The Happiness Factor - Critical Mess EP

SBR-010 features:

1. Mr. Critic
2. Hurry Up
3. If You Could be the Star
4. I Liked You (for just about a minute)
5. I'd Rather Be Famous... And Suck

A fine EP by the band that features Salim Nourallah.

I Love Math - I Love Math

SBR-009 features:

1. A Drive By the House of the Girl That Broke My Heart
2. Just Like Everyone
3. The Damage Needs Repair
4. On the Green
5. $100
6. Shave Yer Head
7. At the Track
8. The Radio's a Drag
9. Bus Stop
10. Amsterdam
11. No Long Goodbyes


The debut from the Dallas "supergroup" composed of members of the Deathray Davies and the drummer for the Old 97's.
One review at Amazon.
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Sparrows - Rock And Roll Days

SBR-008 features:

1. Rockin'rocknroll
2. Visit Sunny Sodom
3. Digging Deeper Holes for the Future
4. Slip My Mind
5. You were Cryin'
6. (wound up tight, upside down, in a cage) Underwater with a timer
7. Placebo
8. Last night
9. Bring me the head of Jose Cuervo
10. Slave of Fashion
11. Freedom of the press
12. Things I need more of
13. Assassins
14. Rock and Roll Days

One of the true overlooked greats. Tracks three, nine, eleven and fourteen stand out.
Reviews and purchase at Amazon.
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Sorta - Laugh Out Loud

SBR-007 features:

1. crazy
2. paperweight eyes
3. look like a fool
4. tastes like...
5. outerspace
6. boobjob
7. chinese feet
8. long arm of the law
9. hospitals and sex
10. if i only had a gun
11. telescope

Sorta's MySpace page.
Info and review at CD Baby.

Todd Deatherage - Dream Upon a Fallen Star

1. Man of Me
2.Desperate
3.Too Late Now
4.Over You
5.Too Late Now
6.Over You
7.Lose Myself
8.My Payback
9.I Wouldn't Lie to You
10. Make It Thru
11.She's Leaving Me
12.>Walking in the Rain
13.Say the Things You Should

Purchase at CD Universe.
Reviews at Amazon.

Sunny Teriyaki Hamburger Breakfast

The best anthology ever to come out of Dallas, SBR-005 features:

1. I Hate The Sun - Deathray Davies
2. Need You Badly - Happiness Factor
3. Freedom Of the Press - Sparrows
4. Holy Cross - Old 97's
5. Mariposa - Prescott Curlywolf
6. Alcohol Drip - Sorta
7. Stopping Me Is You - Todd Deatherage and Rhett Miller
8. Increasing Speed - Calvert
9. Its All Gone Wrong - Pennywhistle Park
10. Americana - Chomsky
11. Cruise Control - Hydroponic Sound Lab
12. Misanthrope - Jetty Webb
13. Pent Up Brunette - Fury III
14. Only A Mountain - Pleasant Grove
15. Sweet Thing Pine Bluff - Ranchero Brothers
16. Make It Thru - Todd Deatherage Band
17. Little Drops Of Summer - Li'l Cap'n Travis

Highlights include Holy Cross, Alcohol Drip, Stopping Me Is You, Freedom of the Press, Only a Mountain, and Mariposa.

Reviews and purchase at CD Baby.

Pennywhistle Park - The Build Up For the Big Let Down

SBR-004 features:

1. It's All Gone Wrong
2. Oh, Bother
3. A Victim of Her Own Memory
4. Keep Me Down
5. "Man, it sounds just like pentatonic suicide," said Brandon Curtis
6. Dashboard
7. Not Yet Fully Realized
8. Never Knew
9. I Thought I Saw You Smile

Agreeable girl-pop.
Sadly unavailable.