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Levon Helm: Dirt Farmer

Doug Collette December 5, 2007 No Comments

Dirt Farmer is Levon Helm’s first solo studio recording in a quarter of a century and the debut album on his own label. . An outgrowth of informal sessions in his Woodstock barn studio, its music flows with all the ease and grace with which Levon sings. Meanwhile, musicians including multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell and Helm’s daughter Amy (co-producers of the project) imbue the music with warmth and an inviting informality.

Rogue Wave: Asleep at Heaven’s Gate

Eli Scheer December 5, 2007 No Comments

he problem with making a really great sophomore album is that the question later becomes, "How long can they keep this up?". Unfortunately for Zach Rogue and Co.,the two years since the release of their stellar second album, Descended Like Vultures, were not only rough on their personal lives, but it also resulted in a sprawling, less focused third effort, Asleep at Heaven's Gate.

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals: Follow the Lights (EP)

Shane Handler December 3, 2007 No Comments

Releasing one, two and sometimes three studio albums a year, calling Ryan Adams prolific would be an understatement. However for every brilliant Cold Roses there is a "did we really need this" 29. With the Follow the Lights EP, Adams has released perhaps his most unblemished recording since Gold.

Mickey Hart & Zakir Hussain: Global Drum Project

Tim Newby November 30, 2007 No Comments

Backed by an army of world-renown percussionists, Global Drum Project again explores the rich poly-rhythms of the world beat sound that the two musicians have journeyed through together for the past thirty years.

Yoko Ono: Open Your Box ( The Remixes)

Lauree Guyer November 30, 2007 No Comments

Open Your Box is a dance mix collection of quintessential Yoko Ono songs. The unique feature here is that the lyrics are understandable, and quite often full of pain, not your typical mind-numbing dance fare. Even though the songs didn't originate as dance music, Open Your Box does contain one essential ingredient in successful dance mixes: sex.

Queensryche: Take Cover

Bob Lange November 28, 2007 No Comments

Either Queensryche doesn't love the songs on Take Cover or they are completely incapable of conveying their love. Either way, this album is a failure even among all the failures that make up this sad new convention practiced by bands that are desperately trying to show their relevance.

PJ Harvey : White Chalk

Jason Macneil November 27, 2007 No Comments

It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that White Chalk is another interesting slice of Harvey that is calmer but just as pleasing beginning with “The Devil” and continuing on with “Dear Darkness.” Perhaps the album brings to mind her “Dance Hall At Louse Point” period most clearly during the carnival-tinged “Grow Grow Grow” that is quirky, unsettling and yet strong. Throughout it all, Harvey plays the light, airy vocals to a tee, especially on the haunting, retro-laced title track.

John Fogerty: Revival

Doug Collette November 26, 2007 No Comments

On John Fogerty’s new album Revival the ex-leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival acknowledges the brilliance of his past work rather than deny it. But the wry likes of “Creedence Song” notwithstanding, an air of self-consciousness pervades the album, which begs the question of whether Fogerty’s embrace of his past now overcompensates for that period he boycotted it over twenty-years ago?

Le Concorde: Suite

Jason Gonulsen November 21, 2007 No Comments

Although Le Concorde has only been around since 2003, they sound like pop rock veterans on their newest EP, Suite. Stephen Becker, the mastermind behind the band from Chicago, gets how to write a catchy song—and this new batch brings plenty of energy. The gem here is “All These Fragile Unions,” which uses Becker’s rhythm and wonderfully awkward sense of melody and sounds to form almost three minutes of suiteness. The bar has officially been raised for their next full-length album.

Electric Six: I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master

William Ruben Helms November 20, 2007 No Comments

The Detroit-based, Electric Six’s fourth and latest release on Metropolis borrows its name from a drawing by the German artist George Grosz which depicts and grotesquely satirizes the gluttony, greed and excess of Berlin between World War 1 and World War II. And although I Shall Exterminate Everything around Me doesn’t focus on 1920s Berlin, it does focus on and satirize excess.

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