An eccentric orchestra of punk adrenaline, avant-garde mortar, and lucid epicurean nightmares... The Living Breathing Organ Summer exudes a no-fluff sound that is both consistently danceable and brazenly psychotic. More info.

Classic songwriting amidst Rubik's-Cube-structures - the music of Berry is a curious hybrid of meticulously detailed instrumentation and genuinely alluring pop. More info.

With a 30th century aesthetic, the sophomore album from Prizzy Prizzy Please rockets through hyperactive hits that hope to imbue melodic noise punk with the spirit of fourth-quarter pump-up jams by Van Halen and the E Street Band. More info.

The Syllable Section defies categorization with soaring melodies by vocalist Mathew Marquardt laid over dissonant and sometimes brisk—yet somehow pleasingly melodic—tunes by Marquardt. The result is enough to warp one's mind, providing layers of sound and words that create a surprisingly grand work of art.

The debut album by Los Angeles-based experimental composer Hannis Brown, is a snapshot of a drifting mind. Incorporating multipart stream-of-conscious compositions with explosions of free jazz and guided improvisations, the album displays lush vocal harmonies and spastic guitar work over clattering found sound percussion.

Specializing in post-contemporary, intricate, moody pop songs, Rooms incorporates disparate elements of early 80's NYC punk, midwest hardcore, classic indie, and calculative structures into an authentic amalgam of left-leaning indie rock.

The Jookabox / Kid Primitive Family split is an ethereal, percussive-heavy exercise in existential musical chairs. Throughout the record, hip-hop tendencies weave in and out, pulsating percussion and echoey, layered vocals abound, and consciousness generally expands. Jookabox gets you in the mood, and Kid Primitive lures you over the edge. More info.

Sons of Boy is an 8-track mini-opus of face-melting moments alongside crystalline spasms of beauty. A somewhat genre-less album, Sons of Boy rides an undefined line somewhere between instrumental post-rock, punk, ambient, prog and grind. More info.

Aerial Roots, the latest from notoriously nomadic bass player C.J. Boyd, flows from singular, meditative bass lines into explosive, layered, and hugely complex walls of sound. CJ masterfully orchestrates waves of bass loops coupled with Jazz-driven improvisational prowess. More info.

A split of monstrous proportions – Big Bear and Child Bite have joined together to inject post-punk prowess into this otherwise lifeless piece of translucent green vinyl. More info.

After releasing 2 full length albums in 3 years, New York City’s favorite post-pop hellraisers, Hunters, Run! have decided to embark on an ambitious project: releasing a series of four consecutive 7"s, all showcasing the band's new work and the art of up & coming artists. EP2, the second in the series - which is limited to only 200 physical copies, showcases the band's fascination with sounds as diverse as Elvis Costello, Husker Du, and The Talking Heads.

Heavy Hometown is a song-oriented band that pulls from both the belly and the mind - an ambidexterity hard to come by. Utilizing two lead singers, this band has two distinct voices: one is vulnerable and open (Jon Wood) the other velveteen and guarded (Corey Barnes). This record captures a vision of an imperfect person, the reconciliation of attachment and detachment, the pleasure in suffering, and the understanding that one can be as much super-hero as he is dope fiend. RIYL: the modern lovers, luna, bingo trappers, buffalo springfield.

Party hardcore for the clinically depressed and permanently stoned. The debut album from The STDs, Survival Mode is a rampaging orgy of aggressive 80s hardcore and hook laden 70s rock, metal, and pop.

This Bloomington, Indiana band of Mikes have combined grandiose riffs and complex arrangements into an anthemic rock album which lies somewhere in between high-brow prog and low-brow, PBR-soaked basement punk.

Austria's Valina has a way of combining passages of sheer beauty with intense outbursts of abstract guitar noise into pure math-rock fury. On A Tempo! A Tempo! witness Valina's jaw-dropping musicianship sculpt amazingly technical, harmonious, and ultimately unclassifiable riff-heavy rock. More info.

On Gloom Bloom, WE ARE HEX plays with noise, dance, doom and psychedelia - mashing together difficult-to-pinpoint influences into a surprisingly cohesive album. Booming synth, precise, spacey guitar, a music box piano, and harsh nasty bass are lead by a barrage of drums and topped off with multi-instrumental experimentations using horns, violins, xylophones and anything else the band might be able to find in an abandoned home. More info.

The Sympathetic Oscillations EP is an exercise in dark, Midwestern pop. The Indianapolis band's debut recording reveals an uncanny knack for splicing garage-rock grit with the more wistful and feedback-laden elements of The Velvet Underground's "White Light/White Heat'. Fans of The Velvet Underground, Nirvana, T-Rex, or The Stooges will not be disappointed.

Bizzart's new earbook is a sprawling structure of heart break and the journey of being lost in love. Building upon his sonically adventurous sound-collage version of hip-hop, Bizzart has created his most subtle, introspective, and accessible record to date.

