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Freaking Out

(Get Hip)   www.gethip.com   Admittedly, these Philly garage mavens, who have been at it for nearly two decades, don't get a ton of points for originality but what they lack in tha more...

Solex vs. Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer

Amsterdam Throwdown, Kingstreet Showdown

(Bronzerat Records)   www.bronzerat.com   It may not be the highest profile supergroup the indie world has thrown our way in recent memory. But it's not without its promise or its hi more...

Woods

At Echo Lake

 (Woodsist)   www.woodsist.com   As someone who grew up in the Hudson Valley area of the wide swath of land known to most city folk as Upstate, New York, there is nothing more more...

Peter Case

Wig!

(Yep Roc) www.yeproc.com   Peter Case has the blues... a deep, stirred in the soul, gut-wrenching case of the blues that fills every nuance of his latest endeavor. Once an upstart rabble more...

People Like Us & Wobbly

Music for the Fire

(Illegal Art)   www.illegal-art.net   Despite intense collagist PLU/aka Vicki Bennett's stated narrative ("A plunderphonic concept album depicting the lifespan of a relationship"), s more...

Steel Train

Steel Train

(Terrible Thrills) www.steeltrain.net   In today's homogenized pop environment even the best bands with potential for mass appeal sometimes have a difficult time separating themselves fr more...

Marah

Life Is A Problem

(Valley Farm Songs)   www.marah-usa.com   There seems to have been some sort of fissure within the ranks of Marah, a band that's racked up an impressive number of albums by trading more...

Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody

I Could Sleep for a Thousand Years

(Second Motion)   www.secondmotionrecords.com   With Swervedriver, Adam Franklin had an eight-year run spinning out dreamy textures of distorted guitar that, however, loud they might more...

Sleigh Bells

Treats

(Mom + Pop Music/NEET)   www.momandpoprecords.com   Near the end of last year Sleigh Bells dropped "Crown On The Ground," a single marked not only by its winning combination of sludg more...

DeepChord Presents: Echospace

Liumin

(Modern Love)   www.modern-love.co.uk/   In the wake of their acclaimed 2007 debut LP, producer pair Rod Modell and Steven Hitchell magnify Liumin's techno and house with pervasive more...


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