Silver Scooter was a band from Austin, TX. Their singer now plays under the moniker Super XX Man, which is a pretty dumb name.

Rocky Votolato is a singer/songwriter from Seattle and the former singer of Waxwing. My friend dated his sister for a while.

The New Year is the “new” band (now 10 years old) from the main guys of Bedhead, one of my all-time favorite bands. Lucky for us, they don’t try that much new stuff with this new band.

An instrumental NES cover band on a video game website; sounds like a match made in heaven, right? Right.

The Juliana Theory released three lousy albums and one halfway good album with some really excellent tracks. And really bad album art.

Shearwater is the former side project (now main project) of former Okkervil River member Jonathan Meiburg. Each of their albums are good for their own reasons.

Yo. Okkervil River is one of my favorite bands. Listen. Recognize.

Meredith Bragg is a singer/songwriter from Washington DC who has released two hushed, overlooked albums over the past few years.

Phantom Planet was a band that featured Jason Schwartzman on drums for a while, as well as having a song featured as The O.C.’s theme song. They went on “indefinite hiatus” last year.

Kings of Leon are a well-known Southern rock band whose second album is pretty damn good.