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Eagles of Death Metal

Heart On

(Downtown)   www.downtownrecords.com     Imagine the Eagles of Death Metal in a world without sex. That's right, let's say that Heart On (heh, get it?) was beamed into a unive more...

Pink Spiders

Sweat it Out

(Adrenaline Music Group)   www.adrenalinemusicgroup.com   These guys are rarely as infectious as their image or their name. But when they are, this album's pretty undeniable, from th more...

Jolie Holland

The Living and the Dead

(Anti-)   www.anti.com   This is Jolie Holland's "electric album." The itinerant singer-songwriter is now based in Brooklyn (with everyone else!), and while The Living and the Dead s more...

Jesse Malin

On Your Sleeve

(One Little Indian) www.onelittleindian-us.com   In many ways, On Your Sleeve is Jesse Malin's return to his roots, although it doesn't necessarily bring him to any point of origin.  more...

Dressy Bessy

Holler and Stomp

(Transdreamer)   www.transdreamer.com     As happily infectious as a Josie & the Pussycats convention, but cut through with the smarts of the Ramones, this Denver-based ba more...

Uriah Heep

Wake the Sleeper

(Sanctuary)    www.sanctuaryrecordsgroup.com/     Back during the early-to-mid-70s, Uriah Heep was the band that the critics hated, but the little boys understood. One of more...

Yo Majesty

Futuristically Speaking... Never Be Afraid

(Domino) www.dominorecordco.us   So, you say you're two Christian black lesbian rappers out of Tampa, Florida, and you want to make a record?   Do it.   Make it equal parts more...

I'm From Barcelona

Who Killed Harry Houdini?

(Mute)   www.mute.com Just like Ikea, I'm From Barcelona is big, unwieldy yet precise, eclectic and Swedish. Come to think of it, the band's Arcade Fire-meets-Polyphonic Spree easy-liste more...

Johnny Cash

At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition

(Columbia/Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com   The landmark album that was culled from the first of Johnny Cash's two concerts at California's notorious Folsom Prison has been haile more...

Bound Stems

The Family Afloat

(Flameshovel)   www.flameshovel.com       If a family were truly afloat, it's kind of doubtful its members could muster the youthful exuberance these indie darlings brin more...


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