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(Bloodshot)   www.bloodshotrecords.com   While there are plenty of examples to back up the aphorism that most musicians want to be actors and most actors are simply frustrated music more...

(Mute)   www.mute.com   This is the latest long-player from a Swedish one-man band that always had at least 20 players on it. Leader/songwriter Emanuel Lundgren burst onto the scene i more...

(Roar Scratch)   www.theicarusline.org   It's been four years since the Icarus Line released a record - in today's climate that's several lifetimes. But the iconoclastic L.A. quartet more...

(What's Your Rupture?)   www.whatsyourrupture.com   Iceage may boast a sound that suggests deep roots in the scene that emerged from L.A.'s notorious underground punk venue The Smell more...

(Polyvinyl)   www.polyvinylrecords.com     Opening with a droning pump organ and a gently strummed guitar, I feel like I've heard this Ida record before. Songs move slowly, wi more...

(Upper 11/Fontana)   www.upper11.com   It's going to be hard for anyone to get past Track 4 on the debut album by this extremely likable 24-year-old Norwegian singer. It's a sexy-fu more...

(Chimera)   www.chimera.com   If By Yes, the collaboration between one-woman vocal orchestra Petra Haden and Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda, sounds on the surface like bright, dreamy pop. P more...

(Astralwerks)   www.astralwerks.com/   Préliminaires doesn't quite make me want to smear peanut butter on my chest, but after 40 years of righteous face-meltage, we owe Monsi more...

(Yep Roc)    www.yeproc.com     The Iguanas were among the thousands dispersed from New Orleans by the great hurricane of 2003, and thereby displaced from their way of li more...

(Acrobat Music)   www.acrobatmusic.net     As Tina Turner leans into the first big note of Otis Redding's tortured Memphis soul gem "I've Been Loving You Too Long," the track more...