Mike Marshall & Darol Anger with Väsen
There is as much yearning as there is unmistakable joy in the instrumental, pragmatically if unimaginatively named Mike Marshall & Darol Anger with Väsen.
The...
Kate Campbell with Spooner Oldham
On For the Living of These Days, Kate Campbell sings slow, contemplative songs of hope in troubled times and of a sort of populist...
The Burden Brothers
No reason to describe this one in faux-poetic terms or edu-ma-cational journalism. The Burden Brothers’ new album Mercy rocks your backside about 75 percent...
The Damnwells
The Damnwells have come a long way since recording their debut c.d., the stripped-down Bastards of the Beat, in a mini-storage unit in Manhattan....
Raul Malo
Raul Malo, mostly known as lead singer of the Grammy-winning country band The Mavericks, has a pleading, dramatic vibrato that sounds somewhat like Roy...
Gunslingers
No More Invention(World In Sound)
By Ken Shimamoto
When this debut disc by a trio from the unlikely birthplace of San Pedro, France, arrived in a...
Dennis Gonzalez & Azar Lawrence
Who on earth would dare to launch a jazz record label in 2008? We've come a long way from the days when an upstartindie...
Nels Cline, Alex Cline
Guitarist Nels Cline makes music in a mind-boggling variety of contexts: from relatively mainstream artsy roots-rock with Wilco, to experimental skronk-skree in variously sized...
BeauSoleil Alligator Purse (YepRoc Records)
Cajun music is spirited, social, soulful stuff filled with fiddles, accordions, washboards, guitars, bass, drums, and other percussion. People party to the music. And...
The Clientele
“Nothing here has any value — nothing here is real,” croon the folks of The Clientele on the opening track of their new album,...
