Threevue.com's "You Should Know"

Silver Scooter was a band from Austin, TX. Their singer now plays under the moniker Super XX Man, which is a pretty dumb name.

Rocky Votolato is a singer/songwriter from Seattle and the former singer of Waxwing. My friend dated his sister for a while.

The New Year is the “new” band (now 10 years old) from the main guys of Bedhead, one of my all-time favorite bands. Lucky for us, they don’t try that much new stuff with this new band.

An instrumental NES cover band on a video game website; sounds like a match made in heaven, right? Right.

The Juliana Theory released three lousy albums and one halfway good album with some really excellent tracks. And really bad album art.

Shearwater is the former side project (now main project) of former Okkervil River member Jonathan Meiburg. Each of their albums are good for their own reasons.

Yo. Okkervil River is one of my favorite bands. Listen. Recognize.

Meredith Bragg is a singer/songwriter from Washington DC who has released two hushed, overlooked albums over the past few years.

Phantom Planet was a band that featured Jason Schwartzman on drums for a while, as well as having a song featured as The O.C.’s theme song. They went on “indefinite hiatus” last year.

Kings of Leon are a well-known Southern rock band whose second album is pretty damn good.

Owen is the solo project of Mike Kinsella, former member of American Football, Joan of Arc, The Owls, and Cap’n Jazz.

Twentieth episode! That calls for a celebration, so I had my good friend Fred provide the narrative to this week's feature. You may recognize Fred as the guy who says "Threevue.com" before every episode of the feature. I figured I would give him some time in the spotlight this week, since he takes time out of his busy day every week to say "Threevue.com" for us. And he's never late.John Vanderslice, former MK Ultra frontman, is an excellent singer/songwriter and one of the main inspirations for my own music.

Portland, Oregon band The Thermals get our You Should Know treatment this week. They’ve released nothing but good albums since their inception in 2002.

Looper is an electronic act headed by former Belle and Sebastian bassist Stuart David.

Dear bands,If you make an album about dinosaurs, I give it an episode of our You Should Know feature. See: Gatsby’s American Dream’s In the Land of Lost Monsters.

San Fransisco band For Stars are this week’s focus, who are hard as hell to find on the internet thanks to two other bands, Stars and Planes Mistaken For Stars.

Although you may have heard me drop the “e-bomb” in earlier features, today we showcase a genuine emo band - Mineral - who released two classic and highly-influential albums in the late nineties.

This week we’ll be talking about the Washington-based band The Microphones, headed by Phil Elvrum, which has had several other band names (Mount Eerie, Phil Elvrum, etc). Their most well-known album, The Glow Pt. 2, was reissued last year.

Lucky episode #13 features the Oakland-based indie pop/rock band Rogue Wave, who have released two great albums and one okay album.

Episode #12 features one of my all-time favorite bands, The American Analog Set. Listen, enjoy, buy.

Oh snap, we’re switching things up this week by showcase the Seattle ska-revival band Easy Big Fella, and their near-perfect third album, Eat at Joey’s. None of that mopey indie rock crap today!

Dolour was a Seattle band that released four albums, three of which are pretty damn good. And last time I checked, .750 is a helluva batting average.

Hailing from New Jersey, The Wrens are the topic of our ninth You Should Know, focusing on their awesome third album, The Meadowlands.

This week’s installment features the San Fransisco alternative/indie rock band Creeper Lagoon, who released a criminally-overlooked debut album I Become Small and Go in 1998, which drew a lot of Pavement comparisons.

In celebration of the holidays, here’s a special edition of You Should Know featuring The Vandals‘ Christmas album, which came out in 1996.