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The Sparks family’s 2003 album Singing Bones features their usual heady brew of black humor, death, revenge, murder, insanity, white trash, etc., all wrapped up in the guise of dark, sparse alt. […]

I typically let the music speak for it’s self in this series, but the soundtrack to The Squid and the Whale has been one of my favorite compilations in the […]

When The Brokedown give you a heads up on rising new artists, you best take notice. Such is the case with Los Angeles based singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Scott Claassen. Embracing both the quirkiness of […]

File under: Country & Western heartbreak. Gustavo Santaolalla’s instrumental score to Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain frames the film as much as Lee’s sweeping Wyoming cinematography. Much like his work on […]

After a long hiatus, Idaho’s Built To Spill are back April 11th with the release of their fourth Warner Brothers album You In Reverse. Their MySpace page features a new song…I ripped the stream using […]

“The Mezzanine was produced by Vic Chesnutt, who has worked with Durrett on her previous album, “Husk”. The new album was recorded by Andy Baker (Macha, Japancakes, Glands) in Athens, GA. “ DOWNLOAD:MP3: Liz Durrett :: The Mezzanine ———-www.lizdurrett.com

The always excellent Dreams of Horses turned me onto Alec’s solo work: Read what Dreams of Horses says about these tracks here . The below demos are off the Alec Ounsworth Web site.DOWNLOAD:MP3: We/Should/Drop/Like/Flies MP3: Wide . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard […]