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(Full Time Hobby) www.fulltimehobby.co.uk   He's saddled with a generic name that runs the risk of confusing him with any number of other semi-anonymous musicians, but on his fifth album more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   It feels like it's been a long time since a band on Sub Pop actually sounded like a Sub Pop band, hasn't it? Way back before the Pitchforkification of i more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   For their second Sub Pop LP in the span of a year, Male Bonding showcase some serious growth spurts as a creative entity. The noise pop trio from London' more...

(Anti-)   www.anti.com   Philadelphia's Man Man have spent the better part of the decade and its three principle lo-lo-fi albums jumping from Zappa to Beefheart to Sun Ra and back ag more...

(Overground)   www.overgroundrecords.co.uk   A prized collectible from this venerated Alabaman space-surf band loses eBay value but gains twice its weight on an outta-this-world reis more...

(Canvasback/Favorite Gentlemen)   www.canvasbackmusic.com   I never would have dreamed these guys had so much rock to give. I mean, I knew they had those tendencies. But last time ou more...

(Magic Marker)   www.magicmarkerrecords.com   Hailing from the UK and exuding a noise punk cool of the Jesus and Mary Chain with leather jackets, sunglasses, sneers  and danglin more...

(Rocket Science Ventures)   www.rocketscienceventures.com   Fierce attitude comes out of London from an alternative/punk rock trio called MANRAZE, originally formed in 2004 by Def Lep more...

(Valley Farm Songs)   www.marah-usa.com   There seems to have been some sort of fissure within the ranks of Marah, a band that's racked up an impressive number of albums by trading more...

  (Pi)   www.pirecordings.com   Ribot's latest project — well, #one# of his latest projects — is a trio with drummer Ches Smith and bass player Shahzad Ismaily. P more...