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(Saddle Creek)   www.saddle-creek.com   There's something in the water in Omaha.  That's the only explanation I can muster for the incongruity of the city itself and the talent more...

(Atlantic)   www.atlanticrecords.com     O.A.R. has built a reputation on their accessible, fun, frat-rock; but the self-consciously poppy All Sides will definitely jar long-ti more...

(Big Brother/Warner Bros.)     www.warnerbrosrecords.com     It's a shame Oasis dumped their lamest records on an unsuspecting public back when the public was actually pa more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Rick Froberg's post-Hot Snakes outfit has been a long time in gestation, surfacing last year in shows in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, and immediately setti more...

(Anticon)   www.anticon.com Odd Nosdam's nasal voice and Anticon-tainted hip-hop sensibility can be a bitter pill to swallow for some. Sure, it's creative and unique, but sometimes the more...

(Polyvinyl)   www.polyvinylrecords.com   Of Montreal's latest opus is, at times, a tough nut to crack. Kevin Barnes' songwriting remains as surreal, scattered and frenetic as ever, more...

(Friendly Fire)   www.friendlyfirerecordings.com Oh No Ono describe themselves as "experimental pop," a simplistic summation that is a fairly accurate description of the Danish band's car more...

(Jagjaguwar)   www.jagjaguwar.com   The follow-up to last year's The Stage Names is another wild-ride discourse on the funhouse mirror of celebrity and its entourage of trappings - more...

(Western Vinyl)   www.westernvinyl.com   David Wingo may have first gotten some attention dong soundtracks for David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls, up to this more...

(Columbia/Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com   The first "world music" star arose in the West before the term was even coined. In 1959, Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji ent more...