Yacht, een van de interessantste groepen op DFA, komt naar Petrol. Beladen met aanstekelijke songs als Summer Song, Psychic City en Waste Of Time zijn ze klaar voor een punkfunk indierock concertfeest van jewelste. Maar lees er hun ideeën over de verhouding publiek-performer op hun site toch eens op na: er wordt ook iets van jou verwacht! The audience should feel as though they are members, not watchers. Ten zeerste aanbevolen door Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, James -lcd ss- Murphy, Devendra Banhart, Dirty Projectors en Architecture in Helsinki.



My Little Cheap Dictaphone is Belgisch, en dingt naar uw beminning. Ze doen dat met een weloverwogen ambitieus album, een concept en een gewaagde tournee. De plaat is gemaakt door 4 multi-instrumentalisten: 13 songs, opgenomen in verschillende studio's, met verschillende internationale producers. Er is het concept (een moderne pop opera gebaseerd op het leven van Brian Wilson) en de tournee met aangepaste decors, visuals, kostuums en merchandising. Op de eerste single What Are You Waiting For doet Jonathan Donahue mee (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev), elders kregen ze hulp van Ralph Mulder (Alamo Race Track) en Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession, 3 Mile Pilot).

Prinzhorn Dance School are Tobin Prinz and Suzi Horn. Their music is sparse, uncompromising and idiosyncratic. They are signed to the New York record label DFA. Their debut release for the label was a self recorded and self produced 7-inch single featuring the tracks "You Are The Space Invader" and "Eat, Sleep" which is now highly sought after as it was limited to 500 copies only. Prinz and Horn recorded their debut album in isolation, in a rented barn in Sussex, having already written the songs in the disused chapel building they call home, also entirely on their own. The album was sebsequently mixed in New York with The DFA and was released on August 13, in the UK and on August 27 in North America. The band are known to be reclusive, with very few interviews given, and their own official website rarely features any images of their faces. Media-shy - in that they find photo-shoots vain, press releases dishonest and superlatives embarrassing - they prefer the isolation of their working space, writing and recording privately in their own austere and peculiar way. The band are building a dedicated following with impressive live shows and have completed several UK and European tours, although their American tour was famously cancelled due to visa problems.