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(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(4AD)   www.4ad.com   Camera Obscura may have started as a charming younger cousin to their fellow Glaswegians Belle and Sebastian-bookishly twee, sensitive, self-reflexive and self more...

(Cooking Vinyl)   www.cookingvinyl.com     When "Take the Skinheads Bowling" first drew attention to Camper Van Beethoven, the catchy song hardly alluded to the resonant quart more...

(Sundazed)   www.sundazed.com   The high-def vinyl, 2-LP set that is It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper was, in its original form, the blues-on-blues followup to Don Van Vliet and more...

(Vanguard)   www.vanguardrecords.com   Nothing Rhymes with Woman, the latest release from Richmond, Virginia born Carbon Leaf, is a sound to which all folk rock musicians should asp more...

(S-Curve)   www.s-curverecords.com   The most infectious example of fast times at rock ‘n' roll high school since the Donnas followed American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine wi more...