Oakland, CA’s “Marbled Eye makes a fundamental kind of post-punk, largely rhythmic and fuzzed over with distortion. They’re often compared to historic and contemporary post-punkers like the Fall Wire, and Protomartyr, but there’s one key difference. Those are all blackly humorous bands. Marbled Eye is mostly not. There’s not much sense of play in these bruising, battering tracks. They’re dour like FACS but messier; dank as Spray Paint but without the archness. And yet, there’s an arc of development here, as Marbled Eye lifts off subtly from its droning, thumping foundation into flares of noise or flights of melody.” -bandcamp

Neu Blume is a twang-tinged indie folk group from Detroit led by Mo Neuharth and Colson Miller. Sharing an air-tight musical bond, the duo push artful songwriting to the forefront of a lively, raw soundscape. Sweet yet dissonant, moody and nostalgic, their melody-driven songs are layered with warm textures, classic harmonies, and introspective lyricism.

Ingo Swann is either a local gothic rock band, or a former Operating-Thetan level scientologist known for his psychic remote viewing experiments with the CIA and the highly classified Project Stargate. Probably the former, but who knows?