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(Big Dada)   www.bigdada.com   Roots Manuva's style has never fit into the UK grime hip-hop scene, but he's never intended it to. Manuva's playbook draws much more from American rap more...

(Emarcy Records)   www.emarcy.com   Though he doesn't have the marquee value of a Pat Metheny, or the hipster cache of a Bill Frisell, John Scofield is easily one of the most consist more...

(Dead Oceans)   www.deadoceans.com   Perhaps the most startling symptom of this generation's crop of new musical acts rising up from the American rock underground is the poor decisio more...

(Kill Rock Stars)   www.killrockstars.com   There are many reasons why the moniker Owen Holmes (bassist for indie popsters Black Kids) has chosen to record and perform under doesn't more...

(Arts & Crafts)   www.arts-crafts.ca/   It takes more than a casual spin to appreciate a fine lyricist, and one of the joys in Dan Mangan's music has been discovering just how pi more...

(Avokado Artist)   www.kiranmusic.com   Kiran Ahluwalia is an upper class Punjabi who grew up mostly in Toronto, fascinated at an early age with the ghazal, a form of poetry (and si more...

(Gigantic Music)             http://www.giganticmusic.com/   Being so impressed with their debut album, All Y'all, back in 2008, I pronou more...

(Kanine)   www.kaninerecords.com   Only four songs on here but it's a good four songs. First track "I'm Not Ready" is a midtempo pop tune with a nice bounce to it, while "Miranda" k more...

(Bloodshot)   www.Bloodshotrecords.com   Holland, Dozier, and Holland had "Stop in the name of love / before you break my heart." Smokey Robinson came up with "Just because you've b more...

(EffinEll Records)   www.fosterandlloyd.com   Reuniting bands can be an iffy proposition; either they work (The Jayhawks), they don't (Stone Temple Pilots, Poison) or they don't real more...