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(Dischord)   www.dischord.com   When Jawbox reunited on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in December of 2009 to commemorate Dischord's outstanding reissue of their seminal third album, 1 more...

(Epic Records/Outsiders)   www.epicrecords.com   Sounding more than a little bit Danish (it's the density of the stringed synths and samples, not the sweet well-defined hooks that ma more...

(Friendly Fire)   www.friendlyfirerecordings.com Oh No Ono describe themselves as "experimental pop," a simplistic summation that is a fairly accurate description of the Danish band's car more...

(Jagjaguwar)   www.jagjaguwar.com   The follow-up to last year's The Stage Names is another wild-ride discourse on the funhouse mirror of celebrity and its entourage of trappings - more...

(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)   www.folkways.si.edu   A mountain and bluegrass performer and songwriter who died just short of age 86 in 2002, Ola Belle Reed was neither an "old more...

(Western Vinyl)   www.westernvinyl.com   David Wingo may have first gotten some attention dong soundtracks for David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls, up to this more...

    (Erased Tapes)   www.erasedtapes.com   Rock ‘n' roll/contemporary pop has made room for infusions of energy and creative musical ideas from many unexpected quarte more...

(Columbia/Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com   The first "world music" star arose in the West before the term was even coined. In 1959, Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji ent more...

(New West)   www.newwestrecords.com     Thank you, Rhett Miller, for picking up a telecaster again, and helping the Old 97's find their long-lost twang.  After seven album more...

(New West)   www.newwestrecords.com     Have the Old 97's gone glam? If the initial tracks off their effusive new album are any indication, that prognosis certainly falls within more...