The Red Lines – Foggy
Luke Brindley – The Journey
Rush Plus – Low For Me
Troy and Paula Haag – 27
Hurlebaus – Joplin
Big Sky Conspiracy – The Rise and Fall of Damascus
Wye Oak – Two Small Deaths
The Grit Pushers – Two Snakes
Kindlewood – In the Clearing
The Greatest Hoax – Pyrogens
Anthony Pirog – Summer Fog
Beauty Pill – The Western Prayer
Constant Alarm – Breathe You
Motion Lines – Bliss
Foozle – Sofa Couch
Daniel Bachman – Song For The Setting Sun II
Roger Aldridge – Connecticut Avenue SUVs
Language of Sleep – Act I
Dupont Brass – Killin’ Me Softly
Screen Vinyl Image – Edge of Forever

Wicked Olde – Pear Tree/Waiting For the Federals
Sriram Gopal – Almost Spring
Mulberry Coach – Weapon of Choice
Little Hunts – Jumping Jacks
Black Masala – Bhangra Ramo
Ben Williams – Lost & Found feat. Christian Scott
Jau Ocean – Lightly
Miyazaki – Visions
Flash Frequency – Wolf of The Night
Nerftoss – Zucker
The Buzz – Got Me Runnin’
The Orchid – A City of Plaster
Higher Hands – Re-Introduction
B Side Shuffle – Introducing
Screen Vinyl Image – Great Beyond
Adam Stamper – Trembles
Tom Espinola – Blackberry Blossom
No Second Troy – Church and State
Coatsworth-Hay – 1682 Doves
Infinite Adolescence – 80’s (Intro)

Seth Kibel – Your Mileage May Vary
Screen Vinyl Image – I’m Not
Fire and the Wheel – Hooke’s Law
Machine Drift – Chaos Later
Mark Haag – Fringe Music #1
Jon Lanou – Minneapolis
Roger Aldridge – A Ballad For T
The Greatest Hoax – Pyrogens
East Ghost – Clouds and Their Shape
Oust – Alas, Posterity
Constant Alarm – Breathe You
Higher Hands – U-Turn
South Rail – Wayfaring Stranger
Rumpole – Canned Beans
We Were Pirates – Transmorgified
Outer Spaces – Rust
Thomas Zebovitz – PopThing: Cute
Atoka Chase – Black Pot
Throw Me A Rope – Punk Theory/No Theory
Spirit Plots – Allison

Screen Vinyl Image – The Midnight Sun
The Orchid – Decompressor/The Last Dive
Jon Camp – All Is Fine Past the County Line
Aaron Agre – Time Window
Dissonance – Chlorophyll Daffodil
Elijah Cole – Green Dolphin Street
The Jet Age – The Only Difference
NUNS – False Architect
The Funk Ark – Bouzouki Song
2nd Story Band – Junior
Beautiful Swimmers – Running Over
Sriram Gopal – Bengali Dhun
Exit Vehicles – Paint
K-Loe Black – 144 Thousand
Wicked Olde – Old Joe Clark
MUDGE – Adora Jar
Flasher – Tense
Romantic States – Hourglass
Q and Not U – Wonderful People
Pilesar – Stickbag 1ne

The_Acorns – Comcast with Prego 35
BOOMscat – RUNNINGONE
Flash Frequency – Things You Do…
The Orchid – The Arrow and The Song
The Buzz – Why Did You Let Me (Let You Go)
David King – Breath Control
Fields Burning – Joy’s Desire
Dan Jacobs – Voices
John Fahey – Hope Slumbers Eternal
The Mayan Factor – Warflower
John Lanou – Blackbird with Landon Letzkus
The Sweater Set – Lost At Sea
SaltmanKnowles – Shesh
Replaced By Robots – Thataway
Jon Camp – Buoy
The Wine-Dark Sea – Breaking Through the Cracks of Our City
Animals As Leaders – On Impulse
Sherwood Gainer – The Automat
Language of Sleep – Epilogue
Screen Vinyl Image – Closing In

