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Imelda May

Mayhem

(Decca)   www.deccarecords-us.com   Straddling a formula that falls somewhere between the assertive insistence of Chrissie Hynde and the troubled torchlight croon of the late Amy Win more...

Various Artists

The Rough Guide to Sufi Music (Volume 2)

(World Music Network) www.worldmusic.net There is no such thing as Sufi music. That is, Sufi musicians reflect the styles of their native regions -- and, these days, sometimes reach far beyond more...

Leatherbag

Yellow Television + Patience

(Stuck)   www.leatherbagmusic.blogspot.com   Austin's Leatherbag has long flown the flag for simple rock & roll - not dumbed down sounds, mind you, but rock stripped down to its more...

Kasey Chambers

Little Bird

(Sugar Hill)   www.sugarhillrecords.com Australia seems an unlikely place to harbor Americana, given the fact that it's located in the middle of the Pacific, isolated from everything sa more...

London Souls

The London Souls

(Soul On 10/DD172)   www.thelondonsouls.com   Despite the band's name, the London Souls hail from New York City, a town that, despite its hipster veneer, knows a thing or two about ro more...

Locksley

Locksley

(Feature Records)   www.locksley.com   Locksley's irrepressible enthusiasm finds them trolling the same environs as the Strokes, the Arctic Monkeys, the Kooks, and, yes, even the ea more...

Bobb Trimble & The Crippled Dog Band

The Crippled Dog Band

(Yoga)   www.yogarecords.com   It takes some grapefruit-sized balls to kick off an album with a radical reworking of a Beatles nugget; but then, cult artist Bobb Trimble never seemed more...

William Elliott Whitmore

Field Songs

(Anti-)   www.anti.com His name sounds like that of a 19th century poet, or more pointedly, a dusty, world weary troubadour battling head-on against the fierce headwinds of modern day t more...

Singer

Mindreading

(Drag City)   www.dragcity.com   Three mainstays of Chicago's avant-garde offer another round of lavishly vocalized, synthetically orchestrated almost-pop. Mindreading is considerabl more...

Robert Ellis

Photographs

(New West)   www.newwestrecords.com   Houston songwriter Robert Ellis splits his sophomore album right down the middle, with one half of Photographs dedicated to sensitive, enlightene more...


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