Street Date: 2/9/2010 Somewhere in Time is the next installment in the legend of Reckless Kelly. The last, the inimitable Bulletproof, careened into the Billboard 200 and on up to the top 25 on...

The Courage of Others is the lusted after follow-up to Midlake's 2006 cult classic The Trials of Van Occupanther. Existing outside the plane of trends and even time, Midlake has once again conjured a...

Laura Veirs' seventh album July Flame, which Colin Meloy calls "the best album of 2010," explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched in wood smoke, sunlight, pollinators, and pastoral dales, her...

Their amazing debut album. "Rawboned blues duo the Black Keys hail from Akron, Ohio, but a listen to The Big Come Up suggests the Keys may have been raised by Mississippi ridge-runners. While Dan...

The Decemberists know that the psychology of a culture at war is complex; that historical archetypes can inform the masses on current events far better than the evening news; and, perhaps most...

Heart sewn firmly to his sleeve, Elliott continues his tuneful dissection of life & what makes it difficult.

Thao and the Get Down Stay Down are an awesome example of a great band making their success the old-fashioned way: by earning it. With only a locally-released full-length in her hometown of...

Reckless Kelly is back on the rock n' roll stage with Bulletproof, their most ambitious and venomous album to date. Rollicking guitars and a relentlessly aggressive rhythm section pound out political...

After a year of touring the US in various incarnations, Horse Feathers signed to Kill Rock Stars and proceeded to record this, their second album: House With No Home. On it they have distilled their...

Lauded for their "spooky and mysterious Memphis soul" (No Depression) and "achingly beautiful songs" (Memphis Flyer), Lucero quickly became a fixture in their hometown's distinctive music scene. Like...

While many buzz-minded new artists dive straight into Brooklyn's bustling music scene, Cymbals Eat Guitars were happy fine-tuning tracks from the outside, looking in "first in elaborate demos with...

Electric President is a Jacksonville, Florida musical project by Ben Cooper and Alex Kane. The sound is a mix of folk, indie pop and electronics with the occasional reference to shoegaze and epic...

As its title would suggest, Castaways and Cutouts is a record populated with an eclectic array of unlikely characters in various states of abandonment and revelry. While the likes of Spanish gypsies,...

For all intents and purposes, "Her Majesty. . ." could best be described as the charming older brother to the band's previous outing. And, while being recognizably related to its sibling predecessor,...

-Self-titled debut from Memphis-based Lucero -Guests include Cody & Luther Dickinson, of The North Mississippi All Stars, and "East Memphis Slim" (their dad, Jim Dickinson, producer for Big Star &...

Called "Everything that music should be," by NPR's All Things Considered, DeVotchKa's third full length "How It Ends" showcases the Denver band's unique sound- a blend of Eastern European,...

“Learn Yourself” is the second album from The Beautiful Girls who are at the forefront of the Australian roots movement. “Learn Yourself” is packed with tunes that are filtered through the warmth of...

When you hear it Elliott's way you know it to be true. "Everything is exactly right when I walk around here drunk every night with an open container from 7-11, in St. Ides Heaven."

Carbon Leaf's fourth final independent CD before being signed to Vanguard Records. 'Echo' was produced by John Morand (Cracker, Joan Osbourne, Sparklehorse) in the band's hometown of Richmond,...