Logikbomb – The Heights (aka: Her Lips)
Suzanne Brindamour – The Arrival
Den-Mate – For Free
Lungfish – Constellations
Wye Oak – Dogs Eyes
Screen Vinyl Image – Edge of Forever
Jonny Grave – Afraid of the Dark
Brûlée – Driftin’
Fat Kneel – Solaris
Marvin Gaye – What’s Happening Brother
Oddisee – In Your Eyes
Sansyou – Best Ones Choose You
AXB – Flea Markets
The Sea Life – Prozac & Merlot
Lance Neptune – Umbrella Girl.
Beautiful Swimmers – The Zoo
G-Flux – Cumbia Cosmica
Bucky’s Fatal Mistake – Hello
Aaron Gage – Vinayaka
They’ll Have Dreams – Walk to Freedom

The Grit Pushers – Eleventeen
Anchor 3 – Sleepwalker
The Moderate – Conversation
Logikbomb – One For yU
Fellow Creatures – Breathe Easy
Redline Graffiti – End of the World
The Orchid – A Fading Memory Of A Better Time And Place
Foozle – Letterman
Sriram Gopal – Como Pod’a Groriosa
ShowPony – Sometimes Dogs Perceive Other Dogs Differently When They’re Wearing Hats
Screen Vinyl Image – Great Beyond
Sherwood Gainer – The Company
Disco Muerte – Descending
2nd Story Band – Cesar Rules W. African Dance Groove
Raheem DeVaughn – Guess Who Loves You More
Eva Cassidy – Fields of Gold
Trifilio Tango Trio – La Sabionda
Möbius Strip – Silver Lining
Scythian – Pluckett’s
The Hartford Pussies – Orange Polo Shirt

Drop Electric – We Will Be Humans, Finally
Cigarbox Planetarium – Gothic Meth Lab Party
Anchor 3 – Left Fielder
John Battema – I Can’t See Home Anymore
Echo Broke Alone – Something Beautiful
The Moderate – Drugs/Young Men
Snail Mail – Thinning
Fellow Creatures – Seance (Shuka)
The Rail Runners – Crash Burn Learn
Mellow Diamond – Namesake
More Humans – Disaster
Logikbomb – Greenline to Ana
Sound of the City – Waiting (Sumthin 2 Ride 2)
Eva Cassidy – Ain’t No Sunshine
Jeff Cosgrove, Frank Kimbrough, and Martin Wind – The Owls
Lungfish – Necrophones
Grogan Social Scene – Mercury Is In Retrograde
Terracotta Blue – DreamVintage (part 1)
Luke Reddick – Can’t Be Bought
Screen Vinyl Image – I’m Not

At least not from 1995 to 2003, when the noisy shoegaze trio was active in and around the college town of Fredericksburg.

Made up of Oliver Ackermann, Paul Baker and John Fedowitz — friends from Stafford Senior High School — Skywave sounded like The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. At the time, Baker says, that’s not what locals wanted to hear.

Skywave (via Facebook)

“These days, the hipsters would maybe like us, but in the late ’90s and early 2000s, I felt like we seemed we were from another planet,” emails Baker, 38, who still lives in Fredericksburg.

But 12 years after Skywave went quiet, a fan in São Paolo, Brazil, is giving the band a belated tip of the hat. On June 20, Renato Malizia plans to release a free digital compilation called Got That Feeling: A Tribute to Skywave via his label and website, The Blog That Celebrates Itself.

“I’ve always been a big fan of Skywave from the start,” Malizia writes in an email. He says a friend who understood his taste — he counts the Valentines and Jesus and Mary Chain among his favorite bands — hipped him to Skywave’s 1999 record, Echodrone, after a trip to the U.S. It was “love at first hearing,” Malizia writes.

