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(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   Two releases from D. Charles Speer, the alter-ego of NNCK-er Dave Shuford, explore cultures from Piraeus to the bayou with the rough love of more...

(Sudden Death)   www.suddendeath.com   A seminal Canadian punk band still fighting the enemy (corporations, cops jackbooted fascists), D.O.A. D.I.Y.s it with Northern Avenger, releas more...

(Sudden Death)   www.suddendeath.com   Hard to believe these Canadian knuckleheads, fronted by Joey "Shithead" Keithley, have been scoring goals, crashing the boards and getting tos more...

(Cedar Creek Music)   www.cedarcreekrecords.com   Back when you kiddies were still watching Saturday morning cartoons in your spidey PJs and eating chocolate-frosted sugar bombs b more...

(Ninja Tune)   www.ninjatune.com   Well-made, excellent, effortlessly stylish - it is, perhaps, no accident that Alfred Darlington, the electronic artist known as Daedelus, chose hig more...

(Ceremony Recordings)www.ceremonyrecordings.com   Released in Europe in 2009, the debut from this Swedish brother-and-sister duo - not in the Meg and Jack sense, but actual siblings - is fi more...

(Dead Sea Captain)   www.dagons.net   The Dagons have flown under the radar, at least outside of their Los Angeles home, for more than a decade. Their sound is one part raw and prim more...

(Secretly Canadian)   www.secretlycanadian.com   As a songwriter, Damien Jurado can be a bit touch and go: When he's good, he's very, very good, but often there are cuts on Jurado's more...

(Secretly Canadian)   www.secretlycanadian.com   Ten records into an impressive but often-overlooked solo career, Seattle's Damien Jurado continues to turn out compelling narrative more...

(Secretly Canadian)   www.secretlycanadian.com   Damien Jurado inhabits a netherworld of sorts, where ethereal trappings and haunted imagery form a hazy template for his elusive melo more...