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(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Nobody wants their music described as aural wallpaper -- unless you're Eno and that's your po-mo art statement. But too many musicians working the chill more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Nobody wants their music described as aural wallpaper -- unless you're Eno and that's your po-mo art statement. But too many musicians working the chill more...

(Anti-)   www.anti.com   Good for Alec Ounsworth. The squeaking Philly-based Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Flashy Python front-man/singer/songwriter has wasted little time establishi more...

(Manhattan) www.manhattanrecords.com       Escovedo’s live shows have always been things to behold, covering more musical and emotional territory in two hours than most ar more...

(Manhattan)   www.manhattanrecords.com     Things have finally turned around for Alejandro Escovedo. When revolving record company affiliations and a near fatal bout with Hepat more...

(Fantasy)   www.concordmusicgroup.com   As visceral and uncompromising as his early solo outings were cerebral and widescreen, Street Songs of Love makes a strong case for Alejandro more...

­ (Vagrant)   www.vagrant.com   Alex Ebert wanders in pleasant circles, very pleasant circles throughout his solo debut Alexander. But too much pleasant can be boring, and that's more...

(Turtle Rock)   www.turtlerockrecords.com   Seattle thrush Ali Marcus is a different kind of bird - and sure, that's an obvious (if not downright awful) pun to make. But at a point more...

(Anticon)   www.anticon.com   Alias' sixth full-length layers gauzy, rainbow colored psychedelia over hard beats, moving in dream-like lucidity over intricate, improbably pretty land more...

(Steamhammer/SPV)   www.spv.de     After two albums of spirited, Killer-style glam-rock fueled by Cooper’s timeless sense of gallows humor, Along Came A Spider returns to t more...