Hall of Awesome: Best New Artist

• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
  Not only did they handcraft one of the catchiest songs of 2005 ("Oregon Girl"), they made an excellent album (Broom), a kickass split-CD (Catbird Records' Someone Still Loves You Michael Holt), and they made Spin Magazine's "Sign This Band Now!" list. Is there anything this Springfield quartet can't do? As if two new albums (as well as a new MP3 posted on their site every week) weren't enough, they've just announced that for $40, they'll send you a cassette tape of alternate takes, covers, and new material every month in 2006! And while Broom may not be the best album of the year, SSLYBY have proven themselves to be the most consistent and most giving band of 2005, and that's gotta be worth something, right?

MP3s:
"Oregon Girl" (from Broom)
"House Fire" (from Broom)
"Lower the Gas Prices, Howard Johnson" (from Someone Still Loves You Michael Holt)