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(Wildflower Records)   www.wildflowerrecords.com   Given her all-star support - erstwhile producer James Mastro, also the man behind the Bongos and Health and Happiness Club, esteeme more...

(Thirty Tigers)   www.thirtytigers.com   With a solid, critically acclaimed catalog to build upon, Amy Speace seems poised to make an even more emphatic mark in the world of nu-folk more...

(Anticon)   www.anticon.com     Anathallo, a literate Chicago seven-piece that combines glowing melodies with intricate harmony singing and colorfully orchestrated instrumenta more...

(Slanty Shanty)   www.slantyshantyrecords.com   The latest band to emerge from LA's over-hyped but legitimately fertile scene, based around the all-ages downtown venue, The Smell, i more...

(Teepee)   www.teepeerecords.com   No one can say that Ancestors' prog metal isn't ambitious. The band's second full-length, following 2008's Neptune with Fire, follows the now unf more...

(Justice Records)   www.justicerecords.com     There's something very self-righteous about all the promotional hoopla surrounding the new Trail of Dead record. Their new label' more...

(Alligator)   www.alligator.com   For those who think the blues, or modern music for that matter, has little left to say that is serious or important, along comes Anders Osborne to more...

(Bloodshot Records)   www.bloodshotrecords.com   Andre Williams - all of 71 years old - is reigning king of a lewd, edgy R&B that flirts with dirtiness but is less about raunchy more...

(Fat Possum)   www.fatpossum.com   Andrew Bird has taken a curious route to his present artistic identity. From formidable boyhood beginnings on the violin, immersed in the classic more...

(Le Pop Musik)   www.lepop.de   For all the promise he showed on that self-titled album he dropped in 2006 - and we're talking some serious promise here -- there's not an expectatio more...