Toto – Falling In Between (2006) purchase this album You know, I’ve written an awful lot of stuff here over the past few years. Some posts I sweat over and…
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The Subdudes – Behind the Levee (2006)purchase this album You know, I may just do a Subdudes Idiot’s Guide one of these days, so I’m going to hold off on…
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Train – For Me, It’s You (2006)purchase this album Here’s something to make you feel old, Gen Xers: Train scored its first hit, “Meet Virginia,” in 1998. That was eight…
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Richard Ashcroft – Keys to the World (2006) purchase this album Maybe I wasn’t listening to The Verve hard enough, but after “Bittersweet Symphony” came, went, and wound its way…
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Duncan Sheik – White Limousine (2006) purchase this album You know, from “Barely Breathing” on down, I’ve never understood what people hear in Duncan Sheik’s music. It’s pleasant enough, in…
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Morningwood – Morningwood (2006)purchase this album Morning wood — the kind that ZZ Top sang about — is good. Morningwood, the band? Not so much. First, I’ll say something nice…
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Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat (2006) purchase this album I have only a passing familiarity with Rilo Kiley and I’ve never seen The Wizard, so,…
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We Are Scientists – With Love and Squalor (2006)purchase this album Recipe for a Rockin’ Good Time Morning: 1 box donuts 2 cups coffee We Are Scientists’ With Love and…
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Sam Bisbee – Oxygen (2006)purchase this album Things seem to be heating up for Sam Bisbee, which is a good thing: Music this charmingly square doesn’t often bubble up from…
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Hey, any Buffalo Tom fans out there? I’ve never been the most passionate of fans — and my favorite BT album is Big Red Letter Day, which I imagine most…
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Anthony Hamilton – Ain’t Nobody Worryin’ (2005) purchase this album After a long string of nowhere deals and disappointments, Anthony Hamilton has been on a hot streak lately — starting…
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)purchase this album The critical consensus I’m hearing seems to point to this as 2005’s Album of the Year….
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Various Artists – Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast (2005)purchase this albumVarious Artists – Higher Ground Hurricane Benefit Relief Concert (2005)purchase this album Disaster. Relief album….
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Beckley-Lamm-Wilson – Like A Brother (2000) purchase this album One of the commenters on our look at Dennis Wilson’s Bamboo mentioned Beckley-Lamm-Wilson’s Like A Brother, and it got me to…
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The BoDeans – Joe Dirt Car (1995) purchase this album They seemed poised to make the jump on several occasions, but Waukesha’s finest (otherwise known as The BoDeans) never quite…
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Radney Foster – See What You Want to See (1999)purchase this album As the bespectacled half of the late-’80s country duo Foster & Lloyd, Radney Foster was the logical choice…
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Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham – Moments from This Theater (1999) purchase this album Spring, 1999: I’m at Slim’s, in San Francisco, making a rare visit to the city in…
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Tommy Keene – Ten Years After (1996)purchase this album Power pop: It’s a genre close to my heart, and yet one not often discussed here. This is mostly because, as…
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Scott Stapp – The Great Divide (2005)purchase this album Fight Song (download)You Will Soar (download)
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John Mayer Trio – Try! (2005) purchase this album The name “John Mayer” has become synonymous with the sort of lazy, disingenuously sensitive pop that female college freshmen love and…
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Great Big Sea – The Hard and the Easy (2005)purchase this album Given that Great Big Sea’s music is divided between modern pop-folk and traditional songs from their native Newfoundland,…
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Fatlip – The Loneliest Punk (2005)purchase this album I talked a couple of weeks ago about how eagerly I’ve been anticipating this album since hearing “What’s Up Fatlip?” waaaaaaaaayyy back…
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Ralston – Carwreck Conversations (2004)purchase this album This is a debut record? I confess, I’d never heard of Ralston (nee Bowles) prior to him e-mailing me and asking me to…
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My friends, I have been remiss: I received an e-mail a few weeks ago from John Reineck, of the band Soft, asking me to give the band’s new single “Higher”…
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Enya – Amarantine (2005)purchase this album Hey, what do you know? This sounds like Enya. Oh, right, the files: “Less Than A Pearl” (download) and “Sumiregusa” (download).
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Cyndi Lauper – The Body Acoustic (2005)purchase this album Fifteen years ago, if you had told me that the words “Cyndi Lauper” and “critical renaissance” would apply to each other,…
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Les Paul & Friends – American Made World Played (2005)purchase this album The AMG compares this album to Sinatra’s Duets, and that’s fair. All the ingredients are basically the same:…
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Madonna – Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)purchase this album As with the Kate Bush record from last week, I feel the need to start things off with an open,…
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Bettye LaVette – I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise (2005)purchase this album You know, I could have sworn my man Carl over at Cahl’s Jukebox had written a review…
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Josh Rouse – Bedroom Classics, Vol. 2 (2005)purchase this album I’ll be honest — I hated Rouse’s critically lauded debut, 1998’s Dressed Up Like Nebraska. But every time he releases…