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(Graveface)   www.graveface.com   That fellow known as Tobacco might be the man in charge of Black Moth Super Rainbow, but his bandmate who answers to Seven Fields of Aphelion might more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Over the course of his near twenty years in the game, Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler has never fronted on his will to be weird. But nothing the Seattle-based more...

(Kill Rock Stars)   www.killrockstars.com     Reportedly known as a must-see live act in their hometown of Portland, Ore., The Shaky Hands certainly suggest they may be more more...

(Bar/None)   www.bar-none.com     Not unlike a golden-voiced phoenix rising from the flames of what was the brilliant Mendoza Line and the ashes of Shannon McArdle’s marr more...

(Asthmatic Kitty)   www.asthmatickitty.com       Shannon Stephens' Breadwinner, released in 2009, was the first inkling, for most people of this Sufjan Stevens collab more...

(Thirty Tigers) www.thirtytigers.com   The blend of Shannon Whitworth's remarkably sultry vocals and Neilson Hubbard's shimmery production palette creates a hypnotic tableau for this, Wh more...

      (Daptone)   www.daptonerecords.com   Revivalists have an unusual problem - accurately capturing the vibe of a musical sound long since fallen from public favo more...

(CBS)       www.cbsrecords.com     It's hard to avoid lapsing into the sort of jargon that gets routinely applied to racehorses or running backs when contemplati more...

(Language of Stone)   www.languageofstone.com     One has come to expect that lo-fi productions suit lo-fi singers, those whose voices lack range and drama but are suited for t more...

    (Ba Da Bing!)   www.badabingrecords.com   The art for Sharon Van Etten's 2008  Because I Was in Love is a sepia-toned pen-and-ink sketch of the artist's face, subd more...