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Michael Franti and Spearhead
I Know I'm Not Alone
July 25, 2006In 2004, Michael Franti decided to 'walk his talk' and traveled to the war zones of Iraq, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This wasn't a USO green zone sponsored visit - Franti traveled to the core of the red-zoned, war torn neighborhoods in the Middle East with his guitar, …
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Jolie Holland
Springtime Can Kill You
May 9, 2006Jolie Holland's second studio album, Springtime Can Kill You is a 12 track song-cycle - a crossroads where haunting meets joyful - a voice from the heavens singing stories of the underworld. Holland's songs rise and fall like heavy eyelids and convey the peace of that place between asleep and …
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Pete Philly & Perquisite
Mindstate
May 9, 2006Mindstate takes you on a journey where hip-hop, jazz and soul gently collide and collaborate in a breathtaking way. This album crosses boarders by ranging from 60's psychedelica to even classical music. While producer Perquisite drops his groovy beats on the one hand and on the other is playing the …
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The Coup
Pick A Bigger Weapon
April 25, 2006The opening lines of The Coup's new album, Pick A Bigger Weapon, speak of contradiction. It is from between one of modern life's central juxtapositions -- the primary forces of sensual, emotional love and brutal economic reality -- “bullets and love” -- that The Coup's frontman/auteur Boots Riley draws …
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Blackalicious
The Craft
September 27, 2005With their third full-length release, Blackalicious has produced a record of such sonic depth and lyrical ambition that it can proudly stand alongside the work of Bay Area funk fathers Sly Stone and Shuggie Otid, or hip-hop classics like Outkasts's Aquemin and The Roots' Things Fall Apart.
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Bettye LaVette
I've Got My Own Hell To Raise
September 27, 2005After four decades toiling in the record business with little more than a fervent cult following to show for it, Bettye LaVette can seem like soul music's equivalent of Roy Hobbs, protagonist of the bittersweet baseball fable The Natural. Whether this riveting collection of ten covers by an eclectic range …
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Tim Fite
Gone Ain't Gone
September 13, 2005If you long for the days of when Beck Hansen was a nobody, armed with only his quirkiness and a sampler, then the debut album by Tim Fite, 'Gone Ain't Gone,' is definitely recommended. Fewer and fewer rock artists of the early 21st century are following in the footsteps of …
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Daniel Lanois
Belladonna
July 12, 2005When Brian Eno recorded his landmark ambient releases of the 1980's and '90's, he transformed our perception of space, music, and performance. His collaborator on those albums, and on his subsequent ground-breaking production work with U2, was Daniel Lanois. Lanois took the techniques he developed with Eno and went on …
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Xavier Rudd
Food In The Belly
May 24, 2005Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd is a one of a kind artist with a clear vision, personality, and an independent attitude. An established artist in his native Australia and his second home, Canada, Rudd's debut for Anti, Food in the Belly is his 6th record. His extensive travels …
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Youth Group
Skeleton Jar
May 24, 2005Dark and melancholic, Singer/Guitarist/Songwriter Toby Martin has a voice that is undeniably pure and potent. With each song he guides us through varied landscapes of indie rock, folk and pop terrain. From the haunting single "Shadow Land," to live favorites "See-Saw" and "Piece of Wood," Skeleton Jar is truly an …
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The Frames
Burn The Maps
February 8, 2005Burn The Maps is The Frames' first studio album for Anti and it is also their most cohesive. Until now, The Frames' music favoured bi-polar swings, violently loud on one song, violently quiet the next. On Burn The Maps, their fifth studio album, the band have reconciled their various …
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Sage Francis
A Healthy Distrust
February 8, 2005Sage Francis is to indie hip-hop what Rage Against the Machine was to alternative rock, a full frontal ambi-political rush that turns its voice man into a deified performer with legions of impressionable youths hanging on his every word. Think Sage doesn't want it that way? Check the corporate rock …
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