Planes Mistaken for Stars / Knifeinthemarathon / Deep Elm If this Denver-based was pissed off on their last album, their girlfriends must have left them since then, because they're in a positive rage now! Deftly mixing hardcore with intelligent songwriting (even quoting French symbolist poets from time to time), Planes Mistaken For Stars could easily serve as the emocore ideal... more» FEATURED ON THE BOOMBOX!
		Sackville / The Principles of Science / Constellation Sackville's low-intensity folk pop doesn't make a slap-in-the-face impact. The music seeps into your head slowly, gently easing its way into your consciousness like a slow trickle of water through a cracked window. The gentle, finger-picked guitar melodies seem almost fragile... more» FEATURED ON THE BOOMBOX!
		Andrea Parker / Kiss My Arp / Beggars Banquet Andrea Parker's work scares me a bit. The first full CD of original material by this celebrated UK DJ and Mo Wax remix artist is equal parts somnolent trip-hop and ice-cold electronica. It's also 100% unnerving... more»
		The Chicken Hawks / Siouxicide City / RAFR The Chicken Hawks are the essence of rock and punk. Their songs are angry, lurid tales of sex and drugs and drinking and fighting, served up raw and sizzling with a side-order of defiance. Think of them as a middle ground between Nashville Pussy and the Kiss Offs... more»
		Class / A Quiet Life / Double Agent Over the years Class has gone from a D.I.Y. acoustic pop band (sparse guitar or violin accompaniment, tender vocals) to an electronic pop band (synths, drum machines, tender vocals). With A Quiet Life the transformation is complete -- and successful, I might add... more»
		Julie Doiron and Wooden Stars / S/T / Tree I'm almost ashamed to admit that before receiving this CD I had never heard of Julie Doiron or Wooden Stars, or Doiron's former band Eric's Trip (she played the bass). Well, I've heard of them now, and I'm super impressed... more»
		The Knit Separates / Swords, then Diamonds / 3 Acre Floor If sea anemones could make music, it would sound like this -- a strange amalgamation of Paris-era Cure and early Guided by Voices. With Swords, then Diamonds, the San Francisco-based Knit Separates have created an exquisitely opaque musical landscape filled with off-kilter harmonies, brazen poetic verse and creeping instrumentation...more»
		Marc Almond / Open All Night / Instinct Each song is like the exhaled drag from a cigarette: something bad, but familiar and compulsive, is first physically internalised, then released in a smoky new configuration which curls and unfurls languidly, reaching even the remotest parts of an after-hours venue...more»
		Metropolitan / Side Effects / Crank Automotive An extraordinarily strange merger of My Bloody Valentine, The Dead C and Pavement, this dynamic duo mixes pop music with anti-depressants and adds an occasional dripping slice of noisy, feedbacking guitar to complete its own form of captious garage-rock...more»
		S.O.L.O. / Out is In / Sulfur/Beggars Banquet GTO member Michael Wells unveils another unique solo outing, shrewdly named S.O.L.O. With a hefty discography steeped in genres ranging from trip hop to ambient electronic, it’s a guessing game as to what Wells will next incorporate into his musical mixing...more»
		Stillwell / Seven Song EP / Rebound The band's music isn't any more interesting than the story of their formation, but I have a feeling that we'll be hearing more from them -- more heartfelt emo-pop a la Sterling Silver or the simple parts of Jejune (minus the girl singer). Pounding drums, chunky guitars and male vocals give you a hint of what could be coming from Stillwell...more»