Jetset Records
New York's Jetset Records has emerged in recent years as one of America's elite indies. The label's eclectic and rapidly growing catalogue includes releases by Mogwai, The Jesus Lizard, Macha, Prolapse, Arab Strap, and more.
Arab Strap
Scotland's Arab Strap makes some of the saddest and most beautiful music you can ever hope to hear. With claustrophobic guitars, gloomy synths, and drowsily cynical vocals, they sketch out pictures of anguished weary souls in repose.
Cherubs EP
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1999
The Red Thread
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2001
Monday at the Hug & Pint
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2003
David Candy
David Candy takes you into an intoxicating, lighter-than-air world of bubbly '60s kitsch, discussions of Russian Suprematist artists, pudding recipes, and odes to San Paulo, Brazil. Ah, but who is David Candy, you ask. He's the one that you've always been waiting for. And now he's here with you...forever.
Play Power
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2001
Death By Chocolate
Death By Chocolate cooks up scrumptious, beguilingly original pop morsels. These nonchalant little celebrations of British candy culture set to simple, loungy pop tunes will definitely make your sweet tooth ache. There are definitely worse ways to go.
Death By Chocolate
Zap The World
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2002
Elysian Fields
New York duo Elysian Fields has developed a rare blend: a smoky, folky sort of baroque pop that's elegantly minimal, self-possessed, seductive, and intelligent. Like all truly great music, it'll remind you of something you can't quite place, and you'll listen again and again, trying to figure it out, until you realize that in fact you're listening to something unique and timeless.
Queen Of The Meadow
Firewater
Firewater is the vehicle for former Cop Shoot Cop frontman Tod Ashley, who leads the group in a satisfyingly powerful and highly original synthesis of rock and klezmer jazz.
Psychopharmacology
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2001
The Go-Betweens
Throughout the '80s, Australia's Go-Betweens were one of the most unpretentious, sincere pop groups around, producing unconventional, uniquely beautiful music that was a secret pleasure for college students and underground music enthusiasts the world over. At the end of the decade, they disbanded and their fans died a thousand deaths, but in 2000, those fans were treated to a Go-Betweens reunion that led to newly released material.
The Friends Of Rachel Worth
Luna
One of the seminal independent rock bands of the '90s, Luna forged a distinctively drowsy, gauzy style which influenced the shoegazer and slo-core aesthetics. They're still plugging after half a dozen albums, still just as dreamily wonderful as ever.
Live
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2001
Romantica
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2002
Sahara Hotnights
The Sahara Hotnights join the rock and roll explosion from Sweden. This garage outfit produces the best girl-punk anthems since the Runaways.
Jennie Bomb
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2002
Erik Sanko
This longtime member of the Lounge Lizards and onetime frontman of Skeleton Key has finally ventured out as a solo artist, composing collapsed little gothic almost-folk songs which often incorporate his fascination with "non-musical" sounds.
Past Imperfect, Present Tense
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2001
Seaworthy
Indie-meets-world music pioneer Josh McKay is the longtime leader of Macha. Now he's put together a new project of hypnotic swells and layers.
The Ride
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2001
Sixteen Horsepower
David Eugene Edwards and the brooding Sixteen Horsepower channel the fire and brimstone of the Old Testament into sultry and gloomy folk music.
Folklore
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2002
The Stratford 4
Put on your sonic astronaut suit and get ready for some deep space rock! San Francisco's Stratford 4 combines late '70s New Wave pop-punk with '80s and '90s effects-heavy space rock to create a blissful, dreamy, drugged-out sound. Highly recommended.
The Revolt Against Tired Noises
