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(The Council)   www.councilpartners.com   This coming October 22nd marks the 20th anniversary of Del the Funky Homosapien's classic debut I Wish My Brother George Was Here. But while more...

(Mittens)   www.juliefeeney.com   Julie Feeney's pages brings new meaning to the term D.I.Y. This album by the Irish artist - whose 13 songs won her nation's 2006 Choice Music Prize f more...

(Cooking Vinyl)   www.cookingvinyl.com   Eddie Argos' art-punk, back-handed, sometimes-personal/sometimes-cultural spoken ramblings once again consume Art Brut's sound on their fourt more...

(Motown/UME)   www.ilovethatsong.com   Groundbreaking. Brilliant. Classic. Take any superlative you want and it applies to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. By now, its backstory is wel more...

(Hardly Art)   www.hardlyart.com   Interesting back story on this Seattle trio where the guitarist/songwriter Danny Rowland and bassist Ian Brewer had grown up together and had been more...

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   If Sloan has any goals they've yet to achieve, it's due only to the high bar they've set for themselves. Indeed, after their 30-song opus Never Hear the E more...

(Wichita Recordings)   www.wichita-recordings.com   Despite a day job that finds him helming the supremely eccentric Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys shows that in his off time, he's more...

(Spooky)   www.spookyrecords.com   If we wanted to be uncharitable about it, we could call Tempest, the latest LP from Buried Horses, a Drones tribute. Certainly the Melbourne quinte more...

(Train Wreck)   www.trainwreckrecords.com   Subtitled A Tribute to the Unsung Heroes of Rock N' Roll, Rock and Roll Joe is literally a love song to the forgotten musicians and anonym more...

(Bella Union)   www.bellaunion.com   Milwaukee's Heidi Spencer & the Rare Birds favor a naturalistic, organic sound on their first record, befitting a group whose music conjures more...