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Candy Bars On Cutting Ti-Gers In Half And Understanding Narravation (New Granada) With a title such as this, you can expect either a dearth of people taking you seriously or more than you want.
First star I see tonight
Starlight Mints Drowatron (Barsuk) Was a time when Starlight Mints were hailed as knights at The Flaming Lips’ roundish table. Somehow, all identity has been drained.
The Goo Goo Dolls CD Review
The Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In (Warner Bros.) Well they’ve done it. Throwing their cards down and tearing off their disguises, The Goo Goo Dolls drop the charade and cover Supertramp.
Soil CD Review
Soil True Self (DRT) On their third release, Chicago metal band Soil try to overcome losing their record deal and their singer.
Lansing-Dreiden CD Review
Lansing-Dreiden The Dividing Island (Kemado) It’s too bad the phrase “chamber pop” applies to a different sort of music, because it would suit Lansing-Dreiden perhaps more literally.
Stoley P.T. CD Review
Stoley P.T. Lesson #1 (In Music We Trust) Former Q101 DJ/Lupins frontman Stoley comes to us with his P(ower). (Trio).
Thee More Shallows CD Review
Thee More Shallows Monkey Vs. Shark (Turn) Tide-you-over EP from stark San Franciscans begins with a thwack.
Sugarplum Fairies CD Review
Sugarplum Fairies Country International Records (Starfish) Austrian duo Sugarplum Fairies aided by ex-Wilco man Ken Coomer craft Hapsburg-country.
Tom Thumb & The Latter Day Saints CD Review
Tom Thumb & The Latter Day Saints Kindermusik (Three Ring) Tom Thumb and his New England-based cohorts locked themselves into a Maine studio for this EP, and produced the sound of winter coats.
Riverboat Gamblers CD Review
Riverboat Gamblers To The Confusion Of Our Enemies (Volcom/East West) With all the casual, fancy-pantsin’ indie rockers roaming the slacker streets of Austin, Texas, it’s a surprise there aren’t more Riverboat Gamblers running amok.
I said Pete. Not Bob.
Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Columbia) On what’s probably the most alive Springsteen has sounded on record in at least 20 years, The Boss makes known his protest via Pete Seeger’s firebrand tongue.
Is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?
The Heavy Blinkers The Night And I Are Still So Young (Endearing/Cooking Vinyl) Somehow it never seemed possible Brian Wilson’s creations could use a couple more tracks in the mix. The Heavy Blinkers beg to differ.
You Charlatans!
The Charlatans U.K. Simpatico (Sanctuary) Finally bored with the stadium rock they’ve been touting since their mid-’90s renaissance, those darling Charlatans overdo a Carribbean fetish.
Naughty Timmons
Andy Timmons Band Resolution (Favored Nations) Former Danger Danger (“Naughty Naughty”) guitarist Andy Timmons and his sack full of Joe Satriani licks hogs the spotlight on this “band” project.
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