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(Touch & Go)   www.touchandgorecords.com Of all the neo-psychedelic groups currently waving their freak flags, Atlanta-based All the Saints are perhaps the most disciplined. While more...

(Nonesuch)   www.nonesuch.com   In The Bright Mississippi, New Orleans R&B composer and pianist Allen Toussaint revisits the classic jazz of his childhood, interpreting wonderfu more...

(Ryko)   www.rykodisc.com   And you think you have it bad.  Crows, Allison Moorer's follow-up to her critically acclaimed breakthrough Mockingbird, finds her crying fowl on any more...

(Abduction)   www.suncitygirls.com   Experimental rock icon and former Sun City Girl Alan Bishop revisits one of his finest works as a solo act working under the moniker Alvarius B. more...

(Because Music/Nonesuch)      www.nonesuchrecords.com     Why does the world's most life-affirming music always come from the most troubled places?  Amadou &am more...

(self-released)   www.amandashires.net   Sounding like a confluence of Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams - packing their own mini orchestra to boot - Amanda Shires reemerges with h more...

(Shangri-La Music)   www.shangrilamusic.com   With a combination of pop/rock competence, young-gun oomph and softly scuzzy attitude, Amazing Baby makes songs that are hard to immedia more...

(ZOHO Music)    www.zohomusic.com     What an odd little bird this one is... when he is remembered, if he is remembered at all, British rocker Arthur Brown is known for hi more...

(Black Truffle)   www.blacktrufflerecords.com   Originally recorded in January 2009 at the Playhouse in Kitakyushu, Japan, Tima Formosa marks the debut collaboration from this tri more...

(Blue Note)   www.bluenote.com   Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire is the next in a line of young jazz prodigies given the big push. If he was a rock or pop musician, we'd probably look a more...