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Review: Anthony Hamilton's The Point of it All

Zomba
Anthony Hamilton is like a latter-day Bill Withers, with a gruff, straight-talkin' voice that can holler at you from across the room and then downshift to a gentler, fatherly tone once you draw close.

By: ZETH LUNDY | December 16, 2008

Review: Nina Simone - To Be Free

RCA/Legacy
Nina Simone was her own gospel, a sinuous force of uncompromising power and righteous beauty.

By: ZETH LUNDY | December 09, 2008

Review: Pavement's Brighten the Corners

Matador (2008)
In 1997, not quite 10 years after he formed Pavement in Stockton, California, with friend Scott Kannberg, Stephen Malkmus was still singing like a dude unsure of what he wanted to be.

By: ZETH LUNDY | December 02, 2008

Review: The Golden Mile by The Peth

Strangetown (2008)
Rock drummers, like lumberjacks and insult comics, aren’t known for subtlety, as we typically observe from their solo albums and side projects.

By: ZETH LUNDY | November 24, 2008

Review: Belle and Sebastian's BBC Sessions

Matador (2008)
Call ’em twee or call ’em bookish (after all, they did take their name from a French children’s book), but don’t call Belle & Sebastian anemic.

By: ZETH LUNDY | November 18, 2008

Review: Cheap Trick's Budokan!

Epic/Legacy (2008)
These days, all an American outfit has to do to get famous is name itself after an animal and get blogged about for 24 hours.

By: ZETH LUNDY | November 11, 2008

Replacements | Rhino Reissues

Tim + Pleased To Meet Me + Don’t Tell A Soul + All Shook Down | Rhino (2008)
Rhino’s second and concluding batch of Replacements reissues charts the Minneapolis band’s Great Descent from the heights of rock-and-roll nihilism to the pit of MOR blah.

By: ZETH LUNDY | October 01, 2008

Ben Folds: Way To Normal (2008)

Epic (2008)
His attitude may remain young at heart, but his irony’s over the hill.

By: ZETH LUNDY | September 23, 2008

Calexico: Carried to Dust

Quarterstick
True to its title, Carried to Dust moves along with wraith-like grace, a haunting and beautiful drift of songs about codebreakers, gravebound ghosts, and stars that “shone in slowness.”

By: ZETH LUNDY | September 02, 2008

Randy Newman

Harps + Angels | Nonesuch
As welcome as it is to have Newman’s acerbic wit back, it remains a singular pleasure to listen to a simple, devastating ballad like “Losing You.”

By: ZETH LUNDY | August 12, 2008

The Major Labels

Aquavia | Self-released
You can play Spot the Beatles throughout this one.

By: ZETH LUNDY | August 04, 2008

Beck

Modern Guilt | DGC
It’s music for summer nights of muggy confusion and post-sunset soul searching, and when Beck takes the mic, he rocks some straight-up Shiva shit.

By: ZETH LUNDY | July 15, 2008

Ratatat | LP3

XL
It's some kind of cosmic machine music, reflecting not just a stoner’s world of internalized minimalist headbanging but an entire universe of culture, texture, and possibility.

By: ZETH LUNDY | July 08, 2008

Shearwater

Rook | Matador
To fans of the Austin band, this is all par for the beautiful but eerie course.

By: ZETH LUNDY | June 24, 2008

Elvis Costello and the Imposters

Momofuku | Lost Highway
“I’m a limited primitive kind of man,” Costello sings in “Drum & Bone,” and for better and worse, that’s the truth.

By: ZETH LUNDY | May 12, 2008

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