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(Signature Sounds)   www.signaturesounds.com   Waving goodbye to the somewhat jaded state that's followed snoring through the deluge of over-canny/cute, self-conscious/reverential, or more...

(Morr Music)   www.morrmusic.com Over the past decade or so, one of Germany's best musical exports has been the soft but lively electronic-organic fusion purveyed by bands like The Notwi more...

(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com     Lambchop are a lot like one of those little puzzles that you'll find on your table at hundreds of country-styled restaurants that dot the Am more...

(Interscope)   www.interscope.com   Joan of Arc. Lana Del Rey. That's two women I can think of off the top of my head who've been burned at the stake before they got a flying chance more...

(Constellation)   www.cstrecords.com   When West meets East (or Middle Eastern), too often the musical results read like timid travelogues of people too frightened to get off the to more...

(Saddle Creek)   www.saddle-creek.com   It's getting tougher to tell the players apart these days, especially that new breed hailing from north of the border. It's an especially dif more...

(Kemado)   www.kemado.com   Langhorne Slim has always been a bit of a contradiction, creating folk-rock that is both well-crafted and shambolic, as if he labored over his songwritin more...

(Kemado) www.kemado.com     A few years ago, Langhorne Slim’s career seemed poised to take off. Then his record label folded, essentially silencing him for two years. His latest more...

(Bad Bitch)   www.larkingrimm.com   Feisty and free-spirited, Larkin Grimm's lack of constraint could be attributed to the fact that she was raised in the communal environs of a hipp more...

(Fire)   www.firerecords.com   Las Kellies' cover of ESG's "Erase You," slinks and struts with an animal grace, its spiky minimalism grounded in grunting, primitive bass and embellis more...