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(Alligator Records)   www.alligator.com   There's nothing particularly different about this MOFRO album -  it's just a stronger distillation of the band's vision. Like the thre more...

(Vision Music) www.nilslofgren.com Long before he became a hired gun for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, Nils Lofgren kept similar company with Neil Young, contributing to Young's seminal more...

(Invisible Hands)   www.invisiblehands.co.uk     In 1982, Thomas Dolby managed the tricky feat of capturing the world's attention with a single and video of mythically novel pr more...

 (Brushfire)   www.brushfirerecords.com With Slowdive, Neil Halstead helped define shoegaze in the early ‘90s. He now has parallel careers in Mojave 3 and as a solo artist. Wh more...

(Dangerbird Records)   www.dangerbirdrecords.com   Think in terms of making a good, stiff Irish drink, in this case appropriately the Irish Carbomb, combine half a pint of Guinness, more...

(Bad Dog)   www.jonathabrooke.com   If you sat down and compiled a list of artists you'd most expect Jonatha Brooke to cover, Woody Guthrie probably wouldn't even make the top 100. more...

(Capitol Records)    www.capitolrecords.com     At first glance, the new album from Glen Campbell might appear to hew to a formula that's becoming all too familiar: hot- more...

(Slum)   www.slumrecs.com   The Tough Alliance-Henning Furst and Eric Berglund-come out of the same Gothenburg, Sweden scene that brought us their sometime-tourmate Jens Lekman, and more...

(Sugar Hill Records)   www.sugarhillrecords.com     The Duhks are just so goddamned good. They have been since their 2003 debut, Your Daughters And Your Sons, and they have bee more...

(Epic)   www.epicrecords.com   A farrago of pounding piano romps, bouncy pop gems, and plaintive ballads, Way to Normal finds Ben Folds sounding freer than he ever has on a solo al more...