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»Album Reviews For Release Date: 03.09.10
by Joshua Krage
Experimentation is the key word for this week’s cream of the crop, from producers known for flipping conventional ideas on their ear, to mainstream savants with a jones for genre-splicing, to established artists finding renewed rock-and-roll vigor, to newly unearthed material from one of music’s most incendiary innovators. [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 03.02.10
by Joshua Krage
Not an Olympic-sized week on the new music front, but at least we’ve got variety, from pianos to synths to white rabbits, mad hatters and monkeys. Read on and find out how far down the rabbit hole goes…
Athlete
A Weather
Citizen Cope
Jamie Cullum, The Pursuit – already out in the [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 02.23.10
by Joshua Krage
Don’t know if you’ve been watching the winter Olympics, but Canada’s got a lot more going on than just hockey and combined Super-G. In addition to a stellar Great White Northern rapper, there’s a list of genres among this week’s releases which is as diverse as any Olympic [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 02.16.10
by Joshua Krage
A healthy amount of world beat colors spring forth from the speakers this week as America, Africa and the U.K. further their global cultural exchange program, bartering over indigenous sounds and music buzz in abundance for some varying and surprisingly robust combinations of genres. Luckily, most of these releases [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 02.09.10
by Joshua Krage
Hoo baby, we got some contenders out this week. Lots of blog buzz and indie underground fandom surrounding a few of this week’s releases and deservedly so for all of them (not something you can say very often). If this is only the fifth week of the year [...]

»Album Reviews: Precap 2010
by Joshua Krage
So as you may have surmised, the Album Review department pretty much took the month of January off, part for vacation, part for the traditional post-Xmas lack of music news. Don’t think, however, that we haven’t been keeping an eye on the store — we’ve still got plenty of that new [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 1215.09-01.10
by Joshua Krage
OK I’ll admit it: I’m ready for a vacation. For some reason, even with all the familial warmth, excess foodage and generally convivial sense of joy in the air, the holidays just suck the energy out of me. Luckily, they suck the names off the new release roster [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 12.08.09
by Joshua Krage
Still rather lean but at least this week has enough releases in it to warrant writing something. Stay tuned for a year-end recap later in the month (week?), but for now enjoy most of the rest of what 2009’s new music has to offer:
30 Seconds to Mars, This [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 12.01.09
by Joshua Krage
Loooots of Latin releases this week, so si te gusta tu musica en español, ieste es la semana ultima! However if you don’t, you’re pretty much out of luck, as the biggest competition is R. Kelly and The Bravery squaring off against… Alvin & the Chipmunks. My advice [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 11.24.09
by Joshua Krage
It happened earlier than usual this year: all the indie record labels have evidently packed it up for the holidays and scampered out of the way of the onslaught of major-label cash-grab stocking stuffer fare. An American Idol icon, a Disney soundtrack, a group of well-marketed priests, and [...]