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Lost All Faith
Price: $13.00
Artist: Baseboard Heaters
Description: Sounding like a hybrid of Jay Farrar, The Bottle Rockets, and The Replacements, Baseboard Heaters churned out some mighty impressive roots pop earlier this decade! From the very start, this record engages the listener with well crafted songs, crisp tones and production, and clever lyrics that speak in simple terms, diving ... read more »
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Seeing Red
Price: $13.00
Artist: Baseboard Heaters
Description: Sounding like a hybrid of Jay Farrar, The Bottle Rockets, and The Replacements, Baseboard Heaters churned out some mighty impressive roots pop earlier this decade! They were one of the Pacific Northwest's leading lights of the 1990s roots rock revival, thanks to a sound that bypassed the punk heritage proudly upheld by mos
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The Other Side Of Nowhere
Price: $10.00
Artist: Benjamin R
Description: The long gestating debut record from this California based singer/songwriter (whoes real name is Robert Selvaggio) is full of emotion and honesty. He took a professional detour into the production booth after an Indie release he boarded got significant praise for its sound. One thing led to another and before he knew what ... read more »
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Shelter From The Smoke
Price: $15.00
Artist: Bill Fox
Description: Singer/songwriter Bill Fox first surfaced in 1985, fronting the cult-favorite indie band the Mice. After releasing an acclaimed album, "Scooter", and an EP, "For Almost Ever", the group disbanded in 1988. He had been MIA from the American indie scene for nearly a decade when he resurfaced with this solo debut in 1997. As
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The Things We Left Behind
Price: $16.00
Artist: Blue Rodeo
Description: The title, and even format, of this 2CD set may lead one to believe the band has cleaned out its closet of B-sides and rarities after nearly 23 years. That's not the case, as this is yet another superior album of new folk-country-Americana tunes from the pens of Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy. The package seems to be a statement
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That Covers That...
Price: $0.00
Artist: Chris Richards + The Subtractions
Description: IT'S BACK!!!! FREE WITH ANY PURCHASE - YOU MUST ADD TO YOUR CART. Chris Richards and mates have graced us with this brilliant, ultra-kool EP of cover tunes, one that you certainly won't want to miss! Track listing: "You Like Me Too Much" (The Beatles), "Mary Anne With The Shakey Hand" (The Who), "Wah Wah" (George Harriso
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Elizabeth Parker + 5
Price: $6.00
Artist: Dave Caruso
Description: ELVIS COSTELLO ALERT!!!! Dave Caruso is an independent alternative-pop songwriter from Trenton, Michigan This is an effort that's dated 2004 but we've only just become aware of it - and are we glad we did. Here's a guy that knows his way around a pop song, and he's not afraid to flaunt it! He delivers five Brill Buildin
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Sparkle Lane
Price: $13.00
Artist: Edward Rogers
Description: In Lewis Carroll's "Through The Looking Glass", Alice wonders what life is like on the other side of a mirror. Following her curiousity, she enters the mirror and discovers a vast world of unanswered questions and paradoxes that actually exist within herself. It is a journey of self-discovery, an introspective look at her
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Love Will Find You
Price: $13.00
Artist: Findlay Brown
Description: In 2007, we featured Findlay's '70s singer/songwriter and folk-pop-influenced album "Separated By The Sea" which recalled earlier British troubadours like Nick Drake and John Martyn. Since then, he's seemingly went through a major "sea change". In fact, we had to do a double-take to make sure that this was, in fact, the sa
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Feral Fire
Price: $15.00
Artist: Glossary
Description: After more than a decade of independent releases and self-financed tours, it’s safe to say that Glossary won’t be joining the Drive-By Truckers or The Bottle Rockets (though both are excellent touchstones) as big-time leaders of the country-rock movement. For those who’ve stumbled across central Tennessee’s best-kept secre
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Extra Epic Everything
Price: $14.00
Artist: Great Buildings
Description: Great Buildings was a Los Angeles based power pop band that formed in May of 1978 and feartured singer/guitarist Danny Wilde (ex-Quick), lead guitarist Phil Solem, bassist Ian Ainsworth (ex-Quick) and drummer Richard Sanford. The band released the album "Apart From The Crowd" in 1981 and toured until their breakup in June o
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Build A Fire
Price: $11.00
Artist: Joe Eglash
Description: "Build A Fire" represents a full circle in the musical life of Joe Eglash - after years working on either side of the music industry. Matured, hook-filled songwriting matched with a one-man-band mentality to produce a landmark, dynamic recording. The record was recorded boasting live instruments all played by Joe. Recorded
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Dusk Till Dawn
Price: $7.00
Artist: Kevin Lee & The Kings
Description: Modern-day guitar rock is a funny thing. The elements and attitudes all seem fairly obvious from the outside, yet many writers fall short of the hooks and structures they need to propel themselves into the pop skyline. The best writers in the genre have a gift for profound simplicity and direct communication coupled with an
