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Hip, Hip, Hip-Hop

There's three consecutive nights of quality hip-hop going down in Austin this week. Method Man & Redman kick it off tomorrow night in the middle of their cross-country Still High Tour. Both...

"Only A Song":: Ben Sollee and Jim James (My Morning Jacket)

After the the earnest beauty in his last album Learning To Bend (which included that Southern-sweet cover of "A Change Is Gonna Come"), Kentucky's Ben Sollee is back this month with a 2-song EP,...

Roma 79 - Praise the Divide

I wanted to write about Roma 79 and their latest album Praise the Divide earlier this year, but kind of felt like it would be a better idea if I waited until it was actually widely available. ...

[MP3] new Ray LaMontagne: "Sarah"

My ears have been quite akin to the sounds of Ray LaMontagne - ever since his debut Trouble came out of left field and knocked my socks off, it's been extremely hard not to like the musician with a...

Hitch...

I may be behind on this, but as I was cruising around on the good old internet I happened to find out that the Belgium based Hitch are set to release a new album on the 26th of January come next...

Lights Off

Photo by Liam MaloneySay you're a band who's been around a while and whose last album got a good amount of critical and popular acclaim and a nomination for a major music prize in your home country. ...

Melody Day

Photo by Frank YangI'm immensely relieved that Caribou won this year's Polaris Music Prize for last year's Andorra, because if he didn't then I'd have had to find a new post title. Because so...

Happy 20th Birthday, ...And Justice for All

The setting: Southern California, 2001.The characters: Your heroine, Carlie, and her coworker, Jane.The scene: Two librarians are in a car driving from central Orange County to Glendale for a...

Kung Pao...

Following the balls to the wall rock show I saw Wednesday, it left me craving more the next few days. That?s where the now defunct NYC based trio of Kung Pao stepped in and helped satisfy a bit of...

JellyRoll - HOO DEE-A-DA (1999)

Jellyroll's debut album, "Hepcat's Holiday" was a stunner, amidst a glut of swing albums which debuted last year. Hoo-Dee-a-Da is no different. Although a few things have changed since the last album...