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(Crippled Hound)   www.cabindogs.com   Brother Rich and Rob Kwait have been playing music together for quite some time. They took in all the beauty and isolation that the Appalachian more...

(Astralwerks)   www.astralwerks.com     The Caesars were already an underground phenomenon in their native Sweden for a half dozen years before Apple tapped the quartet’s p more...

(Theory 8 Records)   www.theory8records.com   Caitlin Rose knows a thing or two about good songs. Although barely out of her teens, she turned a transcendent cover of Jagger-Richards' more...

(Upbeat Records/ILG)   www.cakemusic.com   This is no way meant as a slur against the Sacramento band Cake, but I can't help but be surprised that this group has managed to escape th more...

(self-released)   www.calebcaudle.com   Good god, where did this kid come from? Okay, so nominally, Caleb Caudle hails from Winston-Salem, NC, and he keeps a toe or two in Tennessee, more...

(self-released)   www.myspace.com/calebcaudle   Just under a year ago I reviewed Winston-Salem, NC, upstart Caleb Caudle's sophomore release, Stay On, offering with undisguised enth more...

(Quarterstick)   www.quarterstickrecords.com     On 2006's Garden Ruin, Calexico shifted gears: they downplayed their widescreen Southwestern sound in favor of more traditiona more...

(Our Soil, Our Strength)   www.casadecalexico.com   The sheer joy that permeates this performance, recorded on last year's European tour in support of the brilliant Carried to Dust, more...

(Our Soil, Our Strength/Quarterstick)   www.casadecalexico.com; www.quarterstickrecords.com   For longstanding Calexico wonks, the tour-only and "unofficial" website releases under t more...

(Dead Oceans)   www.deadoceans.com   Like watching an old Rex Ingram silent film on a brand new laptop, Chicago's Califone strike the quintessential balance between old and new. &nb more...