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(Rhino)   www.rhino.com   You'd be hard-pressed to find a more polarizing band from the last 25 years than the Smiths. For every devotee, there's two people who aren't just disinter more...

(Music For Heroes)   www.MusicForHeroes.com   The Smoke Fairies' Ghosts is a mystical journey through dark musical terrain, where haunting melodies swell within foreboding guitar arr more...

(Year Seven Records)   www.yearsevenrecords.com   Given their low-lit, solitary stance, the Smoke Fairies are quickly laying claim to being Britain's new folk darlings, and indeed, th more...

(Afro Sambas)   www.smokeyhormel.com   Smokey Hormel has been the guitarist of choice for some of the most imaginative and genre-defying artists of the last couple decades. His wide more...

(Alligator)   www.alligator.com   Texas blues has been known for producing great guitar players over the years, from Lightnin' Hopkins to Freddy King to Albert Collins to Johnny Win more...

(Elastic Ruby)    www.snowandvoices.com     Working as a keyboardist for Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple, Jebin Bruni must have sensed a kindred spirit in singer Lauri Kranz&rsquo more...

(Makeshift Music)   www.makeshiftmusic.com   This Memphis, TN bunch has apparently been around for quite some time but this is the first I've heard of them. Still, if their tunes more...

(Green Owl)   www.greenowlrecords.com   Alex Levine of Brooklyn's So So Glos eases into the heart of this nine-song mini-album with a wistful little fragment of a song called "There more...

(Drag City/Yoga)   www.dragcity.com   The latest act in Drag City's series of underground reissues, Social Climbers existed as a tangential strand of the first run of New York no wa more...

(Shelflife Records)   www.shelflife.com   The name Andy Hitchcock might not mean much to most but for fans of the much vaunted (defunct) Sarah Records label it would mean a whole l more...