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Tony Bennett

Duets II

(RPM-Columbia)   www.columbiarecords.com   At 85 years young, Tony Bennett has indubitably earned the right to do and say what he wants.   A veteran of World War II who fought more...

American Werewolf Academy

Everything Is Alright So Far

(Damnably Records)   www.damnably.com   Remember the first time you heard The Replacement's "Bastards of Young"? For many it reset all expectations of what a rock song could and shou more...

Brian Eno

Panic of Looking EP

  (Warp)   www.warp.net   Brian Eno extrapolates upon his excellent and daftly overlooked spoken word collaboration with British poet Rick Holland from earlier this year,&nbs more...

Beats Antique

Elektraphone

(Antique Records)   www.beatsantique.com   Beats Antique kick up quite a bit of both earth-bound and cosmic dust on their fourth full length album, Elektraphone. Over ten instrument more...

Melissa Bryan

Return of the Woman

(Rockhaüs)   www.melissabryan.net   Melissa Bryan has been a stalwart of the Austin music scene since her power pop/punk band the Shindigs made the rounds back in the early &lsqu more...

Desertshore

Dancing of Threes

(Caldo Verde)   www.caldoverderecords.com   Working within the same somber parameters that defined Drifting Your Majesty, last year's sublime debut, San Francisco chamber quartet more...

Willie Nile

The Innocent Ones

(Riverhouse Records)   www.willienile.com   It's a fool's game to try and figure out why some musicians catch on with a segment of the public and some remain on the outskirts, their more...

Various Artists

Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert Volume 3 & Volume 4

(Evil Teen)   www.evilteen.com   Each year around this time, a couple of weeks before Christmas, Gov't Mule frontman Warren Haynes convenes an all-star retinue of musical friends and more...

Tim Buckley

Tim Buckley (Deluxe Edition)

(Rhino Handmade)   www.rhinohandmade.com; (dist) www.lightintheattic.net   There's a curious quirk in the way folkrock-cum-avant-troubadour Tim Buckley's back catalog has been hand more...

Calexico

Selections from Road Atlas 1998-2011

(Our Soil, Our Strength/Quarterstick)   www.casadecalexico.com; www.quarterstickrecords.com   For longstanding Calexico wonks, the tour-only and "unofficial" website releases under t more...


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