Bingo Trappers
Holland's Bingo Trappers take '60s Anglo pop, country-rock, and psychedelic folk, mix in some streetwise rock, and give it all the '90s lo-fi indie rock treatment. The results are terrific.
Juanita Ave.
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2001
Deerhoof
San Francisco's Deerhoof takes the wide-eyed innocence of the conventional pop song and mutates it, perverts it, undermines it, performs dangerous experiments on it, ending up with messy gems marked by screeching vocals, dissonant guitars, squirting electronics, and some surprisingly good tunes.
Better Than the Beatles: A Tribute to the Shaggs
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2002
Reveille
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2002
Furtips
Dutch lo-fi combo the Furtips have been persevering for a decade, heedless of total fan apathy in their native country, determined to share their bouncy, relentlessly enthusiastic, wickedly odd pop vision with the world.
Le Louping
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1998
When My Baby Smiles at Me, I Go to Rio
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2002
Huon
An agreeably eclectic indie-pop ensemble from Melbourne, Australia. Loosely structured, warm, hazily beautiful, like a smoggy sunset. Reminiscent of Galaxie 500 and Yo La Tengo.
Songs for Lord Tortoise
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1999
Answers to Lucky
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2002
The No-No's
The No-No's are an impressively pedigreed group out of Portland, Oregon who offer bouncy, buzzing bursts of snotty, sarcastic pop-punk with a quintessentially Pacific Northwest flavor.
Tinnitus
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2000
Let Your Shadow Out
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2002
