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(GBV Inc.)   http://www.midheaven.com/label/gbv-inc   When the classic line-up of Guided By Voices reunited in 2010 for a national tour it was a crapshoot as to whether their brand of more...

(Burnside Distribution)   www.kimyadawson.com   Kimya Dawson is one of those rare artists who can tickle your funny bone and tear out your heart with equal propensity. And on her sev more...

(Matinee)   www.matineerecordings.com   The name Tobias Isaksson sounded familiar; then I remembered that he plied his trade in a few very good Swedish pop bands: Irene, and Laurel M more...

(Goner)   www.goner.com   This collection of singles and compilation tracks covers pretty much the entirety of Eddy Current Suppression Ring from their raucous, first-ever single "Ge more...

(Rhino Handmade)   www.rhinohandmade.com   Along with Dylan's Nashville Skyline, the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Moby Grape's eponymous debut and Workingman's Dead, Bradley's Ba more...

(EMI)   www.emimusic.com   The story of the Smashing Pumpkins is so histrionically rife with personal drama, drug abuse, creative stagnation, senseless line-up changes and overdriven more...

(One Little Indian)   www.indian.co.uk   Deeply indebted to the Factory sound of the 1980s, Disco Inferno took the post-punk of the Durutti Column and early New Order and smeared it more...

(Total Life Society)   http://scarcityoftanks.blogspot.com/     Released this past September but better late than never to pour on the accolades, Cleveland art-punk skuzzball l more...

(self-released)   www.the-weeknd.com Opening with a killer rendition of "Dirty Diana", The Weeknd's Abel Tesfaye aimed to show doubters he's got the vocal talent to make you quiver and pay more...

(Hardly Art)   www.hardlyart.com   Amateurism has become an art form in music over the past several decades, but for every artist who was able to produce magic (Modern Lovers,   more...