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(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...

(Light in the Attic)   www.lightintheattic.net   A contemporary of fellow U.K. folk guitar stars Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, John Martyn and Roy Harper, Michael Chapman never quite fo 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...

(Louds Hymn)   www.michaelrankmusic.com   With more vital body fluids spilling from these grooves than Shoot Out the Lights and Blood on the Tracks combined, the new solo album from more...

(SideCho)   www.sidecho.com   Worse than the outright terrible record, which at least inspires some sort of instinctual reaction-even if it is disgust-is the mediocre one, the middl more...