Various, Sugar World, Japanese Heart Software, Teen Idle, Kosmonaut, The Memory Fades, L I P S, The Proctors, The Arctic Flow, Fawns Of Love, Day & Dream, The Pristines

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.