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True to Form, Brilliantlynew
Centro-matic can make the same record over and
over and never get boring.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
03-31-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Centro-matic, Fort Recovery
Contemporary Antiquariesnew
Kiefer and Kraus are a pair of time-traveling
minstrels. Also reviewed: Liz Durret's The Mezzanine.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
03-27-2006 |
Reviews
Our Wild Americannew
Kris Kristofferson has lived enough for 20 men, and he's not done yet.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
03-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Kris Kristofferson, This Old Road
Eek!new
Amid Eef's gems lie a gaffe or two: one measly voice and one measly acoustic guitar.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
03-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bitter Honey, Eef Barzelay
Beyond His Inner Geeknew
Never before has a Destroyer album sounded
so accessible.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Destroyer, Destroyer's Rubies
Blind Joe Death Livesnew
I Am the Resurrection isn't your typical tribute album.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
02-21-2006 |
Reviews
Guided By Pollardnew
In a parallel reality, the former Guided by Voices frontman is a rock god. Also reviewed: Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3's Tick ... Tick ... Tick.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Salller |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Memphis in Channew
Never before has Chan Marshall sounded more like herself.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Cat Power, The Greatest
Growing Undergroundnew
Springfield's second generation continues to rock for the kids.
Illinois Times |
Marissa Monson |
01-27-2006 |
Music
The Guitar is the Starnew
You can be a hobo, a maestro, or in the case of artists on Imaginational Anthem, a little of both. Also reviewed: Angels of Light & Akron/Family's new split-cd Akron/Family & Angels of Light.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
01-27-2006 |
Reviews
A Prodigy’s Odysseynew
After more than two decades, James "Blood" Ulmer’s Odyssey trio is back.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
01-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Back in Time, Odyssey the Band
King of Countrynew
The man who could have been as big as Johnny Cash finally releases his debut album -- at 80.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
01-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Cast King, Saw Mill Man
Who Says Long-Distance Relationships Never Work?new
Despite being separated by some 8,000 miles, Isobel Campbell, of Glasgow, and Mark Lanegan, of Los Angeles, have brought us Ramblin' Man, a four-song collaboration that wouldn’t have been possible without the Internet.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
01-03-2006 |
Reviews
A Blissful Soundnew
Mi and L'au are an ex-model and a composer/multiinstrumentalist who fell in love in Paris. Between sessions of what was no doubt mutually satisfying and respectful lovemaking, they wrote these 14 spare, gentle, steadfastly pretty songs.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
12-28-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: folk, Mi and L'au
A Godless Liberal Christmasnew
One music reviewer offers Bill O'Reilly the gift of Christmas carols and tries to make peace.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
12-28-2005 |
Reviews
