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(Elastic Ruby)    www.snowandvoices.com     Working as a keyboardist for Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple, Jebin Bruni must have sensed a kindred spirit in singer Lauri Kranz&rsquo more...

(Matador)   www.matadorrecords.com   Fucked Up is probably the best punk band with national distribution 2008 has to offer. The incendiary Canadians built a reputation on limited-run E more...

(American)   www.americanrecordings.com       Comets on Fire's Ethan Miller can't possibly remember the 1960s, and maybe that's the secret to Magnificent Fiend's dead-on, d more...

(Misra)   www.misrarecords.com   Hey kids, anyone remember Neapolitan ice cream? That tasty triple-treat of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry for folks who can’t make up their more...

(Brushfire)          www.brushfirerecords.com   Garrett Dutton, better-known as the bluesy rapper (or is that rappy bluesman?) G. Love, is like that s more...

(Rykodisc)    www.rykodisc.com   James Jackson Toth’s solo debut is the kind of roots-y release you’d associate with wizened veterans of the club and bar circuits, guy more...

(Foreign Office)   www.saintetienne.com       By all rights, we shouldn’t even be having this discussion. After all, Britain’s Saint Etienne—sprightly danc more...

(Swamp)   www.tonyjoewhite.com   Say “swamp rock,” and most people think of Creedence Clearwater Revival. But John Fogerty never got as swampy, and certainly never got as more...

(Doomtree)   www.Doomtree.net   "It's been a long time coming," so you'll understand if Doomtree have a few things to get off their chests—21 tracks worth, to be exact, and not a more...

(Columbia/Red Ink)     www.columbiarecords.com       Long dominated by television, radio is now even being schooled by the boob tube’s transparent little nuisanc more...