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Replacements anthologized
The Replacements Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best Of The Replacements (Sire/Reprise/Rhino) Touted as the first compilation featuring both The Replacements’ label careers, Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was? concentrates a little too heavily on their serious side.
Dinosaur reissues
Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind/Where You Been (Reprise/Rhino) Aiding in Merge’s reissuance of the early, SST Dinosaur albums, Rhino finishes the job.
Evangelicals reviewed
Evangelicals So Gone (Misra) Norman, Oklahoma’s Evangelicals have little in common with the college football powerhouse in their hometown and, culturally for the villa, couldn’t have come any soooner.
Kooks singles reviewed
The Kooks “Eddie’s Gun”/”Naive” (Virgin UK) They’re already crowning a successor to Arctic Monkeys in the U.K.
Blow Up Hollywood reviewed
Blow Up Hollywood The Diaries Of Henry Hill (MJ12) Similarly themed to Sleep Station’s After The War, Diaries Of Henry Hill is based on the private writings of a KIA Iraqi War veteran (not a Goodfellas reference).
Cosmic Cowboy
Gram Parsons The Complete Reprise Sessions (Rhino) Rhino uncorks a disc of alternate takes to coincide with reissues of the little understood cosmic American’s only solo albums.
Bob Sinclair Reviewed
Bob Sinclair Western Dream (Tommy Boy) What happens when hedonism and idealism collide? Well it could be this carefree dance mix, but it’s unlikely.
You Spin Me Round
DJ Spinna Intergalactic Soul (Shanachie) International DJ Spinna, who can hardly contain his underground status with Das EFX, Zero 7, Mos Def, Michael Jackson, and George Michael projects under his belt, unleashes a lissome original work.
Submarines Reviewed
Submarines Declare A New State! (Nettwerk) Ah, love. Jack Dragonetti (of Jack Drag) and Blake Hazard take us through the breakup that preceded their eventual marriage.
The Young Republic Reviewed
The Young Republic Modern Plays (self-released) Orchestral folk rockers The Young Republic are an assembly of nine Boston music school students, drawing an eerie parallel to Belle & Sebastian.
Brightblack Morning Light Reviewed
Brightblack Morning Light Brightblack Morning Light (Matador) By now the words “Devendra Banhart” are enough to drive people in one of two directions. But what if you found out there were a pair of friends of Banhart’s from the freak-folk scene who deflected all attention, and were possibly the most listenable of the genre’s sideshows?
Dumb Luck
Da Muzicianz Da Muzicainz (TVT) Deduct two points if you think a project involving Ying Yang Twins’ D-Roc and his younger brothers sounds like something you’d buy.
Good Riddance Reviewed
Good Riddance My Republic (Fat Wreck Chords) Not your high schooler’s punk band; bring your dictionary to the pit, chillins.
An Albatross Reviewed
An Albatross Blessphemy (Of The Pearce-Beast Feastgiver And The Bear-Warp Kumite) (Ace Fu) Twenty-seven minutes of chaos, brought to you by the fine folks of An Albatross.
The Del McCoury Band Reviewed
The Del McCoury Band The Promised Land (McCoury Music) Bluegrass hero Del McCoury follows his Grammy win with his first gospel hybrid.
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