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Headhunters

Platinum

(Owl Studios)   www.owlstudios.com   Twenty eight years after the first of several legendary collaborations w/Herbie Hancock, Headhunters founder Bill Summers, long-time partner Mik more...

Collections of Colonies of Bees

Giving

(Hometapes)   www.home-tapes.com   Last year, Collections of Colonies of Bees joined with fellow Wisconsinite Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) in their Volcano Choir joint effort, an odd, more...

Various Artists

Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-73

(Light In The Attic)   www.lightintheattic.com   Berry Gordy Jr. conquered Detroit and created "The Sound Of Young America" with Motown Records in the sixties, but, as was typical of more...

Drive-By Truckers

Ugly Buildings, Whores & Politicians – Greatest Hits 1998-2009

(New West)   www.newwestrecords.com   As one of the more important bands to redefine the Southern Rock notion for the present millennium, the Drive-By Truckers have staked out a sign more...

Fountains of Wayne

Sky Full of Holes

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   Though this is only their 5th proper full-length in 15 years, as a band they seem to have spread their records out pretty evenly so there haven't been lo more...

Fruit Bats

Tripper

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Eric D. Johnson took a train ride from Chicago to Olympia when he was 20, so the story goes, and on the way, he sat next to a veteran traveler named To more...

Iceage

New Brigade

(What's Your Rupture?)   www.whatsyourrupture.com   Iceage may boast a sound that suggests deep roots in the scene that emerged from L.A.'s notorious underground punk venue The Smell more...

Letting Up Despite Great Faults

Paper Crush

(Old Flame)   www.oldflamerecords.com   Though a band since 2004, Letting Up Despite Great Faults (ok, so the band name is a mouthful), a band that hails from the City of Angels, see more...

NRBQ

Keep This Love Goin’

(Clang!)   www.nrbq.com   Terry Adams, the soulful, playful and creative lynchpin of NRBQ throughout its 44-year-existence as the unpretentious conscience of rock ‘n' roll, tho more...

Steve Cropper

Dedicated

(429 Records)   www.429records.com   To those of us still a shade shy of 55 years old, the 5 Royales are something of a footnote in musical history. They did the original "Dedicated more...


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