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How can you go past a band that has song titles like “Home as a Romanticized Concept Where Everyone Loves You Always and Forever” or “A Sad Country Ballad for a Tired Superhero” and “In the Battle of Sun Vs. Curtains Sun Wins and We Sleep Until Noon” (and no I am not making this [...]

Alias is Brendon Whitney,  and Well Water Black is an awesome amalgm of drum machine beat wrangling, real drums and some really captivating vocals. I could probably do with out the rap but it does work as does the bits of guitar that litter this track. Dont get me wrong this is seriously well crafted [...]

Fruit Bats is Eric Johnson and a revolving door joblot of musicians. Sadly the band is currently paused while Eric pursues fame, fortune and the rock and roll dream with “The Shins”. Fruit Bats fired up in the late Nineties as a side project (that’s musician talk for stuff that you want to do but [...]

I haven’t really managed to engage with The Secret Machines’ previous two albums, my problem rather than theirs. But their new one is a ripper. Head over to www.myspace.com/secretmachines and click on “Now You’re Gone”. Damn this is a good song full of hypnotics background textures and sounds, a really infectious chorus and some of [...]

Time for another rock band, a loud, passionate, loud, guitarcentric, loud rock band. Gotta love it. The odd three part harmony is just icing on the cake. Now this is where you head to “Slaves To Gravity” website at www.myspace.com/slavestogravityofficial and press play on “Mr Regulator”. This is state of the art hard rock, tight [...]

“Computer vs. Banjo” is a duo, Johnny Mann was a jazz studies major before playing guitar for Gran Torino; while Beau Stapleton taught himself, focusing on roots music before playing the mandolin for Blue Merle. So lets agree that these are a tad different as backrounds go.  They met in Nashville and “Computer vs. Banjo” [...]

Ant Neely was featured on NPR’s Second Stage Podcast a week or so back and I was really taken with the “Scratch Redux” piece of his new album, it’s a really bright poppy song that belts along at a good pace, great beat, really nice slide guitar and just perfect vocals by Lisa Moore, it’s [...]