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»Album Reviews For Release Date: 11.17.09
by Joshua Krage
As I have stated in weeks past, new releases in general usually taper off into the holidays, but not before a few last big name pushes from all the major labels to get you into stores to buy their product. This week is ample evidence of that — [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 11.10.09
by Joshua Krage
This week is evidently the week to release the live footage/tracks from that show you did in London that one time. And if you didn’t play a show in London, just throw together a Best Of from your latest set of albums. Don’t have a latest set of [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 11.03.09
by Joshua Krage, with Glee review by Sereyna Avila
I love it when a plan comes together, especially when it’s a plan that usually fails. Side projects, holiday albums, new LPs from long-running bands — these are a few of my most-dreaded things, but this week finds these things coming up [...]

You could almost call Strict Joy, the new LP from the Swell Season, an album out of time, dwelling in steep ’70s soul while sounding thoroughly modern in production and songcraft.

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 10.27.09
by Joshua Krage
It’s time for candy and costumes, but the only thing scary about this week’s new music is how good some of these albums are, and I’m not saying that for the (candy-)corny joke’s sake. That new Swell Season album is jaw-dropping, the new Tegan and Sara redeems their [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 10.20.09
by Joshua Krage
Looks like release season is slowing down a bit in anticipation of upcoming surefire X-Mas retail sellers, but this week still has some juggernaut-sized new music for your ears to feast upon. I even found a Christmas album that’s not ear-splitting and even manages to make profanity enjoyable. [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 10.13.09
by Joshua Krage
Lots to cover this week, and (un)fortunately many Christmas albums are dotting the landscape (et tu Niel Diamond?), but the real bright spots are from well-established bands and frontmen of bands as well as a famous offspring doing a solid for himself in the mix as well. Dig [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 10.06.09
by Joshua Krage
A friend of mine got into a car accident as I was writing this, so please forgive me if I skipped a few I wanted to review (Lou Barlow, Noah and the Whale, Brandi Carlile, Joe Perry, HORSE the Band, Orenda Fink — my apologies) as I sauntered [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 09.29.09
by Joshua Krage
Lots of great releases this week — some stellar returns, some small disappointments, even some great country albums, but we’ll let other blogs cover those. Meanwhile, dig in, because your autumn season is about to kick off in a rather big way…
AFI, Crash Love – more than matches [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 09.22.09
by Joshua Krage
Well, I’ll say this much: this week could get expensive. Not just for me — for anyone who reads the list this week. Not just a few great bands from a genre or two, but some of the best and well-known artists across the board are releasing some [...]