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(Caterina Sounds)   www.cheeksters.com   The last time we checked in with the Cheeksters - their Movers and Shakers album (reviewed here) was released in the fall of 2008 - the Ashevi more...

(Cuneiform)   www.cuneiformrecords.com   Thymme Jones' Cheer-Accident, now well into its third decade of existence, works a dense palette of dissonant, anxiety-ridden sounds into co more...

(Astralwerks)   www.astralwerks.com     There wasn't supposed to be an electronica singles band. But fortunately, no one told this pioneering Big Beat duo. Either that or they more...

(Wicked Cool)   www.wickedcoolrecords.com   Way back in November of 1966 the Rolling Stones rhetorically mused Got Live If You Want It for the title of their first (of many, it woul more...

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   Cheyenne Marie Mize, out of Louisville, is nothing if not self-assured, taking up every inch of sonic space in her latest six-song EP, strutting and stom more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com     The yen to blend ambient soundscapes and avant garde elements seems to be encoded in the genomes of most Chicago musicians of a certa more...

(Wax Poetics Records)   www.waxpoetics.com   Anyone who still thinks that deep soul and electronic music are somehow mutually exclusive should spend some time with Chico Mann's secon more...

(Kemado)   www.kemado.com Children, a new band formed by members of Early Man and S.T.R.E.E.T.S.,  takes metal very seriously. There's no irony on their debut, a mélange of mi more...

  (Definitive Jux) www.definitivejux.net     For fans of the Salsoul Orchestra’s live disco with its vibraphones and sexy Latin brass in full swing, the whistle of Steely more...

(Trainwreck) www.trainwreckrecords.com   If Chip Taylor had done nothing more than pen a pair of hits - "Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning" -- he could easily have quit right then an more...