+Life in a Blender: singer and songwriter Don Ralph's blackly comic landscapes. The group has released albums ranging from screaming punk to orchestrated chamber pop

+Psychic Lines: Phil Jacob’s intricate melodies and musings with a good dose of sax, carried by bassist Dann Baker and drummer Nancy Polstein. Like Leonard Cohen leading The Smiths into Sonic Youth’s underwater lair. “A delectable blend of sparkling freak folk” (The Vinyl District)

+Rose Thomas Bannister: (FKA Ember Schrag) is a singer and guitarist originally from western Nebraska. Hailed as "distinctive and free of affect or artifice" by the A.V. Club, her Great-Plains-gothic style "lands somewhere between Scout Niblett and Karen Dalton, writing about land and space and hope and despair" (Nightlight)