Eli Messinger

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Samantha Crain

Jul 16, 2008

This eerie five-song EP is one of the most disarming releases you're likely to hear this year. Recorded by a rural Oklahoma Choctaw folk...

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Arthur Lyman

May 28, 2008

Along with Martin Denny's piano, Arthur Lyman's vibraphone was a founding instrument of the exotica genre. Exotica served as the soundtrack to tiki culture...

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Nick Lowe

May 7, 2008

Nick Lowe's band Brinsley Schwarz was a pillar of the back-to-basics counterinsurgency waged against the overblown corporate rock of the early '70s, and his...

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The Long Retirement

Dec 5, 2007

For a band that effectively retired 25 years ago, Berkeley's the Rubinoos have been doing quite well lately. The pop band reissued its first...

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Arthur Alexander

Oct 3, 2007

Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter

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New to You

Dec 21, 2005

The reissue producer: part studio nerd, part Indiana Jones.

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Burning the Faithful

Oct 19, 2005

New copy-protected CDs screw over the only honest customers the music industry has left.

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Spike Priggen

Apr 20, 2005

Stars After Stars After Stars

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