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June & Jean Millington

Play Like a Girl

(Fabulous)   www.junemillington.com   The late-1960s all-female rock band that the Millington sisters formed, Fanny, looms ever larger in rock history as a role model. It was also a more...

CANT

Dreams Come True

(Terrible)   www.terriblerecords.com   Grizzly Bear may currently be in the midst of artistic hibernation these days. But bassist/multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor is busier than ev more...

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band

'Live' Bullet + Nine Tonight

(Hideout Records/Capitol Records)   www.capitolrecords.com   By 1980, Detroit rock 'n' roll legend Bob Seger was finally beginning to see some payoff in a career that had crawled al more...

Kool and Together

Kool and Together

(Heavy Light / Light In the Attic)   www.heavylightrecords.com   Eventually the archival well will run dry, but for now the rediscovery and re-release of vintage and little-heard so more...

Veronica Falls

Veronica Falls

(Slumberland)   www.slumberlandrecords.com   Had enough of drone-y, dissonant, reverb-drenched R ‘N R?  Too bad. It's time to suck it up and make room for one more band wi more...

Josh Rouse and the Long Vacations

Josh Rouse and the Long Vacations

(Bedroom Classics)   www.joshrouse.com   Listening to Josh Rouse and the Long Vacations, it's not hard to imagine sipping a glass of Malaga in a café on the coast of Spain, more...

Static Jacks

If You're Young

(Fearless)   www.fearlessrecords.com   Shows like Jersey Shore, The Real Housewives of NJ and Jerseylicious have done little to dispel the notion that the Garden State is little more more...

Siskiyou

Keep Away the Dead

(Constellation)   www.cstrecords.com   On Keep Away the Dead, the follow-up to Siskiyou's impressive self-titled debut, Colin Hubert and Erik Arnesen expand their instrumental palett more...

Sting

Sting: 25 Years – The Definitive Box Set Collection

(Cherrytree Records / A&M Records / Universal Music Group)   www.cherrytreerecords.com   How do you know when you're old? Well, recalling long-ago milestones by record releases more...

Megafaun

Megafaun

(Home Tapes)   www.home-tapes.com   Megafaun, who will maybe be known from now until the end of days as the three guys Justin Vernon left behind when he trooped up to Wisconsin to r more...


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