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»Album Reviews: The Oops-We-Took-A-Vacation-But-Now-We’re-Back Rundown
by Joshua Krage
Here’s the best stuff from the past four weeks, some reviewed and some merely mentioned, but all noteworthy. Enjoy:
7/20:
Big Head Todd
The Books
Marc Cohn
Sheryl Crow
Brian Culbertson
Ry Cuming
Frazey Ford, Obadiah – 1/3 of the Be Good Tanyas
David Garrett, Rock Symphonies – new-school classical violinist who’s fashioned a bit of a rock [...]

»Album Reviews For Release Date: 03.23.10
by Joshua Krage
Great vocal variety and some amazing production work are high points on this week’s list, from Inara George’s calming coo to Serena Maneesh’s walls of guitar haze, from Love Is All’s Josephine Olausson testing your stereo’s trampoline integrity to Zooey & Matt’s sunny-stroll sequel. Lots of goodness to cover [...]

»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: 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 [...]

»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 — [...]