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Once you hear it, you know it. There’s no mistaking a Paper Route song once it comes on — each track inhabiting the same ethos as the one that came before it. From the Nashville band’s early…

Michael Kiwanuka‘s ethos is easy to identify: soul singers of yesteryear along with minimalistic, acoustic instrumentation and gospel-like lyrics. A former session guitarist for British hip-hop acts, Kiwanuka’s buzz of late — both stateside and in his native England…

In Stars and Satellites, Trampled by Turtles’ sixth studio release, we find a heavily relaxed album. It’s not without a couple of quicker tunes (“Walt Whitman,” “Risk”), but the album is dominated by heavy-handed and heavier-hearted ballads.…

I love some good funk. Not the smell; the music. The British soul singer revival has been something I’ve enjoyed quite a bit, though the majority of it seems too often a bit overproduced. It was too…

“Wonky” is a description of something askew or slightly off — precisely what the brothers Hartnoll give us in their first album since 2004′s The Blue Album and a (apparently) prematurely reported break up (they are family…

Amy Ray, of Indigo Girls notoriety, has a voice and an album that’s not easily categorized: It’s rough, gritty, and, for lack of a better word, Appalachian. It’s also soothing, surprising and honest. Lung of Love does…

Charming is not a word I use in album reviews. It’s best reserved for cotillions and books about castles. But in listening to Long Black Cars, the latest effort from English trio The Wave Pictures, charming kept…

Last year I gave big time praise to the hardcore renaissance that was OFF’s First Four EPs collection. Everything old was new again. Keith Morris and his cohorts managed to revive a sound that had lain dormant…

I often question movie directors who feel the need to act in their own films, especially the good ones. The worst part of Quentin Tarantino’s stellar “Pulp Fiction” is the scene he steps in front of the…

Cursive supposedly tells the story of twin brothers, Cassius and Pollock, through the band’s latest full-length, I Am Gemini. This summarization is entirely speculative, at best, because there is no linear narrative found within to speak of.…