"Pure Morning"

"Portions Of Foxes"

"Wine Red"

*the band consists of bob morris on vocals and guitar, mike leblanc on bass and vocals, darren wilson on drums and vocals and greta salpeter on vocals and piano. the hush sound was started when greta (while in seventh grade) met bob (a sophomore in high school). the pair were deemed an "odd" match due to the fact that bob liked playing rock musi on his guitar while greta was a classical pianist. whatever the case, chicago's own is making it work.

"I'm Not Sorry"

*the pigeon detectives are made from lead singer matt bowman, guitarist oliver main, guitarist ryan wilson, bassist david best and drummer jimmi naylor. last.fm and thesixtyone

"Afraid"

*this is sarah fimm

"Long Goodbyes"

we don't play pop music. we don't write music for art's sake. we don't represent any movements. we're not hip. we're not cutting edge. we don't dress to be cool. we do manage ourselves. we write our own songs. we do our own recordings. we shoot our own videos. we design our own covers. we made our own website. we're not generally negative people, oh yes, and we're not lefthanded.

we like our name because it doesn't say anything about who we are or what we do, we like to give our music a chance to do that. that said, we would liken ourselves (if we have to) to a darker rilo kiley, a rockier death cab for cutie, a girlier we are scientists, a wordier jimmy eat world. other people have likened us to mazzy starr, the cardigans, the postal service, 10,000 maniacs, jj72 - so if you shake all that up you might get some kind of idea.

if you're enjoying our songs, have a look at our website - www.iamnotlefthanded.com -where you can watch the videos we made, download some tracks for free, buy our music and sign-up to our quirky mailing list among other things.

-thesixtyone.com

"Wondergirl Meets Wonderboy"

henry homesweet is a music project. a music project like i've never heard. homesweet works with many different styles of music mastery while experimenting with many types of retro video game systems to create that mind grabbing, edgy sound.

he has used the nintendo gameboy primarily, but most recently has been "composing" with the nes and commodore64. according to him, this type of music is known as chiptune.

-taken from and revised from thesixtyone.com

"the sounds from my childhood consoles make me shiver with nostalgia! i'm a geek at heart!" -henry homesweet

"Turpentine"

vandaveer is the alt-folk song-singing/record making/globetrotting project penned and put forth by dc-by-way-of-kentucky tunesmith mark charles heidinger.

the son of a preacher, whose father was a gambler, whose father was both a judge and u.s. congressman, mark charles one day found himself in possession of a golden pocket watch owned, wound, and regularly counseled by each in this paternal line. on the backside of said watch was a family name engraved and passed down for a century or more. The name was vandaveer.

vandaveer’s debut album, grace & speed, swiftly entered this great big dusty world in the spring of 2007. the press responded heartily, with the washington post saying vandaveer “revives the earnestness of the pre-psychedelic 60’s,” and xm cafe calling him “this generation’s nick drake.”

touring continually on both sides of the atlantic ever since, vandaveer has played 250+ shows, sharing stages with a host of humbling artists including bon iver, vetiver, alela diane, alejandro escovedo, vashti bunyan, bill callahan, fleet foxes, and the like.

-from thesixtyone.com

"The Wizard's Ascension"

"Northeastern"

*photo by randy cremean

"For Real"

"No One's Gonna Love You"

Achieving musical transcendence is a tricky feat, almost definitively. If it happens at all, it happens naturally and perhaps nobody knows that better than Seattle, Washington base Band of Horses. Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell and guitarist Mat Brooke formed Band of Horses in 2004, after the dissolution of their nearly ten-year run with northwest melancholic darlings Carissa's Wierd. Carissa's Wierd trafficked in sadly beautiful orchestral pop, whose songs told unflinching stories of heartbreak and loss, leavened with defeatist humor.

And, Band of Horses rises from the ashes of that well-loved band.

After playing music with each other for more than a decade, Bridwell and Brooke picked up together again when Bridwell began fleshing out his compositions post-Carissas. "It was really just a natural thing we started doing," explained Bridwell.

Buoyed by Bridwells warm, reverb-heavy vocals (which strangely channel a dichotomous blend of Wayne Coyne, Brian Wilson and Doug Martsch) Band of Horses' woodsy, dreamy songs ooze with amorphous tension, longing and hope. At times raggedly epic (The Great Salt Lake) and delicately pensive (St. Augustine, Monsters), Everything All the Time is an album painted gorgeously in fragile highs and lows.

"My Nails"

"Simple Man"

"Fortunate Family Tree"