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(Thick Syrup Records)     www.thicksyruprecords.net     The Devil is in the details, and he's also willing to parlay with you for possession of your soul down at the cross more...

(Mute) www.mute.com Four rough-edged slabs of ambient/industrial music, Transverse is a collaboration between longtime partners Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti (aka Chris and Cosey, once of more...

(Paper Bag)   www.paperbagrecords.com   If "CFCF" sounds familiar, it could be per Michael Silver/CFCF's DJing, or his remixing of tracks by The Presets, Crystal Castles, more...

(Magazine)   www.magazine.mu   Not even six months since the release of The Field's third LP Looping State of Mind, Axel Willner returns with a more cerebral side of his creative met more...

(ATO Records)   www.atorecords.com   Like pairing some old worn-in cowboy boots with a faded Clash t-shirt, the country punk sound of Lucero's eighth album just comes across as natur more...

(Steady Boy)   www.steadyboyrecords.com   Those with a craving for nostalgia inevitably find a certain sense of déjà vu in each and every new effort by Freddie Steady Kr more...

(Morr Music)   www.morrmusic.com   The aesthetics of avant-leaning "slow" music are complex and tricky. You're going for transcendence, often through ambiance, minimalism and drone, more...

(Truth & Soul)   www.truthandsoulrecords.com   It is some consolation that, even as we continue to lose our A-team of deep soul/classic R&B singers of the 1960s and 1970s like more...

(Sugar Hill)   www.sugarhillrecords.com   "Thank God for Marty Stuart." That's what Merle Haggard sings in his song "Too Much Boogie Woogie," a lament for the ways country music has more...

(self-released)www.threeminutetease.com   Anton Barbeau is one of the world's great underappreciated songwriters. He is incapable, it seems, of going three minutes without an indelible hook, more...