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(Compass) www.Compassrecords.com   No white winged doves, the women comprising two-thirds of Australia’s Waifs don’t indulge in faerie princess fantasy. “Give me sun, give more...

(Compass Records)   www.compassrecords.com   For those unawares, the Waifs might best be described as a populist combo whose eclectic approach finds them freely bending boundaries b more...

(Magic Marker)   www.magicmarkerrecords.com   Is there something in the water in Glasgow? Or perhaps, in Scottish students' final year of high school, the guidance counselors advis more...

(Gigantic Music)     www.giganticmusic.com     Good times always seem to pass The Walkmen by. The band’s anachronistic noir evokes the loneliest Christmas (a recurr more...

(K Records)   www.krecs.com   Imagine indie kids raised on the best of K Records and Jonathan Richman discovering Nuggets, Bruce Springsteen's The River and maybe the Pixies on a w more...

(ZOHO Music)   www.zohomusic.com       New Orleans native Walter "Wolfman" Washington was forced to flee his hometown when Hurricane Katrina struck. As the veteran bluesman more...

(Almost Gold Recordings)   www.almostgoldrecordings.com     Do not let the name misguide you: Walter Meego is not one person-can you imagine the taunting a child would've suf more...

(Ecstatic Peace)   www.ecstaticpeace.com   The artist formerly known as Wooden Wand (James Jackson Toth) has put out something of a posthumous collection: Hard Knox may be Wooden Wa more...

(Rhino)   www.rhino.com   War is a band not nearly as famous as it should be.  Certainly there are those standout cuts, especially "The Cisco Kid" and "Low Rider," but let's fac more...

(Secretly Canadian)   www.secretlycanadian.com Philadelphia’s The War On Drugs aren’t easy to pigeonhole, and that’s a plus when so many new bands sound “new” more...