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They play poppy rock music with a little weirdness thrown in. We started in 2003 when Xander and Charlie decided to start a quirky pop band. Charlie recruited Renee, and Xander recruited Joe. We rehearsed for more than a year before playing our first show. In early 2005 we somehow managed to record our first EP, Seven Cliques, which we’re still in the process of mixing.

Website: The Evildoers
Download MP3: "Lovebird"
Buy CD: not yet available

Similar Artists: The Beatles, Blondie, The Cars, The Carpenters, Heart, It's Not Rocket Science, Pixies, Quasi, The Rentals, Sebadoh, Sincola, Spookey Ruben, Velvet Underground, Ween and Neil Young

Limbeck drives all these sun-drenched highways and byways, combining the dusty bramble of country-tinged rock with the best of propulsive power pop. But they’ve got another card up their sleeves. The band records in Kansas with that master of the Lawrence sound, Ed Rose. This not only puts them in touch with the Midwestern bittersweet pop grandeur of groups like Kill Creek, but lets them take a proverbial step back. Limbeck looks to their sunshine homeland from the outside, whether in the Black Lodge motel-turned-recording studio in Eudora, KS or while crossing the old U.S. of A. in a van. Like their music, these guys are always in motion, and the scenery moves by fast.

Website: Limbek
Download MP3: MP3
Buy CD: Let Me Come Home

Similar Artists: the old 97's, wilco, johnny cash, tom petty, ryan adams, bob dylan, the beach boys, big star.

After performing and collaborating on 1990's 'Bite the Dirt' with the Hootch Hounds, 1995's 'Pretty as a Picture with The Sojourners and 1999's 'Get Lucky' with The Proxies, Joel Arant, a long-time member of the Iowa City music scene, has released his first solo CD. In previous incarnations, Joel played clubs and bars throughout Iowa, averaging close to 100 nights a year. With 'To Whom it May Behoove', he has returned to writing, recording, and performing as a solo acoustic artist. In the new Americana tradition, these beautiful, melodic songs are rich with a lyrical vision that draws the listener in and tells a unique story. This recording evokes comparisons to Leonard Cohen, REM, Matthew Sweet, and even a more tender Robbie Fulks.

"Jokily undersold as 'a harrowing declaration of post-divorce independence in the great Glam Folk tradition', this is so much more. Imagine bruised vocals straining occasionally into falsetto. Imagine REM in their sleepier moments with lyrics torn from your own journal. Imagine rediscovering Matthew Ryan or Peter Bruntnell or Richard Buckner...'To Whom it May Behoove' is one of the most beautifully crafted, uncontrived, genuinely affecting collections of songs I have ever heard." - Robin Cracknell, Americana-UK

Website: Joel Arant
Download MP3: MP3
Buy CD: "To Whom It May Behoove"

Similar Artists: Leonard Cohen, Robbie Fulks, Matthew Sweet

Formed in March 2004, after a brief trip to Cyprus, Caladh is a mixture of 4 musical personalities who have come together to form an original blend of traditional Irish music not seen before on the Irish gig circuit.

County Carlow in the south east of Ireland is probably not really known as a hotbed for traditional Irish music, but. here's a band that puts it on the traditional and folk music map. Caladh is Gaelic and translates as "quay", and the band's music is no disastrous gale force but gently pushing against the shore.

Website: Caladh
Download MP3: "A Set of Reels"
Buy CD: "Live in Kyteler's Inn"

Similar Artists: Altan, Dervish, Clannad, Gerry O Conner

Founded in January 2005, Beau and Kimberly created a band that focuses on our faith in Jesus, harmony, sing-a-long choruses, and good times. We just finished our 10-song, debut album "The Monterey" with the help of Kyle Thompson (engineer, bass, percussion), Erik Berg (bass, percussion, vocals) and Marcel Leyva (vocals). Stay tuned for more from Fiffin Market...

Website: Fiffin Market
Download MP3: MP3
Buy CD: The Monterey

Similar Artists: Great Big Sea, MXPX, Coheed and Cambria, They Might Be Giants, Switchfoot, Flogging Molly, Troy's Bucket, The Glorified Machine, and any Irish drinking song