The Gutter Twins – “Idle Hands” (Dulli + Lanegan = Amazing)
Black Mountain – “Tyrants” (Pink Rebel Sabbath Club)
Grand Archives – “Torn Blue Foam Couch” (ex-Band of Horses!!!!!)
Monade – “Regard” (featuring Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab)
The Helio Sequence – “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” (great song but not even the best on their new CD)
Say Hi – “Northwestern Girls”, “Toil and Trouble” (MySpace top 8 includes Nada Surf, Plus/Minus, Bishop Allen among others and for obvious reasons)
No Kids – “The Beaches Are All Closed” (Dancey indie-pop)
The Autumns – “Boys” (LA band = J.Buckley meets Brit shoegazer pop)
Kelley Stoltz – “Your Reverie” (’60s-style pop ala The Beatles, The Monkees)
The Heavy Circles – “Henri” (Edie Brickell + Harper Simon, son of her husband, Paul)
Why? – “Close to Me”(Cure cover), “The Hollows” (Any friend of Hood is a friend of mine)
Miguel Miggs – “Fire” (featuring Junior Reid (Faze Action Afrotronic Re-Rub)) Â
Imaad Wasif with Two Part Beast – “Oceanic” (folkie, J.Buckley-ish)
Faunts – “Memories of Places We’ve Never Been” , “M4 (Partt.1)” (synth-gazer)
Castaneda – “Pixels” (DCFC with balls)
The Ruby Suns – “Tane Mahuta” (Disney soundtrack meets Vampire Weekend-covering Paul Simon)
Excepter – “Kill People” (don’t worry, I don’t get it either)
The Epochs – “Opposite Sides” (sample-filled indie (trip)-pop with falsetto vocals)