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Sweet Matty TreatsJustin Townes Earle’s music has always sounded like someone who’s a restless sleeper from album to album. It’s constantly changing styles – The Good Life focused on traditional country, Midnight at the Movies was the folk album, Harlem River Blues, the rockabilly album, and now with Nothing’s Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, JTE delves into [...]
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Record Review: ‘Nothing’s Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now’ by Justin Townes Earle
Posted: April 19, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Harlem River Blues, Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies, music, Music Reviews, Nothing's Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, The Good Life
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Record Review: ‘Locked Down’ by Dr. John
Posted: April 19, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Dan Auerbach, Dr. John, Locked Down, music, Music Reviews, New Orleans Voodoo
Up until the release of Dr. John’s latest LP, Locked Down, his influence was waning, per his last few albums. Records like Sippiana Hurricane and Creole Moon failed to make an impact, and Dr. John fell by the way side a bit. Step in Dan Auerbach. You know him as the guitarist of the Black Keys, and armed with a new found interest [...]
Record Review: ‘My Head Is an Animal’ by Of Monsters and Men
Posted: April 18, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: "Into the Woods", music, Music Reviews, My Head Is an Animal, Nana Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Of Monsters and Men, Ragnar "Raggi" Pórhallson
At the first aural experience of Of Monsters and Men, particularly their EP, “Into the Woods,” the band delivered an Icelandic indie folk sound that had a lot of potential. The band displayed a lot of organic and earthy tones and featured a pair of dueling vocalists; Nana Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar “Raggi” Pórhallson add [...]
Record Review: ‘Zammuto’ by Zammuto
Posted: April 18, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: music, Music Reviews, Nick Zammuto, Paul de Jong, The Books, Zammuto
Nick Zammuto’s famous first project with Paul de Jong, The Books, garnered a lot of attention, particularly with their last album The Way Out. The split that occurred last year left fans with a lot of questions about solo projects and next steps. The first project to emerge, Zammuto’s self titled album, isn’t technically his first as [...]
Record Review: “The Ghost of John Henry” by Sci-Fi Romance
Posted: April 16, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Jody Stark, John Henry, Kurt Bloom, music, Music Reviews, Sci-Fi Romance, The Ghost of John Henry, Vance Kotrla
As a child we’re all told stories that stick with us. Folk legends for most, figures like Casey famously struck out, tales of Tommy Knockers helping miners find ore, and of course the legend of the headless horseman is a familiar haunt every Halloween. One legend that stuck with Vance Kotrla of the L.A. based [...]
Record Review: ‘Hale & Hearty’ by Heyward Howkins
Posted: April 14, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Chet Delcampo, Hale & Hearty, Heyward Howkins, music, Music Reviews, The Trouble with Sweeney
In the era of over-orchestration, and labels in general, overuse is a bit of an understatement. The use of orchestration in music is a crime these days, allowing modern rock bands to “class” up a crapified song. In terms of that music you generally hear on soundtrack scores, artists and bands have had to go [...]
Record Review: ‘A Wasteland Companion’ by M. Ward
Posted: April 11, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: A Wasteland Companion, M. Ward, music, Music Reviews, Zooey Deschanel
If projects like She & Him with Zooey Deschanel or Monsters of Folk didn’t make M. Ward known to the larger music community, well, aside from saddening me, really needs to rectified. On M. Ward’s seventh studio album, A Wasteland Companion, he’s channeling the past with a brighter future, and makes up for the blunders of his [...]
Single Review: “Sixteen Saltines” by Jack White
Posted: April 6, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: "Sixteen Saltines", 'Blunderbuss', Jack & White, Meg White, music, Music Reviews, White Stripes
If there is anything the White Stripes’ established it’s that no matter what Jack White does, we are all going to go crazy until the material is released, and we’ll all go out and buy it the moment it hits shelves. It wasn’t until Jack performed “Sixteen Saltines” on SNL that people started to go [...]
Record Review: ‘Portico Quartet’ by Portico Quartet
Posted: April 6, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Duncan Bellamy, electronic, Jack Wyllie, Jazz, Keir Vine, Milo Fitzpatrick, music, Music Reviews, Portico Quartet
When a band that’s been long established decides to release an album eponymously, they run the risk of defining what they are as a band. An artist is given more leeway on their first album, where the self-titled album is designed to get an artists name out there, more than to define what they’re about. [...]
Record Review: ‘Narrow’ by Soap&Skin
Posted: April 5, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Anja Plaschg, Desireless, Lovetune for Vacuum, music, Music Reviews, Narrow, Soap&Skin
Austrian singer/songwriter Anja Plaschg (Soap&Skin) has been through a lot since her debut album Lovetune for Vacuum was released back in 2009. The sudden death of her father informs a lot of this album, and certainly carries a weight that makes Narrow a heavy album to experience. Despite that heaviness, The simplistic nature of the music only adds to the [...]
