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Wildhearts

Earth Vs. the Wildhearts/P.H.U.Q./Fishing For Luckies/Endless, Nameless

(Lemon)   http://www.cherryred.co.uk/lemon/index.php     When rock & roll nerds gather and make the inevitable list of bands that should've fuckin' made it, man, the Wildhea more...

Matt Valentine

What I Became

 (Woodsist Records)             www.woodsist.com/   Putting on an album by MV & EE, that would be Matt Valentine and his illustri more...

Dawes

Nothing Is Wrong

(ATO)   www.atorecords.com   Formed from the ashes of Simon Dawes (named after the band leader's grandfather), this Southern California quartet certainly made the independent (and be more...

Gillian Welch

The Harrow & the Harvest

(Acony)   www.gillianwelch.com   A harrow is an agricultural tool used to smooth out a soilbed after plowing, breaking up dirt clods and prepping the seedbed - the first step in work more...

Bon Iver

Bon Iver

(Jagjaguar)   www.jagjaguwar.com   Since the release of For Emma, Forever Ago in 2007, spring has sprung and continues to brilliantly bloom for Bon Iver's Justin Vernon with his sel more...

Eleanor Friedberger

Last Summer

(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com   When Eleanor Friedberger and her brother Matthew work together in the Fiery Furnaces, they have been known to break into a different song in a spot w more...

David Bromberg

Use Me

(Appleseed)   www.appleseedmusic.com Widely hailed by colleagues and contemporaries, guitarist David Bromberg began his career playing with a who's who of rock and folk notables, Bob Dyl more...

New Mystery Girl

Twist City

(self-released)   www.chrissyflatt.com; www.myspace.com/NewMysteryGirl     For the better part of the past decade, Austin's Chrissy Flatt recorded and toured under her own name, more...

Dos

Dos y Dos

(clenchedwrench/Org)   http://www.orgmusic.com   It's been a while since any recorded evidence surfaced of the musical love affair between bassists Mike Watt and Kira Roessler - Dos y more...

Washed Out

Within and Without

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Through cheap, readily accessible recording technology, the glossy sound of heavily marketed 1980s phenomena like Phil Collins, the Pet Shop Boys, or Pet more...


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