Bald Eagle Refugees are a Knoxville, TN based tropical-pop mess. The band has been vigorously touring all over the east coast and midwest for the past few years sharing the stage with such acts as The Paper Chase, Icy Demons, Pretty and Nice, The Robot Ate Me, Royal Bangs, The Pillows (Japan), and The Mae-Shi.

Beginning life as Jason NeSmith’s cassette four-track project with an ever-changing name, Casper & The Cookies grew into a live band in 1998. Kay Stanton is the only one left from these early line-ups. Kay and Jason recorded 2004’s Oh! and 2006’s The Optimist’s Club with a revolving cast of musicians. The Cookies took a back seat in 2004 when NeSmith joined of Montreal, but he left in early 2005 to work on The Optimist’s Club. Jim Hix and Joe Rowe (the Glands) were recruited in time for the Cookies to play upwards of 120 shows in 2006-7, including two tours opening for the Apples in Stereo. Joe left in early 2009 after the Cookies’ second tour of Japan.

The Delicious sing of social and dietary anxiety. The Delicious spin yarns of dramatic resurrection: wooing and courting soul-affirmation, the threat of vacuous failure and its resulting commodification heel-nipping the voyage. The Delicious are sarcastic doomsday soothsayers - and their cachet has been illimitably enhanced by the lead-singer's Civil War era/Salvador Dali style mustache.

Dr. Manhattan is an Indie/Punk band with an amazing, energetic party of a live show. They released their debut s/t full-length on Vagrant Records in 2008, have endured two entire Warped Tours and have just released their second full-length on August 18, 2009 called "Jam Dreams" on Cassette Deck Media.

Elsinore is a Midwestern band at the end of a transition. After spending 3 years playing Americana/Folk music with an acoustic guitar, hand drums, and an easy-listening state of mind, the band decided to turn up knobs and land comfortably in the indie/art rock genre. Heavy riffs, foot-tapping choruses, tasteful pop hooks and joyful 4 part harmonies fill in the holes from their Americana deconstruction.

Like the Nuggets compilations of obscure garage rock bands from the ’60s and ’70s, Everything, Now! explores different territory on each track from their new record, managing to sound like — to use some less obscure bands as points of comparison — The Kinks, ? and the Mysterians, Procul Harum, The Who and The Bonzo Dog Band before they’re through. The thing about those collections is that rabid collectors sifted through a lot of dross to find songs with decent hooks and an ineffable (and irreproducible) energy. That E, N! can construct this kind of pastiche all by themselves and leave very few throwaways is all the more impressive.

Dead Zone Boys is an infectious soundtrack to humanity's last stand against decay and the dead. One hand with mic and the other a shotgun, Jookabox pushes through as troubador and protagonist to free the decayed city and its few outposed survivors of the fear of death. He is our protector, no need to lose hope.

Lord of the Yum-Yum is about giving some maximum happy feelings...feelings of innocence and yesteryear, in a happier time when live entertainers were still part of the world. The 'Lord' is about re-living your childhood through song and dance. Ridiculous in 2007!, Lord of the Yum-Yum sings grind/scat vocal versions of familiar classical pieces, remixes them up with beat-boxing and live electronic loop making techniques, all powered by a wireless mic and old school ruffle tuxedos...it IS the new rock alternative!

Lucky Pineapple is comprised of an unlikely combination of classically trained musicians, veterans of the Louisville punk scene, theatre performers, improvisational noise artists and even a first time performer. Their lives shows have included light shows, video projection collaborations, matching tuxedos, inflatable palm trees, a go-go dancer and a semi-regular group of back-up singers.

Marmoset is an indie rock band based in Indianapolis, Indiana, that was formed on Jan. 1, 1995. The band's members are Jorma Whittaker (bass and vocals), Dave Jablonski (guitar and vocals), and Jason Cavan (drums). Marmoset lost a frequent contributor and once full-time band member when LonPaul Ellrich died in 2008. The vinyl repressing of Record in Red has been dedicated to his memory.

Prizzy Prizzy Please sound like what Fugazi would have sounded like if Ian McKaye were backed by members of Prince’s Revolution and Parliament on drugs — a relentlessly punky attack that defies any real characterization. Much like 1970s avant-punk/fusion/funk legends Pere Ubu, Prizzy Prizzy Please is self-aware and self-consciously weird, sometimes obtuse, but always entertaining.

We Landed on the Moon! sounds like Blondie if Blondie hadn’t spent the last half of their career covering island kitsch or trying to rap. The new 11 song LP combines sizzling guitars and thumping heartbeat rhythms balanced by Eccles’ expressive vocals and melded together with the subtle touches of handclaps, harmonies and fender rhodes piano. Chock full of WLotM!’s trademark catchy hooks and the band’s flair for the dramatic, the result is a record full of verve and life that will rattle in your headphones like a big dancey washing machine.