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(Everso)   www.Shelbylynne.com   Shelby Lynne can pretty much find musicians to play on her records if she wants to. Heck, for last year's quite enjoyable Tears, Lies, and Alibis, she more...

(Varese Sarabande)   www.varesevintage.wordpress.com   As one of the longest-running franchises in power pop history, Dwight Twilley has created a consistent brand, one that's defied more...

(Temporary Residence)   www.temporaryresidence.com   When he's not making music with Pinback, Rob Crow is still a very busy man. In addition to several other bands, he's released solo more...

(Drag City/Yoga)   www.dragcity.com   The latest act in Drag City's series of underground reissues, Social Climbers existed as a tangential strand of the first run of New York no wa more...

(Lil' Chief Records)   www.lilchiefrecords.com   Packaging doesn't generally enter into my discussion of contemporary recorded matter. So I've been trying to remember a similar react more...

(Red House)   www.redhouserecords.com   If there's one specific trait that separates Pieta Brown from the competition it would have to be her ability to meld her influences in such a more...

(Fort Lowell Records)   www.fortlowell.blogspot.com ; www.musicagainstviolence.org   In the early ‘90s my family and I adopted Tucson - or I should say, Tucson adopted us, with more...

(Awesome Tapes from Africa)   www.awesometapes.com   Na Hawa Doumbia was just beginning a four-decade long career as one of Mali's foremost female singers when she recorded the four s more...

(Vampi Soul)   www.vampisoul.com   From Bogota, Colombia comes the cumbia combo Frente Cumbiero. But wait, they're not alone! Over by the mixing board we have Mad Professor, legenda more...

(ECM)   www.ecmrecords.com     Over the last 15-odd years, it seems as though just about every legendary jazz label worth its weight in musty cardboard record jackets has been more...