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Pack A.D.

Funeral Mixtape

(Mint)   www.mintrecs.com   You know how Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys has that classic Brit-blooze bellow down pat? A combined Paul Rodgers (Free)/Ian Gillan (Deep Purple)/Rusty Day more...

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Tintype

  (Mint) www.mintrecs.com       Bands like Blue Cheer or early Grand Funk once shaped the blues into a messy, sloppy, druggy, counterculture variation called blues-rock. Now more...

Pagans

The Blue Album

(Smog Veil Records)   www.smogveil.com     Formed in the industrial wasteland that was late-‘70s Cleveland, the Pagans were the result of the same disturbing musical zeitgei more...

Pains of Being Pure at Heart

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

(Slumberland)     www.slumberlandrecords.com     Everything points back to the mid-1980s here, from the stark, black-and-white cover art, to the fuzz-filled caverns of g more...

Paleface

The Show Is On the Road

(Ramseur) www.ramseurrecords.net   Its title aside, to call The Show Is On the Road a comeback is like saying it snows in the arctic. Terming it an understatement is... well, an understa more...

Palms

It's Midnight In Honolulu

          www.rbrRecords.com     Few bands these days make music recalling the icily lonely, German-depressive soundscapes of Nico's The Marble Index and De more...

Palmyra Delran

She Digs the Ride

(Apex East) www.palmyradelran.com Despite the fact that guitarist/songwriter Palmyra Delran recently did a spate of dates with her fomer, almost-popular band the Friggs, one would hope that more...

Pantha Du Prince

Black Noise

(Rough Trade)     www.roughtrade.com     Black Noise is a fascinating techno record, styled with rich drum programming and deep, dour melodies. Three years back, Hendrik more...

Panther

Entropy

(Kill Rock Stars)   www.killrockstars.com   In physics Entropy measures disintegration and disorder, the continual process of things falling apart. That's a fitting name for Panther more...

Paper Chase

Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 1)

(Kill Rock Stars)   www.killrockstars.com   Metaphor is the order of the day on the Paper Chase's fifth album. The subtitles of all 10 songs depict a different natural disaster whi more...


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