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Thumbnail image for here it never snowed.jpgHere, It Never Snowed, Afterwards It Did is a "re-working" of tracks from the band's amazing 2007 debut, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters -- plus a few new cuts. This time around, the Glaswegian quartet strip-down the layers of distortion and overlapping delays to add space via droning experimentation, and the use of classical instruments.

Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for evil urges.jpgIs it good enough that a band like My Morning Jacket has released several magnificent full-lengths, built a reputation as the premier live rock band in the biz and still drop an average album -- which will definitely bother purists? Yes.

Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for spiritualized_songs in a and e.jpgAfter a five-year absence, Jason Pierce was hospitalized with double pneumonia for long period of time, our favorite spaceman comes down to Earth with an album of mellow, clean-rock.


Midnight Juggernauts_Dystopia.jpgMidnight Juggernauts built a solid reputation for their live performances, mixing influences of dream-pop and anthemic rock with pounding dance beats. Today, the group's debut album sees its stateside release. Read our take on Dystopia.

Thumbnail image for The Black Angels_album.jpgThe Austin quintet sound more and more like a band breaking free from the shackles of their Brian Jonestown Massacre-Spacemen 3 comparisons on Directions to See a Ghost.