With their third album, Indiana's House Of Bread have created a collection of lush, quirky, and occasionally noisy synth-pop songs. "Superhuman Tomb" combines elements of 80’s dream-pop with walls of Siamese Dream-like guitars and ethereal vocals into an album that will make fans of Air, Asobi Seksu, and Dan Deacon head for the dance floor and/or the medicine cabinet.

For the 3rd installment of their ambitious 7 inch series, NYC Post-Pop heros Hunters, Run! return with a record that is simultaneously their most challenging and most accessible to date. Following up on the acclaim and instant-sell-out of EP1 and EP2, it would have been easy for H,R! to continue in their traditional Elvis Costello/Husker Du-inspired vein. But as all 80s rock fans know, the 3rd single has to be the ballad.

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...