 Conor Oberst Explores the Outer SouthBy
JBev
What is it these days with songwriting geniuses and their sudden need to delegate? Last year, Rivers Cuomo allowed other members of Weezer writing credits on their most-recent self-titled effort. Now, it’s Conor Oberst’s turn.  Bill Callahan’s Second Solo OfferingBy
Dryw Keltz
What sets Callahan’s music, including the fare on his latest record, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle, apart from the masses is the vocals. The fact that Callahan cannot sing well is what actually makes him interesting.  Maximum R&B Live: Thirty Years of Legendary Live WhoBy
Dryw Keltz
Maximum R&B Live gets a deluxe reissue treatment featuring 2 DVDs chock full of legendary live Who.  Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is so YesterdayBy
Brian Castleberry
With Tonight: Franz Ferdinand the band sounds so Franz Ferdinand-y that the songs sound as if they may already be part of our collective memories, tunes from the summer of 2005 that made chicks get up and dance at an otherwise dull bar.  Volcano Suns Erupt Once MoreBy
Dryw Keltz
Two albums by underground rockers, Volcano Suns, see the light of day on CD for the first time ever.  Springsteen’s New DreamBy
JBev
We’ve come to rely on Bruce Springsteen so much for his meditations on the state of the world as seen through the eyes of the hardscrabble characters in his songs that it’s quite a shock that his new album sounds so happy.  The Bird and The Bee in Outerspace: Rayguns Are Not Just the FutureBy
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In the eclectic world of indie pop music, there’s nothing particularly new in the idea of mining historical periods of music for inspiration. But L.A. duo The Bird and the Bee have taken this notion to an extreme with Rayguns Are Not Just the Future a love letter to the kitsch-pop of the mainstream ‘60s.  Former Jayhawks Mark Olson and Gary Louris Reunite with Ready for the FloodBy
JBev
Time erodes most things, but the chemistry between two songwriters is usually impervious to even a large span of years gone by. That maxim proves true in the case of Mark Olson and Gary Louris, the two leading lights of the Jayhawks who recently reunited to record Ready for the Flood. |
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