Georgia punk peaches Deerhunter have announced the details of their much anticipated follow-up to 2007's lauded fuzz-fest Cryptograms. The album, dubbed Microcastle and slated for release on Oct.

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A new release from Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha has become the stuff of legend.

Who? The love child of two multi-talented, multi-tasking eclectics, Hello, Blue Roses pairs visual artist/vocalist/flautist Sydney Vermont with her scraggly-haired sweetheart, artsy singer/songwriter Dan Bejar (Destroyer, New Pornographers, Swan Lake), to make up this charming duo. Their intimacy

Singer/songwriter Meredith Bragg is incontestably well read, but his greatest gift is the conversational subtlety with which he weaves an educational tale. Like his hyper-literate contemporaries the Decemberists and their frontman Colin

Patience is apparently not a virtue in the world of singer/songwriter Rafter Roberts. With his second full-length, Sex Death Cassette, locked and loaded for release on Jan. 22 via Asthmatic Kitty, Rafter has already moved on -- and with a purpose. "I'm trying to write and