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• Life After Whiskeytown: Ryan Adams and Caitlin Cary

  by Geoffrey Himes•June 11, 2008•Comments (1)

  It may be true that Adams has more talent. He is able to mimic almost any rock star of the past 40 years—not only as a singer and guitarist but also as a songwriter—and he is astonishingly prolific. He certainly has more charisma. With his tousled hair, leather clothes, legendary drinking bouts, grainy voice, and heavy-lidded insouciance, Adams has impressed (read more)

• Riot on the Road to Ruin: The Ramones vs. The Queers

  by James Greene, Jr.•June 11, 2008•Comments (3)

  The Queers came together at the tail end of that period, forming in scenic Portsmouth, NH. King, the band’s original singer/guitarist, and his pals adopted the dark themes that hung over the earliest ‘Mones material and twisted them into absolutely sick, speedy hardcore blasts. The Ramones wanted to sniff glue; the Queers announced “We’d Have a Riot Doing Heroin.” The Ramones wanted to whack kids (read more)

• Mr. Soul: Neil Young vs. My Morning Jacket’s Jim James

  by Cyrus Philbrick•April 16, 2008•Comments (7)

  James’ voice sounds like Young’s with the rust filtered out. Free of grit, his pipes can reach unearthly pitches that Young’s never could. On Z, My Morning Jacket’s last studio album, James’ voice becomes more of an instrument than ever before, splintering through the subtle harmonies of tracks (read more)

• Wilco: A Ghost is Born

  by David MacFadden-Elliott•April 16, 2008•Comments (7)

  When A Ghost is Born was released, the tendency of critics was, naturally, to compare it to Wilco’s previous effort, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002), the mythic record that was sold twice (read more)

• Alt-Country Queens: Lucinda Williams vs. Kathleen Edwards

  by Greg Gaston•April 2, 2008•Comments (8)

  It’s true that while Lucinda Williams has never officially been crowned the queen of alt-country, she has been comfortably ensconced on that throne for the last decade. But there’s a new contender on the scene these days: Kathleen Edwards. (read more)

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