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(East Side Digital)   www.noside.com/esd   It would be incredibly easy to dismiss Halloween, Alaska, as another conveyor-belt, lite-rock outfit with hipster points (drummer David Kin more...

(Ashbury Records)   www.ashburyrecords.com   This band is led by San Francisco musician Ryan Auffenberg who has at least one solo record (maybe more?), 2008's Marigolds, that is w more...

(Churchkey Records)   www.churchkeyrecords.com   This is the third release from this Durham, North Carolina trio after a 2007 EP and a debut full-length in 2011. The band wisely g more...

  (Twos and Fews-Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   Originally discovered by American folk musicologist Guy Carawan in 1964, Hamper McBee of Monteagle, Tennessee, was a local lumi more...

(Carrot Top)    www.carrottoprecords.com   Since the release of their debut record in 1995 (Odessa) the Handsome Family (married couple Brett and Rennie Sparks) have explored more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   From the moment the glitchy synths begin popping on opening track "Legal Tender," the Handsome Furs start writing the most idiosyncratic 8-bit love note more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Wolf Parade may continue to be on indefinite hiatus. But pack leader Dan Boeckner remains as busy as ever on his critically acclaimed side project, Hands more...

(Curb)   www.curb.com   It's tempting to say that Curb Records, to which Hank Williams III is signed, put Damn Right Rebel Proud out on its rarely used Sidewalk imprint because Hank more...

(Devil's Ruin)   www.devilsruinrecords.com          Berlin's Hank Ray is a roots man.  The extremely prolific Mr. Ray, aka the Godfather of Death Co more...

(Time-Life Entertainment)   www.timelife.com     To say that anyone who doesn't like Hank Williams' music simply hasn't heard it yet may be the weakest of arguments, but that more...