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Scott Hardkiss

Technicolor Dreamer

(God Within)   www.godwithin.com Scott Hardkiss has made his name producing and DJing acid house, techno, and breakbeats all over the world, along with fellow Hardkiss members Gavin and more...

Cub Country

Stretch that Skull Cover and Smile

(Future Farmer)   www.futurefarmer.com   This is the first Cub Country record in 5 years and, for the most part, it's a welcome return. It seems that in the interim leader Jeremy C more...

We Were Promised Jetpacks

These Four Walls

(Fatcat)   www.fat-cat.co.uk   Scottish quartet We Were Promised Jetpacks has created a kinetic, punk-rock album full of entrancing melodies, pulsating drums and heavy bass lines; r more...

Upper Crust

Revenge for Imagined Slights

(Camp Street Records)   www.campstreetrecords.bigcartel.com   Doctor Johnson was, as always, right when he observ'd: "Amongst the divers colonial Practitioners of the rocque & r more...

Elvis Presley

From Elvis In Memphis (Legacy Edition) [reissue]

(RCA/Legacy)     www.legacyrecordings.com   1969 is weighing heavily on the pop-culture nostalgist's brain this summer. Between anniversaries of the moon landing, Woodstock, more...

Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies

EP II

(Color Wheel)   www.colorwheelrecords.com   Chapel Hill's Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies have been tearing up Triangle stages since 2006, and I was privileged to finally catc more...

Daddy

For A Second Time

(Cedar Creek Music)   www.cedarcreekrecords.com   Back when you kiddies were still watching Saturday morning cartoons in your spidey PJs and eating chocolate-frosted sugar bombs b more...

Michael Olatuja

Speak

(Backdrop)   www.obliqsound.com/backdrop   The deceptively complicated grooves on D'Angelo's masterpiece Voodoo never had quite the impact that they should have. In particular, neo-s more...

Crimson Jazz Trio

King Crimson Songbook Volume 2

(Inner Knot)   www.innerknotrecords.com   There's red in them thar hills. At the very least, there's crimson running down the roll of Woodland Hills, Calif., where this Kingly tr more...

Dinosaur Jr

Farm

(Jagjaguwar)    www.jagjaguwar.com   From the time J. Mascis hits that first guitar chord on "Pieces" this album effortlessly puts you in that early '90s sweet spot when Dinosa more...


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