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(Kemado)   www.kemado.com   The photos of Farmer Dave that are on the Kemado website look nothing like the long-haired guy who bent the pedal steel strings for Beachwood Sparks near more...

(Cuneiform)   www.cuneiformrecords.com   Don Van Vliet (better known as Captain Beefheart) and Frank Zappa were teenage friends, drawn together as oddballs even by the standards of more...

(Numero Group)   www.numerogroup.com   Collectors are well-acquainted with the sheer thrill of discovery that Chicago's Numero Group has provided in its eight-year existence; with it more...

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   An intoxicating presence part Mariana Sadovska, part Sandy Denny - with a swell dollop of early Kate Bush - Dawn "The Faun" McCarthy's was that voice more...

(Bureau B)   www.bureau-b.com A spry 40 years old now, this kosmisch institution has little left to prove. And because they've been reunited since the ‘90s - albeit often in separate more...

(429)   www.429records.com   Back in the earlier part of this decade, the Features were fated to be the "next big thing" in Nashville rock 'n' roll. Sure, they didn't have the curio more...

(Serpents and Snakes)   www.facebook.com/SandSrecords   Pop music has long been little more than a dismissive slur in the music world. With folks like Ke$ha and Katie Perry not doin more...

(Bar/None)   www.bar-none.com   The Feelies' 1980 debut had a wonderfully tightly-wound, tense sound to it. They powered through enigmatic lyrics and Velvets-inspired grooves, boos more...

(Bar/None)   www.bar-none.com   Throughout their history, it was never unusual for the Feelies to take long breaks, but the nearly two decades that passed between the release of Time more...

(Cherrytree / Interscope)   www.interscope.com   Anyone who has seen Leslie Feist join in with Broken Social Scene knows that she's not the staid chanteuse that her solo work might s more...