The Assistant

The first album of a fantastic screamo band from the late 90’s, based out of New Jersey. They were formed from the ashes of the legendary You And I. Members went on to join/form bands like Wrong Day to Quit, The Jonah Complex and This Ship Will Sink. The second album can be found here.

The Assistant
1.Humyn Capital
2.People Vs. The State
3.I Don't Believe
4.Sequel
5.Five Year Old Mentality
6.Route 18
7.Training Wheels Or No Hands
8.Isabelle Hates Charlie
9.3-5363a
10.F.Orever A.Ngry At M.Y I.Nner L.Ove For Y.Ou
11.Cyclic
12.93,800 Hours

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Kitchens & Bathrooms

The American debut of Hamilton, Ontario's Kitchens + Bathrooms. Math rock with style and melody. Incredibly well crafted songs that are intense and catchy at the same time. (released 2003) All the songs flow together really well, to the point of not really being able to distinguish one song from the next, even though there are no tie-ins from other songs on this entire album.

Vehicles Beyond
1.First One In, Last One Out
2.He's On A Dirt Bike
3.Alphabet Conscious
4.Australian Council
5.The Commodity
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7.Cold, Colder, Coldest
8.Catalyst Envisionment
9.For Instance, Driving Blind
10.The Woods
11. Desert Prophets

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Lickgoldensky

The second full length from Philadelphia's LGS. Not wanting to repeat themselves, gone are the snotty, obnoxious, pretentious fits of songs. Instead of songs blazing by in a whirlwind of drums and distorted everything, they have taken on a more refined tone. A new chapter for LGS that ranges from Hoover styled guitar lines, to Mars Volta rhythms, and still manage to keep the overtly heaviness of Neurosis, and The Melvins. Electronic interludes between songs keep the eleven song disc moving with out stopping once. Acoustic guitars, drum machines, guitar solos, piano, and everything in-between make an appearance here.

Self Titled
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Glös

It all started as a few musical file transfers from laptop to laptop in a van while touring Europe as the band Engine Down, and ended as a full-blown album of musical compositions by means of the internet from opposite corners of America. Glös started as Keeley Davis (former frontman of Engine Down and bass/synth player for Denali) and Cornbread Compton (former drummer of Engine Down, Biology, and currently Heavens). After collaborating on over 20 songs and having never physically played the songs together in a rehearsal environment, the duo decided to take even more advantage of the freedom that this style of writing offered. They invited Keeley's sister Maura Davis (former frontwoman of Denali) to join the project and to add her beautiful, sultry vocals to the songs that already seemed perfect for her.


Harmonium
1.Unharmed
2.Public Speaker
3.Hell Hath No Fury
4.Employee
5.Telepathy
6.Entre
7.Tainted
8.Between You And I
9.Driver
10.Counting Sheep
11.Agnosia

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Everyoned

Featuring some Chicago music-scene heavyweights such as Chris Connelly (Pigface & Revolting Cocks), Brent Gutzeit (TVPow) , Mike Kinsella (Joan of Arc & Owls),Liz Payne (Town & Country and Pillow), Ben Vida (Town & Country and Bird Show)...and that's just to name a few.Listeners can identify the hand of each of Everyoned's members in little bits and pieces scattered about the record, but they would be hard pressed to claim that any of the members' sound or personality has risen to assume the identity of the record.

Everyoned
Glass Shall Wake.01
Knife Audition.02
Friends Of Mine.03
First To Know.04
Curtains.05
Dancer's Legs.06
Low End Flight.07
You Wear It Like Smoke.08

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Tortoise

Tortoise’s almost entirely instrumental music defies easy categorization, and the group gained significant attention from their early career. The members have roots in Chicago’s fertile music scene, playing in various indie rock and punk groups. Tortoise was among the first American indie rock bands to incorporate styles closer to Krautrock, dub, minimalism, electronica and various jazz styles, rather than the standard rock and roll and punk that had dominated indie rock for years.

TNT
1.TNT
2.Swung From The Gutters
3.Ten-Day Interval
4.I Set My Face In The Hillside
5.Equator
6.Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work
7.Suspension Bridge At Iguazú Falls
8.Four-Day Interval
9.In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, And Beethoven There Were Woman And Men
10.Almost Always Is Nearly Enough
11.Jetty
12.Everglade

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Seabear

Seabear is 23-year old Sindri Már Sigfússon from Reykjavik, Iceland who writes beautiful songs using acoustic guitar and piano, gentle vocals, tinkly-winkly mallets, synth flourishes, and restrained percussion. Seabear started as a one man project and then turned into a band.

