Various, The Pariahs, The Mirror Images, Die Tanzenden Herzen, The I-Burnettes, Goldstein Circus, Second View, The Artpress, Candlestick, The Hyde Parkas, Die Blinzelbeeren, Angry Flowers, Starfish, She Splinters Mortar, The Butterfly Collectors, Die Wurzelsepps, The Paperback Writers, Ein Warmer Sommermorgen, The Dead Adair, Viola Crayfish, The Groovy Cellar

Athens, GA

Art-school kids in a college town inventing American indie rock in rented houses, one party at a time.

Gothenburg Indie Pop

Swedish rain-city pop played like a beach rave: sampled strings, pitched vocals, fake-sunset synths, no guitars allowed.