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(Shout Factory)   www.shoutfactory.com   Still worshiped in power pop circles light years down the road from his last semi-mainstream moment, Matthew Sweet kicks off his latest effo more...

(Missing Piece)   www.matthewsweet.com   In the years since releasing Girlfriend, something profound has happened to Mr. Matthew Sweet. A string of great and sometimes overlooked alb more...

(Shout Factory)   www.shoutfactory.com     Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs - a/k/a Sid'n'Susie - follow up their tour of 60s pop classic with a jaunt through the 70s in Under t more...

Anti-   (www.anti.com)     What goes around, comes around. Soul music came out of gospel all those decades ago - Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" and "Hallelujah I Love Her So" - a more...

  (Anti-)   www.anti.com    55 years into her recording career, Mavis Staples is making music that ranks with the best she's ever done. After Ry Cooder put her richly deepen more...

(Domino)   www.dominorecordco.com     Meticulous Ben Jacobs, listed on marquees as Max Tundra, takes his time making records. He works on just one cut at time, in album order, more...

(DGC/Interscope)   www.interscope.com   TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has worn several pointy hats in his brief career: guitarist and producer for that ensemble, knob-twiddler for Fo more...

(Stones Throw)   www.stonesthrow.com   One cannot deny Mayer Hawthorne's talents as a soul singer or his pedigree as a scholar of the classic R&B sound. The man grew up just wit more...

(Parasol) www.parasol.com   Taking a temporary sojourn from their roles within the Chicago outfit the 1900s, Mazes' mainstays Edward Anderson and Caroline Donovan - along with pal Charles more...

(Level Up)   www.suchascream.net   Calling your hip-hop "nerdcore," and saying that you pioneered this dubious genre, will endear you to some. But if you're gonna claim this mantle more...