Indie/math rock from Chicago
Free download on Bandcamp or here.
Tracklist
1 | Watertown | 3:49 | |
2 | Talk To Gary | 4:14 | |
3 | Rotary Road | 4:24 | |
4 | Gravity | 3:15 | |
5 | Blanket Statement | 2:32 | |
6 | The Moonraker | 3:04 | |
7 | Especialler | 3:09 |
Indie/math rock from Chicago
Free download on Bandcamp or here.
Tracklist
1 | Watertown | 3:49 | |
2 | Talk To Gary | 4:14 | |
3 | Rotary Road | 4:24 | |
4 | Gravity | 3:15 | |
5 | Blanket Statement | 2:32 | |
6 | The Moonraker | 3:04 | |
7 | Especialler | 3:09 |
Glam punk-a-billy trio from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, heavily influenced by The Velvet Underground.
Tracklist
1 | It's A Long Way Suzy To New York City | |
2 | Subway Pink | |
3 | 103 | |
4 | Her Name Was Eve | |
5 | This Is Holly Goldman's Room | |
6 | You're A Monster | |
7 | Red Roses | |
8 | I'm Charlie/I'm Jesus | |
9 | Heroin Addict's Beach Party | |
10 | Shelia Says (She Likes It) | |
11 | Do You Think I'm A Junky? | |
12 | Dirty Picture | |
13 | Garbage Can | |
14 | I'm In Love With My Knife | |
15 | Red Asphalt | |
16 | I'm A Blur |
CD1 | Jaap Blonk– | Deutsche Lyrik | 0:45 |
CD2 | Harvey Sid Fisher– | Mommy | 2:32 |
CD3 | The Ne'er Do Wells– | Knock You Out | 1:04 |
CD4 | Fallouts*– | Oi! Canada | 1:16 |
CD5 | Platon Et Les Caves– | Les Mauvais Garçons | 1:43 |
CD6 | Subsonics– | I Love You, I'll Kill You | 1:11 |
CD7 | The Tonics (2)– | Get It In Your Feet | 2:41 |
CD8 | Cub– | She's A Sensation | |
2:14 | |||
CD9 | Goblins*– | 2 By 4 | 1:26 |
CD10 | Nardwuar The Human Serviette– | Interview: Timothy Leary Vs. Nardwuar | |
0:41 | |||
CD11 | Evaporators*– | Higgle-Ly-Piggle-Ly | |
2:01 | |||
CD12 | Leather Uppers*– | Purple Nurple | 1:23 |
CD13 | New Bomb Turks*– | Outta My Mind | 1:16 |
CD14 | The Smugglers– | Stop! Look! Listen! | 1:25 |
CD15 | Delgados*– | Liquidation Girl | 2:08 |
CD16 | The Drags– | Six & Change | 1:39 |
CD17 | Sit 'N' Spin*– | Goodbye | 2:30 |
CD18 | Teengenerate With Joey Kline– | Roadhouse | 4:42 |
CD19 | Eric's Trip– | If You Don't Want Me | |
3:00 | |||
CD20 | Nardwuar The Human Serviette– | Interview: Nardwuar Vs. Beck | |
0:28 | |||
CD21 | Wonderful World Of Joey– | What Sweet Child O' Mine, Is This? | 3:49 |
CD22 | Paska– | Intro | 0:10 |
CD23 | The Goblins*– | On Air | 29:20 |
CD24 | Paska– | 1,2,3,4 | 0:18 |
CD25 | Unknown Artist– | Untitled | 3:05 |
From Sydney, New South Wales. El Mopa released at least 3 albums "Get
Behind" (1999), "The New Weather" (2002) and "The Metal Years" (2009).
Tracklist
1 | I Thought I Was Funny | 1:12 | |
2 | For Flotsam | 4:22 | |
3 | Ride On | 5:04 | |
4 | Glasgow Kiss | 4:22 | |
5 | Godawful | 4:28 | |
6 | Opening A | 7:59 | |
7 | The Single | 3:02 | |
8 | Nun Julie | 5:06 | |
9 | Spill It | 7:28 | |
10 | Reminder | 8:45 | |
11 | Touch Of The Tar Brush | 3:02 |
Australian indie rock band founded in 1995 in Melbourne, Australia.
