Year In Review

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  Best Metal/Hardcore Album

  Year in Review 2003

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. The Blood Brothers Burn, Piano Island, Burn (Artist Direct)"I don't think that any of us consider our band groundbreaking. We feel that...

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  Best Folk, Country and Blues Album

  Year in Review 2003

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. Jay Farrar Terroir Blues (Artemis)Jay Farrar's muse has gone from Uncle Tupelo's revolutionary take on traditional American music, to So...

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  Welcome to Wherever You Are

  Year in Review 2003

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Isolating artists by homeland is a sucker's gambit. If we learned anything from the great grunge wars of the ‘90s, it's that the surest way...

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  Destination Out - Non-Imrovised

  Year in Review 2004

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1.CHRISTIAN FENNESZ Venice (Touch)If Christian Fennesz's 2001 album Endless Summer struck many listeners as sun-drenched, this year's Venic...

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  Outernational

  Year in Review 2004

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. FEDERICO AUBELE Gran Hotel Buenos Aires (Eighteenth Street Lounge) Federico Aubele would be the first to admit the main reason we've hea...

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  Metal

  Year in Review 2004

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. CONVERGE You Fail Me (Epitaph) The juggernaut known as Converge has always been miles ahead of everyone in the underground, but You Fail...

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  Folk, Country & Blues

  Year in Review 2004

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. LORETTA LYNNVan Lear Rose (Interscope)F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that there are no second acts in American life. The trick, it s...

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  Destination Out - Improvised

  Year in Review 2004

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. DEAD CAT BOUNCEHome Speaks to the Wandering (Innova)Home Speaks to the Wandering, the third album by Boston's Dead Cat Bounce, hits you...