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  (SideOneDummy)   www.sideonedummy.com   There was plenty of handwringing within the punk rock community last year when longtime Pennywise vocalist Jim Lindberg bolted from the more...

(Sugar Hill) www.sugarhillrecords.com Black Prairie's Feast Of The Hunters' Moon joins the recent "new grass," "Americana," "progressive bluegrass," "insert widely inclusive term connoting eclectic more...

(Rhino Records)   www.rhino.com     There are only two kinds of Black Sabbath fans on this cold, grey planet - Ozzy acolytes and Dio devotees. Forget about the fleeting tenures more...

(Pravda)   www.pravdamusic.com   Another garage-blues duo, except that these two punters learnt their dirty black snake moan in the oddly un-Deltalike environs of Italy rather than more...

(St. Ives)   www.scdistribution.com   One of the most beautiful things about the Black Swans has always been how Noel Sayre's sweeping, swooning, sometimes folk and sometimes classi more...

(Eskimo)   www.myspace.com/theblackwatch     Clichés abound about the consistent things in life: death, taxes, trash TV. One of music's most reliable pleasures is an albu more...

(K-Scope Records)    www.kscopemusic.com   Steven Wilson is a busy guy...damn busy...and considering his accomplishments over the past couple of years, it makes a rockcrit wonde more...

(FU:M)   www.fileundermusic.com   It's hard to get noticed in this age when it seems every day one hears the name of a dozen or more bands or performers previously unheard. In Canada more...

(Soft Abuse)    www.softabuse.com     Blackout Beach, Carey Mercer's solo project, is nearly as old as Frog Eyes, though less prolific. Both outfits got started in the more...

(Self-released)   www.myspace.com/theblakes   Gritty, ‘60s garage rock is The Blakes' specialty and they've continued down the same path for sophomore LP Souvenir. Seattle's Ga more...