After releasing 2 full length albums in 3 years, New York City's favorite post-pop hellraisers, Hunters, Run! have decided to embark on an ambitious project: releasing a series of four 7"s over the course of 2009. Fans of Elvis Costello, Husker Du, and The Talking Heads are in for a treat...

Some call it "space gospel." Others say "artichoke rock." One thing is for sure, in their sixth year, and on their fifth album, Everything, Now! is on top of their game. On "Spatially Severed", E,N! brings their delirious mixture of insane psych-pop melody, hero worship, and obtuse hidden meanings into their most accessible form. These 16 parables are disguised as commercialized space-age pop gems for the ADD generation.

Expanding in all directions, Man At Arms continues in their musical explorations of repetition, concision, dynamic shifts and stagnancy. Recommended for fans of The Minutemen's "Paranoid Time", Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" & Space Ghost Coast To Coast.

Richard Cranium is a band of prodigies. This young band, based in Chicago and Indianapolis, fuse together hyperactive drumming with chord driven bass to create a lush and dynamic rhythm section that anchors angular psychedelic guitar sounds and dissonant textures. Their debut EP is a testament to their rawking live show. If you are a fan of Don Caballero, Hella, Tera Melos, Maps & Atlases, or anything else that tastefully pushes the limits of drummer's limbs and guitarist's fingers - give this album a listen. It will not disappoint.

When most people say 'I Love You', they want to hear the same three little words back. But when this Kansas City, Missouri duo says their name, they want you to listen. And stare. Combining noisy DIY punk with thumpin' dub bass, pop sensibility, and layer after layer of polyrhythmic guitar and percussion, 'I Love You' has been blowing minds and melting faces across the nation with the songs from their newest album, Drone, Drugs and Harmony.

Indianapolis-based Pravada has been creating their unique stream of atmospheric pop for four years now, and after many delays we are lucky enough to see their near perfect debut album "Manus Plere" become a physical reality. Throughout their history the band has featured a rotating cast of characters, always including shared members from Pravada's "sister" band Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos (Epic Records). Pravada has developed a sound that is difficult to pin point: pop-laden, atmospheric, epic, fun, emotional, and meticulously detailed; not terribly similar to any one band, but distinctly and wholly indie-rock if there is truly such a thing.

Feast your ears upon The Delicious' complex, light-hearted, and freakishly disjointed blend of experimental indie-art-pop. Postcard To My Sewing Circle abounds with elegantly constructed, cerebral power-pop anthems.

The debut album from Bronze Float is called NOTICE. You notice the songs are simple, and on purpose. Backed up by Bloomington, Indiana's Vollmar brothers, Bronze Float creates melodic, introspecive sounds meant for the inside of your head and inside your home, rather than the pop charts.

Anti-wave, post-punk quartet specializing in high-energy, ass-kicking anthems and frenzied pop. Inspired by such late-seventies outfits as Devo, Ramones and Motorhead, as well as more recent bands like Brainiac, Six Finger Satellite and the Jesus Lizard, Revenge... showcases one of the Midwest's most interesting bands at the top of their game.

An honest and inspired interpretation of post-rock and avant-garde, this mostly instrumental album puts experimental rock in touch with instrumental and vocal harmony - seamlessly combining sweet-sounding melodies and prog-rock structure, and creating a sound akin to Slint, Explosions in the Sky, or Mogwai, yet remarkably their own.

Containing seventeen indie, experimental, and hardcore artists from Indiana's past, Defunct Indiana compiles some of the best music from all Indiana based, now-defunct bands - including: Usurp Synapse, America Owns The Moon, Ativin, Majhas, BIGBIGcar, Melk the g6-49, Manners For Husbands, Mara'Akate, Fabric, Intro To Airlift, Ari Ari, Sardina, and more.

With accessibility and sincerity as its goals, The Delicious craft quirky, power-pop anthems that shift time and genres on a dime. RIYL: Of Montreal, The Pixies, The Unicorns, The Walkmen, Weezer.

Powerfully regulated, densely organized wall-of-sound style metal and delirious, spasming, often sublime experimentation braiding together in an insane double helix of truly inspired rock music. RIYL: Melvins, US Maple, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

Shout-along party anthems loaded with unbridled irreverence. The clever instrumentation is a ferocious jubilee, managing to seamlessly meld stadium rock and garage punk inside the cast of traditional pop song structures. For fans of Talking Heads, They Might Be Giants, Fugazi, and The Unicorns.

The first of an annual series of compilations released by Indiana based recording studio, Russian Recording. Artists include Racebannon, The Coke Dares, Turn Pale, Abner Trio, Push Pull, Gentleman Caller, Lucky Pineapple, STATE, Thousand Arrows, and others.

Push-Pull probe areas untouched by The Wipers, King Crimson, Big Star, or Shellac - simultaneously offending, repelling, seducing, and violating the music snobs of our time.

Sophisticated noise-pop with enough time changes and feedback layering to please hipsters and experimental rockers alike.

Enter the private, brightly infantile, electrically sanctified world of Grampall Jookabox's idiot-savant folk-rock. Complex choral crescendos, jungle drums, box-car lo-fi, and bubble-gum-acid-pop combine!