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(Ze/Strut) www.strut-records.com   www.zerecords.com     New York City in the late ‘70s can be viewed through so many prisms it'd make your head spin: no wavers, funk-p more...

(American Dust)   www.americandust.net   Though barely known, even in her brief lifetime, Judee Sill remains one of contemporary music's more tragic stories, not only due to her lac more...

(Rhino)   www.rhino.com   The ‘60s L.A. scene has long been a red-headed stepchild to the psychedelic explosion in San Francisco and the folk renaissance in New York. While L more...

(Phil Spector Records/Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com Anyone who's heard this album warming the hearts of giddy shoppers in a major department store over the past 40 years should be f more...

(BYO Records)   www.byorecords.com   Billed as a "box set" - this 31-song single disc and accompanying DVD packaged in a 108-page book written by Mark, Shawn and Jamie Stern chronic more...

(Sundazed)   www.sundazed.com   The British Invasion spawned local imitators everywhere it landed, with boys in bowl cuts picking up fuzz guitars from Belgrade to Buenos Aires. Chi more...

(Tompkins Square)   www.tompkinssquare.com   Where to start with this mighty tome of a release? Here are the stats: Fire In My Bones features 78 tracks by 78 artists, spread over more...

(Twos & Fews/Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   Over the last couple of years, it seems like everyone and their mother has been jumping aboard the Afropop bandwagon, whether its more...

(Daptone)   www.daptonerecords.com   For lovers of modern-vintage soul music, the rise of Daptone Records since 2001 has been one of the most exciting label foundings since... well, more...

(The Numero Group)   www.numerogroup.com   Herein lays the plight of the white music snob: the constant strive for a musical authenticity and an inability to find these moments in t more...