Everything, Now!
Spatially Severed CD
MFT Records
One-Sheet
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MP3: Burden Time

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.

Man At Arms
"A Waste Of Time And Space" CD
Joyful Noise
One-Sheet
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MP3: Title Track (A Waste Of Time And Space)

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
S/T CD EP
Self Released
One-Sheet
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MP3: Televangelist

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.

I Love You
"Drone, Drugs and Harmony" CD
Self Released
One-Sheet
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MP3: March of the Dead

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.

Pravada
"Manus Plere" CD
MFT Records
One-Sheet
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MP3: Atlas

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.

The Delicious
"Postcard To My Sewing Circle" CD
Joyful Noise Recordings
One-Sheet
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MP3: Hokusai

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.

Bronze Float
"Notice" CD
RC Legacy
One-Sheet
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MP3: This American Negative Pulse

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.

Sump Pumps
"Revenge of the..." CD
8 Bit Records
One-Sheet
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MP3: The Mechanical

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.

A Caesar Holiday
"S/T" CD
Self-Released
One-Sheet
MP3: Post-Coital Coffee

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.

Various Artists
"Defunct Indiana" CD
Joyful Noise Recordings / MFT Records
One-Sheet

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.

The Delicious
"The Delicious The Delicious" CD
Self-Released
One-Sheet
MP3: It's Not Time To Die

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.

Lafcadio
"Kibosh" CD
Joyful Noise Recordings
One-Sheet
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MP3: If Someone Asks You If You Are a God, You Say Yes

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.

Prizzy Prizzy Please
"s/t" CD
Let's Pretend Records
One-Sheet
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MP3: A Thundergust of Woodpeckers

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.

Various Artists
Russian Recording's "We Just Call It Roulette" CD
Self-Released
One-Sheet
MP3: Racebannon - Sister Fucker

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
"3" CD EP
Joyful Noise Recordings
One-Sheet
MP3: You Are Dead

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.

Child Bite
"Gold Thriller" CD EP
Suburban Sprawl / Joyful Noise Recordings
One-Sheet
MP3: I Like Friends

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

Grampall Jookabox
"Scientific Cricket" CD
Joyful Noise Recordings
One-Sheet
MP3: Ponta

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!

 
 
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