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(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com   Despite their unlikely pairing, Alasdair MacLean (The Clientele) and Lupe Nunez-Fernandez (Pipas) find perfect synchronicity under their new guise as more...

(Fire)   www.firerecords.com   After Howe Gelb managed somehow to mesh the gospel singing of a Canadian church choir to his twisted secular narratives and fractured Tucson twang on 2 more...

(Strut)   www.strut-records.com   From Benin, West Africa, come Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo, a collective whose history dates back to the late 1960s. The moniker ‘legendary' doesn' more...

(Nine Mile)   www.ninemilerecords.com   Deep in the heart of Brooklyn, "high lonesome" might mean and sound like something a lot different than the sound of a forlorn gee-tar and/o more...

(Rockathon)   www.rockathonrecords.com   Two legendary songwriters - Guided by Voices Robert Pollard and Big Dipper's Gary Waleik -- join together here in one more swing for the fenc more...

(Zoe/Rounder)   www.rounder.com In the Rock world, there's often a disparity between an artist that's merely competent and one that's genuinely compelling. The fact is, a good groove and more...

(Red House)   www.redhouserecords.com   It's hard to eschew expectations about any new Eliza Gilkyson release. Every album is accompanied by the anticipation that would be appropriat more...

(Weathermaker Records)   www.weathermakermusic.com   Clutch has been banging around on the fringes of the hard rock and heavy metal realms for two decades now, achieving a certain n more...

(Light In The Attic)   www.lightintheattic.net   Born in the same Queens neighborhood that gave us Simon & Garfunkel and The Ramones, The Vagrants of Forest Hills are one of the more...

(Anti-)   www.anti.com   It's one thing to relaunch your career as a soul instrumental icon by getting the Drive-By Truckers and Neil Young to back you up; it's quite another to work more...