Sun City Girls are a great art-rock band that you can get off me on slsk. Torch of the Mystics has a strong eastern tinge, namely because the guitarist and bassist (brothers)'s uncle is from Lebanon. The two would watch their uncle and their uncle's eastern friends jam and that's one of their main influences. It's really good **** though, especially track four, Space Prophet Dogon. Their other records range from a sort of punk to a freeform jazz freakout to a drone. They have NO one particular sound. They started off as a band playing really fast punk that scared the hipsters, then they played a more eclectic sound which attracted them back again, and have been experimenting forever. At one point, they were called Paris 1942 and had Mo Tucker (from the VU) as their drummer. Their record from as Paris 1942 has a very garage rock early punk type sound. They even cover She Cracked by the Modern Lovers. I really do highly reccomend them; they are good. All their cds have been good. Even Richard Bishop's, the guitarist, solo effort has been great. It's an acoustic record and he's really adept at his instrument.
Here is a yousendit zip file. I hope you can all play m4a's. If not, you should be able to use quicktime to play them and if that fails, download foobar2000. It's the superiour program for listening to music.
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3S2024N8F3OW72UY7M5BAXZ0N4