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Jayhawks

Mockingbird Time

(Rounder)   www.rounder.com   Anticipation for a reunion had rarely been greater than for the Jayhawks' revival. Reissues of the band's early albums and singer/songwriters Gary Louri more...

Joy Askew

Drunk On You

(self-released)   www.joyaskew.com   Considering her credentials -specifically, her contributions to efforts by Peter Gabriel, Joe Jackson, Jack Bruce and Laurie Anderson, as well as more...

Leonard Cohen

Old Ideas

(Columbia)   www.columbiarecords.com   For his first studio album of new material in eight years, Leonard Cohen starts with a third person's reminiscence on "Going Home": a deprecati more...

Louvin Brothers

Satan Is Real

(Light In The Attic)   www.lightintheattic.net   Charlie and Ira Louvin recorded Satan Is Real in three days in August 1958 as part of a 10-day studio stint that also produced all or more...

Lucy Show

Remembrances

(Words On Music)   www.words-on-music.com   The Lucy Show won't go down in history as innovators - the British band's gothic-tinged, atmospheric rock slots in comfortably alongside be more...

Various Artists

Tucson Songs: Exciting New Sounds From Southern Arizona

(Le Pop Musik)   www.lepop.de   Through a fortuitous set of circumstances, the German-based label Le Pop Musik has taken a shine to several acts from Tucson, Arizona, releasing full more...

Thomas Dolby

A Map of the Floating City

(self-released)   www.thomasdolby.com   When last observed, Thomas Dolby was posing as a mad scientist, blinding fans with science and well positioned as a darling of the then-buddin more...

Nils Lofgren

Old School

(Vision Music)   http://www.nilslofgren.com     At this point in a career that has now spanned five decades, singer, songwriter, and guitarist Nils Lofgren is better known as more...

Cloud Nothings

Attack on Memory

(Carpark )   www.carparkrecords.com   "I thought...I would...be more...than this," shouts Dylan Baldi towards the end of the nine minute freakery of "Wasted Days." It's like the end o more...

Hospitality

Hospitality

(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com   Amber Papini, the singer for Hospitality, breezes over jangly pop riffs, her voice devil-may-care and intoxicating as she picks her way through scena more...


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