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(self-released)   www.parthenonhuxley.com   Tarheel ex-pat Parthenon Huxley, currently based in the D.C. area and a member of ELO (aka "The Orchestra"), has a sterling rock ‘n' more...

(Clang!)   www.pjoconnell.com   You can probably count on one paw the rock sidemen who've also mounted credible careers as frontmen, but in the case of Pat (P.J.) O'Connell, the gift more...

(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...

(Mint Records)   www.mintrecs.com   Dirty electric blooze isn't supposed to be this brainy.  But The Pack A.D. is full of contradictions, or what would seem contradictions if th more...

  (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...

(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...

(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...

(Birdsong/Parasol)   www.parasol.com   If you ever wondered what happened to Further/Summer Hits  guy Josh Schwartz (who was also on the brilliant debut 7" by Beachwood Sparks more...

(Lester / Redeye)   www.redeyeusa.com   What could possibly temper enthusiasm for a debut record full of pleasurable pop tunes with strong hooks, rhythmic exuberance, and occasional more...

(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...