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(Birdman Records)   www.birdmanrecords.com/     Fast and furious street buskers, the Ferocious Few are making the streets of San Francisco just a little more dangerous and gro more...

(Rounder)   www.rounder.com       Willie Nelson's records have never been actually bad; but they have been uneven. But it's for sure that Country Music is a return to for more...

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com     Baby Dee has a history as long as your tattooed arm and more queerly dramatic than a Sondheim musical. The Cleveland native was a church org more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   High Places dials down the eccentricity in their second full-length, finding a very sweet spot where experimental freak folk meets top 40 di more...

(Tee Pee)   www.teepeerecords.com   Sweet Apple, the new project from J. Mascis and John Petkovic, sounds a lot more like Cobra Verde (Petkovic's band) than Dinosaur Jr.  On de more...

(Anticon)   www.anticon.com   With a grand name like Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh, one is expected to accomplish "grand" goals, no? Ok. Perhaps not, yet Dosh, as he simply calls h more...

(Nonesuch / Todomundo)   www.nonesuch.com     This whirlwind fuzzy song cycle, starring the diverse likes of Steve Earle, Tori Amos, Nellie McKay and Santigold, started life a more...

(Secret City)   www.secretcityrecords.com     The sophomore release from the Montreal trio Plants and Animals may not feature anything as epic as their debut Parc Avenue's "Fair more...

(Anti-)   www.anti.com   At 82 years young, legendary jazz bluesman Mose Allison sounds as spry and wry as ever on The Way of the World. Though age might have weathered his voice a more...

(Ninja Tune)   www.ninjatune.net Bonobo (presumably known as Simon Green to his mother), has crafted a triumph of a new album. On Black Sands, the producer/musician has combined the soun more...