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(Columbia)   www.columbiarecords.com   Comparisons have been made between "Planet Health" (from Chairlift's debut album, Does You Inspire You) and Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" (the more...

Dead Oceans)   www.deadoceans.com   The twenty-years nostalgia cycle means that shoegaze music has come around again in the last few years- all hail that doomy, noisy yet melodic Br more...

(4AD)   www.4ad.com   Blues Funeral is the Mark Lanegan Band's first album since 2004's Bubblegum, and it picks up more or less where its predecessor left off, setting Lanegan's broo more...

(Fluff & Gravy Records)   www.fluffandgravy.com   Like an amiable version of the Band - after all, there's not much difference between a Drunken Prayer and a "drunkard's dream" -t more...

(Drag City)   http://www.dragcity.com/   It's only fitting that Black Bananas would waylay the world via Drag City; the same label that began with a Royal Trux release and remained l more...

(Small Horse)     www.madidiaz.com/       It is so easy to understand a certain snobbery - musical and otherwise -- that would develop in someone who had attended b more...

(Alligator)   www.alligator.com   Joe Louis Walker is the real deal. He plays the blues effortlessly and brilliantly in all their ragged glory. He can do hard rock, deep soul, gospel more...

(NoSunNoShadow)   www.NoSunNoShadow.com   The members of this Bay Area band have been around the block a few times. Guitarist/vocalist Lynda Mandolyn played in Fat Wreck Chords' act more...

(Interscope)   www.interscope.com   Joan of Arc. Lana Del Rey. That's two women I can think of off the top of my head who've been burned at the stake before they got a flying chance more...

(Bad Bitch)   www.larkingrimm.com   Feisty and free-spirited, Larkin Grimm's lack of constraint could be attributed to the fact that she was raised in the communal environs of a hipp more...