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(Transom Records) www.transomrecords.com   The name Naomi Greenwald would seem better suited to a type of woman who's drawn more towards mahjong than music. It could belong to the girl ne more...

(Capitol)   www.capitolrecords.com   It's a familiar story arc: band begins distinctively, improves musically, grows ambitiously, waxes pretentiously, wanes organically. The December more...

(self-released)   www.allindiaradio.com.au   Australian composer Martin Kennedy is likely best known on American shores for Unseen Music Unheard Words, his collaboration with Church more...

(self-released)   www.modernskirts.com   It would have seemed easy to pigeonhole this Athens, GA pop band after their sparkling 2005 debut (Catalogue of Generous Men) as yet anothe more...

(Upbeat Records/ILG)   www.cakemusic.com   This is no way meant as a slur against the Sacramento band Cake, but I can't help but be surprised that this group has managed to escape th more...

(Digital only release; Six Degrees)   Link: www.sixdegreesrecordsrecords.com   Remixes are tricky things. Generally (but not exclusively), they cut one way or another: they either ta more...

(Pink Flag)   www.pinkflag.com   There's no longer a point of calling Wire "art rock" or "punk". Only chaos and constant experimentation defines them. Since punk-‘76, its membe more...

(Blue Circle)   www.st37.com   Take this brother, and may it serve thee well. ST 37, the long-running - extant since '87 - band of psychedelic pharmacists from (where else?) Austin, more...

(Rock Candy, U.K.)   www.rockcandyrecords.co.uk     Back at the dawn of American hard rock - circa 1969 or so, 1970 at the latest - you had such eardrum-smackin' dino-stompers more...

(Alive Records)   www.alive-totalenergy.com   If anything can throw some shade at ageist trends, this is it: at approximately (he's not sure) 90 years of age, T-Model (a/k/a "The Tai more...