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Feb 02

With nu-skool nostalgia hat tippers The Knocks and Samuel in tow, Chinatown’s own Heavy Roc Music cooly planted their flag on the New York music scene in 2009 as a label with one ear toward mom and dad’s dance records; the other on the L train. Even their press photos have headbands!

Stepping out confidently this year under the HRM label is Detroit’s Alex Winston, whose extraordinarily playful LP debut this February belies her previous Grammy-nominated songwriting career (for Black…