My Pal God Records
Founded in a Princeton New Jersey living room circa 1992, MPG continues to create an engaging catalogue of releases.
Del Rey
Del Rey's a young Chicago-based instrumental post-rock quartet with a strong sense of jazz dynamics, a taste for understated electronics, and a fondness for the drums.
Dlry CDEP
Speak It Not Aloud
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2001
Drums and Tuba
The name is both completely self-explanatory and wholly misleading. Yes, Drums and Tuba does indeed contain drums and a tuba, but it also features layers of tight funky guitar, traces of space rock, and splashes of improvisational jazz. Sound wacky? Well, maybe a little, but it's mostly just cool.
Flatheads and Spoonies
The Flying Ballerina
Box Fetish
The Embarrassment
One of the most sadly overlooked group's in all of rock music's sordid history, the Embarrassment (aka "The Embos") did post-punk Wichita, Kansas style and the ensuing chaos was truly glorious to behold.
Blister Pop
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2001
The French Kicks
The French Kicks attempt to strip down sound
through angular motions ripe with rhythm and rooted in melody. An exercise in frenetic glamour, there is a little bit of glitter in the teeth for these four handsome devils.
The French Kicks
Hurl
Tasmanian drummer-driven and methodically precise, the members of Hurl manage to maintain both a calculated approach and an emotional response to their instruments (which they play oh-so-well).
We Are Quiet In This Room
Lefty's Deceiver
This Philadelphia trio falls halfway between rolling, bombastic post-punk and hook-filled melodic indie rock. Sort of Jawbox meets Death Cab for Cutie. Anthemic and catchy.
Conversations
Process Junior
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2001
A Minor Forest
A Minor Forest beguiles the channel switching naysayers that falsely presume simplicity when they hear such agreeable melody. Slyly requesting empathy, screaming guitars eke out structural and temporal strangeness. Manic/Depressive anthems for cubicle revolt, bosses everywhere beware.
...So Were They In Some Sort of Fight
TW Walsh
This Massachusetts songsmith is moody without being brooding, meanders without getting lost. He makes gentle, folky pop that's subtle and understated, and often quite pretty.
Blue Laws
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2000
Pollensongs
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2002
We Ragazzi
This Illinois Trio uses organs, guitars, and a solid drum/bass setup to send your body a message, defying you to sit still as they invite you dance to the new goth sound and come across like a pre-millionaire Mick Jagger.
Suicide Sound System
