PeteYorn

Essential New Music: Pete Yorn’s “ArrangingTime”

If there's a code for frontal-lobe permeating infectious melodies under the guise of indie pop/rock, Pete Yorn has cracked it.
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ThroughTheSparks

Essential New Music: Through The Sparks’ “Transindifference”

Birmingham, Ala., indie psych/folk mainstays Through The Sparks are anything but predictable. Tapping a vein equal parts New Order to
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WacoBrothers

Essential New Music: Waco Brothers’ “Going Down In History”

To amass 20 years in one cauldron or genre in this fickle mess of a music business deserves high praise
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Essential New Music: Lee Hazlewood's "The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood," "Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause And Cure" And "Something Special"

Essential New Music: Lee Hazlewood’s “The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood,” “Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause And Cure” And “Something Special”

There’s something unearthly cool about a Lee Hazlewood record—the “Hillbilly Shakespeare” and his cosmic twang were audio dynamite when coupled
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Essential New Music: Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets' "The Quality Holiday Revue Live"

Essential New Music: Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets’ “The Quality Holiday Revue Live”

"Cooler than a polar bear’s toenails” is the latest offering of legendary Rockpile-er, Nick Lowe, and his merry bunch of
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WillJohnson

Essential New Music: Will Johnson’s “Swan City Vampires”

Will Johnson’s bottomless well of quality songcraft has obviously not hit a lull since the demise of his quintessential guitar-rock
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Supersuckers

Essential New Music: Supersuckers’ “Holdin’ The Bag”

Eternal rabble-rouser Eddie Spaghetti and Co. return with another helping of shit-kicker power country in the vein of 1997’s Must’ve
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