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Duke Levine

Beneath the Blues | Loud, Loud Music
It’s an essay in tension and restraint.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | February 05, 2008

Freeway

Free at Last | Roc-a-Fella
The Philly native isn’t the popster they hoped he would be.

By: RICHARD BECK | February 05, 2008

Chingy

Hate It or Love It | Disturbing tha Peace
Chingy is the second-most-famous rapper from St. Louis, but he lacks Nelly’s je ne sais quoi and has never been much of an MC.

By: BEN WESTHOFF | February 05, 2008

Sheryl Crow

Detours | A+M
Cohesion’s where you find it, but headphone delights are everywhere.

By: MIKAEL WOOD | February 05, 2008

Luther Allison

Underground | Ruf
What’s astounding about this eight-song album is that it’s just seeing daylight after 50 years on a shelf in the late blues singer/guitarist’s wife’s home.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | January 28, 2008

Mike Ladd

Nostalgialator | Definitive Jux
“Fuck it, it’s a mind set,” Mike Ladd notes amid a dense verbal and aural barrage titled “Trouble Shot.”

By: ANDREW GRAHAM | January 28, 2008

Sia

Some People Have REAL Problems | Hear Music
Australian vocalist Sia Furler has one of the greatest potty mouths in alt-rock.

By: KEN MICALLEF | January 28, 2008

Ringo Starr

Liverpool 8 | Capitol
Ringo Starr has never made an album that’s less than entertaining, and there aren’t many Beatles you can say that about.

By: BRETT MILANO | January 28, 2008

Kate Walsh

Tim's House | Verve Forecast
Who is Kate Walsh?

By: MIKAEL WOOD | January 28, 2008

Sander Kleinenberg

This Is Sander Kleinenberg | Ultra
Kleinenberg’s 28 selections were made by names not well known — the classic strategy by which a DJ projects his own sound, one unmistakable for anyone else’s.

By: MICHAEL FREEDBERG | January 22, 2008

Aphrodesia

Lagos by Bus | Cyberset
The band are tight and fluid, and their command of far-flung languages and musical genres is sure-footed without being reverential.

By: BANNING EYRE | January 23, 2008

Hi-Fidel and DJ Crucial

In the Company of Wolves | F5
In the Company of Wolves is world-weary art rap of the best kind, urging that if we’re all going down, let’s at least go down swinging.

By: BEN WESTHOFF | January 22, 2008

Mahjongg

Kontpag | K
It’s chaotic inside Kontpab , but a little liberating, too.

By: MIKAEL WOOD | January 22, 2008

North Mississippi Allstars

Hernando | Songs of the South
This time they’ve hit on a more original strain blending the slimy supercharged guitar tones of stoner rock with old-school boogie and roll.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | January 22, 2008

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zula | Heads Up
It’s been two decades since Paul Simon ushered this South African a cappella group onto the world stage.

By: BANNING EYRE | January 14, 2008

Natalie Walker

Urban Angel | Quango
It’s all soothing, but Walker’s never too sweet.

By: KEN MICALLEF | January 14, 2008

Kula Shaker

Strangefolk | Cooking Vinyl
Paisley drips from the notes these British neo-transcendentalists wring from the instruments on their third album, which ends a six-year hiatus.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | January 14, 2008

Eels

Meet the Eels: Essential Eels, Vol. 1: 1996–2006 | Geffen
Has Mark Oliver Everett ever tasted the agony of writer’s block?

By: MIKAEL WOOD | January 14, 2008

Marah

Angels of Destruction! | Yep Roc
Marah often seem on the verge of overdoing it on their sixth album.

By: MATT ASHARE | January 14, 2008

Of Montreal: Reissue

If He Is Protecting Our Nation, Then Who Will Protect Big Oil, Our Children | Polyvinyl
Remember back when Of Montreal couldn’t be heard in commercials for Outback Steakhouse?

By: GEORGIANA COHEN | January 07, 2008

Gram Parsons

Archives Vol. 1 | Amoeba
These two discs go a long way toward supporting the notion that Parsons was a pivotal player in the rise of country rock.

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | January 07, 2008

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