Jim Moray – In Modern History [2010]

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In Modern History is Jim’s fourth full album. The full 10 track edition contains a collaboration with Art Brut vocalist/lyricist Eddie Argos, and the song ‘Home Upon The Hill’.

Pacific Ocean Fire – Hibernation Songs [2010]

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Everything has a purpose on this earth, and all things fullfill their purpose seaweed, dung beetles, parasites without agonizing or questioning. We are the only part of creation that is blinded by desires and thus ignore our particular purpose, individually, and collectively, and spend our lives in a mad pursuit of nothingness …

Marianne Nowottny – Divine Cantos [2010]

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Divine Cantos, a hypnotic and bizarre interpretation of Dante Alighieri’s La Divina Commedia. Unsettling keyboards, harmonium and dulcimer along with Marianne’s dark operatic vocals and narration guide you through a Hell, Purgatory and Paradise located somewhere between Kali Bahlu’s Lonely Teardrops and Turiyasangitananda Alice Coltrane’s Turiya Sings. Awesome & totally recommended.

Limited to 70 copies

The Ash Can School (Connor Byrne, Jeff Riddle and Nick Harris) – We’ll End The Old Girl In Delaware [2010]

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Connor Brain Morning everyone! Just so you know, while on tour, we’ll be promoting this lovely EP that the marvelous Jeff Riddle recorded! Give it a listen and feel free to download it. (Any donations go directly to us and are incredibly appreciated for food and gas on this tour!)

We’ll End The Old Girl In Delaware, by Ashcan School

Lucy Woodward – Hooked [2010]

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“I grew up,” Lucy Woodward says of Hooked!, her third album and her Verve Records debut. “As you get older and make more music, you gain a better understanding of who you are and what you need to feel satisfied. That’s what this record is for me.”

The 12-song album’s emotional depth, organic musicality and personally-charged songcraft will come as a revelation to listeners who are only familiar with Woodward via her 2003 pop hit “Dumb Girls.” Seamlessly drawing from a deep well of vintage jazz, swing, R&B and Latin music influences, Hooked! marks Woodward as an effortlessly engaging, deeply expressive vocalist, an insightful, disarmingly witty songwriter, and distinctive, charismatic interpreter of outside material.

Mare Wakefield – Ironwood [2010]

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“Every star in the sky will shine for you.” In the refrain of Ironwood opener “Enjoy the View,” Mare Wakefield might just be singing from experience. The girl from Southeast Texas went from playing Oregon coffee shops to headlining major Northwest festivals before a songwriting scholarship brought her to Boston’s Berklee College of Music which boasts alums such as Gillian Welch and Aimee Mann (two of many artists that Mare has been compared to). Currently based in Nashville, Mare–pronounced Mary–continues her upward trajectory by co-writing with hit songwriters and burning up the highways with her fourth studio album in tow.

Sandra Sarra – Daisy Walks [2010]

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Sandra Sarra comes walking out of the Florida panhandle with songs so fine and sharp that they’d cut you if she pushed them any harder, and the kind of spare barely-there guitar that comes from writing songs as if you’re looking out a window. Leonard Cohen did this plenty; so do John Prine and Alison Krauss and even sometimes Dolly Parton. And now Sandra Sarra on her debut, too, with ten songs quiet and understated enough to be folk but with enough honesty and heartbreak inside to draw tears toward beers at the planet’s last honky tonks.

Puerto Muerto – Drumming For Pistols [2010]

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Drumming for Pistols, Puerto Muerto’s swashbuckling new full-length, is not for the faint of heart. In the words of singer/percussionist Christa Meyer, the title track is “basically a call to arms. I wanted the song to evoke thoughts of revolution, without specifically referencing the subject.” Equal parts sweet and sour, swagger and swoon, the album’s 13 cuts range from the ragtag-circus chantey “Beautiful Women With Shining Black Hair” (featuring Devil in a Woodpile associate Gary Schepers on tuba), to the delirious bilingual stomper “Tanze,” to the sinister swamp-dirge “Song of the Moon” . “The Bell Ringer,” a tender art song inspired by Werner Herzog subject Bruno Stroszek, has a ragged opulence, rife with stately strings supplied by Tiffany Kowalski (Bright Eyes, Head of Femur) and handbells, which Meyer rang from a marble staircase for just the right touch of reverb.

Striving Vines – Can’t Win Them All [2010]

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Fast paced rock compositions, irresistible melodies, original lyrics and an outstanding vocal characterize the new Danish rock band, Striving Vines. After a hard touring schedule the last year the band is an interesting live experience – 2009 is dedicated to the recording of their debut album.

Critics have placed the band in the fine company of artists such as Patrick Watson, The Killers and Franz Ferdinand.

Eric and Magill – All Those I Know [2010]

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Eric & Magill is Eric Osterman and Ryan Weber. They used to play together in Camden. One hot summer day in 1999 they canoed down the fox river together. They’ve been working on a new record. Should be done soon-ish.