End result: subtle, 21st-century eclectic-pop gold.
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CD Review: Jessi Colter, Out of the Ashes
There's nothing new under the sun, but the sun should shine brightly on Jessi Colter's comeback.
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"Yea" is a headbanger's delight that Beavis and Butthead would surely have labeled cool.
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A one-man play about a porn addict that's both heartily funny and genuinely touching.
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This story isn't about existential angst or alienation - except from the truth.
Read More »Indie Round-Up for Jan 26 2006: Lee Rocker, Sarah Woolf
A plain old rockin' good time is had by all.
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Rosanne Cash's honeyed, heartbreaking alto can loosen up even a room full of jaded music-industry insiders.
Read More »Indie Round-Up for Jan 12 2006: Fern Jones, Bradley Leighton
Wherever Sister Fern is now, she's got absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.
Read More »Indie Round-Up for Dec 29 2005: Brianna Lane, Mark Tolstrup, Best of 2005
Another grown-up woman singing in a little-girl voice about her dreams and disappointments: sounds pretty bleak, I know.
Read More »Another Preordained Dollar-Coin Failure?
As with more urgent matters like health care and global warming, the US has been and remains well behind the times in pocket-change convenience.
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