Dot Dot Dot Store

Description: “Dot Dot Dot is a rock/power-pop band from Chicago. It is comprised of Adam Blair, Stephan and Michael (who has an obsession with rubber ducks) of a band called Fabulous Janes and Rose and Little Lisa from a band called Catfight. Adam and Michael are also two-fifths of the band Adam and the Go Comets. Most recently they were featured on FOX’s The Next Great American Band and they have released a self-titled album available on iTunes.

Dot Dot Dot was voted off The Next Great American Band on December 7, 2007.”

Album: Unlimited Nights And Weekends

singles $0.99 each / album $8.99 (mp3 downloads)

Description: “The melting pot that is NYC’s Cholo would seem to have all the tools needed to create an expansive sound, but instead, they have decided to stick to the basics on their sophomore release, Unlimited Nights and Weekends. Opener, “The Breaks,” misguides the listener as Fleipe F’s multi-tracked sax leans towards a free-form jazz freak-out. As it settles into a more straight-forward pop song, forgiveness looms as Rosa B’s vocals teeter on the edginess of an Exile to Guyville’s Liz Phair, while the band falls into their rhythm – a well-practiced Pavement simplicity, mixed with the innocence of 69 Love Songs-era Magnetic Fields. It’s a start but a complete album of such agi-twee becomes tiresome and monotonous.

“Blue” again highlights Rosa’s gleeful, matter-of-fact delivery but suddenly takes a wild turn as she warns, “…and the bitch goes down.” The adolescence of the project cracks a bit with the weight of those words, but the cutesiness of the rest of the album holds it up so as to not tarnish the image they are projecting. Closing epic, “Low Life [I-III],” promises something of note but delivers only a longer version of what has already been heard.

Think of pop music as a cube, six-sided and shiny. Cholo has presented to us their unique take on this cube, with one corner shaved. In the end, what we’re left with is a die that doesn’t roll.
Luc Rodgers – June 11, 2008“

Album: Unlimited Nights and Weekends
Silk Screen CD
$7.00 S&H Included

Description: “We have a limited collection of silkscreen CDs available only through DIY troubadours 75 or Less Records. They’re a great crew from Rhode Island who have been very good to us. Asides from putting out records they’ll let you know what they think of other current records. Check out the music review portions of their site. There are only 50 of these splendidly handcrafted compact discs.

Get one before they run out!”

Album: Cholo

singles $0.99 each / album $8.91 (mp3 downloads)

Description: “Avant Indie Rock with jangly guitars, horn arrangements, two strong male and female vocals and head swaying melodies.

The group recorded it’s self-titled debut LP “cholo” in Brooklyn, New York in late 2004 and self released it September 2005. This first recording offers an early look at a band whose shoes are starting to scuff and on the cusp of defining their sound for recordings to come.

The term cholo is used in the Peruvian context with a double meaning that is both derogatory, as in an indigenous Indian living in urban surroundings (i.e. redneck, bumpkin), as well as a half-joking term of endearment. But in essence, it is a term for the underdog, representing the negative classifications used to define people by class, race, color and/or religion.

For fans of : The Pixies, Morphine, X, Pavement, ESG, Lou Reed.”

Album: Sikmind

CD price: $18.99

singles $0.99 each / album $8.99 (mp3 downloads)

Description: “A “MUST HAVE” for all Hip Hop fans. Intense delivery, witty lyrics, banging beats, and R&B charged hooks GUARANTEE you’ll enjoy every track on the album.
Longtime affiliates, RoMZ and SKoBA ToKA, hailing from the tropical paradise Guam, re-united stateside to form their Independent Record Label “SIKMIND MUZIK Inc.”

RoMZ currently a service member in the army stationed at Fort Knox, KY, crossed paths with another talented addition to the group, D. Carter from Fairfax, VA (also a service member in the army). Although distance was thought to be an issue for the group, with 2 members RoMZ and D. Carter in KY, and SKoBA ToKA in Federal Way Washington, The trio still manages to create timeless classics.

Their intent as a group is to bring Golden Era Hip Hop back to the real heads and fans with a modern day twist. With catchy, witty lyrics and touch of RNB…..SIKMIND is sure to appeal to all the masses!”

Album: Good Fortunes

singles $0.99 each / album $8.99 (mp3 downloads)

or buy the cd @ CD Baby for $12.97

Description: “The root of our sound is reggae. Infused with other genre’s. Dub beats, instrumentals and whimsical lyrics that keep the groove going.

56 HOPE is not a band. It is a vibe…bigger than the four of us. It is a collaboration of ideas –musical and others. It is the manifestation of a connection of energy in the form of a melody, harmony and instrumentation. It is the effect, the result and the fruits we reap when we perform a labor of love, and our greatest compensation is the transference of this synergy to those who enjoy our music. It is a jewel that’s in our souls and it’s revealing itself.”