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(Vagrant)   www.vagrant.com   Andy Herod of the Comas took a break from both his band and his New York base, moving to Asheville, N.C., to write and produce this charmingly eclectic more...

(Metropolis)   www.metropolis-records.com   Electric Six may never release another album as giddily fun and consistently catchy as their 2003 debut Fire, and they damn sure won't e more...

(Zedtone)   www.zedtone.com     The official talking point for Artificial Fire, Los Angeles singer Eleni Mandell's seventh album, is that it's a group effort - her band, a spi more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   It's been five years since the last Eleventh Dream Day album, but Riot Now! is like the battered car that rattles immediately to life on a co more...

  (Rykodisc) www.rykodisc.com   With guest appearances by Will Cullen Hart and John Fernandes of the Olivia Tremor Control and reclusive former Neutral Milk Hotel guru Jeff Mangum, more...

(Constellation)   www.cstrecords.com   Although Elfin Saddle is actually named for a variety of mushroom, the fairy-tale image conjured by the band's moniker is not seriously mislea more...

(Constellation)   www.cstrecords.com   The members of Elfin Saddle, out of Montreal, are as much concerned with the visual and performing arts as with music. On the one hand, the band more...

(Red House)   www.redhouserecords.com   It's hard to eschew expectations about any new Eliza Gilkyson release. Every album is accompanied by the anticipation that would be appropriat more...

(Thirty Tigers)   www.thirtytigers.com   Let's make a prediction: Elizabeth Cook's latest album "Welder" is going to be a career changer for her. Bet against it and you'll likely be more...

(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)   www.folkways.si.edu   Elizabeth Mitchell might be the perfect children's musician. Neither a moonlighting indie-rocker nor a goofy entertainer who more...