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Elbow

build a rocket boys!

(Fiction)   www.fictionrecords.co.uk   For their fifth album Elbow has returned with more subdued, but equally beautiful, sounds than on their acclaimed fourth release The Seldom Se more...

Donkeys

Born With Stripes

(Dead Oceans)   www.deadoceans.com   With an album title alluding to the things we cannot change, the question with this excellent new LP from The Donkeys is - why the hell would you more...

Michael Monroe

Sensory Overdrive

(Spinefarm/Universal)   http://www.spinefarm.fi   When Hanoi Rocks broke up for the second time, singer Michael Monroe unsurprisingly resumed his solo career. Recognizing, however, t more...

Pallas

XXV

(Mascot)   www.mascotrecords.com   Scottish band Pallas was part of an early-1980s progressive rock revival that took place in the United Kingdom. Along with such respected, and some more...

High Tension Wires

Welcome New Machine

(Dirtnap)   www.dirtnaprecs.com   I've never been to Denton, TX and probably couldn't locate it on a map without help but it sure seems like an awful lot of good bands call the place more...

Blame Sally

Speeding Ticket and a Valentine

(Ninth Street Opus)   www.ninthstreetopus.com There seems to be an abundance of multi-talented all-female folk groups out there these days, with the Poozies, Red Molly and the Refugees more...

Moon Duo

Mazes

(Sacred Bones)   www.sacredbonesrecords.com   On their second full-length and return to the Sacred Bones label, Moon Duo prove they are much more than the Suicide-obsessed side projec more...

Felice Brothers

Celebration Florida

(Fat Possum)   www.fatpossum.com   Talk to musicians of note and they will recoil more than a bit if you mention classifying their music. That's understandable. After all, in most wa more...

Al Staehely & 10K Hours

Al Staehely & 10K Hours

(SteadyBoy)   www.steadyboyrecords.com He may be one of the more obscure names that's ever managed to intersect a famous trajectory, but Al Staehely's contributions to the band Spirit af more...

Matana Roberts

COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres

(Constellation)   www.cstrecords.com   Matana Roberts started garnering a reputation as an adventurous musician while living in Chicago, where she was affiliated with the Associatio more...


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