Album Reviews

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

Though it may appear these are milk and honey times for the Truckers, evidently they walked on egg shells, or broken glass as it may be, for a time at least, a couple years back. Killers and Stars was recorded in 2001 and in essence it chronicles these rotten and ambiguous times, at least from the perspective of one Patterson Hood, the principle song writer in the most important band in America.

Drunk & Furious make George Carlin uneasy, Howard Stern appear very hirable in today

Hints of lyrical depth, that jumble with catchy, yet dire musicianship, summate Buddahead’s debut CD release. The first single, “When I Fall,” is so sugar coated, that images of a noisy food court and the Gap prevail.

With This Magnificent Distance, Chris Robinson continues to stake his claim as one of the most imaginative and inventive singers and songwriters of our time.

The Queens of the Stone Age have nailed the sound of California groove with their cryptic metal boogie. Now frontman, Josh Homme, has struck out on a side project

Picking up where 2001

The Hiss is more Stonehenge than Stone Mountain, and if you like your post-punk delivered with the piss and vinegar lo-fi, fish and chips holler- these guys will never disappoint.

This is the best of the New Orleans jazz funk scene today, and it

Allison Moorer

My Morning Jacket have released the five song E.P Acoustic Citsuoca recorded at a low key Halloween performance at the Startime Pavilion in Braintree, Massachusetts. Coming off a tour with Bright Eye

After opening for the Black Eyes Peas, N.E.R.D. and The Thrills on a spring jaunt, Spymob has at last released their debut full-length album

Certain records should come with instructions. In the case of Donavon Frankenreiter

Get Yer Boots On

Since the high profile debut 1992 release, Tongues and Tails, that garnered a Grammy nom and added, “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover,” to your permanent memory bank, Hawkins has moved about without much commotion. Now, fourteen years later, she is releasing her first independently recorded album, Wilderness.

Reviewing Songs From the Tin Shed, a collaboration between The Big Wu’s Chris Castino and Jeff Austin of the Yonder Mountain String Band, promised to be a no-brainer, a work by representatives of two of today’s hottest jambands. I expected pure acoustic gold with this record. Unfortunately, the chaff prevails.

Some things go in and out of style, but Joe Jackson and his brand of

Layered with dreamy, waif-like harmonies and casual cinematic passages, gorjus: fighting Bockman