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Galaxie 500: Today/On Fire/This Is Our Music
If you came of musical majority as the 80s bled into the 90s, if your age means you can remember when a chart placing of 38 and Snub TV showing a homemade video represented a dizzying peak of mainstream acceptance that an indie band could scarcely dare

Wednesday 03/03/10 Mumford & Sons @ ABC, Glasgow
Mumford & Sons @ ABC, Glasgow More Mumford & Sons A wise man once wrote that the times they are a changin', and that's certainly the case in the world of Mumford &Sons. It was almost two years ago to the day that f Marcus Mumford was picking

Josh Rouse: El Turista
El Turista is an appropriate title for a Josh Rouse album, given the Nebraska-born singer?s penchant for moving around from one place to another. Yet Rouse?s music emphasizes the pleasures of settling as much as travel. Rouse himself has called a number

jj: jj n° 3
The mysterious Swedish duo jj released their debut LP, jj n° 2, just nine months ago, right in the middle of the summer. Their timing was impeccable. The album?s particular brand of tropics-infused dream-pop became my official soundtrack for the summer

The Bundles: The Bundles
The last thing you would expect from Kimya Dawson, with her latest project the Bundles, is an earnest, cut-to-the-chase statement of purpose making sense of why she does what she does. And yet, there it is, right in the middle of the band?s self-titled

Eluveitie: Everything Remains As It Never Was
No matter what bells, whistles, and fiddles you incorporate into extreme metal, folk metal is only as good as how well you marry the two styles. There has to be an even balance: lean too much toward the heavy side, and the acoustic instrumentation feels

Ahmad Jamal: A Quiet Time
I have to admit I feel a little guilty writing this, because I?m going to have a hard time explaining what it is makes Ahmad Jamal?s nearly 50th studio release such a fun listen. My only experience with Jamal?s work is through samples of his work on

The Brutalist Bricks
EMAILPRINTby Ted Leo & The Pharmacists N/A User Score: Generally favorable reviews Based on 10 critic reviews Based on 0 votes Album Info Label: Matador Release Date: 09 March 2010 Discs: 1 disc Genre(s): Rock, Punk Summary The Ted Leo-led rock band

Jimi Hendrix
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Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra
Over the past year, Jerry Dammers has cut a rather peevish figure. He was the solitary Special who declined to take part in, then publicly decried, their successful reunion. But watching the Spatial AKA Orchestra's vibes player hammer out a funk-rock

The Morning Benders: Big Echo
Gradually riding a crest of slow-building, long-coming interest, have proven themselves to be the Little Band That Could, toeing the line between old fashioned hard work and the contemporary music scene?s accelerated blogosphere hype. With a respectable

B. Dolan: Fallen House, Sunken City
By Alan Ranta PopMatters Contributing Editor

Serj Tankian: Elect the Dead Symphony: Featuring the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
The most impressive thing about Serj Tankian?s 2007 solo debut Elect the Dead was just how controlled it was. How many times have we seen a lead singer from a well-known band helm a musical project of his own only to put out a piece of work that was too

Josh Turner: Haywire
By Dave Heaton PopMatters Associate Music Editor

Myra Melford and Be Bread: The Whole Tree Gone
It wasn?t long ago that the notion of ?the avant-garde? in art meant a kind of ugliness. This is always subjective, of course: one person?s ugly is another person?s revelation of beauty. But in jazz, the avant-garde was long-marked by the expansion of

Plastic Beach
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Titus Andronicus
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Frightened Rabbit
EMAILPRINTby N/A User Score: Generally favorable reviews Based on 12 critic reviews Based on 0 votes Album Info Label: Fat Cat Release Date: 09 March 2010 Discs: 1 disc Genre(s): Rock, Indie Summary The third studio album for the Scottish indie band

Broken Bells
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Liars: Sisterworld
Most of Liars? music following debut They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top seems to have deliberately, sometimes aggressively, avoided classification. This effort is both understandable and advisable. By charting its own path, the

Lawrence Arabia: Chant Darling
This is the most beautiful album I?m probably going to hear this year. I?m not just saying that because I?m from New Zealand and am partial to my compatriots. To be sure, the sophomore effort of Lawrence Arabia (aka James Milne) isn?t the most original,

Rotting Christ: Aealo
This past January the Israeli band Orphaned Land put out a highly ambitious album that attempted to further their blend of progressive metal and the indigenous sounds of Yemen and Israel, but despite pulling out all the stops, the entire production fell

Pit Er Pat: The Flexible Entertainer
Although have been a band for only six years, it feels like they?ve been around for at least a decade considering the fact that their discography already consists of three full length albums and half a dozen EP?s and seven-inches. When we last heard from

Sambassadeur: European
There was a short period where Geoff Emerick, best known for engineering the Beatles from Revolver on, took on the role of producer. He had his own ?sound?, which did not catch on, but which was indelible nevertheless. Central to it was a bright,

Groove Armada
A chanteuse with a bleached crop, in glittery armour and a skin-tight cat suit, does the breaststroke through a sea of green lasers while steely synths reverb around her. It could be an edition of Top of the Pops from 1981. In fact, it's the new look .