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Big Brother and the Holding Company

Bear’s Sonic Journal Presents Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968

(Columbia/Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com   The term "epic" gets thrown around loosely when it comes to the vintage rock songs. But one that deserves such a designation, or set th more...

Janis Joplin

The Pearl Sessions + Classic LP Collection

(Columbia/Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com   There's a line from Woody Allen's Annie Hall that teases its female namesake (Diane Keaton) when she interjects marijuana into their lov more...

Avengers

Avengers

(Water)   www.runtdistribution.com   For a band so well-loved, official releases by this early San Francisco punk band (which still tours with half of the original line-up including more...

Lightships

Electric Cables

(Domino)   www.dominorecordco.com   If you grew up with Teenage Fanclub, there'll always be a bit of Bandwagonesque nostalgia tugging at you when something current emerges from any ( more...

K-Holes

Dismania

(Hardly Art)   www.hardlyart.com   Like headlines blaring from tabloids published between the mid-‘50s and late ‘60s (at which point worried parents and/or right-wing who more...

Diamond Dogs

Set Fire To It All

(Legal)   www.soundpollution.se   "Set fire to it all and blame it on rock & roll!" declares singer Sulo in the title track of the Diamond Dogs' new disk Set Fire To It All. After more...

Father John Misty

Fear Fun

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com    "Fun times in Babylon/That's what I'm counting on," confides J. Tillman on Fear Fun's lead track. But something's wrong with the picture. One of th more...

Cheap Time

Wallpaper Music

(In the Red)   www.intheredrecords.com   Wallpaper Music, the third full-length from Jeffrey Novak's Cheap Time, finds the Nashville outfit moving ever closer to the edge of mainstre more...

Lower Dens

Nootropics

(Ribbon Music)   www.ribbonmusic.com   With 2010's Twin Hand Movement, sometime freak folk diva Jana Hunter immersed herself in the sonics of a full rock band, surrounding her clear, more...

David Olney

The Stone

(Deadbeet Records)   www.davidolney.com   Nashville's David Olney is one of the city's truly underrated musical treasures... forget Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw and all that Music R more...


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