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(Mid-Fi)   www.supersuckers.com     Twenty years can seem like an eternity but for some reason it seems like only yesterday Seattle's Supersuckers unleashed their fiery brand more...

(Jagjaguwar)   www.jagjaguwar.com   It's hard to fathom where rock would be without the Velvet Underground, whose mix of intellectualism and primitivism created a new dramatic struct more...

(Fire)   www.firerecords.com   From the perspective of we Yanks over here it would appears that after a serious burst o creativity in the 80's and early 90's that new Zealand has bee more...

(Kanine)   www.kaninerecords.com Straight out of Palm Beach, Florida shoots the sure-as-shit contender for best album of this nascent new year, Surfer Blood's Astro Coast. This is gonna more...

(Kanine)   www.kaninerecords.com   Only four songs on here but it's a good four songs. First track "I'm Not Ready" is a midtempo pop tune with a nice bounce to it, while "Miranda" k more...

(Threadhead)   www.threadheadrecords.org   The songs on Lighthouse are guided by two themes - loss and hope. Both have been a part of music since the beginning, but Susan Cowsill ( more...

(Self-released)   www.susanjamesmusic.com     The American music scene has rootsy singer/songwriters coming out of its proverbial ears, and it can be difficult to stand out from more...

(Luaka Bop)   www.luakabop.com   Spanish non-speakers are at something of a disadvantage with Susana Baca's new EP, which interprets the songs of Peru's Chabuca Granda and (on one more...

(Rune Grammofon)     www.runegrammofon.com   Thin Lizzy songs don't exactly lend themselves to dour, downcast and downtempo acoustic renderings, but as Norwegian singer Susann more...

    (Secretly Canadian)   www.secretlycanadian.com   "Don't be yourself. You are someone else," sings Ben Shemie from Montreal's Suuns (formerly Zeroes), in "Gaze," a chill more...