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ZETH LUNDY

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Elvis Perkins | Elvis Perkins in Dearland

XL (2009)
Elvis Perkins is the third Elvis on my iPod, and he's also the least controversial of the lot: he doesn't shake his pelvis or appropriate the unsung musical styles of others, and he certainly hasn't engaged in an epithet-laced bar fight at a Holiday Inn.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  March 03, 2009

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Neko Case | Middle Cyclone

Anti (2009)
Middle Cyclone is Neko Case's most fearless and arresting record, ruthlessly composed and beautifully recorded.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  March 02, 2009

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N.A.S.A. | The Spirit of Apollo

Anti- (2009)
I could fill up my allotted space by simply listing the plethora of cameos, not to mention incongruous match-ups, stuffed within this Benetton ad of a debut by Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegan, a/k/a N.A.S.A.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  February 18, 2009

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Morrissey | Years of Refusal

Lost Highway (2009)
"Could this be an arm around my waist?" asks Morrissey on the final track of his ninth post-Smiths solo album, adding, "Surely the hand contains a knife."
By ZETH LUNDY  |  February 09, 2009

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Review: Franz Ferdinand's Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Domino (2009)
On their third full-length, Franz Ferdinand continue to kick out that post-punk/disco thrust that made past singles "Take Me Out" and "Do You Want To" such loosened-skinny-tie pleasures.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  January 27, 2009

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Review: Mark Olson and Gary Louris, Ready for the Flood (New West)

Return of the Hawks
Some of us sat idly by while the Stooges, the Pixies, the Police, and the New Kids were busy plotting their improbable reunions, our arms crossed, feigning indifference.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  January 20, 2009

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Review: Anthony Hamilton | 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

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Review: Nina Simone - To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story

RCA/Legacy
Nina Simone was her own gospel, a sinuous force of uncompromising power and righteous beauty.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  December 09, 2008

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Pavement | Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition

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

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The Peth | The Golden Mile

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

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Belle and Sebastian | The 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

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Cheap Trick | 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

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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

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Ben Folds | Way To Normal

Epic (2008)
His attitude may remain young at heart, but his irony’s over the hill.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  September 23, 2008

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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

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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

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The Major Labels

Aquavia | Self-released
You can play Spot the Beatles throughout this one.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  August 04, 2008

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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

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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

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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
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