If elegant slowcore music is your thing, you'll enjoy this disc.

With a sound that combines the influences of Shellac, Sicbay, and The Jesus Lizard, Bear Claw's second LP Slow Speed: Deep Owls is a throwback that era.

Gerald Collier was the lead singer of the Seattle-based Best Kissers in the World in the early '90s.

Creatively titled "Zdarlight" is a beat-heavy track sure to get your head bumping, with frequent beat changes and a punchy guitar adding to the synth frenzy.

Hagardorn took his time, recording over a six-year span only when he knew he had a great song.

The two Chicago natives met on Craigslist and seek to "push the pop envelope" by including "improvisational techniques into a song structure,"

Mann's strength lies in his ability to add subtle flourishes to the tired singer/songwriter formula, but with his experimentation, he is prone to make a few mistakes.

With songs that dispense raw emotion, Whalen proves that she is a seasoned performer with the chops to hold her own.

Resembling Static Prevails-era Jimmy Eat World and early day Sparta, Signal to Noise tunes are poppy with catchy hooks and choruses akimbo.

You will hard-pressed to find a meat-and-potatoes post-punk disc that is as solidly enjoyable as this.

From simple, pure composition to stripped-down, easy lyrics, Balls is a country-roots album for purists.

Wheedon offers up five songs that paint a picture of a life fully lived—heartache, joy and all.