Tracklist
1 | Sliding | 5:18 | |
2 | The Unappreciate | 5:57 | |
3 | Wild Beast | 7:33 | |
4 | Twenty-One & Eighty | ||
9:09 | |||
5 | Easy And The Night | 7:00 | |
6 | Not Exactly Fading Away | 5:49 |
Exceptional noise rock from Tasmania
Tracklist
1 | Losing Cycle | 4:37 | |
2 | Next Day | 4:02 | |
3 | Gi Gi | 3:40 | |
4 | Combo | 2:58 | |
5 | Sound Of Plastic | 4:43 | |
6 | Skinner Box | 5:42 | |
7 | Rollerworld | 6:27 | |
8 | Yakka | 3:42 | |
9 | Rider | 5:09 | |
10 | Names & Faces | 6:49 | |
11 | Boon Foster | 22:20 |
Noise rock from Australia
Tracklist
1 | Song For Ché | 4:03 | |
2 | The Gate | 6:48 | |
3 | Song With No Name | 5:33 | |
4 | Beacon Of Hope | 4:10 | |
5 | The Nest | ||
6:12 | |||
6 | Inbuilt Obsolescence | 3:41 | |
7 | Winter Song | 5:00 | |
8 | We're All Gonna Die | 5:51 |
Compilation on the Au Go Go record label out of Australia
Tracklist
4:26 | ||
2 | The Avalanches– | Under Sea Community |
4:01 | ||
3 | El Mopa– | Tenderhook |
3:23 | ||
4 | S-Bahn*– | Lake Of Fur |
3:50 | ||
5 | Sea Scouts– | Zac Heard A Scream |
4:22 | ||
6 | Sphyzein– | Bit |
3:21 | ||
7 | 2 Litre Dolby– | Honey Von Cutulle |
3:04 | ||
8 | Golden Lifestyle Band– | A Call Backward |
4:21 | ||
9 | Art Of Fighting– | You And Me On Mars |
6:13 | ||
10 | The Avalanches– | Yamaha Superstar |
1:53 | ||
11 | 2 Litre Dolby– | Frida Kahlo |
6:29 | ||
12 | S-Bahn*– | Down On Broadway |
3:59 | ||
13 | Golden Lifestyle Band– | The Againth Of Must I |
4:37 | ||
14 | El Mopa– | The Ascent |
3:53 | ||
15 | Sphyzein– | Deep Seat |
3:31 | ||
16 | Sea Scouts– | The Lighting Song |
1 | Art Of Fighting– | The Chorus Is Suffering |
Trash/Surf/Punk band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada active in the mid 1990's.
Tracklist
1 | Booty Manipulator | |
2 | Grandma Dynamite | |
3 | Boogie '72 | |
4 | Phone Girl | |
5 | Stinkie Stomp | |
6 | Crush On You | |
7 | Temper Tantrum | |
8 | 99 Bullets | |
9 | All That | |
10 | Eat My Dust | |
11 | Black Popsicle | |
12 | Orgy Organizer | |
13 | Trainwreck | |
14 | El Pollo Loco |
Compilation on the Au Go Go record label
Tracklist
1 | Von Zippers*– | Mega Volt |
2 | Stand GT*– | Choke |
3 | Huevos Rancheros– | Get Outta Dodge |
4 | Cub– | Get Off The Road |
5 | Punchbuggy– | Swimming Pool |
6 | Smugglers*– | Babe |
7 | McRackins– | Bologna |
8 | Crash 13– | Maybelline |
9 | Forbidden Dimension– | Hellfire Club |
10 | Tonics*– | Astro Turf |
11 | Bum– | Mrs Rock N Roll |
12 | Chixdiggit– | Gerry Cheevers |
13 | Pussy Monster– | Draculas Tea Bag |
14 | The Stinkies– | Whipped Cream And The Lonely Bull |
15 | Pluto (9)– | Rock Candy |
16 | Parkades*– | (You Aint Heard The) 5.6.7.8s |
17 | Stupes*– | No Go |
18 | Evaporators*– | Grouse Mountain Scenic Railway |
The drumming reminds me of Spaceheads.
Artist Biography
by Stanton Swihart
During a period when pop music was overtaken by uninspired, pedestrian rock and MTV-ready teen bands, bland R&B, and ultra-commercial hip-hop, I Am Spoonbender burst out of the indie underground with a sound so futuristic that it made even the most adventurous of contemporaries seem somehow status quo. Drawing on elements as wildly divergent as B-movie kitsch and avant-garde art and film, from new wave and electro-pop to experimental and electronic interests, the band's music was somehow both backward- and forward-looking, oddly grounded in the noir-like mood of old-school weird science but going beyond the paranoid razor's-edge of cyberculture toward destinations unknown. Beyond being simply a pop band, I Am Spoonbender was a distinct concept. The project was about noticing the beauty and details of objects that most people take for granted in everyday life, finding hidden connections, exploring the subjective nature of reality, and extrapolating meaning from synchronistic or seemingly coincidental occurrences. The theory and philosophy behind the band was born out of the band members' experiences with chance, telepathy, altered states, the occult, psychic phenomena surrounding communication devices, and other extrasensory and paranormal ideas, all of which informed and were informed by the music. Although their esoteric blend was decidedly not commercial, in the conventional sense of the word, I Am Spoonbender helped launch pop music past the trappings of 20th century pop music and into the 21st century.
