Chris over at Les Enfants Terribles just posted a great review of Chuck Brown's latest, Timeless, in which he calls the Godfather of Go-Go's voice "like caramel coming to a slow boil."

Read the full writeup after the break, and enjoy this silky-smooth album.

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Today you can get the new Elvis Perkins In Dearland album one week early, only on Amie Street! For every download, Amie Street and XL Recordings will donate $2 to Clearwater, an organization founded by Pete Seeger dedicated to protecting, restoring and celebrating the Hudson River.

And of course, there's more great new music after the break!

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Dig the new album from The BPA! You may know him better as Fatboy Slim, but whatever the name he makes great dance music, and this album features Iggy Pop, Dizzee Rascal, David Byrne and more!

And that's just one of our featured albums this week...

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Levon Helm, longtime drummer for The Band, is on tour through NY and NJ! Find dates after the break, including a few Midnight Ramble gigs (named "Best Jam Sessions" by Rolling Stone).

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This week we're featuring a sampler from Fat Possum Records, the Mississippi blues label that's expanded to include indie rock, the new remix album from Headlights, a Christmas album from Rosie Thomas, and more -- happy holidays!

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On their fifth album, Sigur Rós have descended from the clouds, offering more concise songs, a joyously tribal first single, and even a few lyrics in English (!). Find the superb new album in this week's featured six!

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Before Little Brother, Phonte cut this hilarious concept album with his friend and producer Eccentric. The Story of U.S. features Phonte doing dead-on freestyle imitations of people like DMX, Juvenile, Eminem, and the RZA -- check it out in our featured albums this week!

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In addition to this week's staff picks, we're bringing you music from some of the best artists playing at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, TX. Click here to listen to and download music from the nearly 100 Amie Street artists playing this week!

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This post is syndicated from Joe Koch's blog, Of Figs and Mint.

Buy MP3 Album was just released on Tuesday and I can already tell that it will be one of my favorites of the year. Imagine Hem teaming up with The National and letting Jón Þór Birgisson [of Sigur Rós] lead the artistic direction. The result is ambient and minimal without losing a distinctive, personal Southern flavor. I haven't listened to anything else for the last 24 hours and I continually hear new things in the intricately subtle layers that line the album's faint corners.

After the break: Jefferson Airplane, Blitzen Trapper, The National, and North Mississippi Allstars!

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At five years old, Al "Coffee" McDaniel was fronting a gospel band. Years later, while serving in the United States Air Force, he used the travel opportunity to perform throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. And now, he joins producer Narada Michael Walden and legendary blues guitarist Lucky Peterson on an album that All About Jazz calls "the first modern day urban blues opera."

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