Music
Adam’s Attic, Skylines and City Lights (Independent)
Adam’s Attic has mastered the Goo Goo Dolls sound. Unfortunately, they’ve nailed it down at a point when not even the Goo Goo Dolls seem interested in the Goo […]
Otis Taylor, Recapturing the Banjo (Telarc)
If I’d have been drinking milk, I’d have snorted it through my nose when a Telarc PR rep said she hoped that Recapturing the Banjo would do the trick […]
Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes, The Big Awesome (Full Frontal)
Periodically, writers submit reviews lauding an album’s variety, and I always wonder why. Variety seems overrated. What really good restaurant serves a wide variety of food? Who genuinely loves variety […]
Bayou Riders, Volume One (Flight Life)
I really want to recommend this album. “Got Ya Fire” samples “Fire on the Bayou,” the beat for “March Step” comes from the intro to “Brother John,” and it […]
Don Cavalli, Cryland (Everloving)
Cryland is the sort of album that will find a cult—a French singer who has figured out how to make an album that sounds like a lost Fat Possum […]
Shelby Lynne, Just a Little Lovin’ (Lost Highway)
Many cover records seem largely superfluous; Just a Little Lovin’ doesn’t. Country/soul singer Shelby Lynne’s album of Dusty Springfield covers doesn’t make you forget Dusty, and if anything, the […]
Box3, Prototype (Ears & Eyes)
Somewhere, Stanley Crouch’s brain is exploding. If John Coltrane and free jazz represented a repudiation of everything Crouch holds dear, how would he react to Box3 and Beautiful Bells, […]
Lisa Lynn, I’m No Angel (New Orleans Angel)
As the title suggests, I’m No Angel presents Lisa Lynn in the red hot momma tradition. From the album opening “Keep Your Hands Off It” on, almost everything here […]
Slewfoot & Cary B., Louisiana Time (Music Maker)
The strength and weakness of Louisiana Time is that it’s really folk music. In the simplest sense, its instrumentation—acoustic guitar, harmonica, light drums and an emphasis on voices—marks it as […]
Damian Kulash of OK Go and Mark Mullins of Bonerama
A year and a half ago, OK Go was just another power pop band, but then it made a video for “Here It Goes Again” and that changed everything. The […]
