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The Boston-based Bean Pickers Union is Paul Gallo (drums, vocals), Gary Goodlow (guitar), Alan Levesque (bass, vocals) and Chuck Melchin (guitar, mandolin, vocals). Potlatch is their offer to us, and from the moment I saw the dilapidated barn on the co...

The Knoxville, Tennessee-based Medford's Black Record Collection have returned with sophomore effort Eccentricity NOS. Whereas their debut album, The Flattville Murder Album, was a concept album telling a clear and distinct story, the band decided to p...

Controversy is not the first tribute to the music of Prince. In this era of every artist imaginable being “honored” with lullabye albums, goth reworkings and symphonic renditions of their works, it would be amazing if there weren’t a ...

I came across these guys by complete accident. Somebody sent me a PR email about some band whose name I can't even remember, but instead of direct linking to a sample mp3, they gave me a link to a directory with a bunch of mp3s, including a song by the...

Hailing from Philadelphia, Public Record is a messy, funky and wide-ranging party band. Weaving afrobeat, dub, indie rock, spazzy post-punk, chunks of driving soul and an atmospheric jazziness into their sound, the instrumental sextet is hellbent on de...