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(Hometapes)   http://www.home-tapes.com   Despite all its quietness and deliberateness, there's something defiant about the Caribbean's music. Pinpointing the exact source of that fe more...

(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com   If Dan Snaith's new indie-electronic record - his third under the Caribou moniker - initially sounds a little less complex, a little more superficia more...

(Hardly Art)   www.hardlyart.com     Retrospective compilations are lazy, and retrospective compilations released in advance of a reissue campaign are lazy and a bit of a ca more...

(ATO)   www.atorecords.com   Any band run by a benevolent dictatorship is bound to house more talent than is obvious on the surface. My Morning Jacket is such a band, as evidenced b more...

  (!K7) www.k7.com       Carl Craig is one of the founders of techno. He has been releasing singles, albums and remixes since 1989, although often under pseudonyms such as P more...

(self-released)   www.carleywolf.com   Americana aficionados may find it faintly ludicrous, if not aggravating, that Norah Jones announces she's ditching MOR pop for roots music and more...

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   Carlos Paredes was a master of the Coimbrian guitar, a shortened, rounded version of the instrument, strung with six sets of double wire that was dev more...

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   To understand Carol Kleyn, go no further than a concert review from the early '70s when she toured with the Allman Brothers: "Ms. Kleyn's voice immed more...

  (self-released) www.carolannames.com       Given how the current glut of Americana artists has devalued the field to sub-prime mortgage crisis levels, to come across one t more...

(Nonesuch)   www.nonesuch.com   A rollicking polemic, The Carolina Chocolate Drops' Genuine Negro Jig does a defiant reel around simplistic notions of "black" and "white" music. Thi more...