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Shelby Lynne gets naked on Revelation Roadnew
Shelby Lynne doesn't care about image or marketing. She will drop an emphatic F-bomb while making a point, or perhaps note her feature in High Times.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
01-27-2012 |
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Francis Andreu: Francisnew
It's hard to argue that Uruguayan Francis Andreu is the best modern tango vocalist since the advent of Argentina's Adriana Varela and Cristóbal Repetto.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopeteguin |
01-26-2012 |
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Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylannew
Chimes, Amnesty International's bake-sale, gives 75 insanely varied artists the chance to play Dylan for a day.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
01-26-2012 |
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Prurient: Annihilationistnew
No one can ever accuse Prurient's Dominick Fernow of being a slacker. Last year, he released two "proper" albums, toured with Cold Cave, and cryptically released/rereleased a smattering of tape/digital offerings.
San Antonio Current |
Marcus Rubio |
01-26-2012 |
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Alex Chilton: Free Again: The "1970" Sessionsnew
In 1970, Alex Chilton was about to maneuver a truly remarkable rock 'n' roll reinvention: from voice of blue-eyed soul act the Box Tops to mastermind of pop-rock pioneers Big Star.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
01-26-2012 |
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MarchFourth Marching Band: Magnificent Beastnew
Is there not something sublime about the best marching bands? Without irony, they deliver joyful melodies, inventive charts and the natural power of amassed brass—and for the last decade or so, Portland, Ore.'s MarchFourth Marching Band has taken the marching-band format in exciting new directions...
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
01-19-2012 |
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The Little Willies: For the Good Timesnew
The second album by Norah Jones' twangy side project formed in 2003 bears all the markings of a full-time artist playing around with part-time sounds.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
01-19-2012 |
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Hank Jones and Charlie Haden: Come Sundaynew
When Hank Jones passed in May of 2010, he left behind a truly stunning legacy secured over seven decades as one of jazz's premier pianists playing alongside the likes of Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, and Ella Fitzgerald.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
01-19-2012 |
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The Big Pink: Future Thisnew
Expectations are tricky things. Follow too closely and you're boring, not at all and you'll alienate your audience.
San Antonio Current |
Nicholas Hall |
01-19-2012 |
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Gauchistenew
Well, ain't this a great way to get the new year started?
San Antonio Current |
Gonzalo E. Pozo |
01-19-2012 |
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'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'new
Some scenes are moving, others mawkish, but director Stephen Daldry's ham-handed exploitation of the falling of the Twin Towers poisons the whole enterprise.
Bombay Bicycle Club: A Different Kind of Fixnew
North London's Bombay Bicycle Club is like that kid in class who makes it all too easy to pick on him. Rarely do American bands get away with the sort of precious, earnest and affected evocation found on BBC's third studio album, A Different Kind of Fix.
Tucson Weekly |
Mike Prevatt |
01-13-2012 |
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Tags: Bombay Bicycle Club
White Cascade's EP2new
Raleigh trio White Cascade is following that painful rule of creativity—cheerily discarding the past to try something new.
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Monoslangnew
With the addition of vocalist Lesley Pond, Raleigh's Monoslang slides from pop-structured post-rock into trip-hop territory.
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Common: The Dreamer, The Believernew
Common has always walked a tightrope. His "I Used to Love H.E.R." is a love song (a rap rarity in '94) that charted his love's spiritual and moral decline (his betrothed being the genre, not a woman).
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-11-2012 |
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