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(Warner Bros.)   www.warnerbrosrecords.com   From the minute Lou Reed and Metallica announced they'd be collaborating on an album based on plays from a late 19th/early 20th Century G more...

(One Little Indian/Nonesuch)     www.nonesuch.com   Get beyond recent solo efforts like the glacial Volta and throat warbling Medula. Put aside the app chatter, the details of more...

(Ghost Meat)   www.ghostmeat.com   In describing the music the sound Ken Will Morton's maintained over the course of his short but prolific career, the words "austere" and "authentic more...

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   "And there in the buffet car, I wait for eternity ... or Basingstroke ... or Reading" croons the master of pop surreality in the 1984 song "I Often Dream more...

(Hole in the Rain/Liaison Music)   www.johnmartynmusic.com   John Martyn, the British singer-songwriter who died in 2009 after a long career, continued the romantic, introspective fol more...

(Constellation)   www.cstrecords.com   Carla Bozulich has never been an easy listen. Over two decades, the most accessible LP the former front-woman for 90s' cult favorites Ethyl Mea more...

(Anti-)   www.anti.com   Ever since Tom Waits dropped the jazz-bo Small Change piano man routine, his work has become a cheap carnival of souls haunted by chain-rattling characters more...

(Fat Beats)     www.fatbeats.com     Upon the disbanding of prog-noise junkies theusaisamonster, hulking guitar godhead Colin Langenus - half of that legendary duo - not onl more...

(Partisan)   www.partisanrecords.com   While any attempt at actually narrowing down their sound ultimately comes up short, to their credit, Deer Tick often seem to defy definition. T more...

(Bananastan)   www.bananastan.com   The only thing more unusual than Van Dyke Parks' unique songwriting and arrangements is hearing the maestro's first works in 15 years on the seven more...