Spins
Mump In The Road
Measles Mumps Rubella Fantastic Success (Doubling Cube) Dancin’ D.C. punks whip through seven-song, half-hour debut “album.”
Colter 45
Jessi Colter Out Of The Ashes (Shout! Factory) Waylon’s widow emerges 22 years from her last effort, providing a duet with her late husband.
Hello yourself
The Capes Hello (Hard Soul) Periodically British bands inadvertently circle wagons and form an Empire Shell in order to protect the local industry from Americanizing.
Pelicannot
Tusk Get Ready (He Who Corrupts) Seventy-five percent of instru-metal giants Pelican make up this screaming quartet.
Dead Or Alive, You’re Coming With Me
The Robocop Kraus They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus (Epitaph) If you want to get all ethnic, what the angular Gang Of Four revival has needed is some legit time-conscious weirdoes.
Call Me
Matchbook Romance Voices (Epitaph) I really didn’t understand how nigh prog punk was when I first interviewed The Lawrence Arms.
System Down
Slave To The System Slave To The System (Spitfire) This composite of Brother Cane and Queensrÿche members also have a little bit of Bad Company in them.
How do you feels?
Animal Collective Feels (Fat Cat) Much to the chagrin of the indie elite, their pet bands are forced to more accessibly contextualize their work to find out where they stand.
Cross Examined
P.O.D. Testify (Atlantic) If P.O.D. think they can hang their hats on the Christian thing, they’re gonna have to be a little more honest when they testify. They say nothing new on their fifth.
Francheezie
Dem Franchize Boyz On Top Of Our Game (Virgin) Not to be confused with DFL and “Laffy Taffy,” DFB show up with “I Think They Like Me” and a whole buncha songs just like it.
Ferris Bueller You’re My Hero
Hell Is For Heroes Transmit Disrupt (Burning Heart/Epitaph) U.K. punks continue struggle to disembark from anthemic Stateside peers, seem to have latched onto At The Drive-In or Trail Of Dead.
Birds Of A Heather
Heather Headley In My Mind (RCA) Headley passes for good R&B these days by limiting risk, hardly a good sign for her or the genre.
Merchant Of Tennis
Jeff Merchant Window Rolled Down (True Classical) Indie pop singer-songwriter either thinks this is funny, or he’s Donovan.
With Love, Legacy
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, here’s a quick rundown on six of the latest releases from Sony/Legacy’s Love Songs series with Heart, Regina Belle, Dolly Parton, John Denver, Phyllis Hyman, and Etta James.
Getting All Bublé
Michael Bublé With Love (Reprise) The Hallmark of pop singers packages eight songs to be sold exclusively at Hallmark stores.
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