Hi folks. I'm having some computer troubles this week that I hope will be resolved soon.
In the meantime, here are the new releases for the week of April 17, 2007:
The Comas: Spells Cowboy Junkies: At the End of the Path of Paths Taken The Hold Steady: Live at Fingerprints Hot Fuzz: Original Soundtrack Page McConnell: Page McConnell Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero
When everything is back to normal, we'll have some new stories, short fiction, and the lastest installments of our staff picks for you.
Have a good one till then, folks.
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Well, the computer problems were resolved, in that I had to get a new one. So it might a while before I can update things.
Again, to tide the mad, rabid, foaming masses off... here's the new releases for the week of April 24:
Artic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare Burning Brides: Hang Love The Detroit Cobras: Tied And True Dntel: Dumb Luck Golden Smog: Blood On The Slacks Colin Hay: Are you Lookin' At Me? Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band: EP Patti Smith: Twelve
Enjoy, and hopefully we'll have a new and improved site up soon!
In the meantime, feel free to talk amongst yourselves.
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The new Arctic Monkeys album should be arriving on my doormat tomorrow, I've heard good things, the lead single is solid.
Other releases on the horizon: I'm waiting reviews of the new Tori Amos disk before I take the plunge There's an album on the way from a group called Lavender Diamond, who I saw as a support act for The Decemberists. Weird low-fi hippy stuff, very strange lead singer (as far as her stage persona goes), but I'm a big fan of their EP, so I'm quite looking forward to that.
Not new, but I'm also waiting for a couple of Gogol Bordello cds.
I haven't heard either yet, but give Colin Hay or the Burning Brides a try. Colin Hay has a real cool, mellow singer/songwriter feel, and nothing's forced.
And Burning Brides are an ass-kicking trio from Philadelphia, at least they were the last time I heard them. I actually saw them live on the second stage of Lollapalooza in 2003 (the last one that actually toured; Jane's Addiction, Queens of the Stone Age and Audioslave headlined). Anyway, they were badass.
I'll be checking out the Detroit Cobras and Dntel at some point, too, methinks.
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Tori Amos: American Doll Posse Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Baby 81 Dinosaur Jr.: Beyond Feist: The Reminder Ari Hest: Break-in John McLaughlin: Indiana Warren Zevon: Preludes
There's a few on that list that I'm pretty pumped for, and I'll be at Zia Records tonight to pick up BRMC's new one.
Thoughts?
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I'm tempted with Beyond, from what I hear it's an excellent return. I'll be buying American Doll Posse on payday - if the reviews can be trusted it seems the fluff has been kept to a minimum for such a packed cd. It looks like a labour of love.
I'm going to pimp Lavender Diamond once more before their debut album release on Monday - you can hear a sample of each track here: http://www.lavenderdiamond.com/player.html I'm really looking forward to this one.
-- Edited by The Mystery Tramp at 14:13, 2007-05-05
Bjork: Volta The Boggs: Forts Sage Francis: Human The Death Dance Lavender Diamond: Lavender Diamond Mice Parade: Mice Parade Of Montreal: Icons, Abstract Thee Radiohead: Com Lag (2Plus2IsFive) Elliot Smith: New Moon Travis: The Boy With No Name
-- Edited by Nick at 19:24, 2007-05-07
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