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Ragged But Right
Price: $13.00
Artist: Memphis 59
Description: WOW!!! A BRILLIANT ROOTS POP GEM!!!!! We're going to go out on a limb (not really, once you hear this) and predict that Memphis 59 will end up landing on a lot of "Best Of" lists at year's end! On top of first-rate songwriting and delivery, it's a record brimming with guitars, guitars, and guitars! Stones-like guitars a
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Jericho Blues
Price: $11.00
Artist: Michael Harrell
Description: The debut long player by 23 year old Nashville singer/guitarist Michael Harrell. Recorded in two sides, the album finds him exploring his punk, rock and country tendencies, and offers a perfect blend of noise and melodic songwriting. His cited influences include the likes of The Kinks, The Beatles, Big Star, The Replaceme
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Greetings From The Village
Price: $7.00
Artist: Michael Harrell
Description: Michael Harrell was born and raised in Nashville, TN; at the age of 6, he started playing piano, writing songs and soon he was recording them on a friend’s four-track consol. By the time he graduated high school, Harrell was witnessing the beginning of the Nashville indie rock renaissance. Bands such as the Features, De Nov
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February 2010
Price: $10.00
Artist: MOJO Magazine
Description: Cover boy this monthy is JIMMY PAGE: In a world exclusive interview with the keeper of the Led Zeppelin flame, MOJO is given a first look at Jimmy Page’s mammoth pictorial autobiography. Cue a look back over a career that has spanned the last 45 years of rock history with unseen photos, in-depth discussion of his new movie,
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Manic Anti-Depressive
Price: $13.00
Artist: Popgun
Description: The name Egil Stemkens doesn’t ring many bells… but if we say he's the bass player in The Yum Yums, the pieces start coming together. Popgun has nothing to do with his other band. In his solo project Egil leaves aside the garage pop sound to focus on a “rawer” punkier, edgier (but still hook-filled), almost anthemic-at-ti
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A Day and A Half In Half A Day
Price: $13.00
Artist: Popgun
Description: Last year we featured their "Manic Anti-Deporessive" CD to an enthusiastic response! The band has been somewhat of a side-project for Drummer Palle and Bassman Egil (who also plays in the current lineup of The Yum Yums!) since their late 90's-only EP release, but in 2004 they decided it was about time to get focused and ki
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Research Turtles
Price: $11.00
Artist: Research Turtles
Description: Research Turtles were born on the bayou in the musical no-man’s-land of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Brothers and founders Jud and Joe Norman inherited their love of music from their father and uncle, the former introducing them to the Beatles and buying them their first guitars, and the latter, from Los Angeles, mailing them ... read more »
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Control Alt Country Delete
Price: $11.00
Artist: Romantica
Description: At a time when Country music appears to be struggling with its identity; swaying from kiddie pop to a well worn tread of familiar theme and voice, to the recent decade of tiring upbeat "country-pop" style and occasionally including traditional styles of Americana songs about family, love, life struggles and country pride, t
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A Song For Me, A Song For You
Price: $12.00
Artist: Scott Brookman
Description: Scott been writing and recording tuneful pop songs since the mid-80’s as part of the band The Apes of Wrath, who gigged around Virginia in the 80’s. At around the same time he began recording home demos on a variety of 4-track portastudios, discovering that he could improvise harmony with myself that sounded pretty good. Th
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The Path
Price: $10.00
Artist: Slimfit
Description: Their sophomore effort delivers on the promise of their debut, continuing with their one foot in sweaty barroom country rock, another foot in devil-may-care punk rock, and a third foot in whatever it is that gives them such an affinity for moustaches, bad ’80s rock, and kittens approach! They illustrate in no uncertain ter
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Make It Worse
Price: $10.00
Artist: Slimfit
Description: It’s difficult to tell which is Slimfit's greater trick – caring so little, and yet ending up with such airtight, honest, it’s-in-the-blood alt-country songs, or caring so much, and ending up with such an effortless-sounding, whiskey-soaked, unforced genuineness. They end up sounding exactly like what they are: long-time f
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Thinline
Price: $13.00
Artist: Steve Allen
Description: It's like a 20/20 vision! Many music fans know Steve from the years he's spent with power pop legends 20/20 (they're still together, folks!). This connection only shows a small part of his versatility as a musician, songwriter and artist. Steve's song, "Yellow Pills", became a perennial hit on LA radio (and, just as impre
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Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth
Price: $14.50
Artist: Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth
Description: You can't affiliate yourself with the legendary New York Dolls and not gain some advantage from it. Steve Conte is in the enviable position once held by Johnny Thunders. With gritty guitar and a recognizeable NYC attitude, he has released an album of 11 good, old-fashioned '70s NYC barroom rock and roll - rock and roll at
