
There's been a lot of love for the Heartless Bastards around here lately, and for good reason. With apologies to Merriweather -something-or-other, The Mountain - Heartless Bastard's third-full length album (out now on Fat Possum) - might just be the best thing I've heard so far this year (he says 7 weeks into 2009). Hyperbole aside, their live show is also a sight to behold, a pummeling shakedown of all that is good and holy about rock music that soars on the magic of Erika Wennerstrom's fantastic voice. In other words, there's a [...]