Ladyfinger (NE)
Heavy Hands
Label: Saddle Creek
Release Date:09/26/2006
Lady fingers are long oval shaped cookies, often found in the Italian dessert, tiramisu. Ladyfinger (NE) are four guys that make brazen and deafening rock ‘n roll music for people with bad tattoos and PBR diets.
Ladyfinger (NE) (which stands for Nebraska), are driven by Chris Machmuller blustering vocals and Jamie […]
Wolf Eyes
Human Animal
Label: Sub Pop
Release Date:09/26/2006
Human Animal closes with a track entitled “Noise Not Music,” a fitting closer for the unraveling of pyrotechnics found on Wolf Eyes’s latest. Wolf Eyes is three men on instruments that are inseparable not only from each other but from the scorched vocals as well. Occasionally a sax that sounds […]
Emily Haines & Soft Skeletons
Knives Don’t Have Your Back
Label: Last Gang
Release Date:09/26/2006
You already know Emily Haines from her other band Metric, or maybe even Broken Social Scene. Now you will know her as an accomplished solo artist with her debut full length, Knives Don’t Have You Back.
All songs are beautiful at the core, with Haines’ […]
My Morning Jacket
Okonokos
Label: ATO
Release Date:09/26/2006
The first time I fell in love with My Morning Jacket was when I saw them perform on Austin City Limits, so it is only fitting that the first article I write about the band be on another live performance. Okonokos, is the odd title of an extraordinary two disc live […]
Bobby Bare Jr
The Longest Meow
Label: Bloodshot
Release Date:09/27/2006
For his latest record, Bobby Bare, Jr gathered ten friends, prepared for 16 days and belted out an 11 songs in 11 hours. Called The Longest Meow, no title could be farther from the blazing honky tonk collected on the album. The record opens with a whirring wind-up, cars […]
Easy Star All Stars
Radiodread
Label: Easy Star
Release Date:08/28/2006
Whose pot-addled mind decided this was a good idea?
A reggae interpretation of Radiohead’s OK Computer– the OK Computer? Lemme look up right-quick to make sure the sky isn’t falling. At worst, this endeavor would be downright sacrilege. At best, it would be nothing short […]
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
Living Like A Refugee
Label: Anti
Release Date:09/26/2006
“It makes me happy that people from different countries and cultures have identified with what we are singing, specifically our songs that speak out against the dangers of war, dreadful diseases, dishonesty, and greed, and most importantly our songs that celebrate peace, unity, morality, and love.” […]
Botch
Unifying Themes Redux
Label: Hydra Head
Release Date:09/26/2006
With fancy orange artwork, Botch returns, sort of, with Hydrahead reissuing the classic “Unifying Themes Redux;” a collection of Botch’s “Unifying Themes of Sex, Death and Religion” EP as well as compilation and unreleased tracks. Botch set the standard for “heavy,” and I mean heavy, music back in the mid […]
Dead Meadow
Self-titled
Label: Xemu
Release Date:09/19/2006
What comes to mind when discussing the music scene in Washington DC, is usually the Revolution Summer, Dischord, staight edge, and the basis of D-I-Y ethics. A highly unlikely place for three guys with an obsession of 70’s hard rock and 60’s psychedelia.
Dead Meadow, has released four studio albums, two on a […]
Whitest Boy Alive
Dreams
Label: Bubbles
Release Date:09/19/2006
I don’t know what it it lately, but I have a soft spot in my heart for smoothed-out-dancey-white-boy pop. I think this infection started sometime last year, when the Jamie and the ladies of Relative Theory became obsessed with Hot Chip and their silly little soundtracks for people to dance the […]
