Kevin Bronson on January 20th, 2015

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Two years after their best-of collection and almost 10 years since they called you out with “Hey Scenesters!,” the Cribs return in March with a new album, “For All My Sisters.” For their sixth full-length, the sibling sensations — twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their kid brother Ross — turned to producer Ric Ocasek (Weezer, Guided By Voices, Nada Surf, et al), adding the Cars’ main man to a long list of impressive company the Cribs have kept over their 13-year career. They’ve had Johnny Marr as bandmate; they’ve worked in the studio with Edwyn Collins, Nick Launay, Dave Fridmann, Steve Albini and Alex Kapranos; and they’ve toured with some of the biggest, most respected names in rock. Yet the Jarmans have never been the household names in the U.S. that they are in their native U.K. — they even had some lousy luck in 2010 when they couldn’t make a choice gig at Coachella because of the Icelandic volcanic eruption that disrupted air travel. They’ve scheduled to be back at Coachella this year, with fuzzy concoctions like “An Ivory Hand” in hand.

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