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Jade Stone and Luv: Mosaics: Pieces of Stone

[15.Jul.08] :. Part lounge-lizard country, part feral psych-rock with a '50s teen-beat chaser.

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Christa Couture: The Wedding Singer and the Undertaker

[10.Jul.08] :. This Vancouver-based musician sings with heart-on-sleeve intensity about suffering and loss. It's her skill with words and the uplifting production which make this album so much better than a misery memoir.

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Pete Francis: Iron Sea and the Cavalry

[3.Jul.08] :. Countrified folk-pop blending contemplative B-3 organ, spectral lap-steel and the thrashing strum of an acoustic guitar -- brings to mind the young Cat Stevens.

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The Ramblin' Ambassadors: Vista Cruiser Country Squire

[1.Jul.08] :. Calgary's surf-rock instrumentalists add a contemporary edge to the grinding-guitar, tassell-teasing strip-club sound of the '50s and the reverbed fun in the sun of the '60s.

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The Grip Weeds: Infinite Soul

[30.Jun.08] :. All skittering drums and scything guitar lines, this powerful slice of melodious psych-pop provides a great entry point to a magical body of work.

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Music The Priddle Concern: The Priddle Concern

Music Amos Lee: Last Days at the Lodge

Music Porter Block: Off Our Shoulders

Music Mississippi Heat: Hattiesburg Blues

Music Bread Love And Dreams: The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and the Hunchback from Gigha

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The BellRays: Hard, Sweet and Sticky

[19.May.08] :. Not for the faint-hearted, nor the recently heartbroken -- but if you're neither, this dynamite disc is one slice of maximum R&B you cannot afford to miss out on.

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Music The Contents Are: Through You

Music The Long Blondes: Couples

Music Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King: Blood Brothers

Music Various Artists: Get Ready: U.K. Floor Fillers Volume 3

Music Saint Bernadette: I Wanna Tell You Something

Music Ann Vriend: When We Were Spies

Music Various Artists: Fairy Cakes For Tea: Fairytales Can Come True Volume 2

Music Various Artists: Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed

Music Chatham County Line: IV

Music Little Arthur Duncan: Live At Rosa's Blues Lounge

Music Billy Vera: Hopeless Romantic: The Best of Billy Vera and the Beaters

Music The Vandelles: The Vandelles EP

Music The Satelliters: Where Do We Go?

Music Slider Pines: Road Avenue Railroad

Music Dengue Fever: Venus on Earth

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Jimmy Reed: Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall

[16.Jan.08] :. The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll. Jimmy Reed was one of the few visionaries to make it happen, as this outstanding 23-song compilation proves.

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Music Morning Glory: Two Suns Worth

Music The Trolleyvox: Your Secret Safe/Luzerne

Music The Shaker Heights: Magna Doors

Music Josie Cotton: Invasion of the B-Girls

Music The Gladiators: Studio One Singles

Music The Details: Draw a Distance. Draw a Border.

Music Johnny Rivers: Last Boogie in Paris: the Complete Concert

Music Slow Six: Private Times in Public Places

Music The Pillbugs: Monclovia

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Sterling Harrison: South of the Snooty Fox

[28.Nov.07] :. Sterling Harrison is one performer who really does live up to the cliché -- one of the greatest soul singers you never heard of -- on this, his posthumous album.

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