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(Mute)   www.mute.com   Short of having himself cloned and bronzed on Sheffield's street corners, Richard Hawley is synonymous with his hometown, titling albums after its landmarks, more...

(Parasol) www.parasol.com   Respected and revered as one of the musicians who, with his band Television, helped transform punk from its anarchic beginnings to a new level of competence a more...

  (Secretly Canadian) www.secretlycanadian.com       After the sepia-toned Nilsson shout-out that was 2007’s Dressed Up for the Letdown, something less Tin Pan Alley-is more...

(Shout! Factory)   www.shoutfactory.com     The title for Richard Thompson's four-disc box set seems a bit odd, since that particular song was sung by his then-wife Linda Thomp more...

(Shout! Factory)   www.shoutfactory.com   Any Richard Thompson fan will tell you that no matter how great his records have been - and 1982's soon-to-be-reissued Shoot Out the Lights, more...

(Always an Adventure Records) www.richiefuray.com   If the Buffalo Springfield wasn't the most influential American band of all time, they arguably came close, easily equaling the Byrds, more...

(Verve Forecast)   www.vervemusicgroup.com     I have to admit that I’m glad Richie Havens is still out there making records and doing the good work he does.  This is more...

(Red Bear)   www.redbearrecordings.com   When a popular band's frontman goes the solo route it frequently sounds the "danger, Will Robinson!" alert back at the mothership, but in th more...

(El Cortez/Arena Rock)   www.elcortezrecords.us / www.arenarock.com   There's an old Paul Simon song titled "Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy." It begins by telling the listeners that more...

(El Cortez)   www.elcortezrecords.us   In recent years, singer, songwriter and guiding light behind Portland Oregon's Richmond Fontaine, Willy Vlautin, has expanded his creative pal more...