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(Star Apple Kingdom)   www.starapplekingdom.com   When Austin's Future Clouds and Radar came out of nowhere in 2007 to bum-rush scores of year-end top ten lists with their self-tit more...

(Mint)   www.mintrecs.com     This short, six-song EP marks the premature end for this female Vancouver quintet, which broke up while composing tunes for a follow-up to 2004's more...

(self-released)   www.myspace.com/joshrobertsandthehingesrock   For Are You Going to Eat That?, Josh Roberts pours a few fingers of whiskey, pulls up a stool and grabs an acoustic g more...

(Rhino)   www.rhino.com   You'd be hard-pressed to find a more polarizing band from the last 25 years than the Smiths. For every devotee, there's two people who aren't just disinter more...

(Manimal Vinyl)   www.manimalvinyl.com     Rio En Medio's Danielle Stech-Homsy has one of pop music's most wispy and delicate voices, a thread of melody that slips into and und more...

(Level Up)   www.suchascream.net   Calling your hip-hop "nerdcore," and saying that you pioneered this dubious genre, will endear you to some. But if you're gonna claim this mantle more...

(Numero Group)   www.numerogroup.com         East St. Louis isn't just about the doodle-doo. Not the Illinois one anyway. Allan Merry knew that. His YoDi and more...

(Verve Forecast)   www.verveforecast.com     Matt Hales (aka Aqualung, himself) writes intriguing music, just as any good singer/songwriter should. And Aqualung's newest attemp more...

(Vagrant)   www.vagrant.com   They ease into the politics this time with a psychedelic instrumental cut that could pass for the Doors making off with the riff to "Purple Haze" while more...

(Everloving)   www.HermanDune.com   Herman Dune is by and large a band universally loved and respected by everyone-everyone, that is, who understands the widespread approval rating more...