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Cash Box Kings
(Blind Pig) www.blindpigrecords.com Sometimes you can tell a CD by its cover. Holler and Stomp by The Cash Box Kings features a cover of a white guy in a huge white cowboy hat and more...
Farmer Jason and Buddies
(MyKazoo Music/Universal) http://mykazootv.com/ Farmer Jason is the alter-ego...er, the "identical twin brother" of Jason & the Scorchers frontman Jason Ringeberg. Originall more...
Alex Chilton
(Ominvore Recordings) www.ominvorerecordings.com Recorded during the final throes of his tenure with the Box Tops and during a period of uncertain transition and general discourag more...
Field Music
(Memphis Industries) www.memphis-industries.com If time-signature bandits like Slint or Battles had suddenly developed a taste for XTC, they might make an album that sounds like Field Music's more...
Grimes
(Arbutus/4AD) www.4ad.com Vancouver's Grimes, a/k/a Clair Boucher, is an intriguing mixture of bravado and naïveté, twinned qualities that have endeared her to both t more...
The Fray
(Epic) www.epicrecords.com It's difficult to understand why the Fray isn't regarded as highly as Coldplay. The Grammy-nominated band has proven once again, on their latest album more...
Howlin' Rain
(Birdman-American/Columbia) www.americanrecordings.com When Ethan Miller formed Howlin' Rain in 2006, he did so with the intent of utilizing it as a more soul-driven side project more...
Abby Travis
(Educational Recordings) www.abbytravis.com What could be a more unlikely mash-up than having Sarah Brightman singing at the helm of Queen? Impossible to imagine, right? Well, not more...
Michael Rank & Stag
(Louds Hymn) www.michaelrankmusic.com With more vital body fluids spilling from these grooves than Shoot Out the Lights and Blood on the Tracks combined, the new solo album from more...
Jonquil
(Dovecote) www.dovecoterecords.com There may be people in the world who at this very moment are moaning, "Why don't more contemporary artists merge a Smiths/Cure vibe with a bit more...











