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(American Beat)   www.myspace.com/americanbeat   My first introduction to new wave when I was a little kid was a poster of the cover of the Fabulous Poodles' Mirror Stars that hung i more...

(IFF-Transponder)   www.ephall.com    Like its title, there's something both comforting and chilling about the gothic folk debut from this Bloomington, Indiana-based duo. Built more...

(Downtown)   www.downtownmusic.com   Like Spoon and Trail of Dead, this Austin trio defies what we usually expect from their mostly roots-rock hometown.  Their explosive sound more...

(Wicked Cool)   www.wickedcoolrecords.com   Way back in November of 1966 the Rolling Stones rhetorically mused Got Live If You Want It for the title of their first (of many, it woul more...

(Strut Records)   www.strut-records.com   The unearthing and compiling of hidden wonders of world jazz and funk takes a huge step forward with the release of  The Story of Et more...

(Bloodshot)   www.bloodshotrecords.com   Listening to Exene Cervenka solo can seem like hearing half a conversation: her sparring with John Doe in X is so classic, so perfect, so in more...

(Hyena Records) www.hyenarecords.com)   Up until now, Clarence Bucaro has been a pretty good pop singer.  Now, with the belated release of New Orleans, he proves he's a most comp more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   Fourteen years and six albums on from the day that Yoshimi P-We pulled together a fictional all-female band for a magazine article, OOIOO co more...

(Blind Pig)   www.blindpigrecords.com   When the definitive history of the post World War II electric blues is written, the chapter dealing with harp players will have two names at more...

(Hometapes)   www.home-tapes.com   Jon Philpot's second full length as Bear in Heaven is an inchoate monster of an album, weighted with ritual percussive clangor and slow blossoming more...