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(Jagjaguwar)   www.jagjaguwar.com   Nine years and counting, Brooklyn trio Parts & Labor continues to astound with the amount of layered, sonic commotion they can create with ju more...

(Le Grand Magistery)   www.magistery.com   Detroit is known for giving birth to Ted Nugent, the MC5 and the White Stripes. How Pas/Cal survived more than a day in that city is a que more...

(Morr Music)   www.morrmusic.com   Fresh as flowers with dew still clinging to the stems, this debut album from a pair of Icelanders distills extreme youth into an elixir of sweetnes more...

(Cooking Vinyl)   www.cookinvinylusa.com     Although Mike Rosenberg shares a similar aesthetic approach with fellow Brits James Blunt and David Gray (particularly the latter w more...

(Suicide Squeeze)   www.suicidesqueeze.net From the ashes of the late and sometimes great Seattle band, Blood Brothers, have risen two new projects: Jaguar Love and Past Lives. The latter more...

(Suicide Squeeze)   www.suicidesqueeze.net The members of Seattle's Past Lives may have all done time in the screamy, neo-punk-rock Blood Brothers, but you wouldn't necessarily know it b more...

(Domino)   www.dominorecordco.us   The Pastels might have been one of the shining stars in the C86 scene of the late '80s and early '90s, but those overdriven guitars - which united more...

(Light In The Attic)   www.lightintheattic.net   Light In The Attic's re-issue mission has unearthed a true gospel-soul classic with this 1971 release from Chicago's Pastor T.L. B more...

(Capitol/EMI)   www.emicap.com     The idea that Pat Benatar, reigning queen of all things tangentially related to either the ‘80s, leather pants, awkwardly unnecessary dan more...

(Rankoutsider) www.rankoutsiderrecords.com     Frantically brushing back imaginary strands of hair while bouncing around a sleazy nightclub like a water heater about to blow, pint-sized more...