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(Team Love)   www.team-love.com   Listening to McCarthy Trenching, it is easy to see why Conor Oberst snapped this Omaha band up for his label, Team Love. The band's loose-limbed co more...

(McC Records)   www.mccrecords.com   Those of us spending our time in the secular world haven't kept up with the Gospel music of the last 30 years or so. Go back to the ‘50s an more...

  (Single Recordings) www.wearethemeadows.com      Sometimes, wearing one’s influences upon one’s sleeves can be a good thing. Meet L.A.’s Meadows, aka Todd more...

(Megaforce)   www.megaforcerecords.com   There was a time when I greeted new Meat Puppets releases with the reverence others reserved for births and bat mitzvahs. In the 80s and ear more...

(Megaforce)   www.megaforcerecords.com   On their latest Lollipop, the Meat Puppets are a far cry from the sloppy punk band that first started popping up in small clubs across souther more...

(Meatmen Records)   www.teascovee.com   After ruling for most of the 1980's Tesco Vee and his Meatmen seemingly vanished for nearly the last two decades. Oh sure, in the early &lsq more...

(Dischord)   www.dischord.com   It's hard to believe it has been 5 years since the last Medications record (their first full length, Your Favorite People All in One Place; their debu more...

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   Meg Baird always lent an ethereal warmth to Espers. Both her voice and her casually intricate picking are soft, assured and limned with sunshine. W more...

(Hometapes)   www.home-tapes.com   For all the talk about freak folk, new folk, roots and other permutations of traditional mores, the pure patchwork shuffle of acoustic instrumenta more...

    (Hometapes)   www.hometapes.com   Praised for its elastic take on Americana, this North Carolina trio flexes its know-rules/break-rules muscles on a mini-LP of roots-so more...