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Fruit Bats' 'Gold Past Life' Is an Exhilarating Trip Down Multiple Memory Lanes

Deftly avoiding the pitfalls of nostalgia, Fruit Bats' Gold Past Life takes stock of life from the vantage point of middle age and charts a path forward with hope and no little circumspection, without once feeling sorry for itself.

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Indie Rockers Soda Sun Go to "Gitchie" in Debut Single (premiere)

Fronted by John Goraj, Tucson indie rockers Soda Sun thrive with the atmospheric road song, "Gitchie", their debut single.

Music

Calexico and Iron & Wine Find New Ground on 'Years to Burn'

Finally collaborating on a full-length, Calexico and Iron & Wine create an album as rewarding as it is natural with Years to Burn.

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Catnip for Completists: Bob Dylan's 'The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings'

Even at its mammoth length (ten-plus hours) Columbia's 14-disc boxed set is still not an exhaustive account of Bob Dylan's The Rolling Thunder Revue.

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Scorsese and Dylan: A Match Made in Fantasy

In Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, a cinematic genius and a Nobel Prize-winning musical icon pair for a magical and purposefully deceptive look at rock 'n' roll life in the mid-'70s.

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Glen Hansard's Dynamic 'This Wild Willing' Tour

Glen Hansard's new musical approach to recording This Wild Willing provided a new balance to his live show.

Events

It's a Gift: Aaron Lee Tasjan Talks About Producing Drivin N Cryin

Aaron Lee Tasjan talks about producing Drivin N Cryin and recognizing the importance of Kevn Kinney's lyrics: "There were a few lines that jumped out and said, 'Kevn's singing about something super-personal right now.' As soon as I realized that, I said, 'My approach has to be that people can hear and understand what he's saying clearly.'"

Jedd Beaudoin

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Sad About the Times: Lost Tracks of the '70s That Sound Vaguely Familiar

Sad About the Times evokes 1970s nostalgia with 21 obscure tracks that never made it big, but sound like they could have.

Music

Strangers in the Room: A Journey Through the British Folk Rock Scene 1967-1973

The inversion of British folk and the invention of British folk-rock is catalogued here in all of its stormy and delicate variety.

Music

Bruce Springsteen's 'Western Stars' Grows More Satisfying with Repeated Exposure

Deeply moving, inventive and even a bit risky, Western Stars will take its place among Bruce Springsteen's solo gems.

Music

Howe Gelb's Latest Is a Welcoming Call to Gather Around

Listening to Howe Gelb's Gathered is like being at a dinner party with Gelb at the head of the table, telling stories, offering his sagacity, and taking the listener on clever lexical excursions.

Music

Olden Yolk's 'Living Theatre' Is Both Vital and Dramatic

Olden Yolk's second album, Living Theatre, is phenomenally impressive and powerful, while it explores small moments with great concision and ambition.

Music

Siskiyou's 'Not Somewhere' Is a Stone-Cold Bummer. And Therein Lies Its Peculiar Charm.

Siskiyou's latest album gets under your skin. Not Somewhere is bold and weird and deeply human, uneasy listening at its finest.

Music

The Felice Brothers Want Us All to 'Undress'

The Felice Brothers take the bromide "the personal is the political" and stand it on is head and have it stick out its tongue so that the political becomes personal on Undress.

Music

Indie Folk Quartet Wylder Nails Pastoral Nostalgia on "Ghosts" (premiere)

The video for indie folk band Wylder's "Ghosts" is a wonderfully serene and rustic complement to the luscious lamentations of its namesake.

Music

Wall-Buster Ani DiFranco Has a Chokehold on Irony: 'No Walls and the Recurring Dream'

Ani DiFranco is growing up and getting over herself. Her memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, highlights the ironies of a one-of-a-kind musical legacy.

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