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(Third Man)   www.thirdman.com   Gimmicks, gimmicks, gimmicks. Rock ‘n' roll has been packed with gimmickry since Screamin' Jay Hawkins popped out of a casket on stage, since A more...

  (J&R Adventures)   www.jbonamassa.com   Blues fans wondered what guitarist Joe Bonamassa was up to when the news leaked out that he had formed an ersatz "supergroup" with more...

(J&R Adventures)   www.bccommunion.com   Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa wears as a badge of honor the fact that he's never been mentioned in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine, more...

(Paw Tracks)   www.paw-tracks.com   Arranging abrasive sounds into intoxicating patterns, Black Dice makes spasmodic, full-body rhythms out of burps, blats, buzzes and farts. These more...

(Jive)   www.jiverecords.com   As one of the foremost producers in rock's modern day, Daniel Lanois has been the mind behind classic albums from the likes of U2, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno more...

(Alien8)   www.alien8recordings.com   Dark, moody and intense, Montreal's Black Feelings are a does-what-it-says-on-the-box band.   Indeed, the dreaded G-word does immediately more...

(Cooking Vinyl)   www.cookingvinyl.com The dust from the mid-2000s Pixies reunion has long since settled, but Black Francis/Frank Black/Charles Thompson keeps making records, deterred by more...

(Temporary Residence)    www.temporaryresidence.com   At the height-or nadir-of the Bush/Cheney nightmare in 2006, San Diego's purveyors of dark, spectral fare released The Spel more...

(Ernest Jenning) www.ernestjenning.com       Perhaps two decades too late, but these scruffy-haired Noo Yawk/Joisy natives (a kaleidoscopic side project of arena-rock whore mongers more...

(Ernest Jenning)   www.ernestjenning.com   Back in the day you could tell if some putz "got" psychedelia by asking him whether he dug the 13th Floor Elevators or the Strawberry Alar more...