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'Drone Trailer' Is a Welcome Respite From Hippie Clichésnew
MV+EE with the Golden Road's Drone Trailer is a dark record filled with lingering drones, lurking weirdness and a quietude that revels in sparse and blissful isolation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-21-2009 |
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Much of 'iSouljaBoyTellem' Apes Its Predecessornew
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em charms the pants off of you, except when he's annoying the life out of you.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ben Westhoff |
01-21-2009 |
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The Gourds Deliver Their Music From a Ground-Level Perspectivenew
The whores, hitchhikers, metalheads and country gals who populate Haymaker!, the band's ninth studio release, come off unvarnished and real, set to a midtempo twang spiced with accordions, fiddles and piano that never gets ahead of itself.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
David Lee Simmons |
01-21-2009 |
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The Killers Show a Lighter Side on 'Day & Age'new
Brandon Flowers' charm and talent carries The Killers' latest release to success.
Tucson Weekly |
James Hudson |
01-15-2009 |
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Tags: The Killers, Day & Age
Black Light Burns Covers 10 Songs on 'Cover Your Heart'new
Led by Limp Bizkit's former guitarist, Black Light Burns is equally inspired by heavy-handed hard rock, primordial punk, '80s goth and melodic radio pop.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
01-15-2009 |
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Scott Weiland's Latest Album is Only OKnew
As of this writing, Scott Weiland seems to be doing OK. Unfortunately, the same can sort of be said for his new album: It's only OK.
Tucson Weekly |
James Hudson |
01-15-2009 |
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'Mirror' Has Good Stuff, Just Not Enough of Itnew
Kathleen Grace's soprano playfully flirts with and swoops around the melodies on an entirely satisfying, if brief, set of songs.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
01-15-2009 |
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'GhostDeini' Offers an Uneven Ride Through Ghostface Killah's Catalognew
If anyone deserves a greatest hits album, it's Ghostface Killah. Although he has gone from lesser-heralded Wu-Tang Clan member to platinum solo artist to, most recently, a commercially stagnant artist who has broken with Wu leadership, the Staten Island rapper's catalog is remarkably consistent.
Washington City Paper |
Ben Westhoff |
01-15-2009 |
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Nobody Puts the 'Blues' in Rhythm & Blues Like Anthony Hamiltonnew
His fifth studio album, The Point of It All, is arguably his most consistently brilliant work since his debut, Comin' From Where I'm From.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
L. Michael Gipson |
01-14-2009 |
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'We Are Beautiful' is an Infectious Listennew
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed is technically not the sophomore album by Welsh septet Los Campesinos! -- but semantics aside, these 10 tracks are, in many ways, superior to their predecessor.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
01-02-2009 |
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Kevin Costner's Album is Surprisingly Solidnew
Kevin Costner (with ample help from collaborators) has managed to turn out a pretty darn good Americana album. Who knew?
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Lipson |
01-02-2009 |
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'Kind of Blue' Keeps Its Cool at 50
Miles Davis' landmark album Kind of Blue continues to sound fresh after half a century.
Mercury Rev Delivers One of the Year's Most Intriguing Albums
If you played Snowflake Midnight next to one of the band's early-'90s guitar-noise workouts, you'd think the two were recorded centuries apart.
Be Your Own Pet Releases a Miniature Pop-Punk Teen-Girl Party Piece
At three tracks and barely six minutes in length, does this even qualify as an EP? Well, kind of -- the three songs on this, the swan song for the Nashville garage quartet, were removed from the U.S. release of the band's early-2008 Get Awkward disc by Universal lawyers for being "too violent."
The Modern Folk Sounds of Fleet Foxes Are Simply Divine
This reverb-drenched beauty seems to be gunning for the title of coolest record ever to be sold across a Starbucks counter.
