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(Dying Van Gogh Records) www.stndyby.com   What's in a name? Potentially plenty when a band dubs itself Ex-Norwegian and there's not a Scandinavian expatriate in the bunch. Admittedly th more...

(Fat Cat)   www.fat-cat.co.uk   When you call your record Posthumous Success irony is obviously your songwriting friend. And finding Dave Grohl, Vincent Price and Proust wandering th more...

(Telarc Records)   www.telarc.com   In the past, bluesman Otis Taylor has written about racism, social injustice, poverty, and drug abuse, imbuing each song with dark humor and the more...

(Alligator)   www.alligator.com   Etoi! As hearty a music as Zydeco may be, its translation to larger realms has usually been a dicey proposition. Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural has tried more...

(Kemado)   www.kemado.com Children, a new band formed by members of Early Man and S.T.R.E.E.T.S.,  takes metal very seriously. There's no irony on their debut, a mélange of mi more...

(self-released)   www.nightcrawlersband.com   Google the term "Nightcrawlers band" and you'll get a potentially confusing array of hits, including entries for Scottish DJ John Reid's more...

(Hip-O Select)   www.hip-oselect.com   Years before he became the tragic burn-out parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, Joe Cocker was just another young soul rebel tryin more...

(Friendly Fire)   www.friendlyfirerecordings.com   Who knew that the Lower East Side's premiere hipster taste makers had a secret yen for disco?   In the Phenomenal Handclap B more...

(Ardent/Concord Music Group)   www.concordmusicgroup.com   The lifeline of any rock fan is dotted with myriad this-is-what-I-was-doing moments regarding first musical encounters - th more...

(Happy Jack)   www.rockathonrecords.com   At first, one can only imagine what might result from a collaboration between two adventurous artists like Robert Pollard, late of Guided B more...