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(Nettwerk)   www.nettwerk.com   Old Crow Medicine Show provide the listener with a conundrum on their third album: is this contemporary country music with an early-20th century soun more...

(Compass) www.compassrecords.com Living up to the band moniker, the Bittersweets' second album conveys a series of breathless, gushing melodies fraught with unsettled circumstances.  The more...

(Slumberland)   www.slumberlandrecords.com       You'll get a good whiff of  Creation Records off these reverb-heavy, bass-driven grooves, which clank and drone lik more...

(Warner Bros.)   www.warnerbrosrecords.com   Even the liner notes reference the infamous "paradigm shift" that led so many rockists of the '80s to dismiss this Texas trio's multi-pl more...

(Luaka Bop)   www.luakabop.com     Jim White's gothic lyrics belie an affable and genial persona that thankfully comes to the front on this live EP.  The stage banter i more...

(Devil in the Woods)     www.devilinthewoodsrecords.com     A good hook can be so deceptive.  It disarms your senses, leaving you vulnerable to an avalanche of unpl more...

(Rhino Records)   www.rhino.com     Let's be as honest as churchmice here, shall we? The corpse that once was the Grateful Dead has long since been flayed, flogged and laid to more...

  (Sci Fidelity) www.scifidelity.com Keller is back at it again. And this time, he's brought the whole group along for the ride.  Live, Williams's first CD/DVD with band mates K more...

(Kill Rock Stars)   www.killrockstars.com   As Deerhoof's latest opus begins with the chunkily distorted riffs of "The Tears and Music of Love," the first thing that may come to mind more...

(Fantasy)   www.concordmusicgroup.com   They arrived just in time to get in on the forefront of a back-to-basics roots revival then usher rock ‘n' roll out of what many saw as more...