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Teaming members of long-running groups with roots in '70s political punk, KatJonBand is Chicago-based guitarist Jon Langford from Brit pub Marxists the Mekons and drummer Kat Bornefeld of abrasive Dutch anarchists the Ex. While the slashing energy of their roughed-up folk generates a buzz, the songs often feel underdone, sabotaged by short attention spans.

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This Manchester band had a storied career -- Factory Records alumni, contemporaries of the Smiths, loads of U.K. hit singles, not-unreasonable cries of "the next U2" -- but worldwide fame rose and fell with the title track of 1993's Brian Eno– produced Laid, and they split in 2001.

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Recorded in five days in an analog studio on the coast of Spain with vintage equipment, Holly Golightly's 13th studio album is less primitive garage rock than lo-fi campfire jamboree.

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Because Jolie Holland seems to drift in a heavy narcotic haze, it's tempting to underestimate the Texas-bred singer-songwriter's skills.

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On their debut full-length, the duo of Rob Barber and Mary Pearson handcraft their music out of the tiniest of elements.

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Morgan Geist has been so busy shepherding the disco resurgence, releasing albums as Metro Area (with Darshan Jesrani), digging up dance curios (for his Unclassics mix), and running his Environ label that a decade has passed between solo albums.