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Sorcerer

(Goner)   www.goner-records.com   The Goner Records label is usually known for down ‘n' dirty rock and roll.  Proud of its Memphis roots I figured the last thing they'd w more...

Jeff Hanson

Madam Owl

(Kill Rock Stars)   www.killrockstars.com   To repeat a comment frequently made by those who encounter Jeff Hanson for the first time: this dude sounds like a lady.  With due cr more...

Cordero

De Donde Eres

(Bloodshot)   www.bloodshotrecords.com   The title for the fifth long-player from this Brooklyn-based quartet can translate into the interrogatory "where are you from," and the ques more...

Clouds

We Are Above You

(Hydra Head)   www.hydrahead.com   "Slow Day" is the embodiment of what Clouds tries to do - a third of the time. Flowing off a sinuous melody, guitars wisp and wind like streams of more...

Kasai Allstars

In the 7th moon, the chief turned into a swimming fish and ate the head of his enemy by magic

(Crammed Discs)   www.crammed.be   Three (or four) albums into the "Congotronics" series, observers might well wonder if the genre amounts to more than one group. The first release more...

Doveman

Footloose

(Brassland Music)   www.brassland.org   In some ways, death is the same for us all.  It equalizes us as human beings, sending us to our knees in anguish and despair and despite more...

Love

Out Here + False Start [reissues]

(Collector's Choice)   www.ccmusic.com   Anyone who hears the version of "Signed D.C." that Love remade on Out Here without knowing the version on the band's 1966 debut can get a mu more...

I See Hawks In L.A.

Hallowed Ground

(Big Book Records)   www.bigbookrecords.com     It's sort of surprising that I See Hawks In L.A., the Southern California country-rock band, not only has lasted to its fourth a more...

Motörhead

Motörizer

(Steamhammer Records/SPV Music)   www.spv.de       Just one question: why isn't Motörhead in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? If there was ever a band that epitomiz more...

David Byrne and Brian Eno

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

(self-released)   www.everythingthathappens.com   Rather than think of this Byrne/Eno recording as extension of their now-thirty-year collaborative relationship, find it in your he more...


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