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Sounds like:
Bebel Gilberto,
Ceu,
Ottmar Liebert,
Devendra Banhart
By
Tony Smith
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Aug 13, 2010
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Though taking an autumn stroll down a cobblestone lane in old world Europe may have been Cibelle Cavalli's inspiration for the song "London London" on her genre-bending album The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves, the song takes on a much larger life in...
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2

Sounds like:
Simon & Garfunkel,
The Shins,
Iron and Wine,
Bon Iver
By
Hannah Levy
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Aug 12, 2010
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While working out and listening to music go hand in hand, you don't normally hear about great music discoveries from a yoga class. I guess I am one of those exceptional cases, because my yoga instructor played the song "Broken Chair" off of Chris an...
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3

Sounds like:
Bon Iver,
Mumford & Sons
By
Taylor Fife
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Jul 31, 2010
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After years of being dominated with varieties of twee, freak folk, and singer-songwritingy mellowness, independent music finally dealt with the oversaturation of acoustic guitars and harmonicas by shifting heavily into synths and sampling. Synthpop/c...
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By
Jason Grishkoff
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Jul 15, 2010
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Despite La Roux"˜ "Bulletproof" being available for over a year now (the self-titled album that birthed it first dropped in June of '09 in the UK), we've yet to tire of the track's Super Mario Bros. digi-pop perk and Elly Jackson's iced over assuran...
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5

Sounds like:
Jose Gonzalez,
Iron & Wine
By
Jess Alatorre
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Jul 14, 2010
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I'm trying to slow things down, and the new free EP by Junip may just be the perfect soundtrack for my life right now: there's a tinge of sadness, but ultimately it's cheery. While Junip may be most notable for the fact that Jose Gonzalez is a member...
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By
Jason Grishkoff
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Jul 11, 2010
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Björk with a Dirty Projector excites me. The Orca swims again in the over-stained photos coming through on the wall; the backdrop to the shoulder-shaking tunes on play. The oh-ah-oh-oh harmonising. The garbled Longstreth, voice shaking in a glass wh...
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7

Sounds like:
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros,
Real Estate
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Jun 25, 2010
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Albums can take you by surprise. I'm sure you know that -- after all, you're hunting for new music, right? Well that's what Cloud Control did for me. I think I dismissed their album on first listen. I didn't even get through two tracks. As such I hav...
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8

Sounds like:
Mumford & Sons,
Wilco,
Bob Dylan,
Conor Oberst
By
Max Jacobs
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Jun 17, 2010
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The high energy sounds of Yes and the Grateful Dead never really shook me, but for some reason, hearing Blitzen Trapper reinvent the sounds of 70s era folk rock 40 years later makes me feel nostalgic. Blitzen Trapper invites you to swap that pair of ...
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