3 peoples: one ukelele, one guitar, and more than one drum come together from other places and make some bang up indie pop with extremely cool experimental vocal harmonies and driving rhythms. If you haven't heard these cats yet you will... or if you won't you should... or just listen already! Aren't you tired of reading my ramblings?
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Wintersleep
ingenious and infectious - upbeat rock that'll surprise and delight listen after listen - great friggin' music - great friggin' lyrics - don't pass this over
Cadence Weapon
Come get clever lyrics and experimental beats/samples to satisfy your esoteric hip hop tastes. Plenty of tracks from his first LP Breaking Kayfabe & new release Afterparty Babies.
Tapes 'n Tapes
live performance: 3 songs (Jakov's Suite, Cowbell, and Insistor) + interview - the recording's lofi, but their energy and art really shines through - it's bands like this that define an era - they're rock through and through, but they defy comparison to the past
The Books
Highly experimental and utterly interesting, The books are found sound musicians: "We do all of our own sample collecting, composing, writing, recording, mixing, and mastering in our home studios using pc's running cheap software and the ragtag equipment that we've pieced together over the years.
Evangelicals
Beautiful experimental, yet only slightly strange, guitar/synth pop. I mean strange in a good way, without sounding forced or pretentious. They seem to have an appreciation for the macabre as can be witnessed in their lyrics, fascination with skeletons, album artwork, etc.
The Lyricists
More Hip-Hop from the Michigan trio. Dope Beats + Fresh Rhymes = Solid Tunes. Coming to a an ipod near you!!!!
The Lyricists
Nice melodies with a bass heavy sound that's fun & entertaining. We Maraud for ears.
Jack the Sound by RED i CLAN
underground new music, jungle rock.
Yo Majesty
funk up in her - "smashing up against the sonic perimeter" - she got a sense a humor - mad whack experimental