The American Plague - Heart Attack

Babe - John… Cougar… Mellencamp. Featuring a healthy dose of rock and roll goodness. Heavy and sharp.
Wade - Big AC/DC sound wasted on BTO singer. Decent hard rock… Somewhat milder Motorhead.
Roger - Huge rock. Good lyrics. This is what happens when Nashville happens to good rock.
Johnny - You've got another thing coming… A rockabilly guitar solo, to be sure.

Aram Danesh And The Super Human Crew - The Grind

Babe - Highly musical and groove-oriented hip hop. If you need urban stuff, dig this. Tight.
Wade - Well-articulated rap. A little too well articulated. Inventive arrangements. Lots of soul, light on flow.
Roger - Knowledge-dropping hip hop. A little too produced but excellent musicianship. You have to supply your own cussing.
Johnny - Sesame Street hip hop. Lots of learning to be had, great concepts, nice vibe.

Chris Barron - Pancho And The Kid

Babe - Squeeze and Glen Phillips getting all soulful and solid pop. Brilliant songs, awesome production.
Wade - Nice Crowded House sound, but lay off the Counting Crows. Quite enjoyable.
Roger - See Topher Mohr.
Johnny - The Spin Doctors are solely responsible for the downfall of New York.

Bellafea - Cavalcade

Babe - Some angsty early-Pixies type rock… disjointed and beautiful. This girl has great pipes. Slightly mathy.
Wade - Crazed discordant art-punk. Manic and neurotic. Yay!
Roger - Pretty ripping stuff, she's got good pipes. Very driven stuff.
Johnny - I don't really understand it all, but I like it for sure.

Bella Koshka - Slow Dancing On The Ocean Floor

Babe - Female-led atmospheric rock music… think bastard child of Evanescence and Human Drama.
Wade - Like Black Tape, but better. Less pretentious and prettier. And spooky.
Roger - Bjork, Evanescence and The Orb.
Johnny - About as close as you can get to 4AD now that 4AD is no more… almost.

The Boy Bathing - A Fire To Make Preparations

Babe - Beautiful music, indie pop at its absolute finest. Decemberists meet someone who can't sing as good.
Wade - Unsettling, like a pedophile singing lullabies. Truly disturbing folk-pop. Creepy in a creepy way.
Roger - Very quiet. This will not bring the troops home. Honestly? Leaving NY was the best thing I've ever done. There was a time long ago when New York was inhabited by New Yorkers, but they abandoned it and in their place came a bunch of nancy-boys in cheap tees and designer jeans making a scene with no vibrancy at all. This music is great if you have a trust fund and shop at Urban Outfitters.
Johnny - This is exactly what would happen if Yum Yum had a bad singer… great songs, though.

Bravo Johnson - The Crooked And The Straight

Babe - Tom Petty. Seriously. Better than that crappy Mudcrutch record. Gritty guitars and excellent drumming, cool.
Wade - Pictures of chubby nudes are nice. Mild hippy music is dull. I'm guessing Portugal.
Roger - This is a 2 CD set. No Shit. Either this band is secretly huge, or very wealthy.
Johnny - Like Crazy Horse backing Tom Petty.

Bronze Radio Return - Bronze Radio Return

Babe - Jason Mraz style funk-pop… nice grooves, a bit of soul. Popular with the ladies?
Wade - Jamiroquai, and also Jamiroquai. British hippies think they are funky. Sheeeeeet.
Roger - Jinka jinka jinka smooth a doob a jinka jinka.
Johnny - Bumpa bumpa a jinka dinka jinka booom booom hoo-hooo wicka wacka.

Candygram For Mongo - Candygram For Mongo

Babe - Cheap Trick style rock with some new punk attitude… dumb songs that rock.
Wade - Better and worse than "Red Pill." "Big Mary" is hilarious. Great basslines.
Roger - Nice fun blend of ELO chord progressions w/ a touch of NOFX & The Vapors.
Johnny - All the overlooked fun parts of the '70s.

Coin Opera - What Went Wrong With The Right?

Babe - Lo-fi folky Jesus and Mary Chain style songs… suspiciously lacking in melody, really.
Wade - Better musically than Boy Bathing, but indeterminate boy and girl singing androgyny takes its toll.
Roger - Needs a drummer, a singer, 70 more decibels and fleeting bouts of happiness.
Johnny - Once this band gets rolling the guitars are sweet… til then it's sleepyville nightmare town.

Flobots - Fight With Tools

Babe - Like dude from Cake… with a bit more hiphop stylee. Lots of horns, beats, raps.
Wade - Some of Flobot's best, but enough with the strings already. Good jams.
Roger - Hooray Colorado!
Johnny - Smooth rapping, light scratching, urban wonderland grooves, intelligent references, nice use of band instruments.

Ghost Buffalo - The Magician

Babe - An edgier & louder version of Area… weird female vocals, wall-of-sound guitars, crisp drumming. Nice!
Wade - Great vocalist with a lot of tricks. Hard-rocking, fiery pro band. Strange fit though.
Roger - Solid, deep emo rock with touches of alt. country.
Johnny - Slightly Americana-esque Hum fronted by typical Denver girl singer… great band, excuse the vocals.

Richard Julian - Sunday Morning In Saturday's Shoes

Babe - Occasionally Lyle Lovett's large band-ish swing, but other times not… nice songs about NYC.
Wade - Lyle Lovett. Slow, beautiful blues. Silly, boppy vaudeville. Clever finger-picking.
Roger - This sounds like Zima.
Johnny - I hate New York City.

Lords Of The North - Lords Of The North

Babe - Music for dudes that love Cheetos, Dungeon & Dragons, fire, and Sabbath.
Wade - Salvadores Del Norte. Music for Orc hunting on the permafrost with newbiw Barbarian caster.
Roger - Stoner rock, sword & priestess, animal pelts & wizardry.
Johnny - Heavy metal motherfucker! When dude isn't singing this band rocks, Ren.

Topher Mohr - True Love On The TV Set

Babe - Dude sounds like Elvis Costello… with less young twang and more cool smooth pop riffs.
Wade - Lounge singer backed by hard-hitting alt-rock. But what's it all about, Alfie?
Roger - Pleasant pop, Wallflower-y Crow-Counting… good voice.
Johnny - Lots of feeling, lots of emotion, lots of piano and acoustic guitar.

Ness - You Can't Afford To Feel

Babe - Musically based in The Who, Ride, and burlesque. Great tones… bad singer. Nice rhythms & rhyme.
Wade - Instead of pushing your range could you transpose down a half or whole note? Thanks.
Roger - Strong ability, good build-up, Urge Overkill. We need more of this.
Johnny - Some amazing guitar stuff going on, just a really toneful record… really classic sounding rock.

Scotland Barr & The Slow Drags - All The Great Aviators Agree

Babe - A poor man's Dave Alvin… Americana done rather well, but missing an edge. Goofy rhymes.
Wade - Arena alt-country. Over produced, but great songs. Captain Beefheart.
Roger - Dave;s alt. country, right on cue.
Johnny - Musically ambitious alt.country stuff with nice steel guitar and rumbly drums.

Team Rockit - Rockit Science

Babe - Dude's don't rock it nearly as hard as their name implies… stupid lyrics. Heavy drumming.
Wade - Southern rock sounds good all speeded up. Kings Of Leon. Ballsy and bassy. And bassy.
Roger - Tight rock'n'roll, all of the right elements, needs better hooks.
Johnny - Best Pokemon rock band since Peek At You. Like Mike Peters covering Grandmaster Flash.