[rating=8.00] On Caribou’s sixth album, Dan Snaith latches on to what people loved about his last albums to create Our Love: an album that is both conceptual and inviting. The
[rating=9.00] Jackson Browne’s previous two studio albums, The Naked Ride Home and Time the Conqueror, are earmarked as much by the sympathetic and authoritative accompaniment of the musicians as the
[rating=7.00] The many changing ways in which we approach albums makes it difficult to say whether the format itself is on its last legs. Perhaps Weird Al’s singles-focused approach is
[rating=8.00] Once an unknown band that lurked in the shadows while releasing tracks anonymously, with its full-length debut Sir Sly shines a light on an immense talent for creating infectious
[rating=8.00] Garcia Live Volume Four stands as a testament to the wealth of material available for the on-going archive project. In fact, this two-disc set, from a Colorado stop on
Looking more American than Colonel Sanders these days in cool (weather-wise) Hawaii shirt and trade-mark moustache, Manny Charlton is now an ex-pat in Texas who was born in Spain in
[rating=5.00] Somewhere in the new millennium it became really cool to be both a stand-up comic and an indie darling. I’m guessing Sub Pop has a lot to do with
[rating=7.00] King Tuff is now entering its plugged in phase. Never one to sit still, the Vermont act is in good company on opening eponymous track “Black Moon Spell”. Fellow
[rating=7.00] Kyle Cox is cute as a button, and his new record The Plan, The Mess reflects that. Best described as alt-pop, Cox also incorporates elements of country and indie
[rating=6.00] Let’s be honest, prolific singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams does not need to prove anything to anyone. And her new record, a lengthy double album titled Down Where the Spirit Meets
