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(Bloodshot) www.bloodshotrecords.com For the better part of the last 35 years, Graham Parker's been known as an irascible agitator, an artist whose considerable talents have always found him t more...

(In the Red)   http://www.intheredrecords.com/   An immediate impression upon listening to the Strange Boys would be that they're probably having more fun than humans should be allo more...

(Sleeplikewolves)   www.rubythroat.co.uk.com   KatieJane Garside carries on in the ethereal, mysterious, profoundly arty vocal tradition of such other British female singers as Kate more...

(Courageous Chicken/NashVegas Flash)   www.jasonandthescorchers.com   The Reverend remembers watching...no, witnessing Jason & the Nashville Scorchers tear apart a local club - more...

(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com     It's obvious now that on this, the third record by this New Zealand band (essentially the work of one man, an American) leader Ryan McPhun does more...

(Bella Union)   www.bellaunion.com   Like fellow ex-Brunettes Ryan McPhun, James Milne is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and neo-psychedelic one-man band. Milne's Lawrence Arabia more...

(Undertow) www.undertowmusic.com   This, the second solo album by guitarist Steve Dawson - the third if you count his collaboration with singer Diane Christiansen -- is a gently sublime more...

(Angular/Domino)   www.arco18.com   Even if Hidden didn't work - and it mostly does - it ought to be celebrated for sheer bravery. On this follow-up to 2008's Beat Pyramid, These Ne more...

(self-released) www.annacoogan.com   Clearly, there's nothing more commonplace these days that dewy-eyed singer/songwriters of a lofty Americana persuasion. Except, of course, for squabb more...

(Littlest Sounds)   www.commercemusic.com   Commerce is one of those little bands who could - and did. The Johnson City, Tenn., quartet may call its record label Littlest Sounds but more...