Genre: The Ex-Optimists
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College Station’s The Ex-Optimists clear a room like no other band in Texas. But if you’d just stick around, maybe stick your fingers in your ears or something, you’d hear an ingenuous noise-pop band with well-written songs at the heart of all the excessive volume.
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Genre: 8-bit, Berlin School, Chiptunes, Electronica, kosmiche, prog rock, Video Game Music
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Live performances at Exploded Drawing #8: Atarimatt 12″ release show, Revolution Cafe & Bar, Bryan, TX 9/2/2011. Recorded digitally by Jeff Cooper.
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Imagine the dark guitar cruise-pop of Davey Crockett at the hectic coked-out pace of The Cutters…and you pretty much have Houston’s White Crime. These seven songs make punk rock dark again, somewhat dangerous and less about attitude and more about the insane rush of fucked-up rock & roll.
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Genre: Indie Rock, Noise Pop
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Two sides from College Station’s The Ex-Optimists make for SHTI’s first vinyl release. This 7” makes like a Sonic Youth / Sebadoh split from 1992, balancing the heady rush of early ‘90s indie noise rock with early ‘00s confessional guitar pop. Comes with download code for MP3 action plus two bonus tracks. (MP3 download also includes the two previous Ex-Optimists releases!)
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Genre: Indie Rock, Punk Rock
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Houston’s The Cutters sound like amphetamines and stale beer, all white knuckle truck stop 5 hour energy guzzling hamfisted organ riffs, manic drum avalanches, and a seeing-double singer balling the jack while clawing at the wheel Hammer-handed punk rock with a whiff of nosebuddy and paranoia.
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Genre: Drone, Noise, Stoner Rock
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It is difficult to capture The Tron Sack’s colossal towering mass of feedbacking bass riffs, resounding drums, and analog synthesizer atmosphere in mere 1’s and 0’s. Yet they have managed to present 80 minutes of stoner drone metal that is both soothing and unnervingly epic.
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Genre: Berlin School, Electro-Prog, Electronica
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great unwashed luminaries drifts from driving sampladelica through Berlin School trippiness, intergalactic stellarscapes, and mind sharpening sonics on their 7th full-length album.
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Genre: Dance, Electronica
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Vegenaut can mellow your head and move your feet all at the same time, shuffle-step you beyond the solar system with his electronic dance music, both ethereal and concrete, like neon lights on wet pavement at night.
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Genre: Chamber Pop, Indie Rock
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Seattle’s chamber pop masters Black Swedes create music that captures the quality of Northwestern sunlight, soft and gray, lulling rhythms and sighing string quartets. Catching Up compiles their first two out-of-print albums plus a new single.
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Genre: Emocore, Indie Rock, Punk Rock
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Stay In Touch melds soaring emo ultramelodic vocals, post-metal palm-mute riffing and a workmanesque rhythm section into a taut metal-inspired punk rock that makes Losing Friends not just a unique release for the Brazos Valley but pretty unique in the current punk rock scene.
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Genre: Alt-Country, Folk, Red Dirt Country
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Magic Girl delivers a new album of trailer trash lullabies delivered with a Texas alt-country kick, but this time taking on plaintive folk, delta stomp and the sweet soul blues along with her signature oil field grit and moxy.
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Genre: Berlin School, Electro-Prog, Electronica, soundtracks
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A free compilation, introducing the uninitiated to College Station, TX electronic music performer great unwashed luminaries.
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Genre: Punk Rock
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B/CS’s favorite punk rock jackasses, fronted by the lovechild of Johnny Rotten and Stan Lee from The Dickies, doing nothing but covers of the worst songs by The Foreskins!
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Genre: Death Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock
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Houston’s Davey Crockett cranks out 1960’s Pacific Coast Highway rock, a kind of top-down sunny music but with a paranoid vocal up top and Southern Gothic overtones that hasn’t quite shaken off the dirt from the grave.
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Genre: Indie Rock, Punk Rock
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If you have seen Houston’s Charger Fits there are two things that stick in your mind: they are all left-handed, and it is impossible to be a wallflower at their shows. Somehow they have harnessed that good times punk rock vibe and captured it on one’s and zero’s, with a devil-may-care careless drunk whimsey.
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Genre: 8-bit, Chiptunes, Electronica, Video Game Music
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Toronto’s Oxvylu sophisticated programming and soundtrack-esque sounds contrast with the buzzier, noisier Game Boy tones from Scotland’s Bit Face. Together these artists demonstrate the breadth of musical ideas that can be realized through vintage gaming consoles without relying on the norm.
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Genre: Indie Rock, Noise Pop
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The X-Ops’ debut album immediately brings to mind those heady days of 1991 listening to college radio. Merging Nirvana’s bigger-than-life grunge pop with Sonic Youth’s angular downtown noise, The Ex-Optimists present 10 songs filled with passion and distortion.
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Genre: Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Power Pop
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Jay Satellite’s new album veers pinball style between racing guitar power pop, sophisticated balladry, space-age synthesizer rock and indie angst. All with the narrative spirit of doing your own thing against unbelievable odds.
