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Music Review: Roxanne Potvin – The Way It Feels
the throaty delivery of a cabaret singer and can play a pretty mean Telecaster.
Read More »Music Review: Barrelhouse Buck McFarland – Alton Blues
When I listened to Barrelhouse Buck McFarland it felt like I was finally hearing Blues piano played like it was supposed to be played.
Read More »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.
Read More »The Listening Room March 5, 2007: Jarvis Cocker, Josh Groban, Mike Keneally, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Nick Lowe
A political manifesto from Jarvis Cocker, guilty pleasures, and more in this week's Listening Room...
Read More »Music Review: JJ Grey and Mofro – Country Ghetto
It's all there in a plain image and a single insistent riff.
Read More »Music Review: Corey Stevens – Albertville
Corey Stevens may be a guitar player, but he's a musician first.
Read More »Music Review: Clarence Williams Jug & Washboard Bands Whoop It Up Volume 1 1927 – 1929
Williams was a musician, producer, entrepreneur, performer, agent, and a little leery of the truth.
Read More »Elliott Smith Rarities Set, New Moon, to be Released May 8
The second posthumous release from the talented singer/songwriter will be a collection of rarities from 1995-97.
Read More »Concert Review: Pete Yorn at the Showbox in Seattle, WA – 02/10/07
Pete Yorn's sold out, theatre-sized show for the "Morning, Day & Night" tour crackled with an arena-sized professionalism.
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