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(SSSC/ILG)   streetsweepersocialclub.com   The militant brainchild of Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello and The Coup's Boots Riley, Street Sweeper Social Club isn't as incendia more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Milwaukee psych-popsters Jaill have cleverly conceived a melding of classic garage, some indie-rock and early Brit-beat without being at all clich&eacut more...

(4AD)   www.4AD.com   Let's begin here: If you were to chart rock bands from Oxford, England, you'd find newcomers Stornoway at the furthest point possible from Radiohead, sonica more...

(Relapse)   www.relapse.com     From the mid-‘80s through the early ‘90s, it seemed that all the cool alternative musicians were part of a giant, collective family more...

 (Vagrant)   www.vagrant.com   J. Roddy and his crew clearly stopped listening to music sometime around the late ‘70s and that's a beautiful thing. The Baltimore - by way more...

(Cuneiform)   www.cuneiform.com   A Beautiful Western Saddle is an anomaly in avant-jazz Curlew's catalog, the only one of a string of albums released between 1979 and 2003 that fea more...

(Mercury Records UK)   www.mercuryrecords.co.uk   Be careful what you wish for, because it may come true - this is the sentiment that plagued British musician Mike Oldfield after t more...

(Signature Sounds)   www.signaturesounds.com   Eilen Jewell, the sweetheart of Boise, Idaho, continues to re-invent herself with Butcher Holler, a deep bow in the direction of 1988 more...

(Interscope)   www.interscope.com   When QOTSA's sophomore set emerged in the summer of 2000, it tore through the tepid, sorry post-grunge hard rock landscape like a mushroom cloud more...

(Asthmatic Kitty)   www.asthmatickitty.com       Shannon Stephens' Breadwinner, released in 2009, was the first inkling, for most people of this Sufjan Stevens collab more...