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Genre: Berlin School, Electro-Prog, Electronica
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great unwashed luminaries steps into the 1980′s with six tracks of breakdancing electro-beat proto-prog and soundtracks to imaginary John Carpenter films.
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Genre: Alt-Country, Berlin School, Christmas, Dreampop, Electro-Prog, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Punk Rock
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Seven Christmas songs from a variety of Sinkhole Texas musicians to get you in the spirit! This one was a freebie to download and a freebie to own, available only at the 2009 SHTI/979Represent Toys for Tots benefit
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Genre: Alt-Country, americana, Folk, Indie Rock
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Boston-via-Seattle singer/multi-instrumentalist Levi Fuller has a sound owing as much to early ‘90s lo-fi acoustic indie pop as it does to the intricate indie folk somewhat similar to Joe Pernice and Lou Barlow but with the Americana songwriting tradition of finding worth in commonality.
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Genre: bass and drums of death, Indie Rock, psych, Punk Rock
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Houston’s Female Demand get crazy with bass, drums and a pedalboard that has more lights and knobs than the helm of the Millennium Falcon. With these tools they create aggressively gonzo disco punk rock.
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Genre: Indie Rock, lo-fi, Noise Pop
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The Ex-Optimists drop college radio indie rock science on you like it’s 1993 all over again. Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma, etc. Jagged, guitars duel with melodic vocals against a racing backbeat. Four tracks from the 4-track.
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Genre: death metal, hardcore, Metal, Texas metal
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The Demolishment of Mankind is a turgid, uncompromising, headstrong double-kicks blazing riff-charging extreme metal onslaught. Black Roger’s sub-Satan vocals are unsettling, and alien, so different than the typical Cookie Monster thing.
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Genre: 8-bit, Berlin School, Chiptunes, Electronica, electropop, Video Game Music
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Atarimatt adds hints of dubstep and jungle to his quarter-pumping arcade punk rock, while great unwashed luminaries takes his electro prog straight to Manchester and Berlin for some early ’80s synthpop action.
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Genre: Dreampop, electro, Indie Rock, shoegaze
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Featuring members of The Ex-Optimists, great unwashed luminaries, and Jay Satellite. An album that could very well be some long-lost 1980’s 4AD release that no import section has ever seen, replete with gauzy female vocals, dystopic electronica and rock guitars.
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Genre: 8-bit, Chiptunes, disco, Electronica, soundtracks, videogame music
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Somewhere a modern dance troupe is choreographing a ballet for Activision’s Pitfall Atari cartridge. This is their soundtrack. 14 tracks of Converse-shuffling honky boogie.
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Genre: 8-bit, Chiptunes, Electronica, soundtracks
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Army of 2600 is the sound of a broken game cartridge in protest, spitting out white noise, menacing beats and ominous atmosphere while the CGI scions of darkness march across your television screen. This is how you rewrite the soundtrack for The Terminator as realized for the Atari 2600.
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Genre: Punk Rock
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The Hangouts blast this four-song EP full of pre-hardcore SoCal punk rock with power pop hooks and sass in about the time it takes for a really good piss.
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Genre: art rock, avant garde, Noise, Punk Rock
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Deer bone drum sticks, lots of blood, homemade oscillators, a china cymbal with more cracks than a sidewalk and a strobe light floor tom. Houston’s The Dee Use bridge the gap between avant garde performance art and no-wave with a punk rock attitude.
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Genre: Berlin School, Electro-Prog, Electronica, soundtracks
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Nearly five hours of electro-prog sword and sorcery packaged together at an unheard-of low price. This limited edition 4CD boxed set compiles great unwashed luminaries’ first three long out-of-print albums, adding a bonus disc of unreleased and rare recordings and a foldout poster.
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Genre: Alt-Country, Folk, Red Dirt Country
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The second pressing of Poor Man’s Queen, featuring two new songs and alternate artwork! The cracker jack SHTI house band lends a rough-hewn Americana noir vibe to Magic Girl’s plaintive red clay sermons, delivered with a voice both tough as the oil field and supple as willow.
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Genre: grunge, Indie Rock, noise rock
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Before The Mast explodes pipe bombs of early ’90s noise rock, with shards of melody and dissonance that gets under your skin like shrapnel, gangrenous and seductive. Disciples of Yow and Albini will declare this their new bible.
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Genre: grunge, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Punk Rock
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Machine Meets Land hits you off with a dark ride into Lynch-ian death garage with chiming post-punk guitars and hardcore shout-along vocals. sure to be a hit at your lunch table.
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Genre: 8-bit, Berlin School, Chiptunes, Electronica, electropop, soundtracks, Video Game Music
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Atarimatt and great unwashed luminaries remind Atarimatt’s classic “Commuter” and add two more tracks apiece of arcade punk and dope-smoking electro-prog.
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Genre: 8-bit, Chiptunes, Punk Rock, Video Game Music
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Atarimatt’s first joint, introducing the world to how someone makes punk rock on two Atari 2600′s.
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