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(Shangri-La)   www.shangrilamusic.com   With each release this UK quintet adds another impressive notch in their musical repertoire. For their third release they've slightly polishe more...

 (Ape House)   www.ape.uk.net     The early 1980s were tough times for XTC. Andy Partridge had a public breakdown on stage in Paris in 1982, paralyzed by the stage fright more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com/   The Sub Pop babe band return with a bento box of four sunny, pop-punk-garage tunes (including a Smiths cover) produced with a Spector-tacular Wall of So more...

    (Just Plain Awful)     www.justplainawfulrecords.com   Throughout the ‘80s Homestead Records was practically the source of the Nile for terrific, cutting e more...

(Playing in Traffic Records)   www.PlayingInTraffic.com   For relative newcomers, Brit brothers David and Joseph Dunwell, cousins Jonny Lamb and Rob Clayton, and pal Dave Hanson alr more...

(S-Curve)   www.s-curverecords.com   Most fans by now have heard Duran Duran's digital download version of All You Need Is Now since it became available back in December. The 9-track more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com     As the guitarist for the Baltimore art-punk outfit Ponytail, Dustin Wong was party to the enthrallment of a legion of Pitchfork readin more...

(Thrill Jockey)    www.thrilljockey.com   While September 21, 2011, may go down in history as the day R.E.M called it quits, it's equally noteworthy due to the disbandment of B more...

  (Hardly Art) www.hardlyart.com       Though Seattle’s Kimberly Morrison and Jesse Lortz, aka Dutchess and Duke, have played together since the early 2000s, 2007 witn more...

    (Drag City/Yoga)   www.dragcity.com   Until recently, if you wanted to hear Dwayne Warr's metal-prog magnum opus Animals, you had to pay up big-time on eBay. The album, more...