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"Raise Up the Tent" is Tea Leaf Green 's first new studio album in three years. Sharing some of the style and substance of musical contemporaries such as My Morning Jacket, Wolfmother and the Raconteurs, Tea Leaf Green conjure '70s Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and the Grateful Dead, taking classic sounds and giving them a present-day polish.

"Fate" sees the Philadelphia-based quintet filtering the gamut of American popular music into its own idiosyncratic brand of blue-eyed, dilated pupil soul. As ever, Dr. Dog makes magic from an enduring pop palette of intricate harmonies, shape-shifting melodies, and ramshackle audio ingenuity - all presented through the band's slightly skewed and utterly individualistic outlook.

Black Kids hail from Jacksonville, Fla. and comprise of brother and sister Reggie and Ali Youngblood, Dawn Watley, Owen Holmes and Kevin Snow. Their debut album "Partie Traumatic" was produced by Bernard Butler, legendary guitarist from the London Suede, who just recently won producer of the year at the Music Managers Forum.

Brazil's dance-pop band CSS have released their follow-up to 2006's "Cansei De Ser Sexy." "Donkey" is tough, street-ready, and recreates the frenetic energy of their live shows. Equal parts dance party, urban circus and out-and-out chaos, this album is sure to get the party jumpin'.