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Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back
March 2, 2010, 9:23 am
Rating: /10
What is it that compels a mature gent to wish to cover the hallmark songs a generation or two after …
Hot Chip – One Life Stand
February 17, 2010, 6:42 pm
Rating: /10
Some sort of intergalactic church organ opens the song “Thieves in the Night” to start Hot Chip’s latest outing – …
Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster
February 2, 2010, 7:21 pm
Rating: /10
Climb aboard for the ride, as the pop world’s become Gaga’s oyster, and she’s not slowing this techno-tinged train for …
My Brightest Diamond – Shark Remixes, Vol. 1-4
January 25, 2010, 11:43 am
Rating: /10
Of course it’s with a winking piano on the Alfred Brown-produced “Overture” that My Brightest Diamond’s latest batch of electro-indie …
Indie Rock, R.I.P. 2005
November 11, 2009, 3:57 pm
They said, “I hope that you will never change”
I went and cut my hair
They say, “Don’t take your business to …
Will Hoge – The Wreckage
October 28, 2009, 9:51 am
Rating: /10
The titular word of Will Hoge’s latest offering – The Wreckage – would seem at first an unveiled reference to …
Mason Jennings – Blood of Man
October 13, 2009, 11:53 am
Rating: /10
Mason Jennings told CNN in late September that he was getting “dark” and “raw” on his latest, Blood of Man. …
Sea Wolf, Port O’Brien – Live @ Radio Radio
October 12, 2009, 10:29 am
Then the deluge. A rain-soaked night in the city known as the Crossroads of America made way for the cello-drenched, …
The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
October 6, 2009, 9:33 am
Rating: /10
Too many people think that a Southern drawl makes one sound a dolt, or slow. Even the (formerly) shrewd politico …
David Gray – “Fugitive” Single
September 11, 2009, 3:22 pm
Rating: /10
Everyone speaks of David Gray’s White Ladder from 1998 as if it’s the holy grail of folk pop. After it …
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