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Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden
(File Under: Music) www.fileundermusic.com Accordion, violin and voice, all pitched at their most unearthly, twine and curl together in nine extraordinary compositions he more...
Mavis Staples
Anti- (www.anti.com) What goes around, comes around. Soul music came out of gospel all those decades ago - Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" and "Hallelujah I Love Her So" - a more...
White Denim
(Transmission) www.transmissionentertainment.com When White Denim burst on to the scene last year with a high energy live show and an EP full of wild guitars, many people thought more...
Rosebuds
(Merge) www.mergerecords.com The Rosebuds - Kelly Crisp and Ivan Howard - return to a calmer, quieter sound for their fourth album. This N.C. husband/wife duo appear to reinvent more...
Kimya Dawson
(K) www.krecs.com Kimya Dawson's appeal has always resided in the child-like vulnerability in her songs, moving from poignant, affecting lines to non-sequitur word play and back more...
Moody Blues
(Eagle) www.eaglerecords.com With the recent spate of re-releases spanning the Moody Blues' seminal catalogue, the band's fans - particularly those whose college years were experienced more...
Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power, and the Amorphus Strums
(Orange Twin) www.orangetwin.com Elf Power brings all of its freaky colors to back an effusive Vic Chesnutt, who carries a new sense of easy humor from the first moment h more...
Quintron
(Goner) www.goner-records.com Since taking up residence there in the mid-nineties, Quintron (real name: Jay Poggi) is something of a local institution whose bizarre demeanor, bi more...
Okkervil River
(Jagjaguwar) www.jagjaguwar.com The follow-up to last year's The Stage Names is another wild-ride discourse on the funhouse mirror of celebrity and its entourage of trappings - more...
Darker My Love
(Dangerbird) www.dangerbirdrecords.com Channeling the ‘60s, Darker My Love has crafted a psychedelia that dances between hard, growling rock and upbeat pop rock. The more...











