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Rachael Sage

Chandelier

(Mpress)   www.mpressrecords.com     There are more slashes in Rachael Sage’s job description than you’ll find in a Wes Craven triple feature. Sage is a former dancer more...

Rachael Sage

Delancey Street

(MPress Records) www.rachelsage.com   Rachael Sage's M.O. since the beginning has been to meld soft, sultry vocals with solitary piano-plied gravitas, creating sparse settings that still more...

Rachael Yamagata

Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart

(Warner Bros.) www.warnerbrothers.com     Conceived as some sort of mini-opera, you can think instead of Philadelphian Yamagata's bunch of dramas as musky dusted soap opera cut thr more...

Rachel Goodrich

Rachel Goodrich

(Yellow Bear Records)   www.myspace.com/rachelgoodrich   If Rachel Goodrich was from, say, Seattle, as opposed to Miami, she might be a star by now. Indeed the hipness factor suffers more...

Rachel Grimes

Book of Leaves

(Self-Released)   www.rachelgrimespiano.com   Fourteen pensive piano compositions make up this self-produced solo effort from Rachel Grimes. Grimes, who is best known for her work w more...

Radar Brothers

The Illustrated Garden

(Merge) www.mergerecords.com   Ironically, the abrupt change that nearly put the cap on the Radar Brothers' career two years ago actually resulted in the band's rebirth. Singer/guitarist more...

Radian

Chimeric

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   The fourth album from long-running Viennese experimenters Martin Brandlmayr, Stefan Nemeth and John Norman plays with the boundaries between more...

Radiation City

The Hands That Take You

(Tender Loving Empire)   www.tenderlovingempire.com The core of this band,  Lizzy Ellison and Cameron Spies , formed the cassette label Apes Tapes sometime in the 2000's before for more...

Radio Birdman

Live In Texas

(Career/Crying Sun/Citadel)   www.careerrecords.com   Can we permanently retire the word "underrated" from the rock ‘n' roll lexicon? Great is great - hell, for that matter, cla more...

Radio Dept.

Clinging to a Scheme

(Labrador)   www.labrador.se   These crafty Swedes have been quietly releasing records for nearly the past decade and each one has been better than the one prior to it. This is full more...


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