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Sunrise Highway + bonus disc
Price: $13.00
Artist: Sunrise Highway
Description: WOW!!! No, make that a DOUBLE WOW!! This one's practically cemented itself as a 2010 "Top Tenner" contender! Make a right on Sunrise Highway and just keep going as you are immersed in a timeless pop sound that will put a big smile on your face. A fine collection of songs inspired by 60’s AM radio & 70’s FM with influence
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The Big Gap 1978-1981 + bonus tracks
Price: $18.00
Artist: The Barracudas
Description: Prior the band's first breakup, the French label Closer Records agreed to a suggestion from Jeremy Gluck and Robin Wills to release a collection of studio outtakes and live tracks that told the band's story from 1978-1981. This is the digitally remastered and expanded edition (15 songs) of this 1984 outtakes collection alb
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Two Sides Of A Coin 1979-84
Price: $18.00
Artist: The Barracudas
Description: The Barracudas not only gave the world Nikki Sudden and Jeremy Gluck but also some of the wackiest pop around. This is a digitally remastered edition of a compilation that includes songs which were originally slated to appear on the follow-up to the "Endeavour To Persevere" album. The band (Robin Wills, Jeremy Gluck, ex-Fl
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Hellos And Goodbyes
Price: $10.00
Artist: The Copper Kings
Description: A four piece band based in Seattle, their music can be described as a modern blending of the past four decades of American Rock. Heartfelt vocals, melodic guitar, and pounding rhythm section highlight songs that reflect what it’s like to be someone trying to make their life work in today’s world. Their music has been descri
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The Elements
Price: $16.00
Artist: The Elements
Description: WOW!!!! How we missed this one from '08, we'll never know! But, fear not! Coming across like the bastard child of The Romantics and Paul Weller, Birmingham quartet The Elements feature sometime Ocean Colour Scene members Andy Bennett and Tim Jaques, Recorded at the tail end of 2007, the eponymous debut album continues i
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That's Right
Price: $15.00
Artist: The Fallen Leaves
Description: Their brilliant follow-up to "It's Too Late" is here! Purveyors of pop played with passion rather than precision, they have been described as “having the best guitar sound since Brian Jones was in the Rolling Stones”. Their long-held belief that a good idea played badly is better than a bad idea played well, spurred them ... read more »
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It's Too Late Now
Price: $15.00
Artist: The Fallen Leaves
Description: The Fallen Leaves are a four-piece built around the distinctive punk-mod guitar sound of the impeccably preserved Rob Symmons, who formed the stylish subversives Subway Sect in the 1970's. Rob's now back from an over-extended sabbatical with his distinctive high-slung Telecaster technique gloriously intact. With fellow cl
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Sunstroke
Price: $16.00
Artist: The Fenmen
Description: Prior to joining the Pretty Things in early 1967, Wally Waller and Jon Povey were members of another group from the same neighborhood, the Fenmen. Formed in Kent, England, in 1962, the Fenmen evolved from a tough R&Beat combo into a superb harmony-based ensemble. Throughout 1965 and ’66 the Fenmen crafted a strong harmony-
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Blue Whispers EP
Price: $0.00
Artist: The Gamilons
Description: WOW!!! FREE WITH ANY PURCHASE (BUT YOU MUST ADD IT TO YOUR SHOPPING CART TO GET ONE) WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! "Had it come across my desk upon its Fall 2009 release date, this debut EP would have made the year-end EP list. As it stands, better late than never for this Cliff Hillis-produced 3-song gem. Fans of Hillis and his ... read more »
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Always In The Now
Price: $15.00
Artist: The Goldenhour
Description: It took them two years, and we don't know how they did it (actually we do, they're GREAT!), but they've managed to succeed in delivering a brilliant followup to their also-brilliant debut! "They have topped their debut with this effort. The tunes are big and the backing sublime r'n'b, no not that garbage that gets called r
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Beyond The Beyond
Price: $15.00
Artist: The Goldenhour
Description: A blast from the past that, while on our radar screen, were never given their proper due (our bad) - UNTIL NOW! Glasgow's finest exponents of guitar and Hammond pop have produced an album that sets the standard for others to follow. United with a passion for 60’s garage, power pop and northern soul, the band made their re
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The Great Affairs
Price: $11.00
Artist: The Great Affairs
Description: Brand new, roots-leaning project, from Denny Smith the former man behind power poppers fORMER! They are a rock n' roll band in love with pop songs. With nods to everyone from Tom Petty and Butch Walker, to U2 and Kings Of Leon, their affection for great songwriting goes hand in hand with their desire to capture your heart ... read more »
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Turn Ons
Price: $15.00
Artist: The Hotrats
