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(City Zen)   www.miadoitodd.com   Mia Doi Todd has reached a "post-verbal" plateau with her instrumental Morning Music. After twelve years of Patti Smith meets Nick Drake philosophe more...

(City Zen)   http://shop.miadoitodd.com/   Mia Doi Todd has a voice that flickers like flame, unfurling at the slightest breath of air into acrobatic plumes and flourishes, then drawi more...

  (FatCat)   www.fatcat.com   The percussion up-front outfit Mice Parade began as a solo vehicle for Adam Pierce (the moniker is an anagram of his name), and though his band has more...

(Electric Ragtime) www.myspace.com/fullyqualifiedsurvivor Singer/guitarist Michael Chapman has always been one of folk music most irrepressible eccentrics. While his English contemporaries - more...

(Anti-)   www.anti.com     Maybe it's just the revolutionary growl in Michael Franti's voice, but the reggae rocker seems tailor-made for crafting empowering political protest more...

(Gnomonsong)   www.gnomonsong.com   Lately, the band Ida has become a one-chord wonder, meaning they can hang on one chord and make you wonder how they're able to give it symphonic more...

(Epic/Sony)   www.epicrecords.com/tags/michael-jackson   How many times should we all join together and one-up each other heaping superlatives on Michael Jackson's classic songs? &n more...

(Shiny Shiny)   www.michaelmillercrusade.com   Awash in a melodic swath of near-psychedelic ether, Michael Miller's I Made You Up teeters between that delicate dream state of newbor more...

(Spinefarm/Universal)   http://www.spinefarm.fi   When Hanoi Rocks broke up for the second time, singer Michael Monroe unsurprisingly resumed his solo career. Recognizing, however, t more...

(Backdrop)   www.obliqsound.com/backdrop   The deceptively complicated grooves on D'Angelo's masterpiece Voodoo never had quite the impact that they should have. In particular, neo-s more...