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(Matador)   www.matadorrecords.com   I was a senior in high school when I first heard the music of Pavement.  It was 1992, and a friend of mine had picked up the then just-rele more...

(Daptone)   www.daptonerecords.com   The reissue wing of Daptone Records scores another one with the re-release of Na Teef Know De Road of Teef by Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family more...

(Now-Again)   www.nowagainrecords.com   Bay Area vibraphonist/composer P.E. Hewitt was in his teens when he first started recording albums, releasing a 50 copy run of his private pr more...

(XL)   www.xlrecordings.com   Lots of rock stars have flirted with gender-bending - David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Boy George - and schoolteacher-turned-electronica-queen Peaches is no more...

(White Fox Music)   www.myspace.com/pearl   It should come as no surprise that Ms. Pearl Aday, the stepdaughter of larger-than-life rocker Meat Loaf (a/k/a Marvin Lee Aday), should more...

(Epic/Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com     If not for a little album called Nevermind, 1991 might have been the year of Pearl Jam (indeed, when opening for Nirvana on Decem more...

(Monkeywrench)   www.pearljam.com   Normally, when things in the world are pissing them off, most respectable bands rally against the grain to create the fiercest, most poignant mat more...

(Monkeywrench Records)   http://www.monkeywrenchrecords.com/   For more seasoned fans of Pearl Jam, the mid-'90s bring to mind mixed feelings of excitement and disappointment. While more...

(Epic/Legacy)www.legacyrecordings.com   "This is a song about people who don't have taste but they like us anyway," flippantly proclaimed Eddie Vedder, to a capacity crowd of nearly 3,000 ado more...

 (Secret Stash Records)   www.secretstashrecords.com   Ladies and gentlemen, we present: Afro-Peruvian music.   Early in 2010 Cory Wong and Eric Foss of the upstart Secre more...