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Plimsouls: Beach Town Confidential: Live At The Golden Bear 1983

Doug Collette March 19, 2012 No Comments

The casual listener might be surprised to learn Live at the Golden Bear 1983 is the third live Plimsouls album to be release in recent years. One listen to Beach Town Confidential from start to finish, however, will explain why the demand is there: this is blood and guts rock transcending fashion (both the punk and new wave of its era), the likes of which will always stand the test of time.

Great American Taxi: Paradise Lost

Mike Roesler March 19, 2012 No Comments

In another life, Vince Herman, along with his first band of brothers, Leftover Salmon, was often associated with music festivals. These days there are new words from Vince Herman and it's with his newer band, Great American Taxi (Thirty Tiger Label). Shedding a “jam band” and creating a band with a unique sound, all while combining many musical roots isn't easy. In Great American Taxi's third studio effort, that's exactly what they have accomplished. Paradise Lost has a genuine sound and serves as their most polished album to date.

Delta Spirit: Delta Spirit

Jeff Strowe March 15, 2012 No Comments

For their third album, the five members of Delta Spirit have lit the fuse, opening up the overall sound and punching through with a sonic boom. Gone is the rootsy Americana of 2010’s History From Below and their 2008 debut, Ode To Sunshine. In its place is a big modern rock cacophony that may initially catch listeners off guard but is more in tune with what the band has had in mind all along.

Amy Ray: Lung of Love

Peter Zimmerman March 14, 2012 No Comments

She may not be reinventing the wheel, but the wheel she’s working with is pretty damn impressive.

Anais Mitchell: Young Man In America

Peter Zimmerman March 13, 2012 No Comments

Mitchell brings an attentive and critical focus, measured with a slight whimsy and caprice that rounds the oftentimes harsh edge of folk music, and delivers a brilliant, entirely cohesive and utterly striking work of art in Young Man In America.

The Decemberists: We All Raise Our Voices To The Air

Jeff Demars March 12, 2012 No Comments

The Decemberists are far better than We All Raise Our Voices to the Air would lead the average listener to believe, and hopefully their next studio release and tour will prove it.

Will Johnson, Jay Farrar, Yim Yames, Anders Parker: New Multitudes

Ron Hart March 8, 2012 No Comments

Perhaps even more so than Mermaid Avenue, New Multitudes is a definitive tribute from four of Woody Guthrie’s most faithful latter day apostles to the beauty, poignancy and political poetry of the many sides of this genuine folk hero on the 100th year of his exuberant existence as an essential entity of the true American spirit.

Howlin Rain: The Russian Wilds

Shawn Donohue March 7, 2012 No Comments

On “Phantom In The Valley” lead singer/guitarist/song-writer Ethan Miller sings about “Dusty notes of music/at the far end of the world!” but you don’t need to travel all that way to find Howlin’ Rain’s inspiration. Just head into your parents basement and dust off the milk-crates that host your big brothers mid 70’s “classic” rock albums from a time gone by. This is a big meaty album, a return to arena rock pomp and excess; knowing that in advance will clue people into the pluses and minuses fairly early of Howlin’ Rain’s newest release The Russian Wilds.

Caetano Veloso and David Byrne: Live at Carnegie Hall

Patrick Flanary March 2, 2012 No Comments

This stripped-down, mostly acoustic affair captures friends Caetano Veloso and David Byrne collaborating on each other’s catalog of songs, during the Brazilian musician’s week-long Carnegie residency in 2004.

Princeton: Remembrance of Things to Come

David Hoffman February 29, 2012 No Comments

A significant contribution to the broadening genre of LA indie-pop, Princeton’s Remembrance of Things to Come leaves the listener anxious to hear where these four musicians are headed as they develop a consistent, rich and intriguing sound.

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