AltWeeklies Wire
Orquesta GarDel's Lo Que Tú Queríasnew
GarDel's debut EP is a tapas-size dish heaped with homemade salsa that should appease appetites hungry for a high quality, first-rate studio recording of original Latin music made in North Carolina.
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David Banner & 9th Wonder's Death of a Pop Starnew
On Death of a Pop Star, Banner finally forgoes ignorant trunk rattlers to focus solely on poignant, politically loaded raps.
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Rapsody's Return of the B-Girlnew
B-Girl continues Rapsody's ascension toward the level of even her most prominent collaborators, male and female.
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Transportation's Amusement Parknew
There's nothing wrong with being out of step with the masses when you're dancing this well to your own beat.
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Megafaun's Heretoforenew
In fact, Heretofore is no mini-album. It's a real step in Megafaun's career, full, as always, with modest motion.
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The Foreign Exchange Continues Its Unmitigated Risks on Authenticitynew
The new album from Phonte Coleman and Nicolay Rook is an often desperate, desolate album, complete with a country-and-western duet.
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Double Negative's Daydream Nationnew
Double Negative's not just keeping up with the hardcore kids; they're lapping the field.
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Greg Humphreys' Realign Your Mindnew
For his second solo album, the lead soul man of Hobex and Dillon Fence delivers an intimate set of songs shadowed in twilight.
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Filthybird Finally Flies--In Music and In Lovenew
Songs for Other People, Filthybird's second album, is an arduously made, exquisitely written record.
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Gray Young's staysailnew
To Gray Young's credit, the group doesn't settle for making the same record twice.
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North Elementary: Southern Rescue Trailsnew
On their second LP in as many years, North Elementary by turns yearns with awe toward boundless possibilities and bemoans the vexation of not fulfilling that potential.
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James Dunn's The Bed We Madenew
With this third release, James Dunn finds himself between rock and a chart place.
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The Small Ponds' Caitlin Cary & Matt Douglas Are The Small Pondsnew
Caitlin Cary could start a goddamn grindcore band and she'd still be tagged popularly as an alt-country siren.
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Superchunk Reinforces Its Legacynew
Superchunk's ninth album, and first in nine years, doesn't reinvent the band but instead simply finds them doing what they do best, better than they've done it in more than a decade.
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The Moaners' Nocturnalnew
On Nocturnal, The Moaners' third and most varied album, Melissa Swingle and Laura King preside over a set of songs as idiosyncratic as their frontwoman's delivery.
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