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Sounds like:
John Butler Trio,
Xavier Rudd
By
el gringo rico
on
Mar 14, 2010
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Citizen Cope (or Clarence Greenwood and co.) isn't exactly indie music. If anything, the band's second album "The Clarence Greenwood Recordings" launched them into relative mainstream pop success. Songs like "Sun's Gonna Rise" and "Bullet and a Targe...
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2

Sounds like:
Sweatshop,
The Joubert Singers,
Dafuniks
By
Jason Grishkoff
on
Mar 11, 2010
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A few years ago I use to be vinyl fiend, back when the Sound Library was on Avenue A I would spend entire days crate-digging and hogging up the listening station till I get kicked out. The way vinyl sounds is second to none and lightyears away from t...
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3

Sounds like:
Erlend Øye,
Kings of Convenience,
Kakkmaddafakka
By
Jason Grishkoff
on
Mar 4, 2010
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Racial stereotyping aside, Sean answered this way because The Whitest Boy Alive is really "white," in that they play things that could be funk in a really uptight staccato way. The band obviously understands this because they chose a particularly s...
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4

Sounds like:
Common,
John Legend & The Roots,
Mos Def
By
Jason Grishkoff
on
Feb 7, 2010
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The Roots are set to release their ninth studio album How I Got Over. The album title comes from a Mahalia Jackson gospel song of the same name. The band has described the new LP as upbeat, funky with political influences. The title track was first p...
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5

Sounds like:
Kings Of Convenience
By
Jason Grishkoff
on
Jan 29, 2010
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i kinda really dig this track. its from the whitest boy alive, a side project of kings of convenience member erlend oye (along with sebastian maschat, marcin oz and daniel nentwig). according to wikipedia, the group started out in indonesia (which se...
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6

Sounds like:
Electric Light Orchestra,
George Clinton,
Steppenwolf
By
Daniel Surwit
on
Dec 4, 2009
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This is a present day album that can really put your parents' old turntable to use. In an age when music is becoming increasingly electronic, the Phenomenal Handclap Band's debut self-titled album is decidedly vinyl. This group is poppy, but with a b...
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7
Sounds like:
Parliament/Funkadelic,
Sa-Ra,
Kraftwerk
By
camden andrews
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Sep 24, 2009
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While funk may not be a viable form of music today, it's impossible to ignore its influence. Its syncopated rhythms, groovy edge, and its willingness to get a little weird has leaked into jazz, electro, pop, and even rock music. Derrick May, one of t...
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8

Sounds like:
Fruit Bats,
The Shins,
The Flaming Lips,
Whitest Boy Alive
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Sep 7, 2009
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It's absolutely impossible to describe this group's sound in a nutshell. Never before have I heard an artist put together an album with so many different flavors: folk, indie-pop, 80s, funk, punk, a;lsdkjfald...I just don't know where to go with this...
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