Michael Snow / Snow Solo Piano Solo Snow / Ohm Éditions Michael Snow is a multi-talented artist who has been involved in filmmaking, sound installations and musical improvisation in his native Canada for many years. Snow Solo Piano Solo Snow is a three-disc spotlight of his skills as a piano improvisor...more» FEATURED ON THE BOOMBOX!
		Tied + Tickled Trio / EA1 EA2 / Drag City Tied + Tickled Trio attempts to combine electronic music with jazz, but never takes the easy or obvious path. You'll find no techno-acid jazz on EA1 EA2, for instance. Rather, the electronic elements form an eccentric ambient-dub foundation over which the Trio slather a thick, evocative layer of horns, bass and percussion, alternately reminiscent of classic Blue Note landmarks and agressive 70s free jazz...more» FEATURED ON THE BOOMBOX!
		Brando / Peacocks on Linen / Smokey Lung Brando's Peacocks On Linen took about two years to fully come together, which is actually somewhat impressive as the four multi-instrumentalists in the band no longer live on the same continent, let alone the same city...more»
		el Mopa / Get Behind / Quietly Suburban Get Behind is one of those albums that you put on and then spend the next hour listening to as you lay out on the bed thinking about about what you would really like to do with your life. And then you take a breath and remember the hands of all the people you have ever held hands with...more»
		Genaside II / Ad Finite / Durban Poison Genaside II borrow and appropriate from the Chemical Brothers and other icons in their bass-heavy, drum-heavy jungle of a genre, but Ad Finite is proof that it's easy to love a good thief. It's especially easy when Genaside II create something so wondrous and weird from all that they've scraped together. ...more»
		Mr. Oizo / Analog Worms Attack / Mute Mr. Oizo's Analog Worms aren't the common or garden variety. What we're talking about are sonic worms on a Tremors or Dune scale -- sparse, deep, resonant stretches of sub-bass analog rumble, punctuated by blips, squirts and squelches of melody. We're talking about low-end that can hit the resonant frequency of your skeletal system and pop your internal organs like balloon animals...more»
		Pedro the Lion / Winners Never Quit / Jade Tree Pedro the Lion’s second full-length (and Jade Tree debut), Winners Never Quit finds Bazan reaffirming his overwhelming belief in the power of Jesus Christ and -- somewhat surprisingly -- rock n’ roll. The album comes draped in a cloak of majestic melancholy, dripping with insecurity, uncertainty, resurrection and fear...more»
		Poster Children / DDD / spinART DDD seems to find the band in a more comfortable state than we've seen for the past few years. They still have the ferocious energy required to crank out fiendishly catchy tracks like the short-but-snarky "Zero Stars" and the brawling "The Old School and the New," but they also display a lighter touch on new-wave-flavored tunes like "Silhouette" and "Daisy Changed," the latter a particularly pleasing ode to the passage of time...more»
		Twelve24 / All in Focus / Blind Based on just about the exact opposite end of the Earth from me, this quartet embraces its Sydney, Australia roots while sweetly blending in bits of The Clouds and Velocity Girl into a synthesis of fuzzed out pop music that bleeds euphonious naiveté...more»
		The Willard Grant Conspiracy / Mojave / Rykodisc Given the deep, resonant voice of the Willard Grant Conspiracy's Robert Fisher, comparisons to Nick Cave or Chris Connelly's recent solo work are possible -- but would be misleading. Whereas Cave and Connelly evoke a distinctive British quality, WGC create music which is undeniably American...more»