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Tiny Telephone

Tiny Telephone is a San Francisco based recording studio collective and mp3 site run by Barsuk Records recording artist John Vanderslice. The recording studio has long been a staple of the San Francisco music scene, recording everyone from high profile major label acts to local bands' first demos.

Actionslacks
If you're into high-octane indie power pop, you will certainly be pleased with this fine group of musicians. A bit of beefy bass, solid drumming, electric guitar, catchy male vocals, and even a string section now and again round out this amplified pop maelstrom.

The Scene's Out of Sight - 2001



The Apples in Stereo
This merry band of '60s pop-loving pranksters make sunny, shuffling, psychedelic fuzz-pop sure to put stars in your hair, daisywheels in your eyes, and paisley on your shirt.

Tape Op: A Compact Disc of Creative Music Recordings



Creeper Lagoon
San Francisco's Creeper Lagoon delights in taking strange routes to get to the heart of a great pop song, mixing up the elements with apparent disregard for genre or convention, and sneaking up behind you to snag you with great hooks. Plunge in!

Creeper Lagoon - 1997
Take Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday - 2001



East River Pipe
One man band F.M. Cornog crafts lush little lo-fi gems in his New Jersey home recording studio, true nuggets of bleak but cautiously optimistic emotion that avoid the pitfalls and pretensions so common to singer/songwriter fare, finding the most direct routes into your heart.

Tape Op: A Compact Disc of Creative Music Recordings
Shining Hours in a Can - 1994



Grandaddy
Grandaddy's eclectic, atmospheric pop ranges from fragile introspection to big, guitar-driven glory, exploring the way human beings relate to their chaotic turn-of-the-century urban landscape with irony and bittersweet humor. This track is in Liquid Audio format, so you'll need to download the Liquid Player to hear it.

Tape Op: A Compact Disc of Creative Music Recordings
The Sophtware Slump - 2000



MK Ultra
San Francisco-based MK Ultra crafts shimmering experimental pop that's instantly familiar, yet unlike anything you've heard before.

MK Ultra
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - 1996
The Dream Is Over - 2000



Papas Fritas
Papas Fritas make other bands ashamed to call themselves power pop, so exuberant and compelling are their delicious bursts of song. Uh, French fries, anyone?

Tape Op: A Compact Disc of Creative Music Recordings



Elliott Smith
If you were paying attention during the last half of the '90s, this greasy haired, rugged faced indie folk troubadour from Portland has probably crossed your radar screen once or twice. If you haven't checked him out yet, you most definitely should; he's the genuine article, a master at crafting stark documents of the loner's reclusive world.

Tape Op: A Compact Disc of Creative Music Recordings



Super XX Man
Like so many other indie rockers before him, Silver Scooter frontman Scott Garred reveals himself to be a folkie at heart with this warm, gentle side project.

Volume IV - 2000