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(Model Music Group)   www.Modelmusicgroup.com   To some, the Bangles were the queens of novelty pop, scoring hits with a Prince cover, a love song so mushy Hallmark might have rejecte more...

(Naim Label)   www.naimlabel.com   There really is no way to sort out whatever the New American (or, maybe, Post-Rock Singer-Songwriter) Songbook is unless musicians who are not per more...

(Fire Records UK)   www.firerecords.com Don't let those sad, glistening pie eyes on the front cover fool you: Bardo Pond, Philadelphia's long-running stalwart of post-punk psychedelia, ha more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   In his novel The Sheltering Sky, American expat author Paul Bowles -- as versed as any writer in the infinitude of desert landscapes -- wrote more...

(Relapse)   www.relapse.com   The dark adjectives -- doom, gloom, sludge and so on -- are quickly becoming insufficient for describing Baroness's metal. Blue Record, the Savannah, Ga more...

(Lost and Lonesome Recording Co.)   www.lostandlonesome.com.au   After nearly a decade away from music Australian songwriter Bart Cummings returned in 2010 with the Make You Blush E more...

        www.antennafarmrecords.com     Bart Davenport, on his fourth solo album Palaces, shows great facility in writing catchy, literate pop songs in different more...

(Skybucket) www.skybucket.com   There's a hazy pall of displaced circumstance that lingers over Barton Carroll's third solo release, a feeling that blurs the overall impression.  De more...

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   If you think a three-bagger sounds kind of kinky and wouldn’t be able to pick Daryl Strawberry out of a lineup, you probably couldn’t have wr more...

(Rough Trade)   www.roughtrade.com   Like the old saw about sports referees and umpires, producers typically do their best work when you forget they're there. The second record from more...