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Dirty Diversion
The label “garage band” may have fallen out of fashion years ago, but that doesn’t mean rockers no longer practice the art.
Though it...
Jason Boland & the Stragglers
Jason Boland & the Stragglers promote themselves as country outlaws, but if their new c.d. is any indication, they might be in a transition...
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....
It’s Hip to Be Square
I love hipsters, I really do. I know I make fun of 'em a lot, saying they're too cool for school, that they're way...
Urizen
Urizen is a local metal quartet, though “metal” may be too limited a word to describe exactly the kind of racket Urizen makes. Their...
Red Scare
The five guys in Red Monroe think of themselves primarily as a live act — they say that onstage is where their bombastic post-punk...
Sunday Drive
Sunday Drive’s Needle/Eye has a solid, guitar-based indie rock vibe, but the Dallas band’s third studio album does generic indie one better by being...
Packing Gatts, Clocking SAT’s
Nerdcore reached its nadir, to use a geeky term, a few years ago, with the debut c.d. from novelty act MC Hawking. The make-believe...
The Evangelicals
Any band that opens an album with a minute-long instrumental prelude of squiggling, squealing synth guitar lines — and calls it “Mouthful of Skeletons”...
