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(DFA Records)   www.dfarecords.com   Yacht's See Mystery Lights is a record of mantras. Some lyrical, some instrumental. Nearly every tune has one (or more). It's an odd mix of inan more...

(Prophase)   www.prophasemusic.com   In late 2007 the publication of The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, YaHoWa 13 and the Source Family (Process Media) revealed for the firs more...

(Drag City)    www.dragcity.com   Thanks to a book and a series of album reissues, early ‘70s cult commune the Source Family has experienced renewed interest of late, so more...

(Mute)   www.mute.com   "Goodbye Seventies," Alison Moyet sang on the first Yazoo album. Then, the squelchy, buzzy, percolating synthesizers that accompanied her connoted the future more...

(Interscope)    www.interscope.com     In the case of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Zero" equaled success.     That song, says lead singer Karen O, was the first the more...

(Volcom Entertainment)   www.volcoment.com   Even though a sustained collective groan may have been heard from the peanut gallery at the news that Soundgarden was getting back togeth more...

(Secretly Canadian)   www.secretlycanadian.com   Yeasayer, naysayer... this album blows.   Yeasayer, the Brooklyn ethno-trance-dance celebrants, caught a wave set in motion more...

(Fallout, UK) www.soundlinkmusic.com     Oh, to be a band rescued from obscurity by a preeminent reissue label like Fallout, only to have your legacy be defined by the accomplishment more...

(Barsuk)   www.barsuk.com   In "WHALE," Alex Schaaf's reedy tenor weaves up and around itself, layered in harmonies, offset by intricate counterparts, punctuated by raucous, celebrat more...

(Up) www.uprecords.com   The Yellowhammers have been advancing their urban take on roots rock Americana for the better part of the past fifteen years, but there's nothing like a big name more...