New Releases

They are so good, so natural on Lullabies to Paralyze that it's easy to forget that they just lost Oliveri, but that just makes Homme's triumph here all the more remarkable.

Not so much a band as a long, strange trip, the chaotic avant pop pranksters Mercury Rev formed in Buffalo, NY, in the late '80s.

Uncle Tupelo wasn't the first band to merge the soulful twang of country music with the passionate roar of punk rock

Each time Marianne Faithfull issues a recording, fans and pundits hold their breaths waiting for another outing as iconoclastic as Broken English.

Even at her warmest, she exudes a certain collegiate coolness, and when Carbon Glacier begins to drag Veirs manages to retain and command a level of anticipation/fascination that's the mark of a true artist.

Escondida is the studio debut by Texas-born singer/songwriter Jolie Holland.

Lacking some of the focus that made her debut album so stunning, Hell Among the Yearlings is nevertheless a thoroughly satisfying second album from Gillian Welch.

Jeffrey Foucault is a fine singer/songwriter who's been well taught by his influences, namely Springsteen circa Nebraska, Mellencamp performing "Jackie Brown," and Guy Clark.

A prolific writer and gifted musician, Laura Veirs is a musical risk-taker. Her recordings offer a haunting mix of deadpan folk and blues with sparse arrangements and Pacific Northwest flavours.

One has to consider the collaborative union of renegade roots music guitarist Tony Rice and woolly Zen bluegrass legend Peter Rowan to be the most natural thing on earth and one that is long overdue