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(Barbes)   www.barbes.com   Ethnomusicologists beware. Las Rubias Del Norte's third and latest album wants nothing to do with purity. Its dozen Latin-flavored cuts borrow melodies f more...

(Turtle's Pace)   www.lastchancerunaround.com   They had me at the first jangle.   How often do you fall utterly and permanently under the spell of a pop album after just a so more...

(American Beat Records)   www.myspace.com/americanbeat   With bands like The Romantics and Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers having records (twofers, just like this) reissued on more...

(Paper Bag)   www.paperbagrecords.com   I love Canada.  You should love Canada too.  It's cold there, much colder than wherever you are.  Unless you're reading this more...

(Diesel Only) www.dieselonly.com   Given her knack for crafting instantly infectious melodies over the course of her first three albums, Laura Cantrell would seem the last person you'd ex more...

(Diesel Only)   www.lauracantrell.com   Laura Cantrell's come a long way since she first befriended John Flansburgh, co-leader of the band They Must Be Giants, over a decade ago and m more...

(Barsuk)   www.barsuk.com   Laura Gibson has a voice that flutters and trembles, hopping octave-length intervals weightlessly like a bird jumping from a low branch to a higher one. T more...

(Holocene Music)   www.holocenemusic.com   Laura Gibson usually creates objects of solidity: there are different textures, maybe, her last album full of items cast in wool, terracot more...

(Astralwerks)   www.astralwerks.com Contrast these titles: Alright, Still, Made Of Bricks and Alas I Cannot Swim. The first is a slangy retort and the second a self-assured proclamation, bu more...

(Astralwerks)   www.astralwerks.com   She emerged in 2008 as a contemporary British folkie, but Laura Marling's sophomore release isn't so simply described.  If I Speak Because more...