Description: SUPERGRASS ALERT!!! WOW!! On a busman’s holiday from Supergrass, Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey do a superb, cool, glitzy, glammy job kicking out the cover jams - IN THEIR OWN SYLE- as The Hotrats! "The very presence of producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead and Beck) is a pretty good tip-off this isn’t quite the straight-ahead ... read more »
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Marvelous Escape
Price: $13.00
Artist: The Imprints
Description: Their self-produced 2007 sophomore effort is brimming with lush textures and a more distinguished tone, improving on the already excellent debut with solid songwriting and clever, metaphor-laden lyrics utilized to uniquely describe everyday commonalities. "Often compared to bands like Wilco, they exude a variety of influen
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Sounds Of The Aftermath
Price: $13.00
Artist: The Imprints
Description: The Imprints are a group of former-frontmen supporting the voice and writing of ex-Baseboard Heaters singer/songwriter, Rob Stroup. Bass and backing vocalist Tim Huggins, led Austin's own powerpop trio, Foot for 6 years. His long time friend, engineer, and producer Matt Shultz, recently relocated to play drums for the new
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Pictures
Price: $13.00
Artist: The Len Price 3
Description: WOW!!! Our second favorite band on the Wicked Cool label (the Chesterfield Kings being the first) are back with an ABSOLUTELY F*CKIN' BRILLIANT third effort! Whether featuring a Steven Van Zandt quote about them sounding like early-period Who or the release itself proclaiming comparisons to The Kinks, the Creation and, y
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Live @ The Basement plus Outtakes & Demos
Price: $16.00
Artist: The Rosewood Thieves
Description: EXCLUSIVE!! While we wait for Erick Jordan and his merry band to make their next move, we proudly offer this very cool release that combines The Thieves' six-song "Live @ The Basement" CD (previously only sold at shows - now out-of-print) along with 15 previously unreleased outtakes and demos (previously only available as ... read more »
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The Smith Westerns
Price: $14.00
Artist: The Smith Westerns
Description: A very, very cool glammy, retro, glittery, lo-fi pop gem of a find! "Like the Beatles, these four Chicago teenagers don't want to hold your hand - they want to do more. Don't let the Fab Four mention throw you. For these guys, retro-rock doesn't feel like a history class. Rummaging through 70's glam, Phil Spector teen-po
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Come Dig Me Up
Price: $16.00
Artist: The Tailors
Description: The Tailors, who are based in London, have a little back story to this album which is enough to make you want to buy it out of pity before you’ve even heard a note: they make an awaited follow-up to debut, they then lose the whole of said follow-up due to some epic technological fail. Gone. Finito. Nothing saved whatsoever
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In Season
Price: $15.00
Artist: The Tangerines
Description: The Tangerines were formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996. In the late 80's Per Tolgraven and Håkan Eriksson were founding members of Swedish recording artists Rain Refrain. Together they have continued to explore (and sucessfully achieve) the art of the three-minute pop song. Their wonderful sophomore effort further refines
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Batman Live At Budokan + bonus tracks
Price: $27.00
Artist: The Trend
Description: The Trend formed in 1980 in Syracuse, NY - not exactly a mecca for young punk pop rockers. They were a trio of high school kids who formed one of the best pop garage punk bands to come out of upstate Central New York / maybe the whole USA. They played their Peavey gear at Syracuse University mixers and local punk new wave c
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Stereo Night
Price: $11.00
Artist: The Twilight Hours
Description: The Minneapolis based duo of John Munson and Matt Wilson who are The Twilight Hours, have been around for decades, beginning with Trip Shakespeare in the late ‘80s and later, minus Matt, but including his brother Dan, as Semisonic. "You’ll hear snippets of familiar pop/rock elements embedded within the smartly conceived ar
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Under The Radar
Price: $18.00
Artist: The Vibrators
Description: A Vibrators album doesn't come along very often - this is their first since 2002's "Energize", and first since frontman Knox returned from a four-year lay-off. We're happy to report that it's back to the roots of their trademark melodic punk in the style of their seminal “Pure Mania” and “V2” albums. "It's business as usu
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Windhorse
Price: $13.00
Artist: Tody Castillo
Description: Tody Castillo has built up quite the reputation amongst in-the-know fans of neo-classic Texas folk-pop. His self-titled 2005 album was lauded with all sorts of local awards. "In my review of Tody's debut, I called him 'Texas' Ron Sexsmith', and that comparison continues to apply here, perhaps even more so as the more rocki
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Park Lane Archives
Price: $20.00
Artist: Various Artists
Description: This Glasgow studio was host to many young bands from 1980 onwards, many making their first recordings and still seeking a record deal. Some did become successful, and a vibrant scene soon developed centred around the studio. Now the studio archives have been prised open, and a treasure trove of fascinating and unreleased
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