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(Tompkins Square)   www.tompkinssquare.com   Pay attention to the subtitle of this triple-disc collection: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM, 1957-1982. These songs were released more...

(Glacial Pace)   www.glacialpace.com   Portland's Talkdemonic stretches out on this fourth full-length, extending its electro-chamber-sonics into epic landscapes of drone, melody and more...

(Nerveland Recordings)   www.craigwedren.com   Occasional Shudder to Think frontman and full-time film/TV composer Craig Wedren has said that Wand, his second solo LP (hard as that i more...

(Cherrytree / Interscope)   www.interscope.com   Anyone who has seen Leslie Feist join in with Broken Social Scene knows that she's not the staid chanteuse that her solo work might s more...

(Nonesuch/Perro Verde)   www.nonesuch.com     Long before Buena Vista Social Club and A Meeting By the River, and before all the soundtracks and his acclaimed trio of Californi more...

(Lost Highway)   www.losthighway.com     Why Robert Earl Keen is not a household name to music lovers after 16 releases is truly a mystery. Perhaps one of the reasons is that w more...

(Merge)   www.superchunk.com   When you talk about landmark indie rock albums of the 1990s, failing to mention Superchunk's 1994 breakthrough classic Foolish would be well, you know, more...

(Anti-) www.anti.com   Known as masters of the indigenous North African genre called "Touareg," Tinariwen may have found inroads only to the most adventurous western ears had it not been f more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   This is a case wherein open minds - and some patience - are likely to be rewarded. Listeners seeking an infectious stomper like "San Pedro" (from Mogwai' more...

(dBpm)   www.wilcoworld.net   While a "Welcome back, Wilco!" would play unduly snarky, there's no denying Jeff Tweedy's group's last two efforts - 2007's Sky Blue Sky and 2009's Wilco more...