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(Chop Shop)   www.chopshoprecords.net     The Republic Tigers are a Grey’s Anatomy band – in the sense that the Kansas City group’s music has appeared on the sho more...

(Signature Sounds)   www.signaturesounds.com     Aptly named, Crooked Still’s third record arrives with a title that intimates what its contents demonstrate: in spite o more...

(Epic/Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com       Stardust was a very formative album for me. Upon its debut 30 years ago, my mom played the album often—introducing my 1 more...

(Astralwerks)   www.astralwerks.com Contrast these titles: Alright, Still, Made Of Bricks and Alas I Cannot Swim. The first is a slangy retort and the second a self-assured proclamation, bu more...

(Vanguard)   www.vanguardrecords.com   Cloaked in ambience and atmosphere, Greg Laswell’s previous albums were infused with ruminations on heartache and desire, creating a conte more...

(Astralwerks)   www.astralwerks.com     The Caesars were already an underground phenomenon in their native Sweden for a half dozen years before Apple tapped the quartet’s p more...

(Seeland)   www.seelandrecords.com       Nearly thirty years into their career, it seems strange for Negativland – the West Coast’s avant-pop avatar of mash-up s more...

(Mint)   www.mintrecs.com   You know how Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys has that classic Brit-blooze bellow down pat? A combined Paul Rodgers (Free)/Ian Gillan (Deep Purple)/Rusty Day more...

(Smithsonian Folkways)     www.folkways.si.edu   Having performed together for more than 30 years, singer-guitarist John Cephas and harmonica player Phil Wiggins have done more more...

(Bar/None)   www.bar-none.com     Not unlike a golden-voiced phoenix rising from the flames of what was the brilliant Mendoza Line and the ashes of Shannon McArdle’s marr more...