Dustin Donaldson (synths, drums, vocals, production) co-founded avant-metallists Thought Industry in the early '90s and spent two albums playing drums in the band before relocating to San Francisco from his Michigan home. Once there he joined political pop-punkers Pansy Division on tour and an album (widely considered their strongest, most adventurous work). At his suggestion, longtime friend Brian Jackson (bass, synths, ProTools) made the trek to San Francisco from Michigan in 1995, ultimately earning his master's degree in East/West psychology at the city's California Institute of Integral Studies -- at which he studied with visionaries such as Stanislav Grof and Richard Tarnas -- while building a state-of-the-art recording studio, Seismic Séance, with Donaldson. In early 1997, the two started I Am Spoonbender -- a reference to the telekinetic phenomenon, Uri Geller (who would eventually call them his favorite band) -- and began work on their first "transmission," Sender/Receiver. Halfway through the making of the debut album, Robynn "Cup" Iwata (synths, vocals), formerly of Vancouver sugar-pop girl group Cub, joined the band.
Donaldson continued to play with other artists during the extended recording process, joining guitar legend Link Wray as his touring drummer and playing synthesizer on tour and record with Damo Suzuki and Michael Karoli of avant-rock gods Can, while also keeping busy with several visual art, acting, and musical side projects. Iwata, too, kept busy with her art projects (which included the highly collectable Sog Mongeys-sock monkey type dolls), design, and illustration work for innumerable indie labels and artists (including designing, with Donaldson, I Am Spoonbender's logo, album sleeves, clothing, merchandise, and website), and hosting one of Canada's largest new music radio programs. Jackson continued working toward his doctorate at CIIS.
Sender/Receiver was finally released in 1999 on Gold Standard Laboratories and earned widespread acclaim from all sectors of the critical community for its bold, cinematic vision, landing on numerous year-end Top Ten lists and polls. Originally only a studio concept, the trio decided to add a fourth member and make I Am Spoonbender a full-blown live band. Marc Kate (synths, turntables) joined in March of 1998, one month before the first live performance. Prior to his entrance into the fold, he studied with cultural studies pioneer Dick Hebdige, radical performance artist Tony Labat, B-movie master George Kuchar, and minimalist film luminary Ernie Gehr. The band quickly developed a unique live show full of deconstructed electronic pop, syncopated new wave rhythms, and plastic op-art style, and they applied to their music such film techniques as jump cuts and dream sequences with numerous other experimental impulses. Over the course of the next couple years, I Am Spoonbender shared the stage with a litany of their most interesting contemporaries, including such lauded acts as Mogwai, Cibo Matto, Royal Trux, Wire, Money Mark, Einsturzende Neubauten, Macha, Lesser, Mike Patton, Secret Chiefs 3, and Man or Astro-Man?.
The band's second recording, the EP Teletwin, was released at the end of 1999 by Little Army Records as a limited "three-sided" 12" featuring two concurrent grooves on the second side, allowing chance the opportunity to dictate the group of songs heard. Early 2000 saw a bevy of new releases from the band, including an Australian single, a Japanese single, the European release of Sender/Receiver, and the CD reissue of Teletwin, as well as numerous compilation tracks and a remix project for, among others, the Locust. Seismac Séance studio, too, kept Donaldson and Jackson busy mixing and mastering projects for artists as diverse as Neurosis, Bobby Conn, Kit Clayton, Stillupsteypa, the Need, Fennesz, Deerhoof, and Quintron. That May, Jackson left the band and went on to form Memory Systems. Two years later, the band continued; I Am Spoonbender Sender-Receiver and the Shown Actual Size [EP] appeared in mid-2002.
Tracklist
1 | Reality Dealer | 3:49 | |
2 | Hair Is Real | 1:12 | |
3 | Ears Are Merely Human | 2:18 | |
4 | Replaced By Toys | 3:57 | |
5 | Stopwatch Static | 4:14 | |
6 | Slow Metal Fires | 3:34 | |
7 | What Does The Water Think? | 3:39 | |
8 | The Teeth's Loan & Trust Co. | 6:34 | |
9 | Spirit Photography | 4:09 | |
10 | Waking Dream Seance | 5:10 | |
11 | Parenthetical (Title) | 0:04 | |
12 | Mr. Knife, Miss Fork | 9:12 |
Archbishop Kebab were an Scottish avant hardcore collective formed in
1986 in Edinburgh which had a 13 year life span up to 1999.
1989 saw the release of their first LP, produced by Tim Ellis (Jackdaw With Crowbar) and the start on the first of many European tours they shared with likeminded groups - a.o. The Ex, Dog Faced Hermans, Badgewearer, Dawson and the Stretchheads.
In 1993 they released their second LP 'Beyond Ma Ken' recorded in the studio of the Hungarian label Trottel Records.
