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(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com       Once upon a time, the live album acted as the stopgap in a band's catalog, satisfying the label's demand for new product w more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   After Remember, last year's two-disc/three-record live set, put the Fiery Furnaces' rock qualities on display, it makes sense that the perf more...

(Model Citizen)   www.myspace.com/modelcitizenrecords     Irish quartet Fight Like Apes easily wins the award for "Longest Title for The Shortest EP" - hello, Fiona Apple! The more...

    (Hi-Speed Soul) www.hispeedsoul.com   Film School takes a blurry approach to their music, one which challenges the listener to somehow get a grasp on their sound. Their high more...

(Verve)   www.vervemusicgroup.com   The second album by this British singer-songwriter - a former bare-knuckle boxer from Yorkshire - shows Findlay Brown becoming the kind of melodi more...

    (Second Motion)   www.secondmotionrecords.com   It's hard to imagine what early ‘90s underground rock fans thought of Finger. This kind of straightahead, no fri more...

(Second Motion)   www.secondmotionrecords.com   It's hard to imagine what early ‘90s underground rock fans thought of Finger. This kind of straightahead, no frills rock ‘ more...

(Young God)   www.younggodrecords.com   Fire on Fire, out of Maine, bring you the best in backwoods weirdness, buttoned, corseted, poker-back-postured and deeply disturbed. Daguerre more...

(Little Music)   www.myspace.com/fireflies     Fireflies is the work of one man, Lisle Mitnik. A transplanted New Englander now living in Chicago, he records all of the musi more...

(ATO) www.atorecords.com   Paul McCartney finally comes clean about his alter-ego by deferring to his more traditional template for the Fireman's third.  Even though the experimental more...