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RADAR: Calhoun 26 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
Led by frontman and chief songwriter Tim Locke, Dallas indie pop players Calhoun have been rightly praised for the "easy-breezy melodiousness" (Fort Worth Weekly) infusing their three studio albums re...
REDUX: Ruth Moody 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
Ruth Moody's solo debut album The Garden ended up as one of our favorite albums of 2010, a sublime mix of modern folk songwriting, Moody's enticing voice and acoustic backing that delved deep into tra...
Friday Cover: Anne Marie Almedal - "Safe From Harm" (Massive Attack) 24 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am
From her excellent 2010 album Blue Sky Blue, Norwegian chanteuse Anne Marie Almedal infuses a haunting feel to "Safe From Harm," one of the best songs on the 1991 debut Blue Lines from U.K. trip-hop m...
RADAR: Garrett Kato 23 Aug 2013 | 04:55 am
British Columbia-born, Australia-based singer/songwriter Garrett Kato sums up his Facebook "interests" as "singing, strumming and surfing" so who better to write a song titled "Hipster Kids"? As the f...
Laura Veirs - Warp and Weft 23 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
In weaving terminology, warp and weft refer to the cross pattern of interwoven yarn, an apt title for the distinct, intersecting themes -- often radically opposed in dark and light shades -- that perm...
RADAR: Star Anna 23 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
The decision to name an album Go To Hell probably reflects a certain amount of angst, frustration and ire, so when Seattle's Star Anna says "the title speaks for itself" we have a pretty good starting...
Listen: The Open Sea - "All In A Day" 22 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm
We were happy to learn today that the fine New York songwriter Rosi Golan was returning this fall with a new EP Fortuna (date TBA). And to discover that Golan and fellow tunesmith Ari Hest were revivi...
Broken Anchor - Fresh Lemonade 22 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
"Lo-fi Cali-pop" is the succinct and spot-on self-description of debut LP Fresh Lemonade (September 17) from Austin Hartley-Leonard, a SoCal performing songwriter who wisely decided to scrap his given...
Mark Knopfler - Privateering 21 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
Mark Knopfler has been a solo artist for just about the same number of years that his bestselling band Dire Straits roamed the planet but the spectre of "Sultans of Swing" and "Brothers In Arms" still...
Andrew Belle - Black Bear 20 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
Andrew Belle divides his time between his hometown of Chicago and his adopted home of Nashville, a split that is reflected in his new sleekly produced sophomore album Black Bear (August 20, 1L Music/M...
