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Bart Davenport

Palaces

        www.antennafarmrecords.com     Bart Davenport, on his fourth solo album Palaces, shows great facility in writing catchy, literate pop songs in different more...

Dead Confederate

Wrecking Ball

          www.razorandtie.com   Rising from Athens, GA, Dead Confederate retain hints of Southern rock, but where that genre can be predictable this cranks a lef more...

Break and Repair Method

Milk the Bee

          www.bluhammock.com     While Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas has obviously been the one to profit the most from the band's rapid rise to stard more...

Elvin Bishop

The Blues Roll On

        www.deltagroovemusic.com The Olympics' "It Will Stand," Chuck Berry's "Rock And Roll Music," AC DC's "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n' Roll) more...

Mike Gordon

The Green Sparrow

(Rounder)   www.rounder.com       Phish fans: If you ever feel homesick and lonely, throw bassist Mike Gordon's new album on and relax. You'll be back in the good ‘ more...

Charlie Pickett

Bar Band Americanus

(Bloodshot)   www.bloodshotrecords.com   After spending the better part of the eighties touring behind much loved, but poor selling records, Charlie Pickett followed the same path a more...

Clash

Live at Shea Stadium

(Epic/Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com   At this point in time it's probably pointless to restate the Clash's enormous legacy and influence upon modern music. I mean, hell - they'r more...

Giant Sand

proVISIONS

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   Howe Gelb's universe can seem like a forbidding place. Musical footholds we normally take for granted - metronomic tempos, recognizable hooks, sing-alon more...

Sunfold

Toy Tugboats

(Terpsikhore)   www.terpsikhore.com North Carolina's Annuals' 2006 debut Be He Me called on the hip indie touchstones of the moment: its baroque flourishes and rocking climaxes merite more...

David Gilmour

Live In Gdansk

(Columbia)   www.columbiarecords.com     Its unfortunate sidebar aside - the fact that this may be Richard Wright's swansong as far as live recordings are concerned - Live In G more...


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