Planet Creature (Toronto)
Simple, lovely blown-amp Toronto girl-pop with perfectly disaffected
vocals. What if Shop Assistants or Vivian Girls still cared what Mary
Weiss thought? myspace
Magic Leaves (Cali/Austin)
Fluttering ghost folk with a strange old Stax/Philly soul vibe, like Vetiver produced by Quincy Jones. myspace
Microfiche (San Francisco) Wired, warped & woozy instro post-punk wound tightly around jagged rhythms & otherworldly keyboard squall. myspace
The Show is the Rainbow (Nebraska)
Picture Bill Hicks' hysterically funny, but finely-tuned bullshit
detector wired up to crazed one-man electro-clash dance fever. An
unmissable force of nature, so don't miss it. myspace
The Foxx (Albuquerque) Sexy, jet-age glam with baroque,
operatic flourishes worthy of Sparks, or Queen if they'd played only
CBGBs & Max's Kansas City. myspace
Hoa Hoa's (Toronto) Shoegaze Torontonians (Toronodons?)
blissed to the gills on New Order & OMD. The ultimate "Turn up your
collar to the wind & rain music." myspace
Triggertown (Nebraska) Drunked-up flu-grass music with
skillet hiss & four-part art damaged harmonies intact. Rueful &
victorious as that pearl-handled pistol under your spittle-soaked
pillow. myspace
Foot Foot (Austin, Texas) Tortured, blown-out
freakbait, from a town where that's become sadly rare. And when
they're not spewing rasp-bowed, heat-blasted riffs, they're capable of
some unspeakably beautiful junk-sick ballads. A true lost treasure of
the Austin music scene. myspace
Methadone Kitty & The Daily Dose (San Clemente, California)
Sprawling knotty femme-folk with all manner of oscillators,
accordions, calliope & pump organ stroked, pounded, squeezed & glowing
in the background like the aftermath of a circus train derailment.
myspace
See Me River (Seattle) Perfect night-over-Texas music
with handclaps straight from 60s rock, songs strummed hard & long
&.vocalist Kerry Zettel, the Morrissey of the Mountains. Ex-Band of
Horses, but it's more like Michael Gira's Angels of Light.
myspace
The Renderers (New Zealand)Imagine Nancy & Lee robbed
of the baroque orchestra & iffy pedigree, crawling across the Dunedin
desert to meet Sonic Youth & Giant Sand. Easily the most unsung band
of the 90s & a staple of the pioneering Siltbreeze label. So good it
might still your heart. myspace
Sickboy (Ireland)
Crafty Emerald Isle lyrics wedded inextricably to epic, expansive early U2/Big Country guitar sprawl.myspace.
Mother/Father (Nashville, TN)
Like homecoming runway lights, this is a particularly twinkly brand
of post-punk -- no less melancholy, no less yearning, but these are
glimmering satellites, not a falling stars.myspace.
Shiloe
LA power-brood with throttling guitars, bass & drums & a
vocalist who sounds about one uneasy hiss from slapping that grin off
your face.myspace.
The Public
Grotesquely sexy post-punk grind with a grotesquely sexy breath between every word from grotesquely sexy New Orleans. myspace.
Autodrone (NYC)
Exotic, spangled 4AD drone that erupts into blistering 90s
guitar-chug rave-up bliss -- think The Breeders & Throwing Muses
heard through a pashmina shawl. myspace.
Romance
The stern melodramatic side of post-punk -- Bauhaus lurching
towards Weimar. They would probably say, "Blooming towards Weimar," but
that's the kind of sinister Great Northwest Expressionists they are... myspace.
Entertainment
The Cure & Josef K. in a dank echoiing Prague storm drain
gurgling out anthems to evisceration & masochism. But, you know,
from Georgia. myspace.
The Prids
Near-goddamn perfect Oregonian agit-prog, over-complicating the
nuevo post-punk genre to the point where you won't need the outsider
props to bow to its caterpillar-on-a-strait-razor elegance. myspace.
Blacklist
Ecstatic NYC Bunnymen rock that dives, butterflies & emerges, still swimming, into fluttering sunlight. The shit.myspace.
Marc Maron
Marc Maron is a stand up comic, actor, and writer who has appeared
in countless clubs, in film, and on various TV shows. Engaging his
audience as a storyteller, Marc is known for his incisive cultural and
political commentary, mystical ruminations, and neurotic insights into
human nature. Born in New Jersey and raised in Albuquerque, NM, Marc
started his comedy career in the late 1980s in Hollywood, California,
as a doorman at the famed stand up venue The Comedy Store. He has since
lived in Boston, San Francisco, and New York City, where he co-founded
possibly the first alternative comedy series, "Eating It", with friend
and comedy star Janeane Garafalo at the Luna Lounge Club. Marc has
appeared on just about every TV show that will allow comics, from The
Late Show with David Letterman to Late Night with Conan O'Brien, where
he is a special favorite.
Tig Notaro
Tig has been seen on ABC's late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live,
Comedy Central's "Premium Blend", featured on Comedy Central's "Best of
the Improv", "Mental Engineering" on PBS, as a recurring guest host on
AMC's "Movies at Our House" w/ Jimmy Pardo, doing commentary on WE's "I
Can't Believe I Wore That", NBC's Last Comic Standing IV, in her own
half hour comedy special "Comedy Central Presents TIG", guest starring
in two new series' "Dog Bites Man" and "The Sarah Silverman Program"
both on Comedy Central, appeared as a sidekick for E!'s "The Chelsea
Handler Show" pilot and is currently a regular cast member for NBC's
sketch/improv "Comedy Colloseum" pilot.
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