The Hot Buttered Rum String Band has made a CD I’m sure they feel proud to release, and in many ways I agree that it’s a solid work. But the technical skills and instrumental variety the guys bring to their music cannot compensate for the antiseptic quality of the tunes, nor for the distance the band maintains between itself and its subjects.
Musically, Here Come the Brides rocks with all the swagger, inebriation and low IQ of the best hair rock. Like a drunk driver in a fast car on a curvy California road, the Brides play with the reckless abandon one would expect from 80s L.A. veterans
Rather than focusing on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Ignoring history, former Cop Shoot Cop bassist Tod A impresses once again as the spark and hydrogen of New York
After a ten-year recording hiatus, the five piece – featuring all original members – have returned with Into The Now. With true marksmanship,
the band has always excelled with its niche of slow rockers, featuring
seasoned vocals and jubilant choruses.
With The Good Life, its third CD release, Railroad Earth may have revealed itself as the best acoustic jam band of its generation.
Upon her recent high profile marriage to the brash pop rocker, Elvis Costell, the husband/wife team has penned six of the twelve songs on Krall
Every inch and breath of my being feels compelled to pen the greatest review ever to leave these fingertips, because, without question this is the finest record in my collection.
Stone, Steel, & Bright Lights, Jay Farrar
Live at Bonnaroo, like the festival
