Today (September 1st) Dave Bazan has released his first LP under his name (since Pedro the Lion or Headphones) on Barsuk records entitled Curse Your Branches.  I am rather pleased with the outcome from this boy yet not raving crazy. 

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Hold the phones. The Avett Brothers just released “I and Love and You” the title track single from their upcoming album. This is the North Carolina group’s first album produced on a major label and so far it doesn’t disappoint.

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Fanfarlo's first full-length LP, Reservoir is perhaps the best disc to land this year by a relatively unknown, unsigned, visionary sextet. At the very least, it is a hidden gem sure to add a shine to your heart and for the price, is not to be missed.

Recalling Baudelaire's novella La Fanfarlo, of which their name is derived, Fanfarlo is surley setting themselves up to be the example of romantic irony the music world needs right now.

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If there ever were a group that was the bridge between Counting Crows and Blues Traveler it is Alexandria's Virginia Coalition. A perfect blend of college rock and folk pop, Virgina Coalition comfortably reminds me of the sounds of both of these bands without an ounce of copy-cat and two tons of originality.

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Even Born Again, a six-song EP from late 2008, is the first recording of one of Denton's new talents, Sarah Jaffe.

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