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(Full Time Hobby)   www.fulltimehobby.co.uk     If you are not familiar with Fujiya and Miyagi, let's first clarify; they are neither Japanese nor a duo of individuals who bea more...

(Iconoclassic) www.iconoclassicrecords.com   The first and only live album recorded during her relatively brief lifetime, Laura Nyro's Season Of Lights was part of a stylistic transition more...

(Surrender All)   www.unkle.com     Unlike James Lavelle's wrong-n-rocking recent War Stories, UNKLE's latest release culls from and was created for things cinematic: soundtrac more...

(Basin Street)   www.basinstreetrecords.com   Even for New Orleans, which with its myriad musical hybrids is arguably the birthplace of the mashup, the notion seems improbable: marr more...

(!K7)   www.k7-de.com     Twenty-one years after acid house, "Beat Dis," and a history of productions and remixes including Bowie, Bjork, Neneh Cherry and U2 comes Tim Simenon more...

(Darla)   www.darla.com   Avant garde composer Harold Budd refers to his instrumental pieces as "art music," a particularly apt description, since his spare sense of melody and lan more...

(Leaning Man Records)   www.donniefritts.com   Over the years, as an integral and original part of the Muscle Shoals music scene, Donnie Fritts has played drums and keyboards with Ar more...

(Guided By Voices, Inc.)   www.robertpollard.net   Robert Pollard's standing as the hardest-working man in indie-rock is further reinforced by the emergence of a brand new project, more...

(Alligator Records)   www.alligator.com   There's nothing particularly different about this MOFRO album -  it's just a stronger distillation of the band's vision. Like the thre more...

(Vision Music) www.nilslofgren.com Long before he became a hired gun for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, Nils Lofgren kept similar company with Neil Young, contributing to Young's seminal more...