“We were playing songs with actual melodies and we looked like some skinny wimps, but we were louder and weren’t following some awful, flavor-of-the-month sound.” —Paul Baker, formerly of Skywave

When ex-Skywave members moved on to other bands — Ackermann relocated to Brooklyn and formed A Place to Bury Strangers and Fedowitz and Baker played in Ceremony until Baker left in 2012, starting Static Daydream — Malizia stayed hot on their trail.

In March, Malizia and Baker began chatting on Facebook about a Skywave tribute. The blogger contacted bands from all over the world with personal or stylistic ties to Skywave and commissioned 19 covers for the compilation. Oregon’s The Prids, Brazil’s Lautmusik, England’s Nothing.Existed and Virginia’s Screen Vinyl Image — in addition to A Place To Bury Strangers and Static Daydream — are among the bands chipping in.

In 2003, after years of playing to unappreciative audiences, that level of Skywave fandom seemed unimaginable, Baker writes.

“Sometimes … we’d play at some hipster place and they’d seem to hate us as much as the country or Top 40 sort of venues, because what we were doing wasn’t considered cool at the time,” Baker writes. “We’d play with hardcore, screamo bands, and I think we just blew them away and they didn’t know how to respond. I mean, we were playing songs with actual melodies and we looked like some skinny wimps, but we were louder and weren’t following some awful, flavor-of-the-month sound.”

Malizia says that’s exactly what he loved about Skywave.

“Skywave rescues on their albums that magic, that energy, that dream of making real music without using the marketing or the media,” the blogger writes. He admires that the group seemed to “say ‘f**k you’ to everyone.”

Or maybe it’s that Skywave — with its sound cribbed from the 1980s and early ’90s — was both behind and ahead of its time.

“Back then it seemed like we were playing shows for about five of our friends, which was cool, but it certainly didn’t feel like 10 or 15 years later anybody would remember or care enough to do some kind of tribute. So that’s a pretty amazing feeling,” Baker writes. “I mean, we were trying to do something great back then, but it never really felt like it was happening.”

The Blog That Celebrates Itself plans to release Got That Feeling: A Tribute To Skywave on June 20.

Below, a playlist of highlights from Skywave’s Echodrone and Synthstatic LPs:

Reid, half of Virginia band Screen Vinyl Image, felt particularly inspired by “God Only Knows,” whose opening lyric—“I may not always love you”—is a famously counterintuitive opener for a romantic song. Reid wrote something similar for his new tune “I’m Not.”

“It’s a love song,” says Reid, who makes music with his wife, Kim. But it’s also a little surprising. “The words ‘I’m Not’ usually sound kind of confrontational or something, and the song really isn’t supposed to be confrontational at all,” he says.

In fact, the song’s lyrics skew rather sweet: Take “I’m not good at wasting time when I want you to be mine,” or “I just want to catch your gaze and get lost among your waves.” Romantic messages all, they’re undercut with a swirling haze of big instruments and vocal delay, obscuring any hint of straightforward romance.

Reid says the band was listening to a lot of “jangly pop guitar-type stuff” while brainstorming this song, and that influence shines through. Much of Screen Vinyl Image’s other material sounds a bit darker, louder and colder, but listening to bands like Wild Nothing and The Rosebuds influenced SVI to lighten up a touch. The band swapped out a synthesizer for woodwinds, namely clarinet and flute. A peppy drum beat helps keep the mood light, but there’s still some edge here.

The song—which is part of a cassette-only split with Austin band Bloody Knives, out now on D.C. label Accidental Guest—represents a subtly different direction for Screen Vinyl Image. But building “I’m Not” felt easier than some of the duo’s previous tracks, Reid says. “I came up with the idea of the lyrics first, which is odd. Usually we write a song first, and then have to struggle to come up with the lyrics,” he says. “But this one I had the lyrics first and then started to craft the melody around it and the rest of the song.”

Fans of wall-of-sound rock might appreciate “I’m Not” for its atmosphere—it seems perfect for ushering in chilly weather or courting a potential sweetheart—but Reid likes it for a different reason. “I always cherish these moments when a song comes together rather quickly,” he says, “because it’s very rare.”