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(Nettwerk)   www.nettwerk.com   Blood? Stone? Hanne Hukkelberg's third album begins and ends with air and water, as the Norwegian's breathy, multi-tracked soprano flitters through a more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   With a name like Happy Birthday, this Vermont trio can't be anything but upbeat. (It's hard to imagine a band settling on a name like that if they're more...

(Quack Media)   www.quackmedia.com   The Hard Lessons are great at creating heavy, punchy, blues-driven, garage rock that grabs you by the neck and slaps you in the face...twice! An more...

(Matador)   www.matadorrecords.com/   Here's a potential dream bill: recent Matador signing Harlem playing with Nobunny, rhe Strange Boys and the Soft Pack. Given that everyone's in more...

(Gigantic)   www.giganticmusic.com   The followup to the 2007 EP Burning Birthdays, full length debut Technicolor Health finds Brooklyn's Harlem Shakes offering a more refined and w more...

(Grönland)   www.groenland.com     Ed. note: read BLURT's massive Michael Rother interview, conducted by Wilson Neate, elsewhere on this website.   In September 197 more...

(Darla)   www.darla.com   Avant garde composer Harold Budd refers to his instrumental pieces as "art music," a particularly apt description, since his spare sense of melody and lan more...

(Darla)   www.darla.com   In 2004 ambient guru Harold Budd announced that Avalon Sutra would be his swan song, but in the time-honored tradition of musicians who publicly declare t more...

(Baby Jackal Recordings)   www.myspace.com/harperblynn   There's something so hauntingly familiar about Harper Blynn that on first encounter it's hard not to tally up the comparisons more...

(Tulsi Records)   www.myspace.com/harpersimon   Harper Simon's debut recording Harper Simon is a quirky mix of polished modern pop studio creations (occasional hints of an Aimee Mann more...