Feature: New Indie CDs

Jon Sobel's reviews of music releases from independent artists and labels, collected and published about twice a month.

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• Music Review: Indie Round-Up - Snider, Tillis, Hammond Jr.

  This CD has transformed me from a lukewarm Todd Snider fan into a big Todd Snider fan.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Apr 13, 2007

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up - Larsen, Heyman, Everybody Else, Assembly, Brooklyn Rep

  Heyman does more things on the drums in two and a half minutes than most drummers do in their band's whole set.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Mar 31, 2007

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up - Lights, Heavies, Seymour, Spanic Boys, Cunniff

  You could look at the whole ten-song, 28-minute opus as one long American Gothic murder ballad.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Mar 15, 2007

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up - Pete Levin, Bloody Hollies, Stepanian

  No car? Rent one and listen to the Bloody Hollies loud in it. The power of Rock commands you.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Mar 02, 2007

• Music Review: JJ Grey and Mofro - Country Ghetto

  It's all there in a plain image and a single insistent riff.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Feb 23, 2007

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up - Charlie Louvin, The Soul of John Black, Ted Russell Kamp

  Time travel is our middle name here at the Indie Round-Up!

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Feb 15, 2007

• Music Review: A Date With John Waters

  Who could possibly want to die for art with all this great music to listen to?

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Feb 08, 2007

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for February 1, 2007 - Kirchen, Jantz, Halter

  Sometimes I'm mad at a CD that disappointed me and I want to yell at it in public.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Feb 02, 2007

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Jan. 11, 2007

  Listening to Tahiti 80 one might think that we don't live in such a troubled world after all.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Jan 11, 2007

• Music Review: Lee "Scratch" Perry - Panic in Babylon

  It wasn't the weed that endowed the now clean-living Lee "Scratch" Perry with his genius.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Dec 30, 2006

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for December 28, 2006 - The Best of 2006

  Hinder: what is that, a butt?

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Dec 29, 2006

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up Focus on Fionn Ò Lochlainn - Spawn of the Beast, and live at Joe's Pub

  Celtic soul, singer-songwriter acoustica, and Frampton-esque rock star magnetism fuse in this artist.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Dec 14, 2006

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Nov. 30 2006 - Burden Brothers, Caddle, D'Haene

  With stellar songwriting, crisp but heavy production, and roadkill vocals, the Burden Brothers prove that rock can still rock.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Nov 30, 2006

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Nov. 16 2006 - Copeland, Wolfkin, Jason Vigil

  On first listen it seems self-conscious, as if the band had deliberately set out to make an Important Record.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Nov 17, 2006

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for November 2, 2006

  It's suburban chill music for the post-American Beauty generation.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Nov 03, 2006

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Oct. 19 2006 - Special Happy Music Edition

  No shoegazers need apply - only happy music reviewed this week.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Oct 20, 2006

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Oct. 5 2006 - Singleton, Knight, Kobo Town

  Knight blasts the unfairness of life through stories of small-town and rural hopes and dashed dreams.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Oct 05, 2006

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Sept. 14 2006 - Special All-Blues Edition

  Abbie Gardner's new roots-blues release is as rich and sweet as the honey in the title.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Sep 14, 2006

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Sept. 7 2006 - Broonzy, Shimabukuro, DiJoseph

  Big Bill had his callused fingers on the pulse of what life was all about.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Sep 08, 2006

• Music Review: Indie Round-Up for August 24 2006 - Bennett, Swann, Angelo

  A sonic and spiritual journey.

  Review by Jon Sobel — on Aug 24, 2006