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(Sunday Best)   www.sundaybest.net.com   Just to get it out of the way up front: Yes, at 53, Cure frontman Robert Smith is probably (definitely) too old to be wearing pale make up an more...

(9th Grade Records)   www.thedavidmayfieldparade.com   David Mayfield is one versatile Nashville cat. He used to gig around as a hired gun, playing guitar for country ace Andy Griggs, more...

(Puzzle Tree Music) www.puzzletreemusic.com   Like Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, Pete Droge and Elaine Summers have a natural affinity, both for pop essentials and for each other.&nbs more...

(Ex Records) www.theex.nl Feeling a chill? Hard to say if The Ex's new album forecasts weather disasters or something even worse, but the Dutch quartet is sounding a gloriously rowdy alarm. " more...

    (Acetate)   www.acetate.com   Defiantly out of step with its peers, the Factory (not to be confused with Little Feat founder Lowell George's earlier group the Factory) d more...

(Cherry Red)   www.cherryred.co.uk   Mark E. Smith has, perhaps, always been a mad old coot. Even in his 20s, he had a certain filthy-bathrobed menace, as he mouthed inscrutable thre more...

(Anti-/Kompakt)   www.kompakt.fm       There are some great ideas on Alex (The Field) Willner's new album. The fact that most of these ideas occurred first to Steve R more...

(Kompakt)   www.kompakt.fm   Creating quality dance music is a feat unto itself. But to craft it in real time with live instrumentation truly requires a sense of skill and knowledge more...

(Plant Music)   www.plantmusic.com For all the hipster-centric folderol mouthed about The Glass, what we have here is basically two smart-aleck rhythm box junkies - one of whom (Dominique more...

(Communicating Vessels)   www.communicatingvessels.net   This little known Birmingham, Alabama quartet is led by Taylor Shaw. He used to be in a band called Wild Sweet Orange but th more...