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CAUSTIC
Caustic is like a gnat that won't stop buzzing in your ear, especially if that gnat is a big loud bald dude that relentlessly pounds distorted dance beats into your skull. Started in 2002 by Madison, WI's Matt Fanale, Caustic has built a surprisingly impressive grassroots fanbase with his combination of unpredictable, anarchic live shows (generally accompanied by The Gothsicles on live duties) and DIY fuck-all attitude.

THE DARK CLAN
Like Jimmy Eat World trying to stop the Dragonforce guys from stealing The Postal Service's lunch money, The Dark Clan is a heartbreakingly sincere, over-the-top, genre-bending good time. The music of The Dark Clan is filled with big pop hooks, big fat beats, big vocal harmonies, big guitar solos, and big serious fun.

NULL DEVICE
Madison, WI -based electronic band Null Device is releasing their fourth full-length album, Suspending Belief, June 22nd on Nilaihah Records, to coincide with their first US tour. Building on their previous works, the new album continues to fuse contemporary club music styles with traditional elements from the Middle East and India. Suspending Belief combines the most inspired bits of Bollywood filmi, Panjabi bhangra, Arabic classical poetry, trance, house, dubstep, and breakbeat with strong vocals and compelling pop hooks. From 8th-century sufi poetry soaring over euphoric trance, to glitch-hop tweaking bollywood riffs, to bhangra dhols anchoring grungy electro-pop, the sounds of Suspending Belief occupy a unique place in independent electronic music.

AM PSYCH
am.psych is a coldwave revival, offset by synth-rich ebm influences. Since February of 2003, they've played at venues across the mid-west, dedicating heavy support to fellow local Milwaukee artists and friends such as Lockjaw, Incekt and Reticent Crush. They have also logged some measure of time in more lucrative one-off bookings, such as in support of Skinny Puppy at Milwaukee's Rave/Eagle's Ballroom in November of 2004, Acumen Nation in September of 2005, Chemlab's "Detonation Days" tour in November of 2007, and in support of Invisible Records' Project .44 alongside Chicago staples, JILT.