The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards
Posted in Alt Rock on Sep 7th, 2010
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“The Dead Weather has crafted the equivalent of a taut, expertly directed movie thriller.” –Los Angeles Times
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Stone Temple Pilots: Stone Temple Pilots
Posted in Alt Rock on Sep 7th, 2010
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“The 12 tracks blend essentially everything STP ever did well without sounding like a stitched-together version of past hits….sweet-and-sour guitar solos, glam-rock grooves, psychedelic swirls, and hummable melodies.” –The Boston Globe
Corinne Bailey Rae: The Sea
Posted in Alt Rock, Indie, Soul, Vocal Pop on Aug 31st, 2010
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“The Sea is a testament to Rae’s artistic growth as it provides comfort to those left on the wistful side of eternal love, and insight to those who are not.”–All Music Guide
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“Simmering more than it strikes, High Violet coaxes you into baroque indie darkness rather than shines bright pop lights. But the National inevitably make that bleakness sound incredibly seductive and impossibly cool. That’s the National’s insidious brilliance: No other band makes dark and stormy seem like ideal weather.”–Spin
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“The music…is the stuff of romcom soundtracks: acoustic in mood, gently pulsing, shot with silvery strings, occasionally stumbling into schmaltz. Sounds awful? Well, no, because Thorn’s voice, rich and smooth as the most expensive chocolate truffle, brings each story to genuine life and invests it with heart-snagging emotion.”–The Guardian
LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening
Posted in Alt Rock, Dance & DJ, Electronica, Indie on Aug 31st, 2010
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“The long songs reveal Murphy’s bottom-line agenda: He’s still a dance guy at heart, and he knows it’s his job to ignite parties and clubs. But he approaches dance music more like a folkie singer-songwriter than a DJ, as a vehicle for storytelling and confession. So crank up the music, and move your [...]
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“Nobody’s Daughter recalls the highlights of the band’s critically acclaimed 1994 album, “Live Through This,” and shows that, as a band, Hole is not one bit damaged.”–Billboard.com
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“Alex Ebert and his band hark back to a carefree age of patchouli and bell-bottoms on their debut. This is intoxicating psych-indie for heady days in unbroken sunshine.” — The Observer
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“Woman + Country is somewhat of a grower — it’s so purposefully hazy it seems to pleasingly fade into the slipstream upon the first play, but those repeated spins reveal the deep craft at the heart of Woman + Country, deep craft from both the songwriter, his producer, and musicians.” –All Music Guide
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“On “Minor Love,’’ Green’s sixth solo record, he proves adept as ever traversing through the American popular songbook and filtering his findings through a hazy stoner’s smog of absurdity.” –Boston Globe
Shelby Lynne: Tears, Lies, and Alibis
Posted in Alt Rock, Alt-Country, Country on Jul 29th, 2010
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“Given the wonderfully mercurial, fiercely independent persona Shelby Lynne has displayed throughout her career (one that has inspired fans and infuriated record company executives) her first self-produced, self-released effort might have been fraught with egocentric excess. Many artists have fallen into that trap. But they don’t have her backbone and keen self-critical eyes [...]
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“Congratulations, MGMT’s time-warped sophomore release, is a strange beast, a candy-colored acid trip set to music, and easily the most hallucinatory rock record of the year so far.” — Boston Globe
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“The band’s lack of a defining musical style has proven an advantage here, as frontman Damian Kulash and co. were clearly able to explore their boundaries, unconfined by audience expectations…and this dancefloor-baiting synth-funk sound seems like a more exciting direction for the band. One gets the feeling that, while this probably won’t be [...]
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“Rising from tiny Manhattan clubs where aspiring singer/ songwriters refused to drink folk-music syrup, Regina Spektor found her voice as a compelling and whimsical storyteller who uses experience and observation to craft indelible songs. With…the deliciously attractive “Far,” Spektor again shows how original she is, finding the gleam in modern life with its [...]
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“Screaming Females combine scorching guitars with a firmly D.I.Y. approach to create their own brand of indie rock. Mixing equal parts Dinosaur Jr. and Sleater-Kinney, the Brunswick trio…strives to embody the spirit of indie rock in its purest form.” –All Music Guide
The XX: XX
Posted in Alt Rock, Electronica, Indie on May 15th, 2010
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“These tracks are so sleek, they’re practically sculptural…This restraint and sophistication make the fact that the xx’s members were barely in their twenties when they recorded the album all the more impressive; artists twice their age would be proud to call the maturity and confidence that flow seemingly effortlessly through the xx their [...]
The Mumlers: Don’t Throw Me Away
Posted in Alt Rock, Alt-Country, Indie on May 15th, 2010
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“The Mumlers take their name from a 19th-century man who claimed he could photograph spirits. So probably the least contentious point of comparison between the California sextet and its namesake is that the Mumlers’ Don’t Throw Me Away is also haunted by ghosts. The crisp, direct start to the album verges on aggressive [...]
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“In the Dark is the best album the Foo Fighters never made…a guilty pleasure for anyone raised on grunge.”–All Music Guide
Drive-By Truckers: The Big To-Do
Posted in Alt Rock, Country Rock, Hard Rock, Indie, Southern Rock on May 12th, 2010
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“The Drive-By Truckers have been the best and smartest hard rock band in America for a while now, but with The Big To-Do they also confirm they’re one of the bravest, and they’ve created a triumphant album out of songs in which folks are forced to look failure square in the eye.” –All [...]
Mastodon: Crack the Skye
Posted in Alt Rock, Indie, Metal, Rock/Pop on May 10th, 2010
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The fourth album from the Atlantia, Georgia rock band features songs about the murder of Rasputin.
“The album will be attractive to head bangers, math rockers, and now even classic-rock devotees thanks to guitarists Brent Hinds’s and Bill Kelliher’s deep devotion to the almighty riff.”–Boston Globe