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(Lost Highway)   www.losthighwayrecords.com   Black Joe Lewis is the kind of act that folks like Ike and Tina Turner used to feature as a warm-up. They display the heat and energy more...

(Lost Highway)   www.losthighwayrecords.com   Like Albert Collins trapped in James Brown's body, Black Joe Lewis dishes up heaping hot helpings of dirty funky-butt blues on Scandalou more...

(Nonesuch)   www.nonesuch.com   From the get-go, there's a lot to assimilate. It's not like they got a bassist or anything, but the Black Keys entering a studio to record their fift more...

(Nonesuch)   www.nonesuch.com     If Muddy Waters was correct in assuming that the blues' offspring was a baby named "Rock n' Roll," there had to be an evil twin bastard in t more...

(Columbia)   www.columbiarecords.com     Jacksonville, Florida’s Black Kids justly caused a stir last year with their debut EP Wizard of Ahhhs, four tracks of disco-y new w more...

(Vice)   www.vice-recordings.com   For their fifth studio album, Atlanta's punk-psychedelicists the Black Lips still conjure up a sweaty vibe. However, the ultra lo-fi production r more...

(Vice)   www.vicerecords.com   Flat out: Arabia Mountain makes a girl want to dance. Hard. Inside a dark, grimy, piss-and-sweat-drenched club, in a poodle skirt, saddle shoes, and a b more...

(Flemish Eye)   www.flemisheye.com   Canadian singer/songwriter Chad VanGaalen has released several albums for Sub Pop, pursuing his fancy in melodic indie rock and ‘60s-influ more...

  www.graveface.com   You might ask yourself: What the fuck is a Black Moth Super Rainbow? One of the many lovely things about this super-freaky, psychedelic dream-pop band from the more...

  (Jagjaguwar)   www.jagjaguwar.com   Monstrous riffs, molten sludge, the bludgeoning weight of guitar overload-those have always been Stephen McBean's stock in trade, and neve more...