Everything that could possibly be said about this week’s amazing crop of HD JMZ pales in comparison to the shirt-shoes combo the guy from Free Energy is sporting in the photo to the left. Rock on, Bro! Glad to have you in this week’s edition of the Jamz.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Archeopteryx
Hard-to-spell experimental noise rock from California.

Bounce Camp
The race for Summer Jam of 2009 can now be considered over because “Good Beat” by this German metrotechual has just swooped in and swiped the crown!

Free Energy
Formed from the ashes of power-poppers Hockey Night, Free Energy just might be the sunniest-sounding act on DFA at the moment.

Homesic
Homesic brings the poppy emotronic blurps and bleeps.

Little Big Adventure
Melancholy Swedish electro-pop with plenty of twee sprinkles always sounds good on a warm day.

Man Like Me
Balancing classic British pop sensibilities with grime-inspired productions, this trio comes across like the Specials meets the Streets.

The Online Romance
This Portland chamber pop group has a nice and warm and harmony-rich sound that reminds us of the Heavy Blinkers or the Ladybug Transistor, and a contender for Summer Jam 2009 (Laid-back Division) with “Ladybug Don’t Smile”

Silk Flowers
Noisy, f’d up and strangely melodic, with a singer who make Ian Curtis sound like Geddy Lee, this NYC trio’s debut album is out July 7th.

The Test Patterns
The Test Patterns’ melodies and guitar solos blaze along at the speed of punk.

wEirdbeard
One-man dynamo wEirdbeard offers up his various melodies against lo and hi-fi acoustic and electronic beats and instruments.