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SEASICK STEVE > <em>Man From Another Time</em>

SEASICK STEVE > Man From Another Time(1)

March 16, 2010

SEASICK STEVE
Man From Another Time
(RYKO)
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If you want, you can fixate on this grizzled old dude’s back story (he’s hoboed, hung with Joplin and Cobain), but Seasick Steve’s bluesy tunes would grab you even if he was a recent Harvard grad. His musical style, mostly slide guitar on an old ax, pitched somewhere between Skip [...]

SEASICK STEVE > Man From Another Time

THE WHIGS > In The Dark

THE WHIGS
In The Dark
(ATO RECORDS)
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On the heels of an explosive year, The Whigs have released their third album, In the Dark. Powerful, gritty and headbangingly sincere, In The Dark is a superb album, full of garage-rock funk with melodies to sing along to.
In The Dark showcases a new turn for the band; while they [...]

GRAHAM PARKER > <em>Imaginary Television</em>

GRAHAM PARKER > Imaginary Television

GRAHAM PARKER
Imaginary Television
(BLOODSHOT)
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There are certain veteran rockers whose low-key approach suits their mid-life music. Unlike his former producer, Nick Lowe, Graham Parker isn’t one of them. This powerful singer/songwriter-one of the key strands in punk’s DNA- does his best work with a noisy band.One that goads Parker to bring the hooks and hair-raising vocals. [...]

TOM MCRAE > <em>The Alphabet Of Hurricanes</em>

TOM MCRAE > The Alphabet Of Hurricanes

TOM MCRAE
The Alphabet Of Hurricanes
(COOKING VINYL)
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The mark of a songwriter is not a clever line of melodies or a catchy collection of hooks, but something that runs a little deeper – the ability to tell a story. Tom McRae is a songwriter, and his latest album, The Alphabet of Hurricanes, is not a collection [...]