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EP IS RELEASED Listen/purchase: In Ossining by All My Friends

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The great front woman of Maniacal Youth is back with her new EP and band called "All My Friends". Listen to the first track here, its solid.

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Violent Femmes- Please Do Not Go

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The Breeders- An early version of "Divine Hammer" from the Pod recording sessions circa 1990, named "You Always Hang Around"

Finished version of Divine Hammer here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_l4ZOVJ-ts

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Big Black- Heartbeat

Released as a 7 inch single, Steve Albini covers this Wire classic from 1978's Chairs Missing

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Squirrel Bait- Hammering So Hard

From their first EPSquirrel Bait(1985)

One of their first songs created the blueprint for verses to chorus' that would be used for every pop-punk band after them.

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Flaming Tsunamis- By Force

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The Smiths- Bigmouth Strikes Again

From 1986's The Queen is Dead

Meat Is Murder may have been a holding pattern, but The Queen Is Dead is the Smiths' great leap forward, taking the band to new musical and lyrical heights. Opening with the storming title track, The Queen Is Dead is a harder-rocking record than anything the Smiths had attempted before, but that's only on a relative scale -- although the backbeat is more pronounced, the group certainly doesn't rock in a conventional sense. Instead, Johnny Marr has created a dense web of guitars, alternating from the minor-key rush of "Bigmouth Strikes Again" and the faux rockabilly of "Vicar in a Tutu" to the bouncy acoustic pop of "Cemetry Gates" and "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side," as well as the lovely melancholy of "I Know It's Over" and "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out." And the rich musical bed provides Morrissey with the support for his finest set of lyrics.

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Fugazi- I'm So Tired

Taken from the soundtrack to their documentary Instrument

Enjoy one of their more intimate moments.

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The Apples in Stereo- Green Machine

From 1995's Fun Trick Noisemaker

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Elliott Smith- Cupid's Trick

Doesn't get much better than this, taken off 1997's Either/Or:

His third album, probably his best, see's him playing all the instruments, and mastering his double-track abilities. Simple but beautiful songs. A must have in any collection.

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Pavement- Zurich is Stained

From 1991's Slanted and Enchanted

Absolute classic gem from Pavement's debut album. Pop this in the deck during a drive home at night.

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Jawbox- Impossible Figure

From 1990's Grippe

In their eight-year existence, Jawbox released four studio albums of increasingly skillful post-punk, not necessarily carrying the torch of their Washington, D.C., elders (Minor Threat, Embrace, Rites of Spring), but instead building on the tradition of Chicago's thriving early-'80s scene (Big Black, Naked Raygun, Effigies). Highly and unfairly scrutinized for being the first act to leave über-indie Dischord Records, Jawbox proved cynics wrong by releasing two excellent LPs for Atlantic that easily surpassed their Dischord output, all the while retaining their integrity and creative control.

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Jeff Buckley- Mojo Pin

What a voice....

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"It was the year that grunge retreated from the center stage, signaling the rise of post-grunge on modern rock radio and indie-rock on the stations that existed on the left of the dial"

Click above to check out staff picks for the best albums of 1995.

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Sonic Youth- Wildflower Soul

From 1998's A Thousand Leaves

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The Breeders rare demo of the Pod track Lime House. Circa 1988.