the occasional shout or two. This is not the Palomar band with members of Paw. - Blogatrix
Palomar
"put the first album out themselves, just one month after forming, and
it's called "Palomar," with an implied Roman numeral one (released in
1999). They printed up 500 copies of this record."
Tracklist
| 1 | Washington | |
| 2 | Angel | |
| 3 | 50 Second | |
| 4 | British Spelling | |
| 5 | Hangin' With Nat | |
| 6 | Special Lunch | |
| 7 | Robert | |
| 8 | Try | |
| 9 | 495 | |
| 10 | Slingshot | |
| 11 | Close Call | |
| 12 | Sharp Stick In The Eye | |
| 13 | Williamsburg | |
| 14 | Sits Like A Girl |
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Tracklist
1. Who's Sorry Now?
2. Build It Up
3. Yardstick For Lunatics
4. I Can Feel You
5. Marked For Time
6. Sad
7. Eleanor Rigby
8. Godfrey Carson
9. Next Time
10. Around
11. Party Girl
12. Singing Songs
Alt rock and noise on the Oxo Records label
Tracklist
| A1 | Janitor Joe– | Under The Knife |
| A2 | Snag– | Sideways |
| B1 | Muskellunge– | Hooded Coat |
| B2 | John's Black Dirt– | Shrinky Dink |
by request
Post metal / punk band, originally formed in California in 1987. After going on hiatus in 1997, the band reformed in 2004 and is now based in Eugene, Oregon.
Tracklist
| 1 | Dress Like A Fish | |
| 2 | Insulator Man | |
| 3 | She Must Be An Artist | |
| 4 | Mija | |
| 5 | Blowdryer In The Bathtub | |
| 6 | Gardening Conspiracy | |
| 7 | When To Sink | |
| 8 | Long Tongue | |
| 9 | The One That Killed Him | |
| 10 | Tapped | |
| 11 | Isolated | |
| 12 | Where Two Went |
American post-hardcore band from Portsmouth, Virginia. Eric Larson, the drummer for Kilara, also played in Alabama Thunderpussy, Avail, and a shitload of other bands. Sam Krivanec, also of Kilara, played in Alabama Thunderpussy.
Tracklist
| 1 | 3rd Eye | |
| 2 | Growin-Up | |
| 3 | Succubus | |
| 4 | Threefold | |
| 5 | Travels Of A Handgun Pt.2 | |
| 6 | Test Meat Sick | |
| 7 | Dream | |
| 8 | Nightingale |
American punk band from Richmond, Virginia, active mid-1990s.
The Weak Force is a vinyl only release.
Tracklist
| Limp | |||
| A1 | Eq.45 | 1:32 | |
| A2 | In The Name Of | 2:15 | |
| A3 | Small | 2:09 | |
| A4 | Don't You Know | 1:22 | |
| A5 | Work Ethic | 2:03 | |
| A6 | Hustle | 1:35 | |
| Spineless | |||
| B1 | On High | 1:30 | |
| B2 | Boxing | 1:37 | |
| B3 | Friend | 1:37 | |
| B4 | Closed Doors | 1:09 | |
| B5 | Time After Time 2:32 | ||
| B6 | 21 | 1:54 | |
| B7 | Worthless | 1:45 |
French experimental noise rock band from Lyon formed in 1993 from the ashes of Deity Guns. Stopped in 1997, the group reformed in 2005 for a unique show at Le Confort Moderne (for the 20th anniversary of the venue) and then changed its name to ZËRO in 2006.
Tracklist
| 1 | The Hunt | |
| 2 | Sittin In A Cab | |
| 3 | In The Throat | |
| 4 | Sake | |
| 5 | Give Up | |
| 6 | The Snitch | |
| 7 | Kal | |
| 8 | Kouro Shivo | |
| 9 | Looking For Nancy | |
| 10 | Dinner For The Worms | |
| 11 | Fossils |
by request
Hardcore band from Queens, NYC formed in 1980 as Gilligan's Revenge, and renamed Token Entry in 1984. The band was known for their catchy melodies and stripped-down sound. |
Tracklist
1. Revolution of Values
2. Doing It Again
3. I Don't Wanna Go Back
4. Turnaround
5. Lucky Seven
6. Brian & Tim's Excellent Adventure
7. Beautiful People
8. Last Chance
9. Down Right Blue
10. Weight of The World
French comp featuring punk/noise/alt rock mainly from French bands
Tracklist
| 1 | Mary's Child– | Discobole |
| 2 | Prohibition (2)– | Squares |
| 3 | Deadly Toys (2)– | Evil Eyes |
| 4 | Swell– | Soda Jerk Fountain 2 |
| 5 | Greedy Guts– | Gruesome Men |
| 6 | Hems– | Statique |
| 7 | A Subtle Plague– | Armalite Rifle |
| 8 | Dum Dum Boys (4)– | Color Your Blood Red |
| 9 | Cryptones*– | T.N.T. |
| 10 | Drive Blind– | Groovy Boots |
| 11 | Sloy– | Chocolate Sperm |
| 12 | Arthur Kaos– | Decadence Party |
| 13 | Bästard / Hint (3)– | Life Stinks |
| 14 | Subside (3)– | Pouah |
| 15 | Daily Planets– | Skyscrapers |
| 16 | El Inquilino Comunista– | The Gag |
| 17 | The Wakes– | I Can't Pretend |
| 18 | Latimer– | Why Should I ? |
| 19 | Moonstruck (4)– | Greensky |
| 20 | D.I.T. (2)– | Walk Around With U |
| 21 | Straw Dogs (5)– | Knowing How |
Noisy rock with female fronted vocals
Tracklist
| 1 | Crackhead | |
| 2 | Dream | |
| 3 | So | |
| 4 | Moonfucker | |
| 5 | Samething | |
| 6 | Darkroom |
Forget Review by Thom Owens
Elephant Ride's debut album is a textured, relatively dark set of adult alternative rock that draws both on shifting waves of electric guitar and moody acoustic passsages. Not all of the tracks work -- occasionally, the group sounds more concerned with getting a sound than writing a song -- but it is a promising debut.
Tracklist
| 1 | Heaven Built A Boy | 5:31 | |
| 2 | Bishop Mariah | 3:57 | |
| 3 | The Box | 4:55 | |
| 4 | Wash Me | 5:06 | |
| 5 | Orphan | 5:03 | |
| 6 | You Dropped Something | 5:04 | |
| 7 | Bathroom | 5:28 | |
| 8 | Her Letters | 4:19 | |
| 9 | Waterbed | 4:40 | |
| 10 | The Opera | 4:01 | |
| 11 | Frog Song | 3:45 | |
| 12 | People Bomb | 7:46 |
