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(self-released)   www.confullam.com   This collection is a self-released box set of 65 songs stretched over four CDs by someone who has been kicking around the Nashville and East Co more...

(Shout! Factory/Capitol)   www.shoutfactory.com   On the face of it, Bloodletting, the third album from on-again/off-again L.A. combo Concrete Blonde, doesn't seem like the kind of more...

(Friendly Fire)   www.friendlyfire.com   After three terrific Spector-inspired records this Swedish band seemed to have disappeared. Longtime fans may have thought the group was dead more...

(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com     It’s hard to say what Conor Oberst stands to gain from going solo when his real band is essentially a solo project with two semi-regular more...

(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com   Conor Oberst loves America, but not in the way that George W. Bush, Kid Rock or any other gun-toting, rhetoric-spewing politico might. Instead, Ober more...

(Arts & Crafts) www.arts-crafts.ca     We hear a lot about rock ‘n’ roll's redemptive powers, most of it rote and hardly lived in. Not so Canada’s Constanti more...

(Virgin)   www.virginrecords.com   The idea of the Constellations, a studio project that subsequently became an eight-member band, is to reflect how rock, funk, electro and hip-hop more...

(Blind Pig)   www.blindpigrecords.com     Had a version of "Lady of Spain" been on Back Porch Dogma by the Las Vegas band, Contino, fronted by accordion player Pete Contino, I more...

(Epitaph)   www.epitaph.com   Axe To Fall is a culminating effort, a sort of crash-course in the varied faces of Converge. For this it both succeeds monumentally and suffers for inc more...

(C.A.K.E Recordings/Chocolate Industries)   www.chocolateindustries.com   Pharrell Williams and Lupe Fiasco may have brought a throwback hip-hop sound to the mainstream masses, but wat more...