Prolific singer-songwriter Jeffrey Lewis has a new album, called A Turn in the Dream-Songs.
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"Altos Lugares" describes a late-night mountaintop vision that sounds a lot like High Places' newly adopted home, Los Angeles.
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Canon Blue's "Indian Summer (Des Moines)" captures the uncertainty surrounding a relationship that's solid, but not enough to last forever.
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"Sophistructure," from Pinback frontman Rob Crow, is punk rock for lonely astronauts and paranoid androids.
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Tom Waits has just released his latest album, Bad As Me.
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Miles Zuniga's gift for turning anguish into hummable pop is on full display in "Working on a Love Song."
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Wynton Marsalis receives the French Legion of Honor during a 2009 ceremony in New York.
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The Danish duo Quadron's "Wounds" is all morose ambiance, aided by slow, sparse instrumental backing.
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A new album, directed by Levon Eskenian, sets music by the spiritual leader and composer G. I. Gurdjieff for traditional Eastern instruments.
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Coldplay's new album, Mylo Xyloto, is out this week.
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In "When I Was Young," Nada Surf makes a case for embracing our lives as we've decided to live them.
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Eschewing the double-entendre its title suggests, JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound's "I Got High" looks at life's twists and turns.
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In "I'll Drown," Sóley sings in hushed tones as if confessing dark secrets to a childhood friend.
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