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X-Wife's new album “Are you ready for the blackout?” is a record in which they assert themselves with a musical language and sound that is all their own, with a unique aesthetic coherence that is both modern and timeless. Voted among the year’s best releases by Blitz magazine and Lisbon’s Radar FM, this Portuguese band is also being received enthusiastically around the world. X-Wife taking us back to the indie genre.

With their metamorphosis over the past year from a sloppy teenage punk mess into a full-fledged glam pop explosion, Chicago's Smith Westerns is one incredible leap of progress. Lovers and haters both will agree, it might cause a jolt of euphoric confusion that you can really warm up to, as you marvel at their fastidious growth while digging through the outer fringes of rock'n roll's vast well of influences. Straddling the fine line between the misty-eyed feyness of Brett Smiley and Milk'n'Cookies, with the slithering macho grunt of Marc Bolan's silk pajamas tied around Alvin Stardust's throat, it's nothing short of a modern classic power pop album.

Hesta Prynn is the Will Rogers of our time. I've been saying it for years, and either nobody agrees or they just don't get the reference. The point is, she really makes me laugh. She is very VERY good at selling stuff on Ebay and also selling all our gear off piece by piece when we need that caaaash. In short, Hesta Prynn can really strike a deal. She manages record producers and Pancake Mountain and is working on a solo record "Hesta Prynn in Civil Shepherd" for early '09.

Codebreaker is anthemic. Codebreaker is electric. Codebreaker is criminally infectious. 'Definitely one to watch: The sound recalls some crazy house party where Cameo is drinking with Prince, Phoenix is partying with Daft Punk and Bootsy Collins is jamming on the sofa.' -The Washington Post

Home Video are Collin Ruffino and David Gross, transplants from the misunderstood landscape of New Orleans, now living in the brooding brownstones of Brooklyn. Here they revel in a self-created world of references to Edward Gorey, Massive Attack, The Brothers Quay, Smashing Pumpkins, and a dusting of Chopin, references that they have been collecting for nearly ten years.

Grooms are three friends in Brooklyn who play a structurally mutilated brand of noise-pop featuring blissful interplay, sonic experimentation, and song destruction. The band (fka Muggabears) is rooted in the Death By Audio collective, a fertile ground for the band’s expansive, forward-looking catchiness. With moods that swing from the gloomy to the gleaming, Grooms craft songs filled with beauty, gloom, and irony-free whimsy.

San Francisco's STILL FLYIN' have been spreading the word of the almighty HAMMJAMM since 2004, demolishing minds, souls, and any notion of personal space with equal abandon. Combining the kinetic energy of 60's era rock steady with the catchy hooks and DIY aesthetic of today's best indie-pop, STILL FLYIN' are an event rarely paralleled in music.