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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.
Sweet James
Denise James Promises (Rainbow Quartz) Everything’s waiting for Denise James . . . downtown.
Loves of a Feather
The Lovely Feathers Hind Hind Legs (Equator) Blah blah blah . . . Quintet The Lovely Feathers . . . blah blah blah . . . quirky indie rock . . . Montreal . . . blah blah blah . . . buddies with Metric and the Broken Social Scene enclave.
Popsicle go the weasals
Diamond Nights Popsicle (Kemado) Now we have time to step back from the winking, ultra-glam nonsense brought on by The Darkness and Louis XIV, we can see where Diamond Nights fit. Appearing: May 7th at Subterranean in Chicago.
Morrissey CD Review
Morrissey Ringleader Of The Tormentors (Attack/Sanctuary) Surrounding himself with some pop royalty (spaghetti western architect Ennio Morricone; T. Rex producer Tony Visconti) can’t save Stephen Morrissey’s wonderfully titled Ringleader Of The Tormentors from being an un-storied entry to the Smiths/Morrissey catalog.
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