20 Jan
Turns out Norah Jones packs a sweet and true country twang On the Little Willies’ second album Jones and four buddies remake down-home classics like Willie Nelson’s “Permanently Lonely” and Kris Kristofferson’s title track with offhand assurance like a skilled (but not slick) pickup bar band The lone original “Tommy…

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For the Good Times
Categories: Album Reviews Tags: buddies, buddies-remake, kristofferson, little-willies, lone-original, norah-jones, pickup-bar, second-album, title-track, true-country, willie
18 Jan
In 2008 these kids made the Brooklyn scene with a song that got heavy iPod-commercial rotation (“Bruises”) and an album of spookily sexy PJ Harvey-meets-Eurythmics synth pop they claim was designed for haunted houses Four years later they’ve set aside such Scooby-Doo-ish pretensions and brightened things up embracing the refined…

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Something
18 Jan
In 2008 these kids made the Brooklyn scene with a song that got heavy iPod-commercial rotation (“Bruises”) and an album of spookily sexy PJ Harvey-meets-Eurythmics synth pop they claim was designed for haunted houses Four years later they’ve set aside such Scooby-Doo-ish pretensions and brightened things up embracing the refined…

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18 Jan
“Essential/It’ll never get old” sings Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi That’s the Nineties- nostalgic gospel of this Cleveland band’s second record; it’s not a new idea (cf Yuck Mr Dream) but these guys might have the Clinton-era moves down better than anyone On the murderously slow “No Future/No Past” The Bends…

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Attack on Memory
Categories: Album Reviews Tags: clinton-era, cloud-nothings, dylan, dylan-baldi, future, guys-might, moves-down, murderously, never-get, new-idea, nineties, second-record
18 Jan
“Essential/It’ll never get old” sings Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi That’s the Nineties- nostalgic gospel of this Cleveland band’s second record; it’s not a new idea (cf Yuck Mr Dream) but these guys might have the Clinton-era moves down better than anyone On the murderously slow “No Future/No Past” The Bends…

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Attack on Memory
17 Jan
The world needs more radicals like Ani DiFranco wry sexy as committed to beauty and joy as revolution Her 17th LP is buoyed by communal seas fellow political activists carrying the torch (the New Orleans art-funk update of the folk-standard title track); weed smokers weighing culture hypocrisy (“J”); a homeless…

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Which Side Are You On?
Categories: Album Reviews Tags: carrying-the-torch, communal-seas, folk, more-radicals, orleans, sexy-as-committed, the-folk-standard, title-track, torch, weighing-culture, world-needs, wry-sexy
17 Jan
In the 1990s Guided by Voices were like a mythic one-legged Third World distance runner who miraculously overcomes adversity to win a medal Despite manifest deficits – lousy sound quality half-finished songs titles like “Kicker of Elves” – their albums were tune orgies suggesting Cheap Trick getting Schlitzed in a…

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Let’s Go Eat the Factory
17 Jan
Maybe it’s her recent divorce or maybe it’s her subsequent hook-up with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon but Canadian folkie Kathleen Edwards has given her sound a makeover on her fourth album With Vernon co-producing Edwards augments the coffeehouse sparseness of her writerly earlier albums with shimmery surfaces whoosh-y hovering-spaceship bleeps…

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Voyageur
Categories: Album Reviews Tags: coffeehouse, edwards, fourth, her-fourth, her-recent, her-sound, her-subsequent, kathleen, sound, subsequent, vernon, writerly
13 Jan
While his next official album ripens in the blazing South Florida sunshine Rick Ross has delivered a delicious appetite-whetter Rich Forever is a mixtape that plays like an album with blaring heraldic production by the likes of ?Boi-1da and up-and-comer Beat Billionaire plus guest appearances by Drake Nas and Diddy…

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Rich Forever
13 Jan
While his next official album ripens in the blazing South Florida sunshine Rick Ross has delivered a delicious appetite-whetter Rich Forever is a mixtape that plays like an album with blaring heraldic production by the likes of ?Boi-1da and up-and-comer Beat Billionaire plus guest appearances by Drake Nas and Diddy…

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Rich Forever
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