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The Lonesome Brothers |
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All Around You |
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Alt-Country |
Subdued honky tonker takes a ride with Neil Young and ventures toward Tweedy territory on the road to Tender Guy Town. Insightful lyrics compensate for lukewarm arrangement.
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Balfa Toujours |
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Whiskey River Special |
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Blues |
The ragin’ Cajun offspring of legendary zydeco muisician Dewey Balfa stay true to the bayou on this front porch jam. Fine musicianship notwithstanding, this track will only appeal to purists or drunken tourists hopped up on hurricanes.
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Tortoise |
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The Equator |
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Electronic |
Dub jazz from improvisational indie rock underground-ers is exploratory and subversive, but this trip to “The Equator” is a bit “too, too, too” to put a finger on. Pass.
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Vomitory |
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Revelation Nausea |
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Metal |
Brutally pure death metal blasts straight outta Sweden to rape your ears with its vicious commitment to old school clamor. Guttural, unrelenting, and uncompromising. Oh yeah!
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Ashford & Simpson |
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Let's Go Get Stoned (Live) |
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R&B |
This soulful salute to the altered state is gonna take you hiiiiiiigher. Ray Charles made this one a hit back in the day, but this live version by the writers, themselves, is totally smokin’.
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Herbal Love |
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Natural Girl |
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Reggae |
Ska-laced reggae instrumental produces a chill dub vibe that will keep you buzzing long after the last note plays out.
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Calexico |
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Service And Repair |
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Alt-Country |
There’s more than a ghost of a chance that Giant Sand fans (and others who favor gothic Southwestern roots rock) will choose to forego the beaten track to follow Sand men John Convertino and Joey Burns down this lost highway of spooky sonic shadows and blue flickering lights.
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Vic Chesnutt |
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Very Friendly Lighthouses |
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Plaintive acoustic number plays like a private moment; to listen is almost to eavesdrop, as critics’ darling toys with quirky Cat Stevens-inspired vocals and crookedly stacked tracks of off-kilter instrumentation.
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Weezer |
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Hash Pipe |
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Alternative |
The revitalized geek-rockers smoke the landscape on this deceptively simple but irresistable ode to paraphenalia. Rivers Cuomo's pop sensibilities, packed with James Bond-style hard rock riffin', makes for one hell of a hit!
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Sara K. |
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He Got You |
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Blues |
Simmering like a dormant volcano that’s likely to blow at any moment, this Gospel-esque blueser belies a sinister power beneath its coolly shrewd guitar lead. Sparse arrangement wisely showcases a sly and self-confident vocal.
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