Imagine walking into a donut shop, delirious with hunger. Not just anything will suffice. You have a man's appetite and you need a man's pastry. You glance past all of the crullers, long johns and old-fashioned pastries and dismiss them as trivial, wimpy snacks. Then, out of the corner of your eye, you see a BEAR CLAW. Golden brown, caked with glaze, gleaming like a diamond among stones. This is what you have been hankering for, a meaty slab of fresh dough, infused with gooey cinnamon and fit for a king.

-Ryan Duncan

It is the music of Chicago's BEAR CLAW that fits this form of desire. Formed in 2002, the band creates powerful, noisy, yet melodic songs utilizing its obtuse instrumentation of two bass guitars and drums. Members Rich Fessler (bass and vocals), Rob Raspolich (bass), and Scott Picco (drums and vocals) continue to push the possibilities of the trio while adhering to a strict "no filler" approach to creating songs with tools they wield.

"Channeling the old school Touch and Go Records style, Bear Claw comes out with a classic sound on a different arrangement. A trio of two bass guitars and drums rounds a very well replicated noisy disjointed math rock style. Refreshing without the annoying treble sound an epic guitar might intrude with sets this band apart. Fans of the great recording man Steve Albini (Shellac, Big Black) will be pleasantly pleased with this of his. "

http://www.theowlmag.com/album-reviews/cd-review-slow-speed-deep-owls-by-bear-claw/

Formed in Minneapolis, MN in 1997, Self-Evident have since developed and applied a unique, intricate, and smart formula to standard rock songwriting, conjuring music that is very resistant to categorization.
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Variously described as punk, indie, jazz, post, math, noise, and art-rock, Self-Evident are perhaps more aptly dubbed “transcendental”, encompassing all of these styles and more-often in a single three minute song with a strong melodic sense. The instrumentation is simple: bass/vocals, guitar/vocals, and drums.

Call it math rock, post-hardcore, or just plain rock

"The mathy angularity of bands like Faraquet and Q And Not U is still there but toned down ever so slightly. Frankly, things seem a bit more beefed up than ever before. Bands like Hum and Kerosene 454 come to mind rather quickly upon first listens"

http://www.soundaslanguage.com/2010/03/22/self-evident-endings/

Petula Clarck is a two piece combo comprising of Mat (guitar & vocals) & Vinch (drums). The band try to reach the instinctive way to create music. One rule, just one: one hour and half to create a song. If the song is bad, it goes to the garbage! If the song is good, they play it live and record it like they create it the first time. The group has never retouched his songs and never will. No cheating, Petula Clarck are songs created over the moment, without final improvement, spontaneous. To be closer to its instincts, the duet plays, invents, and serves its emotions like polaroids. It's why they like to call their music Spontrash. So they want to sharp their creativity, using this unique rule to create funky trash blues punk disco dance hits. It's fast, melodic, aggressive, experimental and noise but above all urgent and honest. They play in the middle of the crowd, two dudes, one drum, one guitar and 3 amps (guitar & bass). A fast and loud drum combined with the vocal effects, animal screams and onomatopoeias. They played a lot (more than 200 shows) across all Europe and USA. The instinct never lies.