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Chromeo

Business Casual

  (Atlantic)   www.atlanticrecords.com     When bands like Phoenix, Junior Boys or Justice re-appropriate the post-disco sounds of the late ‘70s/'80s they usually do s more...

Crocodiles

Sleep Forever

    (Fat Possum)   www.fatpossum.com   San Diego duo Crocodiles debuted in 2009 with Summer of Hate, wherein thrumming Velvet Underground choogle met fuzz ‘n' feedbac more...

Gary Numan

1978-1979 (vinyl)

  (Vinyl 180)   www.vinyl180.com   It is already ten years into the 21st century and it seems with the success of such acts as LCD Soundsystem, Lady Gaga and Janelle Monae, pop m more...

Underworld

Barking

  (Cooking Vinyl)    www.cookingvinyl.com   Underworld's new album reaches its apex early on. "Always Loved a Film," a pulsating anthem and update on epic trance, employs a more...

Black Country Communion

Black Country Communion

  (J&R Adventures)   www.jbonamassa.com   Blues fans wondered what guitarist Joe Bonamassa was up to when the news leaked out that he had formed an ersatz "supergroup" with more...

Hamper McBee

The Good Old-Fashioned Way

  (Twos and Fews-Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   Originally discovered by American folk musicologist Guy Carawan in 1964, Hamper McBee of Monteagle, Tennessee, was a local lumi more...

Budos Band

III

  (Daptone)    www.daptonerecords.com   You can tell from the opening moments of the new Budos Band record that they mean business. That's the business of funkafying your so more...

Morlocks

The Morlocks Play Chess

  (popantipop Records)     www.popantipop.com/   There's nothing new under the sun, as the old expression goes, and that's especially true for music. The long genetic cha more...

Weezer

Hurley

  (Epitaph)   www.epitaph.com   Somewhere between the big and small (cue the welcome to new indie sponsor, Epitaph) and the Pinkerton and Raditude of it all, Rivers Cuomo and com more...

Dave Weld and the Imperial Flames

Burnin' Love

  (Delmark)   www.delmark.com   Burnin' Love is the first studio album from Chicago bluesman Dave Weld in over a decade. He kept his band, the Imperial Flames, together during t more...


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