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(Second Motion)   www.secondmotionrecords.com     The Verve Pipe had the distinct misfortune to emerge upon the musical scene concurrently with a certain British band bearing a more...

(Daptone)     www.daptonerecords.com     The field recording - the seeking out and documenting unheard of musicians and songs, generally in the blues, folk and gospel tr more...

(Full Time Hobby)   www.fulltimehobby.co.uk     If you are not familiar with Fujiya and Miyagi, let's first clarify; they are neither Japanese nor a duo of individuals who bea more...

(Iconoclassic) www.iconoclassicrecords.com   The first and only live album recorded during her relatively brief lifetime, Laura Nyro's Season Of Lights was part of a stylistic transition more...

(Surrender All)   www.unkle.com     Unlike James Lavelle's wrong-n-rocking recent War Stories, UNKLE's latest release culls from and was created for things cinematic: soundtrac more...

(Basin Street)   www.basinstreetrecords.com   Even for New Orleans, which with its myriad musical hybrids is arguably the birthplace of the mashup, the notion seems improbable: marr more...

(!K7)   www.k7-de.com     Twenty-one years after acid house, "Beat Dis," and a history of productions and remixes including Bowie, Bjork, Neneh Cherry and U2 comes Tim Simenon more...

(Darla)   www.darla.com   Avant garde composer Harold Budd refers to his instrumental pieces as "art music," a particularly apt description, since his spare sense of melody and lan more...

(Leaning Man Records)   www.donniefritts.com     To say that Donnie Fritts has had a run of bad luck is to understate the case by a country mile. In 2003 he had most of his fac more...

(Guided By Voices, Inc.)   www.robertpollard.net   Robert Pollard's standing as the hardest-working man in indie-rock is further reinforced by the emergence of a brand new project, more...