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Mekons reviewed
Mekons Natural (Quarterstick) For their 30th anniversary, the Leeds-born punks forage off the country roads and through the fields. Appearing: September 28th at Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago.
Boris reviewed
Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow (Drag City) Low-end, Japanese noise terrorists call in a reinforcement for psychedelic doodling. Appearing: October 30th at Empty Bottle in Chicago.
Merle Haggard reviewed
Merle Haggard The Bluegrass Sessions (McCoury) Back-to-basics country music has been ubiquitous ever since Rick Rubin convinced Johnny Cash to have a seat. Merle Haggard, who has been releasing albums this year like the format’s going out of style (which it is), is going so far back he has come upon something he has never […]
Federico Aubele reviewed
Federico Aubele Panamericana (Eighteenth Street Lounge) Federico Aubele and Che Guevara seem unlikely bedfellows. Aubele surely had the Argentine revolutionary’s Motorcycle Diaries in mind when he envisioned this album traversing the Americas, but the two trips (Guevara’s actual, Aubele’s figurative) couldn’t be more different. Appearing: November 10th at Schubas in Chicago.
Suzy Bogguss reviewed
Suzy Bogguss Sweet Danger (LDR) Hard to believe it has been about 15 years since this downstate product was racking up the gold and platinum records. Appearing: September 16th at FitzGerald’s in Berwyn.
Travis Tritt reviewed!
Travis Tritt The Storm (Category 5) It’d be easy to sit back and say folks have tired of Travis Tritt, especially from a Yankee perspective. His era — that of Garth Brooks and Clint Black — is only survived by a bland-as-all-get-out Alan Jackson, while Tritt’s own appropriation of the Waylon image gets shakier the […]
Scorpions reviewed
Scorpions Humanity Hour 1 (New Door/UMe) Sensing they perhaps missed a chance when they failed to retire after “Winds Of Change,” Germany’s undying Scorpions try yet again to go out on a high note with Humanity Hour 1.
DevilDriver reviewed
DevilDriver The Last Kind Words (Roadrunner) Dez Fafara finally hits his stride, three records into his second career.
Angel & The Love Mongers reviewed
Angel & The Love Mongers The Humanist Queen (Rock Snob) The last time a Tennessee-based band devoted an album to British influences, they were called Big Star and went down in history as the missing link. Don’t expect as much from Angel & The Love Mongers.
The Velocet reviewed
The Velocet A Quick And Dirty Guide To War (Eyeball) The times would indicate an army brat’s album might attempt something substantial, but apparently Michael Davison really just wants to rock like everyone else.
Luke Temple reviewed
Luke Temple Snowbeast (Mill Pond) Sometime visual artist Luke Temple couldn’t stand the New York art scene so he decided to try his hand at singing. His second album suggests the NYC music realm was a tough fit as well.
Dave Mehling reviewed
Dave Mehling How Do I Make You Lonesome? (self-released) Minnesota singer-songwriter teeters on the brink for a tension-filled debut.
Two Loons For Tea
Two Loons For Tea Nine Lucid Dreams (Sarathan) Third album from Seattle duo edges in on the adult contemporary wing of trip-hop currently inhabited by Morcheeba, Sia, and Zero 7.
Monte Negro reviewed
Monte Negro Cicatrix (Feed The Hungry) Bilingual Los Angelinos move more spiritedly away from Latino alt-rock into the broader, blander realm of mainstream American rock.
Black Before Red reviewed
Black Before Red Belgrave To Kings Circle (I Eat) Austin house band finally get a lineup together for their first album, a pastoral, indie ode to The Kinks and The Shins.
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