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The Diplomats of Solid Sound Featuring the Diplomettes

The Diplomats of Solid Sound Featuring the Diplomettes

(Pravda)   www.pravdarecords.com     Classic instrumental soul will only take you so far. Booker T and the MGs had a big solo hit in "Green Onions," but they probably made thei more...

Murry Hammond

I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I’m On My Way

(Murry Hammond)   www.myspace.com/murryhammond   From the moment Murry Hammond's world-weary drawl joins his faint strumming on his haunting rendition of "What Are They Doing in Hea more...

Nurse With Wound

Huffin' Rag Blues

(Jnana)   www.jnanarecords.com     The curse of any artist that is as prolific as Steve Stapleton, the brain trust behind the ever-evolving group Nurse With Wound, is the lack more...

Uh Huh Her

Common Reaction

(Nettwerk) www.nettwerk.com   Disco's not dead. The sounds of the ‘70s are as engaging as ever.  New wave champs like Blondie, the Motels and Missing Persons left a lingering more...

John Hiatt

Same Old Man

(New West)   www.newwestrecords.com   A songwriter's songwriter has it tough. Once your work has been covered by guys like Dylan and Iggy, and scores more artists, many as luminous more...

Sebadoh

Bubble & Scrape [reissue]

(Domino)   www.dominorecordco.com   Lou Barlow sounds ready to conquer the world in the opening moments of Bubble and Scrape. He also sounds ready to cry, but that's what makes a so more...

Juliana Hatfield

How To Walk Away

(Ye Olde Records)   www.yeolderecords.com   Oh, Juliana, will you ever win? Your baby doesn't love you anymore. He lied and he lied and he lied. And then he lied a little more. And more...

Shock Cinema

Hell and Highwater

(Kanine)   www.kaninerecords.com     "Post-everything"... hmmm. Well, perhaps for once a reviewer's hapless attempt at categorization nailed it. Brooklyn's Shock Cinema - origi more...

Human Highway

Moody Motorcycle

(Suicide Squeeze)   www.suicidesqueeze.net The two opposing forces that comprise Human Highway have an awful lot in common. Jim Guthrie, the lesser-known 50 percent shareholder in the more...

Bombadil

A Buzz, A Buzz

(Ramseur)   www.ramseurrecords.net     Having seen Bombadil live, the band's full-length debut, A Buzz, A Buzz, can't help but disappoint-which is, really, just to say that on more...


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