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Diego’s Umbrella: Proper Cowboy

Shawn Donohue October 12, 2012 No Comments

If you like your pop rock with an exotic flair give Diego’s Umbrella’s crisply produced fourth album, Proper Cowboy a whirl. While the band has drawn lazy comparisons to Gogol Bordello, the San Francisco group is noticeably more commercially bent on Proper Cowboy showcasing easy dance beats, clean vocal choruses and short catchy numbers that wouldn’t be out of place selling hip products to 16-24 year-olds.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, LA, 10/04/12

Leslie Michele Derrough October 12, 2012 No Comments

If getting older conjures up images of sitting on a porch swing and remembering what you used to be, then don’t tell the guys in the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Corin Tucker Band: Kill My Blues

Ron Hart October 12, 2012 No Comments

In lieu of the litany of great female groups who've emerged since Sleater-Kinney's demise–Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, Lights, Brilliant Colors, Pussy Riot, even Wild Flag featuring former members Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss arguably speaking–none can truly match the unbridled intensity that made the Olympia trio's decade in rock so memorable.

Aimee Mann: The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 09/29/2012

Peter Zimmerman October 11, 2012 No Comments

Aimee Mann is one of those artists whose live incarnations of songs never veer too far from their original album versions, but there’s something about the passion and intensity of the performances that cause her shows to be truly special affairs.

Grateful Dead : Spring 1990: So Glad You Made It

Doug Collette October 11, 2012 No Comments

Carefully compiled and co-produced by chief archivist David Lemieux (who contributes an essay of fond remembrance), So Glad You Made It displays the same impeccable logic as its companion piece culled from 2011’s Europe '72: The Complete Recordings.

Helio Sequence: Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ 8/7/12

Eric Graf October 11, 2012 No Comments

The Helio Sequence almost feels like a band making one last round. Their most recent record, Negotiations, is their first new recording in four years and while expertly produced, doesn't live up to the riveting hooks and inventive beats of 2008's brilliant Keep Your Eyes Ahead.

Duran Duran: Hard Rock Live, Biloxi, MS, 8/18/12

Leslie Michele Derrough October 10, 2012 No Comments

Actually, Duran Duran has always been a bit voyeuristic in their musical style. Rising to gigantic heights with 1982’s Rio, they were the musical equivalent of Miami Vice without the more cutting edge of Eurythmics. Young girls loved them. Young boys loved them. Rocker kids didn’t. But thirty years down the fashion runway of music, Duran Duran is still selling out major venues with most of their original line-up still intact.

R.E.M. : Document 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Doug Collette October 10, 2012 No Comments

It is extremely rare for a band to achieve a creative advance simultaneous to its breakthrough to a mainstream audience. But that's exactly what R.E.M accomplished with the ever so appropriately titled Document. Accordingly, more so than perhaps any other of its anniversary reissues (except perhaps the two CDs of the Fables of the Reconstruction box), this landmark album deserves the deluxe treatment it receives.

Dinosaur Jr. : I Bet On Sky

Shawn Donohue October 10, 2012 No Comments

Virtually impossible, but with Beyond, Farm and now I Bet On Sky, Dinosaur Jr. has perhaps matched their initial famous trio of Dinosaur, You’re Living All Over Me and Bug.

Corin Tucker Band: Mercury Lounge, NY, NY 9/27/12

Shawn Donohue October 9, 2012 No Comments

Touring on the back of the excellent new album Kill My Blues, the Corin Tucker Band pulled into New York on a high. Scheduled to play this early show in Manhattan and a later show on Saturday in Brooklyn the band was covering all its bases. This night saw an older crowd fill up the Mercury Lounge as Tucker took the stage dressed in Sea Green and put together a tight hour long set with her excellent band.

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