Spins
Life In The Fast Lane
No Speed Limit Sweet Virginia (Arhoolie) Sure, there are plenty of jokes waiting to be made about a Virginian bluegrass outfit with a 16-year-old singer.
Chatham County Line Reviewed
Chatham County Line Speed Of The Whippoorwill (Yep Roc) Weathering a torrent of modern bluegrass releases, Chatham County Line draw on a folksier inspiration for their third album.
Fatboy Slim Hits
Fatboy Slim Why Try Harder: The Greatest Hits (Astralwerks) Still a weapon of choice for countless sports arenas and TV producers, Fatboy Slim will go down as having produced some of the most marketable music of the past decade.
Luna CD & DVD
Luna The Best Of Luna (CD)/Tell Me Do You Miss Me (DVD) (Rhino) Luna were never a love/hate band; they were give a shit/don’t give a shit. This sold-separately combo tells why.
Mellowdrone half returns
Mellowdrone Box (Red Ink/Columbia) Mellowdrone’s name sticks out in the IE office because of a valiant opening gig for Johnny Marr at Double Door a couple years ago and the subsequent littering of our floors with their EP by the now-defunct Artist Direct label.
Venice Is Sinking
Venice Is Sinking Sorry About The Flowers (One Percent Press) Athens, Georgia, still pumps out the college rock bands, and it was only a matter of time before Venice Is Sinking, steeped in Galaxie 500, studied abroad.
Tindersticks solo man
Stuart A. Staples Leaving Songs (Too Pure) Stuart A. Staples, the former frontman for nightsongs maestros The Tindersticks, makes his Nick Cave-meets-Van Morrison debut.
Radio 4 reviewed
Radio 4 Enemies Like This (Astralwerks) Every rock journalist in the Western hemisphere is wondering what the hell happened to Radio 4.
Shadows Fall B-sides
Shadows Fall Fallout From The War (Century Media) New school thrashers throw Century Media one last bone before they begin major label life with Atlantic.
Mr. Lif reviewed
Mr. Lif Mo’ Mega (Definitive Jux) For his third album, Mr. Lif’s conscious hip-hop skips around from high-minded economics to the bedroom to the ultra-personal.
Waking Ashland reviewed
Waking Ashland Telescopes (Immortal) San Diego duo Waking Ashland are getting big in Japan and waited to release this EP in the States.
Electric Soft Parade come Stateside
Electric Soft Parade The Human Body EP (East West) Former Mercury Prize nominees Electric Soft Parade finally make their U.S. debut with this pounding EP.
New Grenada review
New Grenada Modern Problems (Contraphonic) Detroit quartet seems to think the fact Steve Albini recorded their third album is the most important thing about it.
The Association reissued
The Association And Then . . . Along Comes The Association (Collector’s Choice) Never fully appreciated for what they were doing while they were doing it, The Association’s reissued 1966 debut album attempts to resurrect their legacy.
Boy Eats Drum Machine review
Boy Eats Drum Machine Pleasure (self-released) Imagine, as a songwriter, having one of your city’s best drummers at your disposal. Now imagine having five of them.
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