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  • The Jayhawks: Sound of Lies

    by Ben WesthoffJuly 16, 2008Comments (7)

    The album is pure ’70s rock radio excess, dominated by long, psychedelic-flavored electric guitar solos. The Gram Parsons influence and the bare vocal harmonies are gone (read more)

  • Life After Whiskeytown: Ryan Adams and Caitlin Cary

    by Geoffrey HimesJune 11, 2008Comments (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)

  • Hüsker Dü and the Replacements: Euphoric… Urgent... Raucous... Drunk

    by Andy GillMay 7, 2008Comments (1)

    Originally published in  Q , August 1987 Minneapolis: It must be something they put in the water. As well as dominating the post-Thriller black pop market—via Prince and his acolytes (Sheila E, Appollonia Six, the Time, Jill Jones, Madhouse) and the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis production stable (read more)

  • Who’s Commercial Now? Radio Sucks.

    by Andy VietzJanuary 16, 2008Comments (2)

    I was doing a little shopping recently and was astonished to find myself whistling along to Yo La Tengo's "My Little Corner of the World" at a Kohl's in Augusta, Maine. The amazing part was that it wasn't in my head—it was being broadcast over everyone's head on the store's sound system. (read more)

  • Rocket From the Tombs

    by James Greene, Jr.January 16, 2008Comments (2)

    For years, Cleveland's Rocket From the Tombs was relegated to the very sarcophagus their name suggested. With no official release to their name, they existed only in the recessed minds of grizzly rocker dudes from the Midwest and on maybe a handful of shoddy bootleg tapes. (read more)

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