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Nada Surf

The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy

(Barsuk)   www.nadasurf.com   "It always feels like I'm waiting for something," coos singer Matthew Caws in the second track of Nada Surf's seventh album, The Stars Are Indifferent t more...

Dear & Departed

Every Waking Moment

 (Equal Vision)   www.equalvision.com   LA-based The Dear & Departed are clearly in the midst of a struggle. Based on Every Waking Moment, the band's second full length, ther more...

Mars

Live at Artists Space

(Feeding Tube)   www.feedingtuberecords.com   When the New York State Council for the Arts commissioned the conception of Artists Space in the city's downtown area in 1972 as a means more...

Kashmere Stage Band

Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974

(Now Again/Stones Throw)   www.stonesthrow.com   Originally released in 2006 as a 2CD set, Texas Thunder Soul has now been re-animated with a bonus DVD (also available on 3LP/DVD), an more...

Various Artists

Phil Spector Presents The Philles Album Collection

(Phil Spector/Legacy)   www.philspector.com   Say what you will about Phil Spector now that he is a convicted felon on a second degree murder rap. But no level of controversy can tak more...

Faith

Subject to Change

(Dischord)   www.dischord.com Even Dischord diehards who can recount every twist of Ian MacKaye's career may not be familiar with Faith, the second band fronted by little brother Alec Ma more...

Various Artists

Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny Labels

(The Numero Group)   www.numerogroup.com)   Eccentric Soul releases from Chicago archival record label The Numero Group each have strong individual identities yet also fit together as more...

Talk Talk

Laughing Stock

(Ba Da Bing)   www.badabingrecords.com   Among fans of forward-looking, inward-gazing, cortex-twisting music with touches of ambient, jazz, post-rock, minimalist classical and musiqu more...

Anton Barbeau

Empire of Potential

(Idiot Records)   www.125records.com/shop.html   One adjective that you come across over and over again reading reviews on Anton's music, is the word ‘eccentric' used to descri more...

Cardinal

Hymns

(Fire)   www.firerecords.com   If this duo hadn't floundered so far below the radar the first time around, it/s possible that Hymns would have been hailed as the reunion album of the more...


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