Recording information: Paul McQuillan's House (2002); The Living Room, Atlanta, GA (2002).
Illustrator: Jordan Gum.
Photographers: Ashley Addams; Matt McGee .
Not content to carry a majority of the songwriting workload with his...

Personnel: Greta Morgan (vocals, keyboards); Adam Coldhouse (drums).
Audio Mixer: Sean O'Keefe.
Photographer: Eddie O'Keefe.

Motel Motel: Hawaiian Thor (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, bass instrument, drums); Mickey Theis (vocals, guitar, piano, organ); Eric Engel (vocals, guitar); Jeremy Duvall (vocals, drums, percussion).
Personnel: Eric Engel (vocals, guitar); Blanca...

Motel: Billy Méndez (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Rodrigo Dávila (vocals, acoustic guitar); Rubén Puente (bass guitar); Pepe Damián (drums).

Birchville Cat Motel: Campbell Kneale.
SEVENTH RUINED HEX, Birchville Cat Motel's seventh record (and third of 2007, amazingly) is the blown-mind superstar's finest hour. Imagine My Bloody Valentine's layered noisescapes, minus the samplers and...

The Hollywood Motel: Lee "Scratch" Perry, Gary Eck.
Personnel: Dan Barnett (trombone).
Recording information: Sound Reservoir, Sydney, Australia.
Arrangers: Noel Burgess; Colin Berwick.

Finn's Motel: Joe Thebeau.
Personnel: Joe Thebeau (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Patrick Hawley (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixers: Joe Thebeau; Adam Schmitt.
The concept album might seem an artifact best left fossilized in...

Birchville Cat Motel is New Zealand's Campbell Kneale, an abstract impressionist working in sound rather than paint. For his palette, he employs a riot of processed and condensed guitar, recorder, vocal, and percussive noises. Like a Jackson Pollock...