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(Firepink Music)   www.christinekane.com   It's not that Christine Kane has expanded the parameters as far as the fairer sex's singer/songwriter motif is concerned.  In fact, ba more...

(Revolving)   www.revolvingrecords.com   "Spelling Words," the first song on this third full-length from the Swedish singer/songwriter, begins in a tipsy saw of cello, a regular plink more...

(Bang Records)   www.bang-records.net   With their unholy mix of punk, blues, rockabilly and noise, The Chrome Cranks split the difference between Jon Spencer's unhinged garage rock more...

(Vice)   www.vicerecords.com   I’d half expect Chromeo to be a joke band. Exhibit A: an album cover featuring the not-but-so-attractive duo looking at us from behind keyboards ba more...

  (Atlantic)   www.atlanticrecords.com     When bands like Phoenix, Junior Boys or Justice re-appropriate the post-disco sounds of the late ‘70s/'80s they usually do s more...

(Chess/Hip-O-Select)   www.hip-oselect.com   This set covers Chuck Berry's second go-round at Chess records, from 1969 to 1974. By that time Buddy Holly was dead, Elvis Presley was more...

(Hip-O Select/Universal)   www.hip-oselect.com   This last box in U Music's Berry-at-Chess collection isn't as bold as the previous (You Never Can Tell) or as predictable as its ini more...

  (Raw Venture)   www.windmeupchuck.com/ Saying that Washington DC's very own Chuck Brown is just a purveyor of repetitive party "go go" music" is like saying Fela Kuti was just Afr more...

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   "Help me!" yelps Chuck Prophet, midway through the opening song. And while the strutting, stomping, tremolo-strafed "Sonny Liston's Blues" is ostensibly more...

(Second Motion Records) www.SecondMotionRecords.com   If the title seems somewhat ambiguous, suffice it to say it's also appropriate, albeit it in a bizarre sort of way.  Over the co more...