Boy In Static - First Love (buy at Amazon.com)

Being a news junkie, my daily routine includes listening to a wonderful radio program Marketplace from American Public Media. Apart from being just an indispensable source of business news of the day, the show features a great variety of hard-to-find and unbelievably good music in-between the stories/segments of the program. In any case, here’s just one of the recent discoveries. Boy In Static is a San Francisco indie/post rock duo of Alexander Chen and Kenji Ross. It’s hard to categorize this particular type of music, but the only thing I know for sure is that I’m really into it. Enjoy.

Gregor Samsa - Young And Old (buy at Amazon.com)

Gregor Samsa are a band from Richmond, VA, who take their influence from the early British shoegazer scene. (They are not to be confused with a 1990s Illinois group of the same name.) The ensemble was formed in 2000 by Champ Bennett and Nikki King, and named itself after the main character of the famous short story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. (While Bennett and King remained the constants, approximately 30 other musicians came and went over the years.) With a Southern twist that adds a bit of dark paranoia to their sound, Gregor Samsa made their recorded debut with an eponymous EP released by Iodine Recordings on June 11, 2002.

The American Dollar - Anything You Synthesize (buy at Amazon.com)

“Cinematic post-rock for people who don’t actually like post-rock. The Technicolour Sleep showcases the type of music that would be played during the quietly sentimental moments of movies…The band’s music fits so well in this moving and dramatic context because this post-rock duo has mastered the art of composing straightforward and emotional instrumental music. The American Dollar concentrates their efforts on developing beautiful music that reaches the depths of a variety of human emotions.” -Libby Wait, cdreviews.com