Nine Degrees of Musical Bacon

Here is a second installment of Your Montag’s new awesome way to do semi-random Friday music.

You’ve heard of ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’? Well this is like ‘Nine Degrees of Musical Bacon.’ Your Montag traverses the myspace music scene, following the trail of comments from one page to the next and picking out the song I like best from each artist. Links take you into the seedy world of the artist’s myspace music page.

This week, we examine the local music scene. (Local to Maine and New England.)

1. Crow in the Garden — Cursillistas — Ethereal? Haunting? Nah, fuck it: indescribable.
2. Poor Boy — Dominic and The Lucid — Pretty straight forward alternative rock, possibly a “jam band.”
3. Ampersand — Bass Box — Sounds like one of them artsy European movie soundtracks… with human beatbox. [Pictured.]
4. Tigris and Euphrates — Dylan — Crisp instrumental guitar work. The other selections have other stuff going on too, though.
5. Fragments (Check out Showdown as well.) — SayLove — Hip Hop. She’s got a killer show on WMPG (Double Degree Program) Mondays 3-5pm, too.
6. Against the War — Kristina Kentigian aka K Soul — Hip Hop/R&B… and I’m feelin’ the message of dissent.
7. The Bunnyman — Moshe — DJ/producer of progressive hip hop.
8. Decay — Hiss & Chambers — Alternative rock with an 80’s aesthetic. (Stuff I like.)
9. The Colour of Women — Cambiata — They combined “rock, indie, and hardcore/metal music,” and ended up sounding like they wouldn’t be out of place on a commercial modern rock station.

No legitimate reviews or ratings, but if you’re pressed for time, I suggest checking out #s 5, 1, 8 and 6.