Slowdance Records

Slowdancing isn't necessarily the first thing you'd think to do when listening to the music on Slowdance Records, but it could work. Slowdance leans towards the dark, the complex, the peculiar, and the beautiful. The San Diego label has released a handful of seven-inches, another handful of long-players, and a compilation CD.

The Black Heart Procession
San Diego's Black Heart Procession creates joyfully melancholy, haunting, broken-hearted music that defies categorization. The band's black-and-blue gloom is like a liquid thing, flowing into those hollow spaces that open up inside when those you're closest to leave you behind.

Che Fest 1999
2 - 2000
Three - 2000
Amore Del Tropico - 2002
The Spell - 2006


Get Hustle
Breaking News!: Satan has declared the Get Hustle winners of his contest to become hell's newest lounge act, replacing the Furies, who have held down the job for the last few millennia and will now be retiring to Florida. Expect the Get Hustle to provide the Underworld's spooks and shades with hours of fiendish entertainment as they sip their bloody cocktails.

Che Fest 1999


Gogogo Airheart
Gogogoairheart makes angular, skittering post-punk that mixes thick, dubby beats with wild guitar squall in an inventive and engaging take on improvisational art rock.

Che Fest 1999
Gogogo Airheart - 2000


Kind of Like Spitting
Delicate and deflated, pensive and poignant, Portland's Kind of Like Spitting makes you feel like you're reading someone else's diary in the dark.

Nothing Makes Sense Without It - 1999
You Secretly Want Me Dead - 2000
Old Moon In The Arms Of The New - 2000


Oma Yang
Sometimes delicate, sometimes a bit deranged, Oma Yang's exotic washes of keyboards, percussion, and guitar will always delight.

From the Heart of Jumbo Malaria
Bang Bang - 2002


The Roots of Orchis
Delightfully clear, bubbly, playful instrumental music from the secret post-rock laboratories of San Diego.

When the Mosquito Stung the Crocodile
The Red House in Winter
The Roots of Orchis EP - 2001
Some Things Plural - 2002


Small Brown Bike
Michigan quartet Small Brown Bike provides a prototypical example of a bunch of nice guys using hardcore punk as an outlet for some healthy rage. The results are solid and satisfying.

Slightest Indication of Change


Sterling Silver
Like many great bands, Sterling Silver never allows the complexity of their musical arrangements to outshine the bigger picture. Their songs are balanced masterpieces of musicianship, yearning, and pop hook.

Leave Before It's Black


Sunday's Best
Sensitive L.A. boys Sunday's Best are relative newcomers to the underground rock circuit, but their satisfying style of jangly, honest emotional indie rock leads one to believe they'll be around for awhile.

Slightest Indication of Change
Where You Are Now - 1999
Poised To Break - 2000
Holiday Matinee, Volume 2 - 2000
The Californian - 2002


The Velvet Teen
This Northern California indie pop trio raises goosebumps with blissfully melancholy compositions marked by floating falsetto harmonies.

Out of the Fierce Parade - 2002