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(Ipecac)   www.ipecac.com     Zach Hill is a hell of a drummer. Best known for his work behind the kit for Hella and Marnie Stern, Astrological Straits is his first solo outing. more...

(self-released)   www.myspace.com/zwreformation     The album title's instructive: this Jonesboro, Arkansas, outfit serves up a Southern rock-fueled brand of electric R&B, more...

(Brushfire)   www.brushfirerecords.com   It takes an extremely talented songwriter to create visions of beaches and sunsets through sound but still manage to deliver a deep and haunt more...

(Secretly Canadian) www.secretlycanadian.com The cusp of the 1980s was not a good time to be a punk in Indiana, but when was? Both coasts were raging - with the Minutemen, Black Flag an more...

(Popover Corps)   www.popovercorps.com   The record label (operated by singer/songwriter John Wesley Harding, no less) bills this hi-octane quartet as a "legendary first-wave NY pun more...

(Arts & Crafts) www.arts-crafts.ca When a lead singer opts to forsake his band in order to go the solo route, most fans will barely raise an eyebrow. But when a band breaks out on their ow more...

(Twin-Tone/Ryko/Rhino Handmade)   www.rhinohandmade.com   A band gets a close friend to write liner notes for their compilation CD because usually the writer "was there," and knows t more...

(Warner Bros.)   www.warnerbrosrecords.com   Even the liner notes reference the infamous "paradigm shift" that led so many rockists of the '80s to dismiss this Texas trio's multi-pl more...