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Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden

Hearts & Daggers

(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

Live: Hope at the Hideout

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

Exposion

(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

Life Like

(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

Alphabutt

(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

Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 [reissue]

(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

Dark Developments

(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

Too Thirsty for Love

(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

The Stand Ins

(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

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(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...


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