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(I.R.S./Capitol)   www.capitolrecords.com   And thus we come to the fourth installment of EMI's back catalog overhaul of R.E.M.'s I.R.S. Records era, which, like last year's Fables of more...

(The Laser's Edge)   www.lasersedgegroup.com   Poland's progressive rock titan Riverside has been plugging away for a decade, a feat celebrated with this three-song mini-LP. The ban more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Over the course of his near twenty years in the game, Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler has never fronted on his will to be weird. But nothing the Seattle-based more...

(Oaf Ramp)   www.edwardoconnell.com   This DC-area poster wears his musical influences on his sleeve. Literally: the front cover of Our Little Secret is a loving homage to Nick Lowe' more...

(Nonesuch Records)   www.nonesuch.com   Hidden away in vaults and closets, the demo recordings of the music we've grown to love can seem like mysterious treasure troves. In the CD er more...

(Little Record Company)   www.littlerecordcompany.com   Christopher Pappas might be primarily known in tastemaker circles as the frontman for the sorely underrated Boston-based indie more...

(Frontiers)   www.frontiers.it     Yes' 1980 album Drama is a unique footnote in the history of the British prog rock group. Most notably, it was Yes' first record without origi more...

(King Outlaw)   http://www.justanenglishoutlaw.com   In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, British ne'er-do-wells the Dogs D'amour had a chaotic, sloppy, brilliant run of dir more...

(Vagrant)   www.vagrant.com   It's hard to believe that City & Colour -- the moniker under which singer/guitarist Dallas Green operates on his own -- is the product of a guy who more...

(StormVox)   www.stormvox.com   Columbia Records repackaged their Billie Holiday catalog numerous times, but a 1973 compilation called The Original Recordings provided a crash cours more...