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 (Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Credit this Seattle outfit with choosing a moniker that fits their template completely, one defined by tender emotions tempered by an occasional cl more...

(XL Recordings)   www.xlrecordings.com   The once aptly named Horrors has returned with Skying, their third full length release. The UK quartet's 2007 debut was an eerie, garage roc more...

(Hidden Agenda)   www.parasol.com   Given the musical pedigrees of co-founders Jim Elkington and Janet Beveridge Bean, this debut from The Horse's Ha is pretty much what you'd expec more...

(Sunbeam Records)   www.sunbeamrecords.com   Before Flying Nun Records wasn't even yet a sparkle in the eye of Roger Shepherd and back when the Finn Brothers were still in short pant more...

(DFA)   www.dfarecords.com There's something very ‘80s about the new The Juan MacLean record, The Future Will Come. It's not exactly the production, although MacLean's electro-house more...

(Domino)   www.dominorecordco.com   At SXSW a couple of years ago Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince put on one of the event's most explosive showcases, period. Equal parts Hince's dept more...

(Rabid/Mute)   www.rabidrecords.com / www.mute.com At first blush, the concept appears to make perfect sense: The Knife, along with musicians Mt. Sims and Planningtorock and theater group more...

(Vanguard) www.vanguardrecords.com   Are the Living Sisters actually the Andrews Sisters reincarnated for a new millennium? That's the initial impression gleaned from this ad hoc trio more...

(Hip-O Select/Motown)   www.hiposelect.com   No matter how seminal the first half of the Marvelettes' Motown career was, the second half had to have a new script. Their first release more...

(Zobal Global)   www.themodeens.com   Roll over, Dick Taylor, and tell Gerry Roslie the news. Straight outta Tucson, by way of stints in NYC and L.A., are The Modeens, whose moderne more...