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Helado Negro

Canta Lechuza

(Asthmatic Kitty)   www.asthmatickitty.com   To record his second album under the name Helado Negro, Roberto Lange apparently ventured out into the woods of Connecticut and holed h more...

Graveyard

Hisingen Blues

(Nuclear Blast)   www.nuclearblastusa.com   The last few years have witnessed the emergence of a third generation of shaggy-haired youth overtly influenced by the early-to-mid-1970s more...

Austra

Feel It Break

(Domino)   www.dominorecordco.com   Austra's story, like most things, started somewhere in the stars. Before their debut album, Feel It Break was released on May 18, two thirds of th more...

Motopony

Motopony

(tinyOGRE)   www.tinyogreent.com   Motopony may be the kind of name that leads to skepticism - it sounds like a moniker invented on the spot just before the announcer introduced the more...

Fan Modine

Gratitude for the Shipper

(Daniel 13 Press)   www.fanmodine.com   With accomplished pop producer Chris Stamey and former R.E.M. manager Jefferson Holt both at the helm, one would think Fan Modine had already more...

Danny Schmidt

Man of Many Moons

(Red House)   www.redhouserecords.com   Despite his youthful demeanor, Danny Schmidt plays the role of wizened folkie well. His has been a life of challenges thus far, encompassing e more...

Jeremy Jay

Dream Diary

(K)   www.krecs.com   Jeremy Jay is a native Southern Californian who probably had little use of the sunshine and faux happiness, which is why he recently ended up in London. To me h more...

Beach Fossils

What A Pleasure EP

(Captured Tracks)   www.capturedtracks.com   On their eponymous 2010 debut, Beach Fossils brought forth a carefree sense of frivolity to the gauzy din of the Brooklyn chillwave movem more...

Robert Scott

Ends Run Together

(Flying Nun)   www.flyingnun.co.nz   The beef on Robert Scott - and indeed on his long-running band, the Bats - is that the sound never changes. Even if you enjoy the propulsive jang more...

Loudon Wainwright III

40 Odd Years

(Shout! Factory)   (www.shoutfactory.com)     The singer-songwriters who came of age in the 1960s and early 1970s are the Boomers' major contribution to the Great American Songb more...


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