The Hold Steady – Girls Like Status (Boys and Girls In America)
My current favorite professional bar band.
The Kooks – Ooh La (Inside In ? Inside Out)
Debut cd reached number two in the UK and the band were delighted to win the Best Newcomer prize at the recent MTV European Music Awards.
Starflyer 59 – Nice Guy (My Island)
A California Band together since 1993. This is their 12th cd and when I say They I mean the touring band as Jason Martin does all the writing and most of the playing of instruments.
Slumber Party – Late Nite (Musik)
4th cd for this all girl band from Detroit. And to be very cheesey there is more Party and less Slumber on this cd then in their cds in the past. There is a bit of Elastica in them now.
Damien Rice – Creep (Radiohead cover)
Tom Waits – Rains On Me (Orphans)
Orphans is that rarity of an album: one that will satisfy hardcore fans as well as the uninitiated. Everything that you love about Tom Waits is in this box set. And a must get holiday gift for the music lover on your list.
Eric Bachmann- the Lying Lairs (To the Races)
Former front man of Crooked Finger goes Self-recorded, Nebraska-style, in a hotel room on the North Carolina coastline, To The Races more often evokes Iron & Wine than Springsteen
Pete Yorn – Maybe I’m Right (Nightcrawler)
Like most artist there are bunch of songs that didn’t make the record… Well there's a batch of them that have become a six song EP called Westerns which are kind of more country leaning songs that I was exploring during the period over the last three years. And there's another batch that is ten songs that is another record that is not released yet that I'm just putting together that is kind of a concept record that is based on a character from a movie that I like a lot.
Matthew Ryan – Everybody Always Leaves (From a Late Night High Rise)
Given that Ryan began writing the album shortly after the death of a close friend and the sentencing of his brother to 30 years in prison, the sorrowful tone of the album comes as no surprise...not to worry though as the lyrics do include hope as a main feature. The best songs are the subdued uptempo ones.
Rocco DeLuca and the Burden – Swing Low (I Trust You to Kill Me)
More than just a cool name. They sound kind of like Physical Graffiti to sound like if Jeff Buckley recorded it. The first band to be signed onto Kiefer Sutherland's back-to-basics Ironworks records
Duels – Potential Futures (The Bright Lights and What I should Have Learned)
Duels' greatest strength lies is in creating big, synth rockers that make you want to jump around you living room, provided no-one is watching, of course. Good not great and hopefully a stepping stone to that great album. This song was there first single but they re-recorded it for this album.
The Decemberists – Summersong (The Crane Wife)
As far as full albums go front to back this may be their best. Strangely as far as songs go they have done so much better. If this major label release has done nothing but get you to listen to their back catalogue then the job was done and done well. Oh and this cd is in my top ten.
More Later
Bro
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