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Magnolias

Pop the Lock

(Veto)   http://home.earthlink.net/~johnfre/themagnolias/   The brash and boisterous ‘aughties reunion of Minneapolis' magnificent Magnolias was a pleasant surprise. But the huz more...

Essendon Airport

Palimpsest

(Chapter Music)   www.chaptermusic.com.au   The Birthday Party, The Go-Betweens, The Saints, The Scientists and Radio Birdman are some of the first bands who generally get brought up more...

São Paulo Underground

Três Cabeças Loucuras

(Cuneiform)   www.cuneiformrecords.com   When Chicago Underground and Exploding Star Orchestra mainstay Rob Mazurek packed off to live in Brazil a few years ago, he brought his corne more...

Tracey Thorn

Extended Plays 2010-2011

(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com   Tracey Thorn's trajectory from pop princess to disco diva reaches its apex with this compilation of sorts chronicling her dance-driven successes of t more...

MV Carbon

Dislodged Perihelion

(Ecstatic Peace!)   www.ecstaticpeace.com   Not to be confused with MV of Vermont's freaky folkwaysian Everybody Knows this is Nowhere-slanted stoner gospel jamz duo MV & EE, MV more...

Alvarius B.

Blood Operatives Of The Barium Sunset

(Abduction)   www.suncitygirls.com   Experimental rock icon and former Sun City Girl Alan Bishop revisits one of his finest works as a solo act working under the moniker Alvarius B. more...

The Cure

Bestival Live 2011

(Sunday Best)   www.sundaybest.net.com   Just to get it out of the way up front: Yes, at 53, Cure frontman Robert Smith is probably (definitely) too old to be wearing pale make up an more...

Geoffrey O'Connor

Vanity is Forever

(Chapter Music)   www.geoffreyoconnor.tv   Crayon Fields frontman Geoffrey O'Connor foregoes his aspirations of being the Colin Blunstone of Chillwave in favor of harboring the person more...

Guided By Voices

Let's Go Eat the Factory

(GBV Inc.)   http://www.midheaven.com/label/gbv-inc   When the classic line-up of Guided By Voices reunited in 2010 for a national tour it was a crapshoot as to whether their brand of more...

Kimya Dawson

Thunder Thighs

(Burnside Distribution)   www.kimyadawson.com   Kimya Dawson is one of those rare artists who can tickle your funny bone and tear out your heart with equal propensity. And on her sev more...


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