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(Prophase Music)   www.prophasemusic.com   Certain bands out there are one-dimensional, they have a sound and you either like the sound or you don't like it. Bands like The Ramones, more...

(Damnably Records)   www.damnably.com   Remember the first time you heard The Replacement's "Bastards of Young"? For many it reset all expectations of what a rock song could and shou more...

(Verve Forecast)   www.verveforecast.com   During a lull in Josh Joplin's solo career, the Michael Stipe soundalike recruited folksinger Garrison Starr to record an album of Appalac more...

(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com   Despite their unlikely pairing, Alasdair MacLean (The Clientele) and Lupe Nunez-Fernandez (Pipas) find perfect synchronicity under their new guise as more...

(Blue Note) www.bluenote.com       If Amos Lee’s 2005 debut was the cross-marketed phenom that introduced him to baristas and coffee moms across the country, and its 2006 fo more...

(Blue Note)   www.bluenote.com   Amos Lee's mix of soulful nuances with folk and Americana can be warming as a tumbler of hot, spiked cider. "Colors," from his debut, is still in ro more...

(Om/Child's Play)   www.om-records.com   You may have first come across producer Amp Live over a decade ago as one half of the Bay Area hip-hop duo Zion I. At the time, there were ce more...

(Archer Records)   www.archer-records.com   Three albums into her career, Amy LaVere continues to define and refine her musical voice with Stranger Me, an album of intoxication and e more...

(Arts & Crafts) www.arts-crafts.ca   Given the ever-shifting conglomerate that bolsters Canada's Broken Social Scene and the shared billing of her ongoing ensemble, Stars, it would be more...

(Daemon)   www.daemonrecords.com       On her solo albums, Indigo Girl Amy Ray sheds her folkie blue denim for punk rock black. They are harder, faster and louder, rougher a more...