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(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com     It doesn't take the biggest bag of weed in town to figure out what these dudes are using for smoke signals. From the Sabbath-friendly "noddi more...

(Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum)   www.fatpossum.com   It's heartbreaking to think that for a whole generation of young music fans, Fat Possum Records will be better known for its current more...

(Crammed Discs)   www.crammed.be     The Algerian-born French composer-producer Hector Zazou, who died last year, was - like Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel and Ry Cooder - interested more...

(Bella Union)   www.bellaunion.com   Milwaukee's Heidi Spencer & the Rare Birds favor a naturalistic, organic sound on their first record, befitting a group whose music conjures more...

  (Compass) www.compassrecords.com       Heidi Talbot runs all over the stylistic landscape on In Love + Light. Within two songs, she leaps from romantic, acoustic folkie ( more...

(Asthmatic Kitty)   www.asthmatickitty.com   Roberto Carlos Lange grew up in South Florida, after his parents emigrated from Ecuador. While growing up, he took in all the local fl more...

(Asthmatic Kitty)   www.asthmatickitty.com   To record his second album under the name Helado Negro, Roberto Lange apparently ventured out into the woods of Connecticut and holed h more...

(Table of the Elements)   www.myspace.com/tableoftheelements   Helen Money is Alison Chesley. On her latest solo recording In Tune, the experimental cellist based in Chicago - curr more...

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   A year ago, the self-titled collaboration between Espers' Helena Espvall and Ghost's Masaki Batoh looked a lot like mom, bucolically serene, folk-ce more...

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   Folk music is normally shaped, even defined, by sense of place. So, what to make of this geographically indeterminant collaboration of Espers' Hel more...