Har Mar Superstar - D.U.I.

A couple of songs from the American indie/R'n'B singer Sean Tillman. I picked it up in my favourite shop in London for 50p, some time after I had seen the artist supporting Placebo.

Troubled Hubble (1999-2005)

My intelligent friend pointed these guys out to me a few years ago with an assortment of MP3s he'd come across. I eventually picked up a few CDs, but the ones I started with have always been my favourites.

Dulcinea Duct Tape - Troubled Hubble
Yes Have Some, Yes Have Some EP (2003)

Ear Nose Throat - Troubled Hubble
Making Beds in a Burning House (2005)

Airplanes - Troubled Hubble
Penturbia (2002)

Where Racoons Don't Live - Troubled Hubble
A Happy Day Went Off The Cliff EP (2004)

The band are defunct now, but you can still get most of their CDs easily. Check out their website for them, and links to what the members are involved in nowadays.

Nice Strong Arm - Reality Bath

I tripped over a couple of tracks from this album on Vinyl Mine and liked it a lot, so I tracked down my own copy.

A punk/indie band from Dallas, I really only know what I can find on the internet, and in my infinitely small grasp of this era in music I can't really compare them in context. Out of context then? They're a lot like Refused in places, a later hardcore punk band I happen to love. I would also compare some songs to guitar-heavy indie like Interpol, maybe Joy Division in places (not for the better). Reality Bath was the band's debut, released on Homestead Records circa 1987. What I have found with Nice Strong Arm is a record of honest late-80s indie rock, and purchase on that steep ledge of music-that-happened-before-I-was-born.