CD Reviews
 | Eef Barzelay - Lose Big | | 11:17am Tue 6 May 08 | | Eef Barzelay was the lead singer and songwriter in Clem Snide, a kind of indie alt-country band who made 5 sublime studio albums and a handful of
other releases. |
 | Alabama 3 - Hits and Exit Wounds | | 10:59am Tue 6 May 08 | | Alabama 3 are a band from Brighton who sound like some ultra-modern Southern Gospel psych hip-hop Delta Blues band with an abiding passion for Johnny Cash. |
 | Doug Burr - On Promenade | | 10:28am Mon 28 Apr 08 | | Doug Burr is a singer-songwriter in the Springsteen style - songs come out fully formed and ready for some full band attention, but with an intimacy that engages deeply. |
 | The Old Haunts - Poisonous Times | | 10:09am Mon 28 Apr 08 | | Sometimes 'polished' is exactly what you don't want. You want 100 ideas a minute and instruments played honestly, rather than shimmering perfection. |
 | Tapes 'n Tapes - Walk It Off | | 9:40am Mon 28 Apr 08 | | Tapes 'n Tapes became instant US indie darlings with their debut The Loon, a spectacularly off-beat amalgam of rock's take on folk. |
 | The Breeders - Mountain Battles | | 4:52pm Mon 21 Apr 08 | | The Breeders haven't exactly been prolific - just one album since their breakthroughs, Pod and Last Splash (and the phenomenon that was their hit
single, Cannonball), and that was a massive disappointment for everyone who'd built up expectations. |
 | White Rabbits - Fort Nightly | | 4:44pm Mon 21 Apr 08 | | A 6-piece band from Bushwick, New York City, White Rabbits play a new, not-easy-to-pigeonhole music that draws from bands like Cold War Kids, The Walkmen, The Strokes, maybe even the Guillemots. |
 | Jesse Malin - On Your Sleeve | | 4:38pm Mon 21 Apr 08 | | In what must be as bad a misstep as it's possible to take, Jesse Malin follows up his best album with his worst, by a distance only usually
measurable in light years. |
 | Dodos - Visiter | | 10:40am Mon 14 Apr 08 | | Who saw this one coming? An acoustic guitarist and a drummer, playing frenetic, trance-like folk, that is as compelling as any rock. |
 | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | | 10:35am Mon 14 Apr 08 | | Jason Isbell's solo Sirens of the Ditch was a great way to step away from the Drive-By Truckers and extend his Don Henley-esque voice and writing into some solo work. |
 | Centro-matic/ South San Gabriel - Dual Hawks | | 10:22am Mon 14 Apr 08 | | Will Johnson is the singer and songwriter for both of these bands - Centro-matic, a Crazy Horse-The Band style rock 4-piece and South San
Gabriel, a quieter, mellower, folkier outfit. |
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