Who: Memory Tapes Location: New Jersey elbo.ws Ranking: #37 Thoughts: The Jersey lo-fi, pop scene is really becoming a bit convoluted lately with off-shoots, side projects and weird combinations of ba...

Who: Speech Debelle Location: London, UK elbo.ws Ranking: #17 Thoughts: When the Mercury Prize announce that its 2009 winner for best album was Speech Debelle's Speech Therapy, I think a good port...

Who: Washed Out Location: Columbia, SC elbo.ws Ranking: #21 Thoughts: When you characterize your music as "no-fi", as Washed Out does on his MySpace page, there should come with that an inhe...

Who: Ellie Goulding Location: London, England elbo.ws Ranking: #41 Thoughts: For a few minutes I'm going to have to forget that Ellie Goulding is absolutely gorgeous and just focus on her music wi...

Who: Warpaint Location: Los Angeles, CA elbo.ws Ranking: #48 Thoughts: One of the major flaws of the CMJ Music Marathon is the inability to see everything you want to see. Of course with 1,300 bands p...

(Photo by Kyle Dean Reinford via Stereogum) Who: Sleigh Bells Location: Brooklyn, NY elbo.ws Ranking: #39 Thoughts: 'Tis almost the season for holiday merriment, but back in October Sleigh Bells w...