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This Week's Interesting Music Releases - November 22nd, 2011

4751 days ago
LargeHeartedBoyThe last big music release week of the year brings several albums I can wholeheartedly recommend, including Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow, Calexico's Road Atlas 1998-2011, Rhett Miller's The Interpreter, Live at Largo, and Wooden Wand's Briarwood. Al... more info

Various Artists: Luz de Vida

4775 days ago
Here Comes The Flood The Luz de Vida compilation album, out now on Fort Lowell Records, is touching remembrance for the victims of the January 8th shootings in Tucson, AZ. When the calls were made to artists to contribute a song, response was huge. Since it was origina... more info

Fire Records continue Giant Sand 25th anniversary reissue series

4787 days ago
AltsoundsRealised through tragic circumstances, the passing of Rainer Ptacek and the birth of Calexico, it all came together at the end for Giant Sand. Arguably Giant Sand's finest album, the fruits of an astounding story and the mesmerising high point of ... more info

Rerecording artists: the strange pop habit of covering an entire album

4825 days ago
Guardian MusicFrom Dub Side of the Moon to Dave Depper's Ram Project, the heroically pointless act of covering an entire album is one of pop's odder habits. Peter Paphides tries to rationalise itThe footnotes of pop are littered with all sorts of heroic but arguab... more info

This week's new live music

4852 days ago
Guardian MusicOther Lives, On tourYou don't necessarily need a cabin in the woods in order to connect with the American landscape. From a remote Oklahoman town, Other Lives are a band whose music is, spiritually, many miles from the back-to-basics communion of mus... more info

Tom Russell - Cinematic new album ft. Calexico, Lucinda Williams & Van Dyke Parks

4869 days ago
AltsoundsThe Mesabi iron range juts into Minnesota, a desolate deposit of minerals and the birthplace of Bob Dylan. American composer and storyteller Tom Russell says that Bob Dylan inspired him to become an artist, and his new 'Mesabi' pays moving tribute wi... more info

Indie music and the hired gun

4946 days ago
Guardian MusicIndie bands and session musicians were once seen as incompatible, but with the likes of Calexico and Broken Social Scene blurring the boundaries, the freelancer is back in fashionYou would think the indie band and the session musician could not be mo... more info

Laura Cantrell: Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music – review

4965 days ago
Guardian Music(Spit and Polish) A charmingly cool, respectful tribute to the country superstar of the 1950s and 60s from the singer who became a heroine of the alt.country scene 40 years later. Now 91, Kitty Wells is the oldest living member of the Country Music H... more info

monday morning updates

4983 days ago
Totally FuzzyLevin said... Larry Miller - A Man On A Mission (1991) Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming (2001)FLAC Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)FLAC Barbra Streisand - Love Songs (1981) Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union (1992) Las Ketchup - Un B... more info

sunday evening updates continued

4983 days ago
Totally FuzzyIce said... Santiago a Capella - The Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner - 2004, 2010. Santiago a Capella Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) Alonso Lobo (1555-1617) John IV of Portugal (1604-1656) Tomas Luis de Victoria (1... more info

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