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Sondre Lerche: Heartbeat RadioThe radio plays on and on. The heartbeat flat-lines. [20 November 2009] 
Giants in the EarthCharles Fetherolf's graphic novel offers a visual beauty when recounting evolutionary history. [12 November 2009] 
O Pioneers!!!: Neon CreepsO Pioneers!!! may not have many similarities with Walt Whitman, the great American poet from whom the band takes its name, but the duo shares the author's animated joy. [21 October 2009] 
Neil Hamburger: Western Music and Variety with Neil HamburgerNeil Hamburger wants to annoy you; it works a little too well. If we laugh, it's out of relief – bad as we might feel, at least we’re not him. [7 October 2009] 
Willy Porter: How to Rob a BankPorter is enormously gifted, but the record is smothered by its stodgy MOR production. [30 September 2009] 
The Waifs: Live from the Union of SoulThe Waifs remind you just how similar are the American and Australian mythologies: the wide open spaces, the cowboys, the hard livings carved from unforgiving land. [9 September 2009] 
Arctic Monkeys: Live at the ApolloDespite all the hyperbolic reviews and opinion pieces using the band as an exemplar of how The Internet Will Change Everything Forever, there's not much that's particularly fringey or independent about the Arctic Monkeys' sound. [12 August 2009] 
Modest Mouse: No One’s First and You’re Next EPModest Mouse's new album of B-sides and outtakes feels in no way like a collection of castoffs. [7 August 2009] 
Lenny Kravitz: Let Love Rule (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)This reissue is a quickie money-maker, without notable bonus features or new songs. [21 July 2009] 
Hoots and Hellmouth: The Holy Open SecretDespite the tossed off hootenanny atmosphere they cultivate, their songcraft is extremely ambitious, almost schizophrenic in its breadth and reach. [4 June 2009] 
The Black Crowes: Warpaint LiveIt’s forever 1974. The last 30 years of pop music never happened. The sky is thick with incense, and hippified country-rock rules the airwaves. [18 May 2009] 
Ian Tyson: Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love StoriesIt's been an awfully long time since Ian Tyson, as one half of Ian and Sylvia, had a huge hit with the folk-rock ballad "Four Strong Winds". [23 April 2009] 
Luka Bloom: Eleven SongsYou need real strength of personality to pull this stuff off. You need to be saying something or struggling with something to make them hear something besides yet another Irish lullaby. [17 April 2009] 
Golem: Citizen BorisIt’s an increasingly familiar technique: take some traditional form of music, crank up the volume, and season with snarling punk rock intensity. [16 April 2009] 
Willie Nelson / Asleep at the Wheel: Willie and the WheelNelson is the ideal singer for this sort of material, but a magical voice like his just doesn't belong in such mundane, stilted surroundings. [1 April 2009] 
Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old SunA live-in-the-studio performance bundled with a hackneyed making-of documentary that doubles as a lengthy commercial for Capitol Records. [11 February 2009] |
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