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(Iconoclassic) www.iconoclassicrecords.com   The first and only live album recorded during her relatively brief lifetime, Laura Nyro's Season Of Lights was part of a stylistic transition more...

(Nonesuch)   www.nonesuch.com   Laurie Anderson is best when she's quietest and carrying a big stick. For her first new studio recorded work in nearly a decade, the dark humorist sc more...

(Bella Union)   www.bellaunion.com   Like fellow ex-Brunettes Ryan McPhun, James Milne is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and neo-psychedelic one-man band. Milne's Lawrence Arabia more...

(Thrill Jockey)     www.thrilljockey.com     If a duo from Chicago makes dark and driving electronic music with vintage equipment, could it really be "retro"? Wouldn't it more...

 (self-released)   www.lazyflux.com   Take some vintage interstellar Floyd, sprinkle lightly with motorik-drone Can, dose liberally with globs of shoegazey Ride and Stone Roses, more...

(DFA)   www.dfarecords.com   LCD Soundsystem can do no wrong sonically. James Murphy, the mastermind behind LCD and DFA Records, has the knack and talent for creating bodaciously ca more...

(Shelflife)   www.shelflife.com   To the naked eye you might think this Finnish band is a new one, but dig a little deeper and you'll discover that they have been at it for nearly a more...

(Stuck)   www.leatherbagmusic.blogspot.com   Austin's Leatherbag has long flown the flag for simple rock & roll - not dumbed down sounds, mind you, but rock stripped down to its more...

(No Idea)     www.noidearecords.com     True believers don't come much truer than British punks Leatherface. Despite a half-decade break during the last part of the &lsq more...

(MOD Technologies)   www.mod-technologies.com   At 75, Lee "Scratch" Perry is now something of a visionary for his groundbreaking production work that became the template for dub re more...