Baby D's Bagels
$20 Worth of Food and Drink for Only $10
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Be Strong

The 2 Bears
DFA
Uh-oh, electronic music from Europe with a “sense of humor”?
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Leaving Eden

Carolina Chocolate Drops
NONESUCH
Making an album after a founding member leaves a band is always a precarious situation.
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Songs of Praise & Scorn

Christopher Paul Stelling
MECCA LECCA
Christopher Paul Stelling prefers a landscape as a performance setting when jamming out his acoustic ballads.
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Half Asleep Upon Echo Falls

Whistle Peak
KARATE BODY
In the ’90s, Lollapalooza, “120 Minutes” and the nascent Internet helped make the world safe for genre-bending and various non-jazzy types of musical fusion (we’re still gettin
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Bones for Tinder

Justin Robinson and the Mary Annettes
FIVE HEAD
Justin Robinson was the jug-blowing heart of the Carolina Chocolate Drops until last February.
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Let’s Go Eat the Factory

Guided By Voices
GBV INC.
Every diehard’s dream was realized when the golden boys of Guided by Voices rallied together for another go as a classic line-up.
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Grown Man Business

Fonz
FONZ MUSIC GROUP
Local MC Fonz has come a long way to make this record. After surviving a random shooting last Mother’s Day, he had to teach himself how to walk again.
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Tramp

Sharon Van Etten
JAGJAGUWAR

It’s a curse on gifted artists — listeners can tell when they’re marking time. Van Etten’s third full-length more than holds its own, but coasts on occasion.

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Feel the Sound

Imperial Teen
MERGE

“You’re so safe, you’re in my mind,” Imperial Teen’s Roddy Bottum sings in “All the Same.” We could easily apply this sentiment to the sound of Imperial Te

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Welcome 2 the Far Left

Kogan Dumb
SELF-RELEASED
Not long after releasing a group album with Jas’K as Triple B, Kogan Dumb learns from the missteps of that debut with Welcome 2 the Far Left, a solo shot that sounds years be