Jane Baxter Miller "harm among the willows"

(Durga Disk) Though Jane's delightful pinched nasal twang at first brings to mind a rockabilly Urkel, as the songs kick with their thoroughly pleasing traditional tunes (Dwight Yoakum-style) I am ready to be her Tarzan!

The Horribly Wrong "C'mon and Bleed With..."

(Eradicator/Shit In Can) Horribly right! This is not Trash Rock, this is the residue in the crevice under the garbage can lid rock! If Lo Fi was a limbo contest these dudes would go so low as to defy gravity and anatomy.

Poison Control Center "Sad Sour Future"

(Afternoon) This warmly, angular lush pop will make these dudes such big rock stars they're gonna have to change their name to Pus-say Control Center!

Prizzy Prizzy Please "Chroma Cannon"

(Joyful Noise) "New Shoes" is the best song of the century not only about footwear, but about any piece of clothing imaginable! Best shoe song of any century (excluding Sugar Pie DeSanto's "Slip In Mules").

The Sexy Accident "Mantoloking"

(www.sexyaccident.com) Wicked indie pop stories that are so good they made me have an accident...though only a select few would consider it sexy (unless you're reading this in  German, in which case, only half would find it sexy).

Andrew Watt and the Glory Glory "First Day of Summer Life"

(Nova Scotia) The most low key Wall of Sound homage ever recorded. Expect a dreary summer if this is what the first day sounds like.

Circulatory System "Signal Morning"

(Cloud Recordings) How many members of Elephant 6 bands does it take to actually make music an elephant would like? According to Jumbo over here, apparently more than the amount on this record (which is all of Olivia Tremor and a few Neutral Milkers thrown in). Circula-boring.

Without A Face "Worst Debut Album Ever"

(Redbird) I thought guys strumming acoustic guitars (solo!) were supposed to be painfully humorless and un-rocking, but this dude caused side pains (from laughing) and indeed r-o-c-k-s in the U.S.A. (or Texas, which is close enough) and this is perhaps one of the 2500 best debut albums ever.

The Probe "You Know You Want It"

(rank outsider) Probe-lematic.

Inspector 22 "Hey Man, I Understand"

(Odessa) Tricking Merzbow fans into getting your outsider pop folk weirdo tunes is a strategy I endorse. Opening with five minutes of brutal noise and then going into inly slightly abrasive, and primarily gentle, Daniel Johnston meets Danielson music is a formula that made me happy twice...in different brain parts!