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(Sub Pop)   www.subpop.com   Milwaukee psych-popsters Jaill have cleverly conceived a melding of classic garage, some indie-rock and early Brit-beat without being at all clich&eacut more...

(SubPop)   www.subpop.com The cover pic, of a girl with shoulders like a linebacker, in a very unfortunate get-up (tank top with shorts over leggings, and an absurd cap) is oddly endearin more...

(Columbia) www.columbiareords.com       If Dylan’s dad had written “Evil Is Alive and Well,” a haunting meditation on these troubled times, the Dylan fan boys in more...

(Columbia)   www.columbiarecords.com   On his excellent second solo venture, Jakob Dylan continues to travel down the old dirt road blazed by his famous father with a rustic and ric more...

(Mercury/Decca)   www.deccarecords-us.com     "Hey Ma / the boys in body bags / coming home in pieces," sings Tim Booth with a jaunty swagger on the title track of James' first more...

  (Mercury/Universal) www.umusic.com   With The Morning After and The Night Before, their eleventh and twelfth albums respectively, James continues the comeback initiated in 2007 follo more...

(Tompkins Square)   www.tompkinssq.com     There lately seems a glut of post-Fahey guitar players on the scene.  Many are quite good, but I’m a Fahey fan and am theref more...

(Young God)   www.younggodrecords.com   Twelve-string phenomenon James Blackshaw has long been known for conjuring luxuriant, symphonic sounds out of his guitar. Indeed, even on pu more...

(Young God)   www.younggodrecords.com   An extraordinarily beautiful eight-song cycle, All Is Falling continues James Blackshaw's development as a composer and arranger, as well as more...

(Blind Pig)   www.blindpigrecords.com   When the definitive history of the post World War II electric blues is written, the chapter dealing with harp players will have two names at more...