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Edie Sedgwick CD Review
Edie Sedgwick Her Love Is Real . . . But She Is Not (DeSoto) Drag queen Edie Sedgwick looks nothing like the tragic, New York tart whose name he/she takes, and sounds even less like anything else.
The Soda Pop Kids CD Review
The Soda Pop Kids Write Home (Full Breach Kicks) Chicago label’s latest offering is a relocated Portland-via-Denver proto punk incarnate. And you thought they only made this stuff in L.A. nowadays.
The Spirit That Guides Us CD Review
The Spirit That Guides Us North And South (Goodfellow) Is the world ready for a Dutch, nu-emo/indie rock hybrid? The Spirit That Guides Us deeply hope they’re them.
Forever Young
Young People All At Once (Too Pure) Young People’s Too Pure debut is not only an assault on the disposable disco punk culture growing stale in New York, but also one on patience.
Mr. Gnome CD Review
Mr. Gnome Echoes On The Ground (Mr. Gnome) Cleveland rocks, albeit angrily and vindictively.
Nearly CD Review
Nearly Reminder (Kufala) Frequent Trent Reznor accomplice Jerome Dillon shows up as Nearly, a less-industrial but still synth-friendly mood monger with guests including Claudia Sarne and Greg Dulli.
Crazy Horse
They Shoot Horses Don’t They Boo Hoo Hoo Boo (Kill Rock Stars) We all get weird; it’s the duration of those episodes that defines being mad as hatters.
Edguy CD Review
Edguy Rocket Ride (Nuclear Blast) German metal band writes the best rock anthem of the year (Decade? Century?) on an otherwise so-so record.
Against The Wind
Kid Rock ‘Live’ Trucker (Atlantic) Kid Rock will always be a waste of my time, but this is the album he was meant to make.
His & Hearse
Roseanne Cash Black Cadillac (Capitol) As the title suggests, death haunts Roseanne Cash’s 10th album, particularly in the spirits of her mother, stepmom June Carter, and father, Johnny, whose voice kicks things off.
Fountain Of Youth
Sonic Youth Reissues (Geffen) The final installment of Geffen’s Sonic Youth re-release campaign lends an expanded, self-titled debut, the cryptic Whitey Album (under the pseudonym Ciccone Youth), and Thurston Moore’s lone solo effort, Psychic Hearts.
Band Of Gold
Mates Of State Bring It Back (Barsuk) That Mates Of State ever made more than one album, much less escaped almost certain novelty fate, has been a minor miracle. That they’ve turned it around into something as wonderful as Bring It Back is something else.
Volkswagon’s Herbie
Herbie Hancock Possibilities (Hear) On this star-studded effort (Sting, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Damien Rice), erstwhile jazzman Herbie Hancock tries to stretch his marketing bounds and relevance.
Oxbow The Letter
Oxbow Love That’s Last: A Wholly Hypnographic & Disturbing Work (Hydra Head) In their prime, Oxbow were something of a disturbing San Francisco band that may have had something to do with The Jesus Lizard, or maybe the other way around.
Fahey Or Not Fahey?
John Fahey & Friends Tribute (Slackertone) In the five years since John Fahey died, posthumous reissues and albums have more or less consistently cast him as an avant-folk guitarist of impeccable skill. Here, his peers expand the palette considerably.
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