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A Place to Bury Strangers

Exploding Head

(Mute)   www.mute.com   Like the Horrors, A Place to Bury Strangers prove that a brazen lack of originality needn't get in the way of a great record-but Exploding Head isn't as shame more...

A Weather

Everyday Balloons

(Team Love)   www.team-love.com   This Portland band, led by Aaron Gerber (vocals/guitar) and Sarah Winchester (vocals/drums) formed just four short years ago and had the indie roc more...

A-Trak

Running Man: Nike+ Original Run

(Nike Sport) www.nikesportmusicmedia.com   I hate running. So it says a lot for A-Trak’s Running Man that it actually makes the idea of going out for a jog somewhat tolerable. The singl more...

A-Trak

Infinity + 1

(Thrive/Fool's Gold)   www.thrivemusic.com A-Trak's profile is pretty high these days, thanks to his day job as Kanye West's touring DJ and part-owner of his own label, Fool's Gold. He st more...

A.C. Newman

Get Guilty

(Matador)   www.matadorrecords.com    Everything about The New Pornographers is big - from the band's size to its layers of instruments and vocal harmonies. So it makes sense t more...

Aaron Jentzen

Great Inventors EP

(Inferential Kid Music + Media)   www.aaronjentzen.com   His brooding baritone recalling Hunky Dory-era David Bowie, Aaron Jentzen sets the tone here with a melancholy title track th more...

Abe Vigoda

Skeleton

(Post Present Medium)   www.postpresentmedium.com         Noisy, pop-crackling Abe Vigoda comes from the same vegan DIY punk scene as LA’s No Age (whose members more...

Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet

Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet

(Nettwerk)         www.nettwerk.com   By now, we’ve all gotten plenty jaded about weird-ass combinations here on Planet Mash-Up – I’ll se more...

AC/DC

Backtracks

(Columbia)   www.columbiarecords.com   Billed as the "ultimate AC/DC collector's experience," Backtracks spans the length and breadth of AC/DC's staggering career, featuring rare so more...

Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno

Journey Into the Cosmic Inferno

(Very Friendly)   www.acidmothers.com Heaping superlatives on Acid Mothers Temple at this point in the game - after some 13 years and multiple permutations - seems pointless. The ban more...


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