Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Michelle Kennedy It easy to picture Zooey Deschanel in an old sepia toned boudoir surrounded by everyone’s grandmother’s pearls and lace gloves; her inexplicably beautiful eyes sparking in the fading light of a warm California evening. It’s less easy to picture M. Ward there.
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Michelle Kennedy As summer approaches we begin to look for that perfect warm-weather album; that perfect torch song for late nights around the campfire; that perfect album for the heartbreak that’s sure to follow a whimsical summer fling – Jakob Dylan’s Women and Country has the potential to be all [...]
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Greg Hutton The latest effort from Drive By Truckers continues their ongoing mission to create alt-Southern rock that confronts the frequently perpetuated caricature of the culturally and politically backwards Southerner.
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Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue On her 2009 release Victoria Day, Melissa McClelland was faced with what could be seen as either an absolutely fantastic or incredibly difficult situation depending on how you choose to look at it: following up a near perfect record.
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Rating: 5 / 5 Reviewer: Greg Hutton Most Carolyn Mark records evoke images of a continuous party that would, in all likelihood, be the most fun party you ever attended. Red wine, new best friends, and food are a few common themes, especially on 2002’s Terrible Hostess and the excellent 2004 album The Pros and [...]
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After listening to the first two tracks (and a brief detour to the ninth to see how Live at Massey Hall DVD highlight ‘Don’t Let The Darkness In Your Head’ turned out in the studio) of Blue Rodeo’s twelfth and possibly most ambitious studio record The Things We Left Behind …
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue Vancouver native Dustin Bentall first stepped on to the music scene in 2005 with his impressive debut release Street With No Lights. Four years later, his sophomore release Six Shooter proves well worth the wait.
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats Amy Millan’s first solo release, 2006’s Honey From the Tombs, was a stylistic surprise, as she seemingly turned 180 degrees from her Stars and Broken Social Scene gigs, and made a record of lonely, weary country songs. Though she did more or less pull it off, there was [...]
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