This album was not supposed to be an album. This was intended to be a soundtrack to a play about a monster-ghost-love-story. When Zach Shields and Ryan Gosling met in 2005 and discovered their mutual obsession with ghosts, they decided to write the aforementioned ghastly love story. Scrapping the stage …
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The Swell Season "Somebody Good" digital single
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Nick Diamonds' polymorphous pop band, Islands, is back with their third studio album, 'Vapours.' The 2006 debut, 'Return to the Sea,' found eccentric and mellifluous pop tunes performed with a cast of characters from Montreal's thriving music scene (including members of Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade), helmed by Nick Diamonds …
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Produced by Ian Brennan (Ramblin Jack Elliott, Lucinda Williams, Jonathan Richman), Rain Machine's debut, offers an enthralling mix of innovative song structure and sound entirely in service of Malone's emotive singing and evocative lyrics. Malone describes the Rain Machine sound as "a nearly full spectrum of frequencies audible to the …
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Dead Man's Bones "Pa Pa Power" digital single
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Os Mutantes have found a home with other likeminded provocateurs such as Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Mavis Staples and Billy Bragg on the Los Angeles independent label ANTI- Records. 2006 saw a reunion of sorts, with the band playing a handful of shows in London, New York, the Pitchfork Festival …
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The Swell Season "Low Rising" digital single
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The Swell Season "In These Arms" digital single
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For more than two decades as a solo artist and Grammy-winning producer, Joe Henry has worked with some of the most celebrated names in music, including Ornette Coleman, Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, T-Bone Burnett, Don Byron, Solomon Burke, Brad Mehldau, Madonna, and Ani DiFranco.
On Blood from Stars, his …
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With the release of their sophomore album No More Heroes (the second in a trilogy of conceptually-linked records for Anti-), Orlando-based hip hop quartet Solillaquists of Sound have accomplished the rare feat of creating a body of work that's as palatable to the public as it is groundbreaking, imaginative, and …
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This is Spoon's first recorded music since Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: a new single called "Got Nuffin," as well as two b-sides.
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Having conquered the ghosts of a hard-luck past on her Grammy-nominated CD The Scene of the Crime, Bettye LaVette shines a new light on that past with her latest, Change Is Gonna Come Sessions. The digital-only EP, available exclusively through iTunes, revisits Bettye's forgotten post-Atlantic Records years as …
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