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If told about a band that consisted of only keyboards and drums, one wouldn’t be faulted for thinking, “Where’s the rest of the group?” But one listen to Amendola Vs. Blades—the funky California-based duo of Wil Blades on Hammond organ and clavinet and Scott Amendola behind the kit—and all fears will be assuaged. Blades’s cutting solos and deep bass lines make for a thick stew of soulful harmony and daring improvisation.

Rich Hinman vs Adam Levy is an instrumental quartet featuring Rich Hinman on pedal steel and lap steel and Adam Levy on guitar.

Rich Hinman vs Adam Levy is an instrumental quartet featuring Rich Hinman on pedal steel and lap steel and Adam Levy on guitar.

"Vs." is Pearl Jam's second album, and their first release after becoming the one of the biggest rock bands of the early 1990s. Uncomfortable with their new-found fame, the band found refuge in obscurity. This remastered version of "Vs." features three bonus tracks recorded by Brendan O'Brien at the studio during the "Vs." sessions: a previously unreleased version of "Hold On", "Cready Stomp", a previously unreleased studio outtake, and Pearl Jam's cover of Victoria Williams' "Crazy Mary" featuring Wiliams on backing vocals and guitar.

Adam Spark, best known as the driving force behind anthemic ARIA Award and multiple APRA Award winning rock band Birds of Tokyo. His debut neo-classical album ‘Snow vs Mountain’ is a meditation on survival. It is music of hope, born out of dark times.

How often does the leader of one of your favorite bands ask you to do a split album? Where his band covers your songs? Singer-songwriter Frank Turner found himself in that situation last year, when Fat Mike of NOFX asked if he wanted to do a split covers album. West Coast vs. Wessex shows NOFX filtering five of Frank Turner’s songs through their singular sensibility, with Turner doing the same on five NOFX songs.

"Quazarz vs. the Jealous Machines" is an album by interstellar hip-hop enigma Shabazz Palaces, aka Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire. The result is a thrilling excursion, possessing an otherworldly ambience and substance you'll spend months decoding, every spin yielding something new.

"Quazarz vs. the Jealous Machines" is an album by interstellar hip-hop enigma Shabazz Palaces, aka Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire. The result is a thrilling excursion, possessing an otherworldly ambience and substance you'll spend months decoding, every spin yielding something new.

Lakeshore Records has released the soundtrack to The United States vs Billie Holiday, which features a gorgeously emotive orchestrated score by Emmy Award-winning composer Kris Bowers that underlies the dramatic tension of the film’s complex and unvarnished look at the irrepressible Billie Holiday and her struggle against the race-based harassment of the federal government.

Harmonica player Grégoire Maret, born in Geneva in Switzerland and harpist Edmar Castañeda from Bogota in Colombia are two remarkable musicians.