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(Capitol)   www.beastieboys.com The Beastie Boys classic 1994 release, Ill Communication, was indisputably a milestone for the group. After the frenzied sample-fest of 1989's Paul's Bo more...

(Capitol)   www.capitolrecords.com   The last time we listened to the Beasties, To the 5 Boroughs was spare and rife with elements of grave import based on a city in ruins in the wak more...

(Cuneiform)   www.cuneiform.com   Skewed traditionalist Brian Carpenter's third album under the Beat Circus name draws its inspiration from both past and future.  Its  righ more...

(Fat Possum)   www.fatpossum.com   Jon Finley of Beaten Awake is also in a band called Drummer with the Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney, who brought this band to Fat Possum's att more...

(Antique Records)   www.beatsantique.com   Beats Antique kick up quite a bit of both earth-bound and cosmic dust on their fourth full length album, Elektraphone. Over ten instrument more...

(Rhino Handmade)   www.rhinohandmade.com   Along with Dylan's Nashville Skyline, the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Moby Grape's eponymous debut and Workingman's Dead, Bradley's Ba more...

(Interscope)   www.interscope.com       Behold two fundamental truths on the chameleon of an artist known as Beck: there is a Beck for every season and no two of his albums more...

(Iliad)   www.beck.com/   Last week, I looked at a photo of myself taken in 1991 - and trite as it sounds - marveled that I was ever really that young. I shudder to even consider wh more...

(Nat Geo Music)   http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/   It's been nearly four years since Toronto's Bedouin Soundclash has released new music, but with Light the Horizon, the b more...

(Reprise/Rhino)   www.rhino.com     I'm sure I wasn't the only person who double-checked the credits on the album the first time the needle dropped on Odessa. The Bee Gees, de more...