Kate Ferencz

Kate Ferencz phones it in from her parents house in White Plains, NY. Kate fills her songs with wonder, and it's impossible not to smile while listening. Closer examination shows them also filled with certain grotesque elements that may make you uneasy at the same time. But only briefly and then you'll feel awesome again.

Songs:

Funny Heart / Vegetable Garden / Peter Pan / I Never Wrote You A / Taking Pictures of Alice / Trees For Hands / Lions and Tigers and Bears / Bones / Log Cabin / In the Woods / I Draw Pictures / Chicken Pox / Famous Virgins

Megamoog

6/21/07

Bedroom rockstar Megan phones it in from San Francisco, CA. The sweet, sweet sounds of the love affair between a girl and her keyboards. And sometimes a guitar.

Songs:

Bedroom Rockstars / N Judah / For Max / Hello NYC / Late Bloomer / After Hours / Funeral Song / Goodbye

Spider

6/14/07

"After listening to this disc, all we can say is Marissa Nadler and Joanna Newsom better watch their backs. If there is any justice in the world, the throngs of bearded and bead encrusted modern free folk freaks and forest maidens that make up the new weird underground will bow down before Jane Herships, the woman who is Spider..."
-- Aquarius Records

Jane Herships phones it in from Williamsburg, NY.

Songs:

The Ballad of Clementine Jones / The Afternoon / Maggie's Song for Alice / Midnight on the Nile

Amps for Christ

6/7/07

Last bit cuts off, finishes here.

Completely and utterly ecstatic drone. Had no idea what to expect. Ex-MITB, Bastard Noise, etc. From Claremont, CA.

Kid Icarus

5/31/07

Lo-fi psych rambler and Summersteps Records founder Eric Schlittler phones it in from Dunmore, PA. Songs about swingers and zombies, but unfortunately not in the same song. Fortunately awesome.

Songs:

Dig Architecture / Encased / Disappearing Act / The Last Man on Earth / A Good Place to End / Her Song for Beth and the Sideshow

I Feel Tractor

5/24/07

Poet and musician Eddie Berrigan phones it in from Brooklyn, NY. Until more words come: awesome.

Songs (I think):

Caught in League / North Dakota / Sunscreen / Distance Is Free / Human Ornithology / Warming Up the Joke / Oligarch or Patriarch? / Moving / Chuckin' Cheetos / Pollen

Microwave Background

5/17/07

Will Ryerson and Lauren Schiszik phone it in from Baltimore, MD. Weird pop goodness.

Songs:

Icy Charm / Many Chosen Few / Sidewalk Queen of Diet Soda / Ominous Dash / Eat On Time / Hair On Fire / Hey Universe / Indian Was An Angel (Guided By Voices)

Natalie Rose LeBrecht (Greenpot Bluepot)

5/10/07

A room full of instruments in Stone Ridge, NY = a half-hour of improvised magic. Wonderbar!

Butcher Boy

5/3/07

More great acerbic pop from Glasgow. Recorded late at night in a huge room with almost the entire band, after a sleepover spent watching John Hughes movies.

Songs:

Trouble and Desire / I Know Who You Could Be / Girls Make Me Sick / REact or Die / Keep Your Powder Dry / I Could Be In Love With Anyone / Profit In Your Poetry / There Is No One

The Icicles

4/26/07

Fine fine Michigan indie pop. Played from BSR in Providence where is was being broadcast live. I'm pretty sure they were drumming on cardboard boxes. Awesome.