THE PILL

"Slickly new wave for the current crop of thirteen-year-old glue-sniffers. South San Francisco's BRENTWOODS meet early YAZOO, if you will. Lurid and colorful. Distant, muffled drumming, analog keyboards, nasal vocalizing, drug-addled aplomb."
-Maximum Rock N Roll

THE LITTLE DEATHS

"Aaron Detroit's half-spoken vocals go from theatrically strained rebuke to all-out raspy hollering when he gets mad: 'I know better / But I opened the door / Desperation sets in / Here comes your whore.' (Ouch.)"
-SFBG.com

FIGHTER D

A San-Francisco-based all girl indie-pop/rock trio that melded riffy guitar, melodic bass, tight drumming, with edgy harmonies and sweet choruses.

RUBY FALLS

Letha Rodman
Jennifer Rogers
Laura Rogers
Cynthia Nelson

REDHOT SECRET

aggressive, driving guitar collides with booming frantic drum beats and the equation is finished with arresting vocals that are both raw and startling, melodic and yearning.

NINJA DEATH SQUAD

"We are a 2 piece band from Vermont that creates loud and fast soundscapes of grinding berserk noise games accompanied by moments of introspective melody and screaming."
-NDS

www.ninjadeathsquad.net

THE HAGGARD

"We're pro-sex, and pro-women, and pro-bikers, and we have lyric sheets cause you can't really understand what we're saying."

www.mrlady.com/the-haggard

RUNNING RAGGED

Sarah Pierce : guitar, vocals
Gretchen Hildebran: bass, vocals
Clay Walsh: drums

home.earthlink.net/~runningragged

LIPKANDY

"I missed the wrong signs
Gave you my last dime
I get up you bring me down
I think I live for your frown"
-from "Car Outside" by Lipkandy

www.lipkandy.com

CROWNS ON 45

"The first band I was really, really into was Bananarama. I was obsessed with Bananarama from age 11 to age 14. I used to order import 12-inches from this import catalog. Before that I listened to whatever. I had this babysitter that came over and she used to play Devo and the Go-Gos and I liked it, but I also liked the Gloria Estefan cassette that my sister had."
-Chrisomatic, C45

www.crownson45.com

SQUAB

..."New Wave", "No Wave", "Dark Wave", "What Wave?", blah blah blah... You get the picture, right? O.K. this is after all a music review not a history lesson, but it seemed appopriate to preface with some historical tid-bits as I am about to crown Squab the "Now Wave" queens of today....
-Drowning In Culture

www.squabmusic.com

ADDICTED2FICTION

"i have an somewhat sick obsession with seltzer. i don't quite understand it, but it brings me much joy. i am even more ga ga over coffee. i crave it during most any time of the day. i've NEVER been a morning person and don't think i ever will understand those who are. who made up 9-5 anyway?"
-heather hellskiss, a2f

www.addicted2fiction.com

THE REVERSE

Moon shines down, tambourine round
little dipper dives into Orion
Pointing our way to the horizon

Tara Emelye Needham: guitars, vocals, keyboards
Tod Karasik: drums, percussion

www.thereverse.com

WINTERBRIEF

"My role is to be the lazy difficult one. The songs start with Julian writing one part and saying, 'I want this song to sound like this' and then I come up with a part that totally ruins his intentions. And in the end after lots of blood, sweat, and tears there’s a finished product that, miraculously, we’re both happy with. Not a technique that I’d recommend to anyone but hey, it works."
-Jan, Winterbrief

www.winterbrief.com