Reviews / RSS

(Roadrunner)   www.roadrunnerrecords.com / www.walmart.com   Go ahead and laugh. Kiss co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have teamed with their musical posse to release Sonic more...

(4AD)   www.4AD.com   John Darnielle has never shied from emotional struggles and tough truths, even when they're couched in fiction, and here he deals with some of the big ones: cr more...

(Verve)   www.vervemusicgroup.com   For her fourth album, this former Broadway star turns away from her own considerable songwriting talents to pay tribute to another woman who cros more...

(NGDB Records)   www.nittygritty.com   Five years is a lifetime in music. In this new-sound-a-minute era, it's generally understood that the majority of those bands that don't relea more...

(Megaforce)   www.megaforcerecords.com   They say that you can't tell a book from its cover, but that's just a hoary old homily our grandparent's grandparents came up with to try an more...

(Ape House)   www.ape.uk.net   Although Dublin's Pugwash have been around for a decade or so now, most of their work has been distributed only in Ireland. This compilation finally i more...

(Self-released)   www.myspace.com/theblakes   Gritty, ‘60s garage rock is The Blakes' specialty and they've continued down the same path for sophomore LP Souvenir. Seattle's Ga more...

(Universal Republic)   www.umusic.com   It's easy to take for granted a band that rocks as effortlessly and reliably as Lucero. They can rev up at will: track after track begins wit more...

(Lightning Rod)   www.lightningrodrecords.com   Last year, James McMurtry released his devastating indictment of life in the Bush years of America, Just Us Kids. Now, with a new admi more...

(Saddle Creek)   www.saddle-creek.com   You don't hear many indie-folk singers whose voices demand to be characterized as pretty.   Orenda Fink of Azure Ray/Art in Manila fame more...