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Music   Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: Have Another Ball!

Music   Bell: EP

Music   Sebadoh: Bubble and Scrape

Books   Sing Me Back Home by Dana Jennings

Music   The Explorers Club: Freedom Wind

Music   The Pomegranates: Everything is Alive

Music   HEALTH: HEALTH//DISCO

Books   Where the Wind Blew by Bob Sommer

Music   Silver Jews: Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

Music   Centro-Matic / South San Gabriel: Dual Hawks

Music   Bellafea: Cavalcade

Music   The National: A Skin, A Night & The Virginia EP

Music   My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges

Music   Vetiver: Thing of the Past

Books   Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont

Music   Drakkar Sauna: War and Tornadoes

Music   Robert Pollard: Robert Pollard Is Off to Business

Music   Devon Williams: Careerfree

Music   The Little Ones: Terry Tales & Fallen Gates

Music   Christine Fellows: Nevertheless

Music   Annuals: Wet Zoo EP

Music   No Use for a Name: The Feel Good Record of the Year

Books   Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Music   Jandek: The Myth of Blue Icicles

Books   Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead

Music   Sera Cahoone: Only as the Day is Long

Music   Look Mexico: The Crucial Collection

Books   Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff

Music   Good Riddance: Remain in Memory

Music   Billy Bragg: Mr. Love & Justice

Music   Neil Hamburger: Neil Hamburger Sings Country Winners

Music   Panic Ensemble: Panic Ensemble

Music   Colin Meloy: Colin Meloy Sings Live!

Books   The House of Widows by Askold Melnyczuk

Music   Lee 'Scratch' Perry: Lee 'Scratch' Perry at the Jazz Cafe

Music   The Strugglers: The Latest Rights

Music   Elf Power: In a Cave

Music   Birds of Avalon: Outer Upper Inner EP

Music   Grand Archives: Grand Archives

Music   Flogging Molly: Float

Books   The Future of Love by Shirley Abbott

Music   Ladyhawk: Shots

Music   Trembling Blue Stars: Exploring the Shadows EP

Music   White Hinterland: Phylactery Factory

Music   Ida: Lovers Prayers

Music   Various Artists: Living Bridge

Books   Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy

Music   Antarctica Takes It!: The Penguin League

Music   American Music Club: The Golden Age

Music   Glorytellers: Glorytellers

Music   Robert Pollard: Superman was a Rocker

Books   Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk

Music   The Mountain Goats: Heretic Pride

Books   Swordfishtrombones (33 1/3) by David Smay

Music   The Loved Ones: Build & Burn

Music   Fire on Fire: 5 Song EP

Music   Cat Power: Jukebox

Music   Jeffrey Lewis: 12 Crass Songs

Music   Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden: Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden

Music   MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

Music   The Brother Kite: Moonlit Race EP

Music   Tullycraft: Every Scene Needs a Center

Music   House & Parish: One, One-Thousand

Music   Tim Hecker: Norberg

Music   Golden Death Music: Ephemera Blues

Music   The Motion Sick: The Truth Will Catch You, Just Wait…

Music   Aloha: Light Works

Books   Tomorrow by Graham Swift

Music   NOFX: Theyve Actually Gotten Worse Live!

