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King of Prussia

Transmissions from the Grand Strand

(self released)   www.myspace.com/wearekingofprussia   I thought that this band, like many others, was going to be one of those that came and went. A one hit wonder if you will. They more...

Strawberry Whiplash

Hits in the Car

(Matinee)   www.matineerecordings.com   ...and the pop hits keep coming from the Matinee label.  After a few EPs (Who's in Your Dreams and Picture Perfect as well as the "Stop more...

Loudon Wainwright III

Older Than My Old Man Now

(2nd Story Sound)   www.2ndstorysoundrecords.com   Loudon Wainwright III has never been one to shy away from his personal missteps and tragedies. Hell, he's managed to create a caree more...

Caravan of Thieves

The Funhouse

(United for Opportunity)   www.UFOmusic.com   New England's Caravan of Thieves aren't your ordinary band of wayfarers, although the sound often suggests that in another life they coul more...

Greg Laswell

Landline

(Vanguard)   www.vanguardrecords.com   Over the course of his career, Greg Laswell's been prone to favor nocturnal laments, twilight rhapsodies both mournful and melancholy. Landline more...

Bobby Conn

Macaroni

(Fire)   www.firerecords.com   Thoughts on "Macaroni," "Greeed," "Can't Stop the War," "Gov't"? To formats that are yanked from Hip Hop, R&B, Punk, Funk, Pop, and Experimental ge more...

Hangmen

East of Western

(Acetate)   www.acetate.com   When the Hangmen first hit the Los Angeles music scene in the late ‘80s, the long-haired quartet was mistaken for a hair metal act and unfortunatel more...

Blue Cheer

Vincebus Eruptum + Outsideinside

(Sundazed)   www.sundazed.com   Back in the primordial stew that was mid-to-late 1960s era rock 'n' roll, record label execs were literally clueless about the music, and were just as more...

Jack White

Blunderbuss

(Third Man)   www.thirdmanrecords.com   That the Raconteur, White Stripe and Dead Weather-man has waited this long since his 1997 publicly recognized start to make a solo record says more...

Gravenhurst

The Ghost in Daylight

(Warp)   www.warprecords.com   Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst inhabits the forward-looking edge of folk-based music, moving its misty modal chord progressions into the now and even past more...


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