Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are already well known as one of the most exciting acts in the nation for both their explosive live shows and their prolic output of gritty studio recordings. Their...

Gary Numan returns this autumn with a new album Dead Son Rising. The new album grew out of a set of demos the singer had left from previous projects, but as he explains: 'The original ideas that...

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...

Simon Green aka Bonobo returns with his forth and finest album, Black Sands. Losing none of his epic emotionalism, his control of texture and colour and his subtlety, Black Sands sees Green making...

On November 2nd Kill Rock Stars will release An Introduction to...Elliott Smith on CD and 180 gram vinyl. The album features fourteen tracks compiled from all seven of Elliott Smith's albums...

From the recordings that produced Drums Between the Bells--the acclaimed collaboration between Brian Eno and British poet Rick Holland--comes an all new EP titled Panic Of Looking. The 6 tracks...

We Don't Need is the Yep Roc debut from Louisville KY's enchanting chanteuse, Cheyenne Marie Mize. Whimsical, haunting, dreamlike music that eschews the traditional formulae, Cheyenne Marie Mize...

The Heavy have toured the world and, where the first record was sample-based, the new one is much more a product of working as a band. Like the early rock 'n' roll, blues and rhythm and blues which...

There is an unbelievable clarity of sound and vision to Veckatimest: vocals (a duty shared by all band members) are sharper and more complex, arrangements are tighter, production is more venturous...

Future Islands' romantic synth sound scales new heights with On the Water, the Baltimore trio's most ambitious and fully realized statement yet. Built around a song cycle exploring love, loss, and...

EMA, the new project from ex-Gowns singer/guitarist Erika M. Anderson, will release first single, Grey Ship on March 8th, 2011. Grey Ship is the lead track off EMA's upcoming debut album Past Life...

Laura Veirs' new album is a collection of folk songs for children called Tumble Bee. Recorded by Grammy-nominated producer Tucker Martine in their home in Portland, Oregon in the spring of 2011, it...

From the left or the right side? Straight ahead or upside down? No matter how you look at it - but it seems to be about time that all the remixes for Jazzanova that have been done over the last few...

Since breaking on to the music scene in the early nineties, CAKE has not only survived, but thrived in a tumultuous industry where major labels have continued to merge themselves out of existence,...

"Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. The artwork for 100 Days, 100 Nights is unabashedly steeped somewhere in the early '60s. It is this era that the Dap Kings and their bodacious frontwoman...

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,...

When you have spent more than 40 years writing and recording songs that underscore a sense of turbulence, where violent winds, thunderstorms and tornadoes figure rominently and beckoning, distant...

The first moments of Flying Lotus' Los Angeles come on as lush analog waves, just distorted enough to sound like a faded memory of something you once heard on a radio from across a room....