for fans of desert rock, and well crafted pop, I would put my highly questionable taste stamp of approval on the following:
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience (not exactly a reveal)
The Refreshments - The Bottle and Fresh Horses (and their first, Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy)
Dead Hot Workshop - Karma Covered Apple and 1001
Sand Rubies/Sidewinders - (self titled SR)/Witchdoctor
The jangle/chime thing is less echoy and more Gibson les Paul through a Matchless head kind of Byrds-y, or in the Refreshments case, just hot as fuck. The Refreshments in particular are the overlooked band IMO...yes, they wrote the King of the Hill theme (Yahoos and Triangles later named), but they are a pop band with maybe darker lyrics in the vein of Camper or even the Replacements (not that much angst).
The singer of the Refreshments split off with his drummer and formed the independent Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, which, for 4.5 albums, was absolute perfection, especially live. They are roadhorses, playing 150+ shows a year, and have gotten the tag "The Bruce Springsteen of the Southwest" (I think RS called them that).
Anyways...some sounds from my home state of Arizona. That Mill Ave scene that produced the Gin Blossoms/Refreshments/Dead Hot was something else.
Oh, to keep it local, Jimmy Eat World "Bleed American", but that is no revelation to anyone really...I think everyone has heard it...