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(Matinee)   www.matineerecordings.com   Certain labels out there have a specific sound and the Matinee label, is definitely one of them. The label was founded by Jimmy Tassos about a more...

(Alligator)   www.alligator.com   Etoi! As hearty a music as Zydeco may be, its translation to larger realms has usually been a dicey proposition. Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural has tried more...

(New West)     www.newwestrecords.com     After a spate of albums recorded both as a duo and on their own, Buddy and Julie Miller remain best known for their support to t more...

  (Daptone)    www.daptonerecords.com   You can tell from the opening moments of the new Budos Band record that they mean business. That's the business of funkafying your so more...

(Alive)   www.alive-totalenergy.com       Like a lingering reverberation out of the past, the Buffalo Killers buzz, boogie and roll through their hazy sophomore album. Thou more...

(Alive)   www.alivenergy.com   Buffalo Killers have never had a problem with accessibility. The Cincinnati trio's classic rock sound has easily found favor with traditionalist rock & more...

(Scrawny Records)   www.theorchard.com/music   It's great just to hear Bill Janovitz sing. That's something that will never change. For twenty-five years his trademark has been a barb more...

(Appleseed)   www.appleseedmusic.com   The best thing about a unique voice - and Buffy Sainte-Marie's fierce, proud vibrato certainly qualifies as one - is that it defies age. It's more...

(Warner Brothers)   www.warnerbros.com   This just in: Built to Spill's Doug Martsch could still use a cosmic hug from the universe.   The band's seventh full length finds Ma more...

(Brassland)   www.brassland.org   The back story of Buke & Gass is nearly as oddly rapturous and intricate as the music this duo makes. Both Brooklyn-ites play homemade instrumen more...