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Acorn

Glory Hope Mountain

  (Paper Bag) www.paperbagrecords.com     In Ottawa, Rolf Klausener’s achieved mythic status for merging tender merciful folkie prose with alterna-rocking anthems that usual more...

Acrylics

Lives and Treasures

(Friendly Fire Recordings/Hot Sand Records)   www.friendlyfirerecordings.com   Brooklyn continues to spawn fine bands - and their fine recordings - the way other older American cities more...

Active Child

You Are All I See

(Vagrant)   www.vagrant.com   Pat Grossi's Active Child is a breath of fresh air from synth land. Grossi (an erstwhile choir boy turned indie fiend) holds the unique position of being more...

Ad Frank & The Fast Easy Women

Your Secrets Are Mine Now

(The Archenemy Record Company)   www.archenemy.com     Ad Frank often gets linked to David Bowie, a lot like the way Hedwig (naturally) was. There's a flamboyant, sultry theatr more...

Adam Arcuragi

Like a fire that consumes all before it

(Thirty Tigers)   www.thirtytigers.com   Three years after Adam Arcuragi's folky sophomore effort I am become joy, we have this little gem. Though Arcuragi (pronounced er-ah-ghee) is more...

Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody

I Could Sleep for a Thousand Years

(Second Motion)   www.secondmotionrecords.com   With Swervedriver, Adam Franklin had an eight-year run spinning out dreamy textures of distorted guitar that, however, loud they might more...

Adam Green

Minor Love

(Fat Possum)   www.fatpossum.com   It would be easy to dismiss ex-Moldy Peach Adam Green as a smug Lower East Side trust fund kid (not even sure if that last statement is true) if h more...

Adam Haworth Stephens

We Live On Cliffs

(Saddle Creek) www.saddle-creek.com   Adam Stephen's switch to a solo tack following his pairing in Two Gallants doesn't make for a drastic divergence in style or content. And yet, given more...

Adele

21

(Columbia)   www.columbiarecords.com   At 19, British R&B belter Adele Adkins parlayed her views on the joys and pains of young love and in the process successfully covered Bob D more...

Adem

Takes

(Domino) www.dominorecordsco.us When not collaborating with Four Tet’s Keiran Hebden in Fridge, Adem Ilhan releases hushed, idyllic bedroom songs under his first name. He often includes cov more...


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