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The Reverend remembers watching...no, witnessing Jason &the Nashville Scorchers tear apart alocal club - Cantrell's, maybe the Exit/In - no matter, 'cause those ol' boysripped it up like Link Wray ... Read more

KatieJaneGarside carries on in the ethereal, mysterious, profoundly arty vocal traditionof such other British female singers as Kate Bush and Elizabeth Fraser. Infact, everything she does seems a f... Read more

If there is any change in Parker's MO, it owes to the factthat these days there's a little less grit, owing to a realization, perhaps,that he can gracefully age without appearing to retreat. "We're... Read more

Even if Hidden didn't work - and it mostly does - it ought to be celebrated for sheer bravery.On this follow-up to 2008's Beat Pyramid,These New Puritans again build a framework of big thwonking hi... Read more

This, the second solo album by guitarist Steve Dawson - thethird if you count his collaboration with singer Diane Christiansen -- is agently sublime affair, one that rarely raises the volume above ... Read more

Likefellow ex-Brunettes Ryan McPhun, James Milne is a New Zealand singer-songwriter andneo-psychedelic one-man band. Milne's Lawrence Arabia joins McPhun's Ruby Suns -reviewed here at BLURT, incide... Read more

In fact, this taut, tight collection of 13 songs that makeup the DNA of The Brutalist Bricks findLeo's trademark indie punk sound getting the major kick in the ass it sodesperately needed, especial... Read more

Part artsyfolkie, part pop tunesmith, Jason Collett moves with ease from acoustic-basedruminations to hip shake-inducing sing-alongs. On Rat A Tat Tat, the follow up to 2008's widely acclaimed Here... Read more

Even so, Say Us doesn't shy away from revealing some quirkier instincts, as evidenced by bothits fidgety opener "How Does It Feel?" and the overt exuberance of "You GottaTell'er." Zeus coat their ... Read more

Biffy Clyro constructs from-the-hilltops rock skillfully,with thundering riffs and huge choruses that would sound good -- probablybetter -- when sung by thousands of voices. And the album's sweepin... Read more