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Quiet Company
This band plays lots of instruments and they're good at it.
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Rah Rah
We swear we don't think every Canadian band sounds like Arcade Fire, but these folks do. That's a good thing.
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Ramona Falls
Former Menomena member taking the reins for himself.
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River City Extension
Indie-folk doesn't do them justice. You'll have to hear it for yourself.
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Robert DeLong
He calls it Electronic Rock and Roll.
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Rocky Loves Emily
Pop music like summer camp for your ears. Rocky Loves Emily just wants you to smile.
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Run, Forever
Pittsburgh trio playing 3-chord punk & 3+ chord folk.
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Saint Motel
With sophisticated savvy and singularity, the Los Angeles quartet Saint Motel has built a formidable reputation on the back of inventive indie pop.
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Sainthood Reps
Tight grungy driven guitar rock, hints of post rock.
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Savoir Adore
The darkest, prettiest, original fairy tales you'll hear today.
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Set Your Goals
Set Your Goals is an American punk rock band from Walnut Creek, CA formed in 2004.
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Sharks
Sharks sharpen timeless melodies with an explosive edge tempered by intricate riffing and hypnotic harmonies. It’s pure, poetic, and powerful.
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Shiny Toy Guns
Explosive electronics and hard rock that makes you move.
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Silver Snakes
Grungy modern guitar rock.
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Silverstein
Silverstein is scream-soaked metal weaving tradition and subversion into unfamiliar territory .
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Single Mothers
'Nihilism' is too big a word, these guys are reckless fun and loud and they make punk music.
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States
Displaced members of two beloved indie outfits starting anew.
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Such Gold
Young NY-based hardcore band with one of the best albums of 2012.
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Superhumanoids
Superhumanoids make dreamy pop that shouts summery ’60s harmonies, garage rock’s raw tonality, slick new-wave electronics, and the adventurous dissonance of ’90s indie rock.
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Talkdemonic
Beats that uplift, scare and turn on, it’s the awesome weirdness of Talkdemonic.
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Tallhart
Bright concise guitar rock, formerly Marksmen.
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Team Spirit
Singalong hooks and everything you love about party punk.
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Terror
Always hardcore punk, but somehow never the same way twice.
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The Acacia Strain
It's good to let the anger out.
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The Cab
The Cab is straight-faced, unapologetic pop-rock done right.
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The Composure
The Composure is: where bright choruses and pop punk charm meet polished and intelligent production.
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The Dear Hunter
The combination of progressive experimentation, multi-instrumentation and expansive storytelling is just the foundation for The Dear Hunter's sonic exploration.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan
The most confounding, adventurous, nerdishly assaulting band we know.
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The Drowning Men
It's the Tom Waits/Arcade Fire style you've been waiting for...
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The Dunwells
Sunny day vibes, drunk on 60s Brit-pop and acoustic guitars.
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The End of America
With the feeling of adventure behind their music, The End of America captivates with their harmonies and a lot of good banjo.
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The Flatliners
"life. punk rock, reggae, rock n roll, hardcore music. friends. family. the world."
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The Front Bottoms
Acoustic guitars and punk rock, pool-hopping and love letters; it’s the high-energy suburban splendor of The Front Bottoms.
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The Ghost Inside
"What do you stand for?"
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The Jezabels
The Jezabels don’t need no stinkin bassist.
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The Kooks
Bright pop channeling 60s rock, getting lost along the way and loving it.
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The Last Bison
Seven-piece traditional folk collective unlike anything you've heard in a long time.
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Catchy non-acoustic folk, upbeat uplifting upward bound.
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The Menzingers
"When people hear the songs from On The Impossible Past, I just hope people can relate to it and it makes them feel the way we do when we sing it." -Tom May
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The Mowgli's
Catchy, loving, lovable folk-pop from California. And it shows.
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The New Limb
You don’t know the words, but you’re singing along with The New Limb
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The Parlotones
It seems like pop is weirder, riskier and better in South Africa. At least when it's coming from these guys.
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The Rocket Summer
Uplifting pop music from a prodigious young talent.
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The Rocketboys
Sincere & simple songs, the perfect balance of catch and release.
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The Saddest Landscape
Time away has only enhanced The Saddest Landscape’s aggressive vitriol.
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The Silent Comedy
The Silent Comedy brings all the playful ingenuity of modern folk without the pretense.
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The Stone Foxes
For your non-Auerbach heavy blues/hard rock fix.
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The Used
Punk foursome stuck between catchy and heavy since 2001.
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The Young Romans
The Young Romans are the result of a chance meeting that has led to the melding of beautiful harmonies over tight, clean indie pop.
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There For Tomorrow
The name There For Tomorrow was never just a clever euphemism for the group of artists it embodies – it was a predetermined mission statement for their music.
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This Is Hell
In their own words: "The band started in 2004, recorded a ton of music and went on tour...a lot. That is still what we do."
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Those Who Fear
Impressive young hardcore outfit with big things ahead.
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Thursday
Veterans of DIY, pioneers of modern punk.
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Torche
Like early Soundgarden, it's sludgy, heavy, powerful stuff.
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Touche Amore
Bio excerpt: "...a great many of us take a look around and ask, "When did things get so shitty?" This, of course, happens on a daily basis. Especially with us Americans."
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Twenty One Pilots
Energetic synth pop tailor-made for the stage.
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Two Gallants
Simultaneously weird/straightforward guitar rock from San Fran duo.
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Tycho
Ambient and electronic, a soundtrack for the end of the world.
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Vanity Theft
Vanity Theft: punk has never been so danceable.
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Wake Owl
Smart, contemplative indie-folk from folks who know their business. And yes, he started as a rapper.
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Walk The Moon
Catchy, feel good, party-style, 2012 music.
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Waters
Former Port O'Brien frontman, world traveler, guitar fuzz auteur.
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White Wives
Six guys starting over on the indie side of punk-rock.
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WHY?
Genre melting pop stuff for ambitious ears.
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William Beckett
Former The Academy Is... frontman, braving it solo with an acoustic guitar.
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Windsor Drive
Named for a street sign, aiming for the top; it’s the charged and articulate pop rock of Windsor Drive.
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Woe, Is Me
"When it comes to creating art, don’t hold back. Put it all out on the table." - official WIM bio.
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Wolf Gang
Genre-bending producer-pop from the UK, catchy without being ditzy.
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X Ambassadors
X Ambassadors stretch the boundaries of genre-melding with their contagious blend of raw rock soul.
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You Won't
Acoustic + electric guitars, upbeat but laid back, good for your ears.
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Young Statues
In the winter of 2010, a spontaneous trip to Athens, GA became the birth of New Jersey/Philadelphia indie-rock outfit Young Statues.
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Youngblood Hawke
Exceprt: "...captures the sound of 5 friends in mid-journey. It is the snapshot of a state of mind where, one mountain has been climbed, and there are more in the distance. But for right now, the view is beautiful."
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Zao
Zao is: all the doom and gloom of metal wrapped in aggressive, hardcore mastery.
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Zechs Marquise
Top shelf musicians playing weirdo-rock fit for cartoons and nightmares.
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