Black Gives Way To Blue is Alice In Chains’ first full-length album of new material since their self-titled 1995 release.  It is also the first release with new front man William Duval, who steps into the daunting role of filling in for his late predecessor, Layne Staley.  For these two...

Wesley Eisold is a mainstay of Philadelphia’s alternative music scene, with Cold Cave being the latest of his string of concept bands. LOVE COMES CLOSE is Cold Cave’s sophomore release, the follow-up to the long play COMA POTION and the limited edition 7” single “Sex Ads.” The lineup of Cold...

Once again Gettoness is back on the scene with a new album straight out of the “frontera mas peligrosa”.  With Tiempoz Destruidoz, only their second album to date, Xemt and Sain haven’t tinkered one bit with what made them successful the first go round, and instead have stepped it up...

You have heard Guy Clark’s music, even if his name might not be entirely familiar to you. While Clark has released over twenty albums, or projects, or CDs, or whatever (he has been at this for a while), his primary success has come from his work being interpreted by others,...

Los Lonely Boys, if you did not know, are a trio comprised of brothers Henry, Jojo and Ringo (guess which one plays drums?) Garza. They play a familiar brand of Texas rock in the Doug Sahm vein, which they have dubbed, accurately enough, as Texican, pleasant if not stirring, combining...

Well. Canadian Michael Bublé has done it again. This past October, Bublé released his first album in two-and-half years…and his music is better than ever. Crazy Love features thirteen tracks – eleven of our favorite jazz and big band songs and two of Bublé’s originals, titled Haven’t Met You Yet...

The title of the new Mission of Burma project pretty much says it all. THE SOUND THE SPEED THE LIGHT is what Mission of Burma has been all about since their 1979 creation. As with a number of bands I could name, they became legendary over a relatively short four...

Spiral Stairs is Scott Kannberg and a bunch of friends. Kannberg, you might recall, is one of the guiding lights of Pavement, and THE REAL FEEL under the Spiral Stairs is his first proper solo project following the Preston School of Industry works. I wasn’t entirely clear on what to...

Your collection of music is not complete without at least one project by the Squirrel Nut Zippers. It is easier, probably, to oversimplify what they do than to properly describe it. Listening to one of their songs puts one in the mind of entering a smoky speakeasy in the 1920s,...

Everything old seems new again. The xx, a Southwest London quartet with a debut release of the same name, sounds a bit like early Echo & The Bunnymen, possibly, only more organized, and more restrained, and yeah, better. What I like about this group is their minimalist approach to everything....