Album Reviews

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

Kansas

Unearthing a side project that borders on spectral instrumentals and acerbic pieces, Joel Peterson

With Deep Banana Blackout on hiatus, guitarist/songwriter Fuzz has remained busy as usual by writing new songs and touring with his own band.