The Ghost That Carried Us Away
1.Good Morning Scarecrow
2.Cat Piano
3.Libraries
4.Hospital Bed
5.Hands Remember
6.I Sing I Swim
7.Owl Waltz
8.Arms
9.Sailors Blue
10.Lost Watch
11.Summer Bird Diamond
12.Seashell

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Stillwell

Chicago math rock/post hardcore that is still catchy and danceable.

Don't Face A Problem... Burn It

The Bull Starts Here.01
Phone Rings. Wake Up. Remember Nothing. Repeat Cycle.02
What's Going On With the Word "Fuck"?.03
Quit Quitting Only To Quit Again.04
Brow Bender, Eye Peeper.05
The Monet Shot.06
We Were A Tabloid Dream Team.07
Okay, Man. Sure. No Problem. Um, Thanks.08

The End Result EP
1. If I Were Otherwise
2. Stop The Room From Spinning
3. Brow Bender, Eye Peeper
4. The End Result

Split W/ Last Ditch Effort
A Firsthand Account.01
Brown Et Al.02
Something Has Gone Very Wrong.03

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LaSalle

A dynamic threesome from central Michigan, LaSalle are post-rock balladeers featuring the husband/wife team of Mike & Katy Reed plus long time friend and drummer Dan Jaquint (Mike & Dan of Small Brown Bike fame). LaSalle begins where Small Brown Bike left off, capturing the same brand of catchy rock with punk rock roots and an indie aesthetic. The difference now is a certain maturity, and the diversity provided with male/female vocals.

Pretty World
1.Pretty World
2.Fictions
3.A Little Bit
4.To Sea
5.21st Century
6.Task Analysis
7.Take This Man
8.So Something
9.Four Years Of Fear
10.The Falcon

Expedition Songs
A Prescription For His Social Life.01
Oasis In The Sun.02
Move, Stop, Repeat.03
Flip Flops And White Suits.04
Hurt For Long.05
Other Side Of Night.06
Little Kicks.07
Vanishing Point.08
Kissinger.09
The Ancient Mariner Of 1989.10
Don't Call.11

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Troubled Hubble

Proof that relentless good cheer, mountains of hard work, and a knack for pop hooks don’t always lead to disappointment, shattered dreams, and office jobs: Troubled Hubble, the band you’ve never heard of but that will soon be making you as jitteringly happy as they are. Maybe they already are. Imagine the very best elements of Tripping Daisy, Weezer, Built to Spill, the New Pornographers, the Weakerthans, and Jets to Brazil, and you’ll have barely touched the surface of this remarkable band.

Making Beds In A Burning House
1.14,000 Things To Be Happy About
2.Bees
3.I'm Pretty Sure I Can See Molecules
4.Safe & Sound
5.To Be Alive And Alone
6.Ear, Nose, & Throat
7.Ear, Nose, & Throat Pt. II
8.Even Marathon Runners Need To Nap
9.Floribraska
10.The Do The Build The House
11.Get Lost
12.Jackpot Stampede Deluxe
13.Nancy

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Zozobra

A rock band that was first conceived by Caleb Scofield during 2006. He was joined by Santos Montano for the band's first release, "Harmonic Tremors" in 2007. Sonically, Zozobra bears a lot in common with the experimental-hardcore of Old Man Gloom (a project in which both of its members are involved) and symbolically shares a synonymous name; at the same time Zozobra is more hard rock than metal. Another great Hydra Head Band.

Harmonic Tremors
The Blessing.01
Kill And Crush.02
Levitate.03
Soon To Follow.04
Silver Ghost.05
Invisible Wolves.06
Peripheral Lows.07
The Vast Expense.08
Caldera.09
A Distant Star Fades.10

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The Swell Season

The 2006 album by Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová. The title of the album as well as of the song The Swell Season is inspired by Hansard's favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title. Since their mutual rise to prominence after starring in the film Once they now sometimes refer to themselves as "The Swell Season" when performing together.

The Swell Season
1.This Low
2.Sleeping
3.Falling Slowly
4.Drown Out
5.Lies
6.When Your Mind's Made Up
7.The Swell Season
8.Leave
9.The Moon
10. Alone Apart

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Maps & Atlases

Songs that wrestle themselves from flailing, algebraic fits of spazzy guitar notes and drum ruptures to lulling, voice-driven melodiesMostly influenced by experimental and technically adept musicians such as Hella, Don Caballero, and Psych-Folkies Devendra Banhart and Six Organs of Admittance.

Trees, Swallows, Houses

Everyplace Is A House.01

The Most Trustworthy Tin Cans.02
The Ongoing Horrible.03
Big Bopper Anthems.04
Stories About Ourselves.05
The Sounds They Make.06
Songs For Ghosts To Haunt To.07

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