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(Home Tapes)   www.home-tapes.com   Slaraffenland, the Danish post-rock multi-instrumented quintet, continues its move away from the freeform experimentation of its 2004 Private Cine more...

(Western Vinyl)   westernvinyl.com From the opening strings and airy snare drum cracks of the first instrumental track on Sleep Whale's new album, "Green Echo," to the entrance of reverb- more...

(Mom + Pop Music/NEET)   www.momandpoprecords.com   Near the end of last year Sleigh Bells dropped "Crown On The Ground," a single marked not only by its winning combination of sludg more...

(Alternative Tentacles)   www.alternativetentacles.com     Last we heard from Slim Cessna and those bandits that make up the Auto Club was their release from 2000, Always Say P more...

(Narnack)   www.narnackrecords.com   For the long-awaited follow-up to 1981's Return of the Giant Slits, this latest incarnation of the femmes fatales of dub punk - who only count f more...

(Yep Roc) www.yeproc.com       They’re Canadian, they’re big in Canada, and their methods bring to mind a New Yorker cartoon’s perfect (or perfectly American) di more...

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   If Sloan has any goals they've yet to achieve, it's due only to the high bar they've set for themselves. Indeed, after their 30-song opus Never Hear the E more...

(EMI)   www.emimusic.com   The story of the Smashing Pumpkins is so histrionically rife with personal drama, drug abuse, creative stagnation, senseless line-up changes and overdriven more...

(Fat Possum)   www.fatpossum.com   It seems as though the members of the young, savage Chicago indie-glam outfit Smith Westerns caught a little of the glitter residue that sprinkled more...

(Koch)   www.KochRecords.com   For some unexplainable reason, the Smithereens covering a random selection of "Beatles obscurities" (if that isn't an oxymoron) works much better tha more...