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Aerocalexico is a 2001 Calexico album that was only available on their 2001 tour or on their website. Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona-based roots rock band. The band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand.

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Since forming, Tenderloud has established themselves as one of the most exciting live act on the Copenhagen, Denmark rock scene and was touring Denmark as support for St. Thomas on his Hey Harmony-tour and Willard Grant Conspiracy on their 2004 European tour.

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Each Humanwine song is conceived as a mini movie soundtrack involving actors, color schemes, and a plot filled with antagonists, protagonists, conflicts, and resolutions that take place in the fictional "Vinland". Like any good surrealism, it's the realism that packs the artful punch, and the emotional content of Humanwine's songs is as real, powerful, and accessible as their very human composers. "Humanwine craft smart, spirited allegories for the modern age. Musical storytelling rife with character, conviction, wit, and guts" - Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls. Voted Best New Boston Act in the Boston Phoenix/WFNX Best Music Poll 2006.

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A puzzling and otherworldly mix of old time jazz, gospel, cabaret, Acadian, country, and European folk, the Denver Gentlemen was formed in 1988 by vocalist Jeffrey-Paul Norlander (eventually shortened to Jeffrey-Paul) and David Eugene Edwards in Denver, CO.

Teaming up for the second time, Isobel Campbell (formerly of Belle & Sebastian) and Mark Lanegan (formerly of The Screaming Trees and myriad legendary grunge off-shoots) forge an unlikely but perfectly balanced mutual reliance. Campbell's soft, almost jazzy voice is the worthy foil of Lanegan's booming baritone, the two of them equal parts soothing and menace. A similarly bluesy feel hangs over from 2006's 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas' record, but here it is more prominently felt in Lanegan's contribution to lead vocals. Again, Campbell takes care of production, writing and arrangement duties.

The Black Heart Procession (occasionally spelled The Blackheart Procession) is an indie rock band from San Diego, California. The band was formed in 1997 by Pall Jenkins (member of Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects and the short-lived Ugly Casanova) and Tobias Nathaniel (both members of the band Three Mile Pilot). The group is often augmented by the contributions of Mario Rubalcaba, Jason Crane, Joe Plummer, Dimitri Dziensuwski and Jimmy LaValle.

Helldorado is a Rock/Americana band from Norway. They draw inspiration from a wide variety of sources; including spaghetti western, film noir, alternative country/country rock, garage rock, surf rock, psychobilly/gothabilly, desert rock and tex-mex/mariachi. The band is virtually unknown in the US, but they have a strong fanbase in their home country and Turkey.

The band was formed in 1993 by husband-and-wife duo Brett Sparks (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Rennie Sparks (bass, banjo, vocals) and drummer Mike Werner, although the band would later revolve around Rennie, who writes virtually all of the lyrics, and Brett, who writes and plays most of the music, with guest musicians completing the band line-up for recordings and live work.

Hilarious Death Blues is a dark, smoldering journey into isolated Americana. It's country music that's silently aware of the impending apocalypse, and doesn't pine over lost love and and the daily grind of an oppressive job. It's a low and lonesome sound that holds a mirror to existential angst and rages against entropy, ennui, murk and miasma with flourishing, poetic beauty.