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Bunbury: Licenciado Cantinasnew
The seventh solo album by Spain's Enrique Bunbury (former leader of Héroes del Silencio, a metal-Celtic band that sold millions throughout Europe and Latin America in the '90s) continues Bunbury's effort to turn himself into a "serious" singer-songwriter.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-30-2011 |
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Radiohead: The Daily Mail/Staircasenew
Whether or not you were on board with The King of Limbs' obtuse, electro-organic sound, there's one thing pretty much any Radiohead fan can agree on: At just eight tracks that clock in under 38 minutes, it's too damn short.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
12-30-2011 |
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Ray Charles: Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singlesnew
Even though his most influential and celebrated work was recorded for Atlantic a decade earlier, Ray Charles' tenure with ABC Records in the 1960s and early '70s yielded some terrific material
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
12-30-2011 |
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Imminent Descentnew
The thrash-death outfit Imminent Descent, San Antonio's latest attempt to recapture the glory of its mid-'80s metal scene, makes no bones about the oldness of its school.
San Antonio Current |
Gonzalo Pozo |
12-23-2011 |
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Their Last Time Outnew
If you know only one jazz song, chances are it's by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. That tune, 1959's "Take Five," along with a string of successful subsequent releases, made Brubeck and his band the most well-known and successful jazz band of the '60s.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
12-22-2011 |
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Charlotte Gainsbourg: Stage Whispernew
If there's a group more likely to make terrible records than the offspring of rock stars, it's actors. Charlotte Gainsbourg just so happens to fall into both categories.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
12-22-2011 |
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The Roots: Undunnew
The Roots have delivered increasingly poignant and thematically focused records on life's trials. undun, their 13th album, is their most emotive, urgent, and (at less than 40 minutes) brief work.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-22-2011 |
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Live & Local: Mitch Webb and the Swindlesnew
Midway through Mitch Webb's set at Salute, a guy opened the door, took a quick look inside, grabbed his head in amazement, and left. I couldn't hear what he said, but I could read his lips: "Damn!"
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-08-2011 |
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Trip the Light: Fantastic EPnew
This album is further proof that we live in a time when all genres bleed, where the experimental indie rock of Panda Bear heavily borrows the music theory of '90s trance, two styles once thought to be in different hemispheres.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-08-2011 |
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Maria Rita: Elonew
Four-time Latin Grammy winner Maria Rita is not only the daughter of the late Elis Regina (arguably Brazil's greatest singer ever) and legendary pianist/composer Cesar Camargo Mariano — she's a star on her own, and deservedly so.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-08-2011 |
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The Black Keys: El Caminonew
Have the Black Keys been making the same record for the last 10 years?
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
12-08-2011 |
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Mickey Moonlight: And The Time Axis Manipulation Corporationnew
This album is branded as the score for your favorite college parties.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-08-2011 |
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Pillow Talk: Faux Furnew
There's no shortage of country/Americana acts coming out of Saytown, with a few trying to appropriate the indie label to cut away from the pack.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-02-2011 |
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A Very Latin Christmasnew
Those who know me know that I'm no Christmas person. So when Henry Brun gave me his own Christmas album to review, I smiled politely and thought to myself, "Crap."
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-02-2011 |
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Supervielle: Rêverienew
Luciano Supervielle's second solo album, Rêverie, brilliantly sequences live and studio recordings to spin a concert that is almost symphonic in scope, but the French-Uruguayan composer (and keyboardist for Bajofondo) draws his tonal pictures from a small group of instrumentalists who speak jazz, tango, and rock fluently with the sweet accents of the Río de la Plata.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-02-2011 |
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