Then came along 'Heeliegoleerie And Scunnered (but cheerie)' partly
recorded in Italy & the final Album 'Bellyhunting', recorded in
1997.
Tracklist
1. Scenic
2. Headrunrunaround
3. Jesus Sends Hate Mail
4. Altruist
5. Another Black Eye
6. Rotating
7. Finding Our Voices
8. Bronze Mountain Rise
9. Pride
10. Too Drunk Too Punk
11. Tarnished
12. Humosection
13. Get Wise
14. Animal Song
15. Telethon
16. Total Bodyswerve
17. Old Souls
by MacKenzie Wilson
The post-punk duo AM/FM was formed by inspiring musician perfectionist Brian Sokel. Having played in bands such as Franklin, he joined forces with the Science Of's Michael Parsell (Frail, Goodbye Blue Monday) so Sokel's lush acoustics could fully take life with added guitars, keyboards, and percussion. Audiot was AM/FM's debut, issued on the Skylab label, but Multilate Us marked the band's first proper release, which was issued on Polyvinyl Records in March 2001. In October of the same year, Getting Into Sinking became the second widely released album from the group. Keeping up their quick release rate, The Sky is the New Ground came out the following year on Polyvinyl.
1 | The Death They Claim | |
2 | We Will Study Your Life | |
3 | A Poor Sense Of Timing | |
4 | Say What? | |
5 | Neverever | |
6 | Straight Around | |
7 | Those Long Arms |
Rymes with Orange is a Canadian alternative rock band which formed in 1991 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This independent band have released four albums: Peel (1992), Trapped in the Machine (1994), Crash (1999) and One More Mile (2003). They have had three Top 10 singles on Canadian Rock Radio, with sales of over 70,000 units worldwide, and have toured Canada, New Zealand, the U.S. and the U.K., all while maintaining independent status.[1]
Tracklist
1 | Marvin | 5:43 | |
2 | Memory Fade | 4:39 | |
3 | Heroes | 4:48 | |
4 | Hold On | 4:23 | |
5 | Home House Flower | 4:23 | |
6 | Itchycoo Park | 3:38 | |
7 | Heaven | 3:46 | |
8 | Sky | 5:02 | |
9 | Bio Time | 4:10 | |
10 | In My Life | 3:07 |
Compilation on the Villa Villakula record label
Tracklist
Move Into Villa Villakula | |||
1 | Sleater-Kinney– | You Ain't It! | 2:41 |
2 | Sleater-Kinney– | Write Me Back Fucker | 1:37 |
3 | Sleater-Kinney– | More Than A Feeling | 3:05 |
4 | Kaia– | Peyton Versus Your Boyfriend | 2:17 |
5 | Kaia– | Off | 1:58 |
6 | Eileen Myles– | Memorial | 1:51 |
7 | Eileen Myles– | I Always Put My Pussy | 1:07 |
8 | Eileen Myles– | Warrior | 1:06 |
9 | Eileen Myles– | Rape | 1:45 |
10 | Eileen Myles– | Debate With A Glove | 2:17 |
11 | Tattle Tale– | Take 10 | 4:54 |
12 | Tattle Tale– | Erica | 4:08 |
13 | Ruby Falls– | Spanish Olive | 5:32 |
14 | Ruby Falls– | The Way Of Colleen | 4:28 |
15 | Azalia Snail– | Possibly | 3:56 |
16 | Azalia Snail– | Vitriolic Feeling | 3:34 |
Stargirl EP | |||
17 | Led Byrd– | Fantastic Castle | |
3:42 | |||
18 | Kore (4)– | Embrace | 6:37 |
19 | Kore (4)– | Cry | 2:39 |
20 | Denise Monahan– | Miss Unknown | 1:25 |
21 | Denise Monahan– | Your Way | 0:44 |
22 | Denise Monahan– | Late | 1:02 |
23 | DQE– | Knoxville Girl | 5:41 |
24 | DQE– | Treat Her | 2:33 |
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracklist
A | You Ain't It! | |
B | Surf Song |
by request
by Heather Phares
Texas' Chlorine consists of Mark Fain, Jared Mueller, Eddie Travis, and Chris Henrich. The band formed in 1991, drawn together by their love of aggressive rock like Aerosmith and the Cult. The band's 1999 debut album, Primer, features production work by Matt Hyde, who also worked with Porno for Pyros and Monster Magnet.
Tracklist
1 | Way Out | 3:24 | |
2 | Before Too Long | 3:35 | |
3 | Don't Even Care | 4:31 | |
4 | Back Down | 4:46 | |
5 | Over You | 4:35 | |
6 | Second Thoughts | 4:09 | |
7 | Over Your Shoulder | 3:44 | |
8 | Gravity | 3:27 | |
9 | Live A Lie | 4:19 | |
10 | Get To Tomorrow | 4:24 | |
11 | Disappear | 4:35 |