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(self-released)   www.myspace.com/leslieandthebadgers    Take a bit of Emmylou Harris, add a dollop of Reba McEntire and you have the makings of the sound of Leslie & The B more...

(Ecstatic Peace)     www.ecstaticpeace.com     Ugh. Can we just be done with this hipster psych revival already? The whole thing seemed like a pretty good idea a couple more...

(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com   The Clean's music sneaks up on you, coalescing out of lo-fi hazes and indeterminant grooves, its melodies nonchalant to the point of slackness, its more...

(American Beat)   www.ccmusic.com     Just as the evolving music scene was trying to find the blend between punk and New Wave in 1979, so too were Philadelphia's The A's. Voc more...

(Parasol)   www.parasolrecords.com   Although perhaps best known for penning Laura Cantrell's "Not the Tremblin' Kind", songwriter  George Usher has been in and out of bands si more...

(Good Charamel)   www.goodcharamel.com   Like the band's initial models, the Ramones and Buzzcocks, Shonen Knife hasn't exactly benefited from added experience. Now in its 28th yea more...

(Varese Sarabande)   www.varesevintage.com     Giving some due to the minor impact of his 1970 solo album John the Wolfking of L.A., the only real success the late John Philli more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   Two guitars meet without touching. Here, one is altered to a pastel wash, one allowed to resonate in abstract but linear progressions of not more...

(Suburban Home)   www.suburbanhomerecords.com   "Maybe we can go get high." That wistful remark, from "Bowie the Desert Pea," is pretty much the entire message of the self-titled s more...

(Megaphonic/Epic)   www.imogenheap.com   Bubble bubble turmoil and trouble. That's the Bard-y larded up feel of how witchy Imogen Heap weaves her spell. There're always lots of laye more...