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LL Cool J
(Def Jam) www.defjam.com Industry magnate Kal Rudman once told me "once a hit, always a threat." He wasn't talking about Cool J per se. But twenty years after "I Love My Radio" and con more...
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
(Transdreamer Records) www.transdreamer.com The Devil has a hold on Holly Golightly. And in his infinite wisdom, he has commanded her to record a sweltering, neo-Delta bl more...
Jackson Browne
www.insiderecordings.com The knock against Jackson Browne's 1970s work was has always been that he's too sensitive-"Here Come Those Tears," indeed. Tonio K. more...
Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden
www.fileundermusic.com Accordion, violin and voice, all pitched at their most unearthly, twine and curl together in nine extraordinary composi more...
Little Man Tate
www.littlemantate.co.uk For anyone who has followed Little Man Tate for a couple of years (as I have) it's hard not to more...
Palms
www.rbrRecords.com Few bands these days make music recalling the icily lonely, German-depressive soundscapes of Nico's The Marble Index and De more...
Dreadful Yawns
www.exitstencil.org Despite three excellent albums chock full of breezy Americana, the Dreadful Yawns have yet to get their due, a lackadaisical reaction tha more...
sBACH
www.suicidesqueeze.net Lovable just for its energetic disregard of alt-music categories, sBACH's debut tilt-a-whirls prog, metal and glitch, more...
Teenage Jesus and Beirut Slump
www.atavistic.com Before the woozy Queen of Siam, the slammed poetry and the blow-job acting bits for Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch helped erect more...
Broken West
www.mergerecords.com Ah cool clear water. There's nothing that quenches the thirst like it and yet in some instances water just doesn't satisfy. In fa more...