Music   Shocking Pinks: Shocking Pinks

Music   Tom Brosseau: Cavalier

Music   Pants Yell!: Alison Statton

Music   State Radio: Year of the Crow

Music   Ahleuchatistas: …Even in the Midst

Music   SNMNMNM: Crawl Inside Your Head

Music   Six Organs of Admittance: Shelter from the Ash

Music   Jana Hunter: Carrion EP

Music   Grizzly Bear: Friend EP

Music   Born Ruffians: Hummingbird

Music   Working for a Nuclear Free City: Businessmen & Ghosts

Music   Merle Haggard: Hag's Christmas

Music   Kinski: Down Below its Chaos

Music   Sandro Perri: Tiny Mirrors

Books   Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

Music   Champion Kickboxer: Perforations

Books   Dead Boys by Richard Lange

Music   Marissa Nadler: Songs III: Bird on the Water

Music   Karate: Five-Ninety-Five

Music   Castanets: In the Vines

Music   The For Carnation: Promised Works

Music   Emily Jane White: Dark Undercoat

Music   Two Gallants: Two Gallants

Music   The Bosch: Hurry Up

Music   Japanther: Skuffed Up My Huffy

Music   Swivel Chairs: The Slow Transmission

Music   Robert Pollard: Coast to Coast Carpet of Love

Music   Band of Horses: Cease to Begin

Music   The Fiery Furnaces: Widow City

Music   The Weakerthans: Reunion Tour

Music   Speck Mountain: Summer Above

Music   Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores: The Blind Spot

Music   Shepherdess: Shepherdess

Music   Sea Wolf: Leaves in the River

Music   Steve Earle: Washington Square Serenade

Music   Dropkick Murphys: The Meanest of Times

Music   Akron/Family: Love is Simple

Music   Health: Health

Music   Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam

Music   Jason Anderson: Tonight

Books   Right Livelihoods by Rick Moody

Music   Ezra Furman & the Harpoons: Banging Down the Doors

Music   Pelican: City of Echoes

Music   Oh No! Oh My!: Between the Devil and the Sea

Music   The Mendoza Line: 30 Year Low & Final Remarks of the Legendary Malcontent

Music   Foreign Born: On the Wing Now

Music   Jennifer Gentle: The Midnight Room

Music   The Takeovers: Bad Football

Books   New Stories from the South by Edward P. Jones (Guest Editor) and Kathy Pories (Series Editor)

Music   Virgin of the Birds: Mixed Choir

Music   Pissed Jeans: Hope for Men

Music   The Foundry Field Recordings: Fallout Stations

Music   Mirah and Spectratone International: Share This Place

Music   Patton Oswalt: Werewolves and Lollipops

Music   Mad Caddies: Keep It Going

Music   Against Me!: New Wave

Music   Rob Crow: I Hate You, Rob Crow

Music   Robert Pollard: Crickets

Music   Various Artists: Healing the Divide

Music   Sean Na Na: Family Trees or: Must Cope We

Music   KK Null: Fertile

Music   Young Galaxy: Young Galaxy

Music   Disciple: Come and See Us as We Are!

Music   Whiting Tennis: Three Leaf Clover

Music   Nick Drake: Family Tree

Music   Shout Out Louds: Tonight I Have to Leave It EP

Music   Electrelane: No Shouts, No Calls

Music   Ramona Cordova: The Boy Who Floated Freely

Music   Dizzee Rascal: Maths & English

Music   My Morning Jacket: At Dawn and Tennessee Fire Demos Package

Music   The Field: From Here We Go Sublime

Music   Custom Made: Truth Be Told EP

Music   The Comas: Spells

Music   The Milk and Honey Band: Secret Life of the Milk and Honey Band

Music   Olvis: Bravado

Music   Love in October: Words of Sound

Music   The New Rags: Take Jennie to Brooklyn

Music   Magic Bullets: A Child but in Life Yet a Doctor in Love

Music   Dark Meat: Universal Indians

Music   Mice Parade: Mice Parade

Music   Dinosaur Jr.: Beyond

Music   I Am Robot and Proud: The Catch / Spring Summer Autumn Winter

Music   Ben Davis and the Jetts / Des Ark: Battle of the Beards

Music   Central Services: Central Services

Music   Spank Rock: Fabriclive 33

Music   The Blow: Poor Aim: Love Songs

Music   Dolly Varden: The Panic Bell

Music   Loch Lomond: Lament for Children

Music   DatR: Turn Up the Ghosts

Music   Robert Pollard: Silverfish Trivia

Music   31Knots: The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere

Music   Only Crime: Virulence

Music   Hobex: Enlightened Soul

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