Album Reviews

Antibalas: Who is this America

David Eduardo September 8, 2004 No Comments

No one in The Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra served as keynote speaker at the recent RNC in the group

Keller Williams: Stage

Mike Greenhaus September 7, 2004 No Comments

Keller Williams is often described as a one-man jam-band. While at times that title has been used as something of a tongue-in-cheek tag, Williams truly possesses an incredibly layered sound. So on Stage, the first live offering to truly document the guitarist

Talking Heads: The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads

Shane Handler September 7, 2004 No Comments

i]The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads reveals the group at their most
new-wave, experimental and funkiest, covering three distinct creative
periods of their career. A classic already in the making, the album covers
live hidden gems in the early years which produced their first four albums – 77, More Songs About Buildings And Food, Fear Of Music, and Remain In Light.

Reid Geneaur & The Assembly Of Dust: The Honest Hour

Dustin Glass September 3, 2004 No Comments

The former Strangefolk co-founder lead singer and his band “The Assembly of Dust” are back with their sophomore effort, The Honest Hour. Following up their spectacular and finely crafted self-titled debut studio effort, The Honest Hour showcases the Assembly of Dust in the more familiar and looser live setting.

Rich Robinson: Paper

David Eduardo September 3, 2004 No Comments

Let

The Kicks: Hello Hong Kong

David Eduardo September 3, 2004 No Comments

FM Radio may agree and these boys will make millions screaming the line

Trent Dabbs: Quite Often

Shane Handler September 2, 2004 No Comments

Trent Dabbs, follows in that mold of minimalist serenity with his debut Quite Often. Refusing to write formula songs, Dabbs takes his brand of celestial folk and makes it float quietly and peacefully aboard lush instruments, proving Dabbs is an artist with a knack for entrancing songwriting.

Number One Fan: Compromises

Bryan Rowsell September 1, 2004 No Comments

Compromises is the debut album from Appleton, Wisconsin’s Number One Fan. Though their website doesn’t tell you an awful lot of the fellas, we do learn who their influences are, though one listen to the first few songs on Compromises will answer that question for you rather loudly.

Endicott: The Words In Ink Don’t Lie

Shane Handler August 30, 2004 No Comments

After two self-released EP

Drive By Truckers: The Dirty South

Shane Handler August 30, 2004 No Comments

The Drive By Trucker’s sixth album is a sweaty collection, capturing true down and out Alabama living, where people have no choice but to lead a life of crime. Tales of tragedy, incest, hardship, struggle, blood, sweat and tears ramify the aura of this narrative release, led by five southerners who lived to tell the tales of “The Dirty South.”