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(Signature Sounds)   www.signaturesounds.com   Eilen Jewell, the sweetheart of Boise, Idaho, continues to re-invent herself with Butcher Holler, a deep bow in the direction of 1988 more...

(Signature Sounds Recording Company)   www.signaturesounds.com   It's a little bit confusing for those who merely dabble in the world of contemporary roots rock and alt-country to kee more...

(Potomak)   www.neubauten.org   Considering the band's efforts in its earliest incarnation to challenge listener's stamina and safety through an abrasive and destructive presence on more...

(Fat Beats)   www.fatbeats.com   The most striking-not to say strangest- thing about the latest project from El Michels Affair may be the notion of doing an album of instrumental ve more...

(Control Group) www.controlgroupco.com   Sarah Assbring’s 2006 debut as one woman band El Perro del Mar was one of that year’s most pleasant surprises. With a high, beautiful voic more...

(The Control Group)   www.controlgroupco.com   Actually, love is still pop on El Perro Del Mar's latest effort. It's just bummed-out, slow and wounded pop, from the heartbreaking ch more...

(Daptone)   www.daptonerecords.com The recent trend in Afropop is to emphasize traditional styles and instruments, but when Benin's Theophile Do Rego (aka El Rego) started recording in t more...

(Geffen) www.geffen.com     Seasoned musicians who know how to make a grown man openly weep, the UK’s Elbow continue their sonic charms with the release of their fourth album. more...

(Fiction)   www.fictionrecords.co.uk   For their fifth album Elbow has returned with more subdued, but equally beautiful, sounds than on their acclaimed fourth release The Seldom Se more...

(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com   When Eleanor Friedberger and her brother Matthew work together in the Fiery Furnaces, they have been known to break into a different song in a spot w more...