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Torche: 'Harmonicraft'new
Torche's newest brings their mastery of incredibly catchy, poppy, heavy rock into new realms of melody and tight songwriting.
San Antonio Current |
James Woodard |
05-10-2012 |
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Last Call Brawlers: The Pressures of Living, The Darkness of Dyingnew
The Brawlers have been around since 1999, and their latest album shows the band's meld of rockabilly, punk and surf music at its most seamless. The local quartet keeps things simple and direct, always opting for heart and guts rather than elaboration...
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
05-08-2012 |
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Norah Jones: 'Little Broken Hearts'new
Norah Jones has tried branching outside the pop-jazz that made her so very successful a decade ago before, calling on the likes of Dolly Parton, Ryan Adams, and key pieces of Tom Waits' crew...
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-08-2012 |
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The Dandy Warhols: 'This Machine'new
By all logical accounts, the Dandy Warhols shouldn't still exist.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-08-2012 |
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LaJIT: 'Black Sun'new
LaJIT is John Isaac Torres, a 21-year-old SA resident who spent his high school years on fixed income living with with an alcoholic uncle after his parents divorced.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
05-02-2012 |
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Jack White: 'Blunderbuss'new
For those who think of Jack White as a rock god turned eccentric music mogul peddling odd (and awful) one-off collaborative singles from a gaudy yellow taco truck, this album might come as a bit of a surprise.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
05-02-2012 |
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Morrissey: Viva Hatenew
Morrissey is the only standing member of the old UK guard who has yet to be reduced to preposterous self-caricature.
East Bay Express |
M.T. Richards |
04-20-2012 |
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Lightships: Electric Cablesnew
Electric Cables, the debut album by Teenage Fanclub's Gerard Love (under the Lightships moniker), is as bright and breezy as a summer day. That's in keeping with Love's past in C86-style bedroom pop, most recently his contributions to 2010's Shadows.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
04-20-2012 |
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The Grasshopper Lies Heavy/God Townes: 'In Love'new
Record Store Day was made for releases like this: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy (the name is a reference to Philip K. Dick’s classic novel The Man In The High Castle, by way of the Bible) and God Townes.
San Antonio Current |
Leonard Pierce |
04-20-2012 |
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Zambri: House of Baasanew
The Zambri sisters' voices recall Siouxsie Sioux, almost to distraction. Part of House of Baasa's dark frisson comes from how it carries on Sioux's particular legacy, though it has less of the murky pulse of Kaleidoscope's "Christine" (though the Baasa song "Hundred Hearts" comes closest to that kind of minimalism, while cheekily suggesting the main riff to Berlin's "Take My Breath Away") and more of the symphonic clutter of Superstition's "Kiss Them for Me."...
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
04-20-2012 |
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Héctor Lavoe: 'Anthology'new
Fania, the legendary salsa label, is often compared to Motown. Both companies spearheaded musical movements during the '60s and '70s. Both groomed a stellar roster of artists who yielded hit after hit.
San Antonio Current |
Agustín Gurza |
04-20-2012 |
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Andrew Bird: Break It Yourselfnew
"This peculiar incantation, I'm sure you've heard it before," Andrew Bird sings on "Desperation Breeds ...," the first song on Break It Yourself, his sixth solo album. As an introduction to the album, it's an interesting notion, both true and sort of false...
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
04-20-2012 |
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The Shins: 'Port of Morrow'new
Port of Morrow is a bit of a conundrum. On some levels, it represents a sea change for the band, perhaps appropriate given that “the Shins” is now nothing more than James Mercer and a bunch of other guys.
San Antonio Current |
Nicholas Hall |
04-20-2012 |
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters: 'The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook'new
Since pigeon-walking his way onto the 1977 charts, Elvis Costello has amassed a huge catalog of classic pop songs and genre experiments.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
04-13-2012 |
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Esperanza Spalding: 'Radio Music Society'new
Esperanza Spalding is jazz's first bona fide star in decades. Understandably so: she's attractive, immensely talented, and plays an instrument bigger than she is.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